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| | Going To The Ground…Are You Kidding Me?!!?! |
| By Joseph Riggio, Ph.D., Guided Chaos Student Practitioner |
| "The
main reason for learning Guided Chaos is protection from murderous
street attacks. Not for sparring...Contact Flow and Combat Flow are only
tools for developing the five principles of GC: Balance, Body Unity,
Pliability and Sensitivity--culminating in the final principle: Total
Freedom of Action"
---Grandmaster John Perkins |
| Why You Shouldn’t Grapple in a Street Fight
Here's
the simple truth, all other things being equal (and they seldom if ever
are) ... strikers will always beat grapplers on the street.
”In
a real street situation MMA/BJJ will likely get you hurt or killed if
you try to apply it the way it’s used in the ring or octagon - on the
street there are no rules, and there is no padding.”
You
must know how to strike (first) and kick (second) to survive a street
situation, especially against more than one opponent ... FORGET GOING TO
THE GROUND!!!
I’ve worked in many clubs in the U.S. and the U.K,
as a doorman, and if anyone "went to the ground" who was on my staff I
did two things in sequence: 1) saved their ass from the many kicks they
were receiving from "on-lookers" and 2) immediately fired them from my
staff when the dust settled. I’ve never seen someone go to the ground
intentionally in a street fight against a hardened fighter and get back
up.
If you wanted to survive the club scene working the door or
the floor you needed to know how to keep your feet, striking skills,
some disarmament techniques against weapons - improvised and other, the
ability to submit someone in a STANDING position to walk them out ...
and some serious attitude (all in the order presented, except attitude
which was the umbrella under which all other things reside).
My first issue with grappling and going to the ground
is that often grapplers lead with their head, and heads aren't
effective at blocking … no matter what you may have seen in the movies.
In
boxing and MMA bouts we see folks take strikes to the head and shake
them off. However, there are three critical aspects to these strikes:
- They
are being delivered with gloves on that soften the blow significantly,
even if it’s only an 8 ounce boxing glove or a MMA glove.
- They
are being delivered to prepared opponents that are highly trained and
fit so very seldom does the strike land as solidly as it may look to the
audience.
- These
folks are conditioned to absorb more punishment than the person on the
street…including most fit people and even well trained athletes who are
not professional fighters.
We’ve
also seen single blow knockouts in plenty of boxing and MMA matches.
For example, Connor Mc Gregor’s 13 second knockout of Jose Aldo was a
one punch strike to the head, delivered to a trained and very tough
opponent. That would have been very bad for Jose Aldo in a street fight,
and that’s my main point.
If you watch the Mc Gregor strike in
slow motion you’ll see that Connor Mc Gregor is standing almost straight
up the whole time, with his head away from the fray so to speak.
Meanwhile, Jose Aldo leans in, leading with his head, every time he
tries to strike. Jose Aldo has his head literally fully extended past
his body towards Connor Mc Gregor just as Mc Gregor nails him with a
blow that has his full body behind it like a sledgehammer, and knocks
him out. That’s my point in spades: some grapplers tend to lead with
their heads.
My second point with grapplers in street fights is
that they often try to hold on to their opponents even as they are
getting struck. This just makes it easier to keep hitting them for the
most part. They assume that the opponent is also trying to grapple
instead of just knocking their block off with any strike available to
them … hands, elbows, forearms, shoulders, knees, feet, and of course
their own head too.
For instance, a favored move for many
grapplers is grabbing at an opponent’s arms, legs or clothing in
preparation for executing a throw or shooting the opponent for a
take-down.
Depending on the way the throw or shoot to take down
is executed the grappler often exposes the back or top of their head to
the opponent while they are holding on to them. This actually helps the
opponent maintain proper positioning for a well executed strike. Again, a
very big mistake that’s potentially deadly on the street. You do not
want your head to be below someone’s hands or other weapons even for an
instant on the street … ever … end of story.
A skilled street
fighter will feel the entry as you’re setting up your throw or shoot,
they may even set up the opening for you. In the instant you duck your
head to enter and get leverage they will strike the exposed part of your
head, often naturally with an elbow due to the body mechanics present.
A
third issue with grapplers on the street is the presumption that going
to the guard will work for them. Your opponent wouldn’t even have to
strike or spear you to make that obvious. Getting slammed into the
ground, on concrete, a tile or hardwood floor, or even just hard packed
dirt, is not like getting slammed into a padded floor in a sporting
event. They just need to pick you up and slam you down, very likely head
first. If that’s into the concrete … fight over.
Of course
we’re also ignoring the entire consideration of multiple attackers,
where while you have one person in the guard, the others are pummeling
you with their feet with kicks to the head, face, neck, ribs and
kidneys. Simply put, the guard really has no place on the street.
None
of this is overturned by the exceptions when a fight goes to the
ground, or a gappler wins the fight, or someone using the guard
overturns an opponent and wins the fight. There just is no good argument
for going to the ground as a strategy against an unknown opponent on
the street.
