Andy Stumpf

Yeah.

Jiu-jitsu is awesome.

It's not complete.

No.

You can have a nice black belt and end up in an ambulance if you can't get through a striking range.

Well, not only that.

There's a lot of guys that were really reliant upon the gi back then, unfortunately.

Because this is all – you've got to realize this is all before Abu Dhabi, right?

So this is before Abu Dhabi Combat Club came out, which was an amazing organization that paid real money to grapplers to compete but –

made them compete without a gi, which was like, for a lot of guys, they didn't know what to do.

They're so used to grabbing sleeves and grabbing collars and grabbing pants.

And the one guy who had figured it out was my eventual instructor, Jean-Jacques Machado, because Jean-Jacques was born with essentially one hand.

His left hand is just a thumb.

He just has a thumb.

He had a birth defect.

And because of that, his game was all overhooks and underhooks and gable grips, which was he wasn't relying on collars and all this other stuff.

So his game was very different.

He just dominated in Abu Dhabi.

And that opened up the door to Eddie Bravo.

So Eddie Bravo, he learned a lot of his techniques from Jean-Jacques as well.