STR33T GUY

I’m not into arguing semantics so I’ll tell you what I do and you can call it anything you want. My striking is based on boxing with elements of MT added and some modifications by me to make it more street worthy. My grappling is a blend of free style wrestling, Jujitsu, some BJJ and a little GR wrestling. I’ve taken a year of TKD but haven’t bothered to retain any part of it.

Well regarding the UFC, The UFC isn’t like a street fight at all. But the rules are sufficiently limited that the UFC is a good demonstration of which techniques generally work the best in a street fight. The best martial arts are the ones with the best collection of techniques. The strategies used by competitors in the UFC however aren’t necessarily good strategies to have on the street. I don’t think that the UFC or MMA is a style, not yet anyway.

I’ve been in a lot of street fights, far more than my martial art peers. Most were when I was much younger. I’ve only been in three fights in the last ten years. I’ve also trained in different martial arts some were TMA and others were SMA, I consider myself a MMA even though I don’t compete.

Exactly!

Not on the planet that I live on!

I used my head to block a punch one time. The guy hurt his hand and let out a groan, which cause me to giggle. I then grounded and pounded him.

When I spar with someone for the first time, I tell them to keep the contact light. I also tell them that I’m not a punching bag; if they hit me hard I’ll hit them back hard. If anyone goes at me all out when sparring then I do too. It’s only happened once with me and I knocked the guy out, I was wearing 16 oz gloves and he had head gear on. I can hit harder than most fighters.

Yes. When you throw the left cross, is it with power or is it a feint? The reason that I ask is because I can’t throw a left cross with power and follow it with a left roundhouse kick. Or a right cross followed by a right roundhouse kick for that matter. When I throw a left cross with power, my left foot has a lot of weight on it, so a left roundhouse kick doesn’t naturally follow. Of course a feint is thrown without power so my left leg doesn’t need weight on it and a left kick will follow naturally.

Is that a right jab, left cross, left roundhouse kick?

For one thing I never hit the chest on purpose. The closest that I want to get is, the solar plexus, the floating ribs, the neck and just below the armpit, but not the chest. And if some crack ho comes at me with a knife, you bet I’m going to hit her. I’m going to hit her so hard that she wakes up in the middle of next week.

What in your opinion is the difference between “skills” developed through training and “skills” developed through experience? Can you get the necessary “skills” through training alone? Is it necessary to have real fight experience to develop good self-defense skills?

You didn’t list experience in you percentage breakdown. That’s a huge oversight on your part, since experience is over 50% of what determines the outcome.

I’ll define a street fighter as someone who is a member of the criminal underworld and has chosen to make their way through life by using violence. From my experience the typical or “average” street fighter has some but not a lot of MA training. Enough training that they are familiar with most MA techniques but not very proficient at them. Besides his aggression the biggest advantage that the typical street fighter has is experience. Although the typical street fighter has had only two or maybe three real street fights to their credit (as oppose to beating up weaklings), that experience gives them a huge advantage over someone without that experience. So could you fight off a typical street fighter if you had to?

Question: why do some martial artists get owned in a street fight? Answer: most martial artists are poor fighters! IMHO most of the people here would loose a fight to the typical street tough guy.

People are choked out in Judo and BJJ all the time without dying, so I’d say that chokes are relatively safe to use. But since a few people have died from police choke holds, there is obviously some risk in using chokes, but then there is risk with strikes and throws too. Why do people think hand/wrist locks are the best?