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OhhhJa posted...

Being able to actually take someone down and grapple effectively can absolutely help you win a street fight lol. I'd actually say having a good ground game is the most important factor that could save your ass from being pounded to dust. Sure every combat sport is a controlled setting with rules but anyone in the ufc would absolutely annihilate you or me in a street fight too because they are highly trained in multiple martial arts, wrestling, etc

If you're sure there's no outside interference happening.
If you're sure the guy you grab and wrestle to the ground doesn't have a knife on him or something.

There's no rules in a street fight, it's unpredictable what threats you might face. Intentionally anchoring yourself to one guy, reducing your visibility of your surroundings, not being able to protect yourself from others to such an extent that they can literally just kick/stomp on you... these are not ideal conditions to put yourself into.
If you can take them down by holding onto an arm lock or such and retain the ability to look around and release the hold to run for it if necessary, it's better. If you're trying to slither onto the other person and get him into a close hold, you're kinda being foolish.\

MeatiestMeatus posted...

Yeah the dude in the video is either trolling or incredibly dumb and arrogant. I'm gonna go with trolling because he's got a YouTube channel to feed. It's clickbait.

Like, obviously it's trolling. Rather harmless though, just made the other guy feel pretty foolish.

There's no way anyone who takes fighting seriously would dismiss BJJ as ineffective any more than anyone who takes fighting seriously would put all their fighting eggs in one basket and focus on BJJ alone as the only discipline to study to become a well-rounded, professional fighter.

Homeboy seems to have a boner for karate. If you took a grandmaster in karate and a grandmaster who holds high-degree belts in karate and BJJ and staged a no-holds barred fight, my money is on the one who studied BJJ coming out on top.

Which is essentially what this guy does in the video. With his prior knowledge of karate and training, however brief, in BJJ he clearly outclasses the BJJ white belt. The white belt who's trying to fight within the ruleset of the tournament which the YouTuber is completely ignorant of, garnering penalties and warnings for doing dumb shit. Hardly a fair representation of BJJ and not at all an honest depiction of what a fair and even matchup would look like

Just an ignorant take all-around, honestly

Where is it "required" and WHY is it required for a BJJ tournament that you agreeably flop to the ground like a professional soccer player?
BJJ is focused on the ground game, why can't it teach people how to do a proper takedown or such to actually get there?
Other martial arts may have katas for practice, wrestling might have starting positions. But no other serious martial art (again, Seagal's version of Aikido is not one) straight up requires an opponent to play along to do anything at all.

SilentSeph posted...

Next he'll make a video about how easy soccer is when you simply pick the ball up and throw it into the goal

Pretty disingenuous comparison. More accurate would be winning at soccer by just standing around, walking casually, and kicking the ball when it comes to you or something.
The equivalent to picking the ball up in soccer would be if he sucker punched the guy trying to lock up w/ him and said, "see how easy it is to beat a BJJ practitioner?"
Being able to defeat someone who's not even trying and being totally passive is a really low fucking bar for a martial art.