Monday, February 23, 2009
Why MMA will get you killed.
(from guest blogger Barry Gauntt)
MMA is great for the following things:
-fitness
-strength building
-confidence
-discipline and focus
-balance and reflexes
MMA is not good for the following things:
-combat
-weapons
-stealth and survival
-unarmed defense against weapons
-tactical movement
When you are in danger of loosing your life it is because of:
-armed attacker
-multiple attackers
-multiple armed attackers
-no avenue of escape
MMA teaches you to meet your “opponent head on”. That is great for sport but with weapons or with an unarmed enemy that means you deadly harm you must not move in too quickly. A real conflict requires mobility and that is hard to manage when you are grappling with someone. The next time you are rolling with your jujitsu buddies think about what would happen if they had guns or knives while they were grappling with you. The last place you want to be is all up in someone’s mix when the bullets are flying and the blades come out. That is why soldiers don’t choke people out, they use weapons and they grapple only to control an enemy. If you are trying to engage someone with empty hands then you have already failed to take the advantage form the start.
MMA teaches you to do certain things because you are not worried about attacks coming from certain angles or in certain positions. It trains you for the reality of the “cage fight” not the reality of a deadly brawl using weapons or lethal techniques. I can’t drop an elbow onto the back of your head where the spine meets the brain if I’m “on the mat” but in real life that is going to happen if some jack hole tries to get me with a double leg take down. Also I will cup my hands and force air into the inner ear as I slap at the sides of your head. Contrary to some popular beliefs it is almost impossible to fight with a ruptured ear drum and that is exactly what happens when you take a full strength open palm strike to the ear. Then there is biting, ripping, clawing and anything else that you can do to hurt the enemy. The point is training for sport makes you leave yourself open to deadly attacks that are forbidden in the “ring”. Why does this matter? If you don’t care about defense or survival then it doesn’t matter and you should focus on your sport. If you care about survival then recognize that real life and sports don’t have much in common so you must choose the system grounded in real conflict, not the arena.
If someone try’s to tackle me I’ll stab them, slash them and chop them like meat for my table. If someone tries to punch me I’ll take his fingers and maybe an ear. If they kick me I’ll puncture the inner thigh and groin severing a femoral and a bunch of tendons not to mention your junk. The problem with unarmed fighting is you are going to die- period. I will not show you mercy just because you don’t have a weapon, if you try and hurt me or my family I will crush your bones to powder as I savagely butcher your flesh. You would beg your god for deliverance before your world fades to black and I will have no sorrow for what I did because you gave me no choice but to act. That is what combat means to the non-athlete, it isn’t a spectacle of bright lights and fan fare. Combat means somebody dies- no one looks forward to that, not even those Special Forces guys who train to kill all day long. We are all people and we have feelings, it hurts to hurt others and if it didn’t the world would be a place of hellish conflict and ruthless survival. Maybe it already is.
-Thinking about mercy
There is no excuse for fighting, it’s the most stupid thing you could ever do right up there next to huffing jet fuel or piercing your frontal lobe with a drill press. The only time you should engage someone in combat is when there is no other alternative. Once you make the decision to enter combat you should destroy the threat or at least control it with extreme prejudice. That means no mercy. That means break him so he can’t stand anymore, crush him so he can’t fight anymore or cut him so he can’t hold his weapon. Only the strongest beast has the luxury of extending mercy to his enemy, if you want to show mercy then you must be the strongest without question. If you are not the strongest then the other beast will know and they will take you apart. Then where would your mercy have gotten you?
In nature mercy occurs when one animal recognizes that it would be too costly to engage another animal, its automatic. That is how it is done with nature; with people it is more complicated. People are not as smart as animals so one person doesn’t know that the other person will kill them if they try and attack him. They won’t be able to sense that the target is a higher threat than they are so the only way to control them is to overwhelm them with force. If you dominate the enemy and break his spirit then he will have nothing left to fuel his fire. A couple of broken ribs, a few concussions and a dislocated wrist ought to do the trick if your feeling sporty, a quick elbow strike to the temple followed by a knee break if your not in the mood for games.
I train with weapons so I think like a weapon guy. I strike your head, neck, spine and major joints. I train to strike lethal targets fast and with mechanical repetition. What does that mean for the guy who tried to hit me with his flying knee? It means that he gets a free trip to meet his god. Plus because you obviously attempted a “sophisticated mma attack” I have to assume you are a trained fighter and then I can use a little “juice” on you without fearing a grand jury. “Why did you carve that man up MR. So and So?” “Well your honor he tackled me using some kind or jujitsu stuff and got on top of me like he was going to beat my teeth through the back of my head”. I don’t condone brutal violence for no reason but if somebody thinks he is going to hurt me then he and everyone who is with him is in for a surprise. If it is a question of them or me then I choose me and they can suck a fat one in hell for trying to hurt me or my loved ones. Life isn’t fair and I don’t think I’m going to loose sleep over someone who places no value on their own existence. To attack a stranger is to invite calamity, do so at your own risk.
