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

[Dima]

Haha good story Kevin : ). I kinda had some fun with learning it in a traditional school myself. I used to train with a Royler Gracie blackbelt back in Missouri and there was me and one other guy who was freakishly flexible and who was a bluebelt. After seeing him do some awesome stuff that nobody else could do,( he rolled against a brownbelt and recovered guard about five times with the jailbrake escape every time the brown thought he passed the guard lol) I started asking him about that specific style and i found out about Eddie's Rubber Guard. The following years i had trouble finding knowledge on it, even the bluebelt guy didnt like showing it much, so one day my old teacher was like " alright today ill teach the class ANYTHING you guys wanna learn." and i was immediately "ANYTHING" lol so I asked to teach a Royler Gracie blackbelt a basics of the rubberguard class! He was cool though and tough it, to bad everyone in class had to drill it to and only the smaller half of the class had the correct flexibility lol

[Matt_Logan]

I live in Kansas City with no local 10th planet. the closest school is about 3hrs away. We train all 10th planet tech. in our grappling classes and we go to the seminars when they are available. with that said the last tourny we went to we dominated with the 10th planet techs. we were openly calling out the moves and getting laughs from the other grapplers. At one point i yelled out to a teammate to get to the dogfight and 2 other guys on the sideline started mocking it. it made me mad and i laughed at the same time. Mad for the disrespect and i laughed because they got annihilated. It sucks not having an official place to train, but we try to do our best. We follow the books, dvd's, videos, and seminars. All while trying to stay as true to the spirit and teachings as we possibly can.

[Mike Nall]

Lots of Twisters being done in tourneys recently also.

[Daniel Valdez]

Ya the same holds pretty true to the NW. I have not seen to much successful use of the system, but they are trying.

[Neale Hoerle]

This is good stuff! Keep posting your stories! Although it's sad to hear that alot of you have no official school to trian 10TH Planet at it's good to see you all on the forum. This is the ultimate learning resource if you dont have a Moon near you. That is AWESOME news! Keep fighting for it guys! Hopefully we"ll be in all 50 States before long

[Jason Hyatt]

Damn I love the 10th Planet community! See what happens when you get a whole bunch of happy people playing a wonderful sport with an OPEN MIND TOWARD ITS EVOLUTION! Hah!

[Neale Hoerle]

Jason,

You are 100% correct my friend. This IS a community/family and we're all here to help each other grow. As for myself, you may all contact me via email, facebook, txt or phone (EST business hours please) and if I'm available I am willing to help as far as techniques, drills, set-ups and all knowledge in general! I'm speaking for all the other Moon coaches as well I'm sure! If I can't help, I'm sure I can get you to the right person!
Train hard!

[KevinGill]

Keep fighting for it guys! Hopefully we"ll be in all 50 States before long

Don't forget Europe too

[Nick Mabee]

Its always fun to hear them refer to it as "high guard" and its like the purposely avoid using the 10pjj teminology, so much so that it overly obvious and very funny. I actually heard a guy yelling "great now your in stage 1" instead of mission control at a local tournament a few months back.

Stage 1.... sounds like they're in the first step of denial

[michael craig]

Stage 1.... sounds like they're in the first step of denial

after the match i would have told the guy its called rubberguard and that he needs to google 10th planet