@NW Oista Yup, seen it, lots of guys quit at purple belt, they stop coming to class and they come weeks later and get manhandled like rag dolls by lower belts. Seen it.. I don't want that to happen to me, that's why I go to class every day. If I am injured, I just do the technique and go home.
I've heard the martial-art-as-language analogy before, but never in such depth. As usual, impeccable technique demonstration as well. What I love about your videos is that you give them a lot more thought than the average demo you find on youtube that seems to have been done with little to no planning and consideration for production. Thanks for raising the bar.
their guards are hard as shit to pass their grips are like gorillas fast as lightning and heavy as a hippo attacks for days have telepathy and know your move before you do it not above destroying a lower belt for shits and giggles humble enough to teach the lower belts something new
I received my Purple belt 2.5 months ago. For some time I was the only female (now have some new female students) and also more than 20 years older than most of the male students. I so often questioned my ability, but a very dedicated, persistent Coach made sure I was in class 5-6 days a week. I continue to question my ability. I have to respect my Coaches decision to promote me to Purple belt. I am able to 'construct a sentence' as is said in the video- but 'my grammar needs help '.
@@BM-of6dg Hi- progress is good? I continue training 5-6 days a week. I just received my first stripe on my Brown belt. I’m able to chain submission attacks together etc. Although I am told my technique is good and I use it well when rolling with the stronger, quicker 20-30ish guys; I sometimes feel like a Brown belt fake. This is due to competition. Or the lack of. Several of our team members have competed. I have not. There has not been any competitors in my age, belt level at the competitions that my teammates have gone to. That is one reason. Truth be told, even if there were I not sure I would compete? I‘ve been told the best place to find fellow competitors would be at the World’s Masters - usually in Las Vegas. But, most competing in it would have prior competition experience. So, not a good idea? My Coach always says he doesn’t care whether someone competes or not. I think for me it would be facing a fear? Also as I train predominantly with men I really don’t know how my BJJ is when compared to another female at the same belt level and the same age range.
@@cynthiageskes1457 I'm sure you're a brown belt. A part of it is time and dedication. Your coach has observed you vs the men and you're probably doing all the right things. It's not always about competitions. It's unfair to compare with younger, stronger, faster and possibly heavier men.
@@cynthiageskes1457 Even if it's not a good idea try it then You Will feel how it really is, if You need more exp with women go to Open mats or only female Open mat or try hard with males that have the same weight as You and go hard (i know probably they have more strenght but it's the Challenge) if professor priorize or not comp it's ok, but i hope if You or Your partners compete he'd has been there with You and coach You all during the fight
“We want to have a ‘conversation’ with our Jiujitsu, then escalate it to an argument, then win that argument.” Not my creation, but I forget the name of the instructor who said this
No man. I haven't even gotten my fourth stripe yet, even though I tap all the other blues and purples at my school. My coach is notoriously slow with promotions so I just have to be patient. Hell, our 3 stripe white belts would be blue belts at other schools.
+Brian Saez I feel u dude. I've been a white belt for a year and a half. my professor only promotes adults every 6 months and if u miss promotion day, then u gotta wait. I'll barely get my Second stripe in July haha.
+Ed Perez yea man. Just be patient. Maybe try to work on something specific each month to round out your game. Because of injuries I've been a blue belt for six years so I've learned a lot about patience lol.
Being a judo player that trains at some bjj clubs now and then i can say that when i roll there is a definite difference between a blue belt and purple belt.Blue belts i can equal but purples tend to wrap me up.
He makes it look so easy, for any beginner it’s a long road to that point. I really like the words to conversation to argument and then to winning that argument analogy. So poetic so true good job
i think what also makes this so satisfying to watch other than the amazing and smooth techniques performed in this vid is the fact that i get to see simon cowell get choked out and subbed repeatedly!
+Wisstihrwas Lol same. I'm amazed by how fluid all of his transitions and submissions are, and here I am struggling to sweep my foot over for a standard arm lock :p
Dean Sensei, Good to see this, thank you for using the Language analogy that we both preach so good to hear another instructor especially your caliber, much respect and kindness, good to train with you in Memphis. maybe we can train some in aikido and bjj again when I get to Bend. In Aiki, Bill Ross
This sounds like they did the audio of the video over again. I liked the original and have it downloaded to my android. I listen/watch this almost everyday.
