Why were all Gracie fighters terrible strikers?

accolyte1022 said:
To all you Sherdoggers living in your parents basement typing away with your Cheetos stained fingers saying you don't care for manlets, strawweights, flyweights and/or female fighters cause they have no skill etc. please do the diehard MMA community a big favour STFU. These "manlets" and female fighters in the UFC have tremendous skill and strength but you guys wouldn't know it since you most of you sit on your ass all day and never engaged in any combat sports in your life. Any UFC "manlet" or woman would whoop your ass if you ever stepped into the cage or gym with them let alone a recreational or amateur in the gym training for a few years.
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Because Gracie Jiu Jiutsu not only outgrapple other grappling arts, but also they outstrike other striking arts.

That's how big their ego is, that the sport passed them by without them knowing it.
 
i'm more curious about why pitchers suck at hitting. is it that hard to stay sharp as a batter just because you bat infrequently? also fuck the DH rule.
 
Why are all basketball players terrible soccer players?
 
Because they came from a different era. It's really not that complicated. Why was Gerard Gordeau and Pat Smith terrible grapplers. Why were Severn and Coleman terrible strikers?
 
for most of the gracies that competed in mma their striking was poor by design. they were selling jiujitsu and the belief that its all you need to win a fight. i see this continue on with the younger generations. The gracies have the resources and genetics to produce a top teir mma talent but i think they are more interested in selling jiujitsu specifically.
 
The gracies are awesome. Bjj is awesome. A strictly bjj guy like maia is compelling to watch try to win primarily w his bjj. Ufc hard mode. The contribution of the Gracies to martial arts will last forever. Bow down and respect.
 
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Wooooooooooo!
 
accolyte1022 said:
To all you Sherdoggers living in your parents basement typing away with your Cheetos stained fingers saying you don't care for manlets, strawweights, flyweights and/or female fighters cause they have no skill etc. please do the diehard MMA community a big favour STFU. These "manlets" and female fighters in the UFC have tremendous skill and strength but you guys wouldn't know it since you most of you sit on your ass all day and never engaged in any combat sports in your life. Any UFC "manlet" or woman would whoop your ass if you ever stepped into the cage or gym with them let alone a recreational or amateur in the gym training for a few years.
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You're full of shit. Stop living in your fantasy world of super manlets and Wonder Woman WMMA'ers. A crap ton of Sherdoggers would put them into a hospital or the grave.

It really says more about you. You could never see yourself beating one of them in a fight so you conjure them into mythical beasts that would slay the evil Sherdoggers that make you hate yourself.
 
Genetics? Perhaps they just don't have it in them. Not everyone can be a great striker.
 
The old generation Gracies like around Royce's era just didn't train striking. They thought BJJ was all you need to know. I believe that the Gracies could have trained striking and been competent strikers for MMA during this time period.

By the time they got around to recognizing that you need more than just BJJ, MMA had progressed to the point that it had great athletes at every level of the sport. The Gracies mostly just aren't very athletic. They're slow, weak, and awkward. In 2018, no Gracie, no matter how hard they train to do it, will be able to stand up with Rumble or Woodley. It's just a different tier of elite level athleticism now.

TLDR: Gracies have too much slow twitch muscle fiber.
 
accolyte1022 said:
To all you Sherdoggers living in your parents basement typing away with your Cheetos stained fingers saying you don't care for manlets, strawweights, flyweights and/or female fighters cause they have no skill etc. please do the diehard MMA community a big favour STFU. These "manlets" and female fighters in the UFC have tremendous skill and strength but you guys wouldn't know it since you most of you sit on your ass all day and never engaged in any combat sports in your life. Any UFC "manlet" or woman would whoop your ass if you ever stepped into the cage or gym with them let alone a recreational or amateur in the gym training for a few years.
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Ralph, Ryan, Neiman, Hickson, Kron, and Roger.. all have/had decent striking. Diaz bros, BJ, Schilling, Edgar, and many other strikers are Gracie trained fighters, and are all pretty good in the striking dept.
 
Because the are so arrogant that they think they are such good grapplers that they need nothing else. Which is absolutely not true.
 
Cause Gracie JJ is all you need...until everybody else learns it...then you get fucked up.
 
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