Is BJJ worthless for me?

[knifer]

Hi all.

I know a little about BJJ. I saw UFC and Pride and am a fan of Rickson Gracie.

However, I recently moved to a neighbourhood in Los Angeles. It's a dangerous neighbourhood where many people get killed and stabbed with ice picks and stilettos.

I need a good fighting art and was wondering if any of you could reccommend a good BJJ style or school that teaches effective defense for realistic street encounters with edged and bladed weapons. I know the grappling is superb, but was hoping some of you could point to a BJJ school that really understands the reality of street fights in inner Los Angeles, and not Pacific Palisades.

I ask for your help because I don't have a car and can only study in the Rampart district of Los Angeles, not any of the surrounding hoods like Beverly Hills, or Torrance or places like that.

I asked a couple of old killers in my hood why there is no BJJ schools in the tougher parts of Los Angeles, and was told that BJJ has no place in the reality of Los Angeles street fights where your life depends on it.. Is this true!!!!???

Now, if there is a BJJ club in my neighbourhood, I need to know if the guy has actually used his technique in reality, otherwise it's not worth it to go and learn from him.

[knifer]

LOL @Rorny Gracie!

Sorry, but there was nothing stupid with my thread.
I'm speaking the truth. The Rampart district of Los Angeles is one of the toughest and most dangerous neighbourhoods in the USA.

And guess what? I can't find any good BJJ in this neighbourhood! I want to, but it's impossible! I think it's because BJJ has no place in these parts, you see because most of these people are poor and cannot afford BJJ because BJJ is for the rich suckers who watch UFC and feel invincible one they know how to use the guard.

For the people in my hood, we all carry ice picks, knife and stiletto and would gladly welcome any challeng from a BJJ guy. In fact, we would gladly furnish you with a blade if you got the balls to take your courage and BJJ into this territory.

Dragonkick,

I really got nothing against BJJ or TKD. However, when morons like Rorny come online and bag on arts like TKD, I feel it is my duty to point of how utterly useless BJJ is in some cases.

[knifer]

Me worthless to BJJ?

I don't think so.

I am worth more to BJJ than you're sorry ass will ever be.

Tell me, what can you do for BJJ? Learn the techniques and then go to a UFC and do the same move every other BJJ guy has been doing? What good is that to BJJ? You ain't nothing but a parasite to BJJ.

With me, if you are BJJ guy you will learn a lot. You will learn when your BJJ is useless. You will learn when and how to use a different style. You will learn how BJJ can get you killed. And you will learn how respect other styles of martial arts.

So Rorny, I am sorry to inform you, but I truly am not useless to BJJ.

Of course I can learn a lot from you BJJ guys. I can go to a tournament with BJJ knowledge and win some medals. I can learn how to do an armlock, how to pass a guard.

But it's just not my style. If I go to a BJJ tournament, I will bring a pencil and will shove it down my oppoenet's eyes and blind him. And if I forget my pencil, I will use my thumb and pop his eye ball out of the socket using a techniuqe I learned from a Kenpo Karate guy.

Or if I get mounted, my friends will jump in from the stands and beat the hell out of the guy who mounted me using TKD kicks, and Katare Chops.

Now, why the hell would I do this?

Because that's the reality of fighting on the street. You can argue all you want, but you will always understand that BJJ has no place in many places.

[Badger]

Dragonkick....

QUIT YELLING!!!!!

[knifer]

Yes.

I am being mean.

Yes. I am intelligent. But, if there is one thing I hate....
It's when fools like Rorny deliberately single out one Martial Art and talk about how useless it is the way Rorny bagged on TKD.


So, as a result I have decided to bag on BJJ all because Rorny had the nerve to mock TKD in one of his first ever forum posts.

Let Rorny speak up for himself. This may be your first time in the forums so maybe you have not become so annoyed at guys like Rorny who regularly bag on TKD.

[knifer]

Rorny, you're a funny guy! So, I have decided not to kill you because you make me laugh.

[Badger]

haha

I think you 3 are the same person.

Funny stuff though.

[knifer]

I been here forever. I just forgot my old screen name so I invented a new one.

[Badger]

I think I just stepped into the twi-light zone.

[Badger]

Who do you know who does monkey kungfu?

[knifer]

NO!

This is not the Twilight Zone!

This is McDojo! Pain is does not exist in McDojo! Defeat does not exist in McDojo! Mercy does not exist in McDojo! The enemy deserves no mercy in McDojo!

[Badger]

So you are Neal Cameron. That Fat-Ass piece of Dog-Shit Pedophile.

Go Away SOB!!!!!!!!!

[knifer]

LOL!

You are very funny Rorny! I almost look like that guy in the picture who is getting the award!

But seriously,
I don't know anything about Monkey Kung Fu, and really... You are lucky we don't fight because if we ever did, I would kill you and there is nothing BJJ can do about it. Absoultely nothing.

You may laugh and make a joke out of this, but seriously, You should remember that many people in Rampart are itching for an opportunity to stab a BJJ guy just to teach them a lesson so be careful. Let this be a lesson to you because you are my student now.

Save BJJ for the tournament, and for the fight whith the guy who is scared of getting locked up in jail or prison because they are less likely to use a shank. Also, maybe you should buy a gun too because that's the only way to victory against me.

[kid lock]

Hey "knifer" who were you before? Roy Gaflaer? The way your talking about your "hood" makes it seem that BJJ really wouldn't fit your needs. For real. If your so much for TKD stick with that and learn some kind of weapon disarming art or something. But then again you've made it this far without getting stabbed or losing an eye so I guess BJJ wouldn't hurt.

[knifer]

Are you talking about that BJJ guy named Renzo who knocked himself out on Dan Henderson's thigh?

whoops.

I remember that fight with Uncle Royce. That was that 2 hor long PPV McDojo commercial when He beat that guy fair and square. I learned a lot from watching that fight. It taught me that both TKD and BJJ are McDojo Styles that belong in sport and have no place in true combat