1st time wearing a Gi - it's amazing!

[jcandoitbig]

Gis are wiggity-wack! My previous class was No Gi Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays...needless to say, I rarely showed up on Gi days.

Ain't no one wearing gis out on the street!

lol, a shitload of people wear pea coats in the winter

 

[Human Bass]

I prefer no gi simply because the gi is hot as fuck to wear.

 

[Jack Handy jr]

I've only rolled nogi before and I've read time and time again about the differences between nogi and Gi BJJ and honestly had a bias towards nogi. Yesterday was the first time I joined a Gi class and honestly i find it so much tougher. I am now converted - Gi is the shit. Every hater or nay sayer out there try rolling in the Gi and you'll witness the truth

Your Opinion has merit but NOGI is vastly superior in everyway.

The simple reason is that absolutely every technique that you can utilize in NOGI can be used in the GI. many of GI's setups and attacks can not be utilized in nogi.

You'll hear defenders of GI BJJ state "I've never fought a guy that was naked or not wearing clothes derp" well try and put the same grip forces on the typical American male uniform of jeans or shorts and a t shirt and see how long before you unclothed said attacker.

Pulling guard in the gi is a terrible idea in a street fight. NOGI guys are typically former wrestlers who intrinsically know that you want to be on top.

I've recently started rolling in the gi because I moved to a new city and there were no MMA schools or NOGI only options available.

I have to use far more force to break the grips of inferior grapplers that are clinging to my gi, my belt, my pants (thank god I don't have long hair) for dear life.

Now here's the kicker 6 months into this gi school and I have
NEVER grabbed anyone's Gi during live rolling.(my red blooded American male ego won't allow me to consciously grab a dudes pants) Which seems to aggravate the shit out of the higher belts.

I'm tapping guys easy with NOGI techniques while learning gi attacks during drilling and class. Don't abandon NOGI bro getting a takedown and being able to move like a wrestler with advanced submission defense and offense is the present and future of submission grappling.

That's whats making guys like Chris Weidman so dangerous. And even BJJ masters like demain Maia learn basic wrestling.

 

[Ton]

Your Opinion has merit but NOGI is vastly superior in everyway.

The simple reason is that absolutely every technique that you can utilize in NOGI can be used in the GI. many of GI's setups and attacks can not be utilized in nogi.

You'll hear defenders of GI BJJ state "I've never fought a guy that was naked or not wearing close derp" we'll try and put the same grip forces on the typical American make uniform of jeans or shorts and a shirt and see how long before you unclothed said attacker.

Pulling guard in the gi is a terrible idea in a street fight. NOGI guys are typically former wrestlers who intrinsically now that you want to be on top.

I've recently started rolling in the gi because I moved to a new city and there were no MMA schools or NOGI only options available.

I have to use far more force to break the grips of inferior grapplers that are clinging to my gi, my belt, my pants (thank god I don't have long hair) for dear life.

Now here's the kicker 6 months into this gi school and I have
NEVER grabbed anyone's Gi during live rolling.(my red blooded American male ego won't allow me to consciously grab a dudes pants) Which seems to aggravate the shit out off the higher belts.

I'm tapping guys easy with NOGI techniques while learning gi attacks during drilling and class. Don't abandon NOGI bro getting a takedown and being able to move like a wrestler with advanced submission defense and offense is the present and future of submission grappling.

That's whats making guys like Chris Weidman so dangerous. And even BJJ masters like demain Maia learn basic wrestling.

What you say is absolutely correct. Wrestling is very important and nogi techniques have a lot of merit, in the GI and without. I myself will mostly use the nogi baseball bat choke for example, even in the GI, because I feel like I have better grips. But I will always try the GI version as well.

People seem to want to belong to one camp or the other. GI or No GI. I just don't understand the elitism. Both are legitimate arts, and the combination of them will handle any grappling based scenario. If you are in a place with GI classes, take the opportunity and choke the dude with his own pajama. grab those pants (I assure you, as far as street fights go, jeans are pretty damn hard to rip by gripping them), you will be a more complete grappler for it.

Screw camps and screw divisive thinking. We are all grapplers, GI or no GI. We should strive to become the best version of ourselves and that will always include cross training. After all, Demian Maia is learning wrestling because that's what he's missing, not because what he already has is invalid.