Speaking of Aikido: A few clubs do pressure testing and it was mindblowing to them. It took them years to relearn their techniques and understand the context behind them. Some things can quickly be improved by MMA guys, who know practise much better. Other things only work if you wear armour, or when it's weaponized wrestling. Thus, whenever you say _this will never work,_ consider if it would be realistic under these conditions. For instance, when you only need to fear stabs and not cuts, or if your opponent won't let go of your arm, because your're holding a weapon!
Love the focus on finding a method that is consistent with your goals. My husband and I both do karate. But we have very different goals. For me it's about fitness, physique and kata/kobudo performance. I'm an ex-ballerina and it scratches that same itch. I like that I have to spar occasionally and build a bit of self defense skill, but my focus is much more on getting in great shape and doing cool kata. My husband, on the other hand, LOVES sparring and will do kata if you make him. Pretty much my exact opposite! And we both found what we needed in martial arts.
growing up learning aikido from my papa, wrestling through school, and being a sword nerd, i absolutely love wrestling and doing sword disarms in fencing
''our school has produced 3 champions in the steet who haven't been shot or stabbed yet" wait.. why do i suddenly see an amalgamation of Dale Brown and Master Wong.... Dale Wong... dang it i created a monster (if someone stole this idea.... at least pay me some royalties).
I was lucky, I had two very traditional Asian masters that had me practicing techniques over and over for years. I may not be a cage fighter, but I have those techniques that were taught to me so ingrained that they are a part of me, emotionally, mentally, and physically. I can do a wrist lock like nobody's business for example. When you have it down, you can read the other guy's posture from his wrist all the way to his feet just by the feel of that wrist lock. My first master was an old Vietnamese guy that I worked with in a production plant. He taught me on the graveyard shift for 3 years. I learned a lot about joint locks from him. Thank you Sang, I learned a lot from you.
Really great video! I think it’s easy to get caught up in thinking of martial arts styles in hierarchical terms. In our seemingly unending quest to discover “the most effective martial art” I think we eventually get stuck thinking in place without really learning anything new. It’s also interesting to consider that martial arts evolve in accordance with the context they are used in, as many of the more abstract, traditional martial arts of today were once used to train soldiers. Personally, I really enjoy learning about martial arts history, and getting to discover where our current styles and training methods came from!
So true as you speak about the students' expectations and differences between dojos. And in any case: the best self defence is not to get into the fight 😇
All of this is just so true, I recognised the "PTSD" Tae Kwon do approach from an instructor I had a very long time ago, he kept telling the class to keep Thier stomach tensed then moved between the rows hand slapping them real hard to make sure!! He treated it like a military school then wondered why his student retention rate was so low!
My TKD instructor was an interesting guy. He was a full time psychology professor, and his son was a world WTF champion. He encouraged us to compete in tournaments, but I think his main focus was just giving kids a good workout and something fun to do to stay in shape. The competitive aspect was secondary, and he never marketed TKD as some incredible form of self-defense either. I think something that gets lost in these conversations about McDojos is that a lot of people don't practice martial arts to learn how to fight. Like I was never under the impression that TKD is a complete martial arts system that I could use to defend myself. Something funny I remember from my TKD days is that some of the more mischievous kids would catch each other's legs when we practiced sparring, like amateur Sanda fighters. I ended up quitting because the instructor changed the curriculum to require us to perform the poomsae in order to progress to the next belt, and I didn't attend any of the poomsae classes so I either forgot or didn't learn the ones I was supposed to know.
TKD from the 40's though 50's was self defense greared,form the 60's through 70's it was aimed at both,to me it's from the mid 80's that WTF went strictly sport
We have discussed combat Tai Chi. I is so hard to find, but incredible grappling. One tai chi instructor took my most blinding roundhouse which always landed on Tai Kwon Do black belts. I was on the ground in a second, and he protected the 15 year old kid landing us with him on the bottom. He did not just prove his speed and grappling was superior to my striking. He made sure to protect me. I still find that impressive 30 years later.
I like your thinking with regards to which style you want to pick - Do you want to be a real fighter? Or do you want to learn a more traditional style? Or a dance style? Or a meditative style like Tai Chi. All these styles are specialised in their own way.
Tai Chi is a combat art. While many teachers only teach the Bodily Development side of things (Strength and Health)... there is a very deep combat part of the art... which includes something like 12 different Lethal Weapons. What does "Meditation" have to do with Weapons?! Also, if you think Slow-Motion training is Easy... the Try doing pushups in slow motion. At least 8 seconds down, and 8 seconds up... for each one. If you can even reach a QUARTER of your standard pace amount... Id be Shocked. Then, try holding out arms fully extended, away from your body... and see how long your can last. Make sure to keep your arms perfectly level.. without letting the move / dip down (use a mirror and a stopwatch). In the Wing Chun version of that drill... you slowly make a vertical line up and down, in front of you, ...for a solid 6 minutes (per arm). Maybe +20 seconds up, and +20 seconds down, with your fully outstretched arm in front of you... fingers fully extended. Slow deep breathing, all throughout. Making sure that when drawing the line... your wristpoint does not go out of the imaginary center-line that divides your body in half. They develops both internal-strength, as well as Surgical precision / control. The drill after that... is to make a vertical palm, starting from the wrist point touching your chest.. then slowly and fully extending the arm... then slowly returning it to the chest. Should take anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds to fully extend, and the same amount to fully retract. Do this again... for about 6 solid minutes, before swapping arms. While the arm in extending and contracting... the wrist point should remain at the same exact vertical height... the entire time. No dipping down. No rising up. And no horizontal crossing of the centerline. All the while, you perform these in the WC stance.. which your bent knees, are directly over the toes. Most beginners cant maintain the WC stance, for more than 60 seconds, before having to straighten their legs out... because their muscles and tendons cant handle the long duration stresses. Of course, these Slow Motion strength, control, and consciousness building drills... are only One small factor in the sum total Combat training. In Tai Chi... you can see some sensitivity drills that are more Combat related, when watching "Push Hand" drills. In Wing Chun, its "Chi Sao" (Sticky hands). But even these, are still only a fraction of the combat training. There is much more... such as Hitting wall mounted sandbags, with your bare fists, for extended periods of time.
@@johndough8115 Just because the techniques are difficult to do does not mean that they are what's best for combat. Doing slow reps for your pushups undoubtedly is more difficult and will probably help in your quest for gains. The WC stance might be difficult to maintain but that also means it's difficult to hold when you're being attacked. What good will doing the techniques slowly have done you when your opponent kicks you in the leg?
@@PengyDraws Just because the techniques are difficult to do does not mean that they are what's best for combat. - Its funny, how modern people think that 2000 yrs worth of Combat Development, was somehow never effective. Blows my Mind. Doing slow reps for your pushups undoubtedly is more difficult and will probably help in your quest for gains. - There is no "Probably". Ive done the work. Hence, I know what works. Hence, why I posted it. The WC stance might be difficult to maintain but that also means it's difficult to hold when you're being attacked. - WRONG. The stance is similar to how a Downhill Skiier, is positioned. The deep bends in the knees, lower your center of gravity, which help GREATLY with STABILITY. In addition, they both act like SHOCK ABSORBERS. You can use them to absorb and re-direct the OPS energy. - Would you tell a long time Skiier, that they shouldnt use their stance, because its hard to maintain while zipping down-hill?! Have a dose of Common sense Dude. The stronger your Tendons are... the Less likely you are to experience FATIGUE from a bent knee position. - In my case, I eventually was able to maintain this stance, for an entire Hour, without resting / raising. This made it 1000% easier, to maintain the proper stance, while I was sparring full contact. - The last thing you want in combat, is Instability, and quick Fatigue! Ohh.. And hopping up and down like a bunny.. isnt doing anything but wasting energy, as well as reducing your stability. What good will doing the techniques slowly have done you when your opponent kicks you in the leg? - Every drill has a specific purpose. Ive already listed what the stance development is used for... - The first slow motion hand drill (vertical line), is to develop your arm to have stronger tendons, and Surgical level of precision control, enhanced awareness, all without Fatigue. When you first start, you will often notice that your wrist/arm strays away from your center line.. as you move it up and down. You also often stiffen up your muscles, raise your shoulders, turn your body+shoulders at an angle, and many other bodily structural mis-alignments. With time and effort, your develop stronger Tendons, gain Surgical precision of your arms movements, and greater awareness of its 3d-Space positioning. Your arms being extended for a long period of time, also means that you will be FAR less likely to experience arm fatigue, in the middle of Sparring / Combat. IE: If you can maintain perfect form for 20 minutes... you will have no problem with a 5 minute or less fight / round. - The 2nd arm drill, has X, Y, and Z movement.. all at the same time. Thus, you need to become FAR more accurate in your awareness and ability to precisely control your arm. It also specifically builds up your punching/striking line strength and accuracy, to a much higher degree. This one builds your 3d Spatial awareness up, even more than the first exercise/drill. If you can do both of these drills without Fatigue (shaking, straining, pain, and going off-line)... then you can start to build ALL of your hand techs, from that Solidified Foundational Base. You know.. if you build a house on Swamp land.. it would eventually sink, and destroy itself. Its the same way with Kung Fu. If you have poor / weak foundations... everything else that you try to ADD on top of it... will end up failing / falling apart. - Another form of Slow Motion training, is to slowly extend and retract your kicks (and hold your leg fully extended, for a set time period). This is not only in Wing Chun... but also arts like Tae Kwan Do. Thats why they tend to have some of the most Accurate kicks, in all of the arts. Anyone can easily use Momentum to swing their leg up... but if you lack good muscular strength and control of that leg... then you are going to suffer quick Fatigue, as well as accuracy issues... and your kicks wont be as powerful as they could be. Furthermore, you are more likely to MISS a kick... to have set-down issues, and other clumsy "SLOP" issues. - And as for what you should do, when someone is trying to kick your leg... - Wing Chun has Advanced Leg-Fencing methods. We operate the legs, similar to how we operate our Arm techs. Ive had an experienced MMA fighter, and a larger sized Muay Thai fighter, both try to land their kicks on me. Neither were successful. All I had to do, was use my weightless lead leg (we put all our mass on the rear leg/hip), and soft-intercept their kicks. Either right when it was just starting... or nearing its exact moment of impact. As soon as their leg is nullified.. I throw a few chained counter kicks... and neither of them had been taught how to deal with them... thus, they just ate them. The problem is, that unless you have depth of knowledge and experience in such deeper arts.. all you have are very POOR and Ignorant ASSUMPTIONS.
