BJJ Scout's BJJ Digest: Flavio Almeida Aftermath pic, Greco gonna Greco, Muffler has always been illegal, et al

BJJ Scout's BJJ Digest: Welsh Fans not exactly Hype on Sport Jitz, Polaris, et al

BJJ Digest Episode # 61 - FloGrappling Snubs Gordon, DDS Fallout, Quintet 3 Coming in Hot

All I'm gonna say is that the internet is way behind on actually knowing what's been going on and for how long because this is just coming out now.

Gordon is spot on about FloGrappling opting to not cover him/omission....if anyone else competed at black belt for the first time and went double gold finishing all of their opponents at the 2nd biggest IBJJF NoGi tournament of the year they'd be tripping over their feet racing to gag on their dick. Imagine if Cobrinha's son had done the same feat? They'd line the figurative office with guys wanting to give him a handjob. Gordon does it and they barely mention it. ANYHOW, Quintet is also coming up along with the Subversiv card next weekend. What a *&^%ing time to be a grappling fan? Onnit invitational was this weekend? We had 2 kneebars/hamstring stretch/Suloev Stretches in one UFC, and there's Kasai 3 coming in November. *&^% Yeah.

BJJ Digest # 60 - Wolverine goes crosstown, Quintet 3 in Las Vegas Takes Shape

Despite the lack of heel hooks (le sigh), I'm still super excited for the next Quintet. It's got the two reigning winners, plus 2 new teams in the mix. What a time to be a grappling fan. Seriously.,

BJJ Digest Episode 49 (extended?) - More Kasai Ref Backlash, Small joint manipulation or wrist lock?, Kayla Harrison's future....

Penalizing anyone for stalling felt pretty disingenuous after watching Canuto circle to the boundary and BS his way through literal minutes at a time of various matches. Literally came to score a takedown or 2, and maybe a guard pass across 4 matches and get a belt and call it a night. The crowd booed like crazy (still wondering if that came through on the broadcast because it got loud in the Lutes/Vagner match, the Canuto/Barch match, and TBH I left before the final because I felt like I had taken an Ambien after the Palhares/Jones non-match, and had seen enough of Canuto's dance steps across his 4 matches up until that point.

The prelims, and the superfights (minus Palhares' abortion of a match) all brought serious grappling and the majority of the Grand Prix felt like competitors looking to make it sporting. I had a blast. That being said, the reffing....has been a consistent issue across all 3 events and I'd be disingenuous to say otherwise (having been in person at all 3 events and heard and been a part of the crowd).

BJJ Scout Episode 49: Kasai 3 Spoilers & *cough cough* Referees?, & Slap-Jitsu Shoving Matches

BJJ Scout: BJJ Digest 43 - Gordon Ryan Free Agent/ACB's on the Fence, Danis Dancing Around the Obvious

Several Pro/NoGi ACB Events cancelled. "Possibly starting up again" in a few months with some rule set changes. We'll see. I will say this, in defense of the Gi guys, when you penalize guard pulling for 1 minute out of a 5 minute round, do you expect some of the world's best Gi competitors to face one another and produce a ton of thrilling matches? For every exciting 2018 Black Belt Worlds match I saw, there were 5 marred by fleeing the boundaries, extended/protracted battles in just a few positions, hell, even the IBJJF had to put a timer on ankle grabbing double guard pull sit-fests....and change the rules surrounding coming up for the sweep in 50/50. We were subjected to multiple Worlds finals over the years that were 50/50 scissor fests. Simply making the rounds shorter and penalizing guard pulling is a couple band-aids on the problem.
IN Gordon's own sole ACB match, Vinny scored points in the first round, and then basically did enough anti-Jiu-Jitsu to ride out the remaining two rounds. It only takes one competent competitor to produce a frustrating match, as Kasai has also seen in a number of it's Grand Prix format events.

Time will tell...
Also, you get a short clip of Danis dancing around why he's not in the welterweight grand prix and how he avoided the Neiman Gracie fight that he knows he wants no part of whatsoever. Neiman is an animal. I say that having seen him train in the blue basement at Renzo's. Danis will avoid that fight for as long as he possibly can.

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I'm late to the party on everything, but here we go: