The GI is dead?

[Jesse Briggs]

I have a novice question ,if you purposely freak out and try your hardiest in the Gi wont your opponent have fucked up fingers after?

Yes.

[Martin Harris]

Finally made it through to page 12.... *whew*

So here is the question; If you had one years time to prepare for a life or death MMA match (loser dies) against an elite wrestler who was going to take you down and ground and pound you, how much time would you spend training in the gi for this fight?

If anyone can tell me why they would spend any time at all training in a gi for this match I would love to hear it.

[Joseph Hachey]

I have a novice question ,if you purposely freak out and try your hardiest in the Gi wont your opponent have fucked up fingers after?

Your fingers become callus, but there's no harm of them breaking if you are using legal grips. Illegal grips, such as putting fingers in a cuff sleeve, are illegal because they put your fingers in danger.

[Joseph Hachey]

Finally made it through to page 12.... *whew*

So here is the question; If you had one years time to prepare for a life or death MMA match (loser dies) against an elite wrestler who was going to take you down and ground and pound you, how much time would you spend training in the gi for this fight?

If anyone can tell me why they would spend any time at all training in a gi for this match I would love to hear it.

I'd train wrestling.

[Liquidrob]

What I find interesting about Marcelo, probably top 3 all time is the only times he has been subbed is by moves he doesnt usually teach or do

Jacare got him with a kimura, Drysdale with a Darce and Estima with a triangle

He does catch a triangle here and there, but even in his book he talked about wanting to be a triangle master early on but than realized it wasn't going to be as efficient or something because of his body type

When Marcelo showed Darce defense and he joked about losing to Drysdale saying that was a $30,000 mistake!

[Martin Harris]

I'd train wrestling.

LOL, can't tell if you're serious, that's like saying if you had one year to prepare for an MMA match against Marcelo you would train jiu jitsu.

[David Rosado]

What I find interesting about Marcelo, probably top 3 all time is the only times he has been subbed is by moves he doesnt usually teach or do

Jacare got him with a kimura, Drysdale with a Darce and Estima with a triangle

He does catch a triangle here and there, but even in his book he talked about wanting to be a triangle master early on but than realized it wasn't going to be as efficient or something because of his body type

When Marcelo showed Darce defense and he joked about losing to Drysdale saying that was a $30,000 mistake!

Good point.

Talent is basically the effectiveness of effort. You seem to be putting in a lot of effort and spinning your wheels, so you must not have much talent.

Joseph and David, y'all should take the pecker measuring to a private message and leave the forum to civil discussion. Y'all are both being pretty ridiculous to each other.

Done.

[Tyler Timmermans]

Your fingers become callus, but there's no harm of them breaking if you are using legal grips. Illegal grips, such as putting fingers in a cuff sleeve, are illegal because they put your fingers in danger.

Well other then that i can't really see the harm in training GI, but to only train GI for MMA would be a bit weird.

[Brandon Mccaghren]

Good point.







Done.

How did you quote multiple posts like that?

[Chris Herzog]

I have a novice question ,if you purposely freak out and try your hardiest in the Gi wont your opponent have fucked up fingers after?

YES, Broken fingers, dislocations, tendinitis, arthritis all are common in the grip battle. Broken fingers and more dislocations than I can count. I can't grapple at all without taping up my wrists now due to the arthritis.