MENDES BROS | 30+ MINUTES OF SPARRING | Art of Jiu Jitsu Academy

[cakemuncher]

Have they ever been tapped or beaten on points by one of their students or visitors?

It seems like they only post sparring vids in which they make other black belts look like white belts, brown belts look like children, and everyone else look like complete fools.

 

[mataleaos]

Have they ever been tapped or beaten on points by one of their students or visitors?

It seems like they only post sparring vids in which they make other black belts look like white belts, brown belts look like children, and everyone else look like complete fools.

For the most part this is true but on their old training website there were some moments where they looked human. There was a no-gi roll where a guy used a guillotine choke to pass Rafa and he did hold it for 5 seconds or so before he got re guarded on. Sean Roberts swept Rafa a couple of times in a roll they posted. Vitor Oliveira did okay against Rafa in a roll they posted but it got taken down. Keenan simultaneously mentioned that Rafa never got tapped in the 2013 adcc camp but he also said aoj only posted Rafa's best rolls.

 

[mataleaos]

Have they ever been tapped or beaten on points by one of their students or visitors?

It seems like they only post sparring vids in which they make other black belts look like white belts, brown belts look like children, and everyone else look like complete fools.

Just to add one more thing. A friend of mine has been at AOJ since 2012 and said the only times he's seen Rafa tap was a Calasans kneebar and a guillotine from a purple belt. And that's it. So I think Rafa rolls in such a way where he doesn't ever let himself get put in bad position.