I've spent 6 weeks training at Cobrinha's school once and it was just amazing. His level of technique and details is game changing.
What do you guys mean when you say he isn't as appreciated for how good he is since his prime was a little earlier than the internet boom? Isn't Cobrinha always considered the favorite (besides Rafa) and widely regarded as one of the all time greats?
He is, but we're also pretty heavy grappling nerds if we're posting online. If you go into many academies, you have an entire generation of students that could have been training for over half a decade that are quite good and not familiar with him as a world champion.
For people that follow the sport, for sure he's always consistently the guy that you always ban on to be in the finals. I just meant that I've been in many classes and heard blue and purple belts, and even brown belts talking about how awesome Rafa is, or how sick Buchecha is, and the generation of grapplers that sort of hit black belt around the late 00's and early 10's. And I may be way off base but I just haven't met a lot of people that don't follow the sport online that talk about him or even your Marcelos, Jacares, Xandes, Vieiras, Tereres, Rogers, the same way they talk about Rafa, Buchecha, Miyaos, Rodoflo, Lo, Keenan, etc.
I do think there's sort of an internet generation thing. If you talk about Jeff Glover to most people now, they'd know him as the donkey guard guy. Baret Yoshida got almost no love when he came out at Metamoris and lots of people at the party I was at didn't even know who he was.
Does that help at all? Kinda all over the place...