Muay Thai beginner here. I'm 5'8" and I was sparring a guy who was about 6'2". It was one of my first times sparring, and he threw an overhand to which I responded with the most awkward body hook ever thrown in human history. I hit him square in the balls, but luckily it was funny enough that we both got a good laugh 😅
I remember early in my Muay Thai training being asked to hold a body shield so one of my coaches could demonstrate clinch knees to the body. I was holding the body shield correctly (or so I thought), but every knee he threw was tickling my liver. I distinctly recall desperately trying to keep my facial expression neutral, while I was simultaneously trying not to poop myself and cry in front of all of my training partners. Good times! Also, I've been doing BJJ for years, and I still don't have even the slightest hint of cauliflower ear. I've EARNED those ears, gosh darnit! I have friends that have trained for 6 months that are starting to show signs, but mine are just as normal looking as ever. My wife is grateful, but I'm getting pretty salty about it. Stupid indestructible ears!
@@kiarce3 I wish! I'm a blue belt, so I'm pretty good at not getting submitted, but I'm nowhere near being excellent at grappling. Hopefully someday, though! I'll keep at it because I love it, but I'm definitely more competent standing than on the mat, so there's still a lot of progress to be made.
before the video starts ill just get mine off my chest. Theres two that come to mind. one that was very embarrassing, another that was just brutally scary. I was like 11 or 12, and had been doing judo for years at that point and was at my green belt. i often practiced with the adult class in to get extra work in and actually progress my skills better (this matters for both stories). by that point i had gotten used to injuries happening, and being roughed up quite a bit by the bigger stronger dudes in the adult class (i was tiny, about 5'10 ish, ik, was a big kid, am a big dude). I specifically remember getting thrown really hard one time and landing pretty awkward, i ended up tearing the top of my ear off my head a little bit, few stitches and a little time and its like it never happened, like i said, at this point i was used to the nature of how things could go, but here is where we diverge. We'll start off with the embarrassing funny story. Being as experienced as i was in judo for my age, my sensei brought me on as an assistant instructor for two of his classes, the youth judo lessons, and the womens/girls self defense course (just an all girl judo's course basically, he got better sign up when he changed the name from "girls judo" to "womens self defense" (people like being catered to). Teaching the regular classes with him was easy, no sweat. but my first womens self defense class was a night mare. i had just begun puberty, barely started to understand that girls arent gross, and pretty much just figured out what a boner is and what it is for lmao. The first chick i got pared up to work with was this really pretty 16 year old girl named emma (mind you again im like 11 or 12 and barely spoke to females who werent related to me at this point in my life). Were doing ground work, everything is fine, until my sensei instructs us to work on submissions/ controlling an agressor on the ground, at which point emma needed to pin and then mount me. Yes, the unthinkable, unimaginable, the one thing that every dude prays never happens at the wrong moment, happened to me. I popped a woody while she was in top mount and i about died inside that day. Apologized repeatedly profusely while i sat there beet red in the face and wide eyed hoping i wasnt about to get in trouble ahahahaha. Thankfully emma was somehow understanding of the moment, and although awkward, i was able to move past it. i still look back and cringe at myself all these years later. talk about a car accident in human form. funnily enough i stuck around after and kept assisting with the womans class (without another incident thank the fucking lord), and i was lucky i did stick around. it made me comfortable with interreacting with woman as just other people, without a focus on sex orientation etc. it taught me to just have that baseline before anything else. It took so much pressure out of speaking to girls, asking them out, first dates, etc. I think alot of young men and women would benefit from the same sort of coed work. As for the scary story. well, I was coaching the regular lessons one day, and we had this Japanese kid in our class who was just always unhinged and out of pocket. he could never be quiet, never sit still, never listen, and almost never followed instructions (im guessing everyone knows at least one of these lmao). he was known to be sent home early due to his behavioral issues. One day while i was teaching said youth regular judo lessons with my sensei, this dumb little fuck decides to run up behind me while im leading the class through warm ups and freight train trip me. Not expecting i got sent back pretty quickly, and behind me was a metal basket full of yoga blocks (we shared a studio space with a pilates/ yoga instructor). Mind you i wasn't on the mat either, i was well clear of it standing on a lightly carpet covered concrete floor. My head when straight black, and split right open on the handle of that metal basket behind me. i Woke up 5 minutes later on the floor, my head in my coaches hands, dripping blood. Had to go to the hospital and get stitched up, had a bad concussion. i couldn't even remember how i got to class that day. Thankfully i recovered fully and am fine now with no ill effects all these years later, but holy fuck was that scary. i remember specifically thinking my shirt was really wet with sweat, then touching it and looking down at my hand and just seeing red. Needless to say the kid got banned from the studio permanently, and we confiscated his belts from him. He had already injured a two other members of the dojo during previous incidents, this was the final, and very heavy straw. I dont instruct judo anymore sadly. my sensei when through some rough times, his house burned down after a tree hit some power lines and knocked them onto his house. After that he tried to open a new Dojo, but we just werent getting enough income from sign up, and it went under. He moved to los angeles a year after that (i was about 15 or so at the time). Sadly before he got the chance to try and open a new dojo down there age came for his mind. he now has dementia and doesn't even remember me. now his son is the only person he recognizes anymore. Breaks my heart. Miss you Sensei Richard, Dai Sensei LeBell would be proud.
I remember rolling with someone and after the round was finished, I went to give the guy a wee pat to signal "good roll" and just caught myself in time. I nearly patted his boys.
