Breathtaking, absolutely incredible. If you follow MMA at all, you can see the effective grappling techniques the bear uses- wide, parallel stance, keeps hips high (trying to keep them above opponent's hips), uses its torso to limit the space the opponent has, and uses its weight quite brutishly.
Fighting like this will teach you how important leverage, timing, etc. is. Strength is great to have when grappling, as being able to overpower and gut through a weaker person's technique can definitely win a fight. But being able to use your wits and inferior strength to overcome a fucking bear builds confidence. That confidence translates directly into how you conduct yourself, train, and fight.
Khabib feared no man he ever fought. Why? Because he's been nearly mauled by bears probably a hundred times by the time he began his MMA career. His extreme faith in (sadly) Islam also gives him a mental strength that is hard to beat. You're not going to break a man like Khabib, he will literally fight until he is dead.
My favorite part https://youtu.be/PAWd_WJNVms?t=320 the bears' leg sweep/"hip transfer"
Classic wrestling.
I don't know if this is true, but I've heard that a lot of early fighting arts were developed with some inspiration taken from how animals kill. It makes a lot of sense- early man witnesses a bear mauling a guy. They probably understand that the bear is way fucking stronger, but probably noticed the details of how the fight went- I imagine early man instinctively analyzed this type of thing regularly, otherwise they would be killed.
Kung Fu (which is nonsense, at least in its modern context, it's questionable if it was ever truly effective) uses a variety of animals. Jiu Jitsu fighters saw big cats killing shit, and tried to mimic it in practice. As they practiced with each other, they discovered what worked and what didn't. The shit that worked got taught to the next generation, who improved it based on conditions of the time period/location.
Eventually, the people living in Greece made it into a sport- I'm certain many other cultures around the world also had some form of wrestling as a practically mandatory part of growing up.
Learning from animals is great because they are built to be efficient, and they have zero ego. So the things they do are all with purpose, all meant to lead to their desired outcome as efficiently and safely as possible (predators hate to actually fight, because a broken leg likely means death); great analogy would be a guillotine choke and the way a big cat like a cougar or jaguar kills. They latch onto the target, using all of their body to isolate their target (the neck) from the rest of their prey's body, effectively taking their other limbs and mouth out of the fight. Then they just bite down on the neck until the prey passes out and eventually dies.
If you know anything about BJJ/MMA, you can see the parallels in a variety of chokeholds. Using your legs and torso to pressure and isolate the target limb, then swiftly strike and execute the submission move. You can also see bears very clearly using similar techniques... and now that I watch again, the bears fighting each other reminds me of Sumo wrestling.
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