Mixed Martial Arts Training Tips and Techniques-An Inherent Advantage of Grappling Training-Jiu-Jitsu-Aurora,Naperville,Chicago,Minooka

In the debate over whether grappling styles of mixed martial arts are a viable means of self-defense there is a very important factor that is often overlooked.  When you engage in free-grappling training with a partner you are employing the majority of  the methods of combat that will be used in competition and in the street at close to full power.  Moreover, you are confronted with an opponent who is employing all his skill, knowledge, and strength to resist and defeat you (within the limits of a grappling session).  The result is that you rapidly become used to applying your techniques and knowledge in a “live” situation.  This is a tremendous advantage.  Just as you could never hope to become a champion swimmer without actually getting wet, you can never hope to become a fighter without ever coming to grips with an opponent who  is actively trying to thwart and defeat you.

Because grappling training does not allow striking or foul techniques, you can engage in it far more often than martial arts that do.  If you spar hard every day in boxing training, the likelihood of injury is unacceptably high.  The risks are even higher for martial arts that allow bare-handed fighting and foul tactics.  You could not spar in that fashion without daily injury.  By prohibiting dangerous moves, you can concentrate on the moves that grapplers  will utilize in a real fight on a daily basis with a far lower chance of injury.  The result is that grapplers can progress very rapidly in learning to implement techniques on resisting partners.  There is a certain irony in this.  By removing the more dangerous elements of fighting–punching, kicking, gouging, biting, and so on, you can concentrate on the techniques you hope to use in a real situation against live opponents.  Moreover, you can reasonably expect to do this on a daily basis without great fear of injury.  The resulting familiarity with applying your techniques full power against a person doing everything in his power to defeat you is a great advantage in a real fight. Of course you have to adapt to the obvious differences that will emerge in a real fight.  The opponent will probably be trying to punch, kick, scratch, gouge, and bite you.  However, the familiarity with active resistance will make you transition relatively easy.  You will be comfortable with the feeling of a struggling, resisting opponent.  After modifying your style in the appropriate ways, you can use that experience of hard daily sparring to your advantage.

One would think that by removing the more dangerous elements of training, such as striking and foul tactics, a martial art would become weaker.  Experience shows the opposite is true for the same reasons outlined.  Success in fighting is directly related to the degree to which a martial art exposes its students to the pressure of real combat. Because grappling training is safe enough to engage in at full power on a regular basis, it can expose the students to a greater amount of the pressures they can expect in a real fight.  This is an advantage that can not be overlooked and one that was witnessed in the clash of styles in the early days of mixed martial arts competitions.  Styles with apparently lethal elements that were considered too dangerous to use in regular training did poorly, precisely because they had never been exposed to the cauldron of live training against resisting partners.

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