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Long time ago, I asked why you dont see modern UFC fighters use colorful submission techniques from sambo and catch wrestling anymore. People responded with everyone being well trained. But since then, I have been in so many MMA gyms and its pretty much the same deal. Its Kickboxing and BJJ classes. The bjj glasses be they gi or no gi is centered around the move of the day and you go with your partner and you take turns drilling the moves and afterwards you end up doing a roll or a randori.
Some folks kickback by the wall and chat it up. That and there are tons of fighters in these gyms and its confusing because I assumed modern MMA training protocol= crazy submissions with transitions and everything is mapped out in a structured manner.
Meanwhile my sambo/judo sensei does have these moves and he has a chart that shows a takedown/throw + variation + landing position with submission option. I ask him why no one wants to learn, he just says that sambo/judo lost the marketing war to BJJ.
Is this true? Is the lack of grapplers in the west due to marketing war? It seems like wrestlers like Cody and TJ tend to gravitate towards kick-boxing or BJJ. Same with lot of wrestlers in the past, its either striking or ground and pound as oppose to becoming submission hunters. Hence you have folks from Armenia, Dagestan and Chechnya seem to be the type of fighters who are in to submission fighting while in the 90s and 2000s, tons of Americans seemed like they liked to go for submissions back in the day.
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Some folks kickback by the wall and chat it up. That and there are tons of fighters in these gyms and its confusing because I assumed modern MMA training protocol= crazy submissions with transitions and everything is mapped out in a structured manner.
Meanwhile my sambo/judo sensei does have these moves and he has a chart that shows a takedown/throw + variation + landing position with submission option. I ask him why no one wants to learn, he just says that sambo/judo lost the marketing war to BJJ.
Is this true? Is the lack of grapplers in the west due to marketing war? It seems like wrestlers like Cody and TJ tend to gravitate towards kick-boxing or BJJ. Same with lot of wrestlers in the past, its either striking or ground and pound as oppose to becoming submission hunters. Hence you have folks from Armenia, Dagestan and Chechnya seem to be the type of fighters who are in to submission fighting while in the 90s and 2000s, tons of Americans seemed like they liked to go for submissions back in the day.
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