As most of you probably know, high school wrestling bans moves that are considered "potentially dangerous." In jits, the goal is to achieve a PD position in order to force the opponent to tap. Do you think this makes BJJ significantly more dangerous than wrestling?
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BJJ more dangerous than freestyle wrestling
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I've gotten injured a lot more in BJJ than I did when I was wrestling. Then again I wrestled from ages 12-18 and it could just be that it was hard to injure me back then and I healed quicker.
As far as injuries in BJJ, again in my experience, the injuries come less from submissions and more from tweaking things in freak occurrences during scrambles.
As far as injuries in BJJ, again in my experience, the injuries come less from submissions and more from tweaking things in freak occurrences during scrambles.
Interesting stuff in there. I always imagined the biggest potential for injury in jiu jitsu would be someone cranking on a submission too quickly/forcefully.
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that's probably the least likely scenario to get injured in BJJ..
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Right, but most people who train aren't dickish enough to crank subs more than necessary, and most people have the good sense to tap in time. That's the beauty of grappling, we can go full force and not injure someone with our attacks unless something goes wrong.
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I think living is more dangerous than both of them.
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I think that's cancelled out by the higher impact and intensity of takedowns as well as the fact that you have gravity working against you on throws or takedowns which can make injuries more severe than when on the knees or on the ground.
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Freak injuries always happens.
But in the long term, I think wrestling fucks you up more than BJJ. Up until this day, I still feel my old wrestling injuries and strains on my knees.
But in the long term, I think wrestling fucks you up more than BJJ. Up until this day, I still feel my old wrestling injuries and strains on my knees.
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Interesting, I would have thought the opposite to be true. Wouldn't you be just as likely, if not moreso, to also tweak things during scrambles in wrestling? Also factor in the higher impact of takedowns and generally higher intensity of wrestling etc. Mind you I've never done any wrestling before, so these are just assumptions on my part.
In my own experience I've definitely been injured much more in Judo than in BJJ.
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Let me do something. Just because theres a list of potentially dangerous moves doesn't mean you can't get hurt. Anyways i'd say bjj only because most guys are older.
Say you have a 17 year old bjj kid and a 17 year old freestyle kid. I would say the freestyle kid would probably have a better chance of getting hurt.
Say you have a 17 year old bjj kid and a 17 year old freestyle kid. I would say the freestyle kid would probably have a better chance of getting hurt.
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There's a lot more kinetic energy in freestyle, a lot more getting dumped and a lot more trying not to get taken down, which is where most injuries occur in either sport IMHO.
I would probably say they are about equal. One of the other posters made a good point about most wrestlers being younger and having much more resiliency. I think that may play a factor statistically. I think if you include a third discipline than Judo would probably win because of the throws, but than again if you train in a bjj school that works a lot of judo and wrestling you would have just as many injuries. I believe the question is impossible to answer accurately.
You can correct (and should for any meaningful statistical analysis) for factors like age and athletic ability of practitioners. Personally, I think you'd be crazy to suggest BJJ is more dangerous than freestyle wrestling.
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Never have gotten injured by a submission, in over 4 years.
Every injury has come simply from movement during sparring.
My expectation is that if I were wrestling just as intensely over the same period of time, for the same amount of time, I would have sustained about the same number of injuries.
Every injury has come simply from movement during sparring.
My expectation is that if I were wrestling just as intensely over the same period of time, for the same amount of time, I would have sustained about the same number of injuries.
Completely disagree i've got injured tenfold more in wrestling than in bjj, the movements are faster and with weight behind it one wrong turn something could go, really due to the speed which both guys are moving. High school in the us doesn't allow slamming freestyle does.
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Takedowns are really not as high impact in wrestling as people think. They can be, but usually are not, and you're not supposed to slam the person down or else you get penalized. As far as the scrambles, I guess it makes a difference which positions you're scrambling for. In BJJ there is a lot more leg work going on, and in my experience wrestling has fewer leg injuries.
