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Originally Posted by Red Rum
Do you truly think a BJJ black belt will not be able to break a guys arm? Kevin Chan has done techniques with me where I could not escape in any way due to his positioning and then followed through with an arm bar (with his knee on my chest) and almost took my arm out completely and he was going light.
Michael Wright - Without doubt arm breaks work. I understand what you are saying about movie techniques and there are certainly a lot of styles that employ 'fantasy' moves (ie one punch knockouts etc)
Yet if you honestly think that arm breaks do not happen, you should perhaps do some more research. I know of numerous people who have incurred broken limbs....
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I didn't say arm breaks don't happen, the point I made is that they are exceptionally hard to achieve in a violent encounter, and I don't buy the casual notion where people say "he'd just snap his arm". In my experience, it is an exceptional technique performed under exceptional circumstances. That was my point.
And Red Rum, you just have a default response to anyone who challenges your assumptions which is "I know people who have used it in a fight, I've used it in a fight, I've seen it in a fight". That line starts to wear a bit thin after a while.