Matt Damon
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Jiu-jitsu is all about staying one step ahead of you until you become exhausted, and then they eventually finish you.
But there's this balance of making it interesting for people to watch.
I've been a proponent of no stand-ups.
Don't ever stand anybody up.
When a guy takes you down, you get an advantage at the beginning of the round anyway because a striker gets to be standing up when you didn't earn it.
So you should never get stood up in a fight.
I don't care if the guy's doing nothing.
If he's holding you down and you can't get up, that's how it should be.
So it's more realistic.
But it's the balance of it being a sport.
People want to watch.
Yeah, because when people grab someone and take them to the ground and nothing happens, people go boo.
You hear it in the audience.
And then the referee gets a little motivated and he stands people up.
And I'm always like, ah, don't stand them up.
You're in a position you didn't earn.
You never got back up.