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I've wanted to go after that weird bjj self defense curriculum for awhile, but this is better than what I was gonna ever do. Very thorough... very well done.

The real reason no, "self defense technique" works at all is that they're all supposed to be shortcuts that let people skip a fight, and that's not a real thing.

'Being put in a headlock is a gift' - I love it

The front choke is extremely common in domestic violence. That's why it's so common in self defence.

A drunk guy legitimately tried to front choke me at a party one time because we ran into each other and that pissed him off. I’ve been doing martial arts since I was and I was 7 and I was 21 at the time. Didn’t do anything fancy, straight up punched him in the face and that was lights out for the drunk idiot. Self-defense is about keeping it simple. Also, avoid drunk idiots.

Kaylen carrying Jake out of the screen is the greatest thing I've seen today

Thank you for pointing out the uselessness of the front choke.  It's a decent intimidation tactic against defenseless victims, but that's about all it has.

"The physical manifestation of a straw man argument." bravo, bravo. The one thing I would say about front choke is that, while it is awful as an actual attack, it is great as a show of dominance. Speaking specifically about domestic violence scenarios, a bigger, stronger man putting his hands on a woman's neck is VERY aggressive, and if she panics before she realizes she can defend herself, he's going to accomplish his goal of hurting her. So not a great attack, but a good power move.

100000% agree about the "*snort snort* you can't go to the ground, what about their friends!" bullshit

OMG THE JUST LEAVE TECHNIQUE MADE ME CRACK UP

Yes!!! After taking freestyle wrestling, Judo and BJJ, what always worked in actual street fights (only 3) was single/double takedown, a few punches and just run. Running helps...lol

The "more than I can generate with my throat" "equal and opposite reaction into my windpipe" section genuinely had me laughing out loud.

In self-defense, the simpler the moves, the better, in a street situation, having to think a lot, flowering too much ends up killing you. Do not fight unarmed with anyone, always have some kind of weapon within easy reach, always try to have an advantage.

that was the fastest 20 mins of my life dude. The concept of people creating garbage fake solutions to sell a product is something that deeply irks me, but I had no idea it exists at such a deep level (even with the GRACIE family!). I watched a lot of those gracie self defence videos in the past and just took whatever he said as 100% truth. Thank you for calling out the bs and being funny and weird af while doing it lol

I learn something new everyday. Also props to your girlfriend for basically dying every vid for our education and entertainment.

This is one of the only grappling/defense/mma related channels to make me laugh so hard I was crying, absolutely subscribing. Love it.

One of the best videos about this topic, that is for some reason a sacred cow. BJJ is an AMAZING form of self defence, but only when being pressure tested to oblivion. People like Ryan Hoover, Aaron Jannetti, Eli Knight, Craig Douglas, Cecil Burch, Paul Sharp, Shawn Lupka, Jerry Wetzel, and so, so, SO many more are currently teaching self defence based on BJJ, Judo, Wrestling, Muay Thai and Boxing-or in other words-MMA, but the common denominator between everyone here is that they all use the techniques and principles from the combat sports versions of the art! Yes, they may need some modifications and alterations, but you don’t need to make a whole new art! Spider Guard, leg lassos and gogo clinch are fantastic for gun grapples, arm drags are maybe the best move for self defence, reverse Kesa Gatame is one of the most underrated positions for weapons-based grappling, and many more solutions exist within the art, that just need to come out under pressure testing. But that’s the big thing-they have to come out of testing! Not out of lineage, out of testing! That’s what made BJJ different than most arts-the fact that it’s tested! But for another great thing you mentioned-the headlock. Oh, my fucking god. If you look at the school bully headlock, you’ll see that it isn’t a choke, it gives you a free angle, doesn’t really affect your posture if you know how to wrestle, and also-doesn’t tie up any of your hands, but it does tie up both of his! So-other than attacking the legs (which is a fantastic solution for this position, btw), you can also just pop your head back (if the headlock is tight, you might need to get your hand in beforehand) and get their back! For free! And even if you don’t-the moment you get your hand in (which isn’t hard to do-you can literally just comb your hair and your hand will be inside), you get a free angle, and if you’re not as slow as a turtle, also a free underhook and even a free split seatbelt, which is an amazing position of dominance for self defence (especially if you want to draw a weapon/hit your opponent and stop him from hitting you/getting his weapon). tl;dr-if you know how to grapple and strike, all you need to do for self defence is just FAAFO. Don’t know what to do against a gun/knife/stick? Just buy a training version of it and roll! Don’t know what to do against two attackers? Start clinching/striking/grappling with one person and then get a second one to try to attack you! Want to learn T-Shirt chokes? Roll in a T-Shirt! It’s literally that easy! If you want to get to the answers in a shorter amount of time, you can check out every person I’ve mentioned above. Thanks again man, you’re one of the most important voices in this community.

I just "escaped" a self defense based bjj gym some months ago, I was too blind to see it as newbie when I started there, the difference is huuuge, people in my new bjj and mma gym actually know how to fight and I'm learning meaningful stuff.

This is realistic, yet fun to watch.
Not bored at all.

You got my sub, bro.

Great points as usual. Can’t believe this channel only has 9k followers.