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Muay Thai fighter will EAT the boxer to the bone and spit him out. My father was a boxing instructor and learning to punch was my earliest memory. My formal training in boxing began when I was in my early teens and when I was in my late teens, I had over 5 years of bag work, sparring, running...

It was a sloppy takedown. I must have been this sloppy or even sloppier on the mat a million times and never thought about it. One time on concrete and it was something else.

A boxer will have a hard time dropping an opponent with a body shot because a boxing punch is a different punch. It is designed to put momentum behind the rounded surface of a boxing glove. In Kyokushin Karate, full-contact fighting is done bare knuckle and only the raised, pointed edges of the...

I see the sense of what you are saying. My own background prior to BJJ used to be Kyokushin. If I hit that fellow with a Kyokushin punch, he was going down. It would not be a single punch but body blow + low kick + body blow + low kick until he drops. Most untrained people will drop at the first...

So I had a violent confrontation in which I used my BJJ. After this encounter, I will be hesitant to recommend BJJ as a form of self-defense. I was at a gas station standing in a very long line to pay for my soda. Another register opened up and the guy at the cashier said "I can take the next...

Do you guys feel that BJJ has been impacted more than striking schools? Covid wise?

How is your own school doing after Covid? a) Everything is back to normal and you are training with the same level of enrollment as before? b) You are back to training but the school has far less people c) Your school had to relocate to a smaller and more affordable location? d) Your school...

It sounds like a dumb question because you have assumed a certain motivation behind it and then gone to address it. Last week, I was rolling with a purple belt in an open mat at a school that I was invited to. He was also a visitor and an older gentleman. I though I should go easy because he...

The former.

And you need to sign up for a competition to demonstrate that you have skills? Or can it be demonstrated in house if you have a school full of mat sharks? I hope you understand the question now.

So from what I understand, Gracie University and its affiliates are not big on competitions and do not think of that as the criteria for belt progression at any level. In my own former school, the environment was competitive so you would get sucked into it. Generally, outside Gracie University...

Drilling and performing reps after reps on a static opponent sounds boring. I do not see a lot of people doing it outside of class. I was wondering how essential has it been to your BJJ game and how much time do you spend (or should you spend) drilling a new technique before you try it on a...

These should not be mixed. Thoughts? The Gracie Jiu-Jitsu System Shouldn't Be Mixed with MMA! The Problems With MMA and BJJ! - Kama Vlog - YouTube

I am 46 and I can tell you that some voices here do not know what it is like to be 46. To put it straight, I bench press over 300 lbs and there would be very few people my age who demonstrate the same fitness level. When it comes to rolling, I am a blue belt and I dominate most blue belts except...

You asked a good question. What is the answer?

by a single opponent in a street or bar altercation type setting, how many of you would prefer to knock him out and how many of you would actually want to take him down to the ground? Not mats. Hard pavement.

For those who have trained under multiple schools under various instructors, how subjective are belt promotions? I was told by someone that he used to train in two different schools at the same time. One was giving him a purple which he declined as he was with another school. The other school...

Normally, athletes start off in other disciplines such as BJJ, wrestling, judo, Muay Thai and Karate etc. Then they do some kind of "transitional training" for MMA. The problem I see with base martial arts is that they lack well roundedness. BJJ people do not know how to strike or even how to...

I see some sense in that. Trust me I do. But BJJ as it is evolving is worse than Taekwondo. It is so disconnected from actual fight that it is not even funny. I roll with some high level purple belts who pull guard. If it was real fight, I'd punch the living daylights out of them. But I am...

I am curious to know what you mean by that? Do you mean your game felt inadequate for the street due to you being injured? Or because of the emphasis on tournaments? I like your Gracie Garage idea. I am not sure if they would allow a Gracie Garage right next to a Gracie affiliated school but I...