A dramatic increase of RG use by NON-10TH Planet grapplers in Tournaments

[michael craig]

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

[Brandon Palmer]

Herzog, hah at the "stage 1" thing. That hurts my head!

And I would agree that the 10th movement is definitely affecting everyone in the grappling game. However, hardly ANYONE that doesnt drill the hell out of it gets it right. I mean its getting bad. The BJJ guys are having to at least pick up some of it. Grappling-wise I see it a lot, but MMA-wise, i see it ALL THE GD TIME!

You'll go to one of these shows and you can bet your ass you'll see a few knuckleheads pulling mission or even to new york and looking absolutely lost then losing position. I hate it because i feel like its a poor representation of us and the system. These guys pull mission in a fight, do absolutely shit with it, and the folks watching are like "yeah that rubber guard stuff doesn't work". I try to educate any time I can. Hell I cringed when BJ used it last night...just wanted him to do something with it, if he was going to go to it.

[michael craig]

with his insane flexabillity i could have done alot with it..he didnt seem that hungry for the win

[JonScottND]

Local tournament a few of us where in this last spring you saw some of the hate, lots of looks and comments. After we destroyed the no-gi division and had one of our guys dominate the absolute no-gi taking out a couple blues, a purple and a black belt in judo we had a few people come up and start asking questions regarding where we train and how we learned what we have with 10th Planet. Recently had a instructor of another school inform me we could not come roll at his school as we are part of a competing team. (best part of this being some of his students have rolled at ours)

Its been a lot of work up in North Dakota to bridge the gap with the jiu jitsu world, especially for 10th Planet. Thanks to guys like my instructor Sensi Reis, Derek Stewart, Eddie, Denny and more we've been able to take everything we can from Seminars, Videos, Books and keep working the reps over and over. Now we are starting to see more and more guys roll in the doors including people from other BJJ gyms in the surrounding area's. I know I can speak for the entire gym when I say we are all proud of our 10th Planet patches.

[michael craig]

hahahaha thats a awsome story....^^^^^^^^^^^ thats kinda childish that you guys got banned from the other school

[Jesse Bell]

I have noticed a lot of Lockdown use. Also, this weekend I went to a competition and one of the guys in a higher division tried rubber guard and popped his knee. The ref stopped it and wouldn't let him continue because he yelped.