TO THE FORUM: My stance on "styles" is this: The minute you think of "style" you are clogging the brain with limitations that can cost you your life. As you know, I have defended karate in the past. I want it to be known that I did it only because the narrative was written by people who did not know what the F they were talking about. That said, I am NOT, nor have I ever been in my adult life in favor of talking "style" in the same conversation as self defense.
Worse than awareness being limited by grappling is the limitation of mobility. You can't move away from the grapplee as a grappler, to defend or escape other attackers... furthermore clinching tends to enable the opponent to clinch back. It only takes one grab of your clothing. Now you can't escape immediately at will.
Excellent advice again, Shifu. I ran into a situation similar to the one you describe. A guy bumped into me when I was walking with my girl on a crowded street one Friday night and was clearly intent on starting a conflict. I was confused because he looked frail and incapable (not that looks mean much) but his friend looked very ready to join in whatever was to ensue. Too ready. I deescalated the situation and walked away “looking like a chump”, but after seeing this video I’m certain that the plan was to hold me in a conflict and for the other to stab me. I live in a city where people will hurt someone just to feel better about themselves, and I suspect it was a jealousy oriented your girl looks better than my girl I’m frail but you’re flashing muscles kinda thing. But you never really know.
my dojo mate who's a NYC cop said exactly what you're say DAY ONE when BJJ started spouting their ridiculous philosophy. Whatsceven more absurd is how they preached that ALL fights go to the ground. Funny I remember a lotta guys getting knocked out while doing stand up..maybe that's what they meant..they all hit the ground eventually
PEOPLE IN THIS FORUM, READ BEFORE COMMENTING: If someone has a SHARP weapon and you can NOT remove yourself from the situation, It is better to have a weapon yourself to "even things up". If that is not to be, your mind will go ballistic, but you are safer in CLOSE and with control of the offending arm. That being said, you should NOT be trying to get him to TAP!
TheUmmahFightCamp hey been watching your page for few years now Great content! Quick question. Do you think knowing boxing and judo alone is good enough for someone to be able to protect themselves?
@@hasanc1526 It depends on what form of wrestling we are talking about. Freestyle wrestling (takedowns BELOW the waist) is not the best for the street. Greco (takedowns ABOVE the waist) is far better. I also will say that Judo works great in the street-even better when the person has a good sturdy jersey or sweat shirt on. I have done outstanding "work" when the guy had a well-stitched top on. lol. (a very long time ago though :)
@@TheUmmahFightCamp true but you would still need to have good standup to close the distance for a judo throw whereas a wrestler doesn't need much but a hay maker. Greco is better in the streets but I still pick a freestyle guy over a judoka
@@hasanc1526 : The idea of throwing a haymaker and going in, comes from the CAGE. Freestyle is this: High crotch, LOW single, LOW double, High single, High double, ALL of them call for bending the back and giving up too much. Graco AND Judo can stand UP and throw and take down. WHY? FULL front body lock, back body lock, single under hook, single over hook, double under hook, double over hook. Freestyle is not the best for the street- GRECO and JUDO are.
Like and sub here guys. Especially if you appreciate the insight. Only people who have been in multiple real fights would never be "drop to your back". You have one of the best channels on RU-vid in this topic area. Absolutely no bullshit. Practical and honest. The honesty here is so sincere and actually correct. I appreciate your lectures and videos very much. Thank you!
Many of those wealthy Whites lacked the natural athleticism for other sports.That's part of why they put an overemphasis on BJJ grappling.Speaking of BJJ, the Gracies came from a wealthy Scottish family that moved to Brazil.They had the financial backing and alot of males to promote jiu jitsu.
This is so true. Grappling and wrestling takes so much of your focus to where u get blind to your surroundings. That why the last stylebender in MMA avoids going into grappling and does more striking in fights
I can tell this is true because when I took Kung Fu, my sifu said when people get grabbed on the arms or wrist, their mind is in the grab. It's a cognitive distraction.
Maybe the best analysis I have ever listened to, being a long time BJJ practitioner and MMA practitioner but coming from a striking and judo background your analysis is absolutely on point. Even in MMA the numbers of submission techniques are limited to nearly white belt level. Few people can accept the truth.
