I don't understand this "knife disarms were covered" stuff. Does that mean that if you got attacked by a street thug wielding a knife that you would be able to get the knife away from him? I can't imagine being confident about facing someone who has a knife, unless I had a gun.
About traditional JJ being better for self defense, that is total BS. Boxing, wrestling, BJJ, are sports but they prepare you for street confrontations better than arts where you don't apply your techniques for real. Even those TKD and karate schools that "spar" aren't really preparation, you aren't ever getting hit hard, or struggling and grappling with someone. I thought that at the JJ school I went to that most of the people with advanced belts were living in a fantasy world, they would easily get their ass kicked by a barroom brawler.
Felix Trinidad (boxer), Renzo Gracie (bjj), and Kevin Jackson (wrestler) have not studied or trained in battlefield or street fighting but they are much better prepared to deal with street confrontations through their respective disciplines than some fool who has a black belt in a traditional art.
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