As a bjj guy I agree. Especially for those guard pullers out there good fkn luck winning a wrestling match 😂

And that’s why I start my bjj classes out with takedowns almost regularly. 15-20 mins of takedown drilling minimum. You gotta have good takedowns and be comfortable on your feet, especially for practical situations.

jiu jitsu is mat ninja BS for the most part. I guess its more practical than kung fu.

@@Mike-pv3hg Lmao no. Jiu Jitsu isn't a good base for wrestling, because 95% of jiujitsu is grappling. In wrestling if you pin someone's back to the mat you win. That's silly considering you can get chocked out even if their back is to the mat. They're both useful and work well together.

​@@johnsonparker9817thats the point genius they dont have to.

Not running is going to make you more prone to getting hurt? I don't think so.

Yeah but we lay down and just kinda roll around a bit

@@kommisar. he was talking about the warmup in general. the kid was saying "not warming up" is a free pass to injury.

@@Lockdown335 😆😆 true that. I mean for sure that helps too. not sure if you're being lighthearted or being serious, but I'm just commenting on the fact that the kid was commenting that "skipping warmup(s)" is not smart.

But there is drilling and technique before sparring...

I think Craig could probably handle high schoolers lmao he's way bigger than this random purp

He would get absolutely throttled, add in mat wrestling and he has zero shot

This would test the limits of “Just Stand Up”

I want Craig to visit a Sambo school

@@josephbooth8988he has decent wrestling

Same here. Wrestled for a good wrestling school in a tough division in Northeast PA and then went onto train in BJJ at Matt Riddle's gym in Palmerton for over a decade. Nothing compares to wrestling IMO. The best grapplers at that gym all had wrestling backgrounds. Matt included.

hahahahahha

I know that Bradley hill started out in bjj then later went into freestyle wrestling. Got a bronze 🥉 medal at British national championship in wrestling.

Or laetitia Blot who went from judo TO women wrestling ( freestyle wrestling) to sambo. Now does mma with a base in bjj and Luta Livre ( catch wrestling and judo).

@@tichtran664UK wrestling is a joke by all standards lol

@@samcooper4024 What about Joe Hendry?! He went from pro wrestling to legit freestyle wrestling. He went all the way to quarter final of the Commonwealth games. Commonwealth games are for former British empire countries. Yes Scottish ARE British. Great Britain composed of England, Scotland, and Wales. UK is Great Britain AND Northern Ireland. Plus may know real catch wrestling since he was trained by Marty Jones and Johnny Saint ( students of Billy Robinson who knew real catch wrestling). And black belt in judo. Plus train in bjj. He wants to someday do MMA.

@@tichtran664 No one ever talks about UK wrestling. No athlete in the UK wrestling system is ever in contention for a medal at a significant ranking series event or championship (Euros, Worlds, Olympics, etc)

Man looks like a roman of ancient times

Jake Pauls son

He got whooped though.

I wouldn’t say humble but he does have all that good stuff

​@nostromo9081 he got whooped in wrestling, but he has a successful business and makes a lot of money.

@@nostromo9081 You would too for 1/10th of the money he made

That how catch wrestling came to be. When Japanese juijitsu met ORIGINAL catch wrestling ( most likely no submission). But in 1930s and 1940s double wrist lock/kimura and body scissors/guard were used in amateur wrestling. If you want to say it originally came from Japanese fine with me. But there was a EARLIER style called Lancashire up and down fighting which DID have submission. Although mostly neck crank, strangle, and full nelson.

@@tichtran664 And now it's nowhere to be seen. Hmm....

@@kommisar. Catch wrestling is rare but NOT dead.

@@tichtran664 Might as well be. I can find a BJJ gym in Iowa more easily than a catch wrestling gym in a big city.

@@kommisar. Is there a Luta Livre or submission art wrestling school nearby?! Or combat submission wrestling school nearby?!

Checks out. I once met a guy at my club who was literally missing his left foot. He walked in. Slaughtered everyone, including one of the coaches who was a former state champ in Missouri, and then I never saw him again. If you wanna be the best in wrestling, you have to have a different kind of mindset. More than that the best wrestlers function at such a high intensity that them going is easy is max intensity for pretty much everyone else.