100% agree. Learn the high percentage escapes and in fact learn the high percentage stuff in general. Very few instructors out there or clubs that orientated like that and you have said they're too emotionally invested in the idea of style and are often beholdent to an organization who profits from propaganda not reality. Love your work and mythbusting sir.
It is important for any fighter or self defense practitioner to understand both how and the importance of creating space and turning your opponent. Executing such can involve grappling and/or striking means, depending on the situation. It is the equivalent of a boxer or kickboxer turning their opponent to the ropes, a mixed martial artist turning away from the cage, or a freestyle wrestler turning their opponent in order to avoid or initiate a push-out. This reminds me of the old school 'back to the wall' concept in streetfighting.
You are so on point here, Sayf!!! Unfortunately, we find too often that BJJ is touted as a "complete martial art". Any true martial artist takes an integrated approach to fighting and self defense.
You know your stuff sayf! Which is exactly why I love listening to you. You're as real as they come. Some may see you as arrogant, but I don't because I think I understand where you are coming from. You appear pissed at the bullshit and arrogance of others, and the unreasonable credit given to people pushing the lies you are fighting against. Keep up the good work. 👊🏿🇬🇧
I really appreciate this commentary on your video. You are completely correct when applying your thoughts on the real world of violence of all forms and environment. I am white, but have been trained well and tested over a period of years. You add a very positive outlook on martial arts and today"s trend. Thank you.
TO The Forum: LOL!!! as you guys know, I believe that WRESTLING is king of the cage and will always be. But, Damian Maia just beat Ben Askren and no one brought it up to me lol. It is ok! Damian did his thing against a very good wrestler. Still, Wrestling owns the advantage head to head and in history.
100% agree on the premise that striking, with awareness and distance control including multiples, MUST be the default. Especially boxing. Wrestling good for level changes. Kicks have their place and politeness and ability to posture and ability to sprint are vital too. Salaam.
I saw the emotional attachment people had to their martial art when people saw kimbo slice win a bunch of street fights. They saw this untrained street fighter and everyone wondered could a mma fighter beat him.
I’m looking forward to the project on IQ and confidence. I did a paper a while back examining IQ and standardized testing; how well they correlate, and how it effects schools of different socioeconomic status. Once again great advice. I love your videos.
Ashton Richardson: I think you will be a bit surprised about what I say about IQ as will others be. I will say that there is a political motive behind the use and the information on it. While blacks get anxious when the subject comes up, they should actually be proud of their advancement. I am NOT one who thinks the tests are useless. I scored as did my two sisters, in the top 10% of the nation (yes, including whites). That said, there is a very sinister reason why everyone can see that STEVEN HAWKING had an IQ of 160, but it is much harder to find the fact that Black Baseball great REGGIE JACKSON ALSO has an IQ of 160!!! I will also say that the people who generally score the highest which are Asians, pay very little attention to their high scores. Why? Because unlike many whites in America (not as much Europe) the need to justify their place in the world is not by the impression that they are superior. The fact that not even 60 years ago, blacks had their schools BURNED down and given inferior textbooks, and today can boast of Jackson and Micheal Jordan (IQ 155) as well as not so famous people is nothing short of amazing. And no, IQ is NOT the same as intelligence. No serious Neuroscientist believes that today. It does demonstrate skills that are part of intelligence, but it is not. If you would like for me to give an example of why, I will.
TheUmmahFightCamp I agree with this my research lead to a similar conclusion. I also find that although it measures and defines aspect of skills intelligence it doesn’t accurately define or determine for intelligence either. I read a couple of research papers determining the importance of the language portion and how it measures intelligence and the evidence was a bit weak especially compared to the other portions of the exam. I know some psychologists from what I remember are finding different ways to give the exam that maybe be a bit more accurate. Like spatial intelligence, arithmetic and reasoning. I don’t know if this actually defines intelligence because I haven’t looked into it and these probably could be categorized more as problem solving ability which seems like an aspect of intelligence than intelligence but it’s definitely interesting . My IQ is most certainly room temperature. I definitely didn’t know that both Michaels had extremely high IQs. I’m really looking forward to the project. If the article is published I will definitely pay to read it.
