Originally Posted by
Arman Fathi
Respectfully disagree that no-gi prepares you for gi better than gi prepares you for no-gi. If you do a ton of gi, then go to no-gi, you'll have a fighters chance based on technique. But doing only no-gi than trying gi you're a fish out of water.
What makes more sense is that no-gi far and wide prepares you for MMA wayyy better than gi. That's been my impression of 10th planet, which to me is the preeminent no-gi system out there. But gi is a different game. Haven't played around with rubber guard enough in gi to throw out comparisons, but part of the fun is seeing what translates to the other and in what capacity
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.
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