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BJJ was the top dog twenty years ago, when half of the fighters had no grappling skills. Now that basic grappling skills are standard, BJJ-focused fighters aren
by JeremyBanks 8y ago
BJJ was the top dog twenty years ago, when half of the fighters had no grappling skills. Now that basic grappling skills are standard, BJJ-focused fighters aren't winning very much. It wasn't actually objectively best, it was just the least-bad in an undeveloped field.
Maybe the metaphor still works.
- white-flame 8y agoNot really least-bad, probably just most unique. Almost every other style stops and resets after someone hits the ground, so BJJ went where the others didn't. It was the same as Ronda Rousey dominating women's matches when that section of the UFC started up. It doesn't mean that Judo is "better" than the other styles, the other competitors simply didn't know what to do with it, and now they do. It certainly has parallels to trendy new software engineering styles "dominating" the field, though I'm not sure they lead to any more real "victories" compared to actual combat. Just because the time runs out on a software project doesn't mean that anybody actually won.