The best answer to the "how do I beat this style"

[SenseiMike]

I don't care who you are or what style you take, it's been my experience that the only person who really beats you is yourself.

You can beat anyone if you fight both hard & smart enough. You just have to stay aware of your targets weaknesses while defending your own.

That's it, no secrets, no magic, a TKD guy can beat a BJJ guy if he fights well enough, style doesn't matter on bit.

[pmeckiff]

Agreed.

[Pacificshore]

ditto

[AndrewGreen]

Style does matter, a lot.

If my style can take advantage of weaknesses in yours, the odds are in my favour.

If your style can take advantage of weaknesses in mine, the odds are in your favour.

If you never train ground work or stopping takedowns, someone that trains takedowns and ground work has a HUGE advantage over you.

What you learn and how you train it play a HUGE part in how well you can fight, as to size, strength, ability to take a hit, guts and a few other things.

[darkness]

Yes.

...But a guy with a gun at a distance can take down most anyone if he is even half decent shooter

It really depends on situation

[ivette_green]

I just can't see a person who has trained equal time in TKD beating someone who has trained BJJ. It seems apples and oranges to me.

[giang_hu]

A style like Tae Kwon Do has been so commercialized over the years that it has become a joke. Where are the real Tae Kwon Do practitioners? Every time I see a supposed "master" of Tae Kwon Do I see kicks where the supporting let isn't straight and where the body hunches over during kicks. Little things like these make me sick and want to rip off their black belts from their very waists.

[SenseiMike]

I used to "extremes" like tkd and bjj to make a point, but yes, tkd beating bjj is very posible, all it takes is one good kick to the head.

The styles doesn't matter, how you train it does.

And why the heck are we talking about guns?

[AndrewGreen]

The style matter a great deal.

There is a reason full contact fighters all fight in a similar way. There is a reason they punch the way they do, and a reason they kick the way they do. Other ways don't work as well.

THere is also a reason you don't see any TKD (or tai chi, or shotokan, etc) fighters in MMA.

[b3n]

Of course style matters!

Thats like saying a random guy on the street could beat a 5th dan black belt, he "just needs to fight well enough".