We at OMMA Insider had a moment to talk to with Chris Miller and Marcelo Gracie, the founders of GJJA and Black House once back when. However this is not about Black House or GJJA, this about something bigger, so I pass this off to Chris Miller.

Chris Miller: We at GJJA have noticed that stand-up has its own cards for it and whatnot so why not the Ground Game as well? Marcelo and I came up with some rules and whatnot to have an a good ground based fight, and because of this, GJJA would like to hold the first open tournament for the ground.

Marcelo Gracie (Translated From Brazilian) The rules that we came up with, are taken from Submission team fights, which is fairly new to the MMA world. How it works is like this; 1. No Punching Or Kicking Above the Torso when standing or in clinch. 2. Matches can only be finished on the ground by either Submission, or (T)KO from Mount, Crossbody, Back Mount, or Half Guard. 3. No striking of the Head from Stacked Guard.

Chris Miller: We should have sign ups soon for this, and we are not sure what we are going to offer the winners. We will do the tournament in every weight class, unless not enough people sign up.

More to come soon.

sounds good. no parry takedown either.

im down for it

I actually did a fight card like this before where it was only gorund fighting. I really liked it. One of my matches lasted for 19 minutes before a ko happened.