The beautiful thing about jiu jitsu is you can say whatever you want about another style, but rolling will prove what really works. A couple weeks back I was on the road and found a Gracie Barra in Florida and asked if I could drop in and roll, after telling them I was 10th Planet they were kind of skeptical. Then when it came time to roll I caught 2 blue belts and a purple in twisters. It wasn't even a skilled set up, I got to the truck and they reached for my head. One of the purple belts there said something like "Man, I have to study up on that twister shit". By the time we were done rolling I think they really respected the whole 10P game even though they still see it as unorthodox and everything. A lot of it just has to do with traditional guys not drilling and practicing stuff that their instructors don't believe in, they see back control as the best position for offense while we see the truck as our highest percentage position to finish from. One of the brown belts there actually had a pretty killer lockdown too. So I think a lot of techniques are slowly starting to spread
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