A question about testing procedures

[tallgeese]

The BJJ acadamy I attend grants rank (stripes/belts) when the coach thinks your ready. Stripes can occur any time, belts tend to be granted at seminars where his instructor is present as well.

As to my stand up background, testing occured and still occurs, but it's more of a formality really. Nothing is really done until the instructor thinks your ready. The test is more a right of passage than an actual test. Espicially the black belt test.

For the instruction I do much less formal things even than that. Until black, everything is kind of "here you go, you're ready" and we move on. I don't even do much of that anymore given how my focus has shifted.

I haven't seen testing fees of any kind, or charged any while I was instructing, for years.