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Many people are skeptical, and have tons of questions regarding Eddie Bravo, and his branch of Jiu Jitsu, and I'm willing to try to answer them as unbiased, and as ego free as possible.

Because when most people fall in love with a "Style" or form, they close themselves off to everything else, and seemingly attack those who don't understand what their art is about. I'm not here to do that, I'm here to try to answer any questions about the art as ego free as possible. I'm a lover of all ground arts, I wrestled in middle school, and high school, and am going to try out for college wrestling, and I also take Judo, Gracie Jiu JItsu, and 10th Planet JJ. (Yes I do striking arts as well so don't get me wrong.)

Yes, though many of times the person performing the armbar with the gi, would tend to pull on your sleeve to keep you in control, while no gi, you hook the arm with yours keeping it tight, and I'm not saying that Eddie Bravo disses the gi, he welcomes anyone to train however they want, though its just his personal opinion that working no gi, helps develop grip, and clinch strength. But he wouldn't ram it down your throats, however you want to train is your way, I practice gi, and no gi myself. I'm a huge Jiu Jitsu Fanatic, but I do train in striking styles, and I make sure my stand up, is just as good as my ground game. But I hear your an instructor?...So I'd love to train with you one day, to try out your style.

I always find it odd when people don't train both. I mean no dis respect to Mr. Bravo but 10th Planet Jui Jitsu is nothing knew and people have been training No gi for a while.

I could see what you are saying about being relant on the gi thing But in my experience thats not the case. Look at Ronda Rousey.
Most of our judo guys from my dojo have no problem subbing anyone in No gi BJJ tournaments *granted we are talking about world level judo guys in bush league BJJ competitions. *

I am not voting in the poll because I don't agree with either option. I find the Gi as a useful training tool and Advocate its use not because of tradition but because I feel it does help develop technique.

I see, though I will say 10th planet is new, it has some innovative techniques in my opinion, and I understand, I train both gi, and no gi all the time, I guess you could say my game is different though, since I've train in wrestling, judo, BJJ, and 10thPJJ. Because I believe that harmonizing instead of differentiating is a true goal of Mixed Martial Arts. Granted I've subbed a lot of Judo guys, but then again I have also subed BJJ'ers, wrestlers, and some of our own guys alike, only because I haven't absentmindedly closed myself off to one of the arts, so training in most actually opens you to knowing how to defend against each. I also mean no disrespect to either party of any Jiu Jitsu, or grappling background, their ways of practice is theirs, and theirs alone, train no Gi to prepare for MMA, train with gi, to prepare for comps, and tournaments. I'm just a HUGE Jiu Jitsu fanatic, and I want to see how many Rollers are on this sight with this forum I've posted. Don't get me wrong I'm a striker as well, I'm a fan of anderson silva, and am trying to get my stand up the same as his.

Well to each his own I always say, its just that there's nothing in half guard, but lock down, you have the whip up, and electric chair(before you like most people who hate me for taking 10th planet JJ, the silly names are to help you remember techniques), and usually you get guys stuck in the guard, playin double wrist control, and throwing up wild armbars, and triangles with extremely low percentages, but the Rubber guard isn't meant to be a replacement, its only an added addition, its there to increase the percentages of landing those submissions, I'm really flexible, and can pull rubber guard, but I've been a huge fan of Marcelo Garcia so I play a lot from the sitting guard (Or butterfly guard) and the twister side control helps you set up MORE submissions from traditional side control, but I love BJJ so please don't get me wrong, I'm only trying to promote the idea of having an open mind, and trying different styles, some BJJ guys hate wrestlers, some wrestlers hate jiu jitsu, and things like that. But most fail to realize, is that when you put them together, you come out with an amazing experience, and it opens your game up SO much you know?

Okay THAT I agree on, sometimes the names don't match what the technique is, but its basically a sweep from lockdown, and if your opponents legs aren't flexible it can be a submission, I like your idea of making up some names for stuff, not to change it, but because its fun, which is 10th P's concept too, only they don't have it match technique, and they do have some BJJ guys giving BJJ lessons, because you need a base, especially if your going into a tournament, because some tournaments calf crushes are illegal, and so is the twister, so you can use it to take their backs. But Eddie Bravo doesn't consider it, its own style, or complete style, he knows it could use some work, and he's trying to evolve it, because there was a piece of the system he used, but it stopped working(Or didn't work) so he took it out of the system, so it still needs work, I recommend taking 10th Planet, but I wouldn't recommend taking ONLY 10th planet, because its in its infancy you know? I consider it a branch, or variation, just like how Judo, took the practicals from Jiu Jitsu, then the Gracie's took from Judo, to make BJJ, and 10th planet is basically the same you know? Its just another branch down the line, WHICH, is why I study all of them, because if they're all branches from each other than learning them together may actually be a good thing.

Gi ... no-gi ... I just like training both ... why not ...I look at it as I'm strengthening my overall game ... I don't necessarily look at it as one is better than the other ... it's just jiu-jitsu ...

I train Caique Brazilian Jiujitsu and we traditionally train with a gi, although we always discuss and practice applications without the gi because realistically, on the street, we would most likely not be attacked when we are in a gi.

I read something about people who take a style tend to be closed minded to other styles. I disagree with that statement because I originally started and still do practice Ryu Te Kempo Karate. I'm a black belt in karate and a third stripe white belt in jiujitsu. I've studied karate for five years and jiujitsu for a year and a half. Karate is my core art, but I also train jiujitsu so that if I were ever taken to the ground I can be proficient in defending myself in a street confrontation.