A friend of mine, the older brother of my best friend and one of my judo teachers, told me: "when you get your black belt, you start to develop your own judo". I understand it like this: at the time when you reach the "black belt" level (the proficiency and skills of what a black belt is supposed to have), you need to start focusing on your own style, because all the time spent in the levels below black belt you are learning the fundamentals of the technics and the martial art.
That's the same in BJJ. The blue belt level is about experimenting to see what works for you and what does not. By purple belt you have a style that works for you. You know what is high probability and what is not for your style. No martial artist does every technique equally well. You have your plan A goto moves, followed by a plan B. I have found that the road to mediocrity is to try and master everything equally well. There isn't enough time in a lifetime to do that especially in BJJ where someone, somewhere is inventing some new move-of-the-week. By having a solid foundation, Plan A, then you can start adding to that to have your Plan B, C, etc.
I once took a class to become an instructor of adults for state certified instruction. There are many levels of learning and in the final level where you master something you are able to create your own unique movements, techniques, or strategies. By that final level if mastery you innately understand not just the techniques but the way in which they truly work. From there you can innovate. In martial arts it's a mastery of your body movement, a full understanding of another person's body, a mastery of how you can affect someone elses body, and a mastery of spacial awareness.
When I say "black belt" techniques in my school, what I mean is high level of focus, intensity, intent, and efficiency. Its the same punch taught to a white belt, just done better. There is a story that my instructor likes to tell that I like a lot that he calls his "black belt secrets" story. Below if you're interested. My instructor [A] had just gotten his 1st dan and approached his instructor [B] about learning the "black belt secrets" the conversation went as follows A: " I got my black belt, did you see I passed the testing?" B: " Yes, I was there. Congratulations." A: "Im ready now" B: " For what" A:" to learn the secrets" B: " what secrets" A: " The black belt secrets." B: " oh those secrets. Great, go learn them" A : "okay, so when are you gonna start to teach them to me?" B: "I cant teach them to you. They're a secret. Go learn them" A: " then how am I supposed to just go and learn them?" B: *With a grin* "That's the secret."
Our old Grandmaster told us once at a seminar: "Once you get to black belt, you have to find the white belt spirit again." Btw.,his black belt at 10th Dan was old and almost totally bleached out to white over time, with only little black dots left.
Yesterday i was thinking something similar to this. This is why boxing practitioners will get good at fighting way faster than people from Chinese martial arts. They do not only spar a lot, but also train on lots of important things since the very first days, while many Chinese martial arts will spend a lot of time teaching forms, drills and stuff like that but will barely show you actual techniques at first.
I've walked my happy buns once to the Clute, Texas mosquito festival cause there was fewer there and once under one of those mosquito mating tornadoes. You're almost happy when the banana spiders flood the trees. Almost.
When I did Tang Soo Do, I saw the esoteric movements in forms learned at the black belt level and wondered if there was magic in them. The same when I did Wing Chun, wondering if the third form and the weapons forms had anything special in them. What I came to realise was, "at the black belt level", that the basic movements have more meaning tuned into them i.e. parts of the movement that we didn't consider were not accidental. I also learned that it's dangerous to become a "technique collector."
Think it comes down to honest study with resistance in training. And then the ability to be honest with yourself as to which of the techniques you can or cannot pull off under stress. Of course I’m being overly simplistic but to me this honesty aka filter is black belt level. Love the channel! Thanks.
There's a part of the boxing anime Hajime no Ippo where you learn about the origin of one of the boxers in the main cast named Takamura. Takamura's coach basically makes him practice the jab and only the jab repeatedly, much to Takamura's frustration. At some other point in the show, Takamura wins a fight by basically repeatly jabbing his opponent. Goes to show the importance of fundamentals.
It was probably GSP/Freddy Roach's inspiration to the approach they took for the rematch against Koscheck, Georges jabbed his face into twice it's natural size over 5 rounds.
"People don't want simple, they want secrets. The pursuit of the latter will only get you further away from learning about what really works." Brett Bartholomew
In Judo I think that some throws should be taught in accordance to the student's ability to break fall, specially free fall. Uchi-mata tends to be a free-fall throw so usually it's taught later since you can really injure yourself and your partner if you go at it without good technical experience in both falling and throwing safely (such as rolling after the throw.) Same with Tomoe-nage, ura-nage, and so on. It's not that it's a Super Secret Technique, or anything, only that there's a high chance of injury with those throws if you can't roll and fall properly. This is worse with throws like uki-otoshi and sumi-otoshi which throw sideways in free-fall again, so it's not stuff you want complete beginners doing. As for uchi-mata being a white belt throw, the koshi-variant is basically a leg-assisted o-goshi, which is a bog standard hip throw and THAT is a classic white belt throw. The issue with the leg tho is that since it's going between the legs, again, you don't wanna have complete beginners doing this for safety reasons. Additionally, learning hip throws very well will improve your koshi-uchi-mata tremendously by the time you get there, as for the ashi-uchi-mata the technique is different but if you're practicing tai-otoshi and so on you should be able to adapt those skills there too. Each throw isn't an island and there's a lot of overlap in techniques, which helps people learn parts of the more complex throws without needing to actually use them 100%.
@@St1cKnGoJuGgAlO haha, he is a champion and has competed in so many different countries he's just older and his classes aren't as structured as a typical judo club
Hello Ramsey! I know you are a black belt in Kukki TKD so nothing I'm saying is going to be mind blowing or anything but in my opinion there are 10 basic kicks in TKD, divided by their action, and then you can apply one or more modifiers to each kick to get different versions. I would summarize the 10 basic kicks of Kukki TKD as follows: Front Kick / Ap Chagi / 앞 차기 Turning Kick / Dollyeo Chagi / 돌려 차기 Side Kick / Yeop Chagi / 옆 차기 Back Kick / Dwi Chagi / 뒤 차기 Axe Kick / Naeryeo Chagi / 내려 차기 (Whipping) Hook Kick / Huryeo Chagi / 후려 차기 (Scorpion) Hook Kick / Nakka Chagi / 낚아 차기 Twisting Kick / Biteureo Chagi / 비틀어 차기 Inward Crescent Kick / An Chagi / 안 차기 Outward Crescent Kick / Bakkat Chagi / 바깥 차기 From there some common modifiers we can apply to each one include: Front Foot Kick / Ap Bal Chagi / 앞 발 차기 Examples: Front Foot Turn Kick; Front Foot Side Kick (The anchor foot stays in place) Fast Kick / Ppaleun Bal Chagi / 빠른 발 차기 Examples: Fast Turn Kick; Fast Hook Kick Travel → Chamber → Kick (The anchor foot moves. Some schools will call this a skipping or sliding kick) Cut Kick / Keoteu Chagi / 커트 차기 Examples: Cut Kick (naturally a Side Kick), Cut Turn Kick Chamber → Travel → Kick (The most popularly thrown technique in the current Olympic "meta") Counter Kick / Bada Chagi / 받아 차기 Examples: Counter Turn Kick, Counter Back Kick (The anchor foot generally displaces itself to manage distance, counter timing depends on the situation) Switch Kick / Narae Chagi / 나래 차기 Examples: Double Turn Kick, Switch Back Kick Tornado Kick / Dolgae Chagi / 돌개 차기 Examples: Tornado Kick (naturally a Turn Kick), Tornado Axe Kick There are plenty more of course, and some kicks can have more than 1 modifier added to them (example: Front Foot Outward Axe Kick). Plenty of schools will use different terminology and some will disagree about my classification of what a Basic Kick (and there are things I consider basic modifiers) but I'm always up for a nerdy TKD discussion!
