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Chris Haueter has explained why academies once barred students from no-gi until purple belt. And, well, he argues that learning to grapple in the gi builds control and pressure that no-gi-only training can lack. Speaking about the old-school approach, he recalled that early years belonged to the gi: In my early days, you didn’t get […]

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