The Bridge to the Advanced Game.

Purple Belt Requirements — the free two-hour follow-up to Blue Belt Requirements, filmed in the same era and available again for anyone ready for what comes after the basics.

Blue belt is about surviving and defending. Purple belt is where jiu-jitsu starts to open up — chaining techniques together, reading a step ahead, building a game that's actually yours. This is the original Purple Belt Requirements course, the one Roy Dean filmed as the natural next step after Blue Belt Requirements, made public again at no cost.

Purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu cannot be defined by a list of techniques.

It requires something deeper — a combination of skills, a personal game, and the ability to chain techniques together into flowing sequences that work under real pressure.

Roy Dean built this two-hour instructional to outline exactly what that looks like. Not a compilation of moves, but a conceptual framework for the rank — a template for the game of BJJ that every student can personalize to their own body and style.

Chapters Include:

  • Mount Submissions and Strategies
  • Sidemount Submissions and Strategies
  • Guard Submissions and Strategies
  • Back Submissions and Strategies
  • Lower Body Submissions
  • Guard Passing
  • Sparring Footage
  • Rank Demonstrations
  • Guidelines for Growth

"Roy Dean takes a conceptual approach, where the techniques fit into an overall philosophy for purple belt — the most important element of which is the need to learn how to combine techniques into a flowing sequence."

— Can Sönmez, Slidey's Training Log

There is a generation of purple belts today who built their game on this instructional. It gave them not just techniques, but a way of thinking about jiu-jitsu that carried them through every rank that followed.

Now it's available for free, for any blue belt ready to take the next step.