Is Hélio Gracie’s style of Jiu-Jitsu outdated?
The Jiu-Jitsu of Hélio Gracie is a modern, simple, and effective strategy, that enables a small person to survive an attack by a bigger person. All modifications and developments of his Jiu-Jitsu style have occurred in the sportive realm and rely on physical attributes such as strength, speed, flexibility, and agility. Hélio Gracie’s genius was precisely the development of a defensive system of fighting, which is the best way to neutralize a much stronger opponent. Offensive fighting strategies while being useful against opponents of equal stature have failed to work, time and time again, against substantially stronger adversaries.
