Timeline for How does a non-grappler train to be ready to avoid grappling in a real-world situation?
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| Jul 18, 2012 at 20:04 | comment | added | Robin Ashe | I've also stopped fights with words. Anything is within the realm of possibility, but a persistent grappler won't be stopped without grappling, or a rare knocked out cold strike before a clinch can be established. I prefer not to rely on any assumed rules while I'm working, and my caution, awareness and control at various pre-fight and post-fight stages have served me well. | |
| Jul 18, 2012 at 19:43 | comment | added | Robin Ashe | You do need a knockout, and pain only works on wimps. I've been hit hard enough that I had fish legs, and I dropped to the ground. I still got the takedown and mount. Context makes a difference, sure, but not to the extent you believe. In general, training and fighting MMA with skilled opponents is far more challenging than fighting on the street. I work as a bouncer, no rules in the bar or on the sidewalk. It doesn't change, I always get the clinch, and it's always way easier. | |
| Jul 18, 2012 at 19:37 | comment | added | Wayne In Yak | You don't need to knockout, stunning or severe pain can work too. If I stun someone for a second that sets up another chance for strikes, them getting stuck in an OODA loop, etc. In your case when you had your sublexed knee, was this a fight for your life or one with rules? Context does make a difference. | |
| Jul 18, 2012 at 19:22 | comment | added | Robin Ashe | Unless you actually break the knee, just kicking at it won't do anything, and even if you do, it's got to be broken badly. I've finished a fight with a subluxed knee cap, using grappling, and it didn't impede my progress in the least. I've also taken eye gouges and throat strikes, and neither did anything. If you're too crappy at striking that you can't land a knockout, you're screwed, and if you're good enough, you're better just trying to go for the elusive one hit KO. | |
| Jul 18, 2012 at 17:18 | comment | added | Wayne In Yak | I found eye jabs, throat strikes, and kicking to break a knee a good way as a striker to take the fight out of a grappler. | |
| Jul 17, 2012 at 22:47 | history | answered | Robin Ashe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |