The title got you biting the bait? Good. There it goes:
OK...I'm tired...MUCH tired...tired of that good grappler paradigm shi@t...I respect grappling...it is a part of total combat...a part you can't ignore...but there is something that comes up again and again and again too many times in here: THE GOOD GRAPPLER. What do I mean by that? It's just impossible to compute how many times I read about that good grappler guy. And what ****es me of is that he can do EVERYTHING, or at least prevent you to do everything...yup, that's why he must be the good grappler...so here I read "no, a good grappler won't let you bite his nads" and "no, it's actually a more dangerous position if you stand while trying to kick a good grappler on the ground (...right...)" or "yes, but a good grappler also knows your eye gouges and tiger claw". You got the picture? Everywhere you read about this good grappler that has litterally an answer to everything. I'm pretty sure a good grappler could even auto-fellate if he isn't good grappler enough to get some head by another person, eventhough that has not been yet discussed here.
I'm tired...it reminds me of that kind of "yes, but if you do that, I can do that" or "if you do that, I neutralize like that" thread. It's not useful...it's not even making sense...it's all **** theory...if someone says "if you grab me like this, I do kote gaeshi", then I reply that "right, but if you kote gaeshi, I counter like that"...sure...on the keyboard it's easy...in the streets, it's a whole other story. Theory is good...but it's not practice...if I ask a good grappler to just sit there on the ground and I stand and move and kick him anywhere and any way I want and he says yes, he'd better either a hella good grappler, or a stupid grappler...not just a good grappler. Of course, on the forum someone will say, yes, but the good grappler could counter you like this and do you that...yes, in theory...in practice?
Something makes me laugh pretty much: the good grappler guy can do pretty much everything and just being a good grappler makes it a whole universal justification...but the good puncher/kicker guy? No he can't..he's just the good puncher/kicker guy that will go down because of the good grappler...If we follow the same mental scheme, he could pretty much punch and kick without being grappled, since he's the good puncher kicker...no? He could avoid the clinch, since a good puncher/kicker would find a way to punch or kick the guy trying to clinch...or he could move out of the take down...or knock the guy while he tries the takedown...isn't he the good puncher/kicker?? Don't you think so? Why not then? The good grappler can achieve anything since he's the good grappler, but not the good puncher/kicker then?
Oh, I see, then that is the reason WHY grappling is so superior to everything...