A weird UFC rule and...a flaw in the Brazilian jiu-jitsu system?

[1392477]

Cross training and conditioning are key.

All arts have something to offer and your practical knowledge of them can only help your game.

While hardly anyone can COMPLETELY MASTER a martial art you can train for a while and subtract as much practical information that can help you personally. We all have different body types and levels of strength and flexibility - this will dictate which arts/ techniques are more suited to our game.

I am personally a big guy with good flexibility and good strength. In the past I have studied Kung Fu, Judo, Tae Kwon Do and I now train in no-gi BJJ with Eddie Bravo in Hollywood. There is no way I can do what Eddie does - he is much smaller and much more flexible than I am. What I do is pick up what works for me and add that to my personal arsenal. I can power out of a lot of guards and just pick guys up and slam them (a la Quinton Jackson) because of my size and strength. The downside is my long limbs make for easier armlocks and leglocks for a skilled submission artist.

My goal is to knock you out before getting to the ground and if taken down, to get back up quickly. I need to know the BJJ basics to survive on the ground but I will probably not finish you from there unless you do something really stupid like give me your back.

A streetfight is a completely different world and I would sugest you avoid them by any means. Very little good can come of it and even if you win there can be legal ramifications that will haunt you forever.

 

[MikeMartial]

"To beat a martial artist that's been training for 15 years, all you need to do is box and wrestle for 1 year, and he's yours." -Bruce Lee

Bruce knew all he needed to know about MMA (JKD, if you will) before the MMA world even knew it existed.

 

[Kane Fan]

My belief is that anything called a "style" or having such a definition would most likley be incomplete. Not sure how you could see it otherwise. If you think about it a style is alot like saying "I have set limitations, if you do anything other than the movements set for this technique then it no longer is my style." Patterns, set movements, moves away from actual combat. How can a style having throws, but no punches be complete, or having only strikes but no way to use these effectively once on the ground. All styles are "flawed".

what if you combine several arts into your own style
then it's hardly limitied but could still be called a style

 

[Kane Fan]

Cross training and conditioning are key.

All arts have something to offer and your practical knowledge of them can only help your game.

While hardly anyone can COMPLETELY MASTER a martial art you can train for a while and subtract as much practical information that can help you personally. We all have different body types and levels of strength and flexibility - this will dictate which arts/ techniques are more suited to our game.

I am personally a big guy with good flexibility and good strength. In the past I have studied Kung Fu, Judo, Tae Kwon Do and I now train in no-gi BJJ with Eddie Bravo in Hollywood. There is no way I can do what Eddie does - he is much smaller and much more flexible than I am. What I do is pick up what works for me and add that to my personal arsenal. I can power out of a lot of guards and just pick guys up and slam them (a la Quinton Jackson) because of my size and strength. The downside is my long limbs make for easier armlocks and leglocks for a skilled submission artist.

My goal is to knock you out before getting to the ground and if taken down, to get back up quickly. I need to know the BJJ basics to survive on the ground but I will probably not finish you from there unless you do something really stupid like give me your back.

A streetfight is a completely different world and I would sugest you avoid them by any means. Very little good can come of it and even if you win there can be legal ramifications that will haunt you forever.

I'm big and strong so I can do a lot of good things on the ground, getting out of guard is usually quite easy for me
and controlling top possition to
my guardwork itself is iffy tho
handily I dont' really have long legs or arms tho that's a pain in the ass for outside striking but on the ground it's cool

 

[PyRoTeK]

what if you combine several arts into your own style
then it's hardly limitied but could still be called a style

This is the point. Kempo works by getting you to use your tools, or your strenghts. Alot like what 1392477 was saying. Use what you have, what you know. Jeet Kune Do, this becomes your style for lack of a better word. Take what you can use, from anything that you can think of to give you the edge.
However, becareful what it is you actually are saying. Are you saying learn a bunch of styles? This is like taking a rock and putting it in your pocket. It soon will weigh you down. Now, if you mean take what you can use from each style, then yes, I agree with you 100%. The Jeet Kune Do Foundation teaches the "original" Jeet Kune Do consisiting of French Fencing, Wing Chun Gung Fu, and Western Boxing. In Lee's Book, he has taken more than the main three. He has incorped Kempo, wrestling, jujitsu, to name a few more.
If you read still further, he has another book which is titled The Art of Expressing the Body. It clearly shows how he evolves his workouts. Evolve, change, adapt, survive. This is much like Jeet Kune Do. You use it, and it changes with you. Study all martial arts, take what you learn and use it, leave the rest.

 

[Kane Fan]

well the main point was defining something as a style dosnt make it useless

 

[1392477]

in summary, thanks to PyRoTeK:

Study all martial arts, take what you learn and use it, leave the rest.

 

[Kane Fan]

I dunno if you'll have time to study all of them
but study as many as you can

 

[Djimbe]

actually te ppl that are the Best Successes are the ppl that study somethitn REALLY REALLY WELL and OWN it , then make up for the holes in it with a Secondary skill .