Bodybuilding Dot Com does BJJ

[Wanderlei Industries]

You know you fuckheads can do both right? Stop taking sides and promoting useless arguments.

 

[cms9690]

BJJ went from this






to this





Its come down pretty hard

Fawwwwwwwwk! Wow!

Good on Poochie.

A rematch in the later rounds may be interesting though!

 

[flapdragon]

And I bet you'd start crying anytime you had to seriously lift weights.

im not hating on lifters or lifting, just most of the people on that site. they have a bad reputation for a reason

 

[oyaji poi]

no doubt - the irony of calling bb on their egos while retelling glory stories about tapping bb is lost on many in this thread.

This thread went in a very different direction than what I imagined when I made it. I thought more people would have a bit of a laugh at the way non-practitioners interpret basic BJJ techniques - and how hilariously awkward it looks (especially when they look straight at the camera).


BJJ and powerlifting actually have a lot in common. Both have weightclasses, both have gym rats that don't compete and generally speaking nobody really cares about your gym wins or your gym PRs as they are both competition-based sports.


Many guys start both sports with the idea that they will be able to kick someone's ass but stick with it because they enjoy the activity - and both sports feed the ego with measurable, but arbitrary, levels of achievement.

 

[oyaji poi]

Actually, I think that external validation is an even bigger driver in BJJ than powerlifting. You can lift in your basement and reach a high-level of strength but no one will ever know. But in BJJ advancement is marked with stripes and belts - and we all know how many Internets have been wasted over discussing who deserves those.

A group of BJJers calling powerlifting an 'ego-driven sport' is hypocritical. Participation in any competitive sport is ego driven, some more so than others.


And to be blunt, most people in both sports probably still suck at fighting for real.

 

[Oblivian]

I'm not going to argue if lifting is difficult at all, it definitely is - but I do think learning how to fight (specifically BJJ) is more difficult by a large margin.

If MMA can be considered "learning how to fight", it's hard to argue how difficult it is. MMA has one of the easiest barriers to entry out of any sport out there.

 

[Nnedd]

Having done both combat sports and weight lifting, I've found some similarities.

The primary being that it's easy to make impressive and major gains in both initially, but the more you do either, the more gains become harder to achieve.

And that's when you start to really appreciate guys above you in either activity. Because you're clawing away, with sweat and work, daily, to eke out your improvements. And the gains come along, but slower than they used to.

And you see the guys ahead of you (both in lifting and in fighting), and you see all the time and sweat and sacrifice they've put into it. And their level above yours is that much more impressive. Because the quantum leap was already made for both of you, what remains is the daily grind.

 

[oyaji poi]

Having done both combat sports and weight lifting, I've found some similarities.

The primary being that it's easy to make impressive and major gains in both initially, but the more you do either, the more gains become harder to achieve.

And that's when you start to really appreciate guys above you in either activity. Because you're clawing away, with sweat and work, daily, to eke out your improvements. And the gains come along, but slower than they used to.

And you see the guys ahead of you (both in lifting and in fighting), and you see all the time and sweat and sacrifice they've put into it. And their level above yours is that much more impressive. Because the quantum leap was already made for both of you, what remains is the daily grind.

Great points all around.

 

[Se4n]

stupid meatheads