Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31529160-20171201171711/@comment-32783267-20171206032819

@GBL1111

I forgot to talk about Volkan in my previous (comedic) reply. Yeah, that guy is very interesting because he appears to touch people to sleep lol. He is Rumble's sparring partner so I expect nothing less, though I still suspect his gas tank as he put up a lethargic performance against OSP if I recall correctly. Will he No Time DC or got wrestlefucked or gassed like Rumble did with DC is something I would like to see.

@Armbar and @CanadianOracle

Well, I'm a university student in Burma and as you know life here isn't easy. Martial arts are not top priority here for self defence here, as we all devolve into grabbing whether within our reach and strike with them instead of devolving into a ground fight, which would be a tactical suicide if other guys jump in. Maybe that's the reason why ground emphasis styles are not popular or growing here yet... but time will tell. So, my experience is primarily striking with a little grappling knowledge, surprise wrist locks and hand fighting from instructionals and YT, so I might be a little biased in my discussions. But I will try to keep my mind as open as possible here. As I said above most alteration here involves a weapon so it would make more sense for us to use striking more likely to finish a guy off.

I saw many people shiting on training with Gi in BJJ or considering wrestling superior to Judo for not being dependent on clothing. But when I think about it, you and your opponent will be wearing some form of clothing in a real life altercation most of the time, unless the weather is hot like here in south east asia. So, it would be very valuable to be able to manipulate your opponent's clothing to create leverage while defending yourself from getting manipulated by your own clothing really.

Only gyms we got here that are close to a complete game are Kyokushin and Lethwei gyms. But Lethwei is considered a little barbaric and many famous Lethwei guys here are from Kyokushin so yeah. I suggested Judo because unlike Gracies who usually bullies larger guys with no ground knowledge but got whooped when the larger guy knows ground game, Judo was developed for everyone to use on anyone originally. But Kano introduced weight classes in Judo to increase marketablity, many Judokas left because they felt their judo should be able to be applicable on anyone regardless of size. So apparently, OG judokas can throw bigger judokas and made no excuses in the past, while Gracies complained Kimura outweighed Helio when it was Helio who outweighed Kimura.. talk about marketing BJJ as a little man's style. Oh, and considering themselves a moral victor when they just didn't tap due to family ego. Sorry, it quite turned into a Dis-Gracie rant but my image of them is just quite.. broken.

To conclude, the most effective style around here is verbal Aikido and 'look-over-there' + long-distance sprinting realistically 😆