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Rickson Gracie Explains The Difference Between BJJ And Gracie Jiu Jitsu

Kathrine Burne by Kathrine Burne
August 7, 2021
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Rickson Gracie is one of the most famous members of the first family of BJJ still alive today and still maintains the efficacy of their style of Jiu Jitsu above all else. He isn’t alone either, as his brother Relson recently came out to criticize his son Kron’s use of boxing in MMA and claim that he only needed traditional Gracie Jiu Jitsu to succeed in the sport. Rickson recently sat down with Jocko Willink on an episode of the Jocko podcast and while the pair talked at great length about the art, what’s most interesting is his thoughts on the differences between modern BJJ and what his family teach as Gracie Jiu Jitsu:

“We start doing Jiu-Jitsu in the protocol where you have to learn self-defense. You’re not required to use colored belts, no colored belts at that time. So a student can be 10 years a student and still a white belt. And the instructor will be forever a dark blue belt… And then in ’65, my father started to create the federation because the demand is big… so he started to create a rules for a federation for sport Jiu-Jitsu. And that started the difference between the colored belts. Because if you’re 10 years white belt, you’re gonna be better than a six months white belt. And it’s not fair for them to compete. So let’s make a blue belt, purple belt, to create the reference, not only for practice but for competition… That was the process for colored belts. With this, Jiu-Jitsu becomes also sport Jiu-Jitsu.”

“The self-defense aspect leads you to a more open minded situation. If somebody comes in with a knife, if two against one, if the guy coming to punch me, there’s no punches in Jiu-Jitsu, so you start to open your mind to possibilities for unpredictable situations. So you start to become more open minded.”

“Coming to America, especially after Royce kick ass in the UFC… People want to learn jiu-jitsu but they also want to compete in Jiu-Jitsu, and competition becomes bigger than the actual platform for learning Jiu-Jitsu with self-defense… People teach how to pass a guard, people teach how to choke or do a footlock, but they don’t teach gun retention or wrestling control, knife attacks, and fighting without gloves.”

“Because of that lack of information, competition Jiu-Jitsu becomes much bigger than the self-defense Jiu-jitsu. Anyone can do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, can fight, can pass guard, do sweeps, but not anyone knows the total Gracie Jiu-Jitsu which is self defense and more elaborate techniques for self defense… That’s basically, today, is the big difference.”

“When people refer to Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, they go more toward the traditional aspect of the art; and when they talking about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, they really recognized as a competition. But they are the same with lack of information in both sides. Because sometimes now you see self defense academies who have no fighting skills… And other academies they have fighting skills but zero self defense.”

The full episode of the Jocko podcast with Rickson Gracie, including his comments on the difference between BJJ and Gracie Jiu Jitsu, was uploaded to their official YouTube Channel and can be seen below:

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