Comment on Is martial arts really that useful?
Feyd@programming.dev 6 days agoMMA has rules that don’t exist in real fights that almost certainly affect the dominance of styles
Comment on Is martial arts really that useful?
Feyd@programming.dev 6 days agoMMA has rules that don’t exist in real fights that almost certainly affect the dominance of styles
Tramort@programming.dev 6 days ago
They didn’t have many at the beginning. Which rule during the rise of BJJ do you think affected it being dominant?
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
The rule against using firearms in the octagon.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Rule against hitting the groin or gouging someone’s eyes. There are lots of combat styles that are more efficient than Jiu-Jitsu, but they’re not for competing, they’re for survival.
I used to train some of the less savoury martial arts, and ever so often we had people from the Jiu-Jitsu class wanting to train with us because they saw us doing “wrong things” and wanted to “teach us”. What they discovered very quickly is that lots of Jiu-Jitsu positions put you in a very vulnerable spot if your opponent knows and can use pressure points, including groin and eyes, and that the “wrong” things we were doing might open a counter attack but prevented those things.
I’m not saying BJJ is bad, but it’s not the br all end all that people claim it to be.