“You have to grow slowly. Before you go to University you have to go to kindergarten, then to high school. Right now in England they are about 10 years old [in ground skills]. I’ve been teaching in America 25 years, my brother was here 15 years before that so we have been here teaching all that time. They are babies in England right now, 10 years old…It takes time.”
“This is a strategy game. It’s as simple as that. You can’t think ‘I’m going in there, I’m going to hit him a few times, go for the takedown, hit him with a few elbows, take his back, and submit him…’ Is that a strategy ? No. It’s a wish. Strategy is when you figure out what your opponent is going to do, then you set up your game plan, either defensive, or offensive, or both…”
“You have to figure out your opponent’s game, so you can take him out of his game. Most likely, the strategy is constructed before, but can also be when you are in there. There’s plan A, plan B and sometimes you have to pull out plan C during the fight.”
In an interview with the UK Telegraph, MMA godfather, Royce Gracie gives his opinion on the grappling of fighter’s based in the United Kingdom.
It is true that probably nine out of ten British fighters can be taken out with an American wrestling and Jiu-Jitsu clinic in the cage and Royce pulls no punches when telling the UK based media outlet that their countrymen are infants in the sport.
- By Pedro Carrasco of BJPENN.CO