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IMO gi training is ONLY good for fitness and law enforcement...never get involved in the "sport" aspect
it teaches TERRIBLE habits like pulling guard.
Considering real world scenarios your are ALWAYS better off on your feet or at least in a dominant grappling position (naturally)
Competition based gi training is absolutely worse than WORTHLESS for MMA it's actually dangerous
I would rather have a football player than a competitive judoka or BJJ guy to train for real world or MMA...however if they avoid the SPORT aspect then BJJ and Judo (same thing) are awesome
It's the rules of sport grappling thats the devil
Sure but giving up your back is also terrible for fighting, so is turtleing. Boxing head movement (ducking low) is also pretty stupid/dangerous in a fight. Lots of focused combat sports/martial arts have aspects that are not good the teh streets. So pulling guard is bad in a fight, so guess what, don't pull guard in a fight. But knowing how to fight from guard is very useful in the streets and while you may not need all the guard variations, they wont hurt. Learning to fight in the guard and how to fight out of the guard in GI is 1000% important.
Also not everything has to 100% applicable to the streets, its BJJ not the Kumate. Also plenty of people do well via take downs and guard passing in sport bjj, do that, and its all good.