I see Defendo places around me, from their descriptions it seems like Krav Maga but with more focus on unarmed fighting, on their website it says their bases are taken from Muay Thai and catch wrestling.How effective is this? Why would someone learn defendo over just going to a regular old MMA gym?
>>199760It's more for security work, as far as I've understood it. It's more trying to control the situation until you have the dominant control, and then de-escalation if needed. They at least used to be about control holds, reining someone out of the bar/into the police car/down to the ground, and so on. And not just one-on-one fights, but how to take control of someone if you have a partner on your side.If the places around you have live resistance training, then go and check them out.
>>199760>defendojudging by its name, it is bullshit
>"exotic" inventor/instructor name>catch wrestling base>English word with vaugely Asian martial art suffixHow much for his entire VHS catalog?
>>199760https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dc5lixbTus
>>199773that'll be $499 plus tip
>>199773What's wrong with catch wrestling?
>>199760Okay, it's clearly some aikido level bullshit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wnwWpLDQRE
>>199797No one claiming it as a base for something else has ever been telling the truth.
>>199797There's nothing wrong with catch wrestling as a martial art. The problem is legit catch places are few and far between. There's a lot of weirdos and charlatans who claim catch wrestling backgrounds but have dubious credentials. If they're not from a handful of verified catch gyms, odds are they're grifters or just hipsters.
>>199807I mean that's true for every style except maybe wrestling.
>>199760Are the places near you actually Jyrki Saario Defendo, or Canadian Defendo, or Scandinavian defendo, or some other defendo?For some reason, there's multiple defendo martial arts, that have little to nothing to do with each other.
>>199811It's actually Jyrki Saario Defendo.
>>199760>Why would someone learn defendo over just going to a regular old MMA gym?I don't know. Just learn a combat sport, or at least something that has realistic training and some connection to combat sports (students that compete, coaches that teach students to compete). A connection to competition helps weed out the bullshit, and the types of people attracted to combat sports are more likely to be competent and knowledgeable.
>>199800>the whole video is just static "demonstrations"number 1 sign that you're being taught a glorified choreography. OP go learn something better.
>>199760Anything with as retarded of a name as “defendo” is going to teach something equally retarded. I can’t believe I still have to tell people this in the age of the internet but just learn a legit combat sport and you’ll be far better off than any RBSD LARPer faggot.
>>199815>>199824Combat sports are an important aspect of training but if you're not also exploring defense scenarios outside a competition setting and with weapons you're going to have some blind spots.
>>199893That's a fair point. Not like there's anything wrong with learning that stuff on top of it all. I'm just skeptical that Defendo in particular is the best way to learn defense scenarios or weapons.
>>199894Jyrki Saario appears to be from a combat sport background so it at least seems plausible that his system could be reasonable. I'm completely unfamiliar with it, however, and therefore share your skepticism. https://www.defendo-usa.com/about-us/jyrki-saario.html
>>199809The difference is there's millions of practitioners of other martial arts, but the number of bonafide catch wrestlers numbers in the low thousands at most. Online though it seems like a million from every rando claiming to be a catch wrestler.
So, did OP get some personal experience?
>>203185No, I just signed up for boxing instead.
