I found a post on Facebook by Black Belt Magazine about a Chinese style of grappling: Shuaijiao (also spelled Shuai-Chiao). The article states 'It is a standup grappling style, meaning that although there are hip throws, leg sweeps, and hand techniques, like many other arts, there is no ground grappling. The goal of Shuaijiao is to end up in a dominant position standing.' I've never heard of it. I was just curious if any of you have trained in this style and if so, your thoughts. https://blackbeltmag.com/[...]-grappling

There's a guy that rents space at our gym who does a shuaijiao class. Looks like a very theoretical, grappling-based martial art. From what I can tell, it's not practiced with a resisting opponent.

Lavall does it and this is him go over some moves from Shuai-Chiao with Vlad Koulikov a master of sport in Sambo and BJJ blackbelt.. He also does Mongolian wrestling.. From what I have seen it is a VERY fast throwing style https://youtu.be/ZM_mg9nvcdY

Good vid to watch. Interesting stuff. I love this stuff

There's a guy that rents space at our gym who does a shuaijiao class. Looks like a very theoretical, grappling-based martial art. From what I can tell, it's not practiced with a resisting opponent.

That is surprising. From what I've seen, Shuai Jiao typically involves as much resistance and sparring as judo. It might be more a reflection of his individual teaching style rather than the art as a whole.

Same. I'm not looking to become a practitioner, but I've enjoyed what I've seen so far.

That is surprising. From what I've seen, Shuai Jiao typically involves as much resistance and sparring as judo. It might be more a reflection of his individual teaching style rather than the art as a whole.

Practiced resistance or not, some of the throws that I've seen have been pretty brutal.

I will be looking at more vids on this. I love this stuff and also love learning about other grappling or fighting styles. It is never boring

You can make tons of stuff look really bad-ass when nobody's actively resisting you.

For anyone who uses Instagram, it's worth following Lavell Marshall (http://www.instagram.com/[...]indshaolin). He's a Shuai Jiao guy who's been living in Inner Mongolia for the past two years, training and competing with the locals. Most of his videos focus on Bökh, but he often posts footage of Bökh practitioners laying down the law in Shuai Jiao tournaments as well. Shameless self-promotion - I interviewed him recently here: https://thousandholds.net[...]an-steppe/

Look up the competitions VERY practical for throws.. Judo and sambo have a lot of grip fighting this is more touch and go

You can make tons of stuff look really bad-ass when nobody's actively resisting you.

For anyone who uses Instagram, it's worth following Lavell Marshall (http://www.instagram.com/[...]indshaolin). He's a Shuai Jiao guy who's been living in Inner Mongolia for the past two years, training and competing with the locals. Most of his videos focus on Bökh, but he often posts footage of Bökh practitioners laying down the law in Shuai Jiao tournaments as well. Shameless self-promotion - I interviewed him recently here: https://thousandholds.net[...]an-steppe/

I found a post on Facebook by Black Belt Magazine about a Chinese style of grappling: Shuaijiao (also spelled Shuai-Chiao). The article states 'It is a standup grappling style, meaning that although there are hip throws, leg sweeps, and hand techniques, like many other arts, there is no ground grappling. The goal of Shuaijiao is to end up in a dominant position standing.' I've never heard of it. I was just curious if any of you have trained in this style and if so, your thoughts. https://blackbeltmag.com/[...]-grappling

Just finished listening to the podcast interview. Very interesting and he sounds very passionate about what he does. Impressed even more that he has no interest in the money aspect of the arts. Very refreshing.

Just finished listening to the podcast interview. Very interesting and he sounds very passionate about what he does. Impressed even more that he has no interest in the money aspect of the arts. Very refreshing.

One is more than I can handle

It also appears that he has two live-in girlfriends, so I guess I’ll be training Shuai Jiao now.