BJ Penn in judo tournament

[Inge T]

I noticed the vid in this thread and figured it might be interesting to some people here.

BJ Penn enters a judo tournament as a white belt
http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3V5KUKVJ7ADW43RSMRDJRWYO2M

 

[n1k]

Awesome, but what's with the music? Its volume seems messed up.

 

[Bubble Boy]

Now THAT'S sandbagging!

 

[Soid]

Whoa... man why the fuck did my parents have to be poor.

 

[Kforcer]

Now THAT'S sandbagging!

Yup, yup.

 

[Lobo]

Now THAT'S sandbagging!

I see Judo black belts jump into the white belt divisions in sport bjj all the time. Same thing.
That being said if that was me I would've jumped into the brown/black division. And I would've probably get tossed.

 

[meng_mao]

Whoa... man why the fuck did my parents have to be poor.

???

 

[fozzit]

hey was a white belt in bjj at the time i believe

 

[Soulfly]

Was he a white belt at the time of the judo contest? He knows a lot of moves in newaza which arn't normally taught in my knowledge to Judo white belts. I'm not sure about the curriculem (sp) in BJJ for white belts.

 

[Resendiz]

must be cool to have privates whenever you want and train without worrying about having a job.

 

[gothlink]

Whoa... man why the fuck did my parents have to be poor.

same here

 

[tudor_bjj]

BJ was a BJJ white belt at that tournament!

 

[DirectDrive]

must be cool to have privates whenever you want and train without worrying about having a job.

that would be cool, but having his talent would be better. you could win the lotto and suddenly find yourself with the time and money to take privates from anyone, but you couldn't buy his talent.

 

[QingTian]

pretty smooth subs. if he was a white belt then, he wasn't for much longer.

anyways, bj was good, but it must also be pointed out that those black belts were pretty bad. especially the first one, who didn't even attack the whole match.

 

[Soid]

that would be cool, but having his talent would be better. you could win the lotto and suddenly find yourself with the time and money to take privates from anyone, but you couldn't buy his talent.

I don't know man, privates work wonders. Get anyone that's athletic and give them privates almost every other day and they'll be talented in no time. I'm sure he didn't do this out of pure instinct, it was because he trained hard and was taught well through privates.

 

[infamous mattyd]

you learn way faster with privates