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re: BJJ Competitions, and why I hate them.
Posted on 9/20/16 at 11:25 am to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
Posted on 9/20/16 at 11:25 am to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
Slamming an opponent is fine for training and practice. I am all for it. When both people understand it and take the appropriate steps to protect the long term health of the opponent. Competitions are between consenting individuals in a contest of skill but not trying to injure their opponent. You want them competitions to simulate real world events but the goal of real world events is to injure the other person or incapacitate them. One thing cannot be the other by the nature of the event.
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Posted on 9/20/16 at 11:34 am to GnashRebel
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Slamming an opponent is fine for training and practice. I am all for it. When both people understand it and take the appropriate steps to protect the long term health of the opponent. Competitions are between consenting individuals in a contest of skill but not trying to injure their opponent. You want them competitions to simulate real world events but the goal of real world events is to injure the other person or incapacitate them. One thing cannot be the other by the nature of the event.
At any given tournament they go over the rules, and there are still, yet, slams in every competition. Wouldn't it be better just not to teach your students to perform flying guard pulls and how to defend someone picking you up than pretend like slams don't exist for the purpose of competition?
And if two people can agree in training purposes that slams are appropriate, why can't they do it for a tournament? And why would we still permit takedowns that spike you on your head but not slams?
The Uchi-Mata is perfectly legal, and often puts people directly on the top of their head.
Posted on 9/20/16 at 11:47 am to GnashRebel
He's not gonna get it.
BJJ is the gentle art. Its emphasis is skill, not force, which is why force in the form of a slam is not rewarded in competition.
He's unwilling to grasp the notion that isolating this gentle and skilled art from other more forceful combat moves in competition has value.
He may know some grappling and BJJ moves, but doesn't know the culture and theory of the practice.
BJJ is the gentle art. Its emphasis is skill, not force, which is why force in the form of a slam is not rewarded in competition.
He's unwilling to grasp the notion that isolating this gentle and skilled art from other more forceful combat moves in competition has value.
He may know some grappling and BJJ moves, but doesn't know the culture and theory of the practice.
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