I'm grateful to Sayf for taking the time to share his vast knowledge. As for the IQ thing I'm a bit weary of anything to do with that I've read IQ is culturally specific and used to justify to pretty salty stuff. In countries and peoples whose level of violence could not match whatever state decides they want to take what they value.
I'm not a martial artist!...... but one perceptual advantage i have over 70 percent of the martial artists i've met is i know all too well what REAL violence on the street actually looks like and feels like! ......i live in a place where lots of people are killed in street fights by people with short concealed knives! and rarely is a fight ever one on one! .......that fact alone without me having any formal training is enough for me to know that the last thing i want to do is start grappling with somebody when i have no idea whats in his other hand or how many of his buddies are coming to fuck me up from behind! you perfectly articulated so much better than i ever could exactly why BJJ never sat right with me regarding street defense!......i think a person should learn BJJ, learn it to the degree of being able to defend against takedowns, escape and fight your way back to your feet if the fight does happen to go to the ground! and subduing a person in the right situation!.....BUT i do not believe that any type of grappling should ever be anybodys automatic go-to on the street! and it should never be anybodys goal to go to the ground!! basically uless its 100 percent written in stone that the fight is 1 on 1 and the guy has no concealed weapons, and youre fighting on grass or something, by which at that time if BJJ is your thing, go for it! and you'll probably win!.....unfortunately in real street altercations theres too many things to go wrong!......also im not too keen on busting up my knees trying to leg dive somebody on pavement! and roll around on the ground!!.....it just all feels instinctively wrong to a person whose seen and been on the recieving end of real street violence.
Whenever you're done creating your other channel. Can we get a link to it please? Also are you going to continue with the brick city combatives channel?
Mr. blackman: For sure I will give info on the other channel. Also, I will have some kind of presence in the combative sense, but my posting will be less and more by way of the website that is being built for that purpose.
Does Wrestling and Judo also have the advantages of being more fast-paced/explosive and placing more of an emphasis on dominant positions? The faster pace means that maybe you can (maybe/hopefully) neutralize the 1st guy before getting attacked by a 2ed. And the emphasis on a dominant position means you are better able to both pay more attention to your surroundings and disengage fast if possible. But what you are saying about any form of grappling being a poor default definitely makes an extreme amount of sense. Especially about how it takes a lot more of your focus
I know a few blind grapplers, dont know of any blind strikers. This doesnt negate your point completely, but your eyes arent needed to be target focused when your grappling.
What are your thoughts on Shuai Jiao (along with the use of it's "Black Hand" tactics)--not as a sole self defense --but as a realistically dependable, possibly high-percentage tool for surviving real violence?
Shuai jiao and glima are some of my favorite grappling arts for self defense 🖤❤️ and believe it or not, sumo is up there too... limited but present striking, focus on finishing fast and not falling down or being controlled by your oponent
GREAT VIDEO too much truth sport in a gym is sport in a gym street violence is an other thing grappling against two guys who want to mug you good luck with that STREET VIOLENCE IS UGLY
DonEddy: I saw a fight between 2 supposed masters of 52 several years ago. It looked terrible! That is not to say NONE of it works, but it is to say much is urban legend.
@@TheUmmahFightCamp I've seen footage of fights but never seen the sweetness and fly sh-- that is always talked about. I long for it to be that, but that simply is not what I've seen in real time fighting and sparring. I told a mentor of mine that I'd been looking for 52 Blocks for a long time, but that I didn't think I had really found it yet. He replied, "Oh, you found it. You just didn't like what you found." By and large, and once again, I have to admit he was right.
This is why I love JKD because of the hand trapping and simultaneous block and counters which is not only direct, but simplistic and you end a fight in seconds. If grappling situation does occur, that wing chun root allows you trap(controlling the opponent) before you go for a takedown or submission hold if you decide to do so. In a prison situation(which is just like the streets) I would never wrestle with ANYONE, especially someone I don't know, because seconds matter when you're fighting and a fight can change from milli seconds to milli seconds. Even if no one jumps in for instance, you might win but by the time 30 seconds goes by to lock in an ankle lock or arm bar, you would be getting stomped in the head or shanked like he just pointed out!! All the people who don't understand, are not just people who've never been in real street fights but people who only train for sport and the ring is a controlled environment, and too many people don't get that and that's to his point that most of these dudes typing in these comments on youtube or social media have never been in a fight that wasn't controlled with a ref.
