Jiu-Jitsu is for real fights.
We were joined by SBG Black Belts Travis Davison and John Frankle.
On the podcast we talk a lot about what got me into Jiu-Jitsu.
My journey to find Rickson, the early days of training, and how Jiu-Jitsu has evolved.
On this podcast, I explained how when I first started training we were actually training for real fights.
No weight divisions, bare knuckle and almost any goes.
There was a lot of striking involved.
This is totally absent from most Jiu-Jitsu training now.
If you want to learn more about how we used to train with strikes back then, check out my Vale Tudo course.
Jiu-Jitsu is all about efficiency, and if you can end the fight with a strike why waste more movement and give space going for a submission?
Plus, there are a lot of ways striking and submissions complement each other (one leads to the other, and vice versa).
