First off, thank God someone's talking about participation medals. You see posts on Igram where people mention they won Pans or claim to be a world champion...and conveniently leave out it wasn't adult. If you're winning a senior's/master's/whatever division mention it. You mention the weight class and the age bracket. Don't lie by omission. Continuing on: this whole participation medal where you showed up and lost 2 matches and placed or whatever is silly. People out here posting on Igram with the medal and conveniently leaving out they didn't win a single match, or had a bye, then lost, then got third? Bruh, please. GTFO. People pay to do Open events, lose, and make some long post about blah blah heart, dedication, preparation....blah blah...you paid money and showed up. It's an open division. Literally anyone can show up. At black belt now, there's enough events around in random ass places and cities to get points to show up. I dunno, it just frankly feels watered now with 14 age brackets or however many and people under 18 and above 50 calling themselves world champions. IBJJF making everyone register their belt next year.....expanding the age brackets.....still not paying for the actual real world adult champions.....we'll see how it all unfolds with the rise in other paid professional events that have at worst no more terribly inconsistent reffing and at best aren't decided by boring ass advantage battles in stalling positions.
Looks like Tanquinho gets some company as Werdum will do some competing in JiuJitsu while he's on Steroid suspension. Hope to see JiuJitsu in the Olympics so all these super hero comic book level exploits of guys at 40 years old and looking like the hulk can finally be popped and show that a lot of these super human feats are just that....super....human. You've got lower belts in the Worlds at feather and light facing Ultra heavyweights in the absolute after winning their weight class and winning, or guys doing 3-4 IBJJF events in Vegas the week of Master's Worlds doing both Adult and Master's, making weight, competing, and doing it for several days in a row. C'mon man. GTFO.
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Looks like Tanquinho gets some company as Werdum will do some competing in JiuJitsu while he's on Steroid suspension. Hope to see JiuJitsu in the Olympics so all these super hero comic book level exploits of guys at 40 years old and looking like the hulk can finally be popped and show that a lot of these super human feats are just that....super....human. You've got lower belts in the Worlds at feather and light facing Ultra heavyweights in the absolute after winning their weight class and winning, or guys doing 3-4 IBJJF events in Vegas the week of Master's Worlds doing both Adult and Master's, making weight, competing, and doing it for several days in a row. C'mon man. GTFO.
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