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Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc
You do know that Gracie juijitsu isn't really jujitsu right?
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Had it not been for the fact that Count Koma moved back to Japan after teaching Carlos, BJJ would never have been born. It wasn't until after he moved back that Carlos began teaching his brothers, and evolving the system in ways the Japanese would most likely never have.
(For the sake of disclosure... I'm not ranked in BJJ. I have trained and studied it a good bit under some well known people though. Helio and his grandsons (Ricksons kids) give seminars where I used to train, as well as Pedro Sauer. I boxed as a kid and have trained under some of the top Muay Thai folks around... Alex Gong, Bunkerd Faphimai, and Ganyao at the Fairtex Gym in San Francisco. Just pointing this out so that I'm not perceived as something I'm not... I'm just a fella that doesn't get to excited about belts and likes to bang heads in the gym some. I've learned over the years that one's abilities are more of a determining factor in which system works for them. After having spent years strictly striking, I've enjoyed dabbling in several other styles (BJJ, Kali, and JKD) filling in gaps where I think they exist.)