…But most people AREN’T Ken Shamrock or Dan Severn.
Said it before, saying it again.
It is not about “style” in life, it is about what is practical, and the practitioner. It is easy to say “a great grappler with good fighting defense > striker with good grappling”, and while it is easy to say things, that’s not how it actually may play out. Your thinking in certainties is deeply disturbing and worrisome.
Regarding Shamrock:
Would I get beaten by Shamrock in the ring? The honest answer here is that I do not know. Probably. Is it a certainty that he would beat me or whomever? No, of course not. Does he have a upper hand when it comes to experience? Definitely.
Rules limits what can be done as well. I can’t crush his testicles in the ring for example, but I would in the street. I can’t eye-gouge or throat-gouge which are things I’d go for if the opportunity was given in a “real” fight. Anyway, main point is that you can’t say “this guy is a grappler so you, as a striker (personally, I’m also a well-versed Judoka (15 years as of Feb 2017), which is… a fucking grappler), would lose to that guy because that guy is also a grappler”. That’s just stupid.
Would I get beaten by Shamrock in the street?
Same answer, except now there are no rules, and I can do whatever I want, including screaming for help, using the environment, and running away when given a chance to do so, which should be top-priority.
Life is not a sport, and it has no waivers to sign if a life-threatening fight occurs.
What’s the chance of me and Shamrock colliding in a fight on the street? Extremely low.
What’s the chance of me and a grappler/striker colliding in a fight on the street? Extremely low, but more probable than facing Ken Shamrock himself as there are more grapplers/strikers than Ken Shamrock in the world, and the likelihood that they’d be as experienced as him is also low. Also, the fact you come to terms such as “pure striker” and “pure grappler” shows how poor your understanding of fighting is.
If you commit to traditional moves, you may just end up dead that much faster. If your thinking is “I can’t kick, I can’t kick! Must grapple, must GRAPPLE!” as you get your knuckles crushed, perhaps you shouldn’t have held back on those low kicks? Now, I don’t think such a thing as a “pure grappler/striker” exists, and if that person does exist I hope that person reconsiders.
…Let’s not, because it is stupid.
Practicality vs Rules.***
Too violent to be allowed in UFC and so on, also, informative and to-the-point.