Okay, So That’s What You Should NOT Do in a Street Fight
While
I’m at it I want to attempt to overturn another bad idea in a street
fight, attempting to block as the first movement when someone attacks.
Unless
it’s absolutely necessary defensive blocking is inefficient and wasted
movement … unless it’s actually a disguised offensive movement.
Most
martial arts training begins with training to strike with blocking. I
spent years learning how to block strikes, even going so far as to
toughen up my forearms and shins to both become more effective weapons
and to be more able to block strikes from others. So I know the drills.
When
I began to box competitively I learned something different about
blocking and striking. As a boxer, it's much more important to learn to
bob and weave, use footwork, and get inside, than it is to block
incoming strikes. As you become a truly effective striker your need to
block becomes lessened, because you are more or less unavailable to be
hit when you're moving well.
By learning to move well, you don’t
allow your opponent the opportunity to strike you at all, and when you
can’t avoid the incoming strike learning to deflect it rather than
trying to stop it, so that your block becomes the set-up for a
counter-strike. Even more effective is allowing your counter-strike to
become your block. That's not to say you don't need to learn to cover up
or clinch, you do, but it's secondary to movement and counter-striking.
As
Guided Chaos practitioners, we do learn to both block and turn blocks
into blows with great specificity. A simple example is using the “answer
the telephone" movement to cover up our neck, ear and head from a
surprise strike coming in at us, while driving the elbow up into the
opponents face or head if possible.
This leads to the idea of
becoming a highly trained and effective striker, what I’d argue is at
the heart of the art of Guided Chaos, and essential in a street fight
scenario.
Using sensitivity we strive to become aware of where
the opponent is at all times, what they are doing (almost before they
know themselves they are doing it) and what is possible for them and us
given relational body dynamics and mechanics of engagement. Then we are
trained to strike and keep striking, using our strikes to prevent the
opponent from resetting and getting back into the fight until we’ve
effectively ended it.
Simultaneously with our focus on developing
sensitivity, and what I'd call "combat intuition” (the sixth sense some
fighters possess that makes them really difficult to hit or grab, and
on the other hand makes it easy for them to connect when, where and how
they want to), developing effective movement also becomes critical to
becoming a highly trained striker.
The way of movement in Guided
Chaos is really specific and frankly takes some time to get used to
because it's so natural. What I mean by that is that if you are
"trained" in a combat art you will have learned to move in a particular
way. For instance as a boxer I learned to keep up on my toes and only
plant my feet when I was throwing a punch, if at all ... constantly in
motion for the most part.
In Guided Chaos we move much less, in
fact only as necessary, and sometimes with an imperceptible shifting of
weight from one area of the foot to another (much like you might see a
Tai Chi player comment about). Yet despite the appearance of being
flat-footed you seldom see Guided Chaos Masters standing stock still for
even a moment in practice or when sparring.
This creates a very
silky and deceptive experience for the opponent. They don't perceive any
movement per se, but the dynamics have now changed such that the angles
of attack that were present a moment before cease to exist. Now where
they thought they had superior body mechanics, they are unable to either
strike or defend against a strike. The Guided Chaos folks refer to this
as "becoming invisible” … a throw back to the original name of the art,
Ki Chuan Do, the “Way of the Spirit Fist” … the art of being
simultaneously unavailable and unavoidable.
So you can see with
this art, "blocking" becomes less depended on, as well as learning to
"take a hit" (something that was essential as a boxer if you decided to
go toe-to-toe even for a couple of punches). In Guided Chaos we’re much
more impressed with someone who doesn’t get hit at all than with those
who can take a hit … or for that matter is an expert at blocking hits
that could have been simply avoided with enough skill in place instead.
The
presumption of being able to block and take a hit are more available as
options for larger individuals who are less trained and whose body
naturally allows them to absorb more punishment to handle conflict in
that way. But, put a 100 lb. woman up against a 250 lb. man, and let’s
for the sake of this discussion say they are equally trained, and she
better not try to either block or take a hit at all. And, forget about
“going to the ground” when your opponent has a 100 lbs. on you!!!
Sensitivity,
movement and the ability to strike, and to strike hard and accurately,
make all the difference when you are that 100 lb. man or woman. Now if
you are a 250 lb. man and you can still move and strike in such a way as
to not get hit AND you are able to land hard strikes at will ... well,
once again, “fight over” as they say.
Think about how all this
argues against “going to the ground” in a fight unless you find yourself
there without intention on your part, and then it would be best for you
if you’ve done some Guided Chaos Ground Fighting training until you can
get back to your feet and finish what got started in your favor.
So the moral of this story is:
Stay on your feet, finish what got started, and get yourself home safely. |
| | Dr. Joseph Riggio, Ph.D
is a cognitive scientist working in the field of elite performance and
decision making, renowned as an expert in neurocognition and somatics. |
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