Question on defense against grappling in street fight

[DaxKingsford]

I gave you the answer in post #54.... Learn your foot work. Learn your jab. Change levels with the grappler, throw the jab and step off at an angle... keep him at range.


This is mostly boxing 101..... Why do you think boxers are not taught this? They are.... with one exception.... Don't back out straight, or pull straight back. Even a boxer will step with you and hit you hard if you pull straight back. Grapplers can shoot much further than boxers.... so you will be caught by pulling straight back.

Use your foot work to keep distance, change levels and throw single jabs, then pivot and step out on an angle. Use this approach to set up your bigger punches.

One thing you should learn by watching MMA is that you need to make the other guy play your game... not the other way around. When a pure grappler tries to learn striking for a few months to out strike a really good striker.... the striker makes the grappler look silly. Same when a pure striker tries to learn a few months of grappling to fight an elite grappler. That's because they are trying to defeat at master at his own game... with a few months of practice. If an elite striker can keep it a striking match with the elite grappler... the striker wins. If the elite grappler can make the elite striker grapple.... the grappler wins.

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The secret to making the other guy fight your fight is the same for grappler and striker.... learn your foot work. Practice your foot work. Learning your distance and angles paired with good foot work is what will keep you on your feet striking or get you into grappling range to effect your take down.

Spot on about pulling straight back - that’s the quickest way to end up under a double leg. Creating angles and pivoting off the jab is the only real way a striker dictates distance. If your feet aren't moving off the center line, you're basically giving a wrestler a green light to shoot.

 

[Shugyosha]

Gracie Combatives would cover this but I think essential skills are breaking guard and standing up, knowing mount sweeps and standing up

 

[Buka]

The whole “there’s no rules in a street fight” dialogue reminds me of gorillas thumping their chests.

So does the eye gouge line of thinking. A hand coming at your face is a hand coming at your face, be it fingers extended, the back of the hand or a proper fist.

 

[drop bear5 1]

The whole “there’s no rules in a street fight” dialogue reminds me of gorillas thumping their chests.

So does the eye gouge line of thinking. A hand coming at your face is a hand coming at your face, be it fingers extended, the back of the hand or a proper fist.

And if you can't take a punch in the head. Then it is as deadly as anything else. It doesn't matter what you have as a weapon if you get caught and dropped.

People with guns have been stopped by punches in the head

 

[Buka]

And if you can't take a punch in the head. Then it is as deadly as anything else. It doesn't matter what you have as a weapon if you get caught and dropped.

People with guns have been stopped by punches in the head

Yes they have.

The worst scenario to get punched in the head/face for the first time is in a street encounter. That should have been taken care of in training.

 

[Wing Woo Gar102 5]

Yes they have.

The worst scenario to get punched in the head/face for the first time is in a street encounter. That should have been taken care of in training.

Or at home, as the case may be…