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[QUOTE=mkriii;869841]I’m not saying that BJJ isn’t good. I trained in it for a year and a half and have been wrestling since high school (15 years ago). I just feel more safer with stand up fighting although my ground game isn’t bad. I feel that I can hold my own. I wasn’t trying to say grappling wasn’t good. Just IMO it isn’t the best for a bar fight scenerio. And I do not condone starting fights in bars.[/QUOTE]

again I would say that most people who train martial arts will have a hard time a bar fight. You can make the same arguments about any standup art. Multiple attackers, weapons ect.. will they do any better? depends on how they train not really what they train. Lets be honest here your average person throws two punches a sloppy hook and a sloppy straight.

Again how many striking arts train getting back up? or escaping from someone being ontop of you?
in a perfect world you wont fall or get hit.. but in my experience once you get hit hard you fall. so.. know what?

If we are talking about surviving a bar fight forget all martail arts. Just learn the
learn to defend the basic punches and drill them into the ground. Spar and learn the basics of ground fighting.
You can learn less much less than any expert in those arts and prob have a good chance of surviving a fight.
its really about training methods. JMO what do I know?

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OK like I said I only trained BJJ for 1 1/2 years so I don’t know a lot about it like you probably do so I have a question…Does BJJ teach how to throw kicks and punches? Because when I studied BJJ we were only taught takedowns and submissions and most of the submissions were taught from an already down position.

As for a fight in a bar or anywhere for that matter a stand up fighter has options of using elbow strikes and kicks to the knee to take out an attacker quickly so that he/she can move on to the next attacker if there is more than 1.

With low kicks to the knee and short range strikes such as an elbow to the skull the amount of room to throw these techniques are more advantagous for the bar scene.