BJJ Traditions Quiz: The Unwritten Codes of the Mats

BJJ has its unwritten rituals, passed from generation to generation. Fist bumps, belt lines, OSS: this BJJ traditions quiz tests your codes of the mats.

What this quiz tests

This BJJ traditions quiz gathers the unwritten codes of the mats: the fist bump before rolling, the line ranked by belts, the tacit ban on asking for promotion, bare feet on the mat and sandals off it, the many uses of OSS. Customs inherited from Brazil and Japan, all the way into the competitions run through the official IBJJF website.

These rituals form the shared culture of academies worldwide: eight questions to decode them, with the why of each custom in the corrections.

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