Gordon Ryan

So it's usually the guy on top is patty cake, patty cake, patty cake, opportunity, passes, scores, backs away, patty cake, patty cake, passes, scores.

So Jiu-Jitsu guys never actually focus on holding anyone down, which is why when they actually go to fight people, they just have zero ability to keep them in bottom position.

And if you look at the finishers...

People are minimalists in jiu-jitsu, whereas the ideal for jiu-jitsu is a maximalist.

They do the minimum amount of work to win, so they patty-cake, patty-cake, side-control three points, and they stall for the rest of the match.

Whereas if you actually go in and you look at guys who actually work towards finality, then you have guys who are actually good finishers.

And so if you just combine all this, like even Adolfo versus that guy Fluffy, is his nickname, like he got to good positions.

Like he mounted him, he took his back multiple times, but he spent his whole career just winning on points.

So when he actually went to finish him, like it's just, you don't have the mechanics to do it.

Yeah.

The rule set did.

The number one thing that no one talks about in my career, which separates me, is the fact that when I put people in bottom position, no one ever stands up.

And if they do stand up, they've used so much energy standing up that it wasn't even worth the stand up in the first place.

Like, everyone that I fight knows my passing is so good.

And they know my pins are so good.

Like, they know if I get chest to chest and half guard and pass them, I'm gonna finish them.

So everyone's like, I'm fucking getting up.

Like, I spent...

Like, I fought Andre, I fought Yuri, I fought all these guys.

Like, no one, everyone knows if I'm in bottom position, I'm going to get my guard passed, and if I get my guard passed, I'm going to get a finish.