They don't have time to train striking to protect themselves, but they are so concerned with protecting themselves that they spend time doing different self defense drills instead?
I know this is a real thing, but it make zero sense to me. If this made sense to me, I'd have never started BJJ.
"Nah bro, I'm cool. I don't need BJJ to deal with the reality of grappling. Naihanchi Shodan hidden techniques has ALL the grappling I need! I'm never training anything but 100% Karate until the day I die.
If you train Karate, and need to also train BJJ for self-defense, then something is seriously wrong with your Karate!"
Sounds like a joke, but that's a real thing too. So glad I never got into that.
I simply disagree with you.
No, I dont have time to practice striking, I do however have time and find very entertaining to train bjj with strikes. It is my responsibility as an instructor to teach at least a strategy on how to get to a clinch without getting ktfo. If its your view that you must strike and the clinch will come naturally, then than might be your karate mind talking, not your bjj black belt. You crosstrained, and thats the reason you give that as a given, it is not. It might be the result, and yes normally the clinch will happen, thing is, when would it happen, and under what conditions.
I dont find your karate analogy of much use, because a. theres acutally a shit ton of people thinking that way 2. Its way harder to remain on your feet in a real fight than it is to fall down to the ground, nonetheless, the ideal is to chose how and when to fall, specially to fall on top.
Combatives is not about magic ninjas techniques, im quite sure you have not watch it, I spoke highly against it before I have, it is not. Its quite simple sistematic aproach to ground fighting.
I would invite you to watch I think it was UFC 5 o 6, where there was this tough as nails judoka, dude was a savage, but it was clear he had no fighting strategy on how to apply his judo to fighting. Way way wya lesser stand up grapplers such as royce ralph even rezon were taking down people with good old stomp/clinch/ trips.
So bottom line, I totally agree with people saying that IF you must learn some other type of MA to complement your bjj, then theres something wrong about it. However, bjj is not magic neither turns you into a ninja, so of course crosstraining is the ideal, but there are lots of motives why someone will just not like to take striking classes to complement his bjj.
Watch the DVD man, like I told leichen, I really think it will change your perception on what is this SD stuff Rener and Ryron are talking about (note that I find static SD drills suche as famous 36 helio techniques worthless to practice for real life application)