If you establish your own boundaries and defend yourself properly, the jerky should never be able to even put his hands (or feet) on you to take you down. I am not hoping/ praying for a 1 punch kill or anything. More to the point I am hoping to achieve proper control of my opponent so that I can continue to bash his face in whilst he tries to grab a leg/arm/head/ whatever.
The thing is, its far easier for someone to take you down than it is for you to defend being taken to the ground.. It also takes far less time to get good at it.
Anyways, the point is you cant ignore the ground game. You cant ever believe you will be able to control where a fight goes. You only need to make sure you have options in as many places as it can go, to be best prepared. Outside in the real world, where you have to deal with things like rain, heavy winds, mud, concreate, walls, your opponents friends, weapons, etc. etc., you can’t ever believe you can have control over where the fight goes. The idea that you can have enough control to make sure it doesn’t go to the ground is simply an excuse for not training what they do.
And its a common one I hear in many martial arts schools to justify an instructors lack of knowledge of the subject.
And it is utterly ridiculous to think this way. It only limits yourself.
Also, I hear a lot of people talking about MMA fights on here and referring to them as the real deal. They are far from that. The rule books for those fights look like phone books, and the things you are allowed to do/ not allowed to do have reduced it to a strange form of gay porn. Not to say I dont think those guys cant fight or arent great athletes; not at all. I certainly wouldnt pick a fight with any one of them just for sh1ts and giggles. BUT, were I to fight with one, I would certainly not hesitate to rip his ******* ear off, stick my thumb in his eye, or bite a finger in half if it were to save me. THAT is called phu q fu. That is reality. MMA is far from that
For all the people who think MMA is 100% the real deal, there are just as many people who severely undervalue its importance to gauging realism.
Yes, MMA has an extreme amount of rules to protect its athletes. This is true. But don’t fool yourself. Its as real as it gets, and don’t think that just because you can’t poke someones eyes or rip off their ear, that its not like a real fight.
You’re looking at it the wrong way. You see two guys on the ground and think, well if he took me down I’ll just poke out his eyes. But thats not how it is, it isn’t like poking out someones eyes or ripping off their ear is some kind of secret kung fu technique.. Literally EVERYONE knows how to do it. So when you’re on the ground, its two guys able to do the same things to eachother, but ONE guy, the guy who has more ground game experience, has positional dominance. And when you have the dominant position, you have an extreme advantage to being able to do anything you’d like, as well as preventing your opponent from doing anything.
Its really hard to rip someones ear off, when you’re on your back with a 200lb guy on top of your chest.
You need to seriously take a look at the advantages of having a ground game, and instead of writing MMA off like so many pajama sifus do, appreciate it for the things it DOES show us. Which are an incredible amount of truths about the martial arts.
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