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Originally Posted by Doctor Dre
That is a stupid comment...
First : Royce wasn't the best of the gracies. He was chosen for many reasons, including his marketability. He was fighting agaisn't heavyweight olympic wrestlers for christ sake, he wasn't a better fighter then they were... he was more technical from his back.
Second : The gracie BJJ aera lasted for quite some time. At the time it WAS the best system at the because people wouldn't know how to defend it.
Put a BJJ blue belt agaisn't a TKD black belt, the blue belt wins 90 % of the time. Joe Rogan himself, who is a TKD black belt, said himself that TKD was almost totally useless in a fight agaisn't a skilled MMA fighter.
If you are street fighting, you take way less chances of getting it if you're a wrestler/bjj guy.
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The thing is, everyone knows TKD is pure bullshit and worthless from a self defense perspective. For some reason though it's the red herring that every BJJ person pulls out of their ass to "prove" that all other martial arts are inferior.
I'm not gonna get into the weeds with you on this, I put Anthony on ignore for that very reason, I could give a fuck who studied what under whom and who pinned whom and armbarred whom and therefore BJJ'ers have bigger dicks than everyone else blah blah blah.
I'm just trying to say, put things into perspective.
I'm pretty sure we can all agree that the best fighter will have a solid grasp of both striking and grappling. If you're really good at one but suck at the other, then you're at the very best an incomplete fighter.
As far as I know, there is no striking in BJJ.
So all I'm saying is that it's
possible that a person who is studying martial arts for purposes other than to be a professional MMA fighter, could be better off studying something that teaches both grappling AND striking, as well as other things, even if on an individual basis it's grappling is inferior to BJJ and it's striking is inferior to Muy Thai.
For the casual student wanting some self defense skills and physical fitness, it's
possible that they'll be better off with something else.
Of course, some people have BJJ tourette's and if you bring up anything other than BJJ in a martial arts or self defense discussion, then you're an idiot and a pussy and you're destined to get your ass beat, and of course if you're talking to Anthony then you're in for a name dropping orgy that even KB couldn't keep up with.