Where are the World Pro results?

[Kenny from MD]

I am piecing it together from the Brazilian Gracie Mag Instagram. Galvao beat Davi Ramos and Keenan lost to Alexander Trans, both on ads.

 

[Kenny from MD]

Erberth Santos over Galvao in the absolutes, so I think him and Trans are in the semi final. Bia in the final of something else?

 

[Kenny from MD]

Felipe Pena swept Trans in the absolute semi and is in the final if I am reading it right.

 

[anaconda]

Yeah it's a freaking mess. That's all I can tell.

But flograppling has coverage (written coverage) that you don't need to be a member to see. Their video coverage is tough to follow because of the scheduling. I hope it's easier Friday and Saturday.

 

[Kenny from MD]

Can you link to the FloGrappling write up? A lot of the IG stuff doesn't say what division that stuff is happening in and it is hard for me to search stuff at work due to my firewall.

 

[Submission]

Absolute final will be Felipe Pena "Preguiça" vs Jose Junior.
I didn't knew who this guy was (Jose Junior) but he eliminated Panza and Evangelista.

 

[Jhf884]

http://www.bjjheroes.com/bjj-news/w...a-in-the-absolute-final-thanks-to-shocking-dq

 

[Zankou]

That is awesome. I have long wanted much heavier penalties for stalling. It's always talk, no action. Abu Dhabi has come down very hard on it in the past, and Allah willing, will continue to do so. I'd love to see aggressive stalling calls in other BJJ venues.

The guys invariably give excuses ... "I wasn't stalling, it was his fault, I was staying active .." Bull.

Reminds me of one of my favorite grappling anecdotes, when Dan Gable was yelling at the referee to penalize his own wrestler for stalling in a match.

 

[Uchi Mata]

That is awesome. I have long wanted much heavier penalties for stalling. It's always talk, no action. Abu Dhabi has come down very hard on it in the past, and Allah willing, will continue to do so. I'd love to see aggressive stalling calls in other BJJ venues.

The guys invariably give excuses ... "I wasn't stalling, it was his fault, I was staying active .." Bull.

Reminds me of one of my favorite grappling anecdotes, when Dan Gable was yelling at the referee to penalize his own wrestler for stalling in a match.

I always say, as much as people complain about the rules, reffing is where it's at. Start calling stalling aggressively, all the things everyone hates about BJJ matches go away.

 

[Zankou]

Yeah just as you say the rule exists -- it is just almost never enforced, to the point where people are absolutely shocked to see people get hit with genuine penalties for it. They have similar verbiage against stalling in judo, but there the refs will actually hit the competitors with it, so the rule actually has some teeth. In BJJ, it's basically a joke that there's a rule against stalling on the books because the refs almost never penalize people for affirmatively trying to hold a static position for minutes on end.

Not only does this make matches really boring (particularly for spectators, which is why ADCC cracks down on it), it also makes BJJ less useful as a combat sport, because there's much less of a sense of combative urgency. You get in a mindset which is comfortable with just gently dry humping in a static position for 6 minutes, and self defense is only the first of many problems I'd identify with that mindset.

 

[anaconda]

Fwiw, they were much more aggressive at pans this year than in year's past.

 

[ChrmnMa0]

Any other site besides flowgrappling have write up/results?