Is Jiu-Jitsu effective against multiple opponents?
Jiu-Jitsu gives students the best possible chance when facing an attack by one or more opponents. The overwhelming superiority demonstrated by Royce Gracie in the Ultimate Fighting Championship by taking his opponents to the ground, created a misconception that jiu-jitsu is exclusively a ground fighting system. Jiu-Jitsu is a complete fighting system and not an exclusively ground grappling art. A Jiu-Jitsu practitioner learns strikes, which include techniques with the elbows, hands, feet, head, and knees. Students learn that the optimum self-defense strategy is to maintain a safe distance from the attacker. This battle-tested method teaches defenses against the most common street attacks, the majority standing, which quickly neutralize aggressors. The practice of Jiu-Jitsu corrects a long lasting myth that real life fights are like scenes from martial arts movies where protagonists KO dozens of “bad guys” one after the other. A Jiu-Jitsu practitioner possesses the most realistic chance
