Although the average person who gets into a street fight think it’ll always be settled by one punch, surprisingly a lot of street fights devolve into some horrendous white belt level grappling all the while both combatants hurl insults at each other until one person gives in.

In this edition of BJJ self defense techniques, Brazilian Jiujitsu black belt and owner of Grapplearts.com, Stephan Kesting goes through how to defend against a standing headlock followed up by punches, which is a very simple and fairly commonly tactic used in street fights.

“We’ve all seen this in grade school, but in the heat of the moment people revert to what they did in grade school.” Stephan explains.

Through out the lesson Stephen will go through variations of the initial attack, how to get your attacker off balance, how to get into a much more dominant position and what options you have to finish or escape the fight, as well as some of the key differences between grappling on the street versus grappling someone in a controlled environment such as the martial arts gym.

Stephan Kesting is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, and has been doing martial arts for over thirty years. He is also certified instructor in Erik Paulson’s Combat Submission Wrestling, a black belt in Kajukenbo Karate, an instructor in Dan Inosanto’s Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do, Maphalindo Silat and Filipino Martial Arts program. He has also studied Japanese Judo, Russian Sambo, various Chinese Kung Fu systems, Brazilian Capoeira, Muay Thai, and many other martial arts systems in his career.

He is the owner and operator of both Grapplearts.com and Beginning BJJ.com

He has had more than twenty articles published in print magazines like Black Belt, Ultimate Grappling, Tapout Magazine and Ultimate Athlete, and has been interviewed by The Fightworks Podcast and Lockflow.com. [source : grapplearts.com]