Many martial artists, perhaps due to the popularity of UFC, have stated quite often that the dominant martial art in the ring is Brazilian Ju Jitsu, with perhaps wrestling trailing close behind.
So I ask then, if this is true; that there is a dominate martial art or strategy, then how is it when two BJJ warriors enter the ring, one of them loses?
The idea you present is an interesting one...it's a different way of looking at it, I suppose. If BJJ is the dominant martial art, and provides the fighters with techniques that are superior, then one would have to assume that if two BJJ masters entered the ring to fight one another, they would be stalemated...they could not possibly overcome one another, because both of their technique would be "perfect".
It's an interesting idea I guess...but you have to look at the idea that BJJ is the dominant martial art in MMA in more of a realistic perspective, rather than a philisophical one. See, you are taking that statement "BJJ is superior" or whatever and examining it in something like a philisophical sense...but life isn't philisophy. Life can't be defined. And a fight, most certainly cannot be defined or predicted. One always has a strategy that they want to employ in the fight, and they'll implement it into the fight as much as they can, but it's not as though the tactics that they preconceived, even if practiced for years in advance, are guranteed to work the way they envisioned them to. In fact, it's more likely that they are guranteed NOT to work the way they envisioned them to. Fights are unpredictable. They happen the way they want to happen, and while you can factor in your fighting style to try and dictate the way the fight will happen, the fact remains that things just happen differently sometimes. It's not like a computer program...it's not: BJJ = Perfection, therefore BJJ + BJJ = draw. I do not believe that styles make fighters...I believe that fighters make styles. BJJ was developed by PEOPLE. Just as was Tae Kwon Do, Kung Fu, Akido, Hapkido, Karate, Ninjitsu, Boxing, Wrestling, or any of it! These martial arts were created by people. By men. By Women. A style can HELP to define a fighter...it can help to shape him into what he is, or what he will become. But it doesn't create him.
BJJ is not perfect by any means. No ONE martial art is. Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. There are martial arts that are different than others...maybe some martial arts are better than others...but I've yet to see a martial art that is anything close to "perfection". If I had, then I wouldn't be cross-training. What of the Gracies? Where was this "perfect" martial art when they were all defeated by Sakuraba, a fighter who showed that a rounded fighter can beat a master of a single martial art (no offense intended there, because I'm a HUGE Gracie fan, I was just using that as an example is all)
What I'm trying to say is that Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu isn't perfect. Styles aren't perfect. Fighters aren't perfect. There's always gaps, always holes in techniques, and always weak spots. As martial artists, we are driven to go back again and again to try and perfect these hollow points in our style, but the fact remains that we will never perfect them. I know I never will. We work towards perfection. But it's just that. Work. And we will work and work for the rest of our lives to try and complete ourselves as a fighter. And you know, even if one of us could reach "perfection", it wouldn'y truly be perfection, because as figthers we just can't quit working, and so we'd keep on going to try and exceed even that. Nothing's ever perfect. Not for us.
When two fighters enter a ring, one wins, and one loses. I don't believe in draws. And even in UFC, there ARE draws. But you've got to realize, no matter how perfect your technique is in your dojo, when you step into the ring, perfection is NOTHING. Everything changes. BJJ isn't an invention of god. It's an invention of man. It's a wonderful martial art that I enjoy practicing very much, but not all fighters are the same. Don't be so quick to judge. The same two fighters can be put into the ring with one another a hundred different times, and the fight can go a hundred different ways. One will beat the other, or it will be a draw. That's the only thing that's really guranteed. The rest is up to the guys that go between the ropes (or the cage.)