Let's nerd out man, the basic kicks at my school were Axe kick Crescent kick (inside) Crescent kick (outside) Ap chagi Ap dorlyeo chagi Yeop chagi. Of course it's going to be easier to execute a tornado kick if you have good roundhouse technique but now that I teach Brazilian Jiu Jitsu I'll show the kids an "advanced" Taekwondo kick like a jumping spinning back kick or a tornado and some of them will copy me and execute it with reasonable good technique. I think the progression of learning kicks in TKD is slow and could be much faster If we spent less time on Poomsae (unless it's a competition Poomsae class) and more time actually hitting paddles and kick shield
In really traditional arts in my country, the weapon techniques are only taught once you have reached the equivalent of the "black belt" level. So, in a way, there are black belt techniques.
@NK sure you could teach it at that level but the prerequisite skills to use the weapons were in the levels beforehand. Like skydiving, you don't throw people out of the plane right at the beginning. There are steps to the learning.
When I was a kid taking taekwondo classes at a good (though commercialized) school, one of the most valuable lessons that I got was being taught the higher-level forms on occasion, when I was the only lower-belt who showed up for class at that time. I didn't need to know Taegeuk Pal-Jang (WTF) or Chung-Mu (ITF) as an orange belt because it wasn't one that I would be tested on, nor Koryo or any of the others that they sometimes taught me if I was the only lower belt (and, to be honest, I never committed them to memory because of this, but I always liked getting a lesson on them) but I noticed that it was mostly the same techniques and stances that I started learning in the white belt classes. They didn't have any secret techniques, they just put the same techniques together in a more complicated way.
And that's the way forms can/should be taught. There's so much stigma against comparing poomsae to dance, but I really think the best way to teach forms is to approach it like teaching someone choreography. There are principles of shifting weight, footwork, combinations that can be dissected out from the Taeguk/Black Belt/Palgwe forms in WT but ultimately they exist outside of the realm of combat sports and have more in common with dance, and that's a good thing.
Very good explanation. In Karate, we learned some basic defense techniques/blocks first, and the basic Tsuki(fist blows), which were Kizami (Jab), Oi (forward step front hand), Gyaku (cross) and Mawashi Tsuki (hook). Plus the open handed palm strike Haito and the Sword Hand (Shuto). But the most practiced were the Tsuki. Then the basic kicks. Now that I am older, I am not that well stretched anymore for extravagant kicks, but the front kick, most practiced, still works, and so do the cross, the hook and the jab. But at the few occasions where I really had to defend myself in the last 20 years, a jab or even just the open palm push worked, to discourage the attacker from further aggression. Just because it was practiced so often, more than all the fancy techniques. Also, remember the famous sword master Musashi: At some point later in his life, when challenged, he stopped using steel Katanas, only hardwood Katanas, but still killed every challenger. His technique was so good, he just struck them over the head.
If you have practiced kenjutsu the story is dubious. You dont "whack" people on the head with a sword, where to begin. Swords cut with a draw , not a whack. Tanbo or kanabo techniques arent katana techniques. Drawing , opening cuts are what made the katana so feared .
Very well said, you broke it down very well. So many people are always trying to skip through the time it takes. To realistically develop good proper technique. I understand the want, and need some may have to get good fast. But you must be willing to put in some real time and dedication. If you are to be really good at any martial art. You are correct for example. An axe kick in Taekwondo is taught at white belt level. So, at black belt level. Does that kick become a black belt technique? No,...absolutely not. It just a kick you have had a lot of time to practice. And develop good proper technique and power with. So, yes it's going to look better then a white belt doing it. Or at least it should, if you trained like you should....lol!
i thinkthe best example is judo, because a lot of judo and judo belt grading is so defined and standardized across the world. there are things taught to a white belt, and there are things taught to a black belt, but out of 10 fights between black belts, you tend to see 9 of them end in a throw that is often taught to white or other low-level belts, and maybe one sees an element of a black belt technique. there are some things that are often taught to black or higher belts, like throws that require the person thrown to roll or it includes a higher risk overall that requires some skill to get out of, just think of the things that would happen if you told a load of white belts to go and do kata-garuma, a lot of sore necks at the end of practice at best. thats one problem with youtube videos about martial arts, i am fighting with a far lower belt and i go easy on him, i let him play around, all of a sudden he does a kata-garuma but all wrong, i am dangling off his back while he is falling backwards, almost landing on me (hes close to 90kg fyi, so no featherweight), did he try it on another white belt (i know they guy now, he would have) they would have snapped their neck. his claim "well i saw a video and it looked pretty easy!" because they see things and they think they know it without even trying, i throw the same guy with a OK uchi-mata and he tells me "well if you took a second longer i would have done a suplex" first off, no you wouldn't, second, the guys standing with his back almost against the wall, he would have smacked my head and his into it if he tried. and thats why there are some things that should only be taught to higher belts, because beginners who dont get things like spacial awareness, balance, or perfected the basics do become a danger when taught some of these throws.
I chuckled at the compenet about not applying forms to competion/sparring. After I had that same experince, I did a massive re-evaluation of my forms and sparring and was able to bring them much closer in line with each other. Granted some stuff in the forms will not be used in TKD sparring simple be rules prevent grappling and throws.
Northern Long fist starts with butterfly kick immediately. Which is a black belt move, so difficult. But after practicing ten years you can actually hit somebody upside the head with it. So you start immediately.
There are techniques that can only be taught to more experienced/mature martial artists because they simply are riskier, doesn’t mean that they are better or more efficient.
RAMSEY, there are actually a black belt longated techniques in American Kenpo, one I recall was "Dance of Death". Look it up if you haven't seen this HILARIOUS demo of destruction.
I think people confuse the levels/belts with secrets… you have to condition your body and mind, more advanced techniques like you pointed out build on each other but require solid fundamentals mastered, but they are not “secret” at least not at my school.
