Unfortunately, this is not a simple yes or no answer.
Sport jiu-jitsu will help you to develop the body awareness and coordination necessary to protect yourself in a self-defense situation, and you will certainly learn enough submissions to find a way to end the fight if necessary. You should know, however, that getting hit sucks, and it can be very disorienting if you’re not used to grappling in a way that accounts for the possibility of strikes.
If you are looking to BJJ for self-defense reasons, learning the self-defense techniques and drills in BJJ will serve your interests best. In this curriculum, you’ll learn to deal with strikes—standing and on the ground—and you’ll learn to escape and counter the most common grabs and holds that you are likely to encounter at your favorite Roadhouse style bar fight. As you learn more sport jiu-jitsu, you’ll see that most of these moves are responses for your opponent doing something really stupid, from a purely technical grappling perspective, and for that reason, training nothing but self-defense can quickly become very boring.
Many BJJ students learn the self-defense applications of BJJ early-on in their careers and look to sport BJJ for continued enjoyment. In sport BJJ, the problems are more complex, and thus more challenging, because your opponent knows not to hang on to a headlock when you are transitioning into technical mount. This makes BJJ much more fun in the long run, and with the self-defense foundation already established, your advanced knowledge of positioning, leverage, and timing will only make your self-defense skills sharper and more effective.
For some situations, yes. Any good academy will teach some self defence stuff. Self defence is mostly focused on the larger percentage who have little to no grappling skills.
As long as it’s one on one scenario’s, it’s very effective for self defence. Against, grappling, strikes, and even some weapon defences. Or though, running is probably your best defence against weapons.
BJJ is not good for multiple attackers due to the nature numbers attacking you from the ground easier than when you’re on your feet.
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Unfortunately, this is not a simple yes or no answer.
Sport jiu-jitsu will help you to develop the body awareness and coordination necessary to protect yourself in a self-defense situation, and you will certainly learn enough submissions to find a way to end the fight if necessary. You should know, however, that getting hit sucks, and it can be very disorienting if you’re not used to grappling in a way that accounts for the possibility of strikes.
If you are looking to BJJ for self-defense reasons, learning the self-defense techniques and drills in BJJ will serve your interests best. In this curriculum, you’ll learn to deal with strikes—standing and on the ground—and you’ll learn to escape and counter the most common grabs and holds that you are likely to encounter at your favorite Roadhouse style bar fight. As you learn more sport jiu-jitsu, you’ll see that most of these moves are responses for your opponent doing something really stupid, from a purely technical grappling perspective, and for that reason, training nothing but self-defense can quickly become very boring.
Many BJJ students learn the self-defense applications of BJJ early-on in their careers and look to sport BJJ for continued enjoyment. In sport BJJ, the problems are more complex, and thus more challenging, because your opponent knows not to hang on to a headlock when you are transitioning into technical mount. This makes BJJ much more fun in the long run, and with the self-defense foundation already established, your advanced knowledge of positioning, leverage, and timing will only make your self-defense skills sharper and more effective.
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As long as it’s one on one scenario’s, it’s very effective for self defence. Against, grappling, strikes, and even some weapon defences. Or though, running is probably your best defence against weapons.
BJJ is not good for multiple attackers due to the nature numbers attacking you from the ground easier than when you’re on your feet.
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