Originally Posted by
Aiseop
Thanks. Was just curious if there was any room for thinking that someone like me does, in fact, benefit as a grappler by having half his time in a gi, in this forum. I appreciate the thoughtful responses, including Eddie's. I have my own thoughts but that's neither here nor there because those thoughts aren't up for debate, but, let's just say if I ran things at my school, I'd flip the gi vs no-gi offerings. With that said, I remember someone told said here that what makes the 10th Planet system work is an open mind, not the lockdown or rubber guard. I was wondering if this applied to the gi, as well; to think, well, it's not for me, but I can see it's use, etc., or something along those lines of thoughts; after all, Master Jean Jacques Machado would be someone I'm sure we'd all listen to on this subject, even if we disagree.