Time Stamps! 1:20 Intro to Unified Rules 1:30 Rules about Fence Grabbing 2:01 Rules about Grabbing Shorts 2:22 Penalties for Breaking the Rules (Fouls) 3:00 Rules about Grabbing Gloves 3:42 BJJ Gi Applications Re: Rules about grabbing Shorts/Gloves 4:05 Rules about Headbutting 5:04 Rules Apply Equally to Both Fighters 5:17 Rules about Biting (sorry Rattlesnakes) 6:19 Rules on Grabbing Hair 7:11 Rules on Fishhooking 7:41 Rules on Gouging/Aggravating Cuts 8:15 Legally Aggravating a Cut 8:35 Rules on Groin Strikes/Holding 9:54 "But Groin Shots Hurt Even with Cups On" (hint: either their protector is trash or they're milking a foul) 10:32 "But nobody wears a cup in a street fight" 11:15 Rules on Small Joints (three finger minimum rule) 12:08 Downward Elbow Rule 12:40 Rant on Stupid Rules 13:20 Rant on Gloves in MMA 14:02 Rant on Gloves in Boxing 14:47 GET RID OF GLOVES ALREADY 15:20 Rules on Striking the Spine or Back of Head 16:30 Implications of No Spine/Back of Head Strikes 17:01 Rules about Hitting or Grabbing the Throat 18:18 Rules about Flesh Attacks 19:16 Rules about Kicking People on the Ground 20:12 Caveat about "The Rules" in MMA 21:07 Stomping Grounded Opponents 21:42 Bad Language 22:02 Eccentric fouls 22:29 Rant on Multiple Rounds 23:26 Attacking while Opponent is being checked by Ref 24:00 Avoiding the Fight (Not Avoiding The Puddle, that's another channel) 24:30 Cornermen Can't Help You Fight 25:10 Obey The Ref At All Times 25:44 Rules about How You can Throw Your Opponent to the Ground 26:24 Rules On Not Fighting After The Bell
*goes home with scratches on neck* 'new students dear' "Uhh....yeah....new students....that's exactly where these are from, cause I teach grappling, and that totally happens"
Actually, chi energy blasts are totally legal in the UFC. Fighters usually don’t use them though, out of respect to the fans in the front row how would otherwise be instantly killed.
Ramsey Dewey that makes sense. although, maybe if we as users train to maintain better control, and future users have to prove in front of judges that they can maintain a level of control without risking the fans. like non lethal blasts or just general control so it doesn't even reach them.
Nah, fans these days are just too coddled. I remember Cribb vs Belcher back in '07, in the second round Belcher slipped Cribb's flaming uppercut, and Cribb accidentally punched nine audience members into the Sun. They didn't cry, or complain, or sue, not like fans today. No, they came back more powerful than you can possibly imagine. That's a true fan for you.
There was this one guy that actually did a hadouken to his opponent, then proceeded to win the match. /watch?v=kTecahqDtM0 he wasn't penalized at all for it.
He always used to make half an hour long videos earlier. There are also a few hour long videos made by him on topics requiring extensive explanation. This guy does it because he likes to do it. He has nothing to gain from it.
I believe Bas Rutten once said about ‘street fights’ vs MMA that it was ridiculous to believe that trained fighters wouldn’t be able to kick you in the groin, eye gauge etc. As far as regulations go, I believe most of them were made to satisfy politicians. It is however undeniable that the Unified MMA rules helped in growing the sport of MMA.
I remember hearing that. It's silly that people think that poking someone in the eye with a finger is easier than hitting them in the nose with a glove.
bs they are lookin at making damaging knees illegal cause fighters cry like little girls when u beat them so badly and quickly the need a wheelchair and can never fight again. you made thia comment after the mma sissies started their crusade so you ethier dont even watch mma or are covering up the facts. american govt kills anyone it can get its hand on. the only reason they act anti drug dearh is cause they have synthetic drugs u arent buying they wanna force you to buy
I've been boxing for 15 years and I've tried full contact minus headkicks and been on fights it's hard ok believe what u want I know it to be true stay safe God bless to all
5:20 talking about head butts and how your opponent can do it to. Funny story: I was a young and full of myself. I came from a traditional background and dominated all the people I had trained with. So I decide to go to a better gym. I get my first taste of American Kickboxing and my opponent gets me in head clinch punches me a few times and breaks away. See this guy knew what he was doing and knew that I was green as grass. I said “I can just knee my way out of that clinch you had!” He replied “I can knee too” We went back to sparring and he clinched with me again, and I not comprehending what he had just told me... tried to knee my way out. This guy in his wisdom knees me back in a VERY controlled manner just enough so that I knew I messed up but not enough to injury me. I was very blessed to train when I did with those guys. Yes your opponent gets to do all the cool things you think you can do; training matters.
It's also worth mentioning that those "reality based" tactics wont end the fight. kicking the groin only causes pain, it might not end the fight. biting - what the hell are you going to do, bite the guy in the jugular? no way.
Those techniques are meant to distract to give you the upper hand, or best case even allow you to run away. In self defense, there are many ways to end a fight.
Anyone who's been in a lot of REAL fights will tell you that the groin is one of the more difficult targets to hit decisively, even among non-fighters. We all instinctively protect it even unconsciously. Eyes, too.
I remember a really old UFC match where someone was taking repeated punches to the groin while they were on the ground. I'm guessing the repeated hits started to really hurt due to the edges of the cup getting pounded in because the guy getting hammered tapped out eventually. It took a while though.
And I keep forgetting about that grounded rule. It rarely comes up in our gym. Everyone here who wants to take it to the ground can generally end it when they do, or get up quickly if they can't. (Evolve MMA, Singapore, ONE Championship rules.) Rise techniques, along with breakfalls, are drilled rather religiously.
That point at 5 minutes about "if they were legal, guess what, everyone would train them too" is a major point all these kids that tell me they'd kill me in a real fight keep on forgetting. "MMA doesn't train knife and pistol disarms" but by extension, that implies one can train for it, and my point was that MMA resembles real fighting the most because it can be trained with live resistance. I don't think there's a USMC that will argue they didn't do live drills for knife disarms (using nonlethal knives, of course) and pistol disarms (using unloaded pistols or paintball pistols, of course) and MMA being a sport is a complete red herring as far as that point goes.
My point of course is that you can train situations and counters to those situations (HOW you learn what to do in MMA). And well... no matter how different paintball is to MMA, that's a red herring- the real question is how different is paintball to an actual shootout?
He is absolutely right this is one of the reasons . Fighting off an opportunistic attacker or someone that ambushes you . I.e to Rob you ,hurt you etc. Is very different from stepping into a ring with a trained fighter . Some of the skills transfer over but not all . That's why you genuinely do have men and woman . All over the world that have successfully defended there selves in real situation's . Using aikido, Japanese jujitsu, kungfu, karate etc . When your attacker sees you as prey and expects you to capitulate immediately. The element of surprise when you make them your prey . Is enough to make your skills work . (You still have to have practical not conceptual practice) . Working in UK prisons I've seen officers and prisoners successfully defends there selves with Tai chi, judo, aikido, boxing .. they then cannot understand why there systems just do not work. In professional fights or competition's. The two scenarios are completely different. Same as an officer friend of mine .who was quite successful competively with MMA . Was shaken to his core when we were jumped by a group of prisoners. He had a beautiful choke on a guy who he had taken to the ground and was knocked unconscious by the others stomping on him . When we debriefed the situation he was ready to give up MMA it didn't work . He was wrong it worked perfectly .it was just out of context . In that situation I couldn't get near him before he was knocked unconscious because of the numbers. but I didn't go to ground nor did my other colleague. So we could save him from a worse fate . After that he started to train with me aikido, Japanese jujitsu etc . Which when practiced in context is designed . For multiple contacts. Short time on target and quick and constant body movement . I have trained with many traditional martial artists. That do not understand the context nor reality . They cannot use there skills for anything more than a display. I have also worked with officers that practice MMA. Who have a completely misplaced confidence . Who get the shock of there lives first real encounter. It is about context . Using the right skills for the right situation. It is bloody hard to get wrist locks , finger breaks etc on a trained person . Not so hard on someone who has attacked you or ambushed you . If the element of surprise is capitalised upon. Trust me all you ninja, aikidoka, kungfu experts. . Your skills unless practiced for fighting will not work for fighting . They will work for defence only if you train them practically for defence . You train quasi religious conceptual bullshit that is what you will get.
Ramsey I just discovered your channel and subbed I don’t know anything about martial arts but I find your videos educational and entertaining thanks for the vids.
Claim: "If MMA had eye gouging/groin kicks/head stomping I would dominate everyone!" Real meaning: "I never got hit hard before." I seriously doubt there are many people out there not willing to get in a fight where broken bones, concussions, and many other injuries are fairly common, that would be willing to get in a fight where they can get blinded or have their honker bit off in addition to all those other injuries. Great video, I love how you analyze how taking out each rule would change the fights. One thing that you didn't mention that I think might be used a lot if there were no rules would be eye attacks...maybe not so much with strikes, but I think especially in ground grappling you might see a lot of fighters sticking fingers in eye sockets in order to control their opponent/positions. I doubt it would change much in the end other than making fights much shorter and lots of terrible injuries...whoever was the better fighter would still win the fight.
This video is great. The amount of times I have people with this argument (soccer kicks, eye gauge, headbutt, throat strikes, spine strikes) and I just say to them, "how do you possibly expect to get me or anybody even moderately trained into a position that you are able to do that?" 😂 Love the videos mate!
Gloves in boxing and MMA are there to protect your fragile finger bones from your opponents ferocious thick skull headbutts. Gloves are actually for safety in HEMA where we wear large steel gash helmets and people try sniping your hands with large steel objects. Even though punching with the gloves is usually allowed in HEMA it's pretty rare because even while clinching, grappling or disarming you will usually have access to a weapon which is way more effective.
Your comment on the corner man and crowds not being able to fight for you got we thinking... What do you think about the possibility of "tag team" or "free for all" fights in MMA??? It would change things immensely, but would it still be exciting to watch as well as practical to coach and medically feasible???
I'm from brazil and as far as I know headbutts still legal in Vale tudo, the rules for vale tudo are way more permissive than the UFC's. If you compare the current UFC with the current vale tudo, they will look like very diferent sports.
Funny thing about biting there is a sub-class in Dumog (wrestling in arnis) in which you are taught to how to bite in grappling. I actually have experience being biten by a classmate, dog and a toddler, I don't know if it's true for everyone, but when I bitten the bitten part tend to freeze and not move to avoid cuts and bites doesn't need to cut inorder to cause pain or numbness.
that said, thank you for the detailed video. I said it in another comment but I really like your videos. Long or short you really get the point across with supporting facts and anecdotes to explain.
Great explanations, thank you. Could you (or anyone else commenting) please elaborate on the permissible use of the elbows in MMA/UFC fights ? I'm pretty confused by the differences between classic Muay Thai rules, K1, UFC, MMA, etc. As a viewer it appears that Muay Thai allows the most liberal use of the elbow and that MMA fights rely on it considerably less, and I'm wondering if it's a matter of rule or style. TIA!
In Muay Thai, you can do whatever you want with your elbows. In MMA, you can do ALMOST anything you want with your elbows except drop the point of the elbow directly downward in a vertical fashion from the 12 o’clock position to the 6 o’clock position. It’s a stupid rule made by non-fighters, but that’s the rule.
Randy Couture was a pro at headbutting and getting away with it. Look at the fight where he broke Gabriel Gonzaga nose with a headbutt and because of that he kept his World Title. (then lost to Lesnar next match). But they call that dirty boxing lol
I got a question about the MMA gloves , i noticed them not having an inside part for the palm section , so i want to ask if wouldn't make more sense to make gloves that have some material there as well , that way the gloves can't be grabbed anymore , it doesnt have to be hard leather or anything like that , just some sort of fabric that would make it a full glove so people dont jam fingers on the inside.
on you saying you wish there werent rounds, Glima (viking wrestling) has no rounds, or a time limit. the fight ends when one person has any part of their body touching the ground other than the soles of their feet and they arent touching the opponent. it allows grappling and throws, locks, gouging, pain techniques and all sorts. i think there are quite a lot of forms of it, belt or no belt, various changes in which techniques are permissible and various rules but at its most basic it involves getting the person to the ground while remaining standing and clear from their grip. its mostly standing, i think you can go to ground but its risky because if the other person gets free and stands up you have lost.
Kim Katsu yeah, could be. All I know about sumo is they have to get the opponent out of the ring. I think Glima may allow a wider range of techniques but im sure there are similarities.
It's either getting opponent out of the ring or make him touch the ground by anything other than the soles of their feet. Also, they don't have weight categories.
I never saw glima, but i know that sumo have plenty of techniques, from strikes to throws. Pretty sure there are a lot of similarities between those, since rules are kinda similar.
i've seen a few mma fights where the first round was 10 minutes followed by a 5 minute round. first round sometimes favored the grapplers if they were in shape enough to go the distance.
Ramsey I'm so glad I found your videos, the first one I watched I thought who is this intense crazy guy... I came back for more and found an incredibly intelligent martial artist who as a very unique delivery style. Thank you! Regarding your Tai Chi experience I believe you came in contact with an "internal" expert...if you could ask him I'll bet he does a lot of reverse breathing and a lot of internal balance training. Anyway thank you so much. How has your head healed?
Thanks for this information. I agree with most of your comments, The lack vertical elbow strikes, not kicking a downed opponent in the head, and not allowing punching to the back of the head, are problematic. It seems to favor Grappling and not striking. Especially, those individuals that heavily rely on the guard. It also encourages, as you stated, fighters to keep their head down while attempting take downs, as well as giving up their back with no worries about being struck in the back of the head. Or, worse yet, just laying on the ground with their legs up in the air. Their arms can more easily guard their bodies because they no longer need to guard their faces from oncoming kicks. Vertical elbows seem very useful in some situations where other delivery methods are not possible, as in the prevention of takedowns, etc. Breaking individual fingers may aid in loosening choke holds. Gloves? My father was a bare knuckle fighter, though illegal at that time, back in the late 30s, and he said that broken noses, jaws, teeth, and even eye sockets happened frequently. So, I guess gloves, especially the gloves in modern boxing, probably do aid in these respects, as some boxers can hit unbelievably hard. I am uncertain how the small MMA gloves change that equation however. Would changing any or all of these rules change the outcome of the fight? I have no idea, But it certainly would cause a change in tactics. Great video as always.
Of course changing the rules changes the tactics. Look at Rickson Gracie's early Vale Tudo fights, for example. When he took backmount, choking his opponents wasn't the priority, he'd beat their skulls in from behind. Watch ONE FC, or old PrideFC fights where kicking, kneeing, or stomping the heads of downed fighters is legal- strategies change a lot. Watch Jack Johnson's old boxing matches (before the gloves had padding) notice how careful the fighters were about throwing their punches- it was a lot more clinching and a lot less flurries.
I feel like the round system is more for the benefit of the UFC or organization you fight in. they draw out the fights so people dont feel cheated when they see a fight that only lasts a couple of minutes.
Apparently the the twelve to six elbows were taken out cause some UFC guys saw a brick/ ice breaking exercise. And the UFC gloves are pretty much there so you don't don't break your hands but guys break their hands all the time.
The 12 to 6 elbow was the decision of a doctor on the New Jersey state athletic commission. He watched the fight between Remco Pardoel and Orlando Wiet. Remco finished the fight pinning Orlando and dropping 12 to 6 elbows until Orlando was out cold. The doctor said he would not sign off on a sport that allowed that technique and he wouldn’t budge on the matter. The ice breaking/brick breaking urban legend is just that. The gloves are there because the New Jersey State Athletic Commission oversees boxing and in spite of protests from John McCarthy with evidence to the contrary, these boxing commissioners believed gloves would make the sport safer and refused to sign off on the UFC without them.
Ramsey, I have an idea for a video: comparison of early 90s rules vs. today, in particular no time limit vs a time limit, and the different rules (before or now) that might inhibit or be advantage to competitors and their skill. Also with regards to lethality: which era of the tournaments were most dangerous. One critique by the Gracie's charged that time-limit rounds favour big, stronger guys -- who inevitably win, and so the fight is not fair and a true test of skill. Be interested to hear your thoughts on early versus modern tournaments -- in a video.
I do miss the old vale tudo stuff sometimes. Something about headbutts and soccer kicks... Mark coleman was pissed when they banned head butts. That was his main weapon. I suppose every sport must evolve.
I agree the damage is much worse. I get why they banned them. There's just a part of me that appreciates the pure violence of them. Headbutts are an extremely devastating and useful weapon.
dude, you are baching your head into some elses. if you are doing it to do damage, you will DEFINITELY wobble the brain, causing brain damage. headbutt a wall, realize a human skull even if you hit them on the nose (because the skull is still right there which youre g still going to collide with) is harder than a wall, then tell me it wouldnt cause concussions and brain damage. i get headaches from head battling in wrestling and thats not even a strike.
Mr. Orangeaide Hard to soft. The thick, hard, upper forehead crashing to the soft t-zone of someone's face is about as devasting as can be imagined. I don't think anyone would say it doesn't have risks obviously. Not sure if you've seen the old vale tudo stuff, but it was a crushing tool for dude trapped in the gaurd. The guy on bottom had to adopt defenses for headbutts. It's just another tool in the arsenal.
Hey Ramsey. Do you think MMA athletes should train in a gi too. Because it seems pointless to me because they I think they get a wrong feeling for Fighting and they can't use the submissions they can use with a GI.🤔🤔🤔 Thanks for explaning the Rules of MMA for all of us.😊🙏🏾
Hello Ramsey. I often hear you talk about flexibility in fighting in your videos and I was wondering, are there any exercises you would recommend to improve one's flexibility ?
Hi I have been watching your video almost religiously for a while. What do you think ONE FC allowing kicking a downed opponent? I personally think this rule would encourage more stantup striking and clinching, and make the fights more overall exciting to watch. I wonder what's your take on it. I also wonder if this rule is implemented in the UFC, how do you predict this would change the game?
Ramsey do you bring any drinks besides water when training? after training when i was going home i drank an ice tea and it was much more refreshing and ventilating than water.
Biting is a very good way of inflicting pain on someone who has their arm over your mouth and in self-defence is a valid and extremely useful technique, if you weave your fingers into someones hair properly and grab it is also an effective way of controlling a persons head and another effective self defence technique in a real fight. The most vulnerable part of the body is the groin and again in self defence can be also another good way of inflicting pain and getting away from an attacker.
Question about stomping. When for example Michel Pereira backflips onto a downed opponent trying to land his feet on there head/body, shouldn't that be considered stomping?