When I was a teenager, I got selected as a dummy for a mount demonstration. When the teacher sat on my stomach, I proceeded to light the class up with a crescendo of flatulence. Good times
Once when I sparring in TKD, I went to throw a head kick. At the same time he went for a body kick. We were in open stance and both kicked with the rear leg. So while I'm kicking high, essentially doing a vertical split, he kicked me right in the butthole 🫤...that hurt so much 😖
I never wore a cup for unarmed martial arts, but I did sometimes in HEMA. One of the times I didn't, I parried a lunge low and directed the rapier into my crotch. Fortunately my trousers were tight and created a natural barrier. Close call. I wore my cup after that. Another class, longsword sparring. Big dude dtook a full power diagonal slash down. I leaned back to get out of range. There's a loud crack, and I feel my cup split in half. If not for that cup I'd be singing soprano nowadays :P Cups is good lol
I remember I was in first grade and this kid bear hugged me from the back I yelled out “shift into turbo” which was the morphing call for power rangers turbo that was airing at the time and then elbowed him in the side of the head. Then he had the audacity to tell the teacher lol
What's wrong with you? Wear a cup! The don't help for full power sparring, but for technical sparring I've clipped a ton of sacks because dudes don't wear cups.
Here's my cringe story. I'd been in Muay Thai for years but I'm no Billy Bad Boy. I started in a JKD school that had MT and was my favorite so I trained that due to proximity to a place, moved etc. One day a guy comes in for his free trial and coach pairs him with me. Introductions, I say hi hello yada yada "Have you trained before?" and he recites every name in his Kali lineage up to Dan Inosanto. I think oh that's neat I trained 6 months JKD let's see what he knows. He proceeds to flub every drill, stopped trying stuff altogether, and then complains "This isn't how we do it over there it's more free form" and like bro it's just a drill to work on some technique not the be all end all of the system. I had said earlier that I was in similar JKD stuff and this was similar to my first school because we still had drills. I didn't get much work this day. Anyway we get to the end of class and do the classic body conditioning where one group lines up on the wall and has their arms up for some straight punches to the body with gloves on. Nothing too aggro but not baby hands either. I let him hit first and he starts throwing the hardest hooks I ever willingly took in my life as if the coach had never said and demonstrated to throw rapid straights. We go our one minute and I somehow survive and I do as instructed on my turn. Rapid straights, not too hard but not pillows. A few seconds in I hear... "That all you got" or something like it so I drive one single right hand in there and he nearly folded. We didn't see him on any return visits.
I remember back in High school wrestling. I was watching a match and a dude was getting pinned, so he reached over and grabbed one of the other guys nuts and squeezed, rupturing his testicle. The dude jumped up, screamed and passed out. still the most messed up thing i ever watched ever.
I've got one nasty. I was a beginner rolling in the NoGi BJJ class. And the guy ended up in a full mount on top of me. He was attempting the "Mother's Milk" move which is nasty on it own (it get's worst). I didn't panic, didn't tap and I was waiting for him to shift to try and sweep him. He then decided to move upwards to high mount. And the movement of him sliding upwards caught my eyelid and forced my eye open... So my eyeball was stuck directly to his sweaty disgusting rashguard. It was the most disgusting thing EVER. So I started fighting with my life on the line to create space so I can close my eye. (still didn't tap though) He used my movement to get the high S-mount and ended up submitting me with an Triangle. I don't think he ever noticed what has happened. And I was too shocked and disgusted to talk about it.
When I wrestled in high school, I was pretty fat and nobody had a guy big enough to wrestle me from any other schools. So I put in a TON of work. Literal blood, sweat, tears, for 2 years and…never got to wrestle anybody even a single time. I was always the “fat guy” sitting on the bench, just watching everyone else compete while I practiced day in and day out for no reason.
Went to a seminar once with some of my students. Unaffiliated Blackbelt saw them doing some stick defense and went over there to correct them and told them their Technic wouldn't work (it was just "go in and do Osotogari"). He told one to try it on him and while he was attacking my student with the stick, he made it a short strike and really made an effort to not get grabbed. Student committed and osotogaried the shit out of him. The BB was a big dude an every one stopped when they heard his fat ass getting hammered into the mat. Guy stood up and with out commenting it still kept talking how the Technic wouldn't work. He became the laughing stock for everyone around and I was never more proud of one of my students.
I was expecting something different with the prompt "something uncomfortable". There was a guy in my judo club who would intentionally untuck my shirt when we sparred. On the uppercut to the groin note, I was in a krav maga gym and we were sparring with "groin is fair game" rules and he got knee on belly. I threw a light uppercut to the groin. Most effective knee on belly escape I ever used.
We had this one guy join our club with a very faded early belt, who practiced all moves with an angry face instead of being relaxed. He was told for sparring we use light contact but pull everything for control. Instead he used that to his advantage and wouldnt pull anything, and appear angry as he assaults our students. He got put out and thrown out.
I'll leave it up to you to decide if fencing counts as a martial art, but when I was sixteen or so we had some guys from another club coming over to train. I knew them from tournaments, of course, and they were good, so I figured I'd try and impress them on my home turf by going for a flèche (essentially a running attack). Tripped over my own feet and faceplanted. Everyone was looking at me.
Of course that bully was afraid, he thought you were going to turn into a rattlesnake and bite him. That is not an insult, the bite from a rattlesnake is highly venomous and will kill you.
A guy did some sort of flying knee slide (fell into it) and hit me in the nuts (thats 80kg concentrated into one shin all on) i couldt roll for the following hour Also a random kid who i knew did tkd was teaching "grappling" to his friends, i asked for a demomstration and despite me seeing the most atrocous technique ever conceptualised i said "thank you sensei"
For context I’m a teenage dude. About a week ago we were in two lines doing a drill. The way we were set up, I was pretty much in kicking distance from every girl in the dojo. Everything was going smoothly. I cracked a joke (now everyone is looking at me) AND MY FLIPPING PANTS FELL DOWN!!!!!! My face is now redder than the blood of my enemies, and I awkwardly pull my pants up and go to the corner and try to fix them. Luckily I was wearing shorts, but holy crap that sucked
Just last week my sensei referenced Karate kid and the crane kick in our karate session :) Karate kid and Cobra kai just belong to karate. When it comes to falling while kicking. Always remember that monkeys fall from trees. No matter how good you might be things happend.
One time during my taekwondo class we were practicing high jumping kicks, the target was probably about 6.3 feet in the air. One guy goes to kick, he not only misses the pad but leans too much backwards and lands on his back with an extremely loud thud. He was in his 40s.
Had MMA ground and pound training a few hours ago. My training partner accidentally gave me a knee strike in the crotch while trying to do a knee-to-belly
Sparring is where you can try out some of the riskier stuff. Dont be embarasssed if sometimes it doesnt go right, that's part of the learning experience.
I have a new guy in my MMA gym, he is a casual "gym bro" and trains MMA only now and then for the past 2 months. He is a complete beginner and he was injured for a couple of weeks, then he came back to our gym and a few hours after training I looked at his instagram story and it was him, outside, still sweaty WITH HIS MOUTHGUARD IN AND HIS HANDS STILL WRAPPED!??!?! wtf..
I was doing some kind of spinning kicks on the matts at a krav gym. We were bare foot, it was my first time trying them and while turning/pivoting one of my toes kind of stuck in place and it broke. I kept doing the class but was very careful with everything else after that that day.
Using bleach and certain other detergents can weaken fabric and cause it to tear. I’ve seen many torn gis, even when they’re still fairly new looking. Also, wrestling and BJJ use the “duck” under. Checkmate, nerd. 🤓 just kidding, please don’t hurt me.
If you could find it in english or something, it would be quite cool to see you react to the HIDEN, BUDO & BUJUTSU Magazine, which is a martial arts magazine that is highly respected for it's thorough research about the main articles in the monthly magazine
there casual martial artists often buy super-cheap gi's. there is also a "summer gi" that's much lighter, but mostly for tkd and the like, where you're non-contact and just throwing kicks in the air... McDojo's also sell nearly-disposable ones a primo prices...
I get why it's annoying to have someone new critique your form, especially with a remedial take (e.g., "always keep your hands up"), but I try to take it less as a criticism of my skills and more as them trying to piece together what they're learning. It's not that your hands are especially down, just that it's the thing they are most aware of. They're also kind of learning how to give feedback and/or how to talk about techniques as part of sparring/practice. Obviously, it's still annoying, but I find it less frustrating when I consider that kind of feedback as them learning how to engage.
You've never had gi pants rip? I have like 8 extra gi tops because They come as a set but the pants don't hold up. Often it's just the stitching where 3 or 4 panels meet near the crotch, but sometimes the material goes. Apparently Pakistani seamstresses think we need like a 3 foot inseam or something. I wore a pair of TKD pants for judo/jujitsu until the knees wore out because they were designed better than regular gis, tho...
I started martial arts when I was 16 on an exchange to Finland. Joined a Hapkido gym close to my school. There was another guy there who started at the same time, so they made us spar together - only this guy was about 5 years older and had done TKD for years. That wouldn't necessarily be bad, but he hit mit with an overhead axe-kick right on the head. I had never seen it before and had no knowledge/tools/automatisms to defend myself with. Got off with a light concussion. Avoided that guy like the pest for the rest of my time there.
I did judo for 10 years. Most cringey situation was when I was trying to coach a kid's class and one of the older kids from a later class was there early and kept talking to me and wanted to show me like 5 different ways to break my arm. Like dude, I'm trying to pay attention to the little gremlins here. Worst situations in terms of injuries: 1. was during a tournament. In the middle of a fight, mid throw the guy being thrown extended his arm to break the fall. Anyone with some judo experience or the ability to think would know that that's a big no no. He got to see one of his bones outside his body. So did everyone else there. 2. situation was a guy in his 70's, extremely fit, just a little hard of hearing. He was training for his brown belt alongside us until one time during training he fell bad and broke a vertebra in his neck. It looked comparably mild, so that most of us didn't realize what happened at first but in retrospect it was scary. Luckily enough he survived and as far as I have heard he wasn't paralized but he obviously never returned to training.
Capoeira also has "ducking", but of course there's context. Most strikes are kicks so there's more room for that. But standing ducking and going to the ground is practiced frequently.
When I was a teenager my instructor made us wear cups. Eventually we moved away from it. Usually I skip it, but I keep one just in case.... I guess in case I spar someone who has poor control, but even then I probably just won't spar them.....I dunno....lol
I have had the uppercut to the balls happen to me. It was a freak accident. Dude's feet went out from under him while he was throwing it. Don't know why. Still hurt.
gi rip is commone becuase people buy those cheap ass "light weight summer gi's" Had one of my students named dylan come into judo lessons i one of those one day. It wasnt a problem during ground work, but the minute we went to standing the quality became super apparent. I tried to ogoshi him for a demonstration and the lapel on his gi just started ripping off like a perforated napkin. No way in hell does one of those cheap knockoffs have what it takes to support a humans mass. Dont cheap out on gi's people. a good gi will last you pretty much an entire lifetime. I still have all of mine, only like one of them still fits though lmao.
Other than maybe Silat, what martial art do you kick with the toes that having sharpened toenails would actually do something other than smash your toes? I guess maybe scratching?
Not top tier embarrassing but I've become known in my eskrima class for spacing out during directions (I'm not trying to, my brain just decides to blip out at the most important part of the explanation every time) so every time the instructor finishes giving directions and asks us if anyone needs it repeated he almost always looks at me when he says that or someone else is like "you sure you got it D?"
