Robert LeRuyet’s Brazilian style Jiu-jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts system
In the last few posts we have been discussing the supreme importance of “balance” and “stability” as it relates to self defense. Balance is so critical to all human athletic performance that it is often and paradoxically glossed over or …
In the previous segments of this series of posts, on the differences between Krav Maga and Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, I argued that it was actually the underlying principles that were the biggest differences between these two self-defense systems. Furthermore, I demonstrated …
Part 4: Krav Maga vs. Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, Testing the Differences Read more »
In my first post about “evidence based self-defense”, we discovered that even a profession as steeped in the scientific method as medicine is, still went through modern periods where unfounded opinions often held sway over more objective evidence. My point …
In my post about balance and first principles (“Part 2:Krav Maga vs. Brazilian Jiu-jitsu” ), I mentioned that by understanding the importance of balance and more importantly “stability”, on real fighting, you would know more about real fighting than the …
Part 3: Krav Maga vs. Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, Why Most Stand-Up Fights Look the Way They Do Read more »
A while back, I picked up the June, 2015 edition of “COMMON GROUND”. For those of you who are not from the greater Vancouver area or have never heard of “common ground”, it’s a local free Vancouver, British Columbia, based …
The book I’m going to discuss with you came out a while ago; however, this post is the first book review that I have done for my blog. Therefore, I wanted to start with a title and author that I …
Book review for: “Krav Maga: Real World Solutions to Real World Violence” Read more »
Multiple opponents, multiple opponents, multiple opponents, as a Self-defense professional who focuses primarily on Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, I sure hear a lot about multiple opponents. Yes, that’s right; there is a multitude of opponents to our stand on multiple opponents. We …
In an earlier post I discussed the major differences between Krav Maga and Brazilian Jiu-jitsu as self-defense systems. In that post I outlined that the most important difference between the two was that Brazilian Jiu-jitsu was not just an assortment …
Part 2: Krav Maga vs. Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, First Principles Read more »
A question that I am often asked is about the kind of unarmed combat, “defensive tactics”, martial arts or Hand-to-hand combat training that militaries use to train their soldiers. Many people often assume that the average soldier must be learning …
In my last post we looked at perhaps the very most common baseless assertion from the “pseudo-profession”. This wildly unsupported claim that: “you should never be on the ground in a real fight”, is really pretty dumb but is so …
Case Study: for “To be…(On the Ground), or not to be…” Read more »