Fighting Sports: Striking vs. Grappling
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Sneakattack 
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 Posted: 07:16PM Oct 21, 2011 |
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Fighting sports are quite popular around the world. From boxing to muay thai to UFC, there are many combat sports. But when it comes down to it, there are two styles of fighting: striking and grappling.
Striking is fighting off the ground, like boxing and kickboxing. Grappling is wrestling and hitting on the ground, and it includes submission holds and body slams.
My question for you is, which style do you think is better? If you took a guy that specialized in grappling, and a guy that specialized in striking, who do you think has the better chance of winning in a UFC match?
Of course, a grappler has some striking experience, but he prefers the ground. And a striker might have a little ground experience, but he prefers staying off the ground.
So what do you think? If you were starting UFC in a year, and you had to choose one main style, not half and half, which one would you focus on more?
I personally would choose striking, for if I was one, I would be used to being hurt, and I could dominate a grappler if he couldn't get me down.
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The_Spider
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Posted: 02:26PM Oct 27, 2011 |
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Ha, actually this was the original point of the UFC, to determine what fighting style would work best in single combat. The Gracie family, practioners of brazilian Jiu Jitsu (bjj) were able to dominate the early UFCs with their grappling style. As the sport evolved, more people became familar and incorparted some degree of bjj into their style. In single combat against untrained/marginally trained people, bjj is very difficult to beat, however, at elite levels its much more complex.
In the UFC today, its wrestlers which seem to have the best base to work from. The strength of wrestling is the ability to keep the fight in your area of choosing with the ability (at least in theory) to both secure takedowns on strikers and stuff take downs from grapplers. Moreso, if a wrestler can secure top control, he has a very good chance of holding down an opponent and inflicting damage. His main concern is avoiding submission attempts (triangle chokes, armbars, etc) which is why every legitimate fighter has some amount of bjj training.
All in all, every aspect of fighting is important. In some circumstances striking might serve you better then grappling and vice versa. For pure self defense, judo is an excellent martial art as it involves incapaciting throws which you use and then easily get away from the encounter.
but anyway, to answer your question, no one starts "ufc" in a year as it inself is not a sport but an mma organization, and even though you would absolutely have to train in multiple disciplines, I would choose grappling
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