how long should a person train in BJJ to be able to.........?

Question

win in a fight?

a fight as in a street or a bar fight. what belt should he be? and if belts dont matter about how long should they train?

would a year be MORE than enough of training?

Answer 1

Well, it all depends on the persons skill after time, their determination in training and also their actual toughness and the person they are fighting. A person could train in BJJ for 10 years and facet the wrong person and get beat down, training doesnt always ensure a win, the perso who is trained coud also beat a wimp with no toughness and get knocked out ina minute.

Answer 2

ok you're still really new. BJJ is like chess you can't come right out and checkmate someone you have to 1. Set up a position to. 2.Bait him into playing your game and 3. Finally move in for the kill. I became good pretty fast I train 25 hours a week and started tapping people after about 6 months. I read in an article that the difference between Rickson Gracie and the average guy isn't that Rickson is stronger or more flexible it's his mindset. When Rickson rolls it's like he's not thinking of just 1. Scissor Sweep. 2. Americana. To him it's like a chess game him predicting what you're going to do. So my advice is 1. Play Chess( I know but it helps) 2. Stretch Alot and 3. Lift weights both strength and flexibility go a long way and 4. Be aggressive not all out brawling but make him play your game.

Answer 3

Street fights are extremely different than a bjj match or an mma fight, their can be multiple people, objects such as cars or anything like that. Ive taken bjj for some time and it will for sure make you more prepared and able tohandle a street fight, but there is no time table on when it will make you win a street fight

Answer 4

If you don't learn any standup (takedowns as well as striking), it won't matter how much BJJ you know if you get KOed before you can take them down =)

Cross train, cross train, cross train!

Answer 5

Man, you seem set on this whole line of questioning.

Why do you only want to take a Martial Art for a year?

Actually, I am not even going to go into that. If you are able to study a Martial Art for 3 or 4 months, you will have the passion to do it well beyond a year.

Let's put it this way, any art you study and really like. You couldn't stop doing it after a year, because they are addicting that way.

Focusing on winning a fight... well like I am sure you will be told here over and over again, is not really the point.

BJJ will give you a functional art, and strong knowledge. Your ability to utilize this knowledge in a fight will depend on you. A year into would give you the fundamental knowledge of being able to apply techniques that would indeed win a fight.

Most people don't see to realize that people can be choked while standing, in fact most chokes can be done on a standing opponent with ease.

I have used a standing head and arm choke many times after slipping a punch from an aggressive patron.

So yes, understanding fundamentals that would you have in a year could help you win a fight.

Would you be garunteed to win ANY fight? Not by a long shot.

Unfortunately with street or bar fights, there is a level of unpredictability, hell there is with any fight. Great boxers get KOd by nobodies, great MMA fighters lose to people they are clearly better than. That is just how that goes.

Bar fights: Occur between one or more drunk people, if you are sober you chances for winning are fairly high.

Street Fights: Really? How many times has someone come up to you in the street and challenged you? Or just randomly decided to fight you? These don't really happen, despite the alarming number of people who "train for the streets". The only thing you are really likely to encounter "in the streets" is a robber with a weapon. 90% of Martial Artists doing "weapon defenses" aren't doing them realistically. Regardless of all that, you have about the same likelihood of getting robbed at gunpoint (much more often than knifepoint btw) as you do getting struck by lightning (depending on where you live and the crime rate).

So all this prepping for "the streets" is usually a bunch of shite to begin with. Street fights are rare, when they happen are usually because of two drunk people, or at least one drunk moron, and are situations that are generally easily avoidable.

You're not going to be standing at an ATM and someone is going to say "Give me all your money or I will fight you".

Come on....

Bar fights, again are caused by drunks and someone feeding their ego. They are generally broken up rather quickly, and if you are lucky the cops won't be involved. If you are unlucky you are getting arrested. (However the likelihood of arrest goes up significantly higher if you attempt to injure or maim the opponent, as that is now aggrevated battery, so all the testicle squeezing, eye gouging, practioners might want to think about that)

Sorry to go off on a rant about all that. Anyway, yes a year s worth of training will help you provided you are able to understand the techniques and all the facets they can be used.

I disagree with the above poster about knowing stand up. Most of the people you would fight (average joe) aren't going to be highly accurate strikers. Simply putting your hands up and shooting is more than enough to handle most people.

It was enough for Royce Gracie against advance level Martial Artists in the early UFCs. (Every take down was a double leg or an inside trip).

Would a year be MORE than enough? Who knows, depends your ability to learn, and your ability to react under pressure.

Unless you told some dude that you are going to fight him in exactly one year, I wouldn't stress about it.

You do it, you'll either hate it and quit after a month, or love it and never be able to stop doing it. Then every fight on TV you see, every time you see people rolling you will ache inside and have an immediate desire to get to training. That is how it is.

Either you will hate it and quit, or love and never be able to stop.

A year, a couple of months. The more time you spend in it, the better you will be and the greater the likelihood for success will be.

I have seen kids with 2 or 3 months of BJJ choking drunks out while working security. My company has taught guys how to do certain moves, and seen them perform them accurately and effeciently a night or two later in the bar.

Bar fights are nothing. Street fights are rare. Anything you take can help you if you train the right way with resistance and sparring. They all increase your odds at winning, however any fight is still a gamble.

All they do is help increased the odds, the outcome is never gauranteed.

Hope that helps, best of luck to you my friend.

Answer 6

It depends on the person.