Jiu jitsu cant replaced korean TKD.Read this!!
Many people say Taekwondo is just a sport and is useless on the
street. They say that the best self-defense style is grappling, as
popularized in Brazilian Jujitsu seen in Ultimate Fighting
Championship matches. Other mixed martial arts claim to be the best
for the street. But is there one "best" art for the street.
For the sake of this discussion, "street" refers self-defense
situations that common people may have face on the street, not
street fighting or other supposedly no-holds-barred (NHB) fighting.
In NHB fighting, there are written rules that help prevent serious
injury, such as no eye gouging, biting, or weapons. In street
fighting, there are also rules, unwritten, but still strictly
enforced. Street fighters like to street fight, so they have to
have rules to prevent serious injury so they may keep street
fighting.
So is grappling the best self-defense style for the street?
What does a grappler do when attacked on stairs or on a subway or
in knee deep snow or on a crowed street?
What about an attacker with a knife or other concealed weapon? A
person in a submission hold may not have an empty hand way of
getting out of the hold, but a knife in the kidney will end the
hold, and the holder. Thugs do not walk around with just one
weapon. You may control the arm with the gun, but the other arm may
pull a knife.
When dragged into a broken glass filled alley, do you want to
grapple on the ground?
Do you want to get into a test of strength with an attacker who is
high on psychoactive drugs.
What does the grappler do when the attacker has a friend? Do you
want to be on the ground holding an attacker, when a friend comes
to his or her aid? While you are holding down one attacker, what
will the other attacker be doing with your spouse?
An attacker may not be able to escape from your hold-down, but he
or she will bite and spit.
If you are a law enforcement officer, do you want to grapple with a
suspect and give him or her an opportunity to grab your firearm or
other weapon.
Karate and its Korean counterpart, Taekwondo, were developed as a
civil system of fighting. They were never intended to be used on a
battlefield or in competition. In their truest forms, they did not
include ground fighting. Patterns contain locks, arm bars, chokes,
etc. but no ground fighting. Why? Was it a mistake, or was it
intentional?
When the civilians designed the original techniques, the techniques
were for use against violent and unprovoked attacks. There were no
sparring competition techniques and, since there were no attackers
that were planning to grapple with you, ground fighting was not
needed. In a self-defense situation, you goal is not to win, but to
safely protect yourself and escape.
Most modern ground fighting techniques were derived from
competition fights. Even Judo, which was designed as a sport, did
not originally have ground fighting techniques. In 1882, Jigero
Kano founded Judo. It was based upon the Tenshin-Shinyo-ryu and
Kito-ryu systems of Jujitsu that were well known for their striking
techniques and throws. These were battlefield arts that were
designed by samurais who would probably be decapitated by another
opponent if they remained on the ground very long while on the
battlefield. In 1900, Kano arranged a competition against a
Fusen-ryu-Jujitsu school. In a strategy developed to confuse the
Judo fighters, the Fusen-ryu fighters fell to the floor when the
matches started. The confused Judo fighters joined them on the
floor and were quickly overcome by the locks and chokes of the
Fusen-ryu fighters, bringing the first losses for the Judo fighters
in eight years. To help regain Judo's superiority in competition,
Kano added ground fighting.
As demonstrated in the movements in patterns, karate and Taekwondo
were developed as brutal martial arts. There are few controlling
techniques, some throws, and virtually no pins. The techniques use
kicks, punches, gouges, pokes, crushes, etc. that were designed to
end a fight quickly and efficiently. When a fight went to the
ground, the strategy was to kick and punch until you could get back
to your feet.
Until recently, no modern military fighting system is based upon
ground fighting. Captain Fairbairn, who developed a system of
unarmed combat that was used by the Shanghai Municipal Police,
British Commandos, U.S. Marines, British Special Operations, and
American OSS during World War II, wrote in his 1942 combat manual
"Get Tough!" that, "You will have noted that no holds or locks on
the ground are demonstrated. The reason for this is: THIS IS WAR."
No soldier wants to go to the ground where rocks, mines, or bobby
traps may be present. Visibility range is limited and one is
helpless against another attacker.
Beginning in 1995, the U.S. Army began a revision of its combatives
(hand-to-hand) training program. The program begins with the basics
of Brazilian Jujitsu ground fighting and progresses into the throws
and takedowns of Judo and Wrestling and the strikes of boxing and
muay thai. All this training is combined with marksmanship and
contact weapons training from Kali and the western martial arts
into yet another integrated system of close quarters combat. I have
not seen the entire training course, but from what photographs that
are available on the Internet, the program seems to stress ground
fighting. For details on the new combatives program see the U. S.
Army field manual at
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/3-25-150/.
See the following link for other links to U.S. Army Combatives
articles: http://www.moderncombatives.org/pages/5/index.htm.
I find it difficult to believe that ground fighting would be
effective method of combat for a U.S. Army soldier, wearing
full-combat equipment, who is attacked by an Iraqi insurgent who is
wearing practically nothing. Due to the combat equipment, the
soldier's movements are very limited, especially while on the
ground. When in a combat situation, who would want to be on the
ground fighting one attacker while other enemy are all around. If
taken to the ground, a soldier needs know how to fight from the
ground, but a soldier would rarely choose to go to the
ground.
As in other types of military training, soldiers train for a short
time in combatives and then rarely train in it again. When ground
fighting is stressed during training, especially during the
beginning stages, a soldier in a hand-to-hand combat situation
would tend to revert to the techniques that were first taught, and
stressed the most, during training. If these techniques were ground
fighting, then, during an individual attack in a combat situation,
the soldier is most likely to go to the ground. I for one would not
want my fellow soldiers on the ground grappling with the enemy
during an attack. In combat, the goal is not to kill one enemy to
protect yourself, but to kill as many of the enemy as possible
before you are killed.
Remember, a good grappler knows how to grapple, a great fighter
knows when to grapple. Grapple when you have to, but on the street
it is strategically safer and wiser to remain on your feet.
So what does an ordinary person do when attacked on the street,
usually by a thug who has no rules and would just as soon kill you
as not? Thugs do not grapple, they attack in the quickest, easiest
way they can, usually with a weapon. In this case, you do what your
art has trained you to do!
Grandmaster Jhoon Rhee, the 10th degree black belt who introduced
Taekwondo to the United States in 1956 was asked in an interview
"What types of martial arts training will get me in shape and boost
my confidence?" He answered "If you had asked me this question 30
years ago, I would have said Taekwondo was the best to keep you in
top shape and build confidence, but now I say the differences are
not in the styles but in the individual instructors. If an
instructor as the knowledge, integrity, and takes the students
sincerely, the results will be good."
So which martial art is best? According to Walter Eddie, the United
States heavyweight Taekwondo champion in 1981 and a 6th degree
black belt, "Under proper instruction, an individual develops the
key elements of focus, balance, coordination, speed, and power." As
long it is learned from an experienced instructor, who is respected
amongst other local, regional, or national martial artists, and is
accredited by some legitimate organizations, any martial art may be
the best.
Extracted from http://tkdtutor.com/
