Is that really true when muscle and strength greatly outweigh? I’m sure what you said is true for a blue vs me at similar weight and muscle mass, and not so much at a big advantage let’s say 50 lbs. At some point isn’t technique going to matter a lot less? Fuck I can tire out some of these blue belts just deadening my weight when they try to bust moves, they’re trying to flip me over and gassing out after a while. And I’m not even stalling. It’s not their skill level failing them, it’s their endurance.
I know these people have put a lot of time and effort in to get those colors. But at the same time the belts don’t tell the whole story. Such as, which blue belts do 100 pushups a day, and which black belts don’t do shit but go to a lot of classes, go home and suck down some bourbon.
For numbers, I bench 300 and squat almost 400. I’m no gym novice. And a lot (not all) of the people I see in BJJ don’t seem to do any cross training. The ones that do are a totally different experience during open mat. Like an actual challenge. The rest are all flexible and fast and stuff but just doesnt feel the same.