Grappling guys: how do you rate your striking skills?

[tudor_bjj]

How do you, grappling people, rate your striking skills (standing)?
I, for instance, have pretty fast hands (took like a month of boxing training and now for 2 months I have been doing MT). I suck at kicks. Esp. high kicks cause I'm not flexible at all. I'm know learning how to put a lot of power into my lowkicks my twisting my hips. I have good knee strikes. And overall I'm trying to improve my stance and movement.
If I rate my striking skills I'll go like this (from 1 to 10):
- hands: 7
- kicks: 4
- knees: 6
BTW, I'm a blue belt in BJJ.
Please reply with some details...

 

[RetiredWisFighter]

hands: 4 at best
kicks: 6 good power not very good technique
knees: 8 good knees/thai clinch work

 

[colinm]

straight poop. ive taken 3 mt classes but dont have the time right now to pursue it, although i will in the fall

 

[Kantian_relativist]

Preschooler's Standup> My standup

I'm working on it, decent feet and clinch, but my hands are worthless

 

[flyingknee16]

Still learning standup.

My submission wrestling is pretty good now, so I've started to focus more on muay thai to round out my game. I mean does anyone seriously just want to grapple? Being only a grappler is still as incomplete as a TKDer with no ground skills, yeah?

 

[Bmonk**]

I only started grappling 3 years ago. Before that I did 5 years of boxing and 4 years of MT and competed a bit in both.

Hands 8
Kicks 7
Knees 5

 

[tudor_bjj]

Just another thought guys... This came up to me when me and two friends of mine had an argument last weekend with 4 guys. It didn't end with a fight (although it was pretty close), but I realized that if it ended with a fight I needed my striking skills.

 

[Dedicado]

Ya, you should get familiar with fighting on your feet.

I have an orange belt in TKD, so I know my basics here, but I got ripped apart by a MT fighter in '04 so since then I've re-evaluated what I know, I've learnt about the leg check, cuz TKD is really nothing below the waist and no punching to the head and no kicking in the back.

I've boxed competitively now for 2 years and I've had three fights. I feel pretty good with my hands.

legs:3
hands:7
knees:1

 

[2om30]

I was an amatuer boxer before i got into grappling....never kept up with the boxing just went full-on jiu-jitsu. So I rate my striking skills as CA-CA.

 

[LCDforMe]

Knees/Kicks/Hands=teh suck.

 

[007]

Knees: 8
Kicks: 8 for power 6 skill
Hnads: 6 Get tired when throwing combos

 

[Soid]

Hands: 8
Kicks: 0
Knees: Doesnt every knee hurt lol. ZERO

 

[guardpasser]

hands--8
kicks-8
knees-5

 

[colinm]

Still learning standup.

My submission wrestling is pretty good now, so I've started to focus more on muay thai to round out my game. I mean does anyone seriously just want to grapple? Being only a grappler is still as incomplete as a TKDer with no ground skills, yeah?

people can't grapple for sport?

 

[jahred]

i look great on the bags and pads but that's about it. i don't have near as much experience really banging as i'd like.

 

[Pale1]

hands: 5
Kicks: 3
Knees: 7
Elbows: 10

I like the fight in close. I can throw my hands, but doing so controlled and not just being instinctively is why the 5. And as for kicks, I just had my ACL and MCL replaced so it's been difficult to get them back up.

 

[phenomfan1529]

hands: 8
kicks: 1
knees: 2

 

[jahred]

lot of high numbers floating around.. i wonder what the buakaws, mayweathers and hoosts of the world stack up as.

 

[Falero]

hands:5
kicks: 8
kness:4

 

[Gsoares2***]

Dont know.. I tried training my self from MT books, and instructionals... But i doubt it got me far.

Kicks have to be my strongest asset.. Last street fight i got into i dropped the guy from one leg kick.

I only practice sport jiu jitsu.... 6 times a week... never strike:-(