There are two reasons to have techniques that arn’t in the basic curriculum: 1. The technique is ‘narrow’ meaning it is lower percentage or comes up in rare situations, and 2. The technique has a negative impact on the safety of the gym. It’s not that these things are “black belt techniques” and any gym that labels them as such should be looked at with extreme skepticism!
I remember when I got really good at the Achilles lock but I stopped doing it after a blue belt told the coach that I used a heel hook on him. Personally I think he was just butthurt that a white belt managed to tap him out but even if I did or didn’t accidentally heel hook him or not I still thought it better to avoid that submission to avoid being accused again.
@Ramsey Dewey If someone was wrongly accused of robbing a bank, would your advice to them be rob a bank for real afterwards? But in all seriousness, I actually haven’t had a chance to roll with him again.
Wise words. One thing that can help, in this type of situation, is understanding that a black belt is nothing more than a sign that one is minimally competent at a martial art. It really depend on the martial art of course. Some of them do teach you the Kamehameha right of the bat in a weekend long workshop. After that you will only have to pay for the extra gravity chamber. Don't forget to bring your credit card. As for more standard martial arts, a back belt (shodan) is not even considered enough to teach alone without supervision. So basically think more about experience and forget about those magical Sailor Moon tricks.
This video reminds me of a saying that I'm about to butcher but it goes something like "a master is someone who practiced the basics for years" something to that effect. Cant remember where I heard it but I think it was either in one of your videos or my kickboxing coach.
The belt system is a system of ranks to reinforce a hierarchy structure to reinforce submissive and dominance within the group in an attempt to maintain order
Exactly. i hope all TMA to clear this notion truthfully. Its not the belt, its the amount of training and effectiveness /the right training and natural talent which make a person a good fighter. no different from other physical sports.
I've started muay thai 2 weeks ago and guess what I've learned at the first class:the round kick and the push kick plus the jab,the cross and the hook(wich I already know because I have some basic training in boxing)! When you build an house,you always start by making strong foundations and after you add the walls,the floors and so on.
For real, my friends - foundational techniques are called that for a reason. The most simple, basic movements or reactions that the rest of the ‘style’ is based upon… you have to *comprehend* their purpose(s) and internalize said fundamentals, that’s how you improve. If you don’t trust in the results of doing so: probably wanna look at other options. “10,000 kicks” should impress you as little as it did Coach; as a mediocre hobbyist, that may be a 7-10 average days’ bagwork for me & that isn’t counting punches or elbows… think of it as a long-term investment in yourself (like strength training)
Thanks for this video. It has helped me with writing my tabletop role playing game I'm making for martial arts. I've been stuck on what to do with "black belt" level and "Master" levels in the games progression. It is a fantasy game, but it is meant to be well grounded in reality while being a fun game. I have written out the Boxing "class" and I did it's "Pro" and "Champion" (Black Belt and Master) levels and those ranks just improve what has already been built in the character. I will definitely write the traditional styles the same way now.
@@suranafights2727 Thank you! I'll make a video about it eventually. I want to write out Taekwondo and at least one other martial arts before doing so. I'll try to remember to let you know when that happens.
I went to a me neighborhood TKD school at three different periods in my life and all three times they gaslighted me with this stuff. As a kid, I asked when I would learn the how to use this stuff, the real stuff like I see in the movies (lol). They said when I get older and get my black belt. I got bored and quit in advanced class. I came back as a teen and made it all the way back up to advanced class again when I asked when will I learn how to use this stuff in real life, to defend myself. They told me when I get my black belt. I got bored and quit again. I came back as an adult, and worked my way up and did finally get my black belt! I asked them once again, when will they teach me the real deal, but by then the school had shifted focus from TKD to BJJ. TKD was what they used for family class and kid stuff. There was no TKD black belt class, and I don't think there ever was. I became assistant-assistant instructor, and gradually learned that the TKD program we taught was BS. I did fall in love with BJJ but I was pissed because that wasn't what I was there for. The BJJ was taught 100% better, my confidence grew and I lost weight and everything, but the passed 15 years of practice that was leading up to something was simply thrown away like it didn't matter. It was all lies and empty promises to take my parents and then my money.
Great video! This is the subject that I come facing again and again. In defence of martial arts that have a belt system and technique's integrated into it: I couldn't learn all the techniques at the start 😅 but I have a muscle memory of a sea urchin lol 🤣 But yeah, saying that there are black belt techniques in this dojo (or martial art) basically means that they want you to pay for more lessons. Here in Finland, I've heard stories from 80's and 90's as such. And it got pretty ugly. Nowadays it's still exists, but not in so ugly form. And I personally get that, since schools and dojos need that money to continue. Great video! 🔥🔥🔥👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hello Coach! Love your videos!!! Not so long ago you mentioned that you spent some time living in Argentina, also in other videos you mentiones living in the States. So I wonder I you could tell us in wixh countries have you lived and, if any, what have you learned from those experiences. Thanx!!
I have reached a point were I want to understand how to apply each and every move in ITF TKD patterns. Some of the moves I am perplexed by. I saw you doing an inward knife hand strike in this video. Seems like you understand that one. Do you explain what you did there in another video? I want to understand where double outer forearm block came from. That is an odd one to me. The closest I have come to understanding it is how Motobu Choki used it against the European boxer. Jesse Enkamp mentions it in one of his videos.
I mean, there are black belt techniques in karate and taekwondo from what I remember, but they tend to be the more technical and esoteric ones, not necessarily the ones that are the most practical, and certainty not ones you could pull off without the fundamentals. This even applies when you're just doing it for the exercise, without any interest of fighting.
Ramsey How do u prepare 4 fear? Would u say street fighting and sports fighting fear are the same 4 xample in the street arena if you are at work u will always have to deal with the thought of come backs which can affect ur fight. Whereas a sports fight once its over its over 😶🌫️👍🏿
Honestly gradings and belts that are so detailed are just a money grabber. My coach who was a world champion teaches me more complex techniques when he knows I’m ready simple no gradings no belts just get out there and train
I remember ages ago getting yelled at for teaching and training the fresh batch of white/yellow belts to the point of outperforming students who had trained for 2+ years. Like, what's the point of holding students back from achieving their potential (beyond lowering the bar for everyone so EVERYONE feels special)? Far too many TMA schools adhere to an arbitrary curriculum that has nothing to do with athletic/competitive training and everything to do with creating the illusion of order and progression/the idea of "tradition". The irony is that most members honestly wanted to see their kids be challenged through actual hard work, not giving them a mental breakdown by telling them they kihap'ed at the wrong part of a made up, overly complicated drill with zero trad forms/sparring/breaking applications. Great, they got a makeshift trophy with a sticker on it made in some guy's garage in NJ for their hard work of memorization and yelling loud for the past 3 months.
