CaliG wrote:
From what I can tell it seems like SC has a whole system of these methods which they try to pass on to every student. Some people will figure it out for themselves but some never will. To me it's a little bit like the "guard." Judo has the guard but how many different strategies for passing the guard and defending the guard were known by the average judoka before BJJ went international? Also how many judoka blackbelts can defend from the guard against a BJJ blue belt?
Ok, I'll give you that. But my Shodan judo instructor for example, I can rarely pass his guard, and even if I do he ends up in just as good a position. And I've done a year of BJJ before coming to Judo.
From what I can tell most judoka would either just try to defeat the legs or choke their opponent from within the guard, but with a seasoned BJJ player that's not going to be enough.
Probably.
So I think the point here is that the average SC guy has a deeper understanding of the grip fighting/breaking game than the average judoka just as the average BJJ player has a deeper guard game and the Russians have a deeper understanding understanding of leg picks and leg locks. It doesn't mean they'll beat a good judoka at their own game, only that there are other training methods out there for improving your game which you might not learn in your average judo class.
I think grip fighting is like anything else. It's going to get better based more on how much you practice it in particular, rather than just what style you learn.
Mike