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Hey all,
I come from a krav maga background, which isn't relevant except for the mentality I'm interested in.
I've recently begun training combat submission grappling, which is terrific stuff, though I have a tremendous amount to learn.
One day, while studying KM, we were practicing fall breaks, sprawls, and the like.
A student asked our instructor (who does a good deal of BJJ himself) when we were going to learn take-downs, and he looked at the guy and said, "what are you talking about? You don't ever want to go to the ground on the street if you can help it. You're likely to end up there, so you'd better know how to handle it, but we never train for the express purpose of going down."
He says that going to the ground is inadvisable on the street for 2 reasons: first, the street surface is itself capable of causing severe injury--broken glass, hard gravel or asphalt, nails, other sharp objects, etc. Second, in competition, you're only going against one opponent, but on the street, you may have to deal with multiple assailants (I know SOME BJJ practitioners are good enough to deal with multiple attackers from the ground but I nevertheless don't think it's unreasonable to argue that for most people, the ground is not advantageous for trying to survive an attack from multiple assailants).
I suppose much of it depends on the fighter. I'm 5'7 150 lbs; no way I want to go down to the ground in a real fight unless I have to. If I do, I'm training to be able to handle myself, but I think the point about take-downs may have some merit.
Well, what do y'all think?
I come from a krav maga background, which isn't relevant except for the mentality I'm interested in.
I've recently begun training combat submission grappling, which is terrific stuff, though I have a tremendous amount to learn.
One day, while studying KM, we were practicing fall breaks, sprawls, and the like.
A student asked our instructor (who does a good deal of BJJ himself) when we were going to learn take-downs, and he looked at the guy and said, "what are you talking about? You don't ever want to go to the ground on the street if you can help it. You're likely to end up there, so you'd better know how to handle it, but we never train for the express purpose of going down."
He says that going to the ground is inadvisable on the street for 2 reasons: first, the street surface is itself capable of causing severe injury--broken glass, hard gravel or asphalt, nails, other sharp objects, etc. Second, in competition, you're only going against one opponent, but on the street, you may have to deal with multiple assailants (I know SOME BJJ practitioners are good enough to deal with multiple attackers from the ground but I nevertheless don't think it's unreasonable to argue that for most people, the ground is not advantageous for trying to survive an attack from multiple assailants).
I suppose much of it depends on the fighter. I'm 5'7 150 lbs; no way I want to go down to the ground in a real fight unless I have to. If I do, I'm training to be able to handle myself, but I think the point about take-downs may have some merit.
Well, what do y'all think?
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