What a boring match and a waste of time, but not because of you, Harley. I had to scroll through most of it because I've seen this so many times before and knew what kind of guy you were dealing with. Plus it was just too boring to watch straight through. What the hell was up with that guy? Was he injured or something? I just never understood guys like that. Here he is competing in the biggest most prestigious Jiu-Jitsu tournament in the world, paying the entrance fee (What is it now? $85?) and just runs away the whole match. He didn't want to engaged and you had to chase him for the entire match.
I've had guys like that before and I knew what was coming up. And just like clock work when the time was running out here it came, he pulls guard. Oh brother. I never like the "pull guard" tactic even though it got things going pretty quick so you don't wind up dancing for half the match like what you had to endure for majority of the time. I just feel that pulling guard is contrary to what suppose to be a martial art. Being in the guard, though that's where most of the advance Jiu-Jitsu is, it's still a defensive position in a fight. Helio didn't like the way tournament Jiu-Jitsu has evolved with people exploiting the gi so much to tie their opponent up and fighters going for points instead of submissions and stalling when they're ahead on points and have a good position. Jiu-Jitsu is suppose to be a Martial Art and a Martial Art is useless if you can't fight. Tournament Jiu-Jitsu has move away from being a Martial Art. Nothing is more frustrating than just having someone holding you in close guard or laying on you like a fat lump holding on for dear life waiting for the clock to run out.
Rickson would yell at you if he saw you stalling. Notice when his son Kron fought in the Abu Dhabi he submitted all his opponents even in his last fight where his opponent just ran from him. You could hear Rickson in the background making chicken sounds to mock the coward.
If you're competing in Abu Dhabi or the Mundials, the biggest most prestigious tournaments in the world, at least fight FFS!
You did good. You tried to engage. You were there to fight. There's only so much you can do when your opponent just runs away.
Dear Pellius,
I thank you very much for your most honest and insightful opinion.
I just spent a few days with Royler going with him from one seminar to the next and he continued his haurrange on "Sport Jiu-Jitsu."
Royler is very upset that the self defense aspect of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu is being so ignored in favor of competitive BJJ. And this is coming from
literally the most successful BJJ competitor in the history of the Gracie Family.
As per the match you posted above, my opponent was from Russia and said that he had previously taken 3rd Place at Abu Dhabi.
He did NOT want to fight that day with me. You are correct in that I spent the whole damn match chasing him. I too, hate when guys
pull guard with no time left and that is when I tried to quickly pass him and win by points.
After the match, all he did was complain that he had been robbed. He asked me where I was training while in Brasil and when I told him I
was at Gracie Humaita he said he would show up on Monday night to fight me again. I told him I had just forfeited the Finals of the Absolute Division
due to hurting my back and would not be training for my remaining time in Brasil.
The guy still shows up on Monday night and when I am sitting on the sidelines not able to train, he becomes more enraged and bad mouths me to
all the Brazilians who are training who actually know who I am through my years of training there. He then challenges a Brazilian who proceeds to tap
him out without mercy. Throughout the roll, I can still hear him telling everyone how he got robbed at the tournament.
The Brazilians at Gracie Humaita did not appreciate that very much and then began tapping him out with fury and anger.
He got up and left before class ended.
Harley
