Lineage shows weather or not you have the "Potential" to know what you are doing.
If you come from a bad lineage, then you don't have a source for the good stuff.
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It's not limited to TCMA, it's everything.
If you have a BJJ guy who sucks or is mediocre, and he opens a school, he will be founding a substandard lineage. Everyone will know that by his schools competition record. The guys who are looking for a really good BJJ school will know to avoid it based on reputation....which is what lineage is, it's the reputation of the line.
You know that someone from that substandard BJJ lineage would not be good to study under because they don't have the goods. Someone who trained directly under Gracie himself would be better.
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No doubt man. No doubt.One of the many problems of TCMA
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He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
honestly thats pure propaganda. Its something the Gracies try to tell people.. but its simply not true. They wish it were true. I been to a few "gracie" schools. I don't train at a place with a well known lineage. were I put my money shows what I think of the quality. People looking for a name, judge a gym or a teacher by his/her lineage.
With todays technology, and transportation lineage means nothing. This is the information age...
And does a "gracie lineage" guarantee a superiour fighter? or is there some secret uber deadly technique taught only to GJJ people ?
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It's not about the lineage's guarantee, but thier reputation. If lineage "A" has a reputation for putting out top fighters, and Lineage "B" has a reputation for catering to the mainstream soccer Mom's, which lineage would a real fighter look for?
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SR, you're kindof not understanding what TCMA lineage is about. Teachers from a higher generation are respected for their age and experience, they are not deemed to be automatically more badass, and there's nothing wrong with training with a lower generation Sifu (this might be an issue more in Wing Chun circles, but they've got such a mass of political BS going on it's not even funny). The point is that there's a solid and verifiable link to the source. Bad lineage isn't a political or heirarchical thing, it's a QC issue.
The equivalent would be someone who'd wrestled a bit in high school, did 3 months at a Gracie barra school and done a couple of Eddie Bravo seminars setting up a school and proclaiming himself to be a black belt under Carlson Gracie, now that sounds proposterous, but you see this sh*t ALL the time in Kung Fu.
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