Black belt means that you've got the techniques down well. Time to revisit and polish up. Time to start new game plus kiddos. But in this case. You get to keep what your weapons and armor snd make them stronger.
i do have a black belt in arnis and i did not earn a black belt in taekwondo. although i do focusing on striking by using my legs. though i combined my taekwondo and arnis styles in muay thai i never earn a black belt by promoting and doing poomsae/kata forms
Last night I was almost placed unconscious by a second degree bb via a classic #1 side kick. It was fast. It was practiced. He has 10 years experience. I have one. I also like that you give God credit for the animals. Bless you sir.
I have a question for next q&a, I recently got my black belt in Shotokan karate and for year I've been having doubts bout my style and then after decided that I wanted to go to Jiu Jitsu or MMA free I get my black belt because that was my goal when learning karate at age of six, to learn how to fight. I discovered that karate training didn't prepared me for that and I didn't enjoy it anymore. However my dojo is like a family and I feel I have to return something to my dojo and my sensei have me as a good model for the dojo. What do I do ?
Great work Ramsey. I think your worldly knowledge, and ability to articulate ideas critically elevates the "role" of a Martial Artist. That is, you seem to be a good representative and "role model" for the fighter/MMA/Combat Sports community. Corporate media seems to present us as dirty alcoholic drug addicts. How many shows or movies of "Scholarly Warriors", or "Warrior Philosophers" are there? You subvert the stereotypes very well.
you can use any standard anti-histaminic like loratadine to remove the itchiness of mosquito bytes. please check with your doctor. for blackbelt, my karate sensei told me that color belts were meant to remove ignorance and that real learning started with the blackbelt, so I have never taken black belt as a sign of expertise. Just as a sign of practice with knowing what you don't know.
Well, i learn shotokan karate for 4 years till blue belt as a kids, and then silat for 2 years and then capoeira for 3 years and stoped learn martial art to go to college and then i learn Muay Thai and boxing at the same gym let me tell you i learn to fight much faster when i learn Muay Thai and boxing but my other martial art technique can be used in spar
Ive prscticed some martial arts that have "black belt techniques" but its not the "secret super effective stuff" its just stuff that you will probably wont ever need but is technically oart of the curriculum... Examples... One of those only taught after first dsn how to do some breathing excercises similr to chikung... You will not be doing breath excercises in a fight.. ... Another one taught some traditional japanese first aid in case a student gets hurt, its just how to care for a knocked out guy or slmething like that... Another added some weird meditation stuff.. etc... There are however blackbelt kata, but usually its just a combinatio of techniques you already know in a new coreography... But yeah, no thing like a secret technique... There is another thing... Some martial arts change rulesets after blackbelt in competitions... One ive practiced didnt have face punched until balckbelt for example, wich is ridiculous to me... However, an interesting side effect was crazy good high kicks from any range... Every red belt could kick your face from clinch distance with a crescent kick... Wich sounds impossible but usually comed from people not needing that kind of flexibility when you can just punch
The best way I've seen 'black belt techniques' used are that the black belt techniques are the low percentage techniques. The high risk - high reward stuff that you probably shouldn't be attempting unless you really know what you're doing. Unfortunately this isn't the way it's normally done but I think it's the only way it makes sense to me.
Did not know the fact about the midge and chocolate! In the north of England and Scotland (we call them midgies) they are horrendous in the countryside and ruin camping trips, they come in swarms and I get bitten to shreds (about 20 bites a day), plus the bites swell up massively. I love chocolate though so they have slightly redeemed themselves.
10:02 Will you do a streight ankle lock for a simple minded white belt as me (despite the "There’s no such thing")? And some simple ways to set it up and avoid it. :) Pretty please or I will tell Master Wong to death touch you :) Great video!
A friend of mine, the older brother of my best friend and one of my judo teachers, told me: "when you get your black belt, you start to develop your own judo". I understand it like this: at the time when you reach the "black belt" level (the proficiency and skills of what a black belt is supposed to have), you need to start focusing on your own style, because all the time spent in the levels below black belt you are learning the fundamentals of the technics and the martial art.
That's how it's supposed to be
That's the same in BJJ. The blue belt level is about experimenting to see what works for you and what does not. By purple belt you have a style that works for you. You know what is high probability and what is not for your style. No martial artist does every technique equally well. You have your plan A goto moves, followed by a plan B.
I have found that the road to mediocrity is to try and master everything equally well. There isn't enough time in a lifetime to do that especially in BJJ where someone, somewhere is inventing some new move-of-the-week.
By having a solid foundation, Plan A, then you can start adding to that to have your Plan B, C, etc.
Yessssss.....
I once took a class to become an instructor of adults for state certified instruction. There are many levels of learning and in the final level where you master something you are able to create your own unique movements, techniques, or strategies. By that final level if mastery you innately understand not just the techniques but the way in which they truly work. From there you can innovate. In martial arts it's a mastery of your body movement, a full understanding of another person's body, a mastery of how you can affect someone elses body, and a mastery of spacial awareness.
You didn't get the "Secret Handbook of Da Streetz Techniques for Judo Black Belts"? You must not be at that level yet Coach Ramsey, keep training
Shhhh. We don't want him to learn how to do throws without gripping and how to throw two people at once...
@@kaizenproductions00 Or even how to grab the legs...
@@NDOhioan 😱
@Elhesh only at 10th dan
When I say "black belt" techniques in my school, what I mean is high level of focus, intensity, intent, and efficiency. Its the same punch taught to a white belt, just done better. There is a story that my instructor likes to tell that I like a lot that he calls his "black belt secrets" story. Below if you're interested.
My instructor [A] had just gotten his 1st dan and approached his instructor [B] about learning the "black belt secrets" the conversation went as follows
A: " I got my black belt, did you see I passed the testing?"
B: " Yes, I was there. Congratulations."
A: "Im ready now"
B: " For what"
A:" to learn the secrets"
B: " what secrets"
A: " The black belt secrets."
B: " oh those secrets. Great, go learn them"
A : "okay, so when are you gonna start to teach them to me?"
B: "I cant teach them to you. They're a secret. Go learn them"
A: " then how am I supposed to just go and learn them?"
B: *With a grin* "That's the secret."
Our old Grandmaster told us once at a seminar: "Once you get to black belt, you have to find the white belt spirit again." Btw.,his black belt at 10th Dan was old and almost totally bleached out to white over time, with only little black dots left.
Absolutely beautiful!
@@agricolaurbanus6209 Kind of like our saying "Advanced Kungu is basic kungfu done quickly"
@@ehisey A little footwork and feel for distance is also involved, but generally yes 🤭
Yesterday i was thinking something similar to this. This is why boxing practitioners will get good at fighting way faster than people from Chinese martial arts. They do not only spar a lot, but also train on lots of important things since the very first days, while many Chinese martial arts will spend a lot of time teaching forms, drills and stuff like that but will barely show you actual techniques at first.