@@PengyDraws Part 2 - Btw.. for WC pushups.. we start them with two vertical fists (knuckles touching) in front of our chest. You keep your elbows sticking to your sides, at all times... Because your arms are in the center of your body... it actually increases your maximum pushup height. You develop far more strength, along a much longer striking Line.. as this pushup is basically a mirror of how we actually strike. A standard pushup, is not quite how a person strikes. Hence, the type of strength that you develop by doing them... isnt as directly transferable to Striking power. Another feature of the WC pushups, is that because they are in the center... it forces you to have to "Balance". This makes it more straining... and more similar to Single-Arm pushups... rather than dual arm pushups. As for the Slow Mo arm drills I mentioned before... When you get to a level where there is no fatigue issues... then Im my case, I made custom adjustable weights that hung from both of my wrists. That causes a much greater strain on the Tendons... hence, they develop to a level that most artists never come close to attaining. That said... WCs greatest strength is from being Relaxed. Thus, if you are using mostly muscle force to hold your arm up... then you will develop an arm that is too Stiff, and too Slow. Our strength, is more from superior joint and relaxed full-body-mass power. As well as learning to use the OPs energy against themselves, to amplify our own. Thus, a warning.. that nobody should attempt to use additional mass on these drills... until they have zero fatigue issues for like 5 minutes worth of time. And if you notice that you are struggling to hold the mass up... such as you start to raise your shoulders... then you should stop immediately, and stop using the extra mass, until you have built yourself up to a better level. Otherwise, you will end up developing bad body structure habits, and possibly cause injuries as well. These are just a few more examples, of how Hardcore that Kung Fu training can be... and what the differences and benefits are, in comparison. This is also why a lot of KF practitioners Suck... because a lot of them refuse to develop the required strength / body type, conditioning, etc. Ever see how easily it is for most people to take down a bad / sloppy fighter? Thats because, if you have poor coordination, poor awareness of your limbs 3d positions, and poor stance / footwork (straight legs).. it makes it so very easy... to be able to trip or take down the OP. Often, they will end up tripping and or falling, all by themselves... with very little needed help of your own. However... when you have Mastered your Foundations.. it becomes extremely difficult for others to be able to take you down. This is why most of the MMA / Sport fighters, tend to go to the ground fairly quickly... because they are not good at maintaining an upright position.. due to many reasons Ive already listed.
@@johndough8115 Look, there's too much to read...no offence. But I'll address your 1st paragraph. The problem with tai chi is that it moves extremely sloooowly. What they're not noting (mainly because these people have zero fighting/sparring experience).... is that explosive power is crucial. Yes, they might be abvle to hold their arms out for a long while, but that's only becasue they got good at doing that kind of exercise. I'll never forget the one world champion martial artist who said - you get good at something by doing it! If they repeatedly keep slowly doign their techniques, sure, they'll be precise, perhapse strong when their arms are out stretched etc....but put any of these wannabe's into a fighting ring, they will (and DO ) always lose. That is simply fact.
That's how I learned that Jiu-Jitsu schools were different from each other. I studied at Gracie Barra for a year and when I moved I enrolled at Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy nearby where I also trained a year at ( and then the pandemic happened 😔 ). And training with both of them was a intriguing experience ( I hope to get back into it ). Also you did awesome in the USDC, you performed as best as you could and that's all that matters 😊.
@Ramsey Dewey I know quite a bit about PTSD, and anyone who has suffered violent or tragic experiences can be touched by it. It often results in a heightened danger awareness and or extreme behaviour in response to danger. Honestly, the condition is kind of a spectrum, and because it's logical, (It's a bit like an early warning system that never stops warning you), it's difficult to tell who's susceptible, who currently has it and who's going to get it, and the only thing we can do about it is try to support our friends and family, because one factor that everyone usually mentions is that it comes with a feeling of isolation. Sorry, this has already turned into a long one. :D
What you are saying is true. I was teaching some bouncers how to break up fights, apply joint locks, holds, and take downs, in order to get them out of the bar as safely and quickly as possible. One of them said that stuff is really cool, what is that? I said this is something I learned in Hapkido, and it seems to work well for me. He said Hapkido? I took Hapkido. Never learned that. Turns out it was the same school but years apart. Also, we trained police on how to remove motorists from their cars without severely injuring the unruly occupant. Come to find out, one of them had also taken Hapkido and Taekwondo. Same school. Apparently, I was fortunate and learned before it was totally ruined by daycare and after school care. Thanks for the video.
"This isn't just any tap dancing! This is street tap dancing! It's fo da streetz!" "Ahoo, and zis is no ordinary ballet! Zis is un ballet de combat!" "........ Ellow everybody. So, this is the sheep yodeling, with healing crystals, but I must say that it's application can be used in a self defense scenerio at anytime. The sheep can be very nervous at times and at times attack and bite. They are good when outnumbered. I also once road one away from danger, you just kind of let yourself sink into the wool face down, than grab and bite to become one with the sheep... and if you haven't been hit with a salt crystal, than i guess i should say just dont. But it does hurt if it happens. Sheep yodeling, crystal self defense. It's in the name of the program......"
This is true of any area of Life tbh. You also see it in the Rocky Franchise with Mickey, Apollo, and Duke. You see it in the Karate Kid Franchise with Miyagi-san, Cobra Kai, the Okinawan Style, the Military Karateka Sensei, and Jackie Chan.
I train aikido because it is fun for me. Easy as that. Stopped bjj at blue bełt as it got really frustrating. My goal is to stay healthy. Nothing more.
Hopefully related question: regarding just striking, does it make sense to draw a boundary between different martial arts if at the moment of real combat they all become (necessarily) pretty much kick boxing?
At our Jjj school we basically do bjj as part of ne waza and compete at both bjj and jjj tournaments, but also we do striking and train it just like mma
Awesome! Now that's Japanese Jujutsu. I hope you guys also do weapon work. Go and practice your failed Ippon Seoi Nage into elbow to the stomach and a Kote Gaeshi finish!
hands on learning is better than book or on line learning, same as learning to be a car or airplane mechanic and only learning from books in a classroom or actually being in a shop and seeing and touching the engine..touching the engine is better than just being in the classroom learning.
I know of someone who trained in jujitsu and then aikido it was when he’s saw retrained in aikido that he better understood jujitsu. I think aikido helped him see structure or how the techniques in jujitsu are related or interrelated.
I think that's the biggest flaw of these "Ranking Martial Arts" videos. You can find good and bad schools and instructors of any style. Some can be more prone to quality control issues, but it's more dependent on the market and what the customers want than anything.
I was going to run this video whilst cleaning the kitchen. Too interesting, stuck in my desk chair. Note: "post" pandemic there's a difference between online courses & online classes, & online lessons. Courses are pre-taped videos (like a dvd library), & group classes are situations where one sees the instructor in real time, but doesn't have the benefit of interacting with them. Our Eskrima-Kali-Arnis school focuses online private lessons, where the student demonstrates while we coach them. *Works great for a lot of drills. Not for sparring.
Hey Ramsey I was curious if you’ve ever trained anyone with scoliosis and/or people with some form of chronic problems and that if you had any pointers from your students who had them on how to avoid injuries which we are unfortunately more susceptible to and be better fighters. Medical doctors have told me that the condition is largely negligible in all types of sports aside from increased chances of injury, I would like to hear from a mma coach because, well, I doubt my doctor is well versed in martial arts or has trained anyone with that condition to fight.
Definitely agree, we also have the same thing in Karate, regardless of style, but the school or organisation will have different methods and training regimes, so unfortunately it can be difficult to find a one size fits all scenario. Always trial as many schools as you can and find the ones that suit you and your goals best. A Street fighting champion who hasn't been shot or stabbed yet 😂😂😂😂
Great video! Not everyone trains for the same reason. Its important to find a school that fits your needs. Foe example, i attend a Gracie Training Center and it works for me. I have no desire to train in a hardcore BJJ gym. Am I as good a BJJ practitioner as those who train different than me? No but it works for me and what i want at this time. I also take Tang Soo Do. And although our school is focused a lot no self defense I have no desire to see if what I am learning will "work in the streets"
Hi Ramsey. I've been watching your channel for a while, but I don't think I've ever commented. I really like the vast majority of your videos. Will you please do a video regarding why virtually ALL BJJ schools (even those directly operated and owned by Gracies) exclusively teach Sport BJJ. I went to a very well known Gracie school in CA with tons of top MMA fighters, and I asked which classes I should attend to learn to defend against punches. They looked at me like I was from Mars and asked, "You mean to learn how to fight?" I'm sure my jaw dropped on the floor (I thought BJJ was fighting...). I said, "Uuhhh, yes." They said, "You'll have to go to one of our MMA schools for that.": At an even bigger Gracie school on the East Coast, the BJJ instructor said, "Sport BJJ is the complete opposite of anything you'd ever want to do in a fight with strikes." What a joke most BJJ schools have become.
Do you think ITF style taekwondo is good as an MMA base? I've been doing ITF for nearly 10 years now, but when I try to look it up it only comes up with advice for WT practitioners. Thanks.
Put simply: - How do you train (hard, soft, rules etc.)? - How often (1 hour a week to full time)? - How do you validate what you've learned (kata / gradings, comps, matches, fights)? I've trained at casual, family-friendly Thai boxing classes - and at clubs training professional fighters. Same art, very different outcomes!
@@RamseyDewey I'm 😥 but I understand. Well at least when He fell you two didn't make a human centipied. Now technically wouldn't that make that falling on you guy a cannibal ?
(If there's another place to ask questions of the coach, anyone may please direct me there) Hey Ramsey, I love listening to your thoughts. I know your specialty is training fighters for competition, so this is a little different. What are the most fun fighting exercises out there, in any style, for someone who isn't an expert in the style? Bonus points for the more generally useful they are. Is Chi Sao fun? How about a Capoeira ronda, if the practitioners just learn the basics from video tutorials? Are there forms/kata that you find extra enjoyable? Answers can be for solo, one on one, or group exercises, and it's okay if they require gear (like maybe a speed bag or striking mats, etc.). Contexts behind the question: I'm 43 and I've never been in a fight, and it's unlikely I'll ever be in one, but it'd still be a confidence boost (and yes, a bit of a power fantasy), to have some fighting skill. I'm toying around with the idea of learning some techniques with some friends, but just focusing on things that are fun to practice, both so that we stick with it, and just because I'd like to have fun with my friends. I have severe ADHD, and this is what I've had to do with exercise in general to stick with it (so I dance, swing kettlebells, Indian clubs, and the steel mace, rather than standard weight lifting). If I come up with something that works, I also hope to teach my nephew and his friends. Your nerdy viewer, Anthony
I think a good short rule is: if you want to learn a martial art that applies to a combative situation--whether sport or self-defense--make sure the school has sparring under those scenarios. Some people legitimately just want to do forms or drills for health and/or aesthetics, so they probably don't need to worry about sparring, or much less so. But elsewise, that's probably the key factor. I've known boxing gyms that go too far the other way, where they do full-out sparring too often. I've taken Ramsey's "majority light sparring" approach to heart, and prefer it greatly.
I think the mind set around self defense needs to shift. It needs to be less about physical movements and more about situational awareness, deescalation, legal factors, and avoiding conflict. The Ultimate Self Defense Challenge did a great job of emphasizing how a lot of the time self defense is recognizing a bad situation and getting out of there before anything happens as opposed to reacting to a bad situation
That's kinda what many Krav Maga schools teach. And judging by the research i've done. You were taught just that in Judo, Aikido, Iaido and other weaponschools like Tenshin Ryu Hyoho. Also in other martial arts like Silat People of the past knew their stuff, they sure did.
There is a difference between wrist locks in bjj and aikido. It is an emphasis of controlling the arm all the way down to the elbow. With few exceptions.
Also the facts that Aikido ones are usually meant to takedown and transition into a submission pin/hold down, and are also done while moving (usually with Tenkan amd Tentai), so they are in theory better against weapons
I think with the SD element of any martial art that espouses the ideals of self defence within that art, still can be a sticky wicket. It’s all good learning techniques to help a student defend themselves theoretically, but if that student can’t put it altogether mentally then it’s largely useless. Fight or flight is something hard to overcome for some, and I am not sure any martial art can help to rid the flight part. I could be very wrong about that, but just my take on it.
We have a reliable answer to martial arts working on the street for self-defense. 1. Don't go to places where there is high crime rate, works 10 out of 10 times. The martial art is called 'common sense'. 2. If you have to go there (living or working), get a weapon - preferably a firearm, but other weapons will do if the criminals are using similar type of weapon. The martial art is called 'armed' or 'modern martial arts', believe it or not, soldiers are using firearms to great success the past 800 years. 3. If you cannot use weapons due to law or regulation restriction (and hopefully the criminals have limited access) - get to the gym and make a lot of muscles. If presented with a choice, criminals will target weak looking people instead of fit and dangerously looking one. 4. If none of the above are available, prepare a spare wallet and / or phone on a more convenient place to give to assailant. Thanks to coming to my self-defense talk, next seminar will cost you 1,000,000$ and is named 'how to become millionaire in few simple steps'.
Coach Ramsay! Please make a video about Central Asian Belt Wrestling (for example: Alysh from Kyrgyzstan, Kurash from Uzbekistan, Kuresi from Kazakhstan, etc.). I STILL haven't found very many videos about this wrestling style. I figured you might, because it seems that you have a great appreciation for Asian martial arts and grappling styles that have either been forgotten or disregarded. The only videos I find about Belt Wrestling are made in the Russian, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, or Kazakh languages. It's very difficult to find info about it in the West (especially in the English language with it actually making sense). Even the videos that are in English are clearly made by people whose English is subpar at best. Please help us out! I need to learn more about their cool ass throws! :D
What about the "how to win friends and influence people" (by Dale Carnegie) method of self defense? His organization runs courses and they may keep statistics. It would be interesting to cross reference that with the number who died in knife fights vs people who didn't take the course ;)
I took a decent spill on a hill riding my bike til it spiked me head over heels. (I am not Dr Seuss). I bruised my palms but saved my face. Thank you breakfalls. I think parkour breakfalls would have helped me more as l had no ability to incorporate my lower half in the breakfall until the bike frame was clear of my thighs (when i was upside down). The end result: My torso landed rather gracefully but my left patella fell hard on this heavily grooved concrete. Now there's a hard bony lump like a miniature elbow on my knee. I am Wolverine lol. Have you ever incurred or seen a bone injury that healed like that? My Doc said it looks normal and functional on xray.
Here’s something random: you have a unique way of talking, with a distinct choice of words and pauses. By weird happenstance I bumbled upon someone else with a similar cadence. Tone & timbre are way different, but otherwise it’s eerily similar. Max Randolph Studios, he does blacksmithing work near as I can tell - so basically the same as you.😊 As Chuck “I built the hospital I was born in” Norris once said, “Men & Steel: they lose their temper, they lose their worth.” Cheers! th-cam.com/video/yYdfVw0aCJc/w-d-xo.html
Hey, Coach! Greetings from Brazil! I've been training martial arts all my life. From judo, to capoeira, sansda and shuaijiao, now i'm stiking with muay thai, bjj and traditional kung fu. But, for me, it will aways be a hobbie and a way to be health, get fun and meet new culture. The thing is, every once in a while i end up confusing my personal "hobbie-like" goals with professional goals. When this happens, i get a little frustrated and lost in my own jorney. Many times due to the "martial arts culture" Any tips to this problem? And more deep, is there any line between training as a hobbie and as a professional fighter?
" the Tiger stays on the mountain it has nothing to prove, it only comes down to kill. when it does the people shout and the dogs bark, Thats all they can do " .
Re: systematic data on street fighting-based training- I think there *have* been schools which were able to generate systematically credible records of producing competent street fighters, but I'm not sure there are any anymore. I think that this sort of thing more or less requires persistently dangerous neighborhoods where street fights are a regular thing which people can expect to experience on a repeat basis, but where the people won't just shoot you. There have been places like that at various times; kajukenbo came out of an environment like that in poor neighborhoods in Hawaii in the 1940's and 50's. But I'm not sure there's any place today which provides that sort of training environment, or if there are, if anyone runs martial arts schools in those sorts of communities. Some martial arts might originate in those sorts of environments, but as you say, it's the pedagogy that determines the training experience, not the system, so they don't necessarily retain much effectiveness for street defense today.
Hi Ramsey, I have a question for you which I wondered if I should ask for weeks now. I've been practicing Judo for quite a while now and around a month ago my friend got ribs broken in sparring. And the throw being used on him wasn't particularly dangerous and was poorly performed. I was wondering what are the most injury dominant throws in Judo or Wrestling and grappling as a whole? Are the throws which make the opponent fall on his head the most dangerous? What makes a throw/takedown dangerous specifically?
I enjoy Aikido as a form of exercise, a chance to socialise and a very basic language instruction. I don't see it as a 'fighting style'. But then again the techniques come from kenjutsu and jiu-jitsu, which absolutely were effective fighting methods. Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido was a very philosophical person with a pacifist mindset, so the schools that follow his ideals teach Aikido as a method to control and subdue rather than injure. In comparison, the Tokyo Police anti-riot teams have a 1-year accelerated program to reach black belt, and they are not gentle people at all. Exactly the same curriculum, very different approach and goals.
Netherlands Combatives . No one can train anyone getting stabbed or shot . If someone wants to learn the whole art, awesome, but most just want to learn self-defense . And it's the nature of the practitioner themselves .
Hey Ramsey !! Have you ever seen the Aikido in Azerjbizan ? Its literally competitive and i think based off a military style and is the first Aikido ive seen that actually looks realistic and genuinely usable ? You should check it out !! (If i could send a link i would..) Many thanks :)
Hi coach! I asked a question in a comment to another video, not Q/A, so maybe it didn't catch your eye. I'm 37, training in BJJ for a little while, 2-3 months or so. Didn't do any combat sports before, trained 3-4 years with weights (powerlifting big 3 mostly, lifting somewhat heavy). For these 3 months I've been doing bjj, I had multiple minor injuries, broken/disclocated toes, sprained ligaments in arms. It's a common practice in our gym, and I've seen a lot of similar injuries happened to other guys, sometimes more serious stuff. Sometimes I see guys jumping guards, trying to do amplitude throws without solid breaking fall skills. Most of us are going really fast as we wrestle, I still can't stay calm when my partner goes as fast as he can and does chaotic, often senseless movements. What bothers me is the fact that our coach doesn't really addresses this, with the attitude like "it is what it is, it's all in the game", etc. It can be the case if our gym was hardcore fighting gym, but no, 99% are hobbyists here, white/blue belts. Coach himself is real deal, 3 dan black belt, with a dozens of professional MMA fights, but there is hardly anyone who can be instructor other than him. All my own injuries could have been prevented if I have known that: - the faster you go, the more potential is there for injury; - the more extended arms/elbows are when you wrestle, the more weak/injury prone they are. I had to figure that by myself, even when I asked our coach how to practice safe, all I could get was "just relax, calm down, don't go hard". Ramsey, my questions are: 1) Are there more fundamental principles we can use to limit injuries? 2) Should I try to convince the guys to go slower, or is it entirely my responsibility to stay calm and collected? There is one guy who is really cool and efficient with his movements, and I like to roll with him, because it's much easier to stay calm when your partner doesn't do random spastic stuff.
