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Eddie Bravo: "The game has changed"

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#1 ·
Good interview with Eddie Bravo.

On his music, Jiu Jitsu and the rubber guard...

"I really enjoy teaching. I love it. But what I really want to do is the same thing I did for the Jiu Jitsu world and martial arts, I want to do in music. When I talk about Jiu Jitsu, people listen. I have the power to put whatever I want in my DVDs and in my seminars. I have total control and I like that. People let me do whatever I want to do because they know that they're going to get a good product. They just know that they trust me. The goal is to get to that point in the music business. I know the bigger that my Jiu Jitsu gets...and it’s really just the beginning. Once everyone is using rubber guard in the UFC, it’s going to be a lot different. Right now, it’s just one here, one popping up there, but within a year or two, when everyone sees that it is the most effective way to play guard in MMA, then everyone is going to switch. It’s not just that these guys popping up are freaks doing it. It’s just that’s the guys who are putting the time in it and have faith. It’s huge in Japan. Imanari is now a rubber guard master. Tokoro is another one. He’s not that good at it, but he’s using it. It’s just one by one, people are going to realize that it is the best way to fight in MMA. I play it every night I roll, every night I train and for me, I just know it’s the best. You gotta know open guard, butterfly guard and half guard and all of that good stuff. Rubber guard won’t work all of the time, but it works at a higher rate than what everyone else is doing, that’s for sure. That percent is low. If rubber guard only worked 30% of the time and 70% of the time guys got out of it, that’s still a good percentage. It’s like throwing combinations. You’re not going to knock a guy out every time you throw combinations. You’re going to miss and miss, but if you keep hitting it, then bam, you’re going to catch them. That’s really what it’s all about, just raising the percentage, and once people really start understanding the effectiveness of it, then that will catapult my Jiu Jitsu to a whole new level and then my music will just piggy back on that. That’s really the goal. I’m really just hoping my Jiu Jitsu will garner the biggest following that I can get and then boom, I will turn them on to my music. That’s the goal; music is the goal."

"Yeah, Jiu Jitsu has always been a hobby. I started Jiu Jitsu when I was 24. I’ve produced music my whole life. I really use the Jiu Jitsu though. I think it’s a cool little gift. Once I convince people that I actually can put together great music and they believe that, then I got 'em. It’s hard though. It’s hard for someone who is known for sports to break into music. That’s very hard to do because I have the same audience, but now, I have to convince them that they can trust my music. That’s why I stuffed it in my DVDs. I sprinkle my music all over so that you can’t escape it and what that does is it gives me the chance to kind of grow on you. If you hear it 4 or 5 times, it’s going to grow on you and then it’s going to hit you that I am a legitimate music producer. Once I get that kind of response, then I’ll start dropping more singles. I got a reality show...we’re in the process right now. It will be about my Jiu Jitsu and music and stuff like that. It’s the producer from I Love New York, Flavor of Love, My Fair Brady, The Osborne’s and all of that shit. It’s one of those producers so we’ll see if it happens."

On current fighters that impress him...

"Dustin Hazelett, Tamden McCrory and Matt Horwich. All of the guys that have an open enough mind to add to their game, those are the ones to watch out for. All of the fighters that are seeking new techniques to add weapons instead of being a 2 or 3 trick pony. You could have 15-20 different strong attacks; most people don’t even have one. Alistair Overeem has one. He’s got a ******* guillotine and how many people have a guillotine like him? How many fighters are known for a submission that they just nail? Not too many. Most fighters don’t even have one good attack. In the Jiu Jitsu world, there are guys that have 3 or 4 good techniques. You could have 15-20, you just have to practice them and be open to adding more weapons to your game. Matt Horwich, that guy...once people see him in the UFC with the pre-fight interviews and see what he’s about, there is no other fighter like that. He is a hippie, punker-type of guy with that whole lover of the universe attitude; they're going to love that guy. Matt Horwich is unlike any other fighter I’ve ever met."

On some of the problems that older fightes are having...

