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Are you an old school grappler or new school?

Old school - Traditional BJJ, Gracie style. Gi based. Your focus is the very basics. I guess the perfect model would be Royce Gracie.

New school - Deep half guard, 50/50 guard, rubber guard, inverted & tornado guard,etc. The model - Jeff Glover, Bill Cooper & Ryan Hall.
 
I try to be more Old School. I sprinkle in new techniques here and there but for the most part I like to keep it basic.
 
Old school with rubber guard!! lol. i dont know how to do deep half guard yet or anything like that.
 
I would say 60/40 old school being more prevalent. I like to experiment a lot though. I'll start rolling and think "BJJ says I should do this, so lets try the exact opposite!" It's lead me to some pretty interesting conclusions.
 
Don't ask don't tell. What I do in my personal life is my own business.
 
New school in the sense that I don't limit myself to or restrict myself from certain techniques. My game isn't really flashy or anything, but I'm definitely not strict on sticking to the basics.
 
To the right mostly, even though I tuck to the left... Oh wait, wrong thread. :icon_chee
 
New school, no gi as well.
More of the 10th planet style.
My school constantly takes new ideas and tries new things and implements them into training
 
Would Marcelo be considered new school????

X guard - new school? *I did dee Mario Sperry teach it in 1996. At the time I did not think it was pratical.

Armdrag - Were many people doing it before Marcelo brought it to light??
 
Old school. My old joints aren't able to cope with all of this modern nonsense!
 
Hmm, does old school mean no takedown game whatsoever-- no judo and no wrestling?
 
New school, I work the a darce series fairly often and my go to guard is deep half (glover is my hero!).

Regarding the Marcelo thing, I would have to say new school all the way.
 
My style is much more old school but I'm open to everything in jiu-jitsu.

btdubs would Ryan Hall still be considered new school? Didn't he have an interview about a year ago where he basically scorned his unconvential style and said he needed to be only focusing on basics or did I just make that up?
 
Ryan Hall is total new school!

50/50 guard
Deep half
Inverted guard
rolling back takes
 
I make up my own guard and attacks.
 
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