Had a great answer from @TheDevourerOfPancake, definitely worth quoting: Hey! Here's my 2 cents as a wrestler. The taller you are standing, the farther you fall so practice being able tomove as crouched low as possible and keep your arms glued to your torso. Your goal is to make handfights happen, tie up as soon as possible. They can't wildly accelerate while you're stuck to them. Learn how to turtle, it's a bit more resistant to being rolled and jammed around then standard guard and lean on your opponent every chance you get. Stalling might be bad competition behavior but it's a great training skill to keep yourself safe with the newbies. I've got nothing for the jumping guard, that's just wildly unsafe
Picking the right training partners is a big deal. I don't know the culture there, but telling someone "no thanks, I'm going to sit this round out" is fine. Better to miss a round of rolling then weeks or months of training because of injury
We have a lot of police officers who’ve used BJJ and mma to arrest and disarm suspects. I was thinking how that is a good metric for a schools self defense success since it takes it out of the theoretical?
I think it’s not about the teaching as much as the learning! It’s you know what you want? Understand they is no fight that wins forever! The streets well that’s war it’s not winnable! Life avoidance of conflict make alliances know what you are doing with your time, your money and health! Is learning to fight worth what you think? Why, what and when will it be useful?
There was 2000 yrs worth of Development, Mastery, and Combat PROOF, in China (Pre-Industrial Era, before MAO's CULT-ural revolution). Sure, Each school has a different way of doing things.. but ULTIMATELY, the results of the students, often has very little to do with the teachers. If a School teacher gives you Homework.. and you refuse to study + do the homework... then is it the Teachers fault that the student(s) failed?! The teacher can only Show you the Path. The students have to WALK it (Do the work... both in AND OUTSIDE of classes). While I often Disagree with Dewey and others like him... He has some valid points... such as... him learning things from various different teachers and arts... Which gave him various different perspectives, and value, that he would otherwise be unaware of. I had this same perspective, when I was training in Wing Chun. I learned methods from various different versions of WC. In fact, Ive ended up having 3 different WC teachers, and each teacher belonged to a different Lineage. This allowed me to learn, develop, and TEST... each of the different methods, and see for myself, what worked the best... and or... what alternatives there were, that could benefit me, in certain situations. I also found some lost / missing material, between these different branches... that I never would have discovered, had I only stuck to a single arts methods. In addition, I also cross trained in the sport arts methods: Boxing, TKD & Muay Thai kicks...etc. Because I knew, that in order to BEST be able to defend against an attackers methods... then you should know their methods inside and out. That included being able to replicate them accurately, with the same speed, power, and abilities. Not just a poor replication, with a shallow or incorrect understanding. It was my drive to learn and train hard... anywhere from 4 to +8hr a day (every day) ...that led me to high level Improvement + Mastery, in record breaking time-frames. But remember, the schools I was often attending, only taught 1hr classes, 3 days a week. This meant, that I was doing most of the work, outside of classes... as is needed / required. Common sense SHOULD tell you this... but way too many people today, seem to lack common sense. >_< At that pace and intensity... I became nearly untouchable to the local sport artists, by my 3rd year. This of course, included heavy / full contact sparring... against various arts fighters that were often 2x my own mass and strength... on a nearly every-weekend basis. So again... the School is only a very small factor in a persons combat abilities. Just like a High Schools teachers teaching... is only a small factor in the students Grades. If you want Masterclass level combat abilities... you are going to have to put in Maximum levels of Intensity, and consecutive multi-hour training sessions... as a part of your daily way of life... for a good 3 to 5 years solid... before you reach levels of Mastery... and can start to ease up.
I guess your comment about a school in which no one was shot or stabbed kind of points to the whole idea of circumstance or “luck.” Maybe one reason why you don’t get shot or stabbed or you manage to follow the first rule of self-defense, according to martial artist Ranton; avoidance, first, then de-escalation then physical combat as a last resort.
Imo its not as much about what style one trains, its that they train & they do so against real people. The only real way to train self defense is to train against an oppoent who is actively resisting you. Log those hours of mat time. Either that or like me you repeatedly get yourself into bad situ's as a kid. I would much perfer the latter of the 2 though. In the way i learned if one makes a mistake it could be their last. Which isnt ideal obviously since you might mot survive long enough to get good to begin w/.
In 1988 I got to second degree black belt, pretty much stopped then. Aikido done properly look fake but I can assure you it’s not. The reason it looks fake is that the person they are working with has also trained to avoid an injury that can be very real. A lot of techniques are coordinated to show how it works. Learning how to fall without getting hurt is one of the first things you learn. Also, the actual things being done with another trained person could be devastating to an ‘outsider’ untrained. A big part of the art goes like this, it may not be who wins or losses but for you not to be defeated. BTW, AIKIDO is taught to the police and the military. In lots of cases with the police they not only don’t get want to hurt the other person but to just subdue them. In this day and age a lot of criminals want to sue, everyone wants those big dollars without working. Either that or defenders of them are looking for an excuse to burn, destroy and murder anyone they disagree with. It takes at least 5 yrs. To reach black belt in Aikido. A brake down of the word Aikido goes like this, ‘do’ means ‘the way’. ‘Ki’ means, ‘the spirit, and ‘Ai’ is for harmony. Or, ‘the way to spirit through harmony’. Different strokes for different folks. Lots of people know that one point of learning a martial art is not necessarily the ability to kick someone’s but to conquer yourself and have an air of confidence that says you’re in control.
Ramesy seems you want data on the streets . Please do an episode of you training on the streets , normal clothes no pads no rules . What parts of your martial art can you still practice? Thank you for listening, now get out there ? And train ? ☯️🤙
Hahahahaha! That sounds like the title of a fantastic straight to video action movie! I couldn’t do it if I wanted to. I still have a torn PCL from the first one and it’s not healing.
Its more about the person not the style. Any fool can kill, any fool can be combatant. Its the intent that makes the diffrence. Example. Not all big dogs are killers. Some small dogs are killers. Some lions are young some are old . Its the experience and intent that makes one more dangerous than another. In some martial arts they breed bad intent . Some arts might train to express the opposite. Another example. If there was no soilders there would be no wars. ☯️
Aikido cannot be a standalone martial art, unless the person is drunk or almost non resistant. People who pull off Aikido under full pressure have alot of striking and grappling experience. Even then, they are probably 0.01 percent of the population that make it work. It's not a viable art.
@@RamseyDewey you're correct, better frazing might be: aikido should've been 90% atemi like it was meant originally, but then we're getting into labels and complexities that are solved by just calling it mma
I’m a simple man, I see Q&A with the coach, I click
nice
Apparently you're also so simple you can't think up an original thing to say
Indeed. Right there with you.
Speaking of Aikido:
A few clubs do pressure testing and it was mindblowing to them. It took them years to relearn their techniques and understand the context behind them. Some things can quickly be improved by MMA guys, who know practise much better. Other things only work if you wear armour, or when it's weaponized wrestling.
Thus, whenever you say _this will never work,_ consider if it would be realistic under these conditions. For instance, when you only need to fear stabs and not cuts, or if your opponent won't let go of your arm, because your're holding a weapon!
I think that the most effective aspects of Aikido are the weapons: tanto (wooden knife), bokken (wooden sword), and Aiki-jo (staff).
Love the focus on finding a method that is consistent with your goals. My husband and I both do karate. But we have very different goals. For me it's about fitness, physique and kata/kobudo performance. I'm an ex-ballerina and it scratches that same itch. I like that I have to spar occasionally and build a bit of self defense skill, but my focus is much more on getting in great shape and doing cool kata. My husband, on the other hand, LOVES sparring and will do kata if you make him. Pretty much my exact opposite! And we both found what we needed in martial arts.
growing up learning aikido from my papa, wrestling through school, and being a sword nerd, i absolutely love wrestling and doing sword disarms in fencing
''our school has produced 3 champions in the steet who haven't been shot or stabbed yet"
wait.. why do i suddenly see an amalgamation of Dale Brown and Master Wong.... Dale Wong... dang it i created a monster (if someone stole this idea.... at least pay me some royalties).
I was lucky, I had two very traditional Asian masters that had me practicing techniques over and over for years. I may not be a cage fighter, but I have those techniques that were taught to me so ingrained that they are a part of me, emotionally, mentally, and physically. I can do a wrist lock like nobody's business for example. When you have it down, you can read the other guy's posture from his wrist all the way to his feet just by the feel of that wrist lock.
My first master was an old Vietnamese guy that I worked with in a production plant. He taught me on the graveyard shift for 3 years. I learned a lot about joint locks from him. Thank you Sang, I learned a lot from you.
Really great video! I think it’s easy to get caught up in thinking of martial arts styles in hierarchical terms. In our seemingly unending quest to discover “the most effective martial art” I think we eventually get stuck thinking in place without really learning anything new. It’s also interesting to consider that martial arts evolve in accordance with the context they are used in, as many of the more abstract, traditional martial arts of today were once used to train soldiers. Personally, I really enjoy learning about martial arts history, and getting to discover where our current styles and training methods came from!
I suggest 'The Research of Martial Arts' by Jonathan Bluestien. He investigates what concerns you.
So true as you speak about the students' expectations and differences between dojos. And in any case: the best self defence is not to get into the fight 😇
All of this is just so true, I recognised the "PTSD" Tae Kwon do approach from an instructor I had a very long time ago, he kept telling the class to keep Thier stomach tensed then moved between the rows hand slapping them real hard to make sure!! He treated it like a military school then wondered why his student retention rate was so low!
My TKD instructor was an interesting guy. He was a full time psychology professor, and his son was a world WTF champion. He encouraged us to compete in tournaments, but I think his main focus was just giving kids a good workout and something fun to do to stay in shape. The competitive aspect was secondary, and he never marketed TKD as some incredible form of self-defense either. I think something that gets lost in these conversations about McDojos is that a lot of people don't practice martial arts to learn how to fight. Like I was never under the impression that TKD is a complete martial arts system that I could use to defend myself. Something funny I remember from my TKD days is that some of the more mischievous kids would catch each other's legs when we practiced sparring, like amateur Sanda fighters. I ended up quitting because the instructor changed the curriculum to require us to perform the poomsae in order to progress to the next belt, and I didn't attend any of the poomsae classes so I either forgot or didn't learn the ones I was supposed to know.
TKD from the 40's though 50's was self defense greared,form the 60's through 70's it was aimed at both,to me it's from the mid 80's that WTF went strictly sport
Man, you keep hitting all the topics currently relevant to me, love it
We have discussed combat Tai Chi. I is so hard to find, but incredible grappling. One tai chi instructor took my most blinding roundhouse which always landed on Tai Kwon Do black belts. I was on the ground in a second, and he protected the 15 year old kid landing us with him on the bottom. He did not just prove his speed and grappling was superior to my striking. He made sure to protect me. I still find that impressive 30 years later.
I like your thinking with regards to which style you want to pick -
Do you want to be a real fighter?
Or do you want to learn a more traditional style?
Or a dance style? Or a meditative style like Tai Chi.
All these styles are specialised in their own way.
Tai Chi is a combat art. While many teachers only teach the Bodily Development side of things (Strength and Health)... there is a very deep combat part of the art... which includes something like 12 different Lethal Weapons. What does "Meditation" have to do with Weapons?! Also, if you think Slow-Motion training is Easy... the Try doing pushups in slow motion. At least 8 seconds down, and 8 seconds up... for each one. If you can even reach a QUARTER of your standard pace amount... Id be Shocked. Then, try holding out arms fully extended, away from your body... and see how long your can last. Make sure to keep your arms perfectly level.. without letting the move / dip down (use a mirror and a stopwatch).
In the Wing Chun version of that drill... you slowly make a vertical line up and down, in front of you, ...for a solid 6 minutes (per arm). Maybe +20 seconds up, and +20 seconds down, with your fully outstretched arm in front of you... fingers fully extended. Slow deep breathing, all throughout. Making sure that when drawing the line... your wristpoint does not go out of the imaginary center-line that divides your body in half. They develops both internal-strength, as well as Surgical precision / control.
The drill after that... is to make a vertical palm, starting from the wrist point touching your chest.. then slowly and fully extending the arm... then slowly returning it to the chest. Should take anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds to fully extend, and the same amount to fully retract. Do this again... for about 6 solid minutes, before swapping arms. While the arm in extending and contracting... the wrist point should remain at the same exact vertical height... the entire time. No dipping down. No rising up. And no horizontal crossing of the centerline.
All the while, you perform these in the WC stance.. which your bent knees, are directly over the toes. Most beginners cant maintain the WC stance, for more than 60 seconds, before having to straighten their legs out... because their muscles and tendons cant handle the long duration stresses.
Of course, these Slow Motion strength, control, and consciousness building drills... are only One small factor in the sum total Combat training.
In Tai Chi... you can see some sensitivity drills that are more Combat related, when watching "Push Hand" drills. In Wing Chun, its "Chi Sao" (Sticky hands). But even these, are still only a fraction of the combat training. There is much more... such as Hitting wall mounted sandbags, with your bare fists, for extended periods of time.
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Just because the techniques are difficult to do does not mean that they are what's best for combat. Doing slow reps for your pushups undoubtedly is more difficult and will probably help in your quest for gains. The WC stance might be difficult to maintain but that also means it's difficult to hold when you're being attacked. What good will doing the techniques slowly have done you when your opponent kicks you in the leg?
@@PengyDraws Just because the techniques are difficult to do does not mean that they are what's best for combat.
- Its funny, how modern people think that 2000 yrs worth of Combat Development, was somehow never effective. Blows my Mind.
Doing slow reps for your pushups undoubtedly is more difficult and will probably help in your quest for gains.
- There is no "Probably". Ive done the work. Hence, I know what works. Hence, why I posted it.
The WC stance might be difficult to maintain but that also means it's difficult to hold when you're being attacked.
- WRONG. The stance is similar to how a Downhill Skiier, is positioned. The deep bends in the knees, lower your center of gravity, which help GREATLY with STABILITY. In addition, they both act like SHOCK ABSORBERS. You can use them to absorb and re-direct the OPS energy.
- Would you tell a long time Skiier, that they shouldnt use their stance, because its hard to maintain while zipping down-hill?! Have a dose of Common sense Dude. The stronger your Tendons are... the Less likely you are to experience FATIGUE from a bent knee position.
- In my case, I eventually was able to maintain this stance, for an entire Hour, without resting / raising. This made it 1000% easier, to maintain the proper stance, while I was sparring full contact.
- The last thing you want in combat, is Instability, and quick Fatigue! Ohh.. And hopping up and down like a bunny.. isnt doing anything but wasting energy, as well as reducing your stability.
What good will doing the techniques slowly have done you when your opponent kicks you in the leg?
- Every drill has a specific purpose. Ive already listed what the stance development is used for...
- The first slow motion hand drill (vertical line), is to develop your arm to have stronger tendons, and Surgical level of precision control, enhanced awareness, all without Fatigue.
When you first start, you will often notice that your wrist/arm strays away from your center line.. as you move it up and down. You also often stiffen up your muscles, raise your shoulders, turn your body+shoulders at an angle, and many other bodily structural mis-alignments.
With time and effort, your develop stronger Tendons, gain Surgical precision of your arms movements, and greater awareness of its 3d-Space positioning. Your arms being extended for a long period of time, also means that you will be FAR less likely to experience arm fatigue, in the middle of Sparring / Combat. IE: If you can maintain perfect form for 20 minutes... you will have no problem with a 5 minute or less fight / round.
- The 2nd arm drill, has X, Y, and Z movement.. all at the same time. Thus, you need to become FAR more accurate in your awareness and ability to precisely control your arm. It also specifically builds up your punching/striking line strength and accuracy, to a much higher degree. This one builds your 3d Spatial awareness up, even more than the first exercise/drill.
If you can do both of these drills without Fatigue (shaking, straining, pain, and going off-line)... then you can start to build ALL of your hand techs, from that Solidified Foundational Base. You know.. if you build a house on Swamp land.. it would eventually sink, and destroy itself. Its the same way with Kung Fu. If you have poor / weak foundations... everything else that you try to ADD on top of it... will end up failing / falling apart.
- Another form of Slow Motion training, is to slowly extend and retract your kicks (and hold your leg fully extended, for a set time period). This is not only in Wing Chun... but also arts like Tae Kwan Do. Thats why they tend to have some of the most Accurate kicks, in all of the arts. Anyone can easily use Momentum to swing their leg up... but if you lack good muscular strength and control of that leg... then you are going to suffer quick Fatigue, as well as accuracy issues... and your kicks wont be as powerful as they could be. Furthermore, you are more likely to MISS a kick... to have set-down issues, and other clumsy "SLOP" issues.
- And as for what you should do, when someone is trying to kick your leg...
- Wing Chun has Advanced Leg-Fencing methods. We operate the legs, similar to how we operate our Arm techs.
Ive had an experienced MMA fighter, and a larger sized Muay Thai fighter, both try to land their kicks on me. Neither were successful. All I had to do, was use my weightless lead leg (we put all our mass on the rear leg/hip), and soft-intercept their kicks. Either right when it was just starting... or nearing its exact moment of impact. As soon as their leg is nullified.. I throw a few chained counter kicks... and neither of them had been taught how to deal with them... thus, they just ate them.
The problem is, that unless you have depth of knowledge and experience in such deeper arts.. all you have are very POOR and Ignorant ASSUMPTIONS.
@@PengyDraws Part 2 - Btw.. for WC pushups.. we start them with two vertical fists (knuckles touching) in front of our chest. You keep your elbows sticking to your sides, at all times...
Because your arms are in the center of your body... it actually increases your maximum pushup height. You develop far more strength, along a much longer striking Line.. as this pushup is basically a mirror of how we actually strike.
A standard pushup, is not quite how a person strikes. Hence, the type of strength that you develop by doing them... isnt as directly transferable to Striking power.
Another feature of the WC pushups, is that because they are in the center... it forces you to have to "Balance". This makes it more straining... and more similar to Single-Arm pushups... rather than dual arm pushups.
As for the Slow Mo arm drills I mentioned before...
When you get to a level where there is no fatigue issues... then Im my case, I made custom adjustable weights that hung from both of my wrists.
That causes a much greater strain on the Tendons... hence, they develop to a level that most artists never come close to attaining.
That said... WCs greatest strength is from being Relaxed. Thus, if you are using mostly muscle force to hold your arm up... then you will develop an arm that is too Stiff, and too Slow. Our strength, is more from superior joint and relaxed full-body-mass power. As well as learning to use the OPs energy against themselves, to amplify our own.
