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There are pure BJJ tournaments and they are the opposite of brutal. It's all technique and people don't get injured that often, unless Rousimar Palhares* is pa
by e40 11y ago
There are pure BJJ tournaments and they are the opposite of brutal. It's all technique and people don't get injured that often, unless Rousimar Palhares* is part of the tourney. He's famous for holding submissions far longer than he needs to, and causing damage. He's the exception, not the rule.
* http://fightland.vice.com/blog/rousimar-palhares-is-a-leg-lock-savant http://fightland.vice.com/blog/rousimar-palhares-is-a-leg-lo...
- peatmoss 11y agoTwo things: - the article you link has Rousimar doing (apparently legal, fight-winning) leg locks. These are not allowed in judo on safety grounds. - holy crap--the idea that there are people allowed to participate in multiple tournaments after not letting up on a tap strikes me as insanely irresponsible. Yeah, at that point, continuing to apply a technique after submission is bad bad bad. But, allowing a sociopath back into your dojo to potentially injure your other students is equally bad bad bad.
- e40 11y agoYeah, he seems to move from promotion to promotion. Seems like he should have been banned, for life, after the first promotion kicked him out (after multiple instances of holding the sub too long).