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soho · 04-09-2002, 03:05 PM

"at the inosonto academy, i had heard of Herman Suwanda, tapping bjj blackbelts, using silat."

According to Burton Richardson this is simply not true.

I attended a Suwanda seminars back in my martial arts infancy…Mande Muda is some funny stuff.

The thing about BJJ (like boxing, wrestling, vale tudo) is that when training it you are actually developing skills. As apposed to arts like Silat, which may look cool, however since you never really work against a resisting opponent you never develop much of anything. Lets face it one step sparring is kind of a joke.

PentjackSilat: I don't know what your training consists of. However your statement smacks of someone who has never really worked out with good BJJ people or good wrestlers. The guy who does not know much about the ground is usualy the one who ends up on the bottom getting his back torn up by the gravel.

BJJ is not always the end all be all. Hopefully we all do at least some boxing and clinch work, that’s because those aspects of fighting are as much a reality as the ground.

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soho Novice Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 83 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	"at the inosonto academy, i had heard of Herman Suwanda, tapping bjj blackbelts, using silat." According to Burton Richardson this is simply not true. I attended a Suwanda seminars back in my martial arts infancy…Mande Muda is some funny stuff. The thing about BJJ (like boxing, wrestling, vale tudo) is that when training it you are actually developing skills. As apposed to arts like Silat, which may look cool, however since you never really work against a resisting opponent you never develop much of anything. Lets face it one step sparring is kind of a joke. PentjackSilat: I don't know what your training consists of. However your statement smacks of someone who has never really worked out with good BJJ people or good wrestlers. The guy who does not know much about the ground is usualy the one who ends up on the bottom getting his back torn up by the gravel. BJJ is not always the end all be all. Hopefully we all do at least some boxing and clinch work, that’s because those aspects of fighting are as much a reality as the ground. Last edited by soho; 04-10-2002 at 12:38 AM.