Can anyone make a list of good grappling martial arts?
Some good lists here, so far. But something to keep in mind is that there’s a difference between straight up grappling and then there’s what I consider groundfighting. The divider between the two is that the latter includes strikes. The strikes set up your sweeps and submissions. they’re a great tool to distract or even to finish fights. People who don’t practice sparring with strikes on the ground aren’t always ready for that facet of reality. Of course, with your superior Judo, Sambo, or BJJ skills you should be able to neutralize an untrained person’s attempts at striking from the ground, but still… I’ll tell you a brief story about me and this other guy in my MMA class, who I outweigh by twenty pounds. It goes like this; I almost always submit him. We started working ground and pound, and he landed so many shots that I would’ve been TKO’d 3 times in one round. It changed the dynamics A LOT. Oh, also, I would like to mark a distinction between grappling arts. There are grappling a