"Jiu Jitsu is the only part of MMA training where you get exposed. You could work on your striking all day; there is no real competition. You’re hitting the mitts and hitting the bags, doing some light sparring; no one is knocking anybody out. No one wins and no one loses. You could literally work on your striking every day and never really have your ego be a factor. The same thing goes for your wrestling. You get taken down and it’s like, “Oh, he took me down; whatever.” It’s like playing basketball. It’s like, "yeah, he made a 3-pointer, but can he kick my ass?" You could work on your wrestling and never really have your ego checked that way, but then when you work on your Jiu Jitsu and you get tapped out...ohhh, every day you could get tapped out. Now you’re a famous fighter and everyone wants to tap out the famous fighter and now, once you become famous, you don’t want to roll as much. You’re picking who you roll with and your Jiu Jitsu doesn’t evolve. That happens to so many people. So many UFC fighters and famous fighters from Japan...well not really Japan because they're ballsy; they don’t give a shit. I have a lot of Japanese fighters that come in and they're the ones that want to roll. Foreign fighters come in and want to get in there and roll, but American fighters, once they're famous man, it’s hard for them to really get down and roll. It’s not too many that will and it stifles the game. You gotta evolve. It’s like everyone’s grappling stops evolving once they become famous."

"Matt Hughes just started getting really good in Jiu Jitsu. He just realized, “Oh, it is better to pass the guard and get the mount.” He’s just getting it. After all of those years of not really learning Jiu Jitsu, now he’s starting to play the game. His striking never evolved. He should have been a tremendous striker by now. He’s been fighting so long you would think he was a tremendous striker by now. I mean, look at guys like Urijah Faber and Tyson Griffin who haven’t been in the game that long. They wrestled their whole lives and bam, they really focused on the striking and those guys can really strike. If Matt Hughes really worked on his striking and maybe even had went to Thailand and do what the youngsters do, like, “**** it, I’m going to move to Thailand,” you know, or just get really serious about his striking and get really serious about his Jiu Jitsu and fall in love with Jiu Jitsu and start watching Marcelo Garcia tapes and analyze his game more, he could be the world champion again for sure."
A lot more from Eddie Bravo as he talks about Matt Hughes, GSP and a bunch of other stuff in the full interview. Pretty good read:

http://www.fighthype.com/pages/content3557.html
 
#8 ·
Lol, I know the feeling. I am very nearsighted...:)
I didnt read the first paragraphs but Im pretty sure GSP wasnt in it... MAybe you missed the other thread with him joining the CAS or whatever it is called?



Anyway, good points from Eddie Bravo. Not that I think Hughes is gonna follow these suggestions due to his conservativeness and pride.

Chuck Liddell is also one of those fighters that needs an improved game. He is actually less versatile than back in the day.
 
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matt hughes in his all access said he might get tapped once a month....to me, that is just pathetic....the only way to get smarter is to play a smarter opponent (courtesy of Revolver (a movie i liked actually, despite bad reviews))...and to say you get tapped once a month speaks to how shitty your training partners are. in stark contrast to say ATT, w/ like like 30 bjj black belts...your someone's gonna be showing you new shit every day

thiago alves had a TERRIBLE ground game before he moved to ATT...now he's a blackbelt and is very calm when on the ground now...probably b/c all those top level bjj guys there having been tapping his ass left and right
 
#6 ·
Good interview, but did I miss something. It ends abruptly, is there a page 2??

Regardless of whether he fights or not, he's right. GSP/Silva are the prime examples. If you aren't doing what those 2 are doing, you aren't going to get anywhere. It's MIXED MARTIAL ARTS. You'd be stupid not to train everything, all the time, and never settle for dominance in one particular area.
 
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i just clicked on 3 different songs by eddie bravo and and 2 had the exact same chord progression and the third had the same one but left out the last chord. all eddie bravo was strum in the background and look cool but really he jsut looked like a joke to anyone who knows anything about music, he is never gonna make it in music.
this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IziMFmOZrhE sounds exactly like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6McJh7bOpIc&feature=related, and is almost the same as this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-7OKM7HyHI&feature=related. Seriously, if you don't know how to paly the guitar, Don't play it on all the songs and try and act all cool (especially if you only know 4 chords) because anyone who plays guitar sees how pathetic you are.
 
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