Since the blue belt is the first real belt of expertise, it's often been asked if they should teach. Here are my thoughts on whether or not they should, and some scenarios where blue belts ought to teach.
Great information! On one hand, I really want you to succeed and to keep following you. On the other hand, your red pill t-shirts emphasize the point you made in another video about a black belt not being qualified to teach students about life outside of BJJ. I hope your figure it out, though. The world will change whether you're prepared or not.
I'm a white belt in BJJ. In my experience working with upper belts, blue belts are still figuring out how to roll with lower belts. This is the first belt where you HAVE lower belts. In my experience rolling with blue belts, it's either: A) they completely dominate me and I don't get much opportunity to do anything, or B) as soon as I pass their guard, I'm going to tap them, because they just let me have the submission. There isn't really an in-between. At least for the lower-level blue belts. Purple belts and upper-level blue belts have more of an idea on how to roll with someone much less able than them, but where they struggle is on finding the right advice to give. For example, my Professor has been telling me to be more active when under mount. My other professor taught me the umpa escape. So I was more active and tried the umpa escape and ending up getting armbarred. The purple belt started getting on my case about "panicking" (where I was just trying to be more active) and criticized my elbow escape (which isn't even what I was doing). I'm not saying that what I did was in any way remotely correct, but his advice wasn't very helpful at all. I find the upper purple belts and brown belts to be much more chill. They let me get some work in, but still make it clear they're in control of the roll. And they have a much better sense on when to give me advice, when to let me work, and how to give me the right advice for the situation. Of course, all of that wouldn't come without making the mistakes I mentioned above at blue and purple, so I try not to get too frustrated at my partners who are only trying to help. I've got tons of teaching experience in another martial art, in which I've made many of the same mistakes. It would be a little hypocritical not to cut them the same slack.
