I love this clip of Rickson talking about the state of modern BJJ.
I wonder though, he still uses some gi manipulation in his style, yes? Either way it's nice to see him commenting on over emphasis of using collars and sleeves and how that's hurting BJJ as a true martial art (at least that's my interpretation of what he's saying).
This reminds me of an old argument I get into at most schools I train at, I'm sure this will bore most of you and it goes something like this...
Instructor: Chris, why don't you want to learn the technique using gi grips, lapel/collar, jacket work etc?
Self: Because I'd prefer to learn BJJ in a manor that would be suited to all situations, such as mma or self defense and I feel that my time would be better spent working on the techniques that work across the board vs doing reps of a tech. with grips that might not be there later.
Instructor: But don't you realize that the best no-gi people and the best competitors in BJJ all train in the gi? Do you know many black belts would come in here and tell you the same thing? The only way you'll get better is to embrace all of BJJ.
Self: I know a few black belts that would disagree and I personally disagree. I also think that the people training this way, primarily 10th Planet are new to the game and few in number by comparison so it's far to early to judge at the BB level even though at brown these things can be argued well. But lets put all of that aside and just say that it's the way I want to train.
This goes much like my RG arguments but to me this argument should be obvious. So the question is, how many non-10th Planet BBs agree with this? It seems like Rickson agrees somewhat and I see his BB Henry is at least into the more functional fundamental techniques, plus I saw that vid of Nogueira talking about this as well. But who else, that's about it right?
I wonder though, he still uses some gi manipulation in his style, yes? Either way it's nice to see him commenting on over emphasis of using collars and sleeves and how that's hurting BJJ as a true martial art (at least that's my interpretation of what he's saying).
This reminds me of an old argument I get into at most schools I train at, I'm sure this will bore most of you and it goes something like this...
Instructor: Chris, why don't you want to learn the technique using gi grips, lapel/collar, jacket work etc?
Self: Because I'd prefer to learn BJJ in a manor that would be suited to all situations, such as mma or self defense and I feel that my time would be better spent working on the techniques that work across the board vs doing reps of a tech. with grips that might not be there later.
Instructor: But don't you realize that the best no-gi people and the best competitors in BJJ all train in the gi? Do you know many black belts would come in here and tell you the same thing? The only way you'll get better is to embrace all of BJJ.
Self: I know a few black belts that would disagree and I personally disagree. I also think that the people training this way, primarily 10th Planet are new to the game and few in number by comparison so it's far to early to judge at the BB level even though at brown these things can be argued well. But lets put all of that aside and just say that it's the way I want to train.
This goes much like my RG arguments but to me this argument should be obvious. So the question is, how many non-10th Planet BBs agree with this? It seems like Rickson agrees somewhat and I see his BB Henry is at least into the more functional fundamental techniques, plus I saw that vid of Nogueira talking about this as well. But who else, that's about it right?
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