The best you can do is endure the beating, choke one guy out, grab the next guy and choke him out and repeat with the hope everyone is unconscious before you are.
In my experience, fights are one-on-one only until someone starts losing. No one is willing to watch a friend or loved one get beat up in the name of fairness. Once someone ends up in a dominant position and starts to apply a choke, lock, or serious ground and pound people come out of the woodwork to rescue them.
Sometimes even passers by will wrongly assume the guy on top must be the bullying aggressor and intervene. I once saw a girlfriend beat a guy mounted on her boyfriend with her high-heel until her weave came out. Here, I respectfully disagree. Choking someone out takes a lot longer than knocking someone out. In a multiple attacker situation the first step is clear: reduce the number of attackers. Diligently training strikes can enable someone to quickly disable assailants with blows to the head, throat, knees or groin.
Weapons present another significant challenge to the Jiu Jitsu practitioner. Guns and knives are a particular problem because they do not require momentum. They are deadly even when someone is smothered and unable to generate to hit. But, concealment is the real issue. Jiu Jitsu is actually quite good when used to control the weapon you can see.
The problem is an individual, even one trapped under a dominant position, can access and use a concealed weapon outside the line of sight of the Jiu Jitsu practitioner. One such case was that of George Zimmerman who fatally shot Trayvon Martin while mounted and being struck. Whether Zimmerman was right or wrong the encounter illustrates the problem with being on the ground in a street fight. One second someone is in the mount, raining vicious ground and pound, winning.
Shot by a gun they saw too late, if they even saw it at all. Jiu Jitsu practitioners tend to think of their dominant positions as being safe. A place where they can attack, but cannot be attacked. On the mat or in the cage this rings true. In the pavement arena, where guns, knives and accomplices can come out of nowhere, such dominant positions can give a dangerous, false sense of security. Finally, most Jiu Jitsu classes do not focus enough on counter-striking.
Just as there are Jiu Jitsu black belts whose superior skill makes someone feel absolutely uncoordinated and helpless on the ground, there are strikers just as masterful on their feet. So should you abandon Jiu Jitsu to train something geared more for the street? I am saying it would behoove you to augment your Jiu Jitsu with additional skills.
As a bouncer, I saw significant number of fights end up on the ground. I live on the ground! Welcome to my world, punk! Sometimes a fight ended up on the ground because someone got sucker punched in the back of the head and face-planted. Other times it ended up there because someone slipped mid-fight and fell.
This phrase is mentioned a lot and is really quite true. At their elite level, they also have a very rounded game, but specialise in this particular area. Possibly to the point of them being almost never seen. Being fit and conditioned would help you, but other than this. A lot of sport BJJ would be very ineffective on the streets.
This is because the idea of modern sport BJJ is to score points. Whilst BJJ does award points for takedowns, sweeps and passing guard in to a more advanced position. The system can still be gamed by pulling guard and then scoring advantages. Even if you had a fantastic closed guard with a variety of sweeps and submissions. In short, the gi allows you to grip the clothing of the opponent. The result is that each situation has different options and outcomes. For instance, if you fought someone wearing a large, winter coat then gi attacks are possible.
This could mean opting for Judo takedowns by grabbing the material on their coat. It could also mean choking the opponent by using their collar.
Especially from behind, this could almost act like a bow and arrow choke. Because of this, you will need to rely on clinches, overhooks and underhooks more often. Instead, you would have to try and grab their wrist and go from there. The outcome of these examples is to train for what is most realistic. Whilst training nogi will get you competent in both areas, training in the gi is also effective too.
For instance, grabbing clothes is a legitimate attack from bottom or top positions. In summary, training nogi will have you covered for all occasions as it crosses over to clothing and is still useful. This can be seen with a high number of pro MMA fighters who train in the gi. Whilst this sounds odd, to begin with, training in the gi will improve your escapes from the bottom, due to making it harder as you have to rely on technique to overcome the friction of the gi.
Multiple attackers is the main weakness of BJJ, but then again, this is the main weakness of any martial art. Especially martial arts which do not have stand up striking. In fact, your core is where the majority of your strength comes from in BJJ. Of course, the more you train in BJJ, the stronger your core will get, and the more athletic, flexible, and physically capable you will become. In doing so, you will benefit from the physical activity and emotional comfort, knowing that others are supportive of you.
BJJ is a journey of continuous self-improvement. You need to supplement your training with solo drilling, visualization and online courses. You must set up a plan to organize your training by yourself at home. The bottom line: you can expect anywhere between 2 and 5 years of consistent training 3 days a week or more from white to blue belt. Brazilian jiu-jitsu focuses on getting an opponent to the ground in order to neutralize possible strength or size advantages through ground fighting techniques and submission holds involving joint-locks and chokeholds.
On the ground, physical strength can be offset or enhanced through proper grappling techniques. The average time it takes to achieve this is usually around 10 years. There are some individuals like BJ Penn and Kit Dale, who have amazing rapid rises up the ranks to very high levels.
Much of its popularity stems from the fact that the benefits you can gain from BJJ are both physical and mental. It has grown beyond simple martial arts or sport. BJJ is incredibly effective in fighting conditions.
It allows the fighter to take control and most importantly finish the fight without hurting the other person.
The technique is so effective that the opponent will either give up or be incapacitated. Modern Brazilian Jiu Jitsu tends to be focused on sports, with few gyms teaching students how to use techniques in a self-defence setting. Japanese Jiu Jitsu on the other hand tends to mostly focus on self-defence techniques. BJJ can still offer practitioners benefits when it comes to self-defence.
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