Several hours ago grappling industries announced it will be making huge changes ahead of the 2017 competitive season.
They’ve decided to legalize reaping, heel hooks, twisters and scissor takedowns at brown and black belt level.
This might be an attempt to get closer to the EBI rules given that they’ve reached an agreement earlier this year – the winner of Grappling Industries tournaments will have an opportunity to win a trip to Cali to compete at an EBi event. To secure this opportunity one must win the entire round-robin at the designated Grappling Industries event.
Eddie Bravo spoke briefly about this collaboration:
“There are quite a few sub-only tournaments converting to EBI rules, adding that he believes unified rules are great for the sub-only movement. Aside from that, though, the instructions are simple: sign up, show up, and win.”
But the changes will go even further – purple belts will now be allowed to do Toe Holds and Kneebars.
Founder of the event David Aguzzi posted:
