Jesse,
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Personally I do not buy into the BJJ pressure to compete in tournaments. Even so, it is tough to reconcile with aikido, when every BJJ class ends with a free-roll session (one-on-one sparring), something which O Sensei flatly rejected.
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Who are you training with? I've never felt pressure to compete in bjj although I have done so. In every school I've trained tournaments were individual decisions, there was never any pressure of any kind to compete.
If sparring = winner and loser, never use the word in your vocabulary again. It's not about who taps and who doesn't. It's all about learning.
Regards,
Paul