I'd be the perfect grappler if...

[Bubble Boy]

Message from an old fart to you young kids...

I'd be the perfect grappler if:

I had signed up for wrestling when I was a freshman in high school, and then stuck with it for the whole four years.

After highschool I'd have joined a judo club, and learned to fight in a gi, and competed all the time, and learned some ways to submit people, and after 4 or 5 years I would've earned my shodan (maybe after spending a summer at the Kodokan), and then have been able to take just about anyone to the mat and choke them out or break their arm.

Then I would've found a bjj club, and really gotten into the art of newaza. The details, the essence, the sweet science of ground fighting. I would've trained both gi and no-gi, evenly. And I would've competed at every opportunity. Of course, at some point I would've taken the obligatory pilrimage to Brasil.

Then sambo. A complete immersion. I would have learned why Sambo IS different than Judo. I would've learned the beauty of working the legs in grappling, the terminology, combat sambo, and maybe even have taken a trip over to Russia to vist the elite sambo schools there...

Wrestling, judo, bjj, sambo.

Perfect.

Your turn.

I'd be the prefect grappler if:

 

[Ybot]

If I'm every reincarnated as a child of a rich family I'll follow your plan.

Until then I'll just have to be satisfied training BJJ, working to improve my game, and when time allows starting back to judo a couple times a week. I may never be the perfect grappler, but I'll enjoy my training and continue improving. That's my plan.

I do wish I would have done wrestling in highschool though... I mean it's there, and costs nothing but your blood sweat and tears. So, if your young enough to have this option... do it!

Anyway, I guess your point BB is that it's all good.

 

[Jimmy Cerra]

You forgot doing Freestyle and judo in the off-season in high school as well as doing a derivative of catch and some regular no-gi grappling like CSW at some point too.

 

[Evergrey]

I'd be the perfect grappler if I was good haha. I'm just so used to "cavemaning" my way through people who want to beat me up. That tactic doesn't work so well in grappling. I've only had two classes though. Eventually it will all click, and the rest will be history.

 

[scorcho]

I'd be the perfect grappler if: at some point I lived in one place that had a school for a long period of time, instead of gym whoring around the world.

 

[NJCarder]

I'd be the perfect grappler if i figured out how to get both Arona's and Listers ability into my body

 

[knoxpk]

Since Bubble Boy pretty much has the perfect answer for this type of thread I will deviate a little bit and think how would I BEAT the perfect grappler in a grappling competition.
I would devote my time possibly 2 of the 4 arts and then work feverishly on cardio and strength while the perfect grappler is refining his technique.
So in essence I would train 4 years of HS wrestling, hopefully have been good enough to go to college and trained 4 years there. After that I would train in BJJ and learn all I could about grappling off my back. While continuing to work BJJ I would take a day off or 2 from BJJ training assuming a 5 day training week and use the rest of the time to lift, do distance running , drills and sprints.
If I were facing the perfect grappler I would set a very high pace for the match and work to get top control and then being conservative. Not taking uneeded risks but grasping opportunites when they arise. I would pressure the opponent from the top and assume that evetnually he would have to take a chance in order to win.

 

[azjudoboxer**]

If i was born with the genetics to be a great grappler, into a grappling family

 

[Q mystic]

Good thread.

For a future in mma grappling, do JUDO FULL TIME and during this.....

Fight for your schools wrestling team in season, using judo and 'not' picking up the wrestling skills. Just working your judo as best you can to make it work in wrestling. Not to win big in wrestling, as you won't, but to teach your judo more 'open' concepts. When school is done, crosstrain in bjj, keeping your priority of takedown and top control, but strengthen your back game. Judo has all the base you need and 'working' with wrestlers and bjjers will help you strengthen weaknesses and fine tune a well rounded game. To actually learn all of each brings in too many bad habits. Just seems a more efficient path to the same goal.

If for sport grappling only.....

Join bjj and stay there. They seem to be fine tuned for it and are open minded to change with the game.

 

[greedysob]

Fight for your schools wrestling team in season, using judo and 'not' picking up the wrestling skills. Just working your judo as best you can to make it work in wrestling. .

OR

Wrestle and learn wrestling. Experiement with judo techniques to find what will work for you in wrestling, and experminet with wrestling techniques in judo. Round yourself out with a style that is open and more of you own.

 

[Q mystic]

OR

Wrestle and learn wrestling. Experiement with judo techniques to find what will work for you in wrestling, and experminet with wrestling techniques in judo. Round yourself out with a style that is open and more of you own.

Why not focus on a sport that teaches the value of takedowns, control and subs all in the same class sometimes.

Not sure how you can really get around that yet.

 

[hayliks]

If I started doing bjj in 1995...

 

[farmboy]

Message from an old fart to you young kids...

I'd be the perfect grappler if:

I had signed up for wrestling when I was a freshman in high school, and then stuck with it for the whole four years.

After highschool I'd have joined a judo club, and learned to fight in a gi, and competed all the time, and learned some ways to submit people, and after 4 or 5 years I would've earned my shodan (maybe after spending a summer at the Kodokan), and then have been able to take just about anyone to the mat and choke them out or break their arm.

Then I would've found a bjj club, and really gotten into the art of newaza. The details, the essence, the sweet science of ground fighting. I would've trained both gi and no-gi, evenly. And I would've competed at every opportunity. Of course, at some point I would've taken the obligatory pilrimage to Brasil.

Then sambo. A complete immersion. I would have learned why Sambo IS different than Judo. I would've learned the beauty of working the legs in grappling, the terminology, combat sambo, and maybe even have taken a trip over to Russia to vist the elite sambo schools there...

Wrestling, judo, bjj, sambo.

Perfect.

Your turn.

I'd be the prefect grappler if:

Ditto. Damn, hind-sight is 20/20, isn't it?

 

[Soid]

I'd be a perfect grappler if: My parents were rich

 

[RollHawk]

i'd be the perfect grappler if: i grew up with the gracies.

 

[Col. Angus]

...I would stop getting choked and arm-barred

 

[Bubble Boy]

I made this thead?
When?
Dudes. Darvocet and beer DO NOT mix.

 

[JarMan]

. . . instead of taking the last fifteen years off after high school wrestling and just now starting bjj, I would have spent those fifteen years learning bjj and continuing to wrestle.

 

[Balto]

I'd be the perfect grappler if...

I took Xyience.

 

[ratman201]

If I stopped looking at porn long enough to train.