MMA vs RBSD
Posted by jimmi hindrix on Monday, November 1, 2010
Happy Halloween to everyone catching this. The topic of MMA and Reality based self defense (RBSD) is a major one. These two groups have had a feud sense the first time rules were thrown into a fight. Well, a little while back, I saw an article saying something like MMA being more reality based than RBSD. So I think I should add my two cents to this. But first, I just want to explain that this is not just one article. No, most of the combat sports world tries to pass this off.
Their first point is usually something like: "RBSDers don't spar they just practice situations, but mma is full contact." Ok, I can't make this argument for all reality based systems, but for everyone that I have ever seen, situational techniques are to better their skill. The full contact sparring is used to test skill against others, and sparring is used more than situational training. In short: They need to research better before making dumb points. My fighters, in particular, go farther than sparring: they either tire themselves out by running or lifting weights before sparring, or they throw weighted gear on to spar with. Then, they spar in every condition: on uneven ground, in mud, in water, in gravel, even in wooded areas.
I like this one: "RBSDers are armed to the teeth due to their fear of actual hand to hand combat." Let's ignore the fact that they just eleminated mma from being reality based for a minute. We practice hand to hand more than anything, then on to empty hand vs weapons. Back to them eliminating themselves: I took that to mean that they do not train weapons (attack or Defense). Tell me you do practice fighting multiple opponenets? Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that mma fighters never have weapons pulled on them or have todeal with more than one opponent at a time. That doesn't happen in their reality.
I even saw something saying that RBSDers are scared of black poople. Now, I am not even touching that. But here is my argument to these mma fighters: Do you train weapons? Do you train multiple opponents? Do you train no rules? (and before you try to say that you do not have to train eye gouges and bites-I will leave a challenge for you at the bottom of this post). Do you fight out of your weight class? Do you even train sneak attacks? And last, Do you train kills? If you can answer yes to these questions, then I will happily call your training reality based.
Reality based systems are the only reality based systems. MMA bouts will always be training for RBSD.
And the challenge: If you believe that you do not need to train dirty tactics, by all means: come try get an eye gouge on me. Then, I will get one on you: at the end, we will see who is hurt worse.
Their first point is usually something like: "RBSDers don't spar they just practice situations, but mma is full contact." Ok, I can't make this argument for all reality based systems, but for everyone that I have ever seen, situational techniques are to better their skill. The full contact sparring is used to test skill against others, and sparring is used more than situational training. In short: They need to research better before making dumb points. My fighters, in particular, go farther than sparring: they either tire themselves out by running or lifting weights before sparring, or they throw weighted gear on to spar with. Then, they spar in every condition: on uneven ground, in mud, in water, in gravel, even in wooded areas.
I like this one: "RBSDers are armed to the teeth due to their fear of actual hand to hand combat." Let's ignore the fact that they just eleminated mma from being reality based for a minute. We practice hand to hand more than anything, then on to empty hand vs weapons. Back to them eliminating themselves: I took that to mean that they do not train weapons (attack or Defense). Tell me you do practice fighting multiple opponenets? Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that mma fighters never have weapons pulled on them or have todeal with more than one opponent at a time. That doesn't happen in their reality.
I even saw something saying that RBSDers are scared of black poople. Now, I am not even touching that. But here is my argument to these mma fighters: Do you train weapons? Do you train multiple opponents? Do you train no rules? (and before you try to say that you do not have to train eye gouges and bites-I will leave a challenge for you at the bottom of this post). Do you fight out of your weight class? Do you even train sneak attacks? And last, Do you train kills? If you can answer yes to these questions, then I will happily call your training reality based.
Reality based systems are the only reality based systems. MMA bouts will always be training for RBSD.
And the challenge: If you believe that you do not need to train dirty tactics, by all means: come try get an eye gouge on me. Then, I will get one on you: at the end, we will see who is hurt worse.