12 points, and sudden death instead of overtime are pretty cool rules. United Gracie just had those rules and they are good for the sport.
But under IGJJF rules they will actually 'flip' people if someone hasn't passed the guard in a specified amount of time, and practically ignore takedowns/sweps. I find the whole 'keepin it reaaaal, old skool' rhetoric complete bullshit. What happened was they invented a ruleset in brazil, everyone in America got wise and started kicking ass. Now Rorion and Helio decide to change the rules because they can't hang anymore.
The excuse given is that there A) aren't enough submissions, fights should end when there is a finish. B) Timelimits cause people to stall. C) Takedowns aren't that important
The reality of these excuses is:
1) Submissions happen all the time at tournaments. But how would the IGJJF people know? They get annihilated at them, and don't participate anymore. So they make thier own tournament up with new rules.
2) This whole 'flipping' people from inside the guard, to on the bottom of the guard is complete crap if you go off the whole 'keepin it reeaaaal' bullshit. I mean what fight are they watching where someone steps in and changes the position after a certain time? I call hipocritical bullshit. No pass and 3 minutes and they will actually give the bottom guy a point, and then gets to be on top. LOL, WTF? Talk about a stalling strategy!
3) They want to ignore takedowns and sweeps because they suck at them. Wrestlers and Judoka who are crosstraining simply own IGJJF guys with them, so again...change the rules. Rorion doesnt want to give points for sweeps or takedowns? OMFG. How are you going to get the fight to the ground without a takedown, and how are you going to improve your position without a sweep? Rorion has stated he doesnt want to give any points for takedowns...but had to grudging compromise and give it 1point, with sweeps giving 1point also.
4) They want to keep it old school with it geared toward "real fights" but
a) There are no REAL fights with no rules. Get real here. Cops or bystandards will break things up.
b) They want to somehow equate BJJ = Vale Tudo by instituting real rules. Newsflash, BJJ isnt VT. It is completely different.
There is a ton of other stupid bullshit...like some sleeve holding rule. But honestly I am not that familiar with the rules because I refuse to compete under this crap. It is fuckin ridiculous. Compound that by Rorion's history and I say....fuck that.
It'll be a good day for Jiu Jitsu when he fuckin dies. I hope he pitches a fit at the tournament, tries to change the rules and gets kicked in the throat. I think I have made my position clear.
damn...it's like 20-30 minutes from my house!. thanks for the info. guys.