I'm a wrestler..bluebelt who quit for a while now I'm healed up my buddy's a blk belt.he is a beast.owns a gym.just seeing what I wanna be at purple belt..everything like same tempo..but diff moves..and establish a good defence. I don't know..but loved rollin.
man i really hope i get to train with yal one day. watching this guy and jimmy da silva is fukn awesome. i hope to go for a week and train my ass off. hopefully after the summer. keep the vidz comin brotha
as a purple belt ive learned its not about screaming words at new students and hope that they start screaming back, its more about taking them through a calm monologue with short breaks of explaining the language to them.
He flowed from one to the other. When his partner escaped or blocked a technique, he transitioned to another. If you listened to the description, transitioning smoothly from one position/technique to another is what he says basically makes a purple belt.
Very nicely done. Just train and the skill will come. You will get smoother with transitions and get better at setting techniques up. Train smart too. Train with people of all levels. Don't train a 100% everyday. By that I mean don't feel you have to go for the kill everyone you train with someone. To flow and transition smoothly you have to move as much as you can when you have the opportunity.
Thank you for posting this instruction video , somehow I find your movements fluent and effortless , is there any way to get the complete lessons on all the belts
@sonnych69 Newaza in judo is not the same as modern BJJ. there was a time when that statement was correct, but too many people have have had there hands in BJJ for it to be the same as Newaza, either kosen or Kodokan. In judo there are no leg-locks permitted or even leg takedowns anymore. you also don't have spider guard, mantis guard, x guard, twister control, or any of the eddie bravo marcelo garcia inventions.
@pedro90 actually, in American kickboxing, there is a MINIMUM of 6 kicks per round, not a maximum. I believe this was mainly due to the fact that most kickboxing matches were turning into what looked like regular boxing matches because the variety of kicks that you can utilize in American kickboxing was already so limited that a lot of fighters found it more efficient to take kicks out of their game all together and just straight up box their opponents.
Interesting analogy... but... learning a language does not happen very fast if you only learn single words... grammar helps alot as well as patterns of syntax and a safe practise space... in BJJ principle based teaching makes everything easier and faster... as well as rolling without submissions but only with positional control.
Good video although I'd say a blue belt is more like simple, incomplete phrases that are still meaningful like, "me go poop", or "me want eat food." A purple is like, "I'd like something to eat please." A brown is like, "My blood sugar is low thus I need to provide nourishment to my bodily organs in the form of simple carbohydrates and lipids." Or something like that. At black belt you're speaking total gibberish in the eyes of everyone else because you're so advanced.
im a beginner at bjj.... but ive been an athlete all my life. in struggling like every single white belt out there. this video might just change my approach to training
@canadianBJJ87 im not a tournament guy. In fact that is one of my frustratiuons with where I train right now. Eevrything is focused on competition and only competition. But I am unclear on what you are saying. In competition or in training are ankle locks ilegal? For example if someone takes your back and the put their hooks in but then cross their ankles for leverage is it ilegal for me to use an ankle lock on them? I did this to a Blue belt when I was a brand new guy. he got really pissed
@sonnych69 Newaza is limited to a very small window of oppurtunity, where as BJJ is not. its like saying american kickboxing- which allows 6 kicks per round, is the same as muay thai. if your stalling in BJJ your stood up too. I never brought up anything about Kosen not being good for MMA. you'd have to make some modifications to it be prepared for some more modern techniques- particularly nogi stuff, but its not illegal.
Joe Gargano don't worry about your belt buddy just keep training hard. Remember the gracie quote; a black belt on only covers a 2 inches of your ass.... You have to cover the rest. Wait until your professor sees you tapling all the other white belts.
Try not to let it bother you brother. I’m a two year white belt too. Changing schools soon in order to mix in no gi, among other reasons. So I’ll probably be a three year white belt unfortunately. What sucks is I’m on the smaller side and older side, so It is not easy to show dominance completely. At my school the people I see getting promoted fast are young and have a long body type that favors playing bottom. I promised myself I wasn’t going to be a bottom player for self defense purposes. Strikes tend to change the bottom game a bit. Guess winning tournaments helps you move up but to what end if it fails you in self defense...hate tall bottom players ha ha. ;-)
I'm about to start BJJ but I'm going to do Gracie academy and get private lessons for first 6 months. Just to get some of the basics down without having confidence destroyed in sparring right away. I haven't started yet but this seems like right strategy
I spent 5 years as a blue belt due to living in 4 cities during this time. Don't worry about belts, just keep training and learning and the belts will sort themselves out.
