Training/fighting in a rule set

[Ray Pina]

Very true.

There are a lot more BJJ blue belts walking around then there used to be.

Best to be prepared to deal with one should the situation arise.

Though it would most likely be a ****ty bar fight or something - it's not like you've got roving bands of mma-trained muggers or rape squads on the loose in most of the major cites in America.

Just saying.


Train Hard,
Josh Skinner

There are a lot of armchair MMA guys who understand the basics. There are also kids who never stepped inside a dojo or school, but pull the moves off with friends from the internet. Some of them are surprisingly competent, though they tend to be week on important but not glamorous things like escapes. Not knowing escaped will get you killed.... learning to escape real side control by someone who understands it what initially got me into MMA/BJJ

[pateticorecords]

growing up as a kid, most of the schools did not engage in full contact. Contact, yes, but full contact, rarely.
I know plenty of people who trained with less than full contact who, when forced to use it in street encounters, faired very well. They had distance, timing, and still had impact training.
just sayin..

You are correct, you can learn about timing, distance, gaps, speed, from point sparring, continuous sparring, etc. it does serve as a good learning tool... but you have to do/experience it in order to better understand the dynamics of combat.

I am an advocate of cross-training in as many forms of combat as possible to understand the principles of their movements... you can incorporate into your own arsenal and also learn how to counter the attacks.

You also try to look for ways to reverse the techniques/applications...

[pateticorecords]

There are a lot of armchair MMA guys who understand the basics. There are also kids who never stepped inside a dojo or school, but pull the moves off with friends from the internet. Some of them are surprisingly competent, though they tend to be week on important but not glamorous things like escapes. Not knowing escaped will get you killed.... learning to escape real side control by someone who understands it what initially got me into MMA/BJJ

Yup, some people have the innate ability to learn things by viewing and can be very proficient.
That's is where traditional training put at an advantage, if you were taught and trained correctly, because for the most part you will have better understanding of what to do, what not to do, and when to do it.

BTW, Ray nice videos... de Jobos... yo vivi frente a la playa de jobos, antes de eso vivia en la Urbanizacion Medina... tambien tenia una escuela de Choy Lay Fut en Isabela. Saludos