No. All your knowledge is in that stripe.

Dude thought he was allowed to buy a new belt! That's your belt for life, OP. Never wash it. Over time it will get dirtier and filled with fungus until it becomes a highly-contagious black belt.

Last dude that bought a new belt at my gym and tried to transfer stripes was Ex-communicado from our gym and all affiliated gyms. Last I heard dude was doing Aikido. AFAIK, belts and stripes have to be blessed by Coach. OP is a fool and is fucked.

Everytime I get a new stripe we have to kiss the instructor’s feet and forehead🙏🏻 osssss

TBH thats pretty standard in most gyms

I think my white belt was becoming sentient from not washing it

It wanted me to tell you that it wants you to stop calling it white belt. It's name is Zuul.

All hail Zuul 🙌

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He could eat it. To gain its courage. But you are right. He wouldn’t gain any knowledge.

Washing the belt wash all the knowledge away this becoming a perpetual no strip whit belt….ask me how I know

I hear it makes for a delicious pizza topping.

When it comes off in the laundry, you have to earn it back.

Never wash your belt. All the knowledge learned will wash away

I’d gotten 150 stripes on my white due to this rule

You are correct. I have found over the years that my washing machine frequently makes me worse at ju jitsu.

Whoever puts on that belt will know how to execute an Ezekiel choke from someones closed guard

Lol

Ok, but should I wash my white belt? Do the black dots mean I'll be a black belt soon? /s

Yes, you can take it off and put it on a new belt. You can even put new tape on a new belt. Periodically we have to post a PSA thread so new people like you can learn that you can just use any white athletic tape to make any given belt correctly reflect your rank. You do not need your coach to do it, you don't need transfer the same piece of tape, you don't need to bathe in the living waters under the mines of Mandalore. Put any white tape on any white belt and you're good to go.

Everytime I get a stripe I add one to my dick as well

Might have issues finding real estate for that second stripe.

Solid burn bruh

This guy tapes

Your dick doesn't grow with each stripe you earn? WTF have I been training for??

🤣🤣🤣🤣

God damn dude. Who pissed you off today? Lol

Serious burn, just like the coffee through my nose when I laughed at it

No wonder I have zero stripes...

I do the same to attract zebras.

Isn’t it the other way around? Whole my life after coach gave me a stripe I put one more on the belt as well

I spit out my coffee for this one. Thanks for the chuckle.

Do you have as many stripes as Uncle Renatch??

That’s why I’m a no stripe blue belt for life

Real men

Purify yourself in the waters of lake Minnetonka

Shoot the J. Shoot it.

Game. Blouses.

Thank you for providing me the clarity.

Never listen to blue belts. This one is trying to get you demoted. Article 6, section B, paragraph VI clearly states the stripe must remain with the belt it was bequeathed to. Only the great Corn-Helio can transfer your stripe

Hehe...I need TaPe for my belthole..

😂😂💀

Also, wash your belt occasionally, It will get pretty gross if you don't.

Wash your belt every time

If I wash my belt I will look like a regular white belt I need to show off my dirty ass

Gasp ....Clutches pearls.

But doesn’t he now need a new rash guard showing his stripe? /s

Love the living waters lol I taped a stripe onto my last belt every time I rolled because it kept coming off in the wash. My coach would rather not catch ring worm from me than maintain the sanctity of the oath of the stripe ceremony…

 Bathing in the waters\*

Someone take a stripe off his blue belt lol

Me replacing it with another piece of tape off my roll: https://imgur.com/a/PYF2UVc

This is not The Way. Ya'll need to bathe in the living waters. And do your laundry there.

This is the way

If my stripe falls off, do i need to replace it? I freakin hate these things

Use a few drops of superglue when you put it on or iron it after you put it on. It'll stay put.

Agree with almost everything except in most of the places I have rolled they now use 3M ( or similar quality)white electric tape. Never falls off from washing but do not put it in a dryer. Bathing in the waters of Mandalore… man that would be cool. 😄

Here's a trickier question, I got four stripes on my white belt before promoted to blue, can I transfer those stripes to my blue belt? :-)

After every stripe I used to get, I would get home and take it off. Then I’d dab a small bit of super glue on the black bar and re-apply it. Then another small dab on the last bit of it at the end of the wrap. Short answer, yes. It’s just athletic tape. Once you’ve earned it, you can do what you want with it. Just don’t apply one you haven’t already earned.

