Martial Artists: What is grappling?

Very good question. It is refreshing to see some good questions.

When many people on here speak of grappling they think of mma or bjj fighting on your back. Grappling is much more than that.

Grappling is close quarter contact. You have to make contact with your body. It generally bun not necessarily starts with taking your adversary's balance. This can be done in a variety of ways. It can be done with a push or pull. It can be done with the shifting of your weight. It can be done by redirecting a simple muscle or tendon with the blade or palm of your hand. You can use your hip. There are many possibilities. I don't have to attempt to gain a dominant position ask described by some that responded. I can simple use it to get away. I have choices. I can choke, clinch, throw, joint lock, or do a small joint manipulation. The body naturally move is certain directions. I just help it to move in those directions. The directions that it moves in many cases goes against what our natural mind thinks. I can place my hand on your shoulder to change your direction. I can turn you or take you down with a small settle movement. I can use your cheek bone to do the same thing.

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Martial Artists: What is grappling?

As usual, I'm not asking this for my benefit... I know a great many here will think this is a dumb question, but it has dire consequences when you don't really understand.

Please assist me: Describe grappling. Be specific: body parts you teach to initiate with, etc.

In my BJJ school we sometimes start on the knees or sitting but often we start standing. It is just a battle for the takedown. I'm not sure about wrestling or other BJJ schools. A big part of effective grappling is learning how to clinch well and take your opponent down.

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Grappling is all about stripping down to your underpants, covering your body in baby oil, shaving your head bald and having a few unsavory tatoo's that make you look hard!

Oh and beating your chest because it makes you feel groovy! lol

This is the current criteria for being a martial artist! Personally reading the description back it looks more like the criteria for something else? lol

Best wishes

idai

Grappling is very general. It can be broken down into many forms; for instance Clinch Grappling; Ground Grappling; Submission Grappling. Although many may think wrestling is the same thing as grappling, but it many ways it's more general and has a lot more to it. Wrestling is primarily using body leverage to obtain dominant positions. Wrestler will use their strength and leverage to pin an opponent down. Wrestling involves no striking nor submissions. Wrestling does not have any finishing moves (we are not talking about WWE here) or deadly strikes incorporated into it. However excellent wrestler will tend to take up grappling quite easily and excel at the mast multidude of opportunitites to become well fast.

Grappling uses alot of wrestling in ways to obtain dominant positions like take downs, or clinching. Which every dominant posistion then leads to some so sort of finishing blow. Strikes, or chokes, or arm bars, ankles locks. Grapplers will 99% keep their distance short from their opponents. Grapplers can stand and be effective from a standing position or on the ground from either the top or bottom position. To be a successful at grappling the most critical aspect is cardio. Like most wrestlers, grapplers do extensive amount of cardio, because the process of grappling requires a lot of strong at a constant pace.

I personally train at a Boxing Arena where they train MMA, although I am Kickboxer and have no interest in being picked up and dropped on my head over and over, I see the everyday training of grappling.

Seizing and holding. Somehow it took the same meaning of wrestling. In the Chinese martial arts, grappling is Chin Na (擒拿) which literally means seize and hold. It's any technique where you subdue and are able to control an opponent.

Grappling is not ground fighting.

I have experience in Folk style wrestling, and jiu jitsu so I'll answer the best of my knowledge.

Grappling is using hand to hand combat engaging your opponent in locks are holds. The objective is to gain position or dominance, to gain a clear advantage over your opponent. It can be a submission hold, such as a choke, or joint lock, or it can be a pinning hold, such as a half nelson or turk ride.

You use your whole body for grappling. Grappling requires technique, and leverage, to subdue your opponent. That means relying on every part of your body, rather then out muscling your opponent.

Grappling is simply grabbing on to your opponent to unbalance him, or give you some other advantage. It can be rolling around on the ground, but I never use it that way. When I 'grapple', I gain control of the opponent by grabbing and containing him. Karate grapples are often just a grab-hold-hit, or grab-pull-hit combination's. As a bouncer I used this extensively to control without hurting patrons who acted up. You can cause great damage by grappling, or none at all. It is hard to strike without damage. So I basically define grappling as any time you grab on to the opponent with the intent of preventing them from doing damage to you. Or to control the opponent with or without striking them. For protection grappling and striking are almost always used together for best results.

I don't really know what kind of answer you're looking for but I'll give it my best shot.

Grappling is any kind of unarmed fighting activity where you grip your opponent.

Grappling involves activities such as throws, chokes and submission holds. The aim is usually to move your opponent to another position (such as the ground) which is beneficial to you, immobilize him, break some part of his body, generate pain, or suffocate him.

You can use any body part you want. For instance, clinching and using underhooks to move your opponent over your hip to throw him to the ground could be classified as grappling. Applying a rear naked choke and strangling him could be classified as grappling. Grabbing someone's toe and threatening to break it could be classified as grappling.

Some grappling-focused martial arts are wrestling, judo, sambo and brazilian jiu jitsu.

In martial arts terms, the opposite of grappling is striking, where you try to generate impact onto your opponent through activities such as punches, kicks, elbow strikes, knee strikes and head butts.

Grappling is basically wrestling. Your goal is to actually take your opponent down and get a dominant position where you can work your way up to the victory with punches, kicks, knees... You initiate with all the parts of the body and your work to get in a suitable position, comfortable one for you. One of the most dominant positions is Side Control or a Full Mount. Both are very dangerous. During grappling/wrestling your legs, feet, arms and elbows must work well, otherwise you will get in trouble. Your goal in grappling is to get in position to choke someone out or submit him any other way you like to. Common submission maneuvers are Armbar, Kneebar, Guillotine Choke, Rear Naked Choke, Kimura and so on. I grapple/wrestle everyday and it's a lot of fun. Sometimes the training gets intense but that's how it works. During grappling the most important thing to do is to reserve your energy and not waste your power, stamina right away to just take him down. It's not affective in any way. You must sprawl and fight your way towards the wanted position slowly and with mind. Without thinking and mind wrestling is nothing. You must always thing and hope to get on top. Although there are some good submissions from the back, like Triangle Choke from where you can basically do an armbar, transit to it... Well, hard to explain it in words, I would be glad to talk to you everyday and teach you something if you really want to learn it. If you have passion for it I'll help you out. Just leave your details below or something so we could get in touch and I'm here to help you know. Until you simply train hard on the floor, theoretically you won't be able to learn much. You must be the master of you grappling, you must switch it all up as you'd like to and create your own maneuvers, don't stick to Clichés, you can be creative and accomplish your goal. Main thing in grappling is your purpose and mostly patience. If you have no patience and rush things up everything will just fall ya. Cheers man. God bless.