dspyrido wrote:
Although #1 Carlos, Helio and George Gracie in Prison is ranked about right in the disgusting display of behaviour chart the article does not really do justice for what went on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCai00QBEl4
The bad seed runs deep in this family & it's sad that they are the founders of BJJ. I like that more schools are now dropping the name for just plain old submission grappling, X brand jiu-jitsu or another name like 10th planet.
Ian C. Kuzushi wrote::o
Thanks for sharing that.
I used to work for a company that employed some of Ralph's top students and even a relative. It was a rough and tumble crew, with lots of sparing and somewhat mean spirited pranks, but nothing too over the top (the foreman from MN was the meanest of all, and one of the only guys with no training, just a pistol in his truck). The funny thing is, and this ties into the video, we had a really crusty old wrestler who would tie them all in knots. We called him Bolo. Short, powerful, fast, and just a beast. He kicked my ass for about 8 years just about every day. During that time I was training taichi and JJJ. I got better, but he still had my number by the time I moved on to college in my late 20s. I went back to work there for a bit over a year between college and my first graduate program, and had started competing in Judo in the bay area and Japan. I had bolo's number at last, but he had also gotten a bit older, while I had gotten stronger and was both a competitor and the gatekeeper at our dojo. From this, I have always had the greatest respect for wrestling. Bolo and I are still friends, although I only see him about once a year and he now has a pronounced limp and other issues from decades of wrenching and digging and mixing concrete by hand.
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