Question: Do you feel that the increased knowledge in mma leads to more defensive fights at the higher levels? Background: Ive noticed that in many top level fights the defensive prowess of the fighters lead to the early rounds being almost completely without moments where you as an audience feel the fight could end. As ive only practiced mma for about 2 years in my younger days I cant really appreciate the finer points of all the techniques so technical fights with no damage are a bit lost on me. I cant help but feeling like the earlier days of ufc where all fighters had bigger gaps in their defense led to more exciting fights.
Pulling the opponent's hair in a grappling situation can work wonderfully if you have the top position. Even trained fighters get surprised and don't know how to react. Tried it with some friends from a local MMA gym, and they were all surprised at how off-putting and effective it was.
Enjoy the videos Ramsey. Wondered if you could do a similar video on scoring/judging a fight. Like the weighting of score for a take down, leg kick, damage, etc. As a viewer of the sport(not a fighter or involved with sport of mma) it can be confusing to work out who is winning the fight on points if it is a close match where there isn't a dominant fighter
Hey Ramsey! Been watching for some time now and im loving it! But i was wondering, how do you know if what your being taught is actually MMA or just what the trainers personal oppinion is? You see the place im thinking about training at, markets MMA classes, but also Muay thai, BJJ, Boxing, Wrestling, with trainers in each who has training in their respective sport. I dont doubt that the boxing coach knows how to box or the BJJ coach knows BJJ. They also have fighting experience, But what im wondering is for example, how do they know a good MMA stande? as a full boxing stance isnt practical and same with a wrestlers stance. Those small MMA specific things that the other 4 sports doesnt teach?
Hello Ramsey, recently I started to watch your videos. I'm not 100% interested in competition, but I'm interested in maintain my body in a good condition, lose some weight, gain some muscle, and self control / discipline. What do you recommend me to start with, some martial arts (karate, taekwondo, boxing...) or body building? I'm currently kinda fat (1,72 cm 98Kg) Xiexie!
I think the grabbing fence rule is because fight must be as equal as if fence doesn't existed. and the same in the center that in the border of the octan as possible. Also a bit same as in real life where there very probably wouldn't be a fence to grab.
That’s a nice idea, but using the cage is a HUGE part of the sport of MMA. Grabbing the fence, on the other hand, to try to stop a takedown will result in broken or severed fingers.
Something I don't understand is that despite the fact I've been training a while and I love sparring like never once have I been afraid or nervous to spar but when it comes to actual confrontation I freeze and don't do anything when I feel I should how can I stop this from happening and what causes it
I would agree most of your points, with couple of respectful disagreement. 1. Groin strike should be legal. Even with protection, you'd not want to get knee/kick to your balls. Some of the stands and techniques would change a little (more realistic). 2. Most people who are in competition shave or have short hair anyway, so hair pulling rule makes almost no difference. However, it should be legal. If your opponent happen to be stupid to have long hair, he is given you advantage in certain grappling situations (eg. Make him losing balance). 3. Slightly different opinion - kick/knee/stomp downed opponent everywhere (except obviously places for safety reasons, like back of head, face), should be legal. Stomp can be quicker than kick, maybe that's the reason it is banned currently.
Sry for necroing this conversation after so much time but -- if the expected consequence of allowing hair pulling is that competitive fighters will just shave and there still won't realistically be any hairpulling in the sport anyhow, isn't all you're doing by allowing it just making them look different then they want to look in 'civilian' life? I don't see what that contributes to the sport, and it presumably slightly degrades the life satisfaction of the fighter, if they'd rather have the hair. I'd be compassionate to them in this matter.
@@ciragoettig1229 Most pro fighters cut weight, and it makes them look different than their otherwise day to day life. And weight cutting is dangerous and really bad for health. Yet, weight cutting is allowed. The point is, that's fighters' choice. If they want long hair, then accept the risk/disadvantage of it.
@@GuitarsRockForever is there a trivial rule change with minimal consequences to how sport plays out that would allow the fighters to have more freedom in what weight they have? I would be very much in favor of that too, if it existed, I just doubt it does exist. I still don't see what the sport gains, in terms of its form, from introducing an incentive to a particular hairstyle. These are professionals in the end, just trying to earn their livelihood under these rules, and these are tough enough inherently already, and require a lot from them that is hard to avoid. But why then just be pointlessly mean to them too about trivialities? Rules changes would make sense to me if it makes a significant tactical difference in what kind of style of fighting it incentivies, like what he commented about rounds favoring strikers, or possibly soccer kicks bans favoring grapples, buf if ALL a certain rule change does is enforce a trivialy achievable hairstyle change w/o any further impact to the metagame or fighting styles, its just silly .... really why be so petty to these folks -- aren't they getting fucked up enough already?
@@ciragoettig1229 To answer your question: maybe there will be difference, we won't know. Why? You just need to look for lethwei. Most of us know you can headbutt in lethwei, but "recently" I learnt you can hair pull too. That means fighter with long hair will be disadvantaged as the opponent can grab the hair and make an open for headbutt in clinch, for example. Yet, there are fighters like their long hair (they have to be extra careful in clinch). As I said, fighters choice. But the technique should be allowed. In mma, hair pull would have more creative applications (imagine grappling with hair pull allowed, or drag opponent out of balance and follow up with knee in the face, for example).
@@GuitarsRockForever oh yes I completely agree -- that is quite true, it would be in principle quite cool if one could have a combat sport where hair pulling actually regularly happens in practice on an international stage. For eg, if one cares about self defence, and won't shave themselves just for the off chance, many people might get their hair pulled, so if tactics that include that would get pressure tested in the cage, we'd benefit. The thing is, for a professional sport, people will just shave, because we're not like in southeast asia, and the bald look is far more socially acceptible in most places than there. It takes hell of a lot of social pressure to make oneself intentionally worse at what you compete in for a living. If the sport had some kind of protective headgear maybe that could be made hairy for the purposes of symmetry, but I gather people don't think headgear would be a good idea safety-wise in MMA. EDIT: well actually I guess you have a point: there will be enough places on this planet where even the pros won't want to loose their hair for esthetic reasons and pressure, that its bound to happen with some regularity in proper fights, and we'll all see better what it does to tactics after that, unless the handicap turns out so crippling that none will make it very far -- which I don't think is the case. Perhaps that benefit does overcome the usually minor extra inconvenience of shaving to get an advantage for the fighters. Hell, a proud fighter might possibly even keep the hair precisely to demonstrate how good they are despite the handicap, if it doesn't turn out to be a too bad one. I think you changed my mind, thanks.
I've got a random question, and I hope this is a good place to drop it. I don't have any intentions of competing for money or bragging rights, I just want to be the best fighter that I can darn possibly be, and want to know, what should my weight be? Im currently around 169cm tall at 72KG, with low body fat, and I feel really great with more weight on me, I don't feel like it gets in the way at all. At which point should I stop trying to gain weight, also, what about body fat? Seeing fat guys like DC and roy nelson makes me wonder wether being fat in addition to muscle will be an advantage.
Do DDTs count as illegal under that spiking rule? They'd be a lot more likely than piledrivers (which I can only see practically happening accidentally out of a sprawl into a kinda-failed body lift attempt). But a DDT could happen just out of falling backwards out of a guillotine choke - hell, that's actually how it was invented in the first place in pro wrestling; the guy didn't even initially mean to do it, he was applying a front facelock and slipped over.
I recently started doing MMA and I started watching the early UFCs and quickly became fascinated. I find it so interesting to see how people started adapting based on what they were experiencing in the octagon, particularly the shift towards grappling and ground fighting after Royce Gracie dominated everyone in no time flat in the first couple of them. I've watched the first 5 of them so far and except for headbutting, I actually didn't really see any of these "dirty fighting" techniques, Maybe groin shots a couple of times and I think Royce Gracie one time used a guy's hair for leverage. But I've never seen someone try to snap a finger off, or try to fishhook, or try to pinch and claw. And that's probably because that's just not effective. You're probably not going to get a significant enough reaction from your opponent to make much of a difference. I'm not a super tough cage fighter, I'm a small-ish girl, but if I were really determined and someone snapped one of my fingers, I'd be PISSED. And probably would not let go and would resolve even more to choke that person or whatever I was doing. People continue fighting even with broken hands sometimes. So it seems to me like it's the kind of thing that would result in petty injury, but wouldn't really end a fight. And it makes perfect sense in a sport, to have rules to protect athletes from that. If you're in a self defense situation... it still might not work. But I guess it might give you an edge especially against someone who isn't really used to getting hurt. I think that's another thing. Someone who is used to being punched and kicked and choked and so on, is probably going to have a higher tolerance, especially for pain, and will probably also remain more calm. It's interesting, I read an article about John McCarthy training people to be MMA referees. He apparently lobbied for a lot of the early UFC rules. He was talking specifically about fishhooking and he said his reasoning behind that one is that the defense against it is biting and you shouldn't put your finger in someone's mouth if you're not prepared to lose a finger. The second part was kind of implied. But I think he's an interesting guy and that he genuinely has compassion for the fighters. Sorry, this is a really long comment. I'm just really fascinated with all of this right now. I love the amount of thinking that goes into this sport and other combat sports. I think there's a general assumption that it's all about pummelling someone to unconsciousness, but there's at least as much brain that goes into it as muscle, if not more. Whether it's the techniques themselves, or the rules or the equipment. Everything about it. I also have a question coming off of that, how valuable do you think it is to watch fights? You're obviously not going to learn how to fight unless you fight, but do you think you can get something out of watching these matches? I think for me, having watched about 8 hours of UFC in the past 3 days (I had a bad cold), it was like a crash course in fightereese. I learnt a lot of terminology. And I think it gave me some kind of insight into the techniques, particularly the ground fighting. Not in the sense that I can do them, but that I understand to some extent, what they're doing and it doesn't just look like two human pretzels rolling on the ground. So in that respect, it's definitely been valuable for me, but do you think it can actually help you improve your own technique?
Fighting when at your most vulnerable? > Seriously though. In the automotive industry. Part of the testing process for new cars is that they have to be able to accomodate older citizens - the industry as put together a special suit that testers can wear that simulates old age. So this suit restricts sensory input (like vision) as well as a persons range and power of movement. I was thinking this could also help training how to handle attacks if you were ever at a severe disadvantage from illness/injury?
Interesting idea. Most professional fighters go into fights with injuries. On fight night, most of them are performing at a significantly lower level than they do in the gym due to all the extraneous circumstances, extra anxiety, and unknown variables. They tend to tire out much more quickly in a real fight than they do in training. I sometimes try to simulate this in the gym by wearing my fighters out before they spar, or throwing some other distractions at them. But the idea of a handicapping suit is really interesting. Do you have any videos of this suit?
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I don't have any video. There is an article for "wired" from 2008 - "An Outfit That Simulates Old Age". It doesn't appear to be rocket science: all they do (I am sure it is very technical) is apply special strapping to the joints to restrict movement - such as a tough leather knee strap so the knee joint is restricted. If people want to train for competition fights (where fear does come into play). That's fine I guess. But I was also thinking that there is a particular type of fear experienced by being out on the streets when you are not at your best. And well I guess unprovoked attacks tend to be on people who are vulnerable rather than those who look like they can defend themselves... ...Having been in that situation before. It does make a deference not to be afraid: as I found fear gets picked up on by people who tend to harass others... ...And then. Well. Why be afraid anyway? Good luck with the weather in Shanghai this Sunday I guess - as the forecast doesn't look great!
I know that this video is a bit older but since you mentioned it: Are there Rules about competing with blood-transmittable diseases such as HIV or Hepatitis? Because people bleed during fights and chances are you're going to get some of your opponents blood somewhere on you, with a bit of bad luck in your mouth, your forehead where you have a cut on your own or your chin where you cut yourself while shaving this morning.
Thanks Ramsey for the informative video. On the piledrivers I believe Bob sapp did it to one of the nogerias in pride and ruined his neck. Anyway thanks again.
I was looking for a video clip of bad takedown defense involving the worst double leg takedown attempt in the world countered with striking the back of the head, and Master Wong came up as the first search result. I decided against including the clip in this video though.
oh PLEASE do a video on master wong. either just your opinion or maybe in the style of your "mma fighters try womens self defence" videos. i cant get enough of people debunking him
yeah yeah, lol. That was me. In my very poor defense, I'd looked up the rules a few times a while ago but after nearly breaking a couple knees in training was told I wouldn't be able to do that in competition... Obviously, bad info and didn't check for myself.
Gloves also cause the brain to bounce because of that. That don't drop to a hard bare knuckle punch and people hit harder so gloves cause more brain injuries and concussions
I have a question I graduated high school two months ago and I have a passion for martial arts and I'm doing muay Thai right now what kind of careers can I look in to if I don't go pro in muay thai? I'm 18 btw and I currently work security part-time and I live in South Florida I would really appreciate if you could answer To make it simple what kind of careers can I do for someone like me who loves martial arts?
Maybe we associate gloves with safety because every other glove that's out there was designed with the intent that it will protect your hands. Do you think we should call boxing and mma gloves something different? And if so what would we call them?
Good video. You forgot eye poking which can be extremely dangerous and serious consequences. Can you tell me ear shots with palms are legal or not ? (Can be dangerous as well)
It’s perfectly legal to strike the ears however you want. The only targets that count as a foul are the back of the head, the back of the neck, the spine, and the groin. The only strikes that are fouls are the 12 to 6 downward elbow, and kicks, knees, and stomps to the head of a downed opponent. Everything else is a legal scoring area
Question; are you allowed to press your thumb into opponents' soft areas, like behind and underneath the jaw (while grappling for example)? What's the limit to this? Can you press until you break the skin? It's not quite clawing and it's not quite sticking your finger in an orifice.
You can, but you’d be surprised at how shockingly ineffective stuff like that is in the middle of a cage fight. Man, the number of people who have come to my gym to spar and try their pressure point stuff convinced it would work, only to find themselves being beaten and strangled. I’ve seen it attempted A LOT firsthand.
Question to you: how do you think TMA and MMA perform in unusal environments such as slippery terrain, mud, places with furniture or other obstacles in the way?
Hi Romsey, I know I am late so I would not be surprised if you did not reply. However I have been surprised there is no clear rule against wrist locks and similar techniques. From my experience if you do those in full speed you either break the joint or the opponent gives in and fall to it. There is simply not enough time for opponent to realize the danger of such lock before you finish it - that is why you see only "wrestling locks" with a lot of time to realize what is going on before you push the lock to the limit. (There is even the way to have your opponent dislock his own joint by fixing it before (during) his expected move). I do not expect UFC would be happy if fight ends in first round due to broken wrist/elbow/... I would be interested in your opinion as I have never seen such technique used in UFC fight and it is a huge argument for bulshido (aikido sucks) side. I agree it is hard to learn those but all of professional fighters train enough to learn it.
Wrist locks are 100% legal. And they’re really hard to do and extremely low percentage at the professional level. There are a ton of legal techniques that can and do instantly damage an opponent.
Mr. Dewey! I've really learned over time to respect your long form answers. I'm an impatient man you see, so it really took time. 😆 But now i'm going start doing an impression of you I think. 😆 🍻
This is the funniest video you have ever made. Your sarcasm is hilarious! Love it! "If your Martial Art is based upon being foul-mouthed and saying angry mean words to your opponent...." LOL! Didn't you realize that this is the most popular MA in the world? LOL! Man! I am still laughing! thanks
I would totally dominate in MMA but they don't allow me to drive a tank into the octagon. Pesky rules...
I'd get a fidelity card from you, friend.
Yeah sane bringing a nuke while hiding on the moon also aint legal
You can bring Tank Abbott.
Psh, tanks aren't practical for self-defense, in a real fight they can attack you with an A-10 Thunderbolt and then your tank is busted.
Nah, just bring a handgun. Problem solved.
Time Stamps!
1:20 Intro to Unified Rules
1:30 Rules about Fence Grabbing
2:01 Rules about Grabbing Shorts
2:22 Penalties for Breaking the Rules (Fouls)
3:00 Rules about Grabbing Gloves
3:42 BJJ Gi Applications Re: Rules about grabbing Shorts/Gloves
4:05 Rules about Headbutting
5:04 Rules Apply Equally to Both Fighters
5:17 Rules about Biting (sorry Rattlesnakes)
6:19 Rules on Grabbing Hair
7:11 Rules on Fishhooking
7:41 Rules on Gouging/Aggravating Cuts
8:15 Legally Aggravating a Cut
8:35 Rules on Groin Strikes/Holding
9:54 "But Groin Shots Hurt Even with Cups On" (hint: either their protector is trash or they're milking a foul)
10:32 "But nobody wears a cup in a street fight"
11:15 Rules on Small Joints (three finger minimum rule)
12:08 Downward Elbow Rule
12:40 Rant on Stupid Rules
13:20 Rant on Gloves in MMA
14:02 Rant on Gloves in Boxing
14:47 GET RID OF GLOVES ALREADY
15:20 Rules on Striking the Spine or Back of Head
16:30 Implications of No Spine/Back of Head Strikes
17:01 Rules about Hitting or Grabbing the Throat
18:18 Rules about Flesh Attacks
19:16 Rules about Kicking People on the Ground
20:12 Caveat about "The Rules" in MMA
21:07 Stomping Grounded Opponents
21:42 Bad Language
22:02 Eccentric fouls
22:29 Rant on Multiple Rounds
23:26 Attacking while Opponent is being checked by Ref
24:00 Avoiding the Fight (Not Avoiding The Puddle, that's another channel)
24:30 Cornermen Can't Help You Fight
25:10 Obey The Ref At All Times
25:44 Rules about How You can Throw Your Opponent to the Ground
26:24 Rules On Not Fighting After The Bell
Awesome!
You're not the hero we deserve, but the one we need.
You are a gem of a corner-man, mate.
27:18 Rules on spitting
*goes home with scratches on neck*
'new students dear'
"Uhh....yeah....new students....that's exactly where these are from, cause I teach grappling, and that totally happens"
Eduardo Manero Lmao. I couldn't help but think the same thing.
Nice. New excuse for the wife...lol
Eduardo Manero if you’ve never been scratched in bjj you’ve never trained bjj
I know this seems off topic. I think Ramsey would be a great audiobook voice actor.
holy cow, yes!
I think he’s done some text books
Dude could talk about leaves falling sign me up I'll be listening
We can only dream
Totally agree, his voice is gold. I don’t even have an interest in MMA but fall asleep everyday listening to his q&a’s
I would totally dominate in mma except they dont allow energy blasts. Some BS about damage to the building and nearby mountain ranges. Pfft.
technocrat9000 Ik right. I've been perfecting my kamehameha and hadoken, but can't use it. lame! lol.
