Gordon Ryan
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So, like, I need to get up like my life depends on it.
And nobody even gets close.
And so, like, and if they do... It sounds like bragging, but that's 100% true.
Like, when I fought Wagner, like, you were there.
Like, Wagner tried his absolute hardest to stand up when he was fresh.
And just, if you look at, he fought everybody else.
Fought Craig, fought everyone else.
He just kicks away, kicks in the hips.
He fought MMA, kicks in the hips, stands up, and he's back up.
And so it doesn't allow you to keep pressure over time.
I just put him on bottom, and then he just never got away.
And then the one time he did get away, it was so late in the match, he was so exhausted that I just let him up, and then I just put him back in bottom position.
So no one talks about the fact that I can hold people down But the number one issue with classical jiu-jitsu guys is that they never spend any time holding people down So when they first of all, they can't take them down if they do get on top the guy just stands up.
So even if you jump guard, for example, and you're in bottom, because you never spent your time actually working on submission, finishing mechanics, you can't even finish her from bottom position.
They just get mount, get side control.
So if you're on top, which is unlikely because you can't take the guy down, it's unlikely you're going to hold top position.
And even if you are in bottom position, you're not dangerous enough to actually finish the guy.
So it's like classical jiu-jitsu is just getting phased out, and we call it scrimmage wrestling.
What the Dagestani guys are doing is going to be phased in.