DID YOU SAY JUDO?
Kimura - has an edge over many of the modern Judokas on paper but new rules would kill him with boredom
he has
-far more experience with rougher rules
-higher rank with the least generational loss will explain
- knockout power many many of his well documented bouts ended in opponents
being thrown for ippon and being knocked out.
the generational - loss - maybe I am o.l.d, when speaking of Film and negatives in the pre digital
photography, generations referred to the how removed an example is from the original.
how many reprints, enlargements etc from one negative or from secondary or tertiary copies of that original negative.
the same for traditional MA’s we used to say there is Kodokon Judo and other Judo.
I went to a school for years, with a kodokon Sensei who while being very very ‘modern’
really discouraged any Gi’s that where not white.
his traditional methods gave me an excellent classic judo-
then I learned to break or fake the rules.
ok discourse ending back on topic.
In my little taste of competition- things like rules changes and evolution went hand in hand.
this is pre internet.
think about that , the only way to see what cubans did in the Judo room was to go , write a letter.
cut a deal get on a plane and go see it.
first hand then bring it back and spread the word.
the only way to see how the Former USSR trained was to go there , loose a few matches,
bring a carton of cigarettes and some us wrestling sneakers to trade for the chance to train.
now immigration rules are far far more open, and you can go watch instructional videos that are subtitled.
The world is flat.
technology and cash make it all equal.
And you don’t have to go far to get the first hand training.
but your shit might be watered down and have ‘generational loss’
a big deal in traditional MA but an advantage in MMA.
the world of ‘pro-MMA’ is flat.
Locker room chats, small shows, coming up together in the same gym,
people know what every one is doing.
ok this shit is becoming a book.
Rulan Gardner had the greatest upset in the history of Greco ever.
He beat the greatest- Karelin on a bullshit rule change.
in a no- score match after a time limit an actual clinch is
joined with the two competitors, and for a time limit you must hold the clinch.
what kind of bullshit is this- Rulon got Karelin to break the clinch.
winning the gold medal and being the best.
He also trained for those rules with a former national russian coach a greco clinch master.
and knew how to break them.
And he was a beast.
Powerlifting- some people say if your squat has 3 white lights
it was too deep and you left pounds on the platform.
well MMA is like that.
people need to ‘bend the rules’ more-
more daring weird shit or high risk moves.
I did well in college by learning how to cheat.
how to be a bully to force fouls, force stalling
force pacivity - I also did well enough cause
I was different enough. and I really had no hope of wrestling at that level
on my own.
I had a great greco game and a mean streak and after cutting a shit ton of weight
and winning an improbable wrestle off- I wasnt taking no for an answer.
unless they got me to fight their way - which was easy to get sucked into.
see Im not all that.
MMA you can do the same thing.
people show us flashes of the future-
not just ‘heart’
super slick submissions- Hazelnutt comes to mind
Petis crazy bounce of the cage to TKO henderson
Silvas crazy agility
or jones flat out silly silly throws and crazy strikes.
I think it takes less time for new things to be common.
MMA’s nomenclature is developing fast.
Sakuraba- or even Bas Or Frank Shamrock some early brazilian too Marcos Rua etc.
showed polish and flair far ahead of the curve.
Ivan Salaverry- kind of a nobody had
slick boxing and a great ground game - too bad age, and not training full time caught up.
basically what I am getting at are things like the internet
the lack of belts- in that you are no longer restricted to only one discipline
or restricted to learning moves in one particular order.
learning moves out of order is far far bigger then you think.
white belts usually never where allowed to practice many chokes or thanks.
I don’t think the ‘influx of NFL or Olympic Level’ athletes is going to change the game that much.
the whole point of BJJ is its for non athletes
and fighting to be honest does attract a derelict element that other sports don’t.
the pay days are not here and its too hard on the body- to do it from age 16 to 30
and not be just plain out too beat up to work.
while no longer being an insider- to the sport I have spent long long enough around
the kind of gym and training life that people have
I predict one or two crazy standouts who are just unstoppable and talented.
and I predict more and more ‘crazy shit’ seemingly minor evolutions
from fighters and trainers that flip the script.
becoming the norm.
what once was an exciting crazy approach will be a standard attack, defense etc
Bravo has done it a little , so have other camps in the way their vocabulary or lexicon of
‘moves’ develops
I predict that the game will get faster,
just as it does at each level of competition in my case HS, bullshit College, D1 NCCAA, minor club international junket does. or HS, College NFL - each increment gets faster.
I think some rule changes over time will open and close different windows of what is possible.
I should clean this up and be more concise