I feel you, Coach Ramsey, I feel your pain down In Mexico is Mosquito season too.
Malditos mosquitos 😢
in Guadalajara you can kill 30 mosquitos a day and you will still have 30 mosquitos in the night.
I've walked my happy buns once to the Clute, Texas mosquito festival cause there was fewer there and once under one of those mosquito mating tornadoes. You're almost happy when the banana spiders flood the trees. Almost.
those zebra print mosquitos are everywhere in PA now :/
When I did Tang Soo Do, I saw the esoteric movements in forms learned at the black belt level and wondered if there was magic in them. The same when I did Wing Chun, wondering if the third form and the weapons forms had anything special in them. What I came to realise was, "at the black belt level", that the basic movements have more meaning tuned into them i.e. parts of the movement that we didn't consider were not accidental. I also learned that it's dangerous to become a "technique collector."
Think it comes down to honest study with resistance in training. And then the ability to be honest with yourself as to which of the techniques you can or cannot pull off under stress. Of course I’m being overly simplistic but to me this honesty aka filter is black belt level. Love the channel! Thanks.
There's a part of the boxing anime Hajime no Ippo where you learn about the origin of one of the boxers in the main cast named Takamura. Takamura's coach basically makes him practice the jab and only the jab repeatedly, much to Takamura's frustration. At some other point in the show, Takamura wins a fight by basically repeatly jabbing his opponent. Goes to show the importance of fundamentals.
It was probably GSP/Freddy Roach's inspiration to the approach they took for the rematch against Koscheck, Georges jabbed his face into twice it's natural size over 5 rounds.
@@merkins87 maybe? Hajime no Ippo has been published since the 80s, its a bit older than St. Pierre's career.
@@merkins87 lol no, an active lead hand is boxing 101
I love the extra footage showing what you are explaining
"People don't want simple, they want secrets. The pursuit of the latter will only get you further away from learning about what really works." Brett Bartholomew
In Judo I think that some throws should be taught in accordance to the student's ability to break fall, specially free fall. Uchi-mata tends to be a free-fall throw so usually it's taught later since you can really injure yourself and your partner if you go at it without good technical experience in both falling and throwing safely (such as rolling after the throw.) Same with Tomoe-nage, ura-nage, and so on. It's not that it's a Super Secret Technique, or anything, only that there's a high chance of injury with those throws if you can't roll and fall properly. This is worse with throws like uki-otoshi and sumi-otoshi which throw sideways in free-fall again, so it's not stuff you want complete beginners doing.
As for uchi-mata being a white belt throw, the koshi-variant is basically a leg-assisted o-goshi, which is a bog standard hip throw and THAT is a classic white belt throw. The issue with the leg tho is that since it's going between the legs, again, you don't wanna have complete beginners doing this for safety reasons. Additionally, learning hip throws very well will improve your koshi-uchi-mata tremendously by the time you get there, as for the ashi-uchi-mata the technique is different but if you're practicing tai-otoshi and so on you should be able to adapt those skills there too. Each throw isn't an island and there's a lot of overlap in techniques, which helps people learn parts of the more complex throws without needing to actually use them 100%.
Our judo teacher was not this safe hahah, he just let us get thrown without proper ukemi
@@Taekwon-Brando ouch!
@@Taekwon-Brando your judo teacher wasn't a very good judo teacher then if he didn't didn't have you drill ukemi
@@ytmhcubed right?!
@@St1cKnGoJuGgAlO haha, he is a champion and has competed in so many different countries he's just older and his classes aren't as structured as a typical judo club
Hello Ramsey! I know you are a black belt in Kukki TKD so nothing I'm saying is going to be mind blowing or anything but in my opinion there are 10 basic kicks in TKD, divided by their action, and then you can apply one or more modifiers to each kick to get different versions. I would summarize the 10 basic kicks of Kukki TKD as follows:
Front Kick / Ap Chagi / 앞 차기
Turning Kick / Dollyeo Chagi / 돌려 차기
Side Kick / Yeop Chagi / 옆 차기
Back Kick / Dwi Chagi / 뒤 차기
Axe Kick / Naeryeo Chagi / 내려 차기
(Whipping) Hook Kick / Huryeo Chagi / 후려 차기
(Scorpion) Hook Kick / Nakka Chagi / 낚아 차기
Twisting Kick / Biteureo Chagi / 비틀어 차기
Inward Crescent Kick / An Chagi / 안 차기
Outward Crescent Kick / Bakkat Chagi / 바깥 차기
From there some common modifiers we can apply to each one include:
Front Foot Kick / Ap Bal Chagi / 앞 발 차기
Examples: Front Foot Turn Kick; Front Foot Side Kick
(The anchor foot stays in place)
Fast Kick / Ppaleun Bal Chagi / 빠른 발 차기
Examples: Fast Turn Kick; Fast Hook Kick
Travel → Chamber → Kick
(The anchor foot moves. Some schools will call this a skipping or sliding kick)
Cut Kick / Keoteu Chagi / 커트 차기
Examples: Cut Kick (naturally a Side Kick), Cut Turn Kick
Chamber → Travel → Kick
(The most popularly thrown technique in the current Olympic "meta")
Counter Kick / Bada Chagi / 받아 차기
Examples: Counter Turn Kick, Counter Back Kick
(The anchor foot generally displaces itself to manage distance, counter timing depends on the situation)
Switch Kick / Narae Chagi / 나래 차기
Examples: Double Turn Kick, Switch Back Kick
Tornado Kick / Dolgae Chagi / 돌개 차기
Examples: Tornado Kick (naturally a Turn Kick), Tornado Axe Kick
There are plenty more of course, and some kicks can have more than 1 modifier added to them (example: Front Foot Outward Axe Kick).
Plenty of schools will use different terminology and some will disagree about my classification of what a Basic Kick (and there are things I consider basic modifiers) but I'm always up for a nerdy TKD discussion!
I haven't heard these terms in a few years. Nice to see another fellow practitioner who is interested in the technical side. What actually happens.
Let's nerd out man, the basic kicks at my school were
Axe kick
Crescent kick (inside)
Crescent kick (outside)
Ap chagi
Ap dorlyeo chagi
Yeop chagi.
Of course it's going to be easier to execute a tornado kick if you have good roundhouse technique but now that I teach Brazilian Jiu Jitsu I'll show the kids an "advanced" Taekwondo kick like a jumping spinning back kick or a tornado and some of them will copy me and execute it with reasonable good technique. I think the progression of learning kicks in TKD is slow and could be much faster If we spent less time on Poomsae (unless it's a competition Poomsae class) and more time actually hitting paddles and kick shield
So your telling me I can learn the touch of death as a white belt!?!
I know one young Springfield boy who did.
