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The Gracie Approach to Self Defense in MMA
Even when the Gracie family was still fighting MMA, you almost never saw any of the Gracie self defense appear in their fights. So that now requires you to train two things. And this is a problem because they want to paint their foot in the reality of combat. That's what their self defense was or race and theory that people are trying to do. But then when it comes to the competition circuit, as anyone who's competed knows, like you're trying to play by the rules,. You're trying to win, not necessarily be realistic. so you create a world where eventually that evolution will lead away from thereality of combat.