If you love participating in BJJ because you think it's
fun,
because it's a great workout or anything along those lines,
then perfect. I agree with you.
But BJJ doesn't work in a real life situation.
I want to make it clear that it's not my
goal to disrupt any legacies to harm club attendance,
or even to negatively impact the sales of rash guards.
All I want to do is keep people safe and
that's why I feel like it's my responsibility,
my obligation to let people know that BJJ doesn't work.
Why do people look to BJJ in the 1st place?
Because of the success of cage fighting.
And how did this even come to be?
Well, back in 1993, Hoyce Gracie,
a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu,
won the very first Ultimate Fighting Championship.
So not only was this tournament won by a BJJ
practitioner,
but by this guy who was much smaller and weaker
than most of the other guys.
So you have this brand new,
very exciting thing where these guys are just killing
each other in a cage.
This is far more barbaric than boxing.
And people love to watch this kind of thing.
And who wins? ABJJ practitioner.
So that tells everyone move over Mike Tyson.
All of a sudden there's a new baddest man on
the planet.
I dare you talk to me like that.
Let's take a moment to acknowledge 2 very important rules
though.
Back in the day, you could not bite and you
could not eye gouge.
The rules today are even worse.
You can't do anything. But that's a different video.
Now, people might look at eye gouging and biting as
barbaric,
sloppy, and uncivilized, but those three things are exactly what
real fighting is.
Have you ever seen a real fight?
They usually don't look like anything that you've ever seen
on TV or in the movies.
Usually the two people who lose their tempers and go
at it don't have the presence of mind to choreograph
their moves.
When it comes to a real fight,
you do whatever you have to do.
I've been in countless controlled,
friendly sparring sessions where there's a sense of respect and
boundaries.
But I have also been in situations where I have
definitely eye gouged and where I have bitten people and
I would absolutely do it again because it works.
And when you put a BJJ practitioner on a pedestal
because he wins a tournament where realistic scenarios have been
stripped away,
then you're modeling yourself defense after someone who's not displaying
true self-defense.
What this guy is doing is participating in a sport.
Now if you want to call
BJJA sport and leave it at that,
fine, I'm with you. It's fun to watch.
It's fun to participate it.
But when you call it a self-defense,
when you call it a martial art,
you're twisting it for marketing purposes,
for a false sense of security,
for a profitable ranking system.
I don't know, but the BJJ that's being taught today
is no longer the BJJ that would qualify as life
preserving self-defense.
BJJ comes from Judo which is a sport and Judo
came from Jiu Jitsu which actually was a martial art,
but everything was watered down from there.
I do believe that the ground defense found in BJJ
has value and can play an important role,
along with other important aspects of other martial arts,
but BJJ as a whole
has been contaminated by the sport aspect of it.
The same is true with Taekwondo.
And now it looks like they're going to have Karate
in the Olympics and
they're going to go and ruin karate too.
Now I want to make it clear that I do
understand the original purpose of BJJ.
A smaller, weaker person can defend themselves against a stronger,
larger attacker by taking away their range and the power
of their strikes.
But this is simply going from 1 precarious situation to
another one,
a worse one. With the right training,
you can use your speed,
timing, footwork, placement, etcetera to win against a larger,
stronger attacker, or anyone for that matter,
all while on your feet.
But when your first and only option is to pull
a guard or trip the guy to the ground,
then you better hope that this larger,
stronger attacker doesn't also study BJJ,
therefore nullifying your upper hand and now putting you right
back in the same place as where you started.
But Oh yeah, now you're also on the ground.
You have to consider that a lot of the time,
bad people have more bad people with them.
That's just the way they like to travel.
When you're on your feet,
you can create distance and even use angles to place
one attacker in front of the other to block his
line of entry to you.
But when you're on the floor,
you're getting stomped out. There's such a rules and regulations
mentality in the BJJ culture that they don't seem to
realize that people are more than willing to break these
rules and smash their faces in and they feed off
of each other because of this intense camaraderie to where
it's almost cult like,
I don't know who's worse,
BJJ or CrossFit. Have you ever been to one of
those hybrid gyms where they're in the same building
and then you have these larger than life personalities in
the MMA world and they just totally fan this flame
and they think they're these untouchable modern day gladiators and
everyone wants to be like them.
And then they go and they sign up for these
gyms where you have to wear gloves.
No eye gouging, no strikes to the groin,
no head butts, no fish hooks,
no small joint manipulation, no strikes to the spine or
the back of the head.
Is this martial arts or is this swim class?
I'm pretty sure they have the same rules.
Now I understand that the UFC has to have certain
rules in place or else people would constantly
be dead. I know that.
And if it's your dream to compete in the UFC,
fine, that's great, do whatever you want.
But when people participate in the type of training pretty
much required to compete in the UFC,
like BJJ, then sometimes they get these egos and they
make claims like it's better than the traditional martial arts.
And that's where the problem comes into play.
I don't mind people running their mouth.
That doesn't bother me at all.
Some people just have to do that to feel good
about themselves.
But when an oblivious person walks into a BJJ club
for the first time,
when a child walks into there for the first time
and they think they're going to learn how to handle
themselves in a real life situation should it ever arise,
that bothers me because I know what's being taught there
is not based on reality.
It's based on money, spectatorship and hype.
If you love participating in BJJ because you think it's
fun,
because it's a great workout or anything along those lines,
then perfect. I agree with you.
But BJJ doesn't work in a real life situation.
If you have any questions or comments regarding anything that
I've said in this video,
then please feel free to leave it in the comment
section.
I don't really want to argue with anyone or make
anyone feel bad.
I'm just trying to provide some clarity and perspective as
to what BJJ really is and what it has to
offer and what it shouldn't claim to offer.
I just think everyone has the right to be safe
and to know the truth,
and I don't think anyone can really argue with that.
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