Nope, we all start with the reach around
In really traditional arts in my country, the weapon techniques are only taught once you have reached the equivalent of the "black belt" level.
So, in a way, there are black belt techniques.
@NK what is just all "artificial"?
@NK sure you could teach it at that level but the prerequisite skills to use the weapons were in the levels beforehand. Like skydiving, you don't throw people out of the plane right at the beginning. There are steps to the learning.
When I was a kid taking taekwondo classes at a good (though commercialized) school, one of the most valuable lessons that I got was being taught the higher-level forms on occasion, when I was the only lower-belt who showed up for class at that time. I didn't need to know Taegeuk Pal-Jang (WTF) or Chung-Mu (ITF) as an orange belt because it wasn't one that I would be tested on, nor Koryo or any of the others that they sometimes taught me if I was the only lower belt (and, to be honest, I never committed them to memory because of this, but I always liked getting a lesson on them) but I noticed that it was mostly the same techniques and stances that I started learning in the white belt classes. They didn't have any secret techniques, they just put the same techniques together in a more complicated way.
And that's the way forms can/should be taught. There's so much stigma against comparing poomsae to dance, but I really think the best way to teach forms is to approach it like teaching someone choreography. There are principles of shifting weight, footwork, combinations that can be dissected out from the Taeguk/Black Belt/Palgwe forms in WT but ultimately they exist outside of the realm of combat sports and have more in common with dance, and that's a good thing.
Very good explanation. In Karate, we learned some basic defense techniques/blocks first, and the basic Tsuki(fist blows), which were Kizami (Jab), Oi (forward step front hand), Gyaku (cross) and Mawashi Tsuki (hook). Plus the open handed palm strike Haito and the Sword Hand (Shuto). But the most practiced were the Tsuki. Then the basic kicks. Now that I am older, I am not that well stretched anymore for extravagant kicks, but the front kick, most practiced, still works, and so do the cross, the hook and the jab.
But at the few occasions where I really had to defend myself in the last 20 years, a jab or even just the open palm push worked, to discourage the attacker from further aggression. Just because it was practiced so often, more than all the fancy techniques.
Also, remember the famous sword master Musashi: At some point later in his life, when challenged, he stopped using steel Katanas, only hardwood Katanas, but still killed every challenger. His technique was so good, he just struck them over the head.
If you have practiced kenjutsu the story is dubious. You dont "whack" people on the head with a sword, where to begin. Swords cut with a draw , not a whack. Tanbo or kanabo techniques arent katana techniques. Drawing , opening cuts are what made the katana so feared .
@@lancehobbs8012 But how do you cut with a wooden sword? You can only "whack", I guess?
Ah, good old Wimp Lo " I'm bleeding, making me the victor"
Very well said, you broke it down very well. So many people are always trying to skip through the time it takes. To realistically develop good proper technique. I understand the want, and need some may have to get good fast. But you must be willing to put in some real time and dedication. If you are to be really good at any martial art. You are correct for example. An axe kick in Taekwondo is taught at white belt level. So, at black belt level. Does that kick become a black belt technique? No,...absolutely not. It just a kick you have had a lot of time to practice. And develop good proper technique and power with. So, yes it's going to look better then a white belt doing it. Or at least it should, if you trained like you should....lol!
Been a TKD 1st Dan for about a decade and my axe kicks are insanely better than when I first got my black belt
Brilliant video. Great insights with a touch of comedy.
“The man jumped when he kicked there”
“Hmmm, must be a black belt “
LOL
i thinkthe best example is judo, because a lot of judo and judo belt grading is so defined and standardized across the world. there are things taught to a white belt, and there are things taught to a black belt, but out of 10 fights between black belts, you tend to see 9 of them end in a throw that is often taught to white or other low-level belts, and maybe one sees an element of a black belt technique. there are some things that are often taught to black or higher belts, like throws that require the person thrown to roll or it includes a higher risk overall that requires some skill to get out of, just think of the things that would happen if you told a load of white belts to go and do kata-garuma, a lot of sore necks at the end of practice at best.
thats one problem with youtube videos about martial arts, i am fighting with a far lower belt and i go easy on him, i let him play around, all of a sudden he does a kata-garuma but all wrong, i am dangling off his back while he is falling backwards, almost landing on me (hes close to 90kg fyi, so no featherweight), did he try it on another white belt (i know they guy now, he would have) they would have snapped their neck. his claim "well i saw a video and it looked pretty easy!" because they see things and they think they know it without even trying, i throw the same guy with a OK uchi-mata and he tells me "well if you took a second longer i would have done a suplex" first off, no you wouldn't, second, the guys standing with his back almost against the wall, he would have smacked my head and his into it if he tried. and thats why there are some things that should only be taught to higher belts, because beginners who dont get things like spacial awareness, balance, or perfected the basics do become a danger when taught some of these throws.
Ohhh so you finally know what that thrust in TKD is for! (And share it)
That's cool to see. Just shows how much you can still grow.
No, but there is the mysterious purple belt technique of showing up to class exactly when warm ups are done.
What is a pro baseball swing? A pro hockey slapshot? A pro tennis backhand? A pro chef pancake flip?
I fear not the man who has typed ten thousand different comments.
I feat the man who has typed the same Bruce Lee quote ten thousand times.
I was going to comment most of what you said at the end. Good stuff
I chuckled at the compenet about not applying forms to competion/sparring. After I had that same experince, I did a massive re-evaluation of my forms and sparring and was able to bring them much closer in line with each other. Granted some stuff in the forms will not be used in TKD sparring simple be rules prevent grappling and throws.
I love your vids. Class and humor,with experience
Kung POW ‘Enter The Fist’ was hilarious!
I LOVE THIS!! This needed to be said!
Northern Long fist starts with butterfly kick immediately. Which is a black belt move, so difficult. But after practicing ten years you can actually hit somebody upside the head with it. So you start immediately.
At 0:57 when Ramsey said I was dreaming and sleeping at night, he was dreaming that he beat bruce lee in a fight 🤣🤣🤣
Looking forward to this because I've always wondered about it.
There are no Black Belt techniques, but there ARE Mosquito nets! LOL
There are techniques that can only be taught to more experienced/mature martial artists because they simply are riskier, doesn’t mean that they are better or more efficient.
Good video!!! I think the quote was referring to 10000 practice sessions for that one kick.
Hi Ramsey, in your opinion what do you think would happen in a boxe match between prime Mike Tyson and Eddie Hall? Thank you!
RAMSEY, there are actually a black belt longated techniques in American Kenpo, one I recall was "Dance of Death". Look it up if you haven't seen this HILARIOUS demo of destruction.
I think people confuse the levels/belts with secrets… you have to condition your body and mind, more advanced techniques like you pointed out build on each other but require solid fundamentals mastered, but they are not “secret” at least not at my school.
Oh yeah, I can really relate to when you almost fall asleep, and mosquitoes fly so close to your ear, it’s annoying as heck.
There are two reasons to have techniques that arn’t in the basic curriculum: 1. The technique is ‘narrow’ meaning it is lower percentage or comes up in rare situations, and 2. The technique has a negative impact on the safety of the gym. It’s not that these things are “black belt techniques” and any gym that labels them as such should be looked at with extreme skepticism!
The character is Wimp Lo!
That movie is hilarious! XD
I remember when I got really good at the Achilles lock but I stopped doing it after a blue belt told the coach that I used a heel hook on him.
Personally I think he was just butthurt that a white belt managed to tap him out but even if I did or didn’t accidentally heel hook him or not I still thought it better to avoid that submission to avoid being accused again.
You should have just heel hooked him for real afterward.
@Ramsey Dewey
If someone was wrongly accused of robbing a bank, would your advice to them be rob a bank for real afterwards?
But in all seriousness, I actually haven’t had a chance to roll with him again.
@@liamscott1905 Heel hooking is not a crime.
Wise words.
One thing that can help, in this type of situation, is understanding that a black belt is nothing more than a sign that one is minimally competent at a martial art.
It really depend on the martial art of course. Some of them do teach you the Kamehameha right of the bat in a weekend long workshop. After that you will only have to pay for the extra gravity chamber. Don't forget to bring your credit card.
As for more standard martial arts, a back belt (shodan) is not even considered enough to teach alone without supervision.
So basically think more about experience and forget about those magical Sailor Moon tricks.
If Dewey had got to a high level school of Karate he would be able to pluck the eyes out of a mosquito and not kill it
This video reminds me of a saying that I'm about to butcher but it goes something like "a master is someone who practiced the basics for years" something to that effect. Cant remember where I heard it but I think it was either in one of your videos or my kickboxing coach.
The belt system is a system of ranks to reinforce a hierarchy structure to reinforce submissive and dominance within the group in an attempt to maintain order
Steven Seagal taught Anderson Silva the front kick. That must be some really high level black belt move.
Exactly. i hope all TMA to clear this notion truthfully. Its not the belt, its the amount of training and effectiveness /the right training and natural talent which make a person a good fighter. no different from other physical sports.
Yo Ramsey Dewey Can you make a Vid on how to properly train for Open Weight Fights?
down here in sunny Singapore, we’ve been having huge annual dengue fever outbreaks every year for the past 2-3 years. it definitely ain’t fun.
I've started muay thai 2 weeks ago and guess what I've learned at the first class:the round kick and the push kick plus the jab,the cross and the hook(wich I already know because I have some basic training in boxing)! When you build an house,you always start by making strong foundations and after you add the walls,the floors and so on.
Just a Quick One from da Streetz...never, ever underestimate the little guy/gal. Crazy beats everything. Have fun!
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For real, my friends - foundational techniques are called that for a reason. The most simple, basic movements or reactions that the rest of the ‘style’ is based upon… you have to *comprehend* their purpose(s) and internalize said fundamentals, that’s how you improve.
If you don’t trust in the results of doing so: probably wanna look at other options.
“10,000 kicks” should impress you as little as it did Coach; as a mediocre hobbyist, that may be a 7-10 average days’ bagwork for me & that isn’t counting punches or elbows… think of it as a long-term investment in yourself (like strength training)
Thanks for this video. It has helped me with writing my tabletop role playing game I'm making for martial arts.
I've been stuck on what to do with "black belt" level and "Master" levels in the games progression. It is a fantasy game, but it is meant to be well grounded in reality while being a fun game.
I have written out the Boxing "class" and I did it's "Pro" and "Champion" (Black Belt and Master) levels and those ranks just improve what has already been built in the character. I will definitely write the traditional styles the same way now.
That is an interesting idea, I'd love to hear more about it
@@suranafights2727 Thank you! I'll make a video about it eventually. I want to write out Taekwondo and at least one other martial arts before doing so. I'll try to remember to let you know when that happens.
I went to a me neighborhood TKD school at three different periods in my life and all three times they gaslighted me with this stuff.
As a kid, I asked when I would learn the how to use this stuff, the real stuff like I see in the movies (lol). They said when I get older and get my black belt. I got bored and quit in advanced class.
I came back as a teen and made it all the way back up to advanced class again when I asked when will I learn how to use this stuff in real life, to defend myself. They told me when I get my black belt. I got bored and quit again.
I came back as an adult, and worked my way up and did finally get my black belt! I asked them once again, when will they teach me the real deal, but by then the school had shifted focus from TKD to BJJ. TKD was what they used for family class and kid stuff. There was no TKD black belt class, and I don't think there ever was. I became assistant-assistant instructor, and gradually learned that the TKD program we taught was BS.
I did fall in love with BJJ but I was pissed because that wasn't what I was there for. The BJJ was taught 100% better, my confidence grew and I lost weight and everything, but the passed 15 years of practice that was leading up to something was simply thrown away like it didn't matter. It was all lies and empty promises to take my parents and then my money.
Great video! This is the subject that I come facing again and again. In defence of martial arts that have a belt system and technique's integrated into it: I couldn't learn all the techniques at the start 😅 but I have a muscle memory of a sea urchin lol 🤣
But yeah, saying that there are black belt techniques in this dojo (or martial art) basically means that they want you to pay for more lessons. Here in Finland, I've heard stories from 80's and 90's as such. And it got pretty ugly.
Nowadays it's still exists, but not in so ugly form. And I personally get that, since schools and dojos need that money to continue.
Great video! 🔥🔥🔥👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hello Coach! Love your videos!!!
Not so long ago you mentioned that you spent some time living in Argentina, also in other videos you mentiones living in the States. So I wonder I you could tell us in wixh countries have you lived and, if any, what have you learned from those experiences.
Thanx!!
Remembering the mosquitos in Brazil makes me glad I live in England now… had a mosquito today try to attack me! Time to move to Norway or something
In my own Taekwondo school, the only ‘black belt techniques’ that it has is just teaching Hapkido
I put my head and arms inside pillow cases to cover myself form mosquitoes at summer nights
Exactly what someone who keeps the secrets to blackbelt techniques would say!
I have reached a point were I want to understand how to apply each and every move in ITF TKD patterns. Some of the moves I am perplexed by. I saw you doing an inward knife hand strike in this video. Seems like you understand that one. Do you explain what you did there in another video? I want to understand where double outer forearm block came from. That is an odd one to me. The closest I have come to understanding it is how Motobu Choki used it against the European boxer. Jesse Enkamp mentions it in one of his videos.
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My mom: "YEAH THERE IS ! "
Here I was, eating chocolate while learning about mosquitoes. Now I feel like a traitor.
