I consider myself a grappling coach, I primarily compete in BJJ however I teach wrestling and Sambo in addition to the amazing BJJ I learn from GFTeam. Wrestling in a lot of ways is more about control than BJJ. What a BJJ player sees as a half guard a wrestler may see a Turk (pinning position). To say wrestling is influencing BJJ is also a bit historically short-minded in my opinion.
This created a vacuum in the grappling arts where you could get away with not having good takedowns and fighting from a bottom position became easier. Russian Sambo was geographically so far isolated from everyone else. Catch wrestling was consumed by entertainment pro-wrestling. Judo almost completely focused on takedowns. It’s pretty insignificant.Ī bottom-position focused game has flourished in this part of the world in that short time because of a combination of reasons. The historically recent surge of Jiu Jitsu’s bottom based game compared to the greater history of the grappling arts, in general, is like the comparison of how old the earth is compared to how long we as humans have been on it. Let me know what you think! Roli Delgado: Wrestling Vs Jiu Jitsu Jiu Jitsu was incredibly interesting, so I wanted to share it with everyone. What I’m trying to say is that he’s plugged into the fighting community and his tactical mind notices the trends before most other people do. He’s a leglock specialist that has had one of the best straight anklelock games in the world since before people were going crazy for leglocks. Roli is a veteran UFC and Bellator fighter, and medalist at BJJ Pans and Worlds Masters divisions, and active coach at Westside MMA in Little Rock, Arkansas.
With wrestling obviously influencing high-level MMA, I was curious what influences wrestling was having at high-level grappling competitions, so I reached out my old coach, Roli Delgado to get his thoughts. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu used to rule the ground at most of the major MMA events, but I’ve noticed in recent years that wrestlers with very little BJJ experience are dominating fights, even against savvy BJJ competitors. If you can’t defend basic takedowns and submission attempts, you will not consistently win at the elite level. To be a high-level MMA competitor, you have to have some grappling skills.
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