OT: Western v. Eastern martial arts

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Originally Posted by Sombre

But that isn't true. Haven't you ever seen the film 'The Crippled Masters'? Have you never heard of Nick the BJJ legend that used to train with Billy Rush? He had no legs and tapped blackbelts all the time.

Here's a random story about him tapping Joe Riggs. 3 times. And Joe Riggs has excellent grappling.

http://www.cagepotato.com/2008/02/27...n-back-injury/

Nick is impressive, no doubt about that, and it was nice to learn about him.

The point of the part you quoted wasn't the existence of legs, though, but to point out there are only so many ways to lock an arm, and most of those appear in many different styles of martial arts.