MMA...Multiple Attackers

[Shadow Skill]

I don't know about the area you guys live in but where I grew up people got jumped a lot and even now in clubs and bars etc. they still do it's rarely a one on one fight. so how do mma guys deal w fighting more than one person

[rogue]

Have more friends than the other guy.

[1bad65]

You don't if you can avoid it. Either difuse the situation or run away. Any art that says you can routinely beat multiple attackers is full of it and should be avoided.

[SanHeChuan]

They shoot ticket numbers out their arse and everyone has to wait thier turn. It's not like the TMA methods for dealing with mulitple attackers are that great. You move, try and stack your oppents. Attack one and then the next. How will you ever figure that out without training.

[hindoshima]

You don't if you can avoid it. Either difuse the situation or run away. Any art that says you can routinely beat multiple attackers is full of it and should be avoided.

You forget hiten mitsurugi ryu!

Sorry, I just had to post that

[Knifefighter]

I don't know about the area you guys live in but where I grew up people got jumped a lot and even now in clubs and bars etc. they still do it's rarely a one on one fight. so how do mma guys deal w fighting more than one person

Kind of like this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...039138&q=fight

[rogue]

Kind of like this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...039138&q=fight

Excellent video, but those guys didn't really want a fight.

[banditshaw]

Kind of like this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...039138&q=fight

LOL Since when is pro skater Mike Vallely an MMA guy?

I see the point though. This is how an MMA guy would handle it. But so would anyone else who had some ballz. The kids he was fighting were some punks anyway.

[specialed]

I don't know about the area you guys live in but where I grew up people got jumped a lot and even now in clubs and bars etc. they still do it's rarely a one on one fight. so how do mma guys deal w fighting more than one person

no martial art will prepare you for multiple attackers. karrody and kungfu are just as bad as pulling guard.

[Golden Arms]

I feel old after reading this. I have now seen this question posed with Kung Fu, Ninjitsu, BJJ, and now for this decade or so, MMA.

Train whatever you do to handle what you want to handle. If you dont have an answer for it, then go find it somewhere else, or look deeper.

[hskwarrior]

the best thing to do against multiple attackers IMO is as the video Knifefiighter posted. you attack fast and hard until all are down or until the threat is stopped.

but what you didn't see it is the others trying to fight that guy as he's swinging.......those guys **** themselves when he began swinging.

on the other hand, the video im posting makes it hard for any martial art style to deal with......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_y8HpuYLMU

[hskwarrior]

remember this video, this guy is handling them too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-kw1KBU2ps

[Anthony]

I'd say look for an opening.....and run like hell through it. When youre a few blocks away turn around to see if they're following you. If not then you've made it. Go to sleep and wake up the next day at home not in the hospital.

No art prepares you for multiple attackers. It's a fact of life. If you can't get away simply pray you aren't crippled or worse.

It's amazing that a "self-defense" school doesn't teach how to verbally diffuse a situation. But gun disarms....that's more practical

hsk....the video you posted on the field looks more like a gang initiation. The guy being attacked is a new member. Especially since there's a video camera waiting to film it, which is what they tend to do.


The one in the parking lot doesn't count in my book. Any one of those guys had plenty of chances to simply leave. But what did they do....they stood there with their dukes up waiting either for an attack or to attack. That's not self-defense......that's voluntary fighting. If anyone got hurt toward the end then they asked for it.

[Bruce W Sims]

I don't know about the area you guys live in but where I grew up people got jumped a lot and even now in clubs and bars etc. they still do it's rarely a one on one fight. so how do mma guys deal w fighting more than one person

Most people I know choose to frequent places where the potential of this happening is practically non-existent. If you grew-up in the location, certainly you must have some idea of where violence is highly possible and where it is not. I guess I would like to know why you would set yourself up to be found in such a place and what sort of behavior you might be demonstrating to invite that sort of attention.

Where I grew up we had a tavern which was notorius for Friday Night blood-bathes. Everybody knew about the place and only the guys looking for that sort of action chose to go there.

If you don't like multiple attacks, it seems like the solution is pretty obvious. Let the meat-bags have that place and you take the rest of the world. FWIW.

Best Wishes,

Bruce

[hskwarrior]

yeah but being jumped in means you have to fight back to prove you're no punk. if you just take the blows you're not worthy. at least where im from......and usually being jumped in was alot more bloodier than that. but that was like the late 70's and 80's.

but we can go on for days, the simple matter is put yourself in that position and how would you handle it?

some will try to walk away, others will fight their way out. unfortunately for me, being paralyzed from the waist down meant i will never run again. so i have no choice but to stand and fight or get my ass beat. either way, i'd rather take a great ass beating over being killed by a gun any day.

i wish people would go back to those days where at least you live to see tomorrow......in a whole lotta pain, but you see tomorrow.