If you refuse to teach us the secrets of the Dim Mak Death Touch, just say so.
I mean, there are black belt techniques in karate and taekwondo from what I remember, but they tend to be the more technical and esoteric ones, not necessarily the ones that are the most practical, and certainty not ones you could pull off without the fundamentals. This even applies when you're just doing it for the exercise, without any interest of fighting.
I would personally give up chocolate to never have mosquito bites. That is a fair trade I think.
The kung pow character was Wimp Lo, with the squeaky shoes of death.
Ramsey How do u prepare 4 fear? Would u say street fighting and sports fighting fear are the same 4 xample in the street arena if you are at work u will always have to deal with the thought of come backs which can affect ur fight. Whereas a sports fight once its over its over 😶🌫️👍🏿
Honestly gradings and belts that are so detailed are just a money grabber. My coach who was a world champion teaches me more complex techniques when he knows I’m ready simple no gradings no belts just get out there and train
I remember ages ago getting yelled at for teaching and training the fresh batch of white/yellow belts to the point of outperforming students who had trained for 2+ years. Like, what's the point of holding students back from achieving their potential (beyond lowering the bar for everyone so EVERYONE feels special)? Far too many TMA schools adhere to an arbitrary curriculum that has nothing to do with athletic/competitive training and everything to do with creating the illusion of order and progression/the idea of "tradition". The irony is that most members honestly wanted to see their kids be challenged through actual hard work, not giving them a mental breakdown by telling them they kihap'ed at the wrong part of a made up, overly complicated drill with zero trad forms/sparring/breaking applications. Great, they got a makeshift trophy with a sticker on it made in some guy's garage in NJ for their hard work of memorization and yelling loud for the past 3 months.
Estaba viendo tu vídeo y me salio publicidad de "acercate a Dios", sospechoso Ramsey.
Very good Ramsey ,excellent analysis 🤣😃😄😄 That's Me 😁😎😎😎
There is no black belt technique you learn. But your white belt technique will eventually become a black belt technique.
Black belt means that you've got the techniques down well. Time to revisit and polish up. Time to start new game plus kiddos. But in this case. You get to keep what your weapons and armor snd make them stronger.
I don’t fear a guy who practiced 10,000 techniques but I who practiced a kick 10,000 times and also gangs up with the first guy to beat me up.
i do have a black belt in arnis and i did not earn a black belt in taekwondo.
although i do focusing on striking by using my legs. though i combined my taekwondo and arnis styles in muay thai
i never earn a black belt by promoting and doing poomsae/kata forms
Best black belt techniques: Jab, hip sweep, collar tie.
Best white belt techniques: Jab, hip sweep, collar tie.
Saitama has a problem with mosquitos too, coincidence or are things adding up?
It would be interesting, if someone tested out the karate kid style of training . To confirm if it actually works an the reality based pros and cons
Ten thousand times and one more, this is the way.
Man, mosquito season is just the worst.
Last night I was almost placed unconscious by a second degree bb via a classic #1 side kick. It was fast. It was practiced. He has 10 years experience. I have one. I also like that you give God credit for the animals. Bless you sir.
Here's a little tip from Florida man. Always sleep with a fan blowing on you so those little buggers can't get near you 😂
I have a question for next q&a, I recently got my black belt in Shotokan karate and for year I've been having doubts bout my style and then after decided that I wanted to go to Jiu Jitsu or MMA free I get my black belt because that was my goal when learning karate at age of six, to learn how to fight. I discovered that karate training didn't prepared me for that and I didn't enjoy it anymore. However my dojo is like a family and I feel I have to return something to my dojo and my sensei have me as a good model for the dojo. What do I do ?
Could you do a video on hapkido I believe it's a great martial art for self defense
Great work Ramsey. I think your worldly knowledge, and ability to articulate ideas critically elevates the "role" of a Martial Artist. That is, you seem to be a good representative and "role model" for the fighter/MMA/Combat Sports community. Corporate media seems to present us as dirty alcoholic drug addicts. How many shows or movies of "Scholarly Warriors", or "Warrior Philosophers" are there? You subvert the stereotypes very well.
Professional athletes can’t afford be alcoholics and drug addicts. That’s completely antithetical to what an athlete is.
you can use any standard anti-histaminic like loratadine to remove the itchiness of mosquito bytes. please check with your doctor.
for blackbelt, my karate sensei told me that color belts were meant to remove ignorance and that real learning started with the blackbelt, so I have never taken black belt as a sign of expertise. Just as a sign of practice with knowing what you don't know.
how can I improve my defense blocking and headmovment
Well, i learn shotokan karate for 4 years till blue belt as a kids, and then silat for 2 years and then capoeira for 3 years and stoped learn martial art to go to college and then i learn Muay Thai and boxing at the same gym let me tell you i learn to fight much faster when i learn Muay Thai and boxing but my other martial art technique can be used in spar
Kung Pow is still my favorite movie of all time and I reference it in the gym constantly😂😂😂
Ive prscticed some martial arts that have "black belt techniques" but its not the "secret super effective stuff" its just stuff that you will probably wont ever need but is technically oart of the curriculum...
Examples... One of those only taught after first dsn how to do some breathing excercises similr to chikung... You will not be doing breath excercises in a fight.. ... Another one taught some traditional japanese first aid in case a student gets hurt, its just how to care for a knocked out guy or slmething like that... Another added some weird meditation stuff.. etc...
There are however blackbelt kata, but usually its just a combinatio of techniques you already know in a new coreography...
But yeah, no thing like a secret technique...
There is another thing... Some martial arts change rulesets after blackbelt in competitions... One ive practiced didnt have face punched until balckbelt for example, wich is ridiculous to me... However, an interesting side effect was crazy good high kicks from any range... Every red belt could kick your face from clinch distance with a crescent kick... Wich sounds impossible but usually comed from people not needing that kind of flexibility when you can just punch
So no such thing as a refined technique?
The best way I've seen 'black belt techniques' used are that the black belt techniques are the low percentage techniques. The high risk - high reward stuff that you probably shouldn't be attempting unless you really know what you're doing. Unfortunately this isn't the way it's normally done but I think it's the only way it makes sense to me.
here in florida, it's always mosquito season
Did not know the fact about the midge and chocolate! In the north of England and Scotland (we call them midgies) they are horrendous in the countryside and ruin camping trips, they come in swarms and I get bitten to shreds (about 20 bites a day), plus the bites swell up massively. I love chocolate though so they have slightly redeemed themselves.
10:02 Will you do a streight ankle lock for a simple minded white belt as me (despite the "There’s no such thing")? And some simple ways to set it up and avoid it. :) Pretty please or I will tell Master Wong to death touch you :)
Great video!
Hey coach how important is meditation when doing traditional martial arts? And if so how do you meditate