Rickson Gracie in Chicago 1994 Sparring (Part 1)

Hello all. I am the person, along with my brother, who took this video. The brown belt I am getting mauled by is Mark Eccard. This video was taken in at a seminar on Saturday April 9th , 1994 in Oak park, Illinois. It is a suburb of Chicago. The seminar was put on by a Hapkido guy named Kellar. Pretty much everyone there, except for some wrestlers and judo guys knew no grappling or bjj. I think all those guys wearing knee and elbow pads were JKD guys but I may be wrong. these were the days when there were virtually no access to bjj except through seminars and videotapes.

Thats about 10 of his 400+ win record.

Love the silence... No music or any bullshit in the background...just men grappling.... Beautiful

So Ricksons hair is amazing

These guys look and act like beginners in my club, I think this is more rickson educative rolling definitely not sparring

Great Video

Quite simple, Sakuraba called him out and he ducked the challenge, maybe a great grappler but he ducked, he ran from a real challenge.

It's funny seeing these 90's dudes spaz out😂

Imagine rolling with Ricksonin the infant years that Jiujitsu was here in the states... the game has evovled so much

nothing fancy genius in the simplicity

Awsome!

BJJ is still evolving and has evolved a great deal since those days. That is Rickson rolling with dudes who had completely no idea what BJJ was and this was almost 20 years ago. The game is faster now, more technical and the competition is very, very stiff! That is why i just laugh when Gracie lovers suggest that Rickson is the Greatest BJJ player of all time. In my opinion Marcelo Garcia would whoop that ass! That is simply my opinion.

Definitivamente este hombre nació para esto!

So sad that people can't just respect someone's skill without getting into hypothetical garbage about who would beat who etc. Watch and try to learn something or work hard until you are confident enough to put your own videos up for comment.

He's playin' with these dudes!! LOLOL

do you know which school/gym was this at? thanks!

1:37 Rickson farts in dudes face. Dude taps seconds later.

Ryan Lynch "You can learn a lot from watching even though these guys are clearly beginners. Look at how he set up the triangle at 1:30. Really slick." Very true Ryan. i got this VCR tape in '95. No real BBJ school in the USA...maybe in NY or LA.  True they are just beginners but watching Rickson's moves helped me a lot during the early 90's. There wasn't much info about technique about BJJ so you have to pick up what you could. I bought lots of these types of tape. Lol....I remember when Tapout was just some little webpage that covered the MMA back in the 90's. Now it seems like everyone is running around with Tapout shirts.

I know all there is to know about Rickson.He was an idol of mine when i was into BJJ.He never fought the big wrestler/strikers that came into the UFC like Tank and Frye.My opinion stays the same if he had fought Don frye about the time that Frye beat the hell out of Amery Beteti he would have lost probably before it got to the ground.

You can learn a lot from watching even though these guys are clearly beginners. Look at how he set up the triangle at 1:30. Really slick.