You won’t find it, just as you won’t find it happening in any of the countless Where the BJJ practitioner is having trouble with moving on essentiallyĬoncrete.
Over YEARS of training, and has nothing to do with a single particular instance.Īs this video aptly demonstrates over multiple fights. No grappler wants to continually train on it,īecause it will eventually cause accumulated trauma and damage. Will be at the mercy of the non-grappler. Mats, that somehow they will freeze when they are on a solid surface and they Of course, that should be impossible because all theĬombative experts say grapplers won’t be able to fight when they are not on And the ones who wanted this surface? That’s It is mostĬertainly NOT a nice padded mat. Unyielding surface you might find on a public racquetball court. There are some who keep spouting ideas that this video trashes. Made widely available on the original mass marketed video tape in 1988, and yet There are a number of important takeaways from this short video, and they are easily understood lessons if people would look at it with a critical eye.įirst of all, this video took place in the late 70’s and was To his shock, the Gracies agreed to all his conditions and even suggested using the location (which I will get to in a moment). He most likely thought that they would want so many rules and be on soft mats that he would not have to actually face them. There was a karate instructor in Rio who was looking to prove the superiority of his art and decided that challenging the Gracies was a good idea. This video is actually one of my favorite parts of the first volume. What the UFC did for a lot of people inġ993, and then later in 2005 when it hit the mainstream, was what I felt in Woke me up to what was possible, as well as the probability that I was had not Seeing grappling work so well against different arts was like a gut shot. It is probably too hard to fathom what this did for me. One of the biggest epiphanies I had in my martial arts life was watching Gracie Jiu-jitsu in Action in 1988.