Jiu-Jitsu Truth

[WesleyPetersen]

This week I announced to my students and the public that we are officially a no-gi Jiu-Jitsu school. As a Gracie Barra brown belt with my own school this is shaking things up a bit, but not as much as Eddie Bravo has shaken my belief in the gi. I realized that I wasn’t that good without the gi, and for the last few years I have been working at having good jiu-jitsu, not good gi jiu-jitsu. Through trial and error I have come to the resounding conclusion 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu is the best Jiu-Jitsu on the market. I no longer train with the gi, and am working hard at making up for lost time. It is going to be a long road, but it is a road of jiu-jitsu truth.

Thank you Eddie Bravo for shaking me to the core, like Royce Gracie did in 1993.

[Phill Schwartz]

Wow, Brave of you. I was talking to another 10p person the other day at HQ and we were both saying how we miss playing the GI game as a fun thing to do, not as a style of training. Maybe you had enough GI since you are a brown belt and I gave it up at Blue. I choose to train No Gi with Eddie because it is going to work always and Gi only works sometimes, but for the fun, both are good sports.

[Eric "Tiger Blood" Safier]

Congrats on the school bro, Wish you the best!

[Tony Toffolo]

The only way to get there is together

[David Stager]

I'd be interested to know how the announcement affects your business in the next few months. I've always had a hunch that there are a growing number of people who would be willing to give jiu-jitsu a try if only they had a no-gi school near them. This is only a hunch, but I base it on the growing interest in MMA, and the decline of traditional martial arts schools. BJJ may not be a TMA per se, but the gi definitely makes it look like a TMA, and it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of potential grapplers are put off by the kimono.

[JAVY]

congratz on making the change brotha i wish you the best

[Chris Herzog]

Welcome to the Darkside Wesley!!

[WesleyPetersen]

Happy to be here guys.

[David Rosado]

Awesome. Good luck with everything.

I'd be interested to know how the announcement affects your business in the next few months. I've always had a hunch that there are a growing number of people who would be willing to give jiu-jitsu a try if only they had a no-gi school near them. This is only a hunch, but I base it on the growing interest in MMA, and the decline of traditional martial arts schools. BJJ may not be a TMA per se, but the gi definitely makes it look like a TMA, and it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of potential grapplers are put off by the kimono.

In my opinion, if BJJ isn't a TMA, it's starting to become one. When you start getting closed mindedness, official uniforms, traditions, etc, it starts to become a TMA. Any MA that resists change and evolution may as well be a TMA. But yeah man, I think you might be right. It might be more inviting.

[NelsonLucca]

Congrats.