Originally Posted by
Mike Nall
But Braulio in his favor does speak from a great position. Dude won ADCC in his weight and the ABsolute, subbing almost everyone including Marcelo, and just beat Jacare in no-gi ADCC Superfight. He's a fucking animal without the gi. He's a top 3 submission grappler on earth no argument at al.
he advocated doing both by the way, as do most elite level players. He didn't hate on no-gi at all.
His opinion is biased because he's been training with the gi his entire life, and most people who do that have nice things to say about it.
He tried to approach the issue in a logical way, and didn't come off hating on anything, which was nice, but it was still a flawed argument. He said the Gi makes you better NoGi because it forces you to be smart: an argument I'm sure we've all heard before. You can't just yank out of a submission, sweat won't save you, etc. Here is the issue: The gi forcing you to have good technique is a terrible argument because a good instructor and a good student should be working to this goal no matter the uniform. If that argument is true, it is better to enter JJ with 0 strength or flexibility, right? With no physical abilities at all, you'll be forced to always user proper basics and fundamentals to win. But we all know that's shit. A strong guy just needs to not muscle it, a flexible guy still needs to work his basics and not only rely on his dexterity, and a guy with no gi needs to focus on not just yanking out of stuff. However, you also SHOULD use these attributes once in competition. If you can muscle a guy for a win, why not? If you can rely on your flexibility to smash a guy, why not? And if you're about to get tapped and there is enough sweat or room to yank out, then god damn you better just yank like your life depended on it. Arguments regarding that you need the gi to get good at technique, or even that it helps, are very incorrect imo, for that reason.
As far as just wearing a gi and using no-gi grips so you never have to adjust but at the same time letting them grab yours so your escapes are harder: That doesn't make you better at escaping, it makes you better at escaping in the gi. If there is a simpler, faster escape method no gi that still works no matter the sweat level, better to just learn that then all the collar-grip breaks. Again, just how it seems logically, but people will always listen to the winners even if their arguments don't follow logic.
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