.....is the biggest myth i have ever heard. I hear that from alot of karate/kung fu/ TKD guys. I go to a karate school that has grappling. And seriously, it made me believe the opposite: Grapplers USUALLY have BETTER balance, or atleast a different type all together from strikers. Grappling involves finding where your opponent has the least balance and capitalising on it. Doesnt that involve good balance to defend against?
Whoever said that must be kidding. Balance is one of the most important aspects in grappling, especially Judo.
A while back, on MAP some guy was saying that the striker would get the grappler to kick, thus making him off balanece because "Grapplers have bad balance, so standing on one leg would be a problem. My ass.
....and you probably wont have time to wait around EDIT: waiting for the kick and will end up on the ground or getting thrown. And as ikken said, why would a grappler kick? Man, people are stupid. Thier masters say: OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH Karate is the worlds greatest art! UFC BAD! GRACIE BAD! JUDO BAD!ONLY KARATE *Repeat with TKD and kung fu*
I would really like to study in this masters class who before every Punch says:" OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH Karate is the worlds greatest art! UFC BAD! GRACIE BAD! JUDO BAD!ONLY KARATE" Seriously man your post made no sense . I dont know who told you what about grappling but you seem to have an issue about all other martial arts. Just who in their right mind would say grapplers have bad balance? :bang:
Please don't stereotype my art from one comment which one person on an internet forum may or may not have said. I believe my opinion would also be shared by the other TMA stylists you mentioned in your post as well. Thanks.
Please don't take wild comments about people's general ignorance as a personal insult directed at you.Thanks.
I love people who plan fights to their eventual win. "He would do this and I would do this then they would do this and I would do this for teh win!!!111oneoneone" Fuds.
Dude, you've formed an entire thread around making up some crap, attributing it to some people from other arts, then proceding to bash the other other arts for saying something that you made up! Martial artists are still individuals, you can't group 3 whole styles (karate, kung-fu and tkd) into a single mindset - especially a made-up, paranoid one where they all hate you! This bit's true though!
Maybe the generalization that grapplers have bad balance is refering to balance at the point of full extension of a high kick, surely not when both feet are on the ground. Example, look what happened in the Franklin/Shamrock match. Shamrock shoots a high round kick @ Franklin's head, misses and down/pounded he goes. I think we all know it takes a lot of practicing high kicks to throw one and still have a somewhat stable base. What I've experienced in BJJ are kicks that are thrown are low and generally precede a shoot for the takedown.
I don't think that grapplers have bad balance. However, I have found that since I started attending MMA classes, in which we do standing and ground grappling, that I have much better balance than most of the guys in my class, because we did a lot of "pure" balance training in my kung fu via listening hands. Generally, the guys in that class have a real hard time taking me down, performing arm drags on me, etc, while I have a pretty easy time doing the same on them. This doesn't so much apply to the more skilled guys. Their speed, power, and balance is easily better than mine.
I've never heard any martial arts master say somethin as dumb as grapplers having no balance. So God knows where you heard it.. but it's BS.
I don't understand how anyone can think grapplers have bad balance. Balance is extremely important in grappling.
Of course grapplers have bad balance... What else could explain the fact that they spend most of their time lying on the floor, trying to figure out which way is up!
