Many martial artists believe that all fights end up on the ground.
I disagree. Well ... one of the opponents may end up eating dirt, but that doesn't mean it's a ground fight.
I usually prefer not to wrestle an opponent on the floor. And I am pretty good at avoiding grappling, when I don't want to.
It's one thing to say that you don't ground fight. It's another to know what to do, in order to remain standing.
Eric Duncan does a great job of expressing some of what I feel about having to go to the ground.
I thought you might enjoy reading more of his comments on the subject:
Elbow, elbow, elbow.. knee.
Use all angles and area. Move back, not in a straight line, but diagnolly all the while peppering with your punches.
Funny thing Kip (Keith), I am a practitioner of JIu Jitsu, I have trained in wrestling (even today), 3 types of Kempo and Silat. What I have gained from Kenpo and Silat is to break the other person down without yourself being put down. If a direct linear attack as a double leg comes in step back and off side a little, distance, distance, distance.
Disrupt your opponents timing.
Grappling expends a lot of energy, eventually a grappler gets tired of shooting for the double or single leg (This is called gassing out). All the while getting peppered in the pie hole. Most grapplers (Wrestlers especially) are very hard workers, they over the inadequacies of their methods through sheer determination and athleticism.
Never Wrestle a Wrestler, Never kick a Kicker, and never Punch with a puncher.... Take them to deep water and drowned them, as quicky as possible.
Reality in the streets; don't think of winning or losing, think of escaping with your life. The longer you dally around, the more likely you are going to get hurt. Time is your enemy, because it allows for the introduction of a weapon or friends. So I want to be quick and efficient and then escape.
Like a glimmer I was there and now I am gone.
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