Pretty sure I got brain cancer reading this. My training partner is 16 years old, like these "little girls" are. She fights in the women's division all the time, including the absolute, and understands how devasting leglocks are and the mechanics of how heelhooks work. She has way less time doing BJJ than these "kids". If they agreed to it, its sub only, have at it. Their parents understood, so did they, the ref, and Eddie.
Eddie is an innovator of this sport. He put this on, made this possible, and has pushed the growth of the sport in sub only more than anyone I can think of. It took alot of effort to get EBI up and going I'm sure. Eddie has made changes where he felt necessary. I doubt he's going to take critique from babies in the sport when he's been in this for so long.
Also, Craig these girls have been training way longer than you. They are two years from being legal adults for gods sake.
It's time for everyone to educate themselves on the mechanics of heelhooks. Like Garry Tonon said, hit up some seminars and get educated. Learn as much as you can. It's not just a new trend in BJJ, its the evolution of BJJ at work. Why set the sport back by banning more subs. Forget that, that's enabling stupidity and ego. It allows people to ignore this major growth that's happening in our community. EBI is the ultimate tournament. I can somewhat agree about maybe having a ref step in before it gets too far, but for 16 year olds....I mean come on.
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