Originally Posted by
Slick Rick
I listened to the portion of his interview on the flexibility thing. I know some of the guys that mash on me the most in 10th planet riverside, don't have the best flexibility and rarely pull RG.
I think that to say 10p is only for flexible practicioners is a major fallacy. In fact, in any sport, if one is flexible, it can only help and not hurt. I would argue that Ryan Hall and Jeff Glover are very flexible, yet they aren't practicioners of 10p. So unfortunately, I will have to discredit Rener's argument that 10p is for only those with flexibility.
10p has become more than the RG or Twister. It has become more of a haven for progressive thinking practicioners, that aren't afraid to push the limits and challenge the status quo. Jiu jitsu is ever changing... This is why you see so many of 10p guys putting out their own techniques on YouTube, etc...
Excellent Rick. Very well said. I have to say I agree with you 100%.
10th Planet has it all plus killer leg locks. Eddie has a guy that goes
and trains with Marcelo Garcia and then brings that stuff back. (It's
is only job.) Dean Lister is a 10th Planet fan. Sean Bollinger and Jeremy
Field learn from everybody and admire guys like Jeff Glover and Ryan Hall and
learn from them. Whatever works 10th Planet uses. Now we have leglocks
from the number teacher of leg locks in the world with Rick going to Gokor's
two times a week. We have Chris H. brown belt in 10th P. and a leglock
expert sharing all his leglock knowledge. The Gracies seem to think
they have it all and don't need anything else. I've heard them say it's bastard
Jiu-Jitsu what the rest of us do. Sean Bollinger and Jeremy Fields trained for years with the Gracies.
I gave them the Gracie Combatives and they watch them and then said that
was all the stuff they had already learned from training with the Gracies. The Machados are Gracie black
belts and grew up training with the Gracies. Their mother is a Gracie. So Eddie
Bravo is a black belt of a Gracie black belt. Eddie is a open minded and a grappling genius.
He shares all his techniques with everybody. The Gracies would never let anybody film
their classes, seminars or workouts. Eddie Bravo encourages people to film his seminars and classes.
The Gracies try to hide techniques.
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