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guardman · 12-21-2000, 11:38 PM

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Originally posted by Maxximus
I think pure Bjj is a great sport type of martial arts and it definitely develops very high levels of ground sensitivity and is great for learning submission and ground defense. It trains an extremely important aspect of fighting, but by itself it is too limited in its scope to be considered a very practical approach to streetfighting. Although it is a great workout and fun thing to do in competition, who the hell is really going to spend all day laying in the guard and looking for submission in a real fight? When you are actual fighting someone on the ground, they will be punching and thrashing at you and trying to poke your eyes out for all they're worth. They won't simply be trying to out do your submission game or calmly look to reverse position. It's easy to fool yourself into believing that a good Bjj rules ground game means you'll handle any dumb street thug just by putting him on the ground. But in reality, you really have to make adjustments to your grappling training in order to be able to deal with an opponent who is actually trying to hurt you. All the Gracie fighters grew up fighting NHB with all sorts of opponents, which is why they know how to apply their Bjj to a totally resistant opponent. However, most Bjj guys nowadays are only used to playing the submission game under Bjj rules, on soft mats, with only one opponent to worry about, etc. I know we're all tired of hearing a number of know nothing traditionalists who can't fight their way out of a paper bag talking about how pure Bjj is not practical against multiple opponents, armed attackers, etc. But it's the truth.

For practical purposes in streetfighting, I think the usefulness of Bjj comes in the form of good ground defense and the possiblity of having to restrain someone whom you do not want to seriously injure. But by itself it is not a well rounded enough strategy for practical self defense. If you can't strike or don't know how to deal with strikes, you really can't fight, IMO. The best thing for streetfighting would be a scientific, direct and well rounded approach such as JKD.

what do you think jkd is. nothing but a conglomerate of styles.you can effectively defend yourself in the guard in a street situation. any person striking will give up some postion which gives you the oppurtunity to attck bjj style.