10th Planet PTBO student begins series of articles
This article was written by a fellow 10P Peterborough friend, Josh. He's the guy in my avatar furthest to the right.
It's one of a series. This one is on the IBJJF rules.
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We have all witnessed matches at tournaments following IBJJF rules where competitors get ahead on points and then drag their opponents into positions such as fifty-fifty guard to slow down the match and hopefully slide away with a victory based on their advantageous score.
With this said, do the points truly encourage stalling? When the rules were put together and the points system was devised, the obvious objective of points and advantages was to reward progression of jiu jitsu, not to create stalling sessions or have competitors run out the clock as they do in other sports such as football or basketball.
Check it out!
http://grapplersplanet.com/the-ibjjf...undown-part-1/