Thus, a warning.. that nobody should attempt to use additional mass on these drills... until they have zero fatigue issues for like 5 minutes worth of time. And if you notice that you are struggling to hold the mass up... such as you start to raise your shoulders... then you should stop immediately, and stop using the extra mass, until you have built yourself up to a better level. Otherwise, you will end up developing bad body structure habits, and possibly cause injuries as well.
These are just a few more examples, of how Hardcore that Kung Fu training can be... and what the differences and benefits are, in comparison.
This is also why a lot of KF practitioners Suck... because a lot of them refuse to develop the required strength / body type, conditioning, etc.
Ever see how easily it is for most people to take down a bad / sloppy fighter? Thats because, if you have poor coordination, poor awareness of your limbs 3d positions, and poor stance / footwork (straight legs).. it makes it so very easy... to be able to trip or take down the OP. Often, they will end up tripping and or falling, all by themselves... with very little needed help of your own.
However... when you have Mastered your Foundations.. it becomes extremely difficult for others to be able to take you down.
This is why most of the MMA / Sport fighters, tend to go to the ground fairly quickly... because they are not good at maintaining an upright position.. due to many reasons Ive already listed.
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Look, there's too much to read...no offence.
But I'll address your 1st paragraph. The problem with tai chi is that it moves extremely sloooowly. What they're not noting (mainly because these people have zero fighting/sparring experience).... is that explosive power is crucial. Yes, they might be abvle to hold their arms out for a long while, but that's only becasue they got good at doing that kind of exercise.
I'll never forget the one world champion martial artist who said - you get good at something by doing it! If they repeatedly keep slowly doign their techniques, sure, they'll be precise, perhapse strong when their arms are out stretched etc....but put any of these wannabe's into a fighting ring, they will (and DO ) always lose.
That is simply fact.
Love this topic. Pedagogical style vs martial arts style is what my entire channel is about
A great example of how for the streets works was the ultimate self defense championship, all different styles all had different results.
Ah yes, defending yourself against the sexual advantages of your female boss… on da streetz
@@RamseyDewey a true psychological test of martial arts, its not just the body but the mind as well.
That's how I learned that Jiu-Jitsu schools were different from each other. I studied at Gracie Barra for a year and when I moved I enrolled at Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy nearby where I also trained a year at ( and then the pandemic happened 😔 ).
And training with both of them was a intriguing experience ( I hope to get back into it ).
Also you did awesome in the USDC, you performed as best as you could and that's all that matters 😊.
My self-defense couch-jitsu has a proven record that no practitioners have been shot or stabbed on the street.
@Ramsey Dewey I know quite a bit about PTSD, and anyone who has suffered violent or tragic experiences can be touched by it. It often results in a heightened danger awareness and or extreme behaviour in response to danger. Honestly, the condition is kind of a spectrum, and because it's logical, (It's a bit like an early warning system that never stops warning you), it's difficult to tell who's susceptible, who currently has it and who's going to get it, and the only thing we can do about it is try to support our friends and family, because one factor that everyone usually mentions is that it comes with a feeling of isolation. Sorry, this has already turned into a long one. :D
I usually take my chi tea with almond milk, no water... What? Not the same thing? Oh...
Very interesting discussion as always, thank you!
What you are saying is true. I was teaching some bouncers how to break up fights, apply joint locks, holds, and take downs, in order to get them out of the bar as safely and quickly as possible. One of them said that stuff is really cool, what is that? I said this is something I learned in Hapkido, and it seems to work well for me. He said Hapkido? I took Hapkido. Never learned that. Turns out it was the same school but years apart. Also, we trained police on how to remove motorists from their cars without severely injuring the unruly occupant. Come to find out, one of them had also taken Hapkido and Taekwondo. Same school. Apparently, I was fortunate and learned before it was totally ruined by daycare and after school care. Thanks for the video.
"This isn't just any tap dancing! This is street tap dancing! It's fo da streetz!" "Ahoo, and zis is no ordinary ballet! Zis is un ballet de combat!" "........ Ellow everybody. So, this is the sheep yodeling, with healing crystals, but I must say that it's application can be used in a self defense scenerio at anytime. The sheep can be very nervous at times and at times attack and bite. They are good when outnumbered. I also once road one away from danger, you just kind of let yourself sink into the wool face down, than grab and bite to become one with the sheep... and if you haven't been hit with a salt crystal, than i guess i should say just dont. But it does hurt if it happens. Sheep yodeling, crystal self defense. It's in the name of the program......"
Im teaching my 5 year old son boxing on my heavy bag in the garden . I guess im teaching him "back yard brawler" style of boxing 😂
This is true of any area of Life tbh. You also see it in the Rocky Franchise with Mickey, Apollo, and Duke. You see it in the Karate Kid Franchise with Miyagi-san, Cobra Kai, the Okinawan Style, the Military Karateka Sensei, and Jackie Chan.
I train aikido because it is fun for me. Easy as that.
Stopped bjj at blue bełt as it got really frustrating.
My goal is to stay healthy. Nothing more.
…not so much of a deep dive into combat aikido Tomiko Shodukan etc. etc.
but a very interesting experienced and savvy discussion worth the watch!
Hopefully related question: regarding just striking, does it make sense to draw a boundary between different martial arts if at the moment of real combat they all become (necessarily) pretty much kick boxing?
The demo dude sounds fun I've never had an instructor like that, I kinda want one.
I am gonna headbut some boards for fun after this.
Ramsey you have the best fucking voice I’ve ever heard. Please narrate audiobooks or do voice acting!
Is this a job offer?
At our Jjj school we basically do bjj as part of ne waza and compete at both bjj and jjj tournaments, but also we do striking and train it just like mma
Awesome! Now that's Japanese Jujutsu.
I hope you guys also do weapon work.
Go and practice your failed Ippon Seoi Nage into elbow to the stomach and a Kote Gaeshi finish!
@@jestfullgremblim8002thank you! we do that from time to time, but currently we mostly focus on sport application
hands on learning is better than book or on line learning, same as learning to be a car or airplane mechanic and only learning from books in a classroom or actually being in a shop and seeing and touching the engine..touching the engine is better than just being in the classroom learning.
2 golden quotes "for da streets" and "if I get aids again, I'll be pissed" 😂 as always I enjoy the truthful talks and the content!
I know of someone who trained in jujitsu and then aikido it was when he’s saw retrained in aikido that he better understood jujitsu. I think aikido helped him see structure or how the techniques in jujitsu are related or interrelated.
I think that's the biggest flaw of these "Ranking Martial Arts" videos. You can find good and bad schools and instructors of any style. Some can be more prone to quality control issues, but it's more dependent on the market and what the customers want than anything.
As one of my instructors used to say: "YOU are responsible for your own training!"
I was going to run this video whilst cleaning the kitchen. Too interesting, stuck in my desk chair. Note: "post" pandemic there's a difference between online courses & online classes, & online lessons. Courses are pre-taped videos (like a dvd library), & group classes are situations where one sees the instructor in real time, but doesn't have the benefit of interacting with them. Our Eskrima-Kali-Arnis school focuses online private lessons, where the student demonstrates while we coach them. *Works great for a lot of drills. Not for sparring.
Hey Ramsey I was curious if you’ve ever trained anyone with scoliosis and/or people with some form of chronic problems and that if you had any pointers from your students who had them on how to avoid injuries which we are unfortunately more susceptible to and be better fighters. Medical doctors have told me that the condition is largely negligible in all types of sports aside from increased chances of injury, I would like to hear from a mma coach because, well, I doubt my doctor is well versed in martial arts or has trained anyone with that condition to fight.
Yep. I have a stretch I can show you can be very helpful for people with scoliosis. But I have to show you… so, future video I guess.
@@RamseyDewey thanks, looking forward to it.
After many years of dedicated hard training most Martial artists who were involved in "the Streetz" 😮threw one punch 👊.
Hey, nice video quality and lighting
Definitely agree, we also have the same thing in Karate, regardless of style, but the school or organisation will have different methods and training regimes, so unfortunately it can be difficult to find a one size fits all scenario. Always trial as many schools as you can and find the ones that suit you and your goals best.
A Street fighting champion who hasn't been shot or stabbed yet 😂😂😂😂
Great video! Not everyone trains for the same reason. Its important to find a school that fits your needs. Foe example, i attend a Gracie Training Center and it works for me. I have no desire to train in a hardcore BJJ gym. Am I as good a BJJ practitioner as those who train different than me? No but it works for me and what i want at this time. I also take Tang Soo Do. And although our school is focused a lot no self defense I have no desire to see if what I am learning will "work in the streets"
Hi Ramsey. I've been watching your channel for a while, but I don't think I've ever commented. I really like the vast majority of your videos.
Will you please do a video regarding why virtually ALL BJJ schools (even those directly operated and owned by Gracies) exclusively teach Sport BJJ. I went to a very well known Gracie school in CA with tons of top MMA fighters, and I asked which classes I should attend to learn to defend against punches. They looked at me like I was from Mars and asked, "You mean to learn how to fight?" I'm sure my jaw dropped on the floor (I thought BJJ was fighting...). I said, "Uuhhh, yes." They said, "You'll have to go to one of our MMA schools for that.": At an even bigger Gracie school on the East Coast, the BJJ instructor said, "Sport BJJ is the complete opposite of anything you'd ever want to do in a fight with strikes."
What a joke most BJJ schools have become.
Hope your knee is doing well since the ultimate self defense challenge Ramsey.
It’s not, but thanks.
LOL you had a Master Wong TKD Instructor..must have been interesting
Do you think ITF style taekwondo is good as an MMA base? I've been doing ITF for nearly 10 years now, but when I try to look it up it only comes up with advice for WT practitioners. Thanks.
Put simply:
- How do you train (hard, soft, rules etc.)?
