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Why should someone care if they are masking technical shortcomings? It seems impossible to not use any athletic traits.
It was an inelegant way of giving a perfectly obvious piece of advice. The idea being essentially that if one were to rely on being bigger/faster/stronger than one's opponents in training, then when one runs into opponents who are bigger/faster/stronger one will have no way to defeat them.
This happens pretty frequently with Bigs in basketball who put up numbers in high school or college, only to fail in the NBA, because they are now no longer bigger and stronger than the players they are facing. Hell, you see it at every level, there are kids who were Bigs in middle school but never hit that growth spurt to make the high school team and never developed their ball handling and shooting enough to make it as anything but a center. So if you're a 6'7" center on your college team and you think you're good enough to play in the NBA, you better start working on the skills you would need to make it as a wing or guard, because you aren't going to be a center in the NBA.
At our gym any given class is broken down into partner drills and rolling. Drills are working a single technique from a single position, rolling is free play. I'm still figuring out how to meter strength in both. In Drills, the goal is to offer enough resistance and speed to make the practice valuable, but not so much that your partner can't learn the technique cleanly. Last night, I had my partner tell me during a drill that started with me bear hugging him in close while he had me in side control "Hey, you don't need to go super hard during this, just go 60 or 70%." When I was already going maybe 50%, in my mind. There are people who I could essentially arm-wrestle into a kimura and tap, that would be unhelpful as I wouldn't learn to leverage and hit the move against someone as strong as I am. At the same time, when rolling, I use strength to resist my opponent. I owe that to them, they'd really be getting nothing out of rolling with me if I didn't put up any fight.
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To avoid injuring yourself and your partner when you grapple. Grappling is very risky and there is a reason why they teach you proper technique. You make exponentially more progress and it allows you to do bjj for a lifetime.
Yeah but you risk getting injured even with proper technique and going moderately hard, if you are purely focused on being the technical guy, you will be able to do more of what you like as a recreational hobby. So nerfing your strength makes sense, it lets you enjoy the sport as a leisure activity where you have no ego involved and you dont end up getting a bad injury.
i really recommend everyone try grappling at some point in their life, quite fun at the right gym.
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