Hanzo04 said:
i'm gonna be straight up with you. i've only been practicing tkd for two years, but i do plan on taking other arts that work on ground fighting situations like kenpo and taijutsu.
Neither of those have a ground syllabus.
but groundfighting will never be my focus point. my personal belief is since most fights do go to the ground (inexperienced fighters), is why go to the ground at all.
1: Because it's the best place to put a large man
2: because a lot of the time you don't have a choice
i think that's why we become martial artists to not be taken to the ground by some bum who can't fight like a man.
1: Ok, that's offensive, saying we're bums.
2: CAN'T FIGHT LIKE A MAN? I'll tell you right now, grappling is FAR more "fighting like a man" than flicking your feet at each other from a horse stance. Men wrestle. It's what we DO. We've been doing it since we were austrologodamnpithicenes. In almost every culture in the world, wrestling is a test of manhood.
we as MA should be technically sound with our moves and not sloppy. and plus going to the ground just gets you tired fast.
That's crap. Conserving energy is the key to success in grappling. Grappling A BJJ black belt is like fighting an anaconda. The more you struggle, the harder you make it for yourself, while he's just calmly waiting, hasn't even broken a sweat.
I remember an article written by an aikido master who fought helio gracie (who was in his 80s at the time). He said that he was humiliated by an OLD MAN for half an hour, while helio laughed and talked with his sons.
we should follow bruce lee's theory and not let fights drag on past one minute.
Theory and practice are two very different things.
and i'm sorry because i know i offended some people but that's the way i feel.
I don't care about how you feel, only what you know.