BJJ, then, is more of a competition art it would seem. Staying on your feet is a fine theory, but don't you think that you will always go the ground if your main style and jerk reactions are that of a grappler? If you train your body to constantly drag someone to the floor, take someone down when you are close, then this is what your body will do in a real situation. If a fight happens you will not have time to think about "using my bjj to only keep from going to the ground". If someone attacks you, grabs you, and hits you, your body's reaction will be to take him to the ground, mount him, and either rain punches, or try to get some submission. If your body is constantly being trained to do this under stress, that is what you will do on the street. So quite possibly, anyone whose main style is grappling WILL purposely go to the ground. Perhaps not consciously, but that what his body has been triggered to do under stress.
It is one thing to say I wouldn't go to the ground in a streetfight because of my BJJ knowledge, but you will go there instintively if someone sucker punches you, grabs you, etc. It will be what you have trained your body to do without thinking. Is this a suicide art then?
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