Sure.
And every belt test/promotion comes with it’s own fee. Plus you pay for the belt too.
The TMA strip mall dojos figured this out a long time ago. Bring in the kids with the soccer moms who are more than willing to pay for every belt test. Market it as not only self defense, but self discipline and character building. Put some motivational sayings up on the walls.
Suburban parents just eat that stuff up.
I go to the tournaments. The coaches look like criminals and are carrying knives. The old dads coaching their kids are indistinguishable from the coaches. My son’s last match, his instructor and I both knew the other kid’s coach from back in the day. He would beat people to a pulp in street fights over very minor things.
At the same time, walking around these tournaments, I see nerdy Chinese families with their nerdy Chinese kids, and I wonder: “How did they find this?”
BJJ is like the woman who had a past before she was married, and now we’re going to pretend it never happened.
Nakai might be the toughest SOB anyone ever fought. People forget, there was a very good greco super heavyweight in that tournament who probably should have made it to the finals with Rickson, but he lost to a guy who was probably 150 pounds lighter and basically blind the entire fight.
Went on the coach one of the greatest grapplers in MMA history.
Nakai will be welcomed into the afterlife by Athena personally. A fucking legend.
I’ve been around fighting long enough that when people say “man, no matter what you say about them, it takes balls to get in that cage” I think “no, for a lot of fighters it would take more balls not to get in there.”
Who did Rickson fight in the 1980s? There must be a list of names correct? Surely he fought a champion of two along the way?
LOL. I was learning and using leglocks as a white belt in 2000. When I briefly got back into the sport 2 years ago, I almost subbed a purple with a leg. He was like “wtf where did you learn that…
Since I was a 40 year old white belt, I didn’t immediately hammer into it, I started easing into it when I had the limb, but he’s a purple and escaped.
Maybe someone can help me out with the name, I never learned that. When your opponent stands up in the guard, you switch your hips and rotate 180 to lock in a knee-bar
Haha nice dodge of my question. I can tell when I brought that up it hurt some feelings on here - I’ll tell you what, later tonight I’ll see what I can find on this issue and post it ..
Lol. Can you provide a list of champions you think he should have fought in the 80s? Champions of what?
Champions of being a champion, of course.
It’s crazy that Zulu is remembered as a legend, and Zuluzinho is only remembered as the guy that Fedor nearly killed.
I honestly think Rickson probably would have won. Royce fought him for 90 minutes and was vastly physically inferior to Rickson without even bringing BJJ into the equation. And then Royce won the rematch. Sure, he was juiced to the gills but Rickson could have done the same in a Pride match. They encouraged steroid use.
The problem is Rickson beating Sak wouldn’t have really done anything for GJJ. He was praised as the best in the family so it would be expected. But if he lost that would have hurt the brand badly. Maybe irreparably. And it was very much a brand and a business. So the downside of a match would be a lot greater than the upside.
A lot of the moves that have names now didn’t have names back then. I know exactly the move you’re talking about. I taught that move to some white belts in 2007. Back then it didn’t even occur to me that it should have its own special name.
Also I remember I would teach them moves, and sometimes one of them would say: “Isn’t that illegal?”
Personally I’m a big fan of Bronny James. I think he’ll go down as the greatest ever.
Well, good to know I’m not stupid. I was 145lbs back then, so I used to get stacked in guard A LOT (my coach didn’t believe in weight class rolling..) I got real proficient at it.
If it’s the move I’m thinking of that would be considered “reaping the knee”. I did it after coming back to JJ after years and was told it was illegal. Also, half the time I went for a choke I was accused of neck cranking, which was legal when I trained. I gave up the neck crank entirely back then because I could never get a tap from it lol.
You’re just mad that someone else already called you out by name as dodging questions and not knowing shit from shinola.
You really think you’re going to go home and find Mitsuyo Maeda’s complete record on sherdog?
If you’re trolling it’s not bad. If you’re serious it’s really bad.
What was your mma record? I don’t know you fought so much, good for you. I fought one time. Wish I fought more
