Teenager attacked: lucky he didn't get his nose and fingers bitten off while using BJJ only to defend himself. What do you think?

[SeekerOfTruth007]

I wrote that a simple groin kick or throat punch followed by TMA Japanese jiu jitsu wrist locks would have worked.

It's great that the kid "defended himself" using what he was trained in, but this proves my point that BJJ is for SPORT FIGHTING where there are 30-something major rules and over 100 BANNED striking and submissions. Real street fights involve biting, spitting, groin attacks and throat attacks.

Kid is also lucky he didn' tget bitten in the jugular or carotid, he'd be dead before the ambulance arrived.

Japanese Jiu Jitsu combined with Karate striking can win this fight without getting bitten and without ever even getting hit by the attacker. I know, I've defended myself with those techniques several times as both a teenager and an adult.

[Chazmatazz269]

You’re a knucklehead. Brazilian jiu jitsu didn’t begin as an athletic event. Just because this kid didn’t murder his attacker, that doesn’t mean you can’t be killed by someone using jiu jitsu, or otherwise permanently disfigured and disabled.

[SeekerOfTruth007]

The kid admitted that every time he went for a throw, he got bitten. looks like a flaw in the system. Like I said its a good thing he didn't get bitten in the Carotid.

I never said BJJ was useles, it's just not the perfect system they make it out to be. Heck I even trained in BJJ for 1.5 years to polish up my ground game. Anyway, going for double underhooks in a street fight is a dumb thing to do. If the opponent draws a weapon, you'll never see it until the third or fourth time you get stabbed (or shot).

[SeekerOfTruth007]

Like for example, there are karate and JJJ techniques for fighting a larger opponent in a street self defense situation, which don't involve trying to go belly to belly underhooks.

You could oblique kick to the knee or cross heel stomp kick to the inside of the opposite knee 9perhaps in the clinch). The latter of which is a gravity assisted kick banned in MMA because at full power it destroys the opponent's knee for life.

There's a reason so many karate and JJJ moves are banned in MMA, because they work for life and death combat. Again, I'm not saying BJJ is "useless", any martial arts training helps in a self defense situation, but it just never made sense ot go belly to belly with a larger opponent ins a self defense situation.