Ima rock climber, I use to hang from door frames to increase my grip. I have since upgraded to a hang board that specifically designed for climbers to increase grip strength. Hope this helps someone
Liver shots it's amazing when you manage to land it perfectly and it's horrible when you get hit. I'm a boxer and during some sparrings sessions got hit in the liver and immediately felt like a bolt of electricity through my spine and 10 or 15 seconds later my legs gave up and stayed with one knee in the floor trying to recover.
Deadlifts without alternating grips are brutally hard on the grip muscles. The Okinawan Karate Masters seem to have some hardcore grip exercises and they've mutated their fingers and toes into weapons. As for liver kicks, Crocop was famous for using his instep or shins. I like aiming for shins and if they move back, it lands on the instep. If you aim the instep and they move back slightly and you land with the tips of the foot to the body, that's a sprained ankle. As for punches to the liver, look up "White Chocolate boxer". He's a young boxer who has notorious liver shots and won many fights in the first few seconds or the first punch to the liver. He uses long-range extended arm punches which trade velocity for torque. The higher velocity might be more difficult to react to and harden against. If it's a slower moving short-range punch, the target has more time to harden the rib muscles and fade away to lessen the damage.
A good liver shot eclipses a shot to the balls any day. I’ve taken many of both (both REALLY hurt) and from experience , the liver shot is total misery! Twice as bad as a groin shot IMO.
Sheet...I have a way to go. I can only close the CoC #2 for a couple of reps. #3 will take a while. Two good uses for grip strength are opening jar lids and crushing a soy boy's hand when shaking hands.
It reminds me of how sound vibrations move through the air when a drum or percussive instrument is hit. Instead, all of those ripples are pain being sent throughout the body.
@I Coroa ikr...fuck that. Lmao. In Dragonball Z Season 2, Goku threw just one pointed elbow into the gut of one of the bigger of the evil guys. Then it showed how the ripples of pain spread through his body until they overloaded his body and shattered everything. One strike and their body had been rendered useless. Those Japanese Animation Creators have some twisted minds...but I love the shows nonetheless. 🤣
The liver punch, a big reason why I avoid fights in da streetz. Because everyone knows, as soon as you step outside your house the level music starts, the timer counts down ... suddenly you approach some barrels and a guy named Axel Steele rambling about his next big business idea, chickens inside of barrels. No thanks!
Dude, your content is seriously very high quality. Beats many other coaches out there. Not only are you knowledgeable, you're a warm person. I'd want to be on your team because when we win no one will be able to help themselves but get behind it (english?). I'm trying to say that even if people didn't want to, in their hearts they'd have to approve of the champions. Cheers a lot bro. It's a shame we