Be Courteous

​For the most part we are pretty mean to each other. It is a combat sport after all, but it is not life and death. In the room try not to do things that are high risk and low reward. These things include jumping on people, taking less than four fingers and peeling them backward, slamming, and striking. Everyone has a day job, and most tournaments don’t allow those things anyway. Use common sense, would you want someone to do what you were doing to them if the roles were reversed? If the answer is no, then don’t do it. As cool as it is, you are probably not a professional grappler and neither are your training partners, so flying scissor heel hooks and Marcelo Garcia backpacks don’t need to be in your repertoire. It’s a lot more fun to have training partners than to blow out people’s knees being flashy.