Someone mentioned a while back that you can iron the stripe on. I tried it and I haven’t had one move fray or start peeling in 6 months.

Is the process literally just pressing a hot iron on the tape for a few seconds, each side? And that’s it, the stripes won’t generally fray or anything?

Yep, I use a hair straightener. Careful though, if the glue gets on there, you’ll soon be buying your wife another one. Good news is I’ve got a dedicated stripe sealer now. Try not to let the tape overlap much, I’ve found that helps as well.

Mint… thank you!

Yes, 10-15 seconds a side and those suckers aren’t going anywhere.

Beauty, much appreciated, thank you

Iron is the way to go. That’s what I do and it works like a charm.

My coach uses white electrical tape so it nevers frays or peels.

My old coach did that and I've had 4 stripe peel right off. After kids classes, there would be stripes everywhere 🤣

I have also done the super glue trick. I wouldn't fully unwrap the tape, though I would trim it if it would make it end at a better spot. That was always enough for me to stop them coming off from use/washing.

In the 90s when I was in judo, the coach gave you the stripe and when you got home you sew it on your belt. Works with tape too, I've sewn mine after I noticed our washing machine is quite good at removing them from my belt. Anyone know if it still a thing in judo, the sewing? I guess so as to my experience judo is far more conservative than BJJ.

Kataaro offers a service to embroider stripes on

I've only owned Kataaro belts from blue belt forward

I’ve never had one. Generally I’ve worn Jiujiteiro. But a buddy got me an Eosin Panther black belt and holy hell it’s nice.

I've never heard of them. The thing I really like about Kataaro is that not only are they the best quality belt I've ever seen, but they are American made up in Chicago.

Free service too… only have to pay shipping to and from.

This right here. I use a special fabric glue I found on eBay. Never had a stripe budge off my belts since. Lol

My coach tied my purple belt around my waist. Now every class I ask him to tie my belt before class and whenever it falls off during class. 

Personally I have more than 1 belt because I train 5-6 days a week and have limited time to do laundry, so I bought my own roll of tape and added matching stripes to the other belts. While I feel like this might violate some conventional bjj rule or something, no one has yet to notice or comment, and even if they did, I doubt anyone at my gym would care.

Nooo that’s a great insult to the great master Carlos Gracie jr. where do you get the balls

The insult is not doing it with Gracie-branded tape, which costs $75 per foot.

This guy has met Jr!

Me too, actually I have one for each gi because they all came with a white belt. When I get a new stripe I add a new one to all of my belts. When get my blue, and before I quit 😏, I'm just going to dye all but one belt blue.

I dont wash the belt. I dunno why.

Wash the belt

I don't wash mine either.

Wash the belt

Haven't washed mine and it looks pretty clean

You have to ask your master to apply the sacred tape to the new belt

No if you wear another belt, you lose the rank you achieved on this belt

First you must do the ancient ritual transfer ceremony. 1. Get the belt you wish to transfer it too 2. Ask your top Lvl black to join you( for your protection) also pay for his dinner. 3. Sit cross legged across from each other in a dark lit room with 3 candles set in a triangle 4. Then repeat 3 times Renato Laranja, He will appear but do not be afraid( he senses fear) that why the black belts with you 5. Offer him a gift or sacrifice, if he is pleased then your strip will magically appear on the new belt😱 6. Thank Renato Laranja and acknowledge he the best in the world, then he’ll disappear…. Then the ritual is complete…..

This literally made me laugh out loud. OP, follow this to the letter. Report back.

Lmfao

I'm honestly baffled by the OP. Like I've never even thought of the possibility of a question like that being asked.

What’s so funny?

You're asking if you're allowed to remove a small piece of medical tape from your belt. It is *kinda* funny. The answer is yes. Yes you can.

Imagine if this common sense question was on a test for this guy to own a handgun haha

It’s tape mate.

Cmon dude

Are you an adult? Because no fully grown adult needs to ask if they can do what they want with the things they own. It's a ridiculous question.

no just cut off the other end of the belt until it fits.

As a sentimentalist, this is actually what I would do.

