How No-Gi grappling took over the world

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Are there no gi judo competitions?

we should get time travel to Ancient Greek Pankration

Grappling martial arts used to be for self-defense however over the decades as they've turned into sports so the lapel has become less and less practiced for a multitude of reasons…cost/ difficulty fitting/ maintenance and it's less spectacular crowd-pleasing spectacle.

Especially as wrestling became fake the lapel had to go

In context of Silat, SEA do have trade history with the Ryukyu/Okinawan kingdom among other kingdoms, so cultural exchange happens since ancient time. But in more recent history, SEA was Japanese Empire during WW2, many locals recruited for Japanese Army and other government officials. It is likely that the locals learned Jujitsu, Karate and Aikido from the Japanese. We can't say the exchange only happens in linear way, no, its bilateral way, Japanese also learns Silat from the locals. When Japan lost and SEA either got independence or back being under the British Empire, most of the locals who worked for the Japanese hide themselves out of fear and shame. Japanese veterans also bring what they learned in SEA to Japan. So, some of the Japanese MA directly influence or influenced by the already existing MA culture, that's why you can see Jujitsu, Karate and Aikido in Silat, you can also see Silat in those MA. But of course, today people are either shy or too ego to admit, because of identity politics and nationalism, most are just ignorant about history, everyone will claim their MA is the purest and other MA come from theirs's. MMA already existed since the history of MA.

It's popular because of commercial sport "fighting" competition and it latching onto the wider cultural phenomenon of anti-establishment Just Because. In this case, anti-traditional martial arts. It's pure, straight up, ignorance-driven tribalism.

GI is a formal Dress in Japan it's their Culture the GI it's almost Divine for Japanese people in story of Humanity Grappling are always no GI in Ancient Greek they Grapple each other naked.

Is that you Chadi at the beginning of the video??