There was a guy once, during a back control seminar, who argued he'd just poke me in the eyes if I tried to choke him.
I said sure, you have permission to eye poke when we'll roll later.
Unfortunately for him, he was too busy defending the choke than to try and poke my eyes.
I think movies mess up people's perceptions of what defending a rear naked choke is like.
Lmao. Yeah people do not understand the desperation and helplessness they’ll experience when they encounter a trained MMA fighter. It gets scary and impossible almost instantly.
Justin Gaethje was just talking about eye pokes and he said something along the lines of: we’re trying as hard as we can to hit our opponent in the head and we miss a lot and knocking someone out is really hard, poking someone in the eyes on purpose is WAY harder than that. Nobody is doing it on purpose.
It’s not a viable tactic in real combat.
It's funny because eye pokes mostly happen accidentally. I'd love to fight against someone who'd constantly be looking for an eye poke while striking.
If you put me in a rear naked choke in a street fight my backup knife is opening your femoral artery (and yes, I have rolled BJJ before).
If you try to apply one-on-one unarmed grappling to real life you may get lucky or you may get dead.
That's why street fighting is retarded. Just walk away. Losers who want to fight in the street aren't worth our time.