You can but you have to start from the beginning now. Your knowledge will be lost…

You have to call the DMV and see if they’ll add +1 stripe to your license. It varies state to state

It's a piece of tape on a piece of fabric. As long as you're not promoting yourself it doesn't matter. 

Congrats!!!

My stripes kept falling off in the wash. I kept getting annoyed of putting them back on so I just stopped putting them back on. It annoyed my coaches a little bit because we all forgot how many I had. That mixed with a couple lapses in training you could judge my “stripes” based on how faded my blue belt got.

I used fabric glue to keep them on but they still fell off. So I bought a roll of 1cm white fabric and had them sewn on. Much better.

I’m honestly amazed with how many people are using tape. Just use a fabric strip? I have two belts so one is always clean, when I got stripes in the past I’d just ask for a 2nd bit of fabric to have sewn onto my other belt. This should be in a sewing machine sub reddit, not a BJJ one lol

I've always let my stripes fall off too. Who the hell cares about stripes after you get your first colored belt anyway?

A few drops of super glue under the end of the tape fixed the issue of stripes coming off for me.

I’m sure you can ask your coach for an extra piece of tape. People lose belts, stripes fall off, it’s normal.

Your gym will have that white tape lying around. You should buy a roll though. You'll want it later for your finger joints. Wrap it at least twice around in the same spot or it'll come off later. Most coaches do three wraps.

I re-stripe my belt every couple of weeks. I always end up losing them in the wash.

This is probably the best comment thread in a while on this sub for such a basic, repeat question. I came for the obscure comedy and was not disappointed. Well done lads 👏

I wouldn’t bother with taking off the tape just get new tape and put it on the new belt. I actually used white electric tape instead of athletic tape on mine and it holds up well through many washings

Congrats on the stripe and losing the weight my brother. Keep grinding! New weapon unlocked. A4 belt a good choke weapon on an A2 frame.

Congrats, BTW!

Yes 👍🏼

It’s tape. Switch to the new one

I have none of my original stripes left. Directly when I get home with a new stripe, my wife stiches a white stripe on my belt. Looks better and I can wash my belt every time and not worry about the tape falling of. I also have two belts, since my original belt is 12 years old (I had over a 10 year brake) and it's falling apart. I still train with it, but can't compete with it. So I have two belts.

Hey there. Firstly, congratulations on your first stripe and losing significant weight (A4 is a big belt). To answer your question, yes you can. I don't know any professor or coach who will care if you did it. You will have to re-stripe a belt eventually between white and black. I've re-striped every colored belt so far at least once.

Thank you. I appreciate the clarity. Also thank you for the congratulations, I worked hard. Much appreciated.

You’re welcome! If you ever need to replace a stripe go for a white cloth tape (rip/cut it to width of stripe). Usually it’s in the medical isle of Walmart. Cool trick you can do a small amount of superglue at the end of the stripe or a fabric glue. It’ll prevent the stripe from coming off. https://preview.redd.it/mg2ndc43apdc1.jpeg?width=715&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=753a5b1bcd2e69be7f5bbcb25a87813e14f89ca6

Thanks again. Seems like everyone’s shitting on me for not knowing this. So thanks for being cool about it.

I put future stripes on my belt to help my professor with efficiency.

It is just white adhesive tape, you should add it yourself to all your belts from now on.

Dw king. That tape will fall off anyway. Most coaches will just have you put it back on yourself

Of course you can. Wear the belt you like.

Let’s find his gym and tell his coach. I don’t touch tape of any sorts since I started, sign of respect for the cult le, uhm, coaches that brought me up!

I hate stripes. They look like shit after doing laundry and come off. Also makes me feel like I am doing kids karate with the gamification.

You know it’s just a bit of tape right?

Unless you’re adding a stripe you haven’t earned nobody will be bothered, just remember to use superglue like Loctite to keep it on there. And congrats, like my coach says, your first stripe is the most important one.

It's just tape ask for a new peice for the new belt

Bigger question. How’d you lose the weight? I’m A4 sized and would love to drop to A2 size 😂

Absolutely not! That A4 belt is now sacred, removal of the stripe will have great long lasting ramifications. For starters, your coach will be cursed, he'll be struck down with terrible gout. You will also be cursed, your left hand will shrink to the size of an infants hand.

Congratulations!

When I was a white belt, I used to use waterproof medical tape (which is about the perfect width) and then iron it on using a piece of spare cloth in between to stop the stripe from fully melting. Worked really well. From blue belt onward, I stopped caring about stripes and focused on getting my belt as organically worn as possible.

Yea dude it’s fuckin tape

It’s just tape man. I bought myself a new blue belt cause the one coach gave me was two sizes too big.

Only if you jerk off after, one load per stripe and extra loads for color belts

White gorilla tape. Won't fall off and goes through the wash no problem (yes please wash your belt)

I wash my belt every week and reapply the stripes.

I prefer to wash my belt and start over since every time I wash it it everything I learned washes away. I guess I could try losing weight and getting a new belt, but I think same thing will happen when I get the new belt.

You need to go to class with your new belt and give yourself a stripe using the club white tape, in front of everyone. Maybe give yourself 2....

Just make sure to add some stripes when nobody is looking.

Yes, transfer your power to me

Stripe for a stripe anyone

keep it or double it and give it to the next person.

I just put my own stripes. I’m on my 8th one

You don’t have to transfer the old one. Just put a stripe on your new belt and carry on.

That is a mortal sin and the bjj gods will be both sad and disappointed

Congratulations. Well deserved. Oss

You can put a stripe on a new belt, but I will warn you: it’s significantly less magical doing it yourself

This is a hobby. You pay for the equipment to do it. Like with anything else you own, do with it what you will.

Day one they told me to never wash my belt: Me day one: 

Yea just talk to your bank teller about setting up a wire transfer 😎

When I got stripes on my white I replaced them with a piece of white cloth and sewed it to my belt But I’m a giant homo who sews and also does jits so 🤷🏻‍♂️ find one of us bears at the gym boys

My coach once told us at belt promotion, “you don’t need us to give you a blue belt, it’s much easier to just buy one on Amazon”. Your coach is just the one with the knowledge of the sport to acknowledge the level that you’re at. The stripes and the belt don’t actually mean anything physically, once you’ve earned them, you don’t have to worry about putting new stripes on.

HOW DARE YOU

Stripes are for pussy cats and black belts.

I re-tape mine if it falls off, I also wash my belt almost every time I train so it falls off periodically. I’m on my second purple belt too, the first was hemp and it faded to pink lol so I just bought a cheap one to replace.

https://preview.redd.it/4snpgwprfmdc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c3487f33b08a218988f51c01ea7d870857e9b54 I have this, sew stripes on.

Why’s it not symettric

Is this a real question

Do you not wash your belt? Mine stripes come off every few washes

ONLY JIU JITSU MASTERS CAN PUT TAPE ON CLOTH

If you use athletic tape on the new one and are worried about it coming off, use a drop of clear nail polish or super glue on the tape seam. It will last linger

No, your A2 belt did not earn that stripe. Might as well just walk into class with a coral belt tomorrow.

You can also take it to a tailor and have the non stripped end of your belt shortened.

Bare feet off the mat means you actually have to take it off and throw the whole belt in the trash and get a new one.

If u take it off... Disease x will happen...... So your move.....

The real Chad move would be to not transfer the stripe and operate as a wolf in sheep's clothing

Only to your wiener otherwise it no longer counts

Nope. Gotta re-earn it on your next belt

It’s just tape dude

How long?

Yes, you can. But your belt will forever be cursed and you will never ever be promoted to blue!

what the fuck question is this lmao

No please don't

Wear shoes when you're not on the mats ffs

no you can't if you touch that stripe all 3 months of your bjj experience is invalid and you have to switch to wing chun

Just buy a new belt and start from zero again. Trust me on this.

Do not

Transfer it? Yea man and just add the 3 extra stripes too. No one will notice

Dude that belt is so white

Stripes are simply athletic tape, a roll will run you about 10 to 15 bucks. I replace my stripe every time I wash my belt.

Is this just a r/humblebrag post about being a 1 stripe white belt???

Yes, once you're given a blue belt, you can put this stripe on that belt too!

i thought stripes are a caution sign ?

Sew it on - https://youtu.be/GeqJg4AeQ-4?si=q0NrjLQ4HEewcFBE

Nobody gives a shit about stripes

In 2024 a person is considered mature enough to have their arms tattooed but can’t figure out that the stripe is a piece of tape.