Oliver Taza hasn’t been on the bjj scene for long. The interesting Canadian first garnered media attention when he became an ADCC North American Trials finalist. Back then Oliver Taza had been at the center of the controversy between Marcelo Garcia and Renzo Gracie teams –
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But since then he’s built his own audience having competed at ADCC. But unlike most Renzo Gracie star pupils Taza isn’t too shy to compete in the gi – in fact he credits gi training to helping him prepare for the ADCC ruleset as he recently shared with bjjheroes:
“when you compete with the gi you are able to go up against the highest level guys out there, plus it helps you prepare for the ADCC. It is a similar ruleset and people employ the similar strategies.”
In fact Taza believes we’ll be seeing a lot more of nogi competitors transition to the gi:
“Slowly but surely we will see more nogi guys competing in the gi. Some of my teammates have started switching, they do it once or twice and after a while they miss it (..) it’s only a matter of time.”
