If you trained jiu-jitsu his whole life, why would you trade punches on fight night against a striker?
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of using one's strengths in situations instead of engaging in risky behavior that goes against one's training.
Royce Gracie's quote suggests that if someone has dedicated their life to mastering jiu-jitsu, they should leverage that skill on fight night rather than choose to engage in a risky stand-up fight with a striker. It highlights the importance of utilizing one's strengths in competition and not compromising one's training for the sake of conforming to conventional expectations.
In practice
During a martial arts seminar, to encourage practitioners to focus on their unique skills.
I like guys who know how to implement a strategy. The ones who make a fight look easy. But there's no easy fight, even if you win in 30 seconds, that only means you were able to execute your strategy correctly and induced your opponent to make a mistake. Those are the champions. That's why they are the champions.
Martial arts in general were not made for a tournament, for points system. Martial arts were made to defend yourself in the street fight situation, not to score points.
The greatest tribute you can to pay to my father is to continue to train and share Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, remembering to never lose sight of the fact that what you do off the matt counts more than what you do on the matt.
I believe in pure jiu-jitsu. That's what I've done in the past.
A black belt only covers two inches of your ass. You have to cover the rest.
When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.
We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.
Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.
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