The GI is dead?

[Martin Harris]

Training in the Gi is a great way to develop grip strength, its also effiecent because you are grappling and doing your grips at the same time, no need to work on extra gripping excercises if thats your thing

Not disputing it will increase your grip strength but in my opinion it is not efficient. If you are using the gi for grips while training you are not training for an MMA fight.

All this talk has me interested in Hendricks ground game. I'm going to study some of his fights and see if he ever grips his hands for anything other than a punch

[Liquidrob]

Just doing a quick search, looks like a lot of people think grip training really helps for boxing, mostly for injury prevention of your hands and just overall strength in your hands for punching

The power of the Gi!

[Brandon Mccaghren]

Just did a quick search, looks like lots of people believe Elvis is still alive.

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[Liquidrob]

Elvis wore a gi also, made his dance moves much tighter

[Brandon Mccaghren]

Elvis wore a gi also, made his dance moves much tighter

Lol +1

You're a good sport

[sean applegate]

Just did a quick search, looks like lots of people believe Elvis is still alive.

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Lol. I seen you pull somebody jaw bone off...I seent it. You used to be ruthless.

[Joshua Jarboe]

Liquidrob = Renato.

Minds explode. It all makes sense now.

Have you ever seen them both in the same room together? I didn't think so.

Can we all agree that if you want to be good at BOTH Gi and No-gi (and self defense and MMA that Marcelo's strategy of having a unified game that works for both makes a lot of sense? I don't care about who said what or who took what out of context or moving goalposts, or whatever. The point is obvious right?

This matters to me because this conclusion is one that's been building in my mind for quite a while and confirmation that it makes sense at least to Marcelo is pretty cool.

[Joshua Jarboe]

Elvis Presley. Datch guy... he's a gootch guy. When he dance he gonna moves his hip...he gonna hip eshcape. Elvis Presley, he wore the gi also, made his dance moves much tighter. Everything comes from the gi. Everything comes from Brazil.

[Liquidrob]

Well, since I switched over to the Gi my nickname lately has been Master Hob

You may be on to something...

[Angel"EL DIABLO"Diaz]

The strength of your grip literally has nothing to do with anything that makes a punch powerful.
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Actually I have heard quite a bit that grip strength can in fact help punching, but more in the way that it makes the punches sharper by keeping a relaxed fist and just before impact clenching the fist which would make them faster.I remember first hearing it in the countdown for Jens Pulver vs Uriah Faber , jens was doing mad crazy grip training and explained a little bit.

Soooo I wouldn't doubt to much that training Gi would help increase grip strength which in turn makes your punches more "powerful" but I will doubt that a blue belt has trained enough Gi to make a difference, now if marcelo knew how to throw a punch properly I would bet he can sleep people with his grip strength