Actually, chi energy blasts are totally legal in the UFC. Fighters usually don’t use them though, out of respect to the fans in the front row how would otherwise be instantly killed.
Ramsey Dewey that makes sense. although, maybe if we as users train to maintain better control, and future users have to prove in front of judges that they can maintain a level of control without risking the fans. like non lethal blasts or just general control so it doesn't even reach them.
Nah, fans these days are just too coddled. I remember Cribb vs Belcher back in '07, in the second round Belcher slipped Cribb's flaming uppercut, and Cribb accidentally punched nine audience members into the Sun. They didn't cry, or complain, or sue, not like fans today. No, they came back more powerful than you can possibly imagine. That's a true fan for you.
There was this one guy that actually did a hadouken to his opponent, then proceeded to win the match. /watch?v=kTecahqDtM0 he wasn't penalized at all for it.
"If you're a rattlesnake..." I think anyone watching this video chose the human build, rofl. #tierzoo
Hey man, don't diss us human players for studying strats.
Filthy human players. My hippo build would destroy you if headbutts or biting was allowed.
you can still squish them to death :D
Ayyyy! Didn't knew we have Tierzoo viewers in here.
What can I say, TierZoo just makes so much sense. Me sauce Ramsey is also a fan?
A 30 minute video from Ramsey? What a time to be alive
Magnum Dong
Couldn't imagine it myself bevorhand
He always used to make half an hour long videos earlier. There are also a few hour long videos made by him on topics requiring extensive explanation.
This guy does it because he likes to do it. He has nothing to gain from it.
lol, he does them every so often. I've noticed that he's the only one I'll watch for long videos. Everyone else pisses me off after about 5.
"I would totally dominate in MMA but my styles (German Longsword, Military Sabre and Italian Rapier) aren't allowed! 😡" - HEMA practitioner.
I believe Bas Rutten once said about ‘street fights’ vs MMA that it was ridiculous to believe that trained fighters wouldn’t be able to kick you in the groin, eye gauge etc.
As far as regulations go, I believe most of them were made to satisfy politicians. It is however undeniable that the Unified MMA rules helped in growing the sport of MMA.
I remember hearing that. It's silly that people think that poking someone in the eye with a finger is easier than hitting them in the nose with a glove.
bs they are lookin at making damaging knees illegal cause fighters cry like little girls when u beat them so badly and quickly the need a wheelchair and can never fight again. you made thia comment after the mma sissies started their crusade so you ethier dont even watch mma or are covering up the facts. american govt kills anyone it can get its hand on. the only reason they act anti drug dearh is cause they have synthetic drugs u arent buying they wanna force you to buy
True, but the really weird stuff like 12-6 or being allowed to grab your own shorts never helped anybody.
I used to misunderstand MMA too...Then I tried it. Now I understand that I can't even figure the amount of skill required to compete in MMA ^^
its called discipline and u lack it.
I've been boxing for 15 years and I've tried full contact minus headkicks and been on fights it's hard ok believe what u want I know it to be true stay safe God bless to all
need much steroids and bad tattoos.
5:20 talking about head butts and how your opponent can do it to.
Funny story: I was a young and full of myself. I came from a traditional background and dominated all the people I had trained with. So I decide to go to a better gym.
I get my first taste of American Kickboxing and my opponent gets me in head clinch punches me a few times and breaks away. See this guy knew what he was doing and knew that I was green as grass.
I said “I can just knee my way out of that clinch you had!”
He replied “I can knee too”
We went back to sparring and he clinched with me again, and I not comprehending what he had just told me... tried to knee my way out.
This guy in his wisdom knees me back in a VERY controlled manner just enough so that I knew I messed up but not enough to injury me. I was very blessed to train when I did with those guys.
Yes your opponent gets to do all the cool things you think you can do; training matters.
Put your hands up and stop talking
Tell that to a set of fellows named diaz
It's also worth mentioning that those "reality based" tactics wont end the fight. kicking the groin only causes pain, it might not end the fight. biting - what the hell are you going to do, bite the guy in the jugular? no way.
Those techniques are meant to distract to give you the upper hand, or best case even allow you to run away. In self defense, there are many ways to end a fight.
If you can land a hit like that, you can do a lot of other nasty things as well.
Anyone who's been in a lot of REAL fights will tell you that the groin is one of the more difficult targets to hit decisively, even among non-fighters. We all instinctively protect it even unconsciously. Eyes, too.
I remember a really old UFC match where someone was taking repeated punches to the groin while they were on the ground. I'm guessing the repeated hits started to really hurt due to the edges of the cup getting pounded in because the guy getting hammered tapped out eventually. It took a while though.
But what if you bite them in the nads? Pretty sure that will end a fight.
On the gloves thing: I am so glad they didn't try adding helmets/headgear. They are so detrimental to health.
And I keep forgetting about that grounded rule. It rarely comes up in our gym. Everyone here who wants to take it to the ground can generally end it when they do, or get up quickly if they can't. (Evolve MMA, Singapore, ONE Championship rules.)
Rise techniques, along with breakfalls, are drilled rather religiously.
i believe the no cursing rule was only used once in the ufc.
Nick Diaz got a warning for foul language in the Robbie Lawler fight
That point at 5 minutes about "if they were legal, guess what, everyone would train them too" is a major point all these kids that tell me they'd kill me in a real fight keep on forgetting. "MMA doesn't train knife and pistol disarms" but by extension, that implies one can train for it, and my point was that MMA resembles real fighting the most because it can be trained with live resistance. I don't think there's a USMC that will argue they didn't do live drills for knife disarms (using nonlethal knives, of course) and pistol disarms (using unloaded pistols or paintball pistols, of course) and MMA being a sport is a complete red herring as far as that point goes.
If you want to learn defense against firearms in a competitive environment, go play paintball. It's totally different to MMA.
DoomRater
Correct
My point of course is that you can train situations and counters to those situations (HOW you learn what to do in MMA). And well... no matter how different paintball is to MMA, that's a red herring- the real question is how different is paintball to an actual shootout?
If you think most soldiers/marines are training knife and gun disarms you're going to be disappointed when you grow up
@@shinobi-no-bueno On the contrary, if you think they've never been exposed to a gun or knife disarm you're going to be surprised when you serve.
He is absolutely right this is one of the reasons . Fighting off an opportunistic attacker or someone that ambushes you .
I.e to Rob you ,hurt you etc. Is very different from stepping into a ring with a trained fighter .
Some of the skills transfer over but not all .
That's why you genuinely do have men and woman . All over the world that have successfully defended there selves in real situation's . Using aikido, Japanese jujitsu, kungfu, karate etc .
When your attacker sees you as prey and expects you to capitulate immediately. The element of surprise when you make them your prey . Is enough to make your skills work .
(You still have to have practical not conceptual practice) . Working in UK prisons I've seen officers and prisoners successfully defends there selves with Tai chi, judo, aikido, boxing .. they then cannot understand why there systems just do not work. In professional fights or competition's. The two scenarios are completely different. Same as an officer friend of mine .who was quite successful competively with MMA . Was shaken to his core when we were jumped by a group of prisoners. He had a beautiful choke on a guy who he had taken to the ground and was knocked unconscious by the others stomping on him .
When we debriefed the situation he was ready to give up MMA it didn't work .
He was wrong it worked perfectly .it was just out of context . In that situation I couldn't get near him before he was knocked unconscious because of the numbers. but I didn't go to ground nor did my other colleague. So we could save him from a worse fate .
After that he started to train with me aikido, Japanese jujitsu etc . Which when practiced in context is designed . For multiple contacts. Short time on target and quick and constant body movement . I have trained with many traditional martial artists. That do not understand the context nor reality . They cannot use there skills for anything more than a display. I have also worked with officers that practice MMA. Who have a completely misplaced confidence . Who get the shock of there lives first real encounter. It is about context . Using the right skills for the right situation.
It is bloody hard to get wrist locks , finger breaks etc on a trained person . Not so hard on someone who has attacked you or ambushed you . If the element of surprise is capitalised upon.
Trust me all you ninja, aikidoka, kungfu experts. . Your skills unless practiced for fighting will not work for fighting .
They will work for defence only if you train them practically for defence .
You train quasi religious conceptual bullshit that is what you will get.
Hey.... _MY_ fighting style is 99.9% groin strikes!!!
LupeJustinian Ameridote?
What's the 0.01%? :D
Kiwimaru Possibly the "Thrust of Freedom"
Mine is 110% eye-jabs!!
+LupeJustinian There's a lot of vomit in your fighting ring, isn't there?
Ramsey I just discovered your channel and subbed I don’t know anything about martial arts but I find your videos educational and entertaining thanks for the vids.
Claim: "If MMA had eye gouging/groin kicks/head stomping I would dominate everyone!"
Real meaning: "I never got hit hard before."
I seriously doubt there are many people out there not willing to get in a fight where broken bones, concussions, and many other injuries are fairly common, that would be willing to get in a fight where they can get blinded or have their honker bit off in addition to all those other injuries.
Great video, I love how you analyze how taking out each rule would change the fights. One thing that you didn't mention that I think might be used a lot if there were no rules would be eye attacks...maybe not so much with strikes, but I think especially in ground grappling you might see a lot of fighters sticking fingers in eye sockets in order to control their opponent/positions. I doubt it would change much in the end other than making fights much shorter and lots of terrible injuries...whoever was the better fighter would still win the fight.
i truly don't understand that mentality of "i would totally dominate in such and such...". it's completely egotistical.