@crucifixchoke21 i have to appoligize if what i stated offended you. i never meant for that. i have been taught very different and my time at purple belt was very different then the way professor dean discusses it. i do agree with. i can promise you i am not lost when it comes to my game. like you said "it is an individual journey". i stand by the fact that i wont teach leg locks until blue in most cases. lost i am not. just following a different path.
I remember watching this video almost 4 years ago when I first started! (got my purple belt in October) The thought of being a purple belt was so crazy and a little scary to me, but now that it's here I realize it's just the natural progression of things. To all the new people out there: KEEP. SHOWING. UP. The answers will come slowly but surely. I always remind myself of that when I make mistakes.
I just got my first strip after only twelve classes as a white belt, is that normal or is he trying to make sure I am kept around for financial reasons? I do hold my own quite well against blues and purples but only twelve classes?
On average, that seems a little short, but did you have any past wrestling or other experience? And sometimes people just move faster than the norm. You may find you picked up the techniques he expected for a first stripe fast, but later you may sit at second or third much much longer.
Felandro Oh, well if you had training for a few months at another school then yeah, I'd say you were right on schedule for a stripe. The progression to blue is the shortest and the first stripe at white the fastest. You'll see that the time between stripes and belts should keep getting longer and longer because the expected skill level and number of techniques you should know .grows. If you're concerned about your school, just keep an eye out for how often stripes and belts are being given. Rule of thumb is 1-2 years to get blue, 2-4 to get purple, 2-4 more for brown, and I've seen black take up to 5-6 years more. Stripes should average in between those belt time-frames
Saying from brown to black can take up to even 5-6 years, but that's a max. Most go from brown to black faster than that, about 2-4. So, overall from white to black will typically be in the range of 6-12 years, with an average around 8 from what I've seen.
I got my purple belt today. My instructor said..."Your jiu jitsu begins now"
79pejeperro congratulations
A belated congrats man!
@79pejerro......update friend. I hope your training is going well!
Exactly, I got mines last July, going to class every day is the key and rest one day.
@NW Oista Yup, seen it, lots of guys quit at purple belt, they stop coming to class and they come weeks later and get manhandled like rag dolls by lower belts. Seen it.. I don't want that to happen to me, that's why I go to class every day. If I am injured, I just do the technique and go home.
I've heard the martial-art-as-language analogy before, but never in such depth. As usual, impeccable technique demonstration as well. What I love about your videos is that you give them a lot more thought than the average demo you find on youtube that seems to have been done with little to no planning and consideration for production. Thanks for raising the bar.
their guards are hard as shit to pass
their grips are like gorillas
fast as lightning and heavy as a hippo
attacks for days
have telepathy and know your move before you do it
not above destroying a lower belt for shits and giggles
humble enough to teach the lower belts something new
Omoplata > Triangle > omoplata > triangle > armbar. He does that like water finding cracks in concrete. Wow.
"You'll be there soon" gave me goosbumps
I received my Purple belt 2.5 months ago. For some time I was the only female (now have some new female students) and also more than 20 years older than most of the male students. I so often questioned my ability, but a very dedicated, persistent Coach made sure I was in class 5-6 days a week. I continue to question my ability. I have to respect my Coaches decision to promote me to Purple belt. I am able to 'construct a sentence' as is said in the video- but 'my grammar needs help '.
How’s the progress??
@@BM-of6dg Hi- progress is good? I continue training 5-6 days a week. I just received my first stripe on my Brown belt. I’m able to chain submission attacks together etc. Although I am told my technique is good and I use it well when rolling with the stronger, quicker 20-30ish guys; I sometimes feel like a Brown belt fake. This is due to competition. Or the lack of. Several of our team members have competed. I have not. There has not been any competitors in my age, belt level at the competitions that my teammates have gone to. That is one reason. Truth be told, even if there were I not sure I would compete? I‘ve been told the best place to find fellow competitors would be at the World’s Masters - usually in Las Vegas. But, most competing in it would have prior competition experience. So, not a good idea? My Coach always says he doesn’t care whether someone competes or not. I think for me it would be facing a fear? Also as I train predominantly with men I really don’t know how my BJJ is when compared to another female at the same belt level and the same age range.
@@cynthiageskes1457 I'm sure you're a brown belt. A part of it is time and dedication. Your coach has observed you vs the men and you're probably doing all the right things. It's not always about competitions.
