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originally posted by: BASSPLYR
You would think turning an art into a widly practiced sport would ensure its vigor and effectiveness but thats just not the case making any art into a sport dillutes it. Bjj is experiencing that now.
originally posted by: BeefNoMeat
a reply to: TinySickTears
Again, I didn’t find any of those early one-off tournaments to be all that entertaining — or aesthetically pleasing for a BJJ purist or
at the time i did. its what got me into jiu itsu. before that it was all wrestling and tae kwon do for me. i knew # about submissions. i thought it was the coolest #ing thing i had ever seen in my life and it changed me. looking back at it now though. it was not exciting at all. back in 93 it was new and fresh. i crank up fight pass ot and watch ufc 2 and i love it because of the nostalgia but it is pretty horrendous. the game has changed a lot in 20 years.
If you’re talking or attending/watching the Eddie Bravo Invitional, you already know this. And I see that your location is set to 10th planet — I’d seriously be surprised if that’s not an EB jits sig... Good luck picking up your training — I can’t say anything about a 40-yr old body, but there have been a fair amount of elder statesmen that have dropped in that are much older. There are few on these boards that ‘roll’, surprisingly (at least to me). I don’t patronize ATS for ‘karate magazine’ discussions, but I do applaud you for making the thread and welcome more. Cheers.
originally posted by: BeefNoMeat
a reply to: TinySickTears
Ha, is that a trick question? I saw that armbar live. Blown away by that dude. Bruce Lee wasn't a myth, so I'll have to lean towards him if he's given a good 6 months of sprawl training. I remember a certain night when my mouth got away from me and I was in the Quad drinking amongst some wrestlers...NCAA division I wrestlers...I can still feel the breath leaving my body from that slam. Lesson learned.
And here I thought the dumbest thing I’d read in this thread was MMA was analogous to pro wrassling — this post gives me pause and I now nominate the above post as equally uninformed. If you take nothing away from this thread, remember this: “Styles make fights”.
Dumbest post in the history of dumb posts. Thanks for the laugh.
The style has no matter in the outcome of the fight.