Mine is I while in class training I sparred against a mother who kid was in the class as well (both were brown belts I am black belt) I went for a roundhouse kick as a bait so I can land a side kick. Even though I had no power in it the kick was so well placed she was sent into the glass windows. For the rest of the month I was made fun of as the mother beater lol Another is when I was like 10-13 I was in the adult classes since I was too advanced for kids and I was paired with a dude who smelled like he just emerged from rotten sewage that was baking in the middle of July in Gotham. This was grappling class and we had to practice triangle chokes. As u can imagine I almost threw up 6 months of food. Thank goodness they let me sit out for the rest of the day otherwise I would have passed out
Oh funny story, this was before I did martial arts but it's still a good story. So this was in first or second grade, I don't really remember, but we were standing in line waiting for the teacher to take us to class, and the kid in front of me did a spin jump turning towards me, dropped into a horse stance, and punched me directly in the balls. It was very painful at the time but now when I think about it it's kinda hilarious
Never had a single go to story (I'm just over a year into BJJ so I've got plenty of time), but the amount of times I've let one rip when I'm put into mount or taken down is abominable.
My opponent landed a spin hook kick to my face during tkd sparring practice. I had to stand up as my sister’s maid of honor at her wedding two days later with a black eye, lol.
My cup was still in the mail on when I went to my second Muay Thai class. Teeps where a big focus that class and I got the body shield to hold. Told my partner, "My cup didn't come in today, appreciate a little care." The guy said, "Don't worry i'v got self control." Literally the second kick slid off the pad and drilled through my pelvis.
BJJ beginner here: one of the first times rolling at a my academy I was partnered up with a purple belt to see where I stood. No idea how it happened exactly it happened but i get him to tap & he goes "shit you sure you ain't trained cuz rhat d'arce was pretty much perfect."
So me and my cousin used to train together, about a week after we started we were warming up by doing rolls and break falls and my cousin got stuck half way through a front roll with his butt in the air and farted loud enough for everyone in the gym to hear everyone stopped and stared at him ( we were 12 )
5:10 i used to take karate classes when i was younger and we were taught to duck hooks and ridge hands i think ,i mean i was quite young so I don't exactly remember what I was taught to duck but im sure we were taught to duck Was this a Mcdojo situation
Not really martial arts. Tried to rotate to block a shot against a fat guy in bball. Jumped from across the paint, got a piece of the ball with my finger, and all of both balls with my foot.
My gi pants ripped down the groin inseam a few weeks ago. They were definitely too small and wearing down over time. Got a pair a size up and i dont think these will repeat the issue
makes his eyebals vibrate like a rattle snakes tail
-WHAT IS IN MY EYEBALLS
"give the boys a good home" is top tier advice lmao
Farted very loudly when coach was demonstrating a technique for everyone on me. Entire room went silent for a good 20 seconds. It was horrible
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Muay Thai beginner here. I'm 5'8" and I was sparring a guy who was about 6'2". It was one of my first times sparring, and he threw an overhand to which I responded with the most awkward body hook ever thrown in human history. I hit him square in the balls, but luckily it was funny enough that we both got a good laugh 😅
I was on heavy medication during my 1st belt test. Hour 3 my stomach decided it was time to fart uncontrollably. For an extended period of time. 😢
“Somebody farted in my face in BJJ” bro had something worst then pepper spray 💀
I remember early in my Muay Thai training being asked to hold a body shield so one of my coaches could demonstrate clinch knees to the body. I was holding the body shield correctly (or so I thought), but every knee he threw was tickling my liver. I distinctly recall desperately trying to keep my facial expression neutral, while I was simultaneously trying not to poop myself and cry in front of all of my training partners. Good times! Also, I've been doing BJJ for years, and I still don't have even the slightest hint of cauliflower ear. I've EARNED those ears, gosh darnit! I have friends that have trained for 6 months that are starting to show signs, but mine are just as normal looking as ever. My wife is grateful, but I'm getting pretty salty about it. Stupid indestructible ears!
Hmm, maybe ur so good at jujutsu that you never had the chance for get cauliflower ears
@@kiarce3 I wish! I'm a blue belt, so I'm pretty good at not getting submitted, but I'm nowhere near being excellent at grappling. Hopefully someday, though! I'll keep at it because I love it, but I'm definitely more competent standing than on the mat, so there's still a lot of progress to be made.
Groin protection is a winning move. I am a HEMA practitioner, didn't wear mine, then took a pollaxe thrust to the balls. Always wear it now.
thats even worse than catching a hook punch
before the video starts ill just get mine off my chest. Theres two that come to mind. one that was very embarrassing, another that was just brutally scary.
I was like 11 or 12, and had been doing judo for years at that point and was at my green belt. i often practiced with the adult class in to get extra work in and actually progress my skills better (this matters for both stories). by that point i had gotten used to injuries happening, and being roughed up quite a bit by the bigger stronger dudes in the adult class (i was tiny, about 5'10 ish, ik, was a big kid, am a big dude). I specifically remember getting thrown really hard one time and landing pretty awkward, i ended up tearing the top of my ear off my head a little bit, few stitches and a little time and its like it never happened, like i said, at this point i was used to the nature of how things could go, but here is where we diverge. We'll start off with the embarrassing funny story. Being as experienced as i was in judo for my age, my sensei brought me on as an assistant instructor for two of his classes, the youth judo lessons, and the womens/girls self defense course (just an all girl judo's course basically, he got better sign up when he changed the name from "girls judo" to "womens self defense" (people like being catered to). Teaching the regular classes with him was easy, no sweat. but my first womens self defense class was a night mare. i had just begun puberty, barely started to understand that girls arent gross, and pretty much just figured out what a boner is and what it is for lmao. The first chick i got pared up to work with was this really pretty 16 year old girl named emma (mind you again im like 11 or 12 and barely spoke to females who werent related to me at this point in my life). Were doing ground work, everything is fine, until my sensei instructs us to work on submissions/ controlling an agressor on the ground, at which point emma needed to pin and then mount me. Yes, the unthinkable, unimaginable, the one thing that every dude prays never happens at the wrong moment, happened to me. I popped a woody while she was in top mount and i about died inside that day. Apologized repeatedly profusely while i sat there beet red in the face and wide eyed hoping i wasnt about to get in trouble ahahahaha. Thankfully emma was somehow understanding of the moment, and although awkward, i was able to move past it. i still look back and cringe at myself all these years later. talk about a car accident in human form. funnily enough i stuck around after and kept assisting with the womans class (without another incident thank the fucking lord), and i was lucky i did stick around. it made me comfortable with interreacting with woman as just other people, without a focus on sex orientation etc. it taught me to just have that baseline before anything else. It took so much pressure out of speaking to girls, asking them out, first dates, etc. I think alot of young men and women would benefit from the same sort of coed work.
