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Brad Dunne said:Real world bear hugs are questionable at best. The only person I've ever seen using a bear hug on somebody has been either police or some other security personel. Either way, it was what I'd call a static hold and because of who is doing the holding, doing something against it would be asking for some serious trouble. Therefor, it becomes a mute point. Now the times I have seen a bear hug used by folks actually in a confrontation, has been from the rear and the person was picked up and dumped so fast, there was nothing that could be done - again it becomes a mute point. So IMO, all that training for this type of attack is wasted effort.
I would think that there would be some merit to train this type of attack, considering it could be used in an abduction or rape attempt. If we discounted every technique because it didn't work for one person in question, we'd probably end up tossing out a good portion of techniques.
Mike