Multiple Opponents

Unless you are prepared to kill people, you will ALWAYS lose to multiple opponents, unless you are extremely lucky. Multiple opponents with the will to hurt you is one bad situation. They don't come at you one at a time like in the movies, so you have to be willing to gouge an eye out, pull an ear off, bite the jugular vein or take a hostage.

The safest way do deal with multiple attackers is to pull a gun and shoot one, but you better have a license to carry and you better be a good shot with a quick draw.

In my opinion, no one style stands head and shoulders above the others, but there are certain styles that must be avoided. There are good systems but it is the "how" you train, not the "what" you train in.

Take the test. Gear up with headgear, elbow and knee pads, shinguards, and have two people do the same. Go hard and see how you do. Then do three, then four, then five. After you finish, one of two things will happen. You will either make the famous quote "Yeah, but if it were out on the street I would have... 'enter lame excuse here'". Or, you will analyze, dissect and start to train with a different mind set.

If faced with mutiple attackers with the will to hurt you and you can't outrun them, you will either curl up in the fetal position and pray they won't kill you, or you will kill or cripple one of them and the rest will back off, or you can take a hostage.

This sounds extreme, but I'm not talking about a bunch of drunk frat boys blowing off some steam. I'm talking about the serious people with a gang mentality, groups of criminals and thugs. This will probably never happen to you, but our society is getting worse, not better. So train hard, train realistically.