Submissions 101. I'm going to talk about self defense versus competition or basically sport versus reality. There are different types of Jiu Jitsu out there. I think you have to take us into consideration.
Now, you don't want to bring or you don't want to confuse ring competition with street application. There are two different mediums and one guy may perform really well in the ring but maybe lousy in the street and vice versa. It's not always the case but it's just something that people have to be aware of.
Now, I'm a huge advocate for self defense laws, specifically Japanese Jiu Jitsu because it's classically where I am trained and I think it's amazing. It covers a wide array of techniques for weapons work to just reality self defense. It's not sport, and I'm really big into it. It's worked well for me over the last 12 as being a bouncer, and I have no complaints whatsoever.
Now, I believe these styles such as Japanese Jiu Jitsu or whatever can be the valuable tool to grapplers, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu guys or people who haven't touched upon self defense per see. There are a lot of techniques that you can pull from this style and pull it into your grappling style. That's your Brazilian Jiu Jitsu guys saying, hey! When you add Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to your Taekwondo game or to your kung fu or to whatever, to make you all rounder, so you can learn how to fight on the ground.
Well, I think the flip side is that grapplers come into that. They should learn these self defense stuff because sometimes the application of grappling does not translate well into the street. I think anyone in the right mind wouldn't want to go down in the ground, on the street, if you can avoid it, because the factors of getting hit on the head by multiple people or whatever like that. It doesn't mean that grappling styles, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or anything like that is poor for self defense. I'm just saying that just like a mixed martial artist that you have to be a mixed kind of jiu jitsu artist to know just the different ranges and mediums.
A common argument that I hear from traditional martial artists is well if grappler gets holding me then I'm just going to gouge his eyes or grab his nuts and the fight will be over.
Now I'm a traditional martial artist. I'm also someone who does grappling, who does 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu style, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and submission grappling. So I know both sides. That argument to me is kind of ridiculous because myself as a grappler if I go down to the ground, sure this guy might have his tools but the thing that he forgot is I have these tools as well.
If I'm armed with the ability to fight on ground and have dirty tricky up my sleeves such as eye gouging or ball shots or things like that, I can set up arm barge or triangles or chokes or I can do whatever I want as well. So it's not just something which -- these dirty moves are not specific sole property, I guess is the word I am looking for. It's not the sole property of the traditional martial artists who - the things they can know to fight the grappler by using these dirty tricks. So I think that's something that you see in the forums and things all over the place that you have to be aware of.
I'm not spouting the superior style of one thing over the other. I'm a Jiu Jitsu guy. I push Jiu Jitsu. I think it's amazing and that's why I think I do it. So I think that if grapplers can add certain aspects reality stuff to their game it will strengthen their game. I remember hearing once form a colleague of mine, there was a race basics seminar and he was teaching. And the Jiu Jitsu martial art, he is a traditional Japanese master and he showed the ways of releasing choke by grabbing on to his arm. And he was working kind of the marines. Hoyes was actually like oh, and he said, well, what was that? So the rest of seminar while Hoyes was teaching, in between he kept falling around his master and asking him to show him that technique.
So it just goes to show you that even Hoyes and things like that, he is open to new ideas and it shows that Japanese Jiu Jitsu can translate, and you can learn things from these styles by bringing in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or sandal or whatever. So just that open mind will make you a much better fighter all around.
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