As for the scary story. well, I was coaching the regular lessons one day, and we had this Japanese kid in our class who was just always unhinged and out of pocket. he could never be quiet, never sit still, never listen, and almost never followed instructions (im guessing everyone knows at least one of these lmao). he was known to be sent home early due to his behavioral issues. One day while i was teaching said youth regular judo lessons with my sensei, this dumb little fuck decides to run up behind me while im leading the class through warm ups and freight train trip me. Not expecting i got sent back pretty quickly, and behind me was a metal basket full of yoga blocks (we shared a studio space with a pilates/ yoga instructor). Mind you i wasn't on the mat either, i was well clear of it standing on a lightly carpet covered concrete floor. My head when straight black, and split right open on the handle of that metal basket behind me. i Woke up 5 minutes later on the floor, my head in my coaches hands, dripping blood. Had to go to the hospital and get stitched up, had a bad concussion. i couldn't even remember how i got to class that day. Thankfully i recovered fully and am fine now with no ill effects all these years later, but holy fuck was that scary. i remember specifically thinking my shirt was really wet with sweat, then touching it and looking down at my hand and just seeing red. Needless to say the kid got banned from the studio permanently, and we confiscated his belts from him. He had already injured a two other members of the dojo during previous incidents, this was the final, and very heavy straw.
I dont instruct judo anymore sadly. my sensei when through some rough times, his house burned down after a tree hit some power lines and knocked them onto his house. After that he tried to open a new Dojo, but we just werent getting enough income from sign up, and it went under. He moved to los angeles a year after that (i was about 15 or so at the time). Sadly before he got the chance to try and open a new dojo down there age came for his mind. he now has dementia and doesn't even remember me. now his son is the only person he recognizes anymore. Breaks my heart.
Miss you Sensei Richard, Dai Sensei LeBell would be proud.
As a former pubescent Jukokai Kid, I KNOW that Panic Stiffy story all to well.
The rest was an even bigger roller coaster of emotions. Thanks.
you consider 5'10 tiny? that's my height at 21 lmao
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I remember rolling with someone and after the round was finished, I went to give the guy a wee pat to signal "good roll" and just caught myself in time.
I nearly patted his boys.
“I’ve teeped plenty of testes” 😂
oh wow, I almost clicked off with that eye thing. Scary as hell. lol
When I was a teenager, I got selected as a dummy for a mount demonstration. When the teacher sat on my stomach, I proceeded to light the class up with a crescendo of flatulence. Good times
Once when I sparring in TKD, I went to throw a head kick. At the same time he went for a body kick. We were in open stance and both kicked with the rear leg. So while I'm kicking high, essentially doing a vertical split, he kicked me right in the butthole 🫤...that hurt so much 😖
I never wore a cup for unarmed martial arts, but I did sometimes in HEMA. One of the times I didn't, I parried a lunge low and directed the rapier into my crotch. Fortunately my trousers were tight and created a natural barrier. Close call. I wore my cup after that. Another class, longsword sparring. Big dude dtook a full power diagonal slash down. I leaned back to get out of range. There's a loud crack, and I feel my cup split in half. If not for that cup I'd be singing soprano nowadays :P Cups is good lol
I am genuinely unhappy with these stories and your cavalier attitude. Also my balls shrank. A lot.
I take it youve heard of castratos?
@@absolutedegenerate2992 Probably not an Opera fan. Probably unaware of the Chinese obsession with Eunuchs, either.
@@handroids1981 maybe not...
I remember I was in first grade and this kid bear hugged me from the back I yelled out “shift into turbo” which was the morphing call for power rangers turbo that was airing at the time and then elbowed him in the side of the head. Then he had the audacity to tell the teacher lol
_The audacity!_
@@handroids1981 it was real on that 1st grade playground in 97 lol
What's wrong with you? Wear a cup! The don't help for full power sparring, but for technical sparring I've clipped a ton of sacks because dudes don't wear cups.
Here's my cringe story. I'd been in Muay Thai for years but I'm no Billy Bad Boy. I started in a JKD school that had MT and was my favorite so I trained that due to proximity to a place, moved etc. One day a guy comes in for his free trial and coach pairs him with me. Introductions, I say hi hello yada yada "Have you trained before?" and he recites every name in his Kali lineage up to Dan Inosanto. I think oh that's neat I trained 6 months JKD let's see what he knows. He proceeds to flub every drill, stopped trying stuff altogether, and then complains "This isn't how we do it over there it's more free form" and like bro it's just a drill to work on some technique not the be all end all of the system. I had said earlier that I was in similar JKD stuff and this was similar to my first school because we still had drills. I didn't get much work this day.
