Gracie

If you haven't seen Choke clear your schedule and have a seat.  Watch a huge comercial for Rickson, some of the best unintentional comedy put on film, and Yuki Nakai defines balls.

It's funny how important tidbits of pop up in your head. Chris Williams once told us in a CU class about his concept of successful training being in 1/3rds... For every 30 grapples you should have a proper balance of 10 victories, 10 losses, and 10 draws.

A few folks have asked. I was first introduced to the word down at Saulo's place.

Here is what I found on a Sherdog string:

I saw a discussion about this on another site and thought I would get your opinions.  One of the best BJJ matches I have ever seen is 2004 championship between Jacare and Roger Gracie.  should Roger have won because he broke Jacare's arm and without being under the limmitations of round times would have probably finished him?  Did Jacare only win because he could run away and let the time run out as he was up on points?  What say you?

1:30: I love the De La Riva guard , and Kron refuses to be swept. He falls on his butt but hops back up again.

2:40 Anyone have any idea what's going on at 2:40? Some kind of collapsed De La Riva?

3:27 talk about a tenacious and toothy guard, good lord.

3:35 .. and then comes this beautiful beautfil sweep.

5:25 Fear the X-Pass! (That one is for you, Coach Eric! ;)

5:40 But Kron too has a tenacious and toothy guard.

Check out this old Gracie video. The armbar at 3:18 is pretty slick, even if the guy wasn't resisting.

I'm trying to replace the current (lame) main pic on the wikipedia BJJ page...

If you have a sec, take a look at these pictures and let me know which one you think looks better to represent the art.