Turtle Style!!

**Uncle Skippy** · Posted On: 5/07/2011 1:03am

Here is the info you wanted:

You're welcome.

**100xobm** · Posted On: 5/07/2011 1:24am

Originally Posted by Uncle Skippy

Here is the info you wanted:

You're welcome.

I appreciate what you're doing, but the video is far better:

**W. Rabbit** · Posted On: 5/07/2011 2:10am

Intense stare down up to 1:00, when the actual fight occurs. Explosive.

You may laugh, but yes even turtles fight pretty viciously.

Now to all you morons who claim humans can't learn any insights to fighting by watching animals fight, hmmm...what does it look like these shelled amphibians are doing?

Doesn't that look like...

**Rzero** · Posted On: 5/07/2011 2:17am

They're trying to flip each other on their back. Never knew turtles could grapple.

**kendamu** · Posted On: 5/07/2011 3:33am

**ermghoti** · Posted On: 5/07/2011 11:30am

Originally Posted by W. Rabbit

Doesn't that look like...

Sumo?

**W. Rabbit** · Posted On: 5/07/2011 2:08pm

Originally Posted by ermghoti

Sumo?

Sumo, grappling, wrestling, judo, BJJ....these are all basically just extensions of what already exists in nature, something animals (not just turtles, I've posted videos of apes doing what looks like judo too) do instinctively when fighting.

When turtles fight apparently they clinch and try to gain leverage over each other in order to flip/throw their opponent. Amazing!

So in a way, humans didn't really invent grappling arts at all, right? It's just a part of animal nature, learning to use gravity and strength and balance to establish dominance over another animal.

But like many things humans get involved in, we've been able to advance and refine things a bit. I'd be surprised to see a turtle using a triangle leg choke, but you never know.

Still, watching other animals grapple is something I find fascinating.