Anyway we get to the end of class and do the classic body conditioning where one group lines up on the wall and has their arms up for some straight punches to the body with gloves on. Nothing too aggro but not baby hands either. I let him hit first and he starts throwing the hardest hooks I ever willingly took in my life as if the coach had never said and demonstrated to throw rapid straights. We go our one minute and I somehow survive and I do as instructed on my turn. Rapid straights, not too hard but not pillows. A few seconds in I hear... "That all you got" or something like it so I drive one single right hand in there and he nearly folded. We didn't see him on any return visits.
When I was sparring in Hapkido, I remember kicking and my big toe went into their mouth and they closed their mouth with my toe 😭
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That you, Salma Hayak?
@@handroids1981 lmao what
@@Saint_Dacier Quentin Tarantino has a Foot Fetish.
And Icy Mike has hated hapkido ever since
I remember back in High school wrestling. I was watching a match and a dude was getting pinned, so he reached over and grabbed one of the other guys nuts and squeezed, rupturing his testicle. The dude jumped up, screamed and passed out. still the most messed up thing i ever watched ever.
Holy shit did the kid get charged or anything
@@thepants1450 don’t know. But I would guess he did.
Cups have saved me on multiple occasions
The one day i forgot my cup a rookie got 3 kicks shin straight to the boys in 5 mins. The second one literally after i got up from the first one.
I think he was joking
Seth I thought I was the only one who could move my eyes like that I'm happy you can too🤣🤣
Yeah one time I was sparing a guy and he tripped but everyone in the gym thought I took him down so I just rolled with it 😂
The fun fact is awkward moments happen in everything.
I've got one nasty.
I was a beginner rolling in the NoGi BJJ class.
And the guy ended up in a full mount on top of me.
He was attempting the "Mother's Milk" move which is nasty on it own (it get's worst).
I didn't panic, didn't tap and I was waiting for him to shift to try and sweep him.
He then decided to move upwards to high mount.
And the movement of him sliding upwards caught my eyelid and forced my eye open...
So my eyeball was stuck directly to his sweaty disgusting rashguard.
It was the most disgusting thing EVER.
So I started fighting with my life on the line to create space so I can close my eye. (still didn't tap though)
He used my movement to get the high S-mount and ended up submitting me with an Triangle.
I don't think he ever noticed what has happened.
And I was too shocked and disgusted to talk about it.
When I wrestled in high school, I was pretty fat and nobody had a guy big enough to wrestle me from any other schools. So I put in a TON of work. Literal blood, sweat, tears, for 2 years and…never got to wrestle anybody even a single time. I was always the “fat guy” sitting on the bench, just watching everyone else compete while I practiced day in and day out for no reason.
*this guy:* "no reason" he says...
*also this guy:* can probably manhandle 99.9% of the people on the planet
Went to a seminar once with some of my students. Unaffiliated Blackbelt saw them doing some stick defense and went over there to correct them and told them their Technic wouldn't work (it was just "go in and do Osotogari"). He told one to try it on him and while he was attacking my student with the stick, he made it a short strike and really made an effort to not get grabbed. Student committed and osotogaried the shit out of him. The BB was a big dude an every one stopped when they heard his fat ass getting hammered into the mat.
Guy stood up and with out commenting it still kept talking how the Technic wouldn't work.
He became the laughing stock for everyone around and I was never more proud of one of my students.
One time in a playground fight the guy grabbed my arm and I said "Let go of my arm so I can hit you". He lost, fyi.
I was expecting something different with the prompt "something uncomfortable". There was a guy in my judo club who would intentionally untuck my shirt when we sparred.
On the uppercut to the groin note, I was in a krav maga gym and we were sparring with "groin is fair game" rules and he got knee on belly. I threw a light uppercut to the groin. Most effective knee on belly escape I ever used.
You don't "feel" like they work?! Real scientific, Seth. WEAR A DAMN CUP.
When you go for a headkick but bend your head down and end up kneeing yourself in the nose
I've always been a little rigid, so I've kneed myself in the eye while axe kicking with a slight bend in the knee😅
@@magnum567134 You've unlocked some of my hidden memories.
We had this one guy join our club with a very faded early belt, who practiced all moves with an angry face instead of being relaxed. He was told for sparring we use light contact but pull everything for control. Instead he used that to his advantage and wouldnt pull anything, and appear angry as he assaults our students. He got put out and thrown out.
mý first contact with karate... mý classmate took me with him, i will NEVER IN MY LIFE forget the cheese feet smell in this room...
First person aside from myself I have seen doing that eye thing. It truly is one of the abilites of all time.
Dude same here. It's the quintessential useless talent
I'm with you for the not wrapping hands, but no cup? In harder sparring?
I'll leave it up to you to decide if fencing counts as a martial art, but when I was sixteen or so we had some guys from another club coming over to train. I knew them from tournaments, of course, and they were good, so I figured I'd try and impress them on my home turf by going for a flèche (essentially a running attack). Tripped over my own feet and faceplanted. Everyone was looking at me.
Of course that bully was afraid, he thought you were going to turn into a rattlesnake and bite him.
That is not an insult, the bite from a rattlesnake is highly venomous and will kill you.
1:39 great thumbnail potential
He looks so jolly
Agreed
allegedly someone in my high school was trying to cultivate sharpened, dirty nails so he could inflict poison damage by clawing
Literally a plot in Oz. A HBO show about prison, it's absolutely brilliant. The show, not the nail delivered infection attack.
Why can I actually picture what they probably looked like.
@handroids1981 oh my God, Oz was on the air when I was in middle school so there's a non-zero chance that's where he got the idea
@@LvK138 Wow. There's also a non zero chance that the guy is now in an Oz like location.
HOW DO YOU FUCKING DO THAT!? TEACH ME SENSEI EYESHAKE!!
