they're better than the people in my previous sport, rock climbing

I knew a guy in high school who did BJJ

it's useful to learn, stupid to rely on completely, and the people who are too into the clubs become total "good guy" retards

who are obsessed about sportsmanship and sheepdogging and making sure everyone is always "nice" 100% of the time

ideal martial art for christians

Sounds like cuck shit

homoerotic and full of power rangers

Oh

I just do it for the sport. It's a good game. I don't really care about the self defense part.

That sounds like the worst thing ever

I hate people who are too nice

You know they're judging you on the inside and compensating outwardly

It's nice to be friendly with your training partners. You can't be good at it alone.

yeah that's why I am only a mediocre grappler but an excellent striker

striking is far more antisocial

you can rig up all kinds of training tools and drills to hone your slipping, power generation, reflexes etc

But that's why I don't really mind that that guy goes hard with me. I don't want him to cheat me because i won't get better.

wrestling requires a person to wrestle

someday when I have money I will do a year of bjj just to be familiar with their tactics, take what is useful to me and know how to counter BJJ people well enough to pummel them

Just join a MMA gym

speaking of odious people

I like the idea but I prefer to seek out experts in niches

I'm the sort of guy who would go study thai boxing and bjj separately

I get that, but if you want to actually try pummeling bjj people, that's your best bet

like if you want to test it live rather than just hypothesizing

I have other ways for that

basically I scrap with somebody 2-3x/year, ideally a stranger, on friendly arranged terms

I want to go in knowing nothing about them or their methods or whatever and just see what happens, then spend months microanalyzing it, identifying weak points, drilling, conditioning

watching videos of sport & security cam situations like it

SoCal has some of the best bjj gyms around

go train with kron gracie

Martial arts seems like it takes quite a bit of time

yeah there's a gracie gym around here somewhere

It would be a useful skill, for sure

I have a friend who does it

I should wrestle him to learn

smart bjj guys are incorporating a lot of wrestling now

it has better takedowns

and practicing the pin generalizes to MMA well for ground & pound

yeah

I'm pretty sure that's why romans made that the winning maneuver