Originally Posted by
Chris Herzog
1) To answer NO, its not true. Most people outside of 10th Planet don't have a clue what they are talking about when it comes to the 10th Planet system, the only know what they've seen in a few videos/books. Eddie has said several times in interviews, is that he purposely left out fundamental material in his media like books, dvds because their are literately thousands of resources our their on them and didn't want to rehash the same material that has all ready been put out but others, rather he wanted to show material that was uniquely 10th Planet. Talking down on 10th Planet is one of the ways competing BJJ schools try to combat loosing business and students due to the rise of 10th Plane. Saying things like the only way to get better at no-gi and be fundamentally sound is to train Gi is just silly.
2)Yes there are fundamentals in the system, the 10p warm ups large part of the fundamentals curriculum. Each series has 4 flows, each flow is a series of movement/transitions, positions and submission. To the untrained eye it could seem like their lacking them, however when the warm ups are broken down and compartmentalized in the fundamentals classes (which most 10p schools have), you get to see the depth of fundamentals in the warm ups.