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Agreed. I like the idea of keeping it playful as a way to find the guys where you can focus your training in a more intense environment and weed out the hopeless ego cases. Like "keep it playful" with the general group and when you find a partners the same weight and physical ability or better who wants to step up the intensity than go beast mode and train the shit out of it.You need good sparring partners to improve and succeed. If you go all out and destroy - injury - your "equipment" or yourself then how can you improve? Randori or rolling is not a match, submaximal intensity for training is the order of the day in most sports.
Oil checks are a valid tech imoMore like keeping it gayful, amirite?
You're talking about competition, big differenceMy personal interpretation of Keeping it Playful is to open up your game instead of going to your bread and butter moves which usually bring success.
I also think Ryron came up with the idea because he'd have an excuse if he lost in Metamoris. He can always say "I was only keeping it Playful... to learn...."
Interestingly, Kron Gracie tries to destroy his opponents, put himself in harms way and usually dominates his opponents or goes out on his shield, with no shame.
And it's not like Kron hasn't learned or improved his game by actively trying to win as opposed to surviving and waiting 50 hours for the opponent to MAYBE make a mistake.
You're talking about competition, big difference
More like keeping it gayful, amirite?