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I get what you are saying.
But why lower yourself to such practices?
There is plenty to go around and you can please your own market without having to be little someone else.
That's reasonable enough, but that sentiment should apply to Rickson Gracie too.
You can't go and say Keenan is a jerk for saying all this stuff and turn around and give Rickson a pass for doing pretty much the same thing for a much longer time
Me personally I'm fine with both. That's how critical thinking and discussion happen. I could also see how a person could think it's unbecoming or whatever and that's reasonable too.
Now you can argue that if you magically dropped a young rickson gracie and he got berimboloed, he moght get his back taken...
Most modern bjj is about sweeps more than anything. So yes rickson may get swept by a sweep he never saw in his life. .
Modern BJJ is more than the berimbolo and the lapel. I think that take really sells modern BJJ short. It's the entire DDS leg game too, depending on rule set, and I don't think HH were banned back then.
It's also (relative to Rickson) the entire game of Marcelo. We all take that stuff for granted now but as common techniques the Marcelo game is less than 20 years old, and Rickson prime was 30-40 years ago.
Around the time Marcelo was winning, a BB I know asked Rickson how he passes the x guard. Rickson replied "how you going to get me in the X guard? Try to get me in the X guard".
A Rickson worshipper might think this is some inspired response. To me it's not a real one. Any ADCC or IBJJF champion would give you a real answer today.
I think more likely is that Rickson has his way but didn't want to get caught with a bad answer in case BJJ evolved enough to come up with a better answer. Rickson is not some unstoppable BJJ god born with all knowledge of grappling past, present, and future.