Yeah as someone who trains regularly and recently heard/watched someone
try to rob the guy who owns the gym I train at, this mentality of “combat sports don’t work in real fighting” shit never fails to sound like 90s Mcdojo bs. Don’t even get me started on this weird ass assumption that fighters don’t fuckin have their own knives and guns IN THIS DAY AND AGE!!!!🤦🏾♂️
'the guy' you just mentioned is a BJJ black belt, who is NUMBER 1 BABY. He's internationally ranked in the single digits. That alone makes him 1% of 1%.
'That guy' is the pinnacle, or at the very least, damned close to it.
Do you genuinely believe that the average person has anywhere near that level of skill?
Do you genuinely believe he'd look that spotless if the guy had a knife?
I do, i believe he'd look spotless. Do you?
Guess what.
You are using success at the highest level to determine results at the below average level, because that';s where most people fall at. They train two days a week and forget about it between meals. Do you not see the error in logic here?
I have literally listed events where TOP athletes failed. I can list more, I can list guys i once trained with now dead, articles on them now, I can list more people in the USA earlier this year. I can link demos where someone got a marker and went ham. i can link the self defense championship, as laughable of an event as i found that to be, where top level athletes did a thing. Not too well at that.
This is the reality.
It takes a different mindset to be ready to cripple someone at a moment's notice. Do you not realize that the pinnacle usually have that? Mikey musumechi sent a guy away with lifelong injuries in a match. Do you think he did that by accident?
He is ready and willing to cripple someone for inconveniencing him.
This is self defense.
This is a trait that must be developed in order for good self defense.
Low level MMA does not give you this. Amateur MMA does not give you this. Pro Boxing, Pro Karate, does not give you this, I can guarantee that.
Combatives, real combatives. Are the only things that
self hypnotise you into entering that mindset. Most tma are combatives and have some form of self hypnosis, but good luck finding a teacher who knows them.
As for knives and guns...brother...
know what... sure...
I'm speechless.
Who's gonna have more readiness to knife someone, a desperate criminal with the knife in their pocket, or someone who stored the
knife in their backpack?
Guns? Just give the man your wallet if there's no obvious threat to your life. Does your coach really say to 'Shoot him back, knife him back'
I don't think so.
This whole reply has mainly been aimed at anyone who isn't you. Because, fundamentally, individuals will seek to confirm their own biases. I don't expect to change your mind with this. The last paragraph, is for you. An unfriendly piece of completely unsolicited advice.
You speak of hypotheticals, you speak of another man's achievements like you come even close to his greatness. Don't. Never inflate your ego with the skill of someone else, that's a very, very dangerous game to play. Don't become another article online trying to stop a barfight or fighting back a guy with a knife.