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Samurai, what you're saying is actually in agreement with what I'm talking about. Passing the guard, side control escapes, "in the hole" drilling, etc. are all common place in BJJ, and all good schools have followed this teaching progession.
But why do these work? How could you apply the same practices to other aspects of martial arts, like stick fighting, knife defense, law enforcement training? How do you teach your coaches to teach their guys right?
That's where I see the real value in what SBG has done by naming and breaking down a lot of these things. Your attitude is one that I see with a lot of guys, who just feel that SBG is somehow trying to take credit for whatever one else is doing or put a marketing spin on it. Maybe they are, but having talked to a lot of the head SBG guys, I really doubt it. They just want people to get good training and understand why the training is good, and part of that is taking the things that "everyone knows" and "everyone does" and breaking them down. So it's no longer "it works because sensei says so" or "it works because BJJ has always done it this way", but it's something more basic like "it works because the student can learn the move, progressively gain skill in it and eventually add it to his game".
I understand the sentiment that SBG is just taking credit for everyone else's work since I used to feel the same way, but once I really looked into it, they credit and thank a lot guys like Rigan, Jean-Jacques, Randy and a lot of styles like BJJ, MT, wrestling, boxing, MT, judo, etc. for everything they do.
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