Eddie Bravo on Ari Bolden

[BSFT]

Originally Posted by xMikeyX

What does Eddie have to say about the videos of Ari showing bad Judo Techniques?

why would it matter what Eddie would/wouldn't say? he's not a Judo guy, he's a 10thPlanet guy, i must have missed the part of the post about having to be flawless in Judo to get a 10P affiliation?

[NinjaKilla187]

Originally Posted by esila

When Avi came in as a purple, there was no promotion festival for him, he just remained a purple in the 10thp system, again with no background check.

Remember, I was starting a jiu jitsu empire all by myself, I barley could keep up with everything and had no time to check everyone's lineage, I just had faith in them.

He told me that his JJJ was more ground based than the other JJJ styles and he also said that he had been fusing the 10thpjj system into his system for a while. Again, no background checks of lineage, I just trusted him.

He said he was committed to mastering the 10th planet style and wanted to become an affiliate so I booked him for a seminar a few months later.

Since I was only honoring bjj belts at face value and not JJJ belts, he wasn't gonna enter the 10thp system as a brown like Vinny and George.

This is fucking worse that mcdojo. this is a systems with zero credibility. Any jagoff can claim a background in drunken monkeyshit quan fu do and get ranking in 10thp without any verification?

Its totally obvios Eddie will give rank to anyone he thinks can make him money. Mc-motha-fuggin-dojo. End of story.

[xMikeyX]

Originally Posted by BSFT

why would it matter what Eddie would/wouldn't say? he's not a Judo guy, he's a 10thPlanet guy, i must have missed the part of the post about having to be flawless in Judo to get a 10P affiliation?

Eddie claims Ari is such a great teacher of 10th planet stuff and that makes him purple belt quality- but what about his terrible teachings of other arts?

Your sarcasm is cute here but I'm confused- are you an Ari Bolden supporter or a 10th planet supporter, or both or neither (neither=troll). Have you not seen him teach poor techniques and are you not worried that Ari is more about "creating" and selling techniques to make money than teaching an art?

[Joey Burke]

Eddie is a cool guy, but (why do so many posts about him start this way, haha) he should have had time to verify people's lineage if he had time to verify their affiliate fees cleared the bank..

edit:
I once got contacted by someone who lives near me who wanted to do a joint venture and claimed he had distribution and funding ability that would enable him to put a product of mine on shelves. I was working 18+ hours a day trying to get things done and it sounded like an ideal partnership. Before I even considered his offer, I did some basic Google searches on his e-mail address and found that he was into weird porno, terrible music, scams, and bullshitting people on the internet about his capabilities. You have to watch your ass.

[Jagcorps_esq]

It's an explanation at least and helps in some way understand his theory of ranking.

[StoicDude]

Eddie wants to make money and has taken some shortcuts, which bit him in the ass.

[hayliks]

Ari still doesn't know how to shrimp without looking like a white belt in any JJ system

[wellwell]

Originally Posted by esila

We had 2 black belts back in the day that fit this description. They were brazilian jiu jitsu yodas who had a real talent for conveying jiu jitsu theories and strategies but it was not uncommon for them to get tapped by purples.

This could make for some fun Sherdog speculation!

[Tony Manifold]

Originally Posted by ShanghaiBJJ

Also Ari cannot even provide lineage for his JJJ blackbelts, one of which is from an association that he founded and is the president of.

I have answered the question of what his JJJ is but no one seems to care. They would just rather bash and argue.

[Afrofeet]

I lost my respect for Eddie Bravo now.