Brazil is a superpower when it comes to modern grappling arts due to the explosion of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu around the world. Yet there is another grappling art that comes from the jungles of Brazil that is a very effective grappling method known as Luta Livre.
Luta Livre is not as well known as BJJ but there still are many famous MMA fighters who practice or came from a Luta Livre background such as Marco Ruas, Jose Aldo, Darren Till, Renato Sobral, Alexandre Franca Noguira, Gesias Calvacante and more.
Luta Livre shares many similar characteristics to BJJ, both come from Brazil, both have submissions and allow all ground positions, both teach the practitioner to fight off the back, both have been used in MMA successfully and many other similarities that both arts share can be seen when comparing BJJ to Luta Livre.
That said, the main question when comparing Luta Livre to BJJ is how does Luta Livre differ from Brazilian Jiu-jitsu as most times, people think Luta Livre simply is No-gi BJJ and although that may look like what it is on the surface, it is definitely not the case.
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0:00 How Does Luta Livre Differ From BJJ
1:27 Luta Livre does NOT use the Gi
1:57 Luta Livre includes Striking
2:20 Submission before Position Based Grappling
3:12 Luta Livre does NOT Emphasize the Guard
3:52 More Emphasis on Scrambling than BJJ
5:02 Submission is the Name of the Game
6:29 Luta Livre is more Vale Tudo/MMA Based
7:03 Luta Livre is Much Smaller than BJJ
7:51 Luta Livre is NOT as developed as BJJ
9:15 In Conclusion
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