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Prior to the influence of the UFC and BJJ and before Professor Sylvain re-engaged himself in the martial arts community, our ground defense system comprised of a set of defenses against what were considered common holds and attacks on the ground. The problem with that method of training was that it was overly prescribed and didn’t address the dynamic nature of ground fighting. Some of the defenses also relied on techniques that kept the defender prone on the ground, leaving them open to attacks from additional attackers.

Professor Sylvain brought us back to the focus of getting to our feet as quickly as possible. The first line of defense he taught when you were on the ground and your attacker was on his feet was to keep your legs between you and your attacker, kicking at vulnerable targets as they tried to move in. We were taught to control their legs and take them down if possible. There was little emphasis on what to do if the attacker managed to get on top of you. He said simply that we should “launch an all-out attack against the most accessible, vulnerable areas of his body.” The idea was that we were to try to get an immediate advantage create an opportunity to get off the ground as quickly as possible. This is a very important foundation often completely ignored in modern ground fighting systems designed more for competitive purposes. It did, however, leave much open to interpretation as to how best to apply this principle.