Taps need to be defined by successive multiples.

Remember Stonewall. Remember Marsha.

IDF soldiers routinely post videos of them burning down houses in Gaza with the song “May Your Village Burn” set as soundtrack music. So please spare your crocodile tears over Glastonbury today.

On today’s episode of Hey Not The Face! Stephie Haynes and I go over the news that 97% of fighters in Le v Zuffa filed their claim on time, what that tells us about who is and isn’t going to collect, we discuss the star power of Ilia Topuria and more.

I have an article up at ⁦Uncrowned⁩ looking at data provided to me by Tapology that shows a steady decrease over time in the number of pro mma bouts and asks “why is this happening?” sports.yahoo.com/mma/article/uf…

'Grappling' as a generic umbrella for the submission arts, may have its English language etymology with the industrial revolution era dock workers, Stevedores, fisherman and whalers, who would have to move and secure heavy freight with hooks and mechanical leverage.

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In a world of Helios, be a Karl.

Luiz França and Oswaldo Fadda literally exist and it's a shame BJJ got known by the Gracies rather than by them.

They were also willing to teach poorer students - and because their students used leg locks to win matches against Gracie students, leg locks became stigmatised for decades after Helio deemed them a 'low class' technique. Leg locks became banned not out of danger, but classism.

"Catch Wrestling" by Mark S. Hewitt looks at the American side and is a good starting point. Unfortunately it's out of print and is going for a lot in the rare books market (over £100 / $100). I'm sure there's an unofficial ebook it somewhere...

Mentioned the Kingpin Leg Nelson yesterday. It's been around for a while. First photo is Ad Santel, I believe 1913. Second photo is Roy Heffernan & Al Costello from an Australian magazine pullout in 1963.

Out of your list it's hard to say because they all differ in their importance. Out of who was the most dangerous, John Pesek. Who had the best wrestling base, arguably Ben Sherman. In influencing the modern style, Frank Wolfe rounded out Karl Gotch's training after Riley's Gym.

It's always amusing when modern BJJ rediscovers old school Judo (or Wrestling).

lol SLOWLY?!?

I wrote this 4 years ago after gif'ing a catch video from over 20 years ago. Yesterday on bjjfanatics...