drop bear
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At the same time, the opposite is true. Most of my experience in MMA-style sparring is as a primarily striker against primarily grapplers. There was a lot of that at the beginning...later on I got much better at preventing their grappling, while at the same time striking them. By the time I was there a year, if someone new (someone from a different dojo, or someone coming back that I hadn't met) came by, they would try the grappling game, and not know how to handle it when they'd be looking for a grab/throw/takedown, and somehow magically end up punched in the head.
And so the much underrated concept of gravity comes in to play.
And again pulling ideas from Rob here.
Gravity is one of the forces of the universe. And the only force you can employ to your advantage in a fight.
You can't summon lighting or attack people with nuclear fission. Chi is blatantly made up.
But you can summon the power of gravity. It is basically a super power.
So striking or grappling if you can make someone take your weight you should be doing it.
MMA as a striker is a fantastic example because if me and you have the same ability to strike and we both stay standing the fight could go either way.
Otherwise if one of us winds up on top of the other. The fight is pretty much ours.