- How often (1 hour a week to full time)?
- How do you validate what you've learned (kata / gradings, comps, matches, fights)?
I've trained at casual, family-friendly Thai boxing classes - and at clubs training professional fighters. Same art, very different outcomes!
I had fun watching the ultimate self defense challenge. Do it again Dewey.
I couldn’t if I wanted to. My knee got shredded up in the first one when that dude climbing on the ceiling fell on me.
@@RamseyDewey I'm 😥 but I understand. Well at least when He fell you two didn't make a human centipied. Now technically wouldn't that make that falling on you guy a cannibal ?
What?
(If there's another place to ask questions of the coach, anyone may please direct me there)
Hey Ramsey,
I love listening to your thoughts. I know your specialty is training fighters for competition, so this is a little different. What are the most fun fighting exercises out there, in any style, for someone who isn't an expert in the style? Bonus points for the more generally useful they are. Is Chi Sao fun? How about a Capoeira ronda, if the practitioners just learn the basics from video tutorials? Are there forms/kata that you find extra enjoyable? Answers can be for solo, one on one, or group exercises, and it's okay if they require gear (like maybe a speed bag or striking mats, etc.).
Contexts behind the question: I'm 43 and I've never been in a fight, and it's unlikely I'll ever be in one, but it'd still be a confidence boost (and yes, a bit of a power fantasy), to have some fighting skill. I'm toying around with the idea of learning some techniques with some friends, but just focusing on things that are fun to practice, both so that we stick with it, and just because I'd like to have fun with my friends. I have severe ADHD, and this is what I've had to do with exercise in general to stick with it (so I dance, swing kettlebells, Indian clubs, and the steel mace, rather than standard weight lifting). If I come up with something that works, I also hope to teach my nephew and his friends.
Your nerdy viewer, Anthony
I think a good short rule is: if you want to learn a martial art that applies to a combative situation--whether sport or self-defense--make sure the school has sparring under those scenarios.
Some people legitimately just want to do forms or drills for health and/or aesthetics, so they probably don't need to worry about sparring, or much less so. But elsewise, that's probably the key factor.
I've known boxing gyms that go too far the other way, where they do full-out sparring too often. I've taken Ramsey's "majority light sparring" approach to heart, and prefer it greatly.
Wristlogs are fun, especially if you catch them off gurad with them😂
X-martial needs to put "champion of the street" on a rash guard 😂
I think the mind set around self defense needs to shift. It needs to be less about physical movements and more about situational awareness, deescalation, legal factors, and avoiding conflict. The Ultimate Self Defense Challenge did a great job of emphasizing how a lot of the time self defense is recognizing a bad situation and getting out of there before anything happens as opposed to reacting to a bad situation
That's kinda what many Krav Maga schools teach.
And judging by the research i've done. You were taught just that in Judo, Aikido, Iaido and other weaponschools like Tenshin Ryu Hyoho. Also in other martial arts like Silat
People of the past knew their stuff, they sure did.
There is a difference between wrist locks in bjj and aikido. It is an emphasis of controlling the arm all the way down to the elbow. With few exceptions.
Also the facts that Aikido ones are usually meant to takedown and transition into a submission pin/hold down, and are also done while moving (usually with Tenkan amd Tentai), so they are in theory better against weapons
Used to post on Bullshido and asked about people's martial:art ratio. It's a very "martial" crowd.
I think with the SD element of any martial art that espouses the ideals of self defence within that art, still can be a sticky wicket. It’s all good learning techniques to help a student defend themselves theoretically, but if that student can’t put it altogether mentally then it’s largely useless. Fight or flight is something hard to overcome for some, and I am not sure any martial art can help to rid the flight part. I could be very wrong about that, but just my take on it.
Most people freeze in the face of danger.
We have a reliable answer to martial arts working on the street for self-defense.
1. Don't go to places where there is high crime rate, works 10 out of 10 times. The martial art is called 'common sense'.
2. If you have to go there (living or working), get a weapon - preferably a firearm, but other weapons will do if the criminals are using similar type of weapon. The martial art is called 'armed' or 'modern martial arts', believe it or not, soldiers are using firearms to great success the past 800 years.
3. If you cannot use weapons due to law or regulation restriction (and hopefully the criminals have limited access) - get to the gym and make a lot of muscles. If presented with a choice, criminals will target weak looking people instead of fit and dangerously looking one.
4. If none of the above are available, prepare a spare wallet and / or phone on a more convenient place to give to assailant.
Thanks to coming to my self-defense talk, next seminar will cost you 1,000,000$ and is named 'how to become millionaire in few simple steps'.
I think this comment wins.
Well done
Love the video
2:00 LOL. Can this be considered joke judo?
Coach Ramsay! Please make a video about Central Asian Belt Wrestling (for example: Alysh from Kyrgyzstan, Kurash from Uzbekistan, Kuresi from Kazakhstan, etc.). I STILL haven't found very many videos about this wrestling style. I figured you might, because it seems that you have a great appreciation for Asian martial arts and grappling styles that have either been forgotten or disregarded. The only videos I find about Belt Wrestling are made in the Russian, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, or Kazakh languages. It's very difficult to find info about it in the West (especially in the English language with it actually making sense). Even the videos that are in English are clearly made by people whose English is subpar at best. Please help us out! I need to learn more about their cool ass throws! :D
I have a couple of friends from Uzbekistan. I could ask them if they know anything about it. But I am not familiar with those.
What about the "how to win friends and influence people" (by Dale Carnegie) method of self defense? His organization runs courses and they may keep statistics. It would be interesting to cross reference that with the number who died in knife fights vs people who didn't take the course ;)
Come on Ramsey! We all know Detroit Urban Survival Team has a survival rate of a 100% because of their teaching methods! XD
Yes there is , the link program taught to. The marines during the Viet Nan war
I took a decent spill on a hill riding my bike til it spiked me head over heels. (I am not Dr Seuss). I bruised my palms but saved my face. Thank you breakfalls. I think parkour breakfalls would have helped me more as l had no ability to incorporate my lower half in the breakfall until the bike frame was clear of my thighs (when i was upside down).
The end result: My torso landed rather gracefully but my left patella fell hard on this heavily grooved concrete. Now there's a hard bony lump like a miniature elbow on my knee. I am Wolverine lol.
Have you ever incurred or seen a bone injury that healed like that? My Doc said it looks normal and functional on xray.
@5:45 Now I know your secret is Rex Kwon Do 😜
Here’s something random: you have a unique way of talking, with a distinct choice of words and pauses. By weird happenstance I bumbled upon someone else with a similar cadence. Tone & timbre are way different, but otherwise it’s eerily similar.
Max Randolph Studios, he does blacksmithing work near as I can tell - so basically the same as you.😊
As Chuck “I built the hospital I was born in” Norris once said, “Men & Steel: they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”
Cheers!
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Hey, Coach! Greetings from Brazil! I've been training martial arts all my life. From judo, to capoeira, sansda and shuaijiao, now i'm stiking with muay thai, bjj and traditional kung fu. But, for me, it will aways be a hobbie and a way to be health, get fun and meet new culture. The thing is, every once in a while i end up confusing my personal "hobbie-like" goals with professional goals. When this happens, i get a little frustrated and lost in my own jorney. Many times due to the "martial arts culture" Any tips to this problem? And more deep, is there any line between training as a hobbie and as a professional fighter?
Training 3 times a week is For fun anymore it is a half measure and full on training is dit fighting
" the Tiger stays on the mountain it has nothing to prove, it only comes down to kill. when it does the people shout and the dogs bark, Thats all they can do " .
Re: systematic data on street fighting-based training-
I think there *have* been schools which were able to generate systematically credible records of producing competent street fighters, but I'm not sure there are any anymore. I think that this sort of thing more or less requires persistently dangerous neighborhoods where street fights are a regular thing which people can expect to experience on a repeat basis, but where the people won't just shoot you. There have been places like that at various times; kajukenbo came out of an environment like that in poor neighborhoods in Hawaii in the 1940's and 50's. But I'm not sure there's any place today which provides that sort of training environment, or if there are, if anyone runs martial arts schools in those sorts of communities. Some martial arts might originate in those sorts of environments, but as you say, it's the pedagogy that determines the training experience, not the system, so they don't necessarily retain much effectiveness for street defense today.
Be careful when dealing Choke; your target might be a narc.
Tai Kwon Do smash ! Tai Kwon Do break stuff ! Boards , bricks , tai Kwon Do break stale 🍞 it shatter like glass.
When are you doing a show with danthewolfman?
Hi Ramsey, I have a question for you which I wondered if I should ask for weeks now.
I've been practicing Judo for quite a while now and around a month ago my friend got ribs broken in sparring. And the throw being used on him wasn't particularly dangerous and was poorly performed. I was wondering what are the most injury dominant throws in Judo or Wrestling and grappling as a whole? Are the throws which make the opponent fall on his head the most dangerous? What makes a throw/takedown dangerous specifically?
I enjoy Aikido as a form of exercise, a chance to socialise and a very basic language instruction. I don't see it as a 'fighting style'. But then again the techniques come from kenjutsu and jiu-jitsu, which absolutely were effective fighting methods. Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido was a very philosophical person with a pacifist mindset, so the schools that follow his ideals teach Aikido as a method to control and subdue rather than injure. In comparison, the Tokyo Police anti-riot teams have a 1-year accelerated program to reach black belt, and they are not gentle people at all. Exactly the same curriculum, very different approach and goals.
Netherlands Combatives . No one can train anyone getting stabbed or shot . If someone wants to learn the whole art, awesome, but most just want to learn self-defense . And it's the nature of the practitioner themselves .