Thas what I say to Boxers who want to move onto either KickBoxing or MuayThai its easier transition then vice versa.

There are those who went from bjj to freestyle wrestling. Like Bradley Hill of royal juijitsu.

@tichtran664 Bradley Hill who competes for Hawkeye Wrestling Club from Bettendorf Iowa who competed in the US Open freestyle is a different Bradley Hill than Royal Jiu Jitsu Bradley Hill different people bro

@@marcoleone8189 I wasn't mentioning American Bradley Hill.

There was a D1 wrestler that started BJJ and regrettably I tore my MCL so was watching from the sidelines, but with no BJJ background at all he was wiping the floor with people. He helped everyone out in a big way and it was a huge eye opener for a lot of the guys.

Who said wrestling isn’t grappling? I have NEVER EVER heard that before….

@@giggityeffyou Just look and read the title. It implies that wrestlers are somehow in a different category from grapplers. When in fact, we both know that wrestlers are grapplers. The problem is that there are some people that when they think about grappling, they only think about Jiu-Jutsu.

I think people don't consider wrestling a martial art, is what he was getting at.

grappling in this context is not grappling martial arts but the sport of submission grappling

I feel like its the best foundation you can have for grappling, then pile on jits from there. Everyone that came from wrestling that ive rolled with is just another level even if their bjj is amature

@@austinohlrich9370 for sure. I think wrestlers with no bjj can get caught in subs easily. But as soon as they learn subs it's over for the rest of us

@@austinohlrich9370 Or you could actually TRY to get better at takedowns....

Marcus Askernus?

Single is the most common leg attack in wrestling.

@@christianpyles1820 really? It's almost as if that's exactly what I wrote in my first comment. 😂🫶

​@@falkhammermuller9342 Well that's kinda my point, it's the takedown used most to takedown wrestlers, so it actually is obvious to use it.

@@christianpyles1820not if you’re not a wrestler.

@@christianpyles1820 /woosh

can you elaborate on this? i just started bjj a year ago and people with wrestling experience always win the takedown exchanges

@@kom452 Not a wrestler but I hope this helps: as a BJJ guy, you no doubt know the importance of hips on the ground. For shrimping, control, etc. its more or less your base once it hits the mat. On the feet, its the same thing but BJJ guys don't really practice takedowns or understand the importance of the hips. If you've ever rolled with a grappler, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about, their takedowns are much much better. Even in a clinch, they feel the way you're moving or rotating and can counter it very effectively. That's why its easier to transition from wrestling to BJJ than the other way around, you don't have the muscle memory of how that all works.

heck yeah

Very well put. From my experience, nothing beats straight wrestling for control or strength/conditioning. That is why wrestling is so damn good in MMA, they can control you from top position and just rain hell. By contrast, BJJ is much much more about rolling for an extended length of time (slow twitch rather than fast twitch), not burning yourself out, and using technique rather than strength. Submissions are mostly from BJJ and that's how you finish fights, not by pinning someone. Both are important but for sheer versatility, wrestling is the best base for MMA.

Literally

If they learn some catch sure but I think they only know freestyle , they probably could take most grapplers d9wn but would have issues with the guards. Granted they likely would pick up quickly since they have some grappling

Well there is a form of competition that COMBINED amateur wrestling with submission. That catch wrestling. But with MORE submission. Including catch style crossface, face lock, etc. Pin or submission.

This already exists, it's called Judo.

You mean catch as catch can wrestling which folk style came from

Okay I will

In fact I want him to compete at Snake Pit Wigan catch wrestling world championships. At wigan NO choke. But neck cranks such as catch style crossface and face lock okay.

Take downs. Like Graco Roman

​@@mikenuzzo3323more like freestyle than Greco-Roman, no? you can go for the legs in catch wrestling

Yes more like freestyle wrestling but with submission. BUT the suplex came from Greco roman wrestling. And in old days there was PROFESSIONAL Greco roman wrestling. Believe it or not.

LOL 🤣.