Never Use Jiu-Jitsu In A Street Fight… Here's Why

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1. Do you think Jiu-Jitsu is Good or Bad in Street Fights?
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2. When someone throws a punch at you, they're giving you their arm.

3. I've said it before and I'll say it again: rolling about on the floor fighting is no good in a real fight, that's why MMA is really just a sport. Boxing is good and karate is good (if you're any good at fighting with it).

4. Because of your videos I decided to take up boxing. I found a good training and I had my first lesson this last Sunday. I love every painful step I take now. 😁

5. Why are "Jiu Jitsu doesn't work" videos aways made by people who never trained actual jiu jitsu?

6. I am curious if low kicks (kyokushin / muay thai) would work in a street fight.

7. This video seemingly forgets the Gracie Self-Defense approach to Jiu Jitsu. One could simply look to Gracie Combatives as a counter-example. Moreover, there's no-gi Jiu Jitsu that doesn't require the uniform. In short, this video seems to interpret one sub-branch of sport BJJ as the whole picture. Man, just check out Renzo's latest fight. He did very well using BJJ….

8. This channel and Gabriel Varga are 2 of the best martial arts channels on YT, along with Jesse Enkamp, Machida Karate and Ramsey Dewey.

9. He's talking about Brazilian jiu-jitsu not actual jiu-jitsu there is a difference

10. No I think in my opinion ( I love BJJ) the number 1 reason why I don't use it for self defense is is the training its self for example the jiujitsu get up vs a tactical get up. I would never put my hands on the ground in a street fight. I want my hands in front all times. This is why you should cross train wrestling and kick boxing with some judo thrown in

11. You could always carry a 9mm and train how to use it. That works too. P.S the jail time is the same if you beat someone to death or shoot them.

12. Boxing sparring to any level of realism with any degree of regularity leads to brain damage. I'd rather focus on grappling and keep my faculties.

13. I did box as an amateur but also trained in muay thai as well, this was years ago before mma, i felt muay thai was so much more realistic in a street defence situation, although being aware of what's going on around you is top priority.

14. For me, the most dangerous guy in a street fight is a judo expert. Because he will throw you easily, and the concrete floor is the toughest guy around.
    But other than that, street fights are about strikes, numbers, and foul play. You don't do jiu-jitsu against multiple enemies. You don't go to the ground or you get soccer-kicked in the head. There's always a metal bar, a plank of wood, a knife or a glass bottle aiming at you.
    You want to survive a street-fight? Don't be there. Weight your actions, your placement. Avoid bad places, bad times, and bad people. Reduce the chances for it to happen.

15. Japanese JuJutsu includes strikes, does it not? In fact, it is a more offensive rather than a defensive art like BJJ, no? At least that's what I've read and heard. Just asking for clarity. Seems like the way forward is to learn boxing and JuJutsu. Being able to fight up and down seems to be the way to go. Then again, Tae Kwon Do has some kicks that can be devastating. Muy Thai also has this. So which? All? I mean kicks are slower than punches, close kicks are easier to land, and you can't do either laying down, so where do you start?

16. Use any technique that the situation requires. And, don't give a shite what fight style you utilize, its a street fight! , you are not knocking out 4 people in 4 seconds , unless you are in a movie. Because, If you are the guy that can beat 4 guys at once, you don't need street fighting tips, do you .

17. Nah. I'll basically always use jiujitsu in a street fight.

    Nothing works against multiple attackers, boxers get tackled, grapplers get mobbed, you're always going to the ground in that case. And if you're going to the ground, you need jiujitsu, or a weapon.

    Thumbnail has a dude in a hoodie, but you advocate no-gi. Makes no sense. Gi is clothing. Gi teaches you to handle people who grab YOUR clothing, you don't have to be cross choking bad guys ina real fight, but the existence of fabric changes the dynamic of any fight.

