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BJJ can work in self defense situation, not ALL street situations include multiple attackers. as long as you know it dosent work well with multiple attackers. That is one thing i respect about BJJ. It dosent claim to be able to handle things it cant. The practicioners dont carry around a false sense of security.

Judo or MT could be applied to multiple attackers if taught for it. But most schools wont foucus on that.

There are alot of diffrent stlyes. Traditional jiu jitsu focuses more on standing throws/joint locks as well as some pins and strikes etc. and Brazilian jiu jitsu foucuses more on the takedowns and ground grappling aspects.

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Pride does have weight classes but they still mis match classes alot.

he is fighting a lightweight BJJ fighter ina mma match soon, should be interesting.

That was a good one...

No they do things that work in real fights. you should try it sometime.

Krav Maga.

yep, there are certainly good TKD schools out there but like you said most of them dont look like the the majority of the other schools. I was making a generalization about the majority of schools I have seen and heard about.

Because most school's practice all or most of the things you would never want to do in a street fight and then rarely practice the things that would actually be useful in a fight such as owww...kicking below the waist..punching in the face... most school also spend little time preparing student for clinch fighting or in fighing. on top of that they usually dont teach takedown defenses or groundfighting.

Lets make this simple. In a Karate trounament a BJJ practiicioner would be limited in what he could do because of the rules. In a sport BJJ tournament a karateka would be severly limited in what he could do because of the rules. The soulution is to set both parties under a set ofrules that dont unfairly restrict either's techniques. It's really that simple. What some people forget is that BJJ is NOT NHB. there are rules in sport JJ just like sport karate. the diffrence is BJJ adptes better to NHB than karate does.

BJJ would be limited in a karate torunament. karateka were not limited in in nhb fights, they could use all of their techniques. thats not a good comparision.

same answer applies. Mirko is a special forces croatian police officer..i bet he knows a thing or two about about real fighting.

I would suggest you get some experience in real fighting of realistic sparring. It would help you understand what happens in a fight.

Mirko cro cop or Antonio rodrigo Nogiura could proabably bat 99.9 % of the humans on this earth and of course there are many more.

Maybe you should read my post. im sure all 5 or 6 BOUNCERS Bas got into a fight with were weak sickly children. Im sure the Enemy soldiers in afganistan were 4ft midgets missing one leg. If you point is that you have to be a skilled fighter to defeat more than 1 opponet then I agree.

speak for yourself, If you are not well trained enough then thats fine. I know several people who have really hurt more than 1 person in a fight. If you read the news a soldier in afganistan Killed 3 enemy soldiers in hand to hand combat durring a nite raid. Go tell him about how it's impossible to beat more than 1 person. Go tell Bas Rutten, or don frye, or any of the other fighters who have been in fights with 5-6 people and been the ones to walk away form it. Saying you Cant beat more than one person is propganda *. you see it's not really an opinion. It HAS been done and it CAN be done. I understand what your saying and i think alot of stlyes do offer false claims, that dosent mean that there are no other stlyes/training meathods that give you a better chance against multiple opponets.

I made a Topic on it quite a while back but it got closed.

proabably emin boztepe. As far as the gracies go, I guess there are always two sides two a story..I doubt the gracies were afraid of him i just dont think The match ever happened for whatever reasons..

Dont get me started on this subject..

Harold howard representing Karate beat Royce Gracie at UFC 3

Front kick to the groin Round kick to the knee/thigh on the inside or outside of the leg. Vertical front kick

Judo definetly TJJ or BJJ would be runners up.

your opinion? thoughts? I think most agree there is a pretty limited amount you can learn from any source without a school/teacher but i would just like opinions.