THE BEAUTY OF THE GI! Top Five reasons to Train in a Gi #5 You learn to choke someone completely unconscious with material around there neck. Dont under estimate this. If you learn a collar choke with the Gi it can be applied with any material around someones neck. In a fight this gives you two huge advantages, first you know how do do it and defend against it, second the other person most likely has no idea what it is and therefore has zero defense. At our academy more people, myself included, have used a collar choke in a street fight than a guillotine or rear naked choke. Crazy right? People wear clothes! #4 In a fight you will most likely have to clinch a bigger, stronger opponent who doesnt like the idea of being clinched by you. That opponent will grab your clothes and try to use them against you to stop the clinch. Think of a fight in hockey. You must learn to deal with someone using your clothes to stop your clinch and jiu jitsu progression in a fight. #3 The collar chokes with the Gi can represent the lethality of punches . In most classes we typically do not grapple while throwing punches. Though it is good to do sometimes, doing it to much will greatly thin out the class and will not help you learn collar chokes. Instead on the top of the mount for example, I can attack with a collar choke. This has the same devastating effect as throwing punches or causes my opponent to expose his arms while defending the choke. This is similar to how he would exposes his arms while defending punches. This is why we say that the most unrealistic way to train jiu jitsu is No Gi without punches. #2 A clean Gi is a super sanitary way to train a grappling art. It covers all your skin and absorbs sweat. This reduces skin to skin contact and therefore eliminates many of the common skin issues that most non Gi grapplers, for example wrestlers , have to deal with. Grandmaster Helio Gracies preference for a plain white Gi has the double benefit of showing dirt and showing that it needs to be cleaned. #1 if you teach Jiu Jitsu for a living your wife can tell you to Go play in your pajamas! Believe a great day! The Obnoxiously Optimistic Eddie Camden a.k.a Optimist Prime gracieatlanta tigeracademy eddiecamden
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 17:36:48 +0000