The GI is dead?

[David Rosado]

Has Chris Brennan started in the gi?

[Liquidrob]

I believe Brennan made it to blue in the Gi, but not 100% sure

[David Rosado]

I believe Brennan made it to blue in the Gi, but not 100% sure

Cool. He's an interesting character. Not an active competitor, but I think he won no gi worlds recently. Is that not worth mentioning because it was in masters.?

[Scott Ray]

Eh. It does discredit most wins if done in the old men brackets. I'm old enough to compete in it. I would never that because i see it as taking the easy route...dodging the competition. (Why you ducking vitor bro?). Most top level competitors are about 28-40. It's not basketball, where the younger, the better. It's a sport that experience and wisdom are just as valuable as strength and speed. So, with that said.. I believe if they even use age division, they should make it mandatory. If you are 35years old and there's a 35-50 age bracket, you must do it. Or they could have an over 18 Adult division and only use age brackets for youth. Allowing guys to choose their age division or even compete in both has ruined the masters and executive divisions..

Personal opinion guys, don't no old guys get pissed at me. Remember.. I'm old too.

[Scott Ray]

I got on a rant..Back to the original topic. The damn gi is dead.. Eddie is right.

[Joshua Jarboe]

I got on a rant..Back to the original topic. The damn gi is dead.. Eddie is right.

I'll take very modest issue with that.

It's a very strange argument to say "See Marcelo? He trains 50% gi 50% no-gi and he uses a lot of no-gi techniques in the gi. Therefore the gi is dead."

Wait, didn't you just say he did 50% gi? Haven't we all heard Eddie say that collar chokes are easily possible when a dude is wearing a t-shirt?

Here's my suspicion (speaking as a total noob who is trying to piece together a strategy for training).

The gi makes passing very hard. Practicing in the gi will give you an opportunity to have very strong passing technique because nothing less will work.

For no-gi, passing is easier. Controlling dudes is hard. You have to invent new ways of controlling dudes if you don't have handles. So your control game has to adjust. The pace can be faster, so you have to be able to flow better to an ever changing situation.

If you practice both as Marcelo does, if you can have a unified game as Marcelo tries to have (where perhaps 80% of your technique is going to work in either situation), aren't you going to have a pretty freaking strong game? Isn't it going to translate well to self-defense?

So yeah, GI ONLY, GI4L, that's dead.

But who wouldn't want to see a 10th planet person rocking the pan ams?

Suffice it to say that you won't see me getting really good at spider guard anytime soon.

[Liquidrob]

I got on a rant..Back to the original topic. The damn gi is dead.. Eddie is right.

Agreed, dead and buried, especially in MMA

[Scott Ray]

Lol! I'm so glad to see my troll comment worked. You guys got serious.. Lol! Do I need to post a pic of myself in the gi? Hehe. Sorry guys.

[Scott Ray]

Lets talk about the old man age bracket? This gi and nogi stuff is not for the 10th Planet forums. Take that shit to sherdog..

[Jack Hanley]

I don't know what did more to reinforce the title of this thread: how boring the gi matches were last night or how awesome Eddie's match was!