It's unfair to compare with younger, stronger, faster and possibly heavier men.
@@cynthiageskes1457 Even if it's not a good idea try it then You Will feel how it really is, if You need more exp with women go to Open mats or only female Open mat or try hard with males that have the same weight as You and go hard (i know probably they have more strenght but it's the Challenge) if professor priorize or not comp it's ok, but i hope if You or Your partners compete he'd has been there with You and coach You all during the fight
“We want to have a ‘conversation’ with our Jiujitsu, then escalate it to an argument, then win that argument.”
Not my creation, but I forget the name of the instructor who said this
He is so damn smooth.
my coach told me yesterday that I'm getting my purple belt in a couple months. this video really helped to put my current progress into perspective
What's up dude did u end up getting purple belt?
No man. I haven't even gotten my fourth stripe yet, even though I tap all the other blues and purples at my school. My coach is notoriously slow with promotions so I just have to be patient. Hell, our 3 stripe white belts would be blue belts at other schools.
+Brian Saez I feel u dude. I've been a white belt for a year and a half. my professor only promotes adults every 6 months and if u miss promotion day, then u gotta wait. I'll barely get my Second stripe in July haha.
+Ed Perez yea man. Just be patient. Maybe try to work on something specific each month to round out your game. Because of injuries I've been a blue belt for six years so I've learned a lot about patience lol.
+Brian Saez wow! great advice dude. I will definitely use month to month focusing on certain techniques.
Being a judo player that trains at some bjj clubs now and then i can say that when i roll there is a definite difference between a blue belt and purple belt.Blue belts i can equal but purples tend to wrap me up.
He makes it look so easy, for any beginner it’s a long road to that point. I really like the words to conversation to argument and then to winning that argument analogy. So poetic so true good job
This is a great video, great way to explain it. Brilliant stuff
Awesome technique and good flow of techniques. Roy Dean is one of the best bjj practitioners out there
I really like Roy Dean and his professor Roy Harris.
As a blue belt I fuxking love your videos and techniques Roy!
Just got done training. I needed this vid.
very smart analogy and a very smart guy
i think what also makes this so satisfying to watch other than the amazing and smooth techniques performed in this vid is the fact that i get to see simon cowell get choked out and subbed repeatedly!
Roy dean you are my Hero , just got my blue belt and I thank you for conceptualizing this art in a way I enjoy and often reference while under stress
I love roy dean teachings
Beautiful movement and explanation
Love your videos Roy. So clearly explained.
The best explanation of the difference between Blue and Purple I have heard!
so interesting some of these back takes :O
I hear a video about winning an argument and i'm sitting here learning the alphabet
+Wisstihrwas Lol same. I'm amazed by how fluid all of his transitions and submissions are, and here I am struggling to sweep my foot over for a standard arm lock :p
amazing analogy Roy.
Roy Dean, you're the white Rickson Gracie. Such an enlightened and well spoken warrior. Please keep the wisdom coming
Dean Sensei, Good to see this, thank you for using the Language analogy that we both preach so good to hear another instructor especially your caliber, much respect and kindness, good to train with you in Memphis. maybe we can train some in aikido and bjj again when I get to Bend. In Aiki, Bill Ross
Getting my gi today, I hope get purple someday that would be huge for me!
Powermove Promotions have fun and i hope you get the purple belt ( bit late, sorry)
***** thanks mate I hope to get blue this year as well :)
I just joined again for the first week since highschool!
Where are you at? Gotta give some updates man hahaha
im curious to know if youre still doing it too
Always a pleasure watching your videos. Super professional. Please keep posting!
Purple belt 💜 goals!!!
This sounds like they did the audio of the video over again. I liked the original and have it downloaded to my android. I listen/watch this almost everyday.
His moves are so smooth
beautiful jiu jitsu
I'm a wrestler..bluebelt who quit for a while now I'm healed up my buddy's a blk belt.he is a beast.owns a gym.just seeing what I wanna be at purple belt..everything like same tempo..but diff moves..and establish a good defence.
I don't know..but loved rollin.
Amazed at Roy Dean, I want a personal game for everything
Thank you Roy ❤️🙏🏻
man i really hope i get to train with yal one day. watching this guy and jimmy da silva is fukn awesome. i hope to go for a week and train my ass off. hopefully after the summer. keep the vidz comin brotha
This video is hypnotizing
awesome videos , good techniques , good thinking
I'm testing for mine in 3 days. Have seen this before numerous times...on DVD and here on TH-cam. But just had to watch it again. Thanks. #Oss
as a purple belt ive learned its not about screaming words at new students and hope that they start screaming back, its more about taking them through a calm monologue with short breaks of explaining the language to them.
