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Originally Posted by jubaji ....................... 
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I guess jubaji like most grapplers would have everyone believe that the only way to beat a grappler is to be a grappler. That's what the BJJ craze promoted for years until Maurice Smith knocked out the top BJJ player at the time in those events with a strike. Once people saw that, they began focusing on their striking skills again and not just 20 minute "guard" bouts. Frank Shamrock went right to Smith and had him train him to strike and he immediately found more success. Then we saw Pete Williams knock out Mark Coleman, another top grappler with a kick to the face about a year later.
SnakePlissken's advice was fine and made more sense, kanik. Grapplers will always advocate other people grappling against them so that the more experienced grapplers can have a better chance of winning against you. Its like challenging Kobe Bryant to a game of basketball, or challenging Floyd Mayweather to a boxing match. You'd lose because that's what
THEY do well. Common sense dictates that you don't attack strength, you attack weakness. That means that you wouldn't grapple a grappler, or strike a striker. FMA would teach you close quarter techniques that involve weapons, which would also help your empty hand techniques become more fluid and accurate. Most FMA systems teach some form of dumog(grappling) and grappling counter measures, so you'd be fine training in that skill set just like SnakePlissken wrote.
Since you asked and seem sincere about improving, I won't just give you empty advice. Below are schools all around Australia that you can visit to see for yourself if what I'm saying is true. Ask the instructors there the EXACT same question you posed on this topic, and see if what they tell you satisfies your dilemma.
Here's a link to a kung fu school located in Australia that addresses the problem that you wrote you had:
http://www.wingtsun.com.au/site/Gall...grappling.html -and- http://www.wingtsun.com.au/site/Contact/contact.html
There seem to be a few of these schools doing well in Australia and they've adopted FMA into their system.
Here's info to FMA(filipino martial arts)in Australia:
IPMAF Chief Instructor Australia: Andy Elliot
Telephone: 03 9882 1316 | International +61 3 9882 1316
Mobile: 0412 450 250 | International: +61 412 450 250
E-mail: ipmaf@mssd.com.au Web: www.mssd.com.au
Now you have the info to get you started, kanik. Good luck and train hard.