Imo, it is easier to stall on the ground than to stall standing. In a fight you can tie a guy's arms up, hold him in guard, etc. and wait for a ref's standup against a superior grappler. However, the grappler cannot stall standing. Whether they like it or not they are gonna get the boots put to them by a superior striker.
Flame away bitches.
What is it when boxers continually clinch, over and over?
I have seen boxing matches where they spend more time breaking them up than they do boxing.
I thought we were talking about MMA? I heard that they are allowed to knee in the clinch as well? WTF, is this another dimension?
I just assumed it was another boxing is great, mma sucks thread. My bad. I looked at the person who made it and came to that conclusion.
I look at you and see you need to give GSP what you owe him.
Thanks for the useless thread.
Try again later.
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THUGZ$hitZU is correct.
Even though I have far more of a grappling background than a stand-up/striking one, I have to agree that it is far easier to stall on the ground than on the feet. Were it not the case, how would you explain the obsession of the Olympic committee in limiting, as much as possible, any ground work in Freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling and Judo?
They say that they call for frequent stand-ups for the sake of the "excitement of the spectators". I highly doubt that they would say this unless they did some research into the issue and ascertained that the pace is far slower on the ground and that it is far easier to be inactive on the ground, i.e. stall, than on the feet, even if no strikes are involved. Their research, further still, probably showed that people generally dislike the slower pace and the stalling, hence the reason for why they favor stand up battles, in both Wrestling and Judo, over ground work.
I think that there are ways to make it more difficult to stall on the ground, in both pure grappling and MMA, without having to resort to stand-ups, but I'm not exactly sure what they are. I hope some intelligent and creative people step forward and present those solutions because I believe that developing good ground work is essential to being a good fighter or competitor (depending on the venue in which you are using your combat skills).
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