Somebody need to turn that duck beat into a rap with the scream
A guy did some sort of flying knee slide (fell into it) and hit me in the nuts (thats 80kg concentrated into one shin all on) i couldt roll for the following hour
Also a random kid who i knew did tkd was teaching "grappling" to his friends, i asked for a demomstration and despite me seeing the most atrocous technique ever conceptualised i said "thank you sensei"
*throws a high kick before fight starts*
*proceeds to kick opponent in the leg*
For context I’m a teenage dude. About a week ago we were in two lines doing a drill. The way we were set up, I was pretty much in kicking distance from every girl in the dojo. Everything was going smoothly. I cracked a joke (now everyone is looking at me) AND MY FLIPPING PANTS FELL DOWN!!!!!! My face is now redder than the blood of my enemies, and I awkwardly pull my pants up and go to the corner and try to fix them. Luckily I was wearing shorts, but holy crap that sucked
React to george foreman hitting the heavy bag
2:56 bro is unlocking sharingan 💀
Sensei seth is such a good martial artist he lost to a part of karate pants
Just last week my sensei referenced Karate kid and the crane kick in our karate session :) Karate kid and Cobra kai just belong to karate.
When it comes to falling while kicking. Always remember that monkeys fall from trees. No matter how good you might be things happend.
When someone kicks the target out of your hand and it flies.
happened way too many times to me.
i cant aim
One time during my taekwondo class we were practicing high jumping kicks, the target was probably about 6.3 feet in the air. One guy goes to kick, he not only misses the pad but leans too much backwards and lands on his back with an extremely loud thud. He was in his 40s.
Had MMA ground and pound training a few hours ago. My training partner accidentally gave me a knee strike in the crotch while trying to do a knee-to-belly
Knee to Peeny big No No.
he did not underwear because he did not want his balls to sweat.
Compression shorts also don't sweat
I can do the eyeball thng too, (thought i was unique:) it was my party trick for a long time and now saving it to impress my daughter.
“ I don’t wear a cup, cups are for Fragile Gentleman.” - Sensei Seth .
Sparring is where you can try out some of the riskier stuff. Dont be embarasssed if sometimes it doesnt go right, that's part of the learning experience.
React to hockey fights pls! I saw ufc fighters do it and it was so entertaining
They always get demonitized. I’ve tried it a few times
I have a new guy in my MMA gym, he is a casual "gym bro" and trains MMA only now and then for the past 2 months. He is a complete beginner and he was injured for a couple of weeks, then he came back to our gym and a few hours after training I looked at his instagram story and it was him, outside, still sweaty WITH HIS MOUTHGUARD IN AND HIS HANDS STILL WRAPPED!??!?! wtf..
3:11 looks more like epilepsy than anything else... 🤐
Voluntary nystagmus. Despite having the ability I never tried finding out what it's called before.
6:20 that little thing is horrifically distracting but very funny if it's irregular
I had someone scratch my forehead. Outside of class I joked "I hope it was a fingernail". I didn't tell anyone but it was 100% a toenail...
I was doing some kind of spinning kicks on the matts at a krav gym. We were bare foot, it was my first time trying them and while turning/pivoting one of my toes kind of stuck in place and it broke. I kept doing the class but was very careful with everything else after that that day.
Using bleach and certain other detergents can weaken fabric and cause it to tear. I’ve seen many torn gis, even when they’re still fairly new looking.
Also, wrestling and BJJ use the “duck” under. Checkmate, nerd. 🤓 just kidding, please don’t hurt me.
If you could find it in english or something, it would be quite cool to see you react to the HIDEN, BUDO & BUJUTSU Magazine, which is a martial arts magazine that is highly respected for it's thorough research about the main articles in the monthly magazine
there casual martial artists often buy super-cheap gi's. there is also a "summer gi" that's much lighter, but mostly for tkd and the like, where you're non-contact and just throwing kicks in the air... McDojo's also sell nearly-disposable ones a primo prices...
I get why it's annoying to have someone new critique your form, especially with a remedial take (e.g., "always keep your hands up"), but I try to take it less as a criticism of my skills and more as them trying to piece together what they're learning. It's not that your hands are especially down, just that it's the thing they are most aware of.
They're also kind of learning how to give feedback and/or how to talk about techniques as part of sparring/practice.
Obviously, it's still annoying, but I find it less frustrating when I consider that kind of feedback as them learning how to engage.
You've never had gi pants rip? I have like 8 extra gi tops because They come as a set but the pants don't hold up. Often it's just the stitching where 3 or 4 panels meet near the crotch, but sometimes the material goes. Apparently Pakistani seamstresses think we need like a 3 foot inseam or something. I wore a pair of TKD pants for judo/jujitsu until the knees wore out because they were designed better than regular gis, tho...
I started martial arts when I was 16 on an exchange to Finland. Joined a Hapkido gym close to my school. There was another guy there who started at the same time, so they made us spar together - only this guy was about 5 years older and had done TKD for years. That wouldn't necessarily be bad, but he hit mit with an overhead axe-kick right on the head. I had never seen it before and had no knowledge/tools/automatisms to defend myself with. Got off with a light concussion. Avoided that guy like the pest for the rest of my time there.
Seth I wear two cups in buhurt. One modern one historical codpiece I've still been to hospital from damage through two cups. Always wear a cup.
I did judo for 10 years. Most cringey situation was when I was trying to coach a kid's class and one of the older kids from a later class was there early and kept talking to me and wanted to show me like 5 different ways to break my arm. Like dude, I'm trying to pay attention to the little gremlins here.
Worst situations in terms of injuries: 1. was during a tournament. In the middle of a fight, mid throw the guy being thrown extended his arm to break the fall. Anyone with some judo experience or the ability to think would know that that's a big no no. He got to see one of his bones outside his body. So did everyone else there.
