MMA evolved from BJJ, however since the UFC started in 1993, there have been many changes to BJJ. Vinny Magalhaes, an MMA fighter and previous Mundial and ADCC champion, has voiced his discontent recently about these changes.
Magalhaes points out that the IBJJF forbids a large number of leg lock techniques at all levels, and has made it illegal for combatants to slam their way out of submissions and use leg reaping techniques. Notwithstanding, says Magalhaes, the IBJJF still permits fighters to drag their bottoms across the mat. Magalhaes goes on to say that there are only a small number of top BJJ practitioners in the sport nowadays, who could successfully protect themselves in a life or death street fight. This is because BJJ as a sport has moved away from the notion of BJJ as a style of fighting. Instead, it has been reduced to the status of a game.
Vinny Magalhaes posted on facebook:
“IBJJF won’t allow a huge variety of leg locks at any level (including at Black Belt), but they have this thing called leg reaping that’s illegal (for whatever reason), slamming your way out of a submission is also illegal, but they still allow people to drag their butts on the mat like dogs do after they’re done taking a s***…
“Sport BJJ at its top level has nowadays a handful of guys that can probably defend themselves if s*** got real in the streets. Sport BJJ took away the idea of BJJ being a fighting style to become strictly a game.
“It’s hard to blame the players like initially stated, they’re only playing by the rules that they’re given.
“The IBJJF is the biggest company to promote BJJ around the world, and even though they have all these pussified rules, there hasn’t been any other promotion that has come close to compete with them yet, at least not when it comes to being prestigious, that’s why the majority of the BJJ practitioners think that IBJJF is the standard to be followed and that’s why the sport is moving away from its origins in it’s becoming this game not so fun to watch, instead of being an art of self defense…
“I loved my days as a gi competitor, when i used to train nothing but gi, I used to go against many guys that nowadays are considered legends of the sport and can gladly say that I won most of my matches against them, and those are guys that I still have fun watching them competing…
“This “new” Jiu-Jitsu doesn’t interest me a bit. I can’t watch a BJJ event nowadays like I used to, I think it’s cool that these guys are getting where they want to, getting gold medals and making a living off what they love. But if this was 1997 and this was the BJJ shown to me back when I started, maybe I’d be doing something else, because in 1997, I was watching Mario Sperry, Royler Gracie, Saulo Ribeiro, Amauri Bitetti, Roleta, all these guys with an aggressive and entertaining style of Jiu-Jitsu, and I highly doubt that I’d have gotten into BJJ if I had seen any of these names “scissoring” for 10 minutes or wiping their asses on the mat like dogs with itchy butts.”
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Slamming and reaping should be legal? No
You will be slammed on the street, better learn to counter it.
Eww. Disgusting and misogynistic language. “Pussified”? Really? Assholes.
Take your sjw crap and shove it
“MMA evolved from BJJ…” Really? Good points otherwise.