In bj we know how to bite and grab the groin too!! If you claim that hapkido is a more complete art then it should be good in many situations. If hapkido can't work in a ring with rules how do you expect it to work outside of the ring where there are none? It reminds me of the guy who came into our gym with all kinds of attitude and got his ass handed to him. All he could say was that in the street he would have used his deadly techniques that he couldn't use in the ring and would have beaten everyone easily. I mean this guy really got his ass handed to him. Do you think his eye pokes and groin grabs would have done him any good? It is a tired excuse for not training athletically against resistance. If certain techniques are too deadly to train then how do you know if they work? If you train against resisting opponents who are actually fighting back then your grappling will naturally look like wrestling and bjj. Not because these arts are better, but because these arts practice techniques that work. They know they work because they train athletically against resiistance every day! They call the art bjj but it really is just grappling and using what works! If it works we add it to bjj if it doesn't we leave it out. If you came by straightblast gym and looked at what we do you would see that we certainly do add a bit of dirty tactics to our training. We don't, however bite each other and break each others fingers on a regular basis. The trouble with biting eye gouging and breaking fingers etc. is that you just can't train it realistically. At least not with anyone with any sanity. I ain't going to agree to no fignt with those things allowed! I do know how to controll someone so that they can't possibly bite, or grab my groin etc. Because we want to test out techniques out at 100% full contact it does limit what we do a little bit. But what we do we do well and we know it works! If my bjj is good enough I don't need to bite and scratch to finish someone off. And damn sure someone is going to have to do alot more than that to finish me off! You may suprise me with a bite or a scratch etc. but what you gonna do then? You gotta have something to back that up with. If you can't get position and dominate me you ain't gonna win with no dirty fighting. When I am dominating position and raining blows down on your head you can scratch me and try a pressure point strike and see what happens. Nuff said. Flame on Bro!! |