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Groundfighting dissected - Page 4© Kent Fung
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Mar 19, 2005
And let's not forget about the possibility that your attacker is armed. I need not explain why wrestling someone with a knife is a bad idea. The Gracies are always quite indignant about this concern, insisting that of course they wouldn't advocate groundfighting with a knife-wielding opponent. The problem with this assertion, and indeed, with the strategy of taking a real fight to the ground, is that a skilled knife fighter rarely even reveals that he even has a knife. Most likely, someone going up against such a fighter will only realize belatedly that he has been cut or stabbed; even afterwards, he might not ever see the knife used to wound him. Oh yeah. The a**hole you're fighting probably has friends. Who are also a**holes. No UFC fighter has to worry that his opponent's buddies will jump into the Octagon. But the a**hole's friends probably have no such reservations about jumping up and down on your skull. The Gracies have always declared that, "While it's true that groundfighting is ineffective against multiple opponents, it's impossible to prevail against more than one attacker anyway, so you should run and concentrate on defeating single opponents."
No realistic martial artist would deny that it is extremely difficult to defeat multiple opponents simultaneously - certainly far more challening than how way martial-arts movies make it seem. But it can, and has, been done. It's just that doing so depends on explosiveness, speed, and mobility, and groundfighting is at heart a slow, marathon chess match - not a sprint-like blazing shootout. When a groundfighter says it is impossible to prevail against more than one attacker, what he really means is ... it's impossible for him. Run! It's the fuzz! When you get into a fight - it's best not to take the chance that the police will take your point of view. In fact, they probably won't, and instead haul both your butts off to jail. Now, of course I'm not suggesting you break the law or evade the police. But maybe you might want to finish things off quickly and leave quickly - before your opponent's buddies hear about the fight and arrive to help him. It's not going to happen if you grapple with him. Even the best grappler will take a minute or two to overwhelm someone fighting for his life. A good striker, however, can end things in seconds - just look at Mike Tyson's championship bouts from the days when he was truly dominant in the boxing world.
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