Your pronunciation is distinctly getting broken down into different vowels and tones. I wonder if Chinese has a hand in this.
*I never knew the full rules of MMA*
Awesome upload!
“ but my martial art involves firing Energyballs at an unknown victem from my bedroom, if it wasnt for the rules i’d put anyone to sleep”
Forgot to mention the main danger of fishhooking would be loosing fingers
This video is great. The amount of times I have people with this argument (soccer kicks, eye gauge, headbutt, throat strikes, spine strikes) and I just say to them, "how do you possibly expect to get me or anybody even moderately trained into a position that you are able to do that?" 😂 Love the videos mate!
"If your martial art is based on hair pulling ..." LMAO.
Thank you for telling me the true rules.
Biting might be useful in the same positions that head butts and fishhooking could be useful as transitional move
5:47 "Fear the old blood"
ImNotHereNow gg's
its 1 am and im watching your videos I consider this dedication to learning about fighting
Gloves in boxing and MMA are there to protect your fragile finger bones from your opponents ferocious thick skull headbutts.
Gloves are actually for safety in HEMA where we wear large steel gash helmets and people try sniping your hands with large steel objects. Even though punching with the gloves is usually allowed in HEMA it's pretty rare because even while clinching, grappling or disarming you will usually have access to a weapon which is way more effective.
Your comment on the corner man and crowds not being able to fight for you got we thinking... What do you think about the possibility of "tag team" or "free for all" fights in MMA??? It would change things immensely, but would it still be exciting to watch as well as practical to coach and medically feasible???
I'm from brazil and as far as I know headbutts still legal in Vale tudo, the rules for vale tudo are way more permissive than the UFC's. If you compare the current UFC with the current vale tudo, they will look like very diferent sports.
All sorts headbutts in lethwei.
Also instead of fish hooking an elbow the the eye socket works pretty well.
Funny thing about biting there is a sub-class in Dumog (wrestling in arnis) in which you are taught to how to bite in grappling. I actually have experience being biten by a classmate, dog and a toddler, I don't know if it's true for everyone, but when I bitten the bitten part tend to freeze and not move to avoid cuts and bites doesn't need to cut inorder to cause pain or numbness.
that said, thank you for the detailed video. I said it in another comment but I really like your videos. Long or short you really get the point across with supporting facts and anecdotes to explain.
Maybe the first fight started over why we have chins, and the rest is history?
Mwahahahaha!!! Awesome
Guile's Theme goes with piledriver. One of the best videos on TH-cam for a good piledriver
A technique does not have to be the one and only technique of a martial art, in order for that particular technique to be effective.
Great explanations, thank you. Could you (or anyone else commenting) please elaborate on the permissible use of the elbows in MMA/UFC fights ? I'm pretty confused by the differences between classic Muay Thai rules, K1, UFC, MMA, etc. As a viewer it appears that Muay Thai allows the most liberal use of the elbow and that MMA fights rely on it considerably less, and I'm wondering if it's a matter of rule or style. TIA!
In Muay Thai, you can do whatever you want with your elbows. In MMA, you can do ALMOST anything you want with your elbows except drop the point of the elbow directly downward in a vertical fashion from the 12 o’clock position to the 6 o’clock position. It’s a stupid rule made by non-fighters, but that’s the rule.
I caught your reply about the vertical elbow, it is strange that it's disallowed. Thanks for the further clarification, love your videos !
I LOOOOVVVVEEEE how well spoken this dude is.
Randy Couture was a pro at headbutting and getting away with it. Look at the fight where he broke Gabriel Gonzaga nose with a headbutt and because of that he kept his World Title. (then lost to Lesnar next match). But they call that dirty boxing lol
I got a question about the MMA gloves , i noticed them not having an inside part for the palm section , so i want to ask if wouldn't make more sense to make gloves that have some material there as well , that way the gloves can't be grabbed anymore , it doesnt have to be hard leather or anything like that , just some sort of fabric that would make it a full glove so people dont jam fingers on the inside.
on you saying you wish there werent rounds, Glima (viking wrestling) has no rounds, or a time limit. the fight ends when one person has any part of their body touching the ground other than the soles of their feet and they arent touching the opponent. it allows grappling and throws, locks, gouging, pain techniques and all sorts. i think there are quite a lot of forms of it, belt or no belt, various changes in which techniques are permissible and various rules but at its most basic it involves getting the person to the ground while remaining standing and clear from their grip. its mostly standing, i think you can go to ground but its risky because if the other person gets free and stands up you have lost.
Rules look pretty similar to sumo.
Kim Katsu yeah, could be. All I know about sumo is they have to get the opponent out of the ring. I think Glima may allow a wider range of techniques but im sure there are similarities.
It's either getting opponent out of the ring or make him touch the ground by anything other than the soles of their feet. Also, they don't have weight categories.
I never saw glima, but i know that sumo have plenty of techniques, from strikes to throws. Pretty sure there are a lot of similarities between those, since rules are kinda similar.
i've seen a few mma fights where the first round was 10 minutes followed by a 5 minute round. first round sometimes favored the grapplers if they were in shape enough to go the distance.
Ramsey I'm so glad I found your videos, the first one I watched I thought who is this intense crazy guy... I came back for more and found an incredibly intelligent martial artist who as a very unique delivery style. Thank you! Regarding your Tai Chi experience I believe you came in contact with an "internal" expert...if you could ask him I'll bet he does a lot of reverse breathing and a lot of internal balance training. Anyway thank you so much. How has your head healed?
Thanks for this information. I agree with most of your comments, The lack vertical elbow strikes, not kicking a downed opponent in the head, and not allowing punching to the back of the head, are problematic. It seems to favor Grappling and not striking. Especially, those individuals that heavily rely on the guard. It also encourages, as you stated, fighters to keep their head down while attempting take downs, as well as giving up their back with no worries about being struck in the back of the head. Or, worse yet, just laying on the ground with their legs up in the air. Their arms can more easily guard their bodies because they no longer need to guard their faces from oncoming kicks. Vertical elbows seem very useful in some situations where other delivery methods are not possible, as in the prevention of takedowns, etc.
Breaking individual fingers may aid in loosening choke holds. Gloves? My father was a bare knuckle fighter, though illegal at that time, back in the late 30s, and he said that broken noses, jaws, teeth, and even eye sockets happened frequently. So, I guess gloves, especially the gloves in modern boxing, probably do aid in these respects, as some boxers can hit unbelievably hard. I am uncertain how the small MMA gloves change that equation however. Would changing any or all of these rules change the outcome of the fight? I have no idea, But it certainly would cause a change in tactics. Great video as always.
Of course changing the rules changes the tactics. Look at Rickson Gracie's early Vale Tudo fights, for example. When he took backmount, choking his opponents wasn't the priority, he'd beat their skulls in from behind. Watch ONE FC, or old PrideFC fights where kicking, kneeing, or stomping the heads of downed fighters is legal- strategies change a lot. Watch Jack Johnson's old boxing matches (before the gloves had padding) notice how careful the fighters were about throwing their punches- it was a lot more clinching and a lot less flurries.
Ramsey Dewey I loved the rattle snake and hair pulling comments! Very good!
For years Joe Rogan has been saying the same thing about bare knuckles fighting being a safer alternative as far as being smarter with how you punch
I feel like the round system is more for the benefit of the UFC or organization you fight in. they draw out the fights so people dont feel cheated when they see a fight that only lasts a couple of minutes.
Apparently the the twelve to six elbows were taken out cause some UFC guys saw a brick/ ice breaking exercise. And the UFC gloves are pretty much there so you don't don't break your hands but guys break their hands all the time.
The 12 to 6 elbow was the decision of a doctor on the New Jersey state athletic commission. He watched the fight between Remco Pardoel and Orlando Wiet. Remco finished the fight pinning Orlando and dropping 12 to 6 elbows until Orlando was out cold. The doctor said he would not sign off on a sport that allowed that technique and he wouldn’t budge on the matter. The ice breaking/brick breaking urban legend is just that.
The gloves are there because the New Jersey State Athletic Commission oversees boxing and in spite of protests from John McCarthy with evidence to the contrary, these boxing commissioners believed gloves would make the sport safer and refused to sign off on the UFC without them.
Ramsey,
I have an idea for a video: comparison of early 90s rules vs. today, in particular no time limit vs a time limit, and the different rules (before or now) that might inhibit or be advantage to competitors and their skill. Also with regards to lethality: which era of the tournaments were most dangerous.
One critique by the Gracie's charged that time-limit rounds favour big, stronger guys -- who inevitably win, and so the fight is not fair and a true test of skill.
Be interested to hear your thoughts on early versus modern tournaments -- in a video.
Time limits and rounds favor strikers in a huge way.
I do miss the old vale tudo stuff sometimes. Something about headbutts and soccer kicks...
Mark coleman was pissed when they banned head butts. That was his main weapon.
I suppose every sport must evolve.
concussions man. not worth it in the long run
Not if properly done.
I agree the damage is much worse. I get why they banned them. There's just a part of me that appreciates the pure violence of them. Headbutts are an extremely devastating and useful weapon.
dude, you are baching your head into some elses. if you are doing it to do damage, you will DEFINITELY wobble the brain, causing brain damage. headbutt a wall, realize a human skull even if you hit them on the nose (because the skull is still right there which youre g still going to collide with) is harder than a wall, then tell me it wouldnt cause concussions and brain damage. i get headaches from head battling in wrestling and thats not even a strike.
