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• Archive: https://archive.is/wip/THp4I "Vale Tudo" means "anything goes." Here's why this Vale Tudo knowledge is so important for anyone who practices Jiu-Jitsu for MMA and self-defense:These days, Jiu-Jitsu isn’t often trained with strikes.
• Typically people are taught in a fractured way.
• Jiu-Jitsu for submissions, wrestling for control, and some form of boxing, kickboxing or Muay Thai to handle the stand-up game and deal with strikes.
• Well, it wasn’t always that way.
• When I learned Gracie Jiu-Jitsu from Rickson, we trained with strikes often enough to build real skill, not only in defending strikes, but how to use strikes to open up opportunities for submissions that wouldn’t be there otherwise.