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What were the worse holes you've ever seen in a purple belt's game?
I'm approaching my purple belt, being at 3 stripes blue, and yet I don't feel at all ready for it.
I'm afraid I have silly holes in my game, and to be embarassed one day when getting my purple belt and visiting another gym and people being like: "omg how do you not know this?!". Is this normal? Though I do generally well rolling with other blues, I still have this fear.
One major hole I see in my game is in takedowns. I feel like a white belt when standing, I do a crappy ouchi gari once in a million years and thats it. Every attempt at double leg so far has meant getting sprawled on and going to turtle or at most pulling guard. I've been trying to work on that, good thing our new teacher starts the rolls standing, but I definitely need to get together with someone to drill more because the total time standing and learning takedowns is so little. Im sure there are other holes that I have to work on, but I'm not sure what they are. I guess I'll just ask some of the rolling partners what they see in my game.
What must purple belts know for sure, and what mistakes do blues make that they must fix before going to purple?
And yes, I know, "shut up and train", I'm doing that too
Bro, I still can't finish a N/S choke. Bite me.