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Hard to soft. The thick, hard, upper forehead crashing to the soft t-zone of someone's face is about as devasting as can be imagined. I don't think anyone would say it doesn't have risks obviously.
Not sure if you've seen the old vale tudo stuff, but it was a crushing tool for dude trapped in the gaurd. The guy on bottom had to adopt defenses for headbutts. It's just another tool in the arsenal.
Hey Ramsey. Do you think MMA athletes should train in a gi too. Because it seems pointless to me because they I think they get a wrong feeling for Fighting and they can't use the submissions they can use with a GI.🤔🤔🤔
Thanks for explaning the Rules of MMA for all of us.😊🙏🏾
ahahah yes when i was in America we was debating with the Americans with how to say aluminium ahaha great video Ramsey
Hello Ramsey.
I often hear you talk about flexibility in fighting in your videos and I was wondering, are there any exercises you would recommend to improve one's flexibility ?
Hi I have been watching your video almost religiously for a while. What do you think ONE FC allowing kicking a downed opponent? I personally think this rule would encourage more stantup striking and clinching, and make the fights more overall exciting to watch. I wonder what's your take on it. I also wonder if this rule is implemented in the UFC, how do you predict this would change the game?
Ramsey do you bring any drinks besides water when training? after training when i was going home i drank an ice tea and it was much more refreshing and ventilating than water.
Biting is a very good way of inflicting pain on someone who has their arm over your mouth and in self-defence is a valid and extremely useful technique, if you weave your fingers into someones hair properly and grab it is also an effective way of controlling a persons head and another effective self defence technique in a real fight. The most vulnerable part of the body is the groin and again in self defence can be also another good way of inflicting pain and getting away from an attacker.
Question about stomping. When for example Michel Pereira backflips onto a downed opponent trying to land his feet on there head/body, shouldn't that be considered stomping?
Great value as always Ramsey 🙏
Question: Do you feel that the increased knowledge in mma leads to more defensive fights at the higher levels?
Background: Ive noticed that in many top level fights the defensive prowess of the fighters lead to the early rounds being almost completely without moments where you as an audience feel the fight could end. As ive only practiced mma for about 2 years in my younger days I cant really appreciate the finer points of all the techniques so technical fights with no damage are a bit lost on me. I cant help but feeling like the earlier days of ufc where all fighters had bigger gaps in their defense led to more exciting fights.
21:50 the diaz bros?
Pulling the opponent's hair in a grappling situation can work wonderfully if you have the top position. Even trained fighters get surprised and don't know how to react. Tried it with some friends from a local MMA gym, and they were all surprised at how off-putting and effective it was.
One more reason to shave your head.
Watching your channel has made me very interested in competing in MMA. What is the best way to get to it? Are there any qualifications?
Ramsey Dewey please give me the song name intro for this video please
Enjoy the videos Ramsey. Wondered if you could do a similar video on scoring/judging a fight. Like the weighting of score for a take down, leg kick, damage, etc. As a viewer of the sport(not a fighter or involved with sport of mma) it can be confusing to work out who is winning the fight on points if it is a close match where there isn't a dominant fighter
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Hey Ramsey! Been watching for some time now and im loving it! But i was wondering, how do you know if what your being taught is actually MMA or just what the trainers personal oppinion is? You see the place im thinking about training at, markets MMA classes, but also Muay thai, BJJ, Boxing, Wrestling, with trainers in each who has training in their respective sport. I dont doubt that the boxing coach knows how to box or the BJJ coach knows BJJ. They also have fighting experience, But what im wondering is for example, how do they know a good MMA stande? as a full boxing stance isnt practical and same with a wrestlers stance. Those small MMA specific things that the other 4 sports doesnt teach?
Great question!
I'd like to hear a MMA fighters opinion on the Fairbairn system.
Hello Ramsey, recently I started to watch your videos. I'm not 100% interested in competition, but I'm interested in maintain my body in a good condition, lose some weight, gain some muscle, and self control / discipline. What do you recommend me to start with, some martial arts (karate, taekwondo, boxing...) or body building? I'm currently kinda fat (1,72 cm 98Kg) Xiexie!
I think the grabbing fence rule is because fight must be as equal as if fence doesn't existed. and the same in the center that in the border of the octan as possible. Also a bit same as in real life where there very probably wouldn't be a fence to grab.
That’s a nice idea, but using the cage is a HUGE part of the sport of MMA. Grabbing the fence, on the other hand, to try to stop a takedown will result in broken or severed fingers.
Something I don't understand is that despite the fact I've been training a while and I love sparring like never once have I been afraid or nervous to spar but when it comes to actual confrontation I freeze and don't do anything when I feel I should how can I stop this from happening and what causes it
I would agree most of your points, with couple of respectful disagreement.
1. Groin strike should be legal. Even with protection, you'd not want to get knee/kick to your balls. Some of the stands and techniques would change a little (more realistic).
2. Most people who are in competition shave or have short hair anyway, so hair pulling rule makes almost no difference. However, it should be legal. If your opponent happen to be stupid to have long hair, he is given you advantage in certain grappling situations (eg. Make him losing balance).
3. Slightly different opinion - kick/knee/stomp downed opponent everywhere (except obviously places for safety reasons, like back of head, face), should be legal. Stomp can be quicker than kick, maybe that's the reason it is banned currently.
Sry for necroing this conversation after so much time but -- if the expected consequence of allowing hair pulling is that competitive fighters will just shave and there still won't realistically be any hairpulling in the sport anyhow, isn't all you're doing by allowing it just making them look different then they want to look in 'civilian' life?
I don't see what that contributes to the sport, and it presumably slightly degrades the life satisfaction of the fighter, if they'd rather have the hair. I'd be compassionate to them in this matter.
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Most pro fighters cut weight, and it makes them look different than their otherwise day to day life. And weight cutting is dangerous and really bad for health. Yet, weight cutting is allowed.
The point is, that's fighters' choice. If they want long hair, then accept the risk/disadvantage of it.
@@GuitarsRockForever is there a trivial rule change with minimal consequences to how sport plays out that would allow the fighters to have more freedom in what weight they have? I would be very much in favor of that too, if it existed, I just doubt it does exist.
I still don't see what the sport gains, in terms of its form, from introducing an incentive to a particular hairstyle. These are professionals in the end, just trying to earn their livelihood under these rules, and these are tough enough inherently already, and require a lot from them that is hard to avoid.
But why then just be pointlessly mean to them too about trivialities? Rules changes would make sense to me if it makes a significant tactical difference in what kind of style of fighting it incentivies, like what he commented about rounds favoring strikers, or possibly soccer kicks bans favoring grapples, buf if ALL a certain rule change does is enforce a trivialy achievable hairstyle change w/o any further impact to the metagame or fighting styles, its just silly .... really why be so petty to these folks -- aren't they getting fucked up enough already?
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To answer your question: maybe there will be difference, we won't know.
Why? You just need to look for lethwei. Most of us know you can headbutt in lethwei, but "recently" I learnt you can hair pull too. That means fighter with long hair will be disadvantaged as the opponent can grab the hair and make an open for headbutt in clinch, for example. Yet, there are fighters like their long hair (they have to be extra careful in clinch). As I said, fighters choice. But the technique should be allowed.
In mma, hair pull would have more creative applications (imagine grappling with hair pull allowed, or drag opponent out of balance and follow up with knee in the face, for example).
@@GuitarsRockForever oh yes I completely agree -- that is quite true, it would be in principle quite cool if one could have a combat sport where hair pulling actually regularly happens in practice on an international stage.
For eg, if one cares about self defence, and won't shave themselves just for the off chance, many people might get their hair pulled, so if tactics that include that would get pressure tested in the cage, we'd benefit.
The thing is, for a professional sport, people will just shave, because we're not like in southeast asia, and the bald look is far more socially acceptible in most places than there. It takes hell of a lot of social pressure to make oneself intentionally worse at what you compete in for a living.
If the sport had some kind of protective headgear maybe that could be made hairy for the purposes of symmetry, but I gather people don't think headgear would be a good idea safety-wise in MMA.
EDIT: well actually I guess you have a point: there will be enough places on this planet where even the pros won't want to loose their hair for esthetic reasons and pressure, that its bound to happen with some regularity in proper fights, and we'll all see better what it does to tactics after that, unless the handicap turns out so crippling that none will make it very far -- which I don't think is the case. Perhaps that benefit does overcome the usually minor extra inconvenience of shaving to get an advantage for the fighters.
Hell, a proud fighter might possibly even keep the hair precisely to demonstrate how good they are despite the handicap, if it doesn't turn out to be a too bad one.
I think you changed my mind, thanks.
I'll never forget Bob Sapp's piledriver. That's the closest thing to murder I've seen in a pro fight.
Still managed to lose the fight the poor sap.
I've got a random question, and I hope this is a good place to drop it. I don't have any intentions of competing for money or bragging rights, I just want to be the best fighter that I can darn possibly be, and want to know, what should my weight be? Im currently around 169cm tall at 72KG, with low body fat, and I feel really great with more weight on me, I don't feel like it gets in the way at all. At which point should I stop trying to gain weight, also, what about body fat? Seeing fat guys like DC and roy nelson makes me wonder wether being fat in addition to muscle will be an advantage.
