Bear grappling!

**ignignokt** · Posted On: 11/01/2007 2:56am

And I mean, literal bear grappling. Done by actual animals. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmLrhvOXylU

A bear throws another bear! And then that bear pulls guard. Then, they kind of gas out.

Also, one takes a dump in the middle of the match, true to the spirit of no-rules vale tudo.

**Munacra** · Posted On: 11/01/2007 3:33am

Oh wow.

First, Bear 1 throws some kind of bear tai-otoshi. Modified for MMA no doubt!

Bear 2 pulls an open guard and starts to shrimp out. he loses it for a bit, but regains it almost immediately! This bear has done his guard recovery drills. Bear 1 takes the opportunity to take a nice poop. To distract his enemy I presume for the...

Yup, he lands a nice guard pass. A bit acrobatic too. He trains with the Machado brothers from the looks of it. But Bear 2 recovers and takes it to standup again!

Then they get kinda tired, look at the clock, and wait for the decision.

**Virus** · Posted On: 11/01/2007 5:03am

They need to work on their conditioning.

**Mawashigeri** · Posted On: 11/01/2007 5:11am

Gday Virus, Where in oz do you train bjj?, my daughter trains at xtreme Melbourne just wondering if Ive seen ya?

**Question!** · Posted On: 11/01/2007 7:26am

He **** himself grappling!

**Shard** · Posted On: 11/01/2007 9:21am

Nah, he was scared shitless cause the other bear knew how to pull guard and he couldn't get out of it initially.

**Kung-Fu Joe** · Posted On: 11/01/2007 9:38am

Originally Posted by Munacra

Oh wow.

First, Bear 1 throws some kind of bear tai-otoshi. Modified for MMA no doubt!

Bear 2 pulls an open guard and starts to shrimp out. he loses it for a bit, but regains it almost immediately! This bear has done his guard recovery drills. Bear 1 takes the opportunity to take a nice poop. To distract his enemy I presume for the...

Yup, he lands a nice guard pass. A bit acrobatic too. He trains with the Machado brothers from the looks of it. But Bear 2 recovers and takes it to standup again!

Then they get kinda tired, look at the clock, and wait for the decision.

Seriously. It's pretty crazy how similar that looks to human grappling. Fishing for the over- and underhooks from standing while retaining head control, the guarding and re-guarding, the shrimping and limb control. That's pretty freakin' cool stuff.

--Joe