You see, when it comes to fighting from the ground, as with fighting on your feet there are a number of misconceptions about what really happens when you’re fighting for your life.
90% to 95% Percent of Fights Go to the Ground? Really?
Over 20 years ago, a highly publicized statistic went around to promote ground-grappling by stating that 90% - 95% percent of fights go to the ground.
During that time, the 90% quote was tossed around so much that it took on a life of its own and became accepted as a fact by the average martial artist, and in particular by the ground-grappling community. Today in some quarters if you questioned this “fact”, you’re labeled a stupid traditionalist who doesn’t know what “real fighting” is.
One study used to validate this, was an ASLET (American Society of Law Enforcement Training) report that was referenced during a 1997 LAPD training seminar on the use of force.
However, here’s the truth: the quoted ASLET study says no such thing and is a perfect illustration of how a little knowledge, especially if misunderstood or misrepresented and used out of context, can take on a potentially dangerous life of its own.
According to author Chris Leblanc, “Going to the Ground: Lessons from Law Enforcement” (Journal of Non-Lethal Combatives, 2007) the report concluded:
“Nearly two thirds of the 1988 altercations studied (62%) ended with the officer and subject on the ground with the officer applying a joint lock and handcuffing the subject.”
What the vast majority of people don’t know (including many ground grapplers), is that this statistic is based on “police arrests” and not two private citizens fighting each other, and that the police were trained to take a subject to the ground during an arrest, being that it is easier to restrain a person there with fewer injuries to the subject being restrained.
So basically the act of taking an assailant to the ground is done to protect them "for their own safety", and not the police officers'!
Think about that!
Question: why would you want to learn something that is safer for your attacker (if you employ it against them), than for you?
It just doesn't make sense!
Understand that police officers are required by law and policy to “stop” an attacker so control through nonlethal means is a required skill. However, you and I as private citizens are under no obligation to control an attacker.
I've personally seen how this misuse of statistics in the martial arts has also seeped into the military as well and is not only disingenuous but it creates in the mind of the general public that this is true of ALL altercations whether they involve law enforcement or not. Which is exactly the impression they wanted to create.
This is where faulty, even dangerous thinking comes in. As we like to say, a real fight is CHAOS where anything goes. So why place yourself unnecessarily at an obvious disadvantage trying to grapple with and control an attacker?
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Listen, I get it! I used to wrestle in high school and yeah, grappling is a lot of fun but ground grappling is a sport. And trying to control people from the ground is a dangerous proposition when your life is on the line.
If you’re “hoping” those techniques will work during the utter chaos of a real altercation I have bad news for you.
“Hope” in a fight for your life is not a plan!
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