Originally Posted by
William Schrimsher
You're more than welcome to disagree, I believe I said this was from my perspective.
The way I see it, you take a judo player and a wrestler, put a gi on the wrestler, and he's still has all his grips, plus a few new ones he doesn't know. What he doesn't know may indeed hurt him, but what he does know hasn't been taken away. Take the gi off the judo player, and unless he's trained no gi judo (which I think all judoka should do) he's lost all his grips.
I think the same thing applies on the ground, though perhaps less dynamically. Again, you're free to disagree. I agree wholeheartedly that 10P translates directly to MMA far better than gi, I agree that 10P is the go-to system for nogi grappling.