Wrestling teaches a faster pace and stronger emphasis on takedowns and pinning techniques in its athletes while Brazilian jiu jitsu puts more emphasis on leverage, control, and submissions with less emphasis on takedowns.
Brazilian jiu jitsu is a grappling based martial art that uses concepts of leverage, angles, and timing to take down, control, and submit an opponent with joint locks or strangles.
Boxing can burn up ~400 calories for 30 minutes of training and ~800 calories for an hour of moderately intense training for a 160 lb-180 lb male. Jumping rope, heavy bag training, and sparring are the boxing activities that burn the most calories.
Overall, boxing is a good foundation for self defense but should be complimented by some type of grappling training (like Brazilian jiu jitsu, wrestling, or judo).
Lethwei includes all the strikes of Muay Thai as well as the use of headbutts. Plus Lethwei fighters generally will only wrap their hands with gauze or fight with bare knuckles. Finally, in Lethwei victory is only achieved through knockout or opponent withdrawal due to injury. Otherwise the bout is considered a draw.
Catch wrestling is a form of wrestling that involves pinning as well submissions such as joint locks, compression locks, as well as twisting locks with some styles even including strangles.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and traditional sport Sambo are similar in that they both prioritize grappling and submissions. However, BJJ is practiced with a focus on achieving positional superiority and finishing with joint locks and chokes in a Gi or No Gi attire, Sambo emphasizes a faster-paced combination of throws, joint locks, leg locks, and strangles, with athletes wearing a Kurtka, shorts, and Sambo shoes.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) emphasizes technique and leverage, allowing individuals to defend against larger opponents. It includes frequent live sparring to provide a more realistic combat experience, potentially offering a more practical skill set compared to some Krav Maga training that may lack this element. Krav Maga’s focus on striking and as a self defense system may not have legitimate instruction and may lack deeper a undertsanding of the techniques and martial arts it pulls from such as judo, wrestling, boxing, muay thai, and bjj.
Brazilian jiu jitsu is a grappling based martial art that uses concepts of leverage, angles, and timing to take down, control, and submit an opponent with joint locks or strangles.
Japanese jiu jitsu was originally developed for the battlefield for armed and unarmed combat. It includes throws, strikes, and weaponry, and focuses on traditional martial arts principles with less focus on practical application.