Didn’t realize how good a narrator and story teller Eddie Bravo is.
Watch out for the occasional F-bomb.
Here is the fight between Kron and Garry Tonon
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Rare Rickson Gracie Documentary
Great documentary even though it’s in Japanese and the quality isn’t so great. Found it through Kid Peligro.
Love the single leg squats on the balance beam, seeing young Kron, and the family BJJ session.… Read More
Mauricio Costa, Rickson Gracie Black Belt
I was organizing the contacts in my cell phone a few weeks ago and came across the contact info for my first BJJ instructor, Mauricio Costa. I first met him over 10 years ago when I first became interested in BJJ. At the time he was a brown belt under Rickson Gracie, who at the time, and probably currently still is the most respected and skilled Gracie practicioner. In the BJJ community he’s regarded almost mythically and conferred a god-like status, with a reported undefeated record of over 400 – 0. … Read More
The Importance of Contact
Here’s a video of one of the greatest grapplers in the world, Rickson Gracie, playing with his son Kron Gracie who is now a formidable grappler himself.
Just read this article from Mark’s Daily Apple about the benefits of carrying your child rather than pushing them along in the stroller and I got to thinking about whether this relates to grappling and BJJ and wrote this comment:
… Read More“No babies yet… but when they do come around I’ll know what to do!
Funny thing though, not sure if it’s entirely related, in my bjj class, there’s an autistic kid and his dad who come around to train occasionally, and when they’re on the mats wrestling around and doing BJJ the kid really perks up and you can feel a tangible joy emanating from him…
After these articles, I’m now thinking it may have to do with the constant touch and close contact that normally happens in grappling sports that may be having the positive impact on him…
Sports played these days don’t have this kind of close contact now.