windwalker wrote:(One year, a member of Gracie’s family from Brazil visited the park. Respect was exchanged between the two parties and the agreement on the rules were made. After three short rounds of free style pushing, Gracie went home with dirt on his back.)
After three short rounds of free style pushing, Gracie went home with dirt on his back.
Tesshu wrote:It seems unthinkable to some that a Gracie (or someone training that stuff) can lose something just-a-bit-fighty to a Taiwanese PH (maybe even a Taichi) guy. Why is this so?
Fist a denial, with out checking or even emailing the site, even by those in Taiwan who should be easily able to check it out.
bailewen wrote:Tesshu wrote:It seems unthinkable to some that a Gracie (or someone training that stuff) can lose something just-a-bit-fighty to a Taiwanese PH (maybe even a Taichi) guy. Why is this so?
Bolded for emphasis. There is a HUUUUUUGE difference between "a Gracie family member" and "someone training that stuff". Miles and miles. Of course the Gracies don't just pop out of the womb and slap arm-bars on the doctors, I get that. I'm sure some of the Gracie family members don't even train. . . but there'd be no point in name dropping Aunty Rose Grace who doesn't train and the one's who actually represent BJJ . . . are pretty much all world fucking class. Like gold standard for Jujitsu. If it was boxing, then the family members would not be golden gloves champions, they would be WBA title holders.
It's not exactly like they couldn't be thrown by some really skilled Taiji guy. Like I said before, BJJ isn't exactly world famous for stand up grappling. But the story makes it sound like he got whupped or something.
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