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🧵 Let's thank them

Anonymous No. 151488

Without them, we would only watch boxing and kickboxing and think that fighting=striking

Anonymous No. 151489

None of what you said is true

Anonymous No. 151490

Thank you Helio Gracie for inventing leverage and creating the first and best way for the small and weak such as Royce to win fights.

Anonymous No. 151493

>>151490
*and then subsequently losing to a guy he was bigger and younger than in devastating fashion

Anonymous No. 151497

>>151488
>the Gracie’s invented grappling

Anonymous No. 151498

>>151497
They popularized it, just like Funakoshi with karate

Anonymous No. 151500

>>151497
They didn't invent grappling but if they didn't invent vale tudo/mma, I would probably think that judo is an overcomplicated bullshido and wrestling is just a rough and tumble play

Anonymous No. 151501

>>151500
Gene levell choked out Milo savage in 1963 he proved judo’s capability against strikers and competed in a mixed martial arts match before Royce was even born. Quit being retarded.

Anonymous No. 151502

>>151498
Damn near every high school in America already had a wrestling team and judo was already the national sport of Japan. Get Helios cock out of your mouth.

Anonymous No. 151504

I didn't know Gracie was a Greek name

Anonymous No. 151506

>>151502
But they train ground fighting?

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Anonymous No. 151512

>>151506
Yes you retard. It was called hadaka jime before Brazilians had to give a new name to everything and act like they invented it.

Anonymous No. 151513

>>151504
>Gracie
>Scottish surname
>Getting as far away from The Snake Pit in Wigan as they could?

Anonymous No. 151514

>>151513
I was finkin the pink rash nation, but catch suits fine too

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Anonymous No. 151517

>>151500
>invent vale tudo/mma
Style vs style challenge matches has always been a thing people did, here's a news paper clipping from 1922

Anonymous No. 151546

>>151517
Who knew Inoki vs Ali was a blood feud

Anonymous No. 153516

>>151488
what the fuck is wrong with their faces?

Anonymous No. 153519

>>153516
They're Scottish and grew up in Brazil so their skin turned to leather

Anonymous No. 153614

>>151488
>Judo exists for a century
>Wrestling exists for millennia
>Yet we needed BJJ in the late 90s to find grappling viable as a martial art
Weird huh?