Hey Ramsey !! Have you ever seen the Aikido in Azerjbizan ? Its literally competitive and i think based off a military style and is the first Aikido ive seen that actually looks realistic and genuinely usable ? You should check it out !! (If i could send a link i would..) Many thanks :)
Tomiki? Also known as, Shodokan, by any chance?
Angelo vs Cus. Would Tyson be who he was with Angelo? Would Ali be who he was with Cus?
Hi coach! I asked a question in a comment to another video, not Q/A, so maybe it didn't catch your eye.
I'm 37, training in BJJ for a little while, 2-3 months or so. Didn't do any combat sports before, trained 3-4 years with weights (powerlifting big 3 mostly, lifting somewhat heavy).
For these 3 months I've been doing bjj, I had multiple minor injuries, broken/disclocated toes, sprained ligaments in arms. It's a common practice in our gym, and I've seen a lot of similar injuries happened to other guys, sometimes more serious stuff. Sometimes I see guys jumping guards, trying to do amplitude throws without solid breaking fall skills. Most of us are going really fast as we wrestle, I still can't stay calm when my partner goes as fast as he can and does chaotic, often senseless movements.
What bothers me is the fact that our coach doesn't really addresses this, with the attitude like "it is what it is, it's all in the game", etc. It can be the case if our gym was hardcore fighting gym, but no, 99% are hobbyists here, white/blue belts. Coach himself is real deal, 3 dan black belt, with a dozens of professional MMA fights, but there is hardly anyone who can be instructor other than him.
All my own injuries could have been prevented if I have known that:
- the faster you go, the more potential is there for injury;
- the more extended arms/elbows are when you wrestle, the more weak/injury prone they are.
I had to figure that by myself, even when I asked our coach how to practice safe, all I could get was "just relax, calm down, don't go hard".
Ramsey, my questions are:
1) Are there more fundamental principles we can use to limit injuries?
2) Should I try to convince the guys to go slower, or is it entirely my responsibility to stay calm and collected?
There is one guy who is really cool and efficient with his movements, and I like to roll with him, because it's much easier to stay calm when your partner doesn't do random spastic stuff.
Had a great answer from @TheDevourerOfPancake, definitely worth quoting:
Hey! Here's my 2 cents as a wrestler. The taller you are standing, the farther you fall so practice being able tomove as crouched low as possible and keep your arms glued to your torso. Your goal is to make handfights happen, tie up as soon as possible. They can't wildly accelerate while you're stuck to them. Learn how to turtle, it's a bit more resistant to being rolled and jammed around then standard guard and lean on your opponent every chance you get. Stalling might be bad competition behavior but it's a great training skill to keep yourself safe with the newbies. I've got nothing for the jumping guard, that's just wildly unsafe
Picking the right training partners is a big deal. I don't know the culture there, but telling someone "no thanks, I'm going to sit this round out" is fine. Better to miss a round of rolling then weeks or months of training because of injury
We have a lot of police officers who’ve used BJJ and mma to arrest and disarm suspects.
I was thinking how that is a good metric for a schools self defense success since it takes it out of the theoretical?
Damn it, I just bought from them, now I see this. This is YOUR fault!
Ramsey,who punches harder? A boxer ,a kickboxer or a Kyokushin guy? Of course with the same weight.
The one that punches the hardest punches harder.
@@grigoreureche345 You will get radically different data with every individual. Not every boxer is Mike Tyson. Not every karateka is Mas Oyama.
Same thoughts in our heads: Aikido.
Coming soon! ;) ❤
You all forgot Bruce Lee, I'm gonna bring Him back.
I think it’s not about the teaching as much as the learning!
It’s you know what you want?
Understand they is no fight that wins forever!
The streets well that’s war it’s not winnable!
Life avoidance of conflict make alliances know what you are doing with your time, your money and health!
Is learning to fight worth what you think?
Why, what and when will it be useful?
We have no data on how really self defense are effective in real life. We have only stories.😂😂😂😂
Are you surprised to learn that anecdotal evidence is not the same as empirical data?
If I can get a black belt with a few clicks online, what’s not to like?
if you find some bjj gym that teach standing techniques other than go for the legs straight away, stick with them.
There was 2000 yrs worth of Development, Mastery, and Combat PROOF, in China (Pre-Industrial Era, before MAO's CULT-ural revolution). Sure, Each school has a different way of doing things.. but ULTIMATELY, the results of the students, often has very little to do with the teachers. If a School teacher gives you Homework.. and you refuse to study + do the homework... then is it the Teachers fault that the student(s) failed?! The teacher can only Show you the Path. The students have to WALK it (Do the work... both in AND OUTSIDE of classes).
While I often Disagree with Dewey and others like him... He has some valid points... such as... him learning things from various different teachers and arts... Which gave him various different perspectives, and value, that he would otherwise be unaware of. I had this same perspective, when I was training in Wing Chun. I learned methods from various different versions of WC. In fact, Ive ended up having 3 different WC teachers, and each teacher belonged to a different Lineage. This allowed me to learn, develop, and TEST... each of the different methods, and see for myself, what worked the best... and or... what alternatives there were, that could benefit me, in certain situations. I also found some lost / missing material, between these different branches... that I never would have discovered, had I only stuck to a single arts methods.
In addition, I also cross trained in the sport arts methods: Boxing, TKD & Muay Thai kicks...etc. Because I knew, that in order to BEST be able to defend against an attackers methods... then you should know their methods inside and out. That included being able to replicate them accurately, with the same speed, power, and abilities. Not just a poor replication, with a shallow or incorrect understanding.
It was my drive to learn and train hard... anywhere from 4 to +8hr a day (every day) ...that led me to high level Improvement + Mastery, in record breaking time-frames. But remember, the schools I was often attending, only taught 1hr classes, 3 days a week. This meant, that I was doing most of the work, outside of classes... as is needed / required. Common sense SHOULD tell you this... but way too many people today, seem to lack common sense. >_< At that pace and intensity... I became nearly untouchable to the local sport artists, by my 3rd year. This of course, included heavy / full contact sparring... against various arts fighters that were often 2x my own mass and strength... on a nearly every-weekend basis.
So again... the School is only a very small factor in a persons combat abilities. Just like a High Schools teachers teaching... is only a small factor in the students Grades.
If you want Masterclass level combat abilities... you are going to have to put in Maximum levels of Intensity, and consecutive multi-hour training sessions... as a part of your daily way of life... for a good 3 to 5 years solid... before you reach levels of Mastery... and can start to ease up.
I think there's pretty reasonable data on the self defense style known as "joining a gang," but other than that I'm not sure there are good numbers
I guess your comment about a school in which no one was shot or stabbed kind of points to the whole idea of circumstance or “luck.” Maybe one reason why you don’t get shot or stabbed or you manage to follow the first rule of self-defense, according to martial artist Ranton; avoidance, first, then de-escalation then physical combat as a last resort.
Imo its not as much about what style one trains, its that they train & they do so against real people. The only real way to train self defense is to train against an oppoent who is actively resisting you. Log those hours of mat time. Either that or like me you repeatedly get yourself into bad situ's as a kid. I would much perfer the latter of the 2 though. In the way i learned if one makes a mistake it could be their last. Which isnt ideal obviously since you might mot survive long enough to get good to begin w/.
In 1988 I got to second degree black belt, pretty much stopped then. Aikido done properly look fake but I can assure you it’s not. The reason it looks fake is that the person they are working with has also trained to avoid an injury that can be very real. A lot of techniques are coordinated to show how it works. Learning how to fall without getting hurt is one of the first things you learn. Also, the actual things being done with another trained person could be devastating to an ‘outsider’ untrained. A big part of the art goes like this, it may not be who wins or losses but for you not to be defeated. BTW, AIKIDO is taught to the police and the military. In lots of cases with the police they not only don’t get want to hurt the other person but to just subdue them. In this day and age a lot of criminals want to sue, everyone wants those big dollars without working. Either that or defenders of them are looking for an excuse to burn, destroy and murder anyone they disagree with. It takes at least 5 yrs. To reach black belt in Aikido. A brake down of the word Aikido goes like this, ‘do’ means ‘the way’. ‘Ki’ means, ‘the spirit, and ‘Ai’ is for harmony. Or, ‘the way to spirit through harmony’. Different strokes for different folks. Lots of people know that one point of learning a martial art is not necessarily the ability to kick someone’s but to conquer yourself and have an air of confidence that says you’re in control.
Ramesy seems you want data on the streets . Please do an episode of you training on the streets , normal clothes no pads no rules . What parts of your martial art can you still practice? Thank you for listening, now get out there ? And train ? ☯️🤙
Damnit man. I wanted to see you in season 2 , Ramsey's Revenge, the bloodening. But nooooo. You're not on the list. So disappointed.
Hahahahaha! That sounds like the title of a fantastic straight to video action movie!
I couldn’t do it if I wanted to. I still have a torn PCL from the first one and it’s not healing.
Its more about the person not the style. Any fool can kill, any fool can be combatant. Its the intent that makes the diffrence. Example. Not all big dogs are killers. Some small dogs are killers. Some lions are young some are old . Its the experience and intent that makes one more dangerous than another. In some martial arts they breed bad intent . Some arts might train to express the opposite. Another example. If there was no soilders there would be no wars. ☯️
Aikido cannot be a standalone martial art, unless the person is drunk or almost non resistant. People who pull off Aikido under full pressure have alot of striking and grappling experience. Even then, they are probably 0.01 percent of the population that make it work. It's not a viable art.
"Aikido Is 90% striking" but nobody show that
100% try any standing wristlock sfter you T-off on an opponent, works like a charm
If nobody actually does it, then it is what it is.
I practice aikido and I agree.
@@RamseyDewey you're correct, better frazing might be: aikido should've been 90% atemi like it was meant originally, but then we're getting into labels and complexities that are solved by just calling it mma
Nishio Sensei did, and his students still do.