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Originally posted by AKF
I point this out only because in my experiences both in class and on the street, I have WITNESSED 'loud-mouth' BJJ students not be able to fight the way they think they would. Some BJJ students are GREAT street fighters and defend themselves very well during conflict, but just because you take an art doesn't make you a proficient fighter. |
How does any of this apply differently to practitioners of other styles? *Invalidity Alert*
#1 BJJ is NOT about working for submissions in self-defense application. BJJ is about DISABLING limbs or choking THEM OUT, not allowing them to retaliate!
Of course in BJJ training you hope you DO have to work for that kimura or leglock, cause otherwise you're not improving your skill at controlling your situation! In training your opponent knows what you know and knows how to avoid or counter it, therefore you must take your ability to a whole new level to be successful, whereas grappling unskilled grapplers is much faster and puts the skilled at a far greater advantage!
#2 Whether you like to think so or not, if you walk into your local Karate or TKD class and ask the higher belts if they trust their art as a means of self-defense, VERY FEW would say no. This is why these arts and their practitioners take so much BS, cause before they fight they think they can, but then when they get their asses kicked in challenge matches they say, "Oh, it doesn't matter, cause I'm still better prepared for weapons and multiple attackers, blah, blah, blah."