Kenny Lopez: I don't count on ending ANY fight in seconds. It has and can happen, but to assume it...no. I have seen people keep moving forward after being shot with a 380 in the chest! A fight is ended in seconds by KO. If not that, it is not seconds. Lastly, Bruce Lee would not like this jeet kune do. He talked about biting. This stuff about trapping and compound trapping is almost as bad as the bjj "I'll arm bar you" stuff. Cover the head, grab the clothes, spin around, head but or bite into the flesh of the face. Done! No JKD, BJJ, KARATE, BOXING, JUDO. Simple.
@@TheUmmahFightCamp Bruce Lee wouldn't of liked the version of JKD that people watered down by not including Wing Chun as the root(not as a fighting method)which weakens it because you can't always intercept all the time, sometimes you to have block, simultaneous block and counter and use the wing chun closer quarter principles in grappling range which most don't do and don't know how to because they don't use it the way it was intended to be, they use it how they interpreted by the book, instead of analyzing by pressure testing it and trying find the techniques that work best for them. And of course you have to knock them out in order to end it in seconds, but you won't knock anyone out if you don't know how to get power and precision in your strikes while being direct as possible.(And knocking someone out isn't always 1 punch, you create as much damage in the least amount of time because 1 punch isn't enough to always get the job done) Of course there are some people who can take good shots and keep coming forward but timing and precision can drop anyone if you have the correct structure, techniques, and know where to hit.(And most people don't) All depends on the situation, who you're fighting, how you're being attacked, where the fight happens etc. etc. So many different variables.
@@kennylopezjeetkunedo5555 : lol! That is my issue with all this stuff about style: "So many variables". When you have "so many variables" that is a problem. The brain needs to have a simplified method and compound trapping and all that stuff is not what the brain needs. When punches unrehearsed start flying, you would be lucky to get a simple trap. Anything more complex is not likely. And Wing Chun has to be modified much to work.
@@TheUmmahFightCamp Jeet Kune Do techniques are simplified and simplicity is actually part of the JKD concepts.(Simplicity, Directness, and Non Classical) As for compound trapping, that all depends on how you train it. If you're sparring exactly how you do your drills, than you're training in it a rehearsed way. Compound trapping drills are still important though because you need it to train the muscle memory to develop contact reflexes and sensitivity, but you're obviously not gonna fight that way and anyone who does try to fight that way doesn't understand the purpose behind it and that's where the teacher should be explaining that to them. I've never had a problem trapping but the traps I use are after I block and hit, or if I see an opportunity but I don't go looking for it, I allow it to just happen on it's own because that's the only way it will happen because you'll never have a perfect situation and nobody is ever gonna do what you want them to do, so you take whatever is there when the opportunity presents itself. Remember, it's the person behind the art that matters, not the art itself. I've never had a problem using JKD techniques yet in unrehearsed situations and that's because I always pressure tested everything I learned. And Wing Chun was already modified when Bruce Lee developed JKD. Why you think he added other elements with the Wing Chun like the footwork from fencing and boxing? Because he knew Wing Chun by itself is mostly effective in close quarters, but when you have space, than another structure is needed to be able to close distance and have more mobility. You just have to train and do the specific drills necessary for it to be as effective as it was designed to be. Sparring is important but the type of drills you're doing are also important. Remember, it's the small details that matter and make a big difference.
Bro BJJ need to learn to strike to be efective fighters in ancient vale tudo and those dfights end in a swimming pool of blood only elbows and head strikes untill they change rules hahaha
I think in this day and age many people have come to the conclusion that you need both grappling and stand up striking skills. This is why I don't diss Karate or Kung fu styles. You still need to know how to kick and punch. I like BJJ but you simply don't see anyone in MMA competition today who only knows BJJ. Most fighters are more well rounded nowadays. The Royce Gracie you saw in 1993 wouldn't last long in today's UFC.
Anyone who thinks BJJ is good to use (primarily) in a street fight lacks common sense. Knowing some submissions and reversals is good, but BJJ is great for competition against other BJJ practitioners, not for the street.
