Some great responses here. I tend to think the “essential” things to learn in grappling is position and control. If you’re on the ground, you want to be on top of your opponent so you can either choke him or headbutt, elbow, etc. Ground and Pound is very effective for street defense in my opinion, and you can injure to degree. Mount, Crossbody, knee on stomach are where you would probably want to be. Though in crossbody you can’t see your surroundings as good as in mount or knee on stomach. Again, streetfighting is unknown. You don’t know what’s going to happen until it does. Second, no martial art can fight multiple opponents.
I’ll use knives at that point, and run.
Hope that helps somewhat.
You gotta roll in order to get the experience though. Talking about it won’t do it.
The thing I’ve always heard from traditional jujutsu teachers not Brazilian grappling is that most off the techniques don’t work unless the opponent is caught off guard or he is tricked into receiving an attach. I’ve studied it for a while now and have found that that’s the truth with using wrist, leg locks and so on. In traditional jujitsu one of the first basic moves is Hokodori when an opponent grabs your wrist and you spread the fingers wide and follow threw with the hands going up. And if you advancing you can push the opponent to the ground very easily. But that’s not what people think about today when you say jujutsu they think of the UFC and grappling. I think that’s a shame.
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It’s amazing that some people still think it’s an one or the other situation between grappling and striking. I did’nt ever see anything in BJJ that would wreck what feeble striking and JJJ skills I have.
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It has nothing to do with being Bruce Lee. It has to do with positioning. I can move, keeping the oppenents moving, trying to always keep one of them between myself and the others. Its not easy… often impossible. But it can be done, at least for a few critical seconds, against several opponents. Once one is on the ground, this option is gone.
I’m not favoring one over the other… just giving my interpretation of an often mis-interpreted martial arts “truism.”
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