18. The New York subway ex marine disagreed

19. In a street fight, Judo has been most effective. From the clinch to the ground.

20. Grappling in general, not just jiu jitsu but wrestling counts too, is one of those things that if you don't know it you could get pretty easily owned and I even mean for high level strikers(look at how hard gracie jiu jitsu just owned early UFC). Just think of it like this, what if a skilled boxer meets an untrained street fighter? The boxer should simply own the street fighter in the majority of cases and if no other reason that the street fighter is largely clueless about timing, distance, pacing, etc. The same kind of thing is true of someone that is clueless about grappling. Are your arms too far from your side? I'll take down easily if so. Are your legs too narrow? I'll take you down easily if so. Are you standing too straight or too hunched over? I'll take you down easily if so, etc, etc.

    It wasn't that gracie jiu jitsu was just that awesome or whatever but rather that most people were clueless about grappling at that time and often got owned as a result. I'm going to broadly just call it "grappling" but I think another distinction could be made between various forms of wrestling and straight up ground grappling like jiu jitsu. I train Muay Thai and Jiu jitsu, have competed in both, and although I don't have high level wins I do have a good record in both and I've been stabbed in a street fight before. My view on the ground in a street fight is "I only want to be there if I'm the one that put us there and in any other case I'm scrambling to get up". The ground in a street fight can be extremely dangerous but also realistically speaking those situations are really rare. The overwhelming majority of the time in my life I've had to resort to violence outside of a ring it was the kind of situation where some asshole got out of line and restraining him was actually the best route. If I use Muay Thai bare knuckle they are going to be bleeding in a large percentage of cases whereas with jiu jitsu I can take some asshole down and control him without myself or him getting any injury. I can also use the same basic move to break his arm and rip ligaments in such a way that would require several surgeries. There isn't nearly as much of a throttle with striking as with grappling. The tldr is: it depends on the situation and terrain and saying otherwise is like saying everything is a nail for which your hammer is the perfect tool.

21. Best course of action is to stand up fight unless you're taken down. Remember if you on the ground you can't escape.

22. You've got a whole year under your belt? Ok, im taking notes now! :p

23. All fighting styles are useful, BUT… I LOVE boxing and judo!

24. 99% of Streetfight is handicap match
    So you will get reward of ( dumbest person in the world) 😂😂

25. Gracie Juitsu is self defense. However bjj is sport!

26. You know Dorian Yates on worked out 2 hours a week, a lot of street fights I've seen online look pretty scrappy, like if I offered any advice or would be, be Dorian yates

27. killer

28. I've trained BJJ for 3 years and it didn't give me the confidence to fight. Only when I went to boxing, I got my confidence. However, if I had not been trained BJJ for 3 years, I would not get to that level of confidence.

29. I know that damn near everyone in this comment section is a master, but i see no one mentioning the most dangerous thing about street fights…theres no rules. You a "trained fighter" also have been taught rules which will severely hold you back in any situation. That "confidence" will get you killed. Guns, sword, knives and sticks are equalizers in fights of any kind trained or not. To put it simply you can train 30 years and some kid with a gun can end you after a purchasing a gun the day before. My advice to anyone who thinks thier a bad ass after doing martial arts training, remember a bullet, a stab or blunt force can render years of training useless. Dont be stupid in the streets.

30. imho, Sambo is the best martial art out there, for both self-defence and competitions, it allows everything regular punches, kicks, elbows, and knees, as well as soccer kicks, headbutts and groin strikes, in addition to throws, holds, chokes and locks, except for a standing or flying wristbar, even though it is often mixed with sanda since sambo focuses more on the ground and sanda is kickboxing but with more grappling, however, among the best fighters of Sambo there are fighters such as Khabib Nurmagomedov, Merab Dvalishvili, Alexey Oleynik, Islam Makhachev and Fyodor Emelianenko

31. I agree with all your points great video. I train the Japanese juijitsu. It is mostly throws like judo with a arm and wrist lock but we do stand up fighting also.

32. The reasons mentioned are easily debunked. Jiu Jitsu does have strike defense, it just shows you have no knowledge about the sport. Google punch block series. Whats more BJJ has striking as well. The fqct that a lot of gyms do not train the old skool self defense BJJ does not mean it does not exist! Watch Hickson Gracie fights, plenty of example of Vale Tudo fights boxer vs BJJ, usually ends up badly for the striker. The 4 vs 1 is also plain bullshit argument, 4 vs 1, you run, or die….

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