Do DDTs count as illegal under that spiking rule? They'd be a lot more likely than piledrivers (which I can only see practically happening accidentally out of a sprawl into a kinda-failed body lift attempt). But a DDT could happen just out of falling backwards out of a guillotine choke - hell, that's actually how it was invented in the first place in pro wrestling; the guy didn't even initially mean to do it, he was applying a front facelock and slipped over.
I always say "a front kick is a front kick, whether it's to the chest or the groin."
I recently started doing MMA and I started watching the early UFCs and quickly became fascinated. I find it so interesting to see how people started adapting based on what they were experiencing in the octagon, particularly the shift towards grappling and ground fighting after Royce Gracie dominated everyone in no time flat in the first couple of them. I've watched the first 5 of them so far and except for headbutting, I actually didn't really see any of these "dirty fighting" techniques, Maybe groin shots a couple of times and I think Royce Gracie one time used a guy's hair for leverage. But I've never seen someone try to snap a finger off, or try to fishhook, or try to pinch and claw. And that's probably because that's just not effective. You're probably not going to get a significant enough reaction from your opponent to make much of a difference. I'm not a super tough cage fighter, I'm a small-ish girl, but if I were really determined and someone snapped one of my fingers, I'd be PISSED. And probably would not let go and would resolve even more to choke that person or whatever I was doing. People continue fighting even with broken hands sometimes. So it seems to me like it's the kind of thing that would result in petty injury, but wouldn't really end a fight. And it makes perfect sense in a sport, to have rules to protect athletes from that. If you're in a self defense situation... it still might not work. But I guess it might give you an edge especially against someone who isn't really used to getting hurt. I think that's another thing. Someone who is used to being punched and kicked and choked and so on, is probably going to have a higher tolerance, especially for pain, and will probably also remain more calm.
It's interesting, I read an article about John McCarthy training people to be MMA referees. He apparently lobbied for a lot of the early UFC rules. He was talking specifically about fishhooking and he said his reasoning behind that one is that the defense against it is biting and you shouldn't put your finger in someone's mouth if you're not prepared to lose a finger. The second part was kind of implied. But I think he's an interesting guy and that he genuinely has compassion for the fighters.
Sorry, this is a really long comment. I'm just really fascinated with all of this right now. I love the amount of thinking that goes into this sport and other combat sports. I think there's a general assumption that it's all about pummelling someone to unconsciousness, but there's at least as much brain that goes into it as muscle, if not more. Whether it's the techniques themselves, or the rules or the equipment. Everything about it.
I also have a question coming off of that, how valuable do you think it is to watch fights? You're obviously not going to learn how to fight unless you fight, but do you think you can get something out of watching these matches? I think for me, having watched about 8 hours of UFC in the past 3 days (I had a bad cold), it was like a crash course in fightereese. I learnt a lot of terminology. And I think it gave me some kind of insight into the techniques, particularly the ground fighting. Not in the sense that I can do them, but that I understand to some extent, what they're doing and it doesn't just look like two human pretzels rolling on the ground. So in that respect, it's definitely been valuable for me, but do you think it can actually help you improve your own technique?
Fighting when at your most vulnerable? > Seriously though. In the automotive industry. Part of the testing process for new cars is that they have to be able to accomodate older citizens - the industry as put together a special suit that testers can wear that simulates old age. So this suit restricts sensory input (like vision) as well as a persons range and power of movement. I was thinking this could also help training how to handle attacks if you were ever at a severe disadvantage from illness/injury?
Interesting idea. Most professional fighters go into fights with injuries. On fight night, most of them are performing at a significantly lower level than they do in the gym due to all the extraneous circumstances, extra anxiety, and unknown variables. They tend to tire out much more quickly in a real fight than they do in training. I sometimes try to simulate this in the gym by wearing my fighters out before they spar, or throwing some other distractions at them. But the idea of a handicapping suit is really interesting. Do you have any videos of this suit?
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I don't have any video. There is an article for "wired" from 2008 - "An Outfit That Simulates Old Age". It doesn't appear to be rocket science: all they do (I am sure it is very technical) is apply special strapping to the joints to restrict movement - such as a tough leather knee strap so the knee joint is restricted.
If people want to train for competition fights (where fear does come into play). That's fine I guess. But I was also thinking that there is a particular type of fear experienced by being out on the streets when you are not at your best. And well I guess unprovoked attacks tend to be on people who are vulnerable rather than those who look like they can defend themselves...
...Having been in that situation before. It does make a deference not to be afraid: as I found fear gets picked up on by people who tend to harass others... ...And then. Well. Why be afraid anyway?
Good luck with the weather in Shanghai this Sunday I guess - as the forecast doesn't look great!
I know that this video is a bit older but since you mentioned it: Are there Rules about competing with blood-transmittable diseases such as HIV or Hepatitis? Because people bleed during fights and chances are you're going to get some of your opponents blood somewhere on you, with a bit of bad luck in your mouth, your forehead where you have a cut on your own or your chin where you cut yourself while shaving this morning.
Thanks Ramsey for the informative video. On the piledrivers I believe Bob sapp did it to one of the nogerias in pride and ruined his neck. Anyway thanks again.
Awesome video, coach!
What do you think about Henry Armstrong the boxer
Very well explained sir , thank you
What do you think of Master Wong?
Also are you going to translate more kung fu forms?
he's mentionted him in passing and rips the piss into him
I was looking for a video clip of bad takedown defense involving the worst double leg takedown attempt in the world countered with striking the back of the head, and Master Wong came up as the first search result. I decided against including the clip in this video though.
oh PLEASE do a video on master wong. either just your opinion or maybe in the style of your "mma fighters try womens self defence" videos. i cant get enough of people debunking him
yeah yeah, lol. That was me. In my very poor defense, I'd looked up the rules a few times a while ago but after nearly breaking a couple knees in training was told I wouldn't be able to do that in competition... Obviously, bad info and didn't check for myself.
Gloves also cause the brain to bounce because of that. That don't drop to a hard bare knuckle punch and people hit harder so gloves cause more brain injuries and concussions
I have a question
I graduated high school two months ago and I have a passion for martial arts and I'm doing muay Thai right now what kind of careers can I look in to if I don't go pro in muay thai? I'm 18 btw and I currently work security part-time and I live in South Florida I would really appreciate if you could answer
To make it simple what kind of careers can I do for someone like me who loves martial arts?
Maybe we associate gloves with safety because every other glove that's out there was designed with the intent that it will protect your hands. Do you think we should call boxing and mma gloves something different? And if so what would we call them?
Good video. You forgot eye poking which can be extremely dangerous and serious consequences. Can you tell me ear shots with palms are legal or not ? (Can be dangerous as well)
“No inserting fingers into any bodily orifice or laceration” includes the eyes.
It’s perfectly legal to strike the ears however you want. The only targets that count as a foul are the back of the head, the back of the neck, the spine, and the groin. The only strikes that are fouls are the 12 to 6 downward elbow, and kicks, knees, and stomps to the head of a downed opponent. Everything else is a legal scoring area
Question; are you allowed to press your thumb into opponents' soft areas, like behind and underneath the jaw (while grappling for example)? What's the limit to this? Can you press until you break the skin? It's not quite clawing and it's not quite sticking your finger in an orifice.
You can, but you’d be surprised at how shockingly ineffective stuff like that is in the middle of a cage fight. Man, the number of people who have come to my gym to spar and try their pressure point stuff convinced it would work, only to find themselves being beaten and strangled. I’ve seen it attempted A LOT firsthand.
Question to you: how do you think TMA and MMA perform in unusal environments such as slippery terrain, mud, places with furniture or other obstacles in the way?
about 9 months later we see Robbie Lawler perform a pile driver on Ben Askren
Hi Romsey, I know I am late so I would not be surprised if you did not reply.
However I have been surprised there is no clear rule against wrist locks and similar techniques. From my experience if you do those in full speed you either break the joint or the opponent gives in and fall to it. There is simply not enough time for opponent to realize the danger of such lock before you finish it - that is why you see only "wrestling locks" with a lot of time to realize what is going on before you push the lock to the limit. (There is even the way to have your opponent dislock his own joint by fixing it before (during) his expected move). I do not expect UFC would be happy if fight ends in first round due to broken wrist/elbow/...
I would be interested in your opinion as I have never seen such technique used in UFC fight and it is a huge argument for bulshido (aikido sucks) side. I agree it is hard to learn those but all of professional fighters train enough to learn it.
Wrist locks are 100% legal. And they’re really hard to do and extremely low percentage at the professional level. There are a ton of legal techniques that can and do instantly damage an opponent.
Mr. Dewey! I've really learned over time to respect your long form answers. I'm an impatient man you see, so it really took time. 😆 But now i'm going start doing an impression of you I think. 😆 🍻
waaait so you can eye gouge in mma? thats crazy. please correct me Im getting second thoughts I want these eyes to last
This is the funniest video you have ever made. Your sarcasm is hilarious! Love it! "If your Martial Art is based upon being foul-mouthed and saying angry mean words to your opponent...." LOL! Didn't you realize that this is the most popular MA in the world? LOL! Man! I am still laughing! thanks
If gloves are a weapon, then why does it not hurt when I get hit with karate gloves in the nose?
Isn't there a rule about eye gouging? Maybe I'm stupid but I don't think you mentioned it.
What if You bite his ear. Worked fot Tyson.