MMA is great for the following things:
-fitness
-strength building
-confidence
-discipline and focus
-balance and reflexes
MMA is not good for the following things:
-combat
-weapons
-stealth and survival
-unarmed defense against weapons
-tactical movement
When you are in danger of loosing your life it is because of:
-armed attacker
-multiple attackers
-multiple armed attackers
-no avenue of escape
MMA teaches you to meet your “opponent head on”. That is great for sport but with weapons or with an unarmed enemy that means you deadly harm you must not move in too quickly. A real conflict requires mobility and that is hard to manage when you are grappling with someone. The next time you are rolling with your jujitsu buddies think about what would happen if they had guns or knives while they were grappling with you. The last place you want to be is all up in someone’s mix when the bullets are flying and the blades come out. That is why soldiers don’t choke people out, they use weapons and they grapple only to control an enemy. If you are trying to engage someone with empty hands then you have already failed to take the advantage form the start.
MMA teaches you to do certain things because you are not worried about attacks coming from certain angles or in certain positions. It trains you for the reality of the “cage fight” not the reality of a deadly brawl using weapons or lethal techniques. I can’t drop an elbow onto the back of your head where the spine meets the brain if I’m “on the mat” but in real life that is going to happen if some jack hole tries to get me with a double leg take down. Also I will cup my hands and force air into the inner ear as I slap at the sides of your head. Contrary to some popular beliefs it is almost impossible to fight with a ruptured ear drum and that is exactly what happens when you take a full strength open palm strike to the ear. Then there is biting, ripping, clawing and anything else that you can do to hurt the enemy. The point is training for sport makes you leave yourself open to deadly attacks that are forbidden in the “ring”. Why does this matter? If you don’t care about defense or survival then it doesn’t matter and you should focus on your sport. If you care about survival then recognize that real life and sports don’t have much in common so you must choose the system grounded in real conflict, not the arena.
If someone try’s to tackle me I’ll stab them, slash them and chop them like meat for my table. If someone tries to punch me I’ll take his fingers and maybe an ear. If they kick me I’ll puncture the inner thigh and groin severing a femoral and a bunch of tendons not to mention your junk. The problem with unarmed fighting is you are going to die- period. I will not show you mercy just because you don’t have a weapon, if you try and hurt me or my family I will crush your bones to powder as I savagely butcher your flesh. You would beg your god for deliverance before your world fades to black and I will have no sorrow for what I did because you gave me no choice but to act. That is what combat means to the non-athlete, it isn’t a spectacle of bright lights and fan fare. Combat means somebody dies- no one looks forward to that, not even those Special Forces guys who train to kill all day long. We are all people and we have feelings, it hurts to hurt others and if it didn’t the world would be a place of hellish conflict and ruthless survival. Maybe it already is.
-Thinking about mercy
There is no excuse for fighting, it’s the most stupid thing you could ever do right up there next to huffing jet fuel or piercing your frontal lobe with a drill press. The only time you should engage someone in combat is when there is no other alternative. Once you make the decision to enter combat you should destroy the threat or at least control it with extreme prejudice. That means no mercy. That means break him so he can’t stand anymore, crush him so he can’t fight anymore or cut him so he can’t hold his weapon. Only the strongest beast has the luxury of extending mercy to his enemy, if you want to show mercy then you must be the strongest without question. If you are not the strongest then the other beast will know and they will take you apart. Then where would your mercy have gotten you?
In nature mercy occurs when one animal recognizes that it would be too costly to engage another animal, its automatic. That is how it is done with nature; with people it is more complicated. People are not as smart as animals so one person doesn’t know that the other person will kill them if they try and attack him. They won’t be able to sense that the target is a higher threat than they are so the only way to control them is to overwhelm them with force. If you dominate the enemy and break his spirit then he will have nothing left to fuel his fire. A couple of broken ribs, a few concussions and a dislocated wrist ought to do the trick if your feeling sporty, a quick elbow strike to the temple followed by a knee break if your not in the mood for games.
I train with weapons so I think like a weapon guy. I strike your head, neck, spine and major joints. I train to strike lethal targets fast and with mechanical repetition. What does that mean for the guy who tried to hit me with his flying knee? It means that he gets a free trip to meet his god. Plus because you obviously attempted a “sophisticated mma attack” I have to assume you are a trained fighter and then I can use a little “juice” on you without fearing a grand jury. “Why did you carve that man up MR. So and So?” “Well your honor he tackled me using some kind or jujitsu stuff and got on top of me like he was going to beat my teeth through the back of my head”. I don’t condone brutal violence for no reason but if somebody thinks he is going to hurt me then he and everyone who is with him is in for a surprise. If it is a question of them or me then I choose me and they can suck a fat one in hell for trying to hurt me or my loved ones. Life isn’t fair and I don’t think I’m going to loose sleep over someone who places no value on their own existence. To attack a stranger is to invite calamity, do so at your own risk.
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