File No. 15: Points or Submission Only?

What happens when you don't know the ruleset until you step onto the mat?

In File No. 15, Joey and Eric sit down the night before the Lake Arrowhead Jiu Jitsu Open to talk about the idea behind the tournament—and why every match begins with a coin flip.

Points or submission only. You don't know until the coin lands.

They get into building a ruleset that rewards complete grapplers, the advantages of wrestling, guard pulling, submission attacks, competing against teammates, and why being able to adapt matters more than specializing in one style of competition.

They also talk about what goes into building a Jiu Jitsu tournament in a small mountain community and creating an event that feels different from everything else out there.

Different rules. Different strategies. Same goal: find out who can adapt.