2. situation was a guy in his 70's, extremely fit, just a little hard of hearing. He was training for his brown belt alongside us until one time during training he fell bad and broke a vertebra in his neck. It looked comparably mild, so that most of us didn't realize what happened at first but in retrospect it was scary. Luckily enough he survived and as far as I have heard he wasn't paralized but he obviously never returned to training.
Capoeira also has "ducking", but of course there's context. Most strikes are kicks so there's more room for that. But standing ducking and going to the ground is practiced frequently.
A full boxing groin protector makes a huge difference. But you cant kick well with them.
When I was a teenager my instructor made us wear cups. Eventually we moved away from it. Usually I skip it, but I keep one just in case.... I guess in case I spar someone who has poor control, but even then I probably just won't spar them.....I dunno....lol
Golota uppercut Riddick Bowe to the balls to finish the fight :D So its a legit top tier move
I *AM* INTIMIDATED! How the heck do you do that eye thing?!!!
Someone on YT went somewhat viral for catching the herp while practicing bjj, then tried to say it’s common in the bjj field
I have had the uppercut to the balls happen to me. It was a freak accident. Dude's feet went out from under him while he was throwing it. Don't know why. Still hurt.
gi rip is commone becuase people buy those cheap ass "light weight summer gi's" Had one of my students named dylan come into judo lessons i one of those one day. It wasnt a problem during ground work, but the minute we went to standing the quality became super apparent. I tried to ogoshi him for a demonstration and the lapel on his gi just started ripping off like a perforated napkin. No way in hell does one of those cheap knockoffs have what it takes to support a humans mass. Dont cheap out on gi's people. a good gi will last you pretty much an entire lifetime. I still have all of mine, only like one of them still fits though lmao.
Other than maybe Silat, what martial art do you kick with the toes that having sharpened toenails would actually do something other than smash your toes? I guess maybe scratching?
Not top tier embarrassing but I've become known in my eskrima class for spacing out during directions (I'm not trying to, my brain just decides to blip out at the most important part of the explanation every time) so every time the instructor finishes giving directions and asks us if anyone needs it repeated he almost always looks at me when he says that or someone else is like "you sure you got it D?"
Mine is I while in class training I sparred against a mother who kid was in the class as well (both were brown belts I am black belt) I went for a roundhouse kick as a bait so I can land a side kick. Even though I had no power in it the kick was so well placed she was sent into the glass windows. For the rest of the month I was made fun of as the mother beater lol
Another is when I was like 10-13 I was in the adult classes since I was too advanced for kids and I was paired with a dude who smelled like he just emerged from rotten sewage that was baking in the middle of July in Gotham. This was grappling class and we had to practice triangle chokes. As u can imagine I almost threw up 6 months of food. Thank goodness they let me sit out for the rest of the day otherwise I would have passed out
Oh funny story, this was before I did martial arts but it's still a good story.
So this was in first or second grade, I don't really remember, but we were standing in line waiting for the teacher to take us to class, and the kid in front of me did a spin jump turning towards me, dropped into a horse stance, and punched me directly in the balls. It was very painful at the time but now when I think about it it's kinda hilarious
Never had a single go to story (I'm just over a year into BJJ so I've got plenty of time), but the amount of times I've let one rip when I'm put into mount or taken down is abominable.
My opponent landed a spin hook kick to my face during tkd sparring practice. I had to stand up as my sister’s maid of honor at her wedding two days later with a black eye, lol.
My cup was still in the mail on when I went to my second Muay Thai class. Teeps where a big focus that class and I got the body shield to hold. Told my partner, "My cup didn't come in today, appreciate a little care." The guy said, "Don't worry i'v got self control."
Literally the second kick slid off the pad and drilled through my pelvis.
I some how ended up in a 69 with a female opponent in traditional jujitsu.. I mean we had our clothes on but lets say every one had a good laugh.
BJJ beginner here: one of the first times rolling at a my academy I was partnered up with a purple belt to see where I stood. No idea how it happened exactly it happened but i get him to tap & he goes "shit you sure you ain't trained cuz rhat d'arce was pretty much perfect."
So me and my cousin used to train together, about a week after we started we were warming up by doing rolls and break falls and my cousin got stuck half way through a front roll with his butt in the air and farted loud enough for everyone in the gym to hear everyone stopped and stared at him ( we were 12 )
5:10 i used to take karate classes when i was younger and we were taught to duck hooks and ridge hands i think ,i mean i was quite young so I don't exactly remember what I was taught to duck but im sure we were taught to duck
Was this a Mcdojo situation
I love your videos. Please talk to Icy Mike about German law in the area of self-defense
Not really martial arts. Tried to rotate to block a shot against a fat guy in bball. Jumped from across the paint, got a piece of the ball with my finger, and all of both balls with my foot.
Where's part 2 sensei Seth huh I thought yoy said there's gonna be a part 2 it's been a month Where's part twoooooooooooo
Share would be sharing to another app, like sending in dms or posting on social media.
Accidentally kneed too low in pad work straight into a guys balls I felt so bad
yeah, we're all really intimidated bud real scared shiver me timbers ! you moved your eyeballs! how will we ever sleep again.
Ask Justin Gaethje how good ducking headkicks is.
I do bjj and when you’re getting folded by someone you have 0 control if you fart or not.
I have a really embarrassing martial arts story, which even batman couldnt get out of me
My gi pants ripped down the groin inseam a few weeks ago. They were definitely too small and wearing down over time. Got a pair a size up and i dont think these will repeat the issue
I can do the eye dance too, though I never used it for intimidation, my mum and sister can do it too, interesting that other people can as well.