Awesome video can't wait to roll later
I Love Sensei Rodney's videos, I hope one day I can train with him!
"Good luck in your journey....you'll be there soon."
He flowed from one to the other. When his partner escaped or blocked a technique, he transitioned to another. If you listened to the description, transitioning smoothly from one position/technique to another is what he says basically makes a purple belt.
very very cool, thank you for posting the video!
Just got my purple belt this past Saturday!!!
Hi Roy, i was wondering if you could make a tutorial video on that move that i asked you about earlier on at the 0:42 point.
Very nicely done. Just train and the skill will come. You will get smoother with transitions and get better at setting techniques up. Train smart too. Train with people of all levels. Don't train a 100% everyday. By that I mean don't feel you have to go for the kill everyone you train with someone. To flow and transition smoothly you have to move as much as you can when you have the opportunity.
Thanks for this, will do this mindset starting today
Great analogy
Thank you for posting this instruction video , somehow I find your movements fluent and effortless , is there any way to get the complete lessons on all the belts
loved it ! i couldnt have said it in a better way!
I didn’t know Patrick Bateman practiced BJJ
Yes
Ew
Lol
Savage
Let’s see Paul Allen’s berimbolo
We all started from that point. and we all were once white belts. its what you plan to do about it that makes the difference! keep on rolling bro!
@sonnych69 Newaza in judo is not the same as modern BJJ. there was a time when that statement was correct, but too many people have have had there hands in BJJ for it to be the same as Newaza, either kosen or Kodokan. In judo there are no leg-locks permitted or even leg takedowns anymore. you also don't have spider guard, mantis guard, x guard, twister control, or any of the eddie bravo marcelo garcia inventions.
@pedro90 actually, in American kickboxing, there is a MINIMUM of 6 kicks per round, not a maximum. I believe this was mainly due to the fact that most kickboxing matches were turning into what looked like regular boxing matches because the variety of kicks that you can utilize in American kickboxing was already so limited that a lot of fighters found it more efficient to take kicks out of their game all together and just straight up box their opponents.
DAM MY SPEECH IMPEDIMENT!!!!
I just came across your channel an I like all ready u r the shit your videos rock I'm watching the shit out of them now sweet!
Thank you for the video! :)
ha very sweet video my friends nice matts where d you get those!?
best narration
Beautiful way to explain BJJ to a beginner or grand master.
I do judo and i can see some well applied strangles that could be used in judo!!
I'm blue belt, if I need to flow like the guy on the video, my purple belt is not anytime soon.... :)
This looks like a playbook for our guerilla jiu jitsu class =] i see some of those guerilla moves!! excellent analogy, well done.
Interesting analogy... but... learning a language does not happen very fast if you only learn single words... grammar helps alot as well as patterns of syntax and a safe practise space... in BJJ principle based teaching makes everything easier and faster... as well as rolling without submissions but only with positional control.
AMAZING EXPLANATION ! !
THAN YOU
that was awesome.
1:50 I'm looking for the name of this technique since 3 months, can you help me?
Helicopter armbar
Justin Hanley Thank you so much
Holy shit thats awesome
We call the start of it a balloon sweep
..thank you professor..I love you tube!
Good video although I'd say a blue belt is more like simple, incomplete phrases that are still meaningful like, "me go poop", or "me want eat food." A purple is like, "I'd like something to eat please." A brown is like, "My blood sugar is low thus I need to provide nourishment to my bodily organs in the form of simple carbohydrates and lipids." Or something like that. At black belt you're speaking total gibberish in the eyes of everyone else because you're so advanced.
Im a first stripe white 😅 but love the way purple belts plays bjj
im a beginner at bjj.... but ive been an athlete all my life.
in struggling like every single white belt out there.
this video might just change my approach to training
Are you a black belt now ?
What DVD?
bravo!!! subbed.
aren't knee bars illegal for purple belts? and heel hooks illegal for bjj?
smooth!!!
Great video
I think they just use a different dye?
I liked the explanation. It seems though as if the whole video was of different submissions instead of sentences and combinations. Any comments?
What choke is that @ 2:50 ?
the best.
You don't just move fluidly on the tatami, you're a philosopher as well.
Nice video
caveat - a couple of the moves he's doing in the video may be illegal at purple belt according to IBJJF
@canadianBJJ87 im not a tournament guy. In fact that is one of my frustratiuons with where I train right now. Eevrything is focused on competition and only competition. But I am unclear on what you are saying. In competition or in training are ankle locks ilegal? For example if someone takes your back and the put their hooks in but then cross their ankles for leverage is it ilegal for me to use an ankle lock on them? I did this to a Blue belt when I was a brand new guy. he got really pissed
@sonnych69 Newaza is limited to a very small window of oppurtunity, where as BJJ is not. its like saying american kickboxing- which allows 6 kicks per round, is the same as muay thai. if your stalling in BJJ your stood up too. I never brought up anything about Kosen not being good for MMA. you'd have to make some modifications to it be prepared for some more modern techniques- particularly nogi stuff, but its not illegal.
Well put :D
Im just venting.. Been training 2 years and still a white belt. Switched schools due to moving.
Joe Gargano don't worry about your belt buddy just keep training hard. Remember the gracie quote; a black belt on only covers a 2 inches of your ass.... You have to cover the rest. Wait until your professor sees you tapling all the other white belts.
Try not to let it bother you brother. I’m a two year white belt too. Changing schools soon in order to mix in no gi, among other reasons. So I’ll probably be a three year white belt unfortunately. What sucks is I’m on the smaller side and older side, so It is not easy to show dominance completely. At my school the people I see getting promoted fast are young and have a long body type that favors playing bottom. I promised myself I wasn’t going to be a bottom player for self defense purposes. Strikes tend to change the bottom game a bit. Guess winning tournaments helps you move up but to what end if it fails you in self defense...hate tall bottom players ha ha. ;-)
I'm about to start BJJ but I'm going to do Gracie academy and get private lessons for first 6 months. Just to get some of the basics down without having confidence destroyed in sparring right away. I haven't started yet but this seems like right strategy
I spent 5 years as a blue belt due to living in 4 cities during this time. Don't worry about belts, just keep training and learning and the belts will sort themselves out.
Dont rush it bro, my friend took him three years to get his blue. And I just started my first month.
"These are great training videos....proven to be very helpful in my sparring sessions"....
Awesome video. what's that move called at 0:42 point?
hiza gatame
Thanks
Nice!
Nice vid eo
It does. But that doesn't mean it is impossible or not worth while.
who is the black belt? very smooth movement.
roy dean
thanks!, keep making more videos (first!)
@crucifixchoke21 i have to appoligize if what i stated offended you. i never meant for that. i have been taught very different and my time at purple belt was very different then the way professor dean discusses it. i do agree with. i can promise you i am not lost when it comes to my game. like you said "it is an individual journey".
i stand by the fact that i wont teach leg locks until blue in most cases. lost i am not. just following a different path.
I remember watching this video almost 4 years ago when I first started! (got my purple belt in October) The thought of being a purple belt was so crazy and a little scary to me, but now that it's here I realize it's just the natural progression of things. To all the new people out there: KEEP. SHOWING. UP. The answers will come slowly but surely. I always remind myself of that when I make mistakes.
I just got my first strip after only twelve classes as a white belt, is that normal or is he trying to make sure I am kept around for financial reasons? I do hold my own quite well against blues and purples but only twelve classes?
On average, that seems a little short, but did you have any past wrestling or other experience? And sometimes people just move faster than the norm. You may find you picked up the techniques he expected for a first stripe fast, but later you may sit at second or third much much longer.
I have been asked if I wrestled before but no just lots of functional weight lifting and I did a few months of training before at another school.
Felandro Oh, well if you had training for a few months at another school then yeah, I'd say you were right on schedule for a stripe. The progression to blue is the shortest and the first stripe at white the fastest.
You'll see that the time between stripes and belts should keep getting longer and longer because the expected skill level and number of techniques you should know .grows.
If you're concerned about your school, just keep an eye out for how often stripes and belts are being given. Rule of thumb is 1-2 years to get blue, 2-4 to get purple, 2-4 more for brown, and I've seen black take up to 5-6 years more. Stripes should average in between those belt time-frames
When you say black takes 5-6 years do you mean from starting to earning or from brown to black?
Saying from brown to black can take up to even 5-6 years, but that's a max. Most go from brown to black faster than that, about 2-4. So, overall from white to black will typically be in the range of 6-12 years, with an average around 8 from what I've seen.