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Snake137 Dude, I never once said a bbj fighter couldn't fight. I even said that the Gracies were awesome fighters. So don't be dumb. What I said was "Brazilian" ju jutsu is just ju jutsu, they stole it from japan, made a few basrely noticeable changes, and claimed it as their own. In other words it's not original, it's theft. Ju Jutsu is Ju Jutsu, reguardless if they wann *claim* that it's Brazilian, Nordic, German, Swahili, or wtf, it's JU JUTSU, it's rightfully JAPANESE, NOT BRAZILIAN. Can you understand that?
"BBJ" fighter are just ju jutsu fighters, it's not a Brazilian style. Fake teachers steal martial arts and change one or two small details that you would barely even notice and reclaim it as theirs. It's not theirs, Ju Jutsu is Japanese, not Brazilian. Is this marinating any?
If Brazilians want their own martial art, they probably already have a few that they keep amoung themselves but if not then they should create their own. If somebody wants to train in a foreign style that's fine, but they shouldn't say that their culture owns it. That's an injustice to Japan, and quite frankly, a slap in the face of Japanese culture.
So once again, lemme explain this:
HERE ARE SOME *REAL* EXAMPLES OF NON-ASIAN MARTIAL ARTS:
1. savate
2. kampfringen
3. Capoiera
4. Krav Maga
5. Nubian Wrestling
6. Boxing
7. Dambe Boxing
Do you see a theme? Theyr all home-grown, this means they didn't take an art from Japan or China, twirk it up alittle, and say it was theirs. The one's I named above were owned by the peoples' who created them. Now, look at the following:
1. Brazilian Ju Jutsu
2. Native American Kenpo
3. American Kenpo
You get the idea, right? There are hundreds of them. But they are all hi-jacked and repolished, but theyr still the same martial art that originally belonged to someone else, the Japanese in this case. People are also known to steal forms of kung fu.
Like I said, if they wanna learn karate or ju jutsu and their not japanese, or they wanna learn kung fu and theyr not chinese, this is fine. That is not a problem. It only becomes a problem when all these "Great teachers" steal the martial art by decorating it with thier personal culture and reclaiming it as their own. That's when it becomes a problem.
This is why the Asian cultures didn't initially want their martial arts to spread around the world, for this very reason. This is why Bruce Lee was outcasted by large groups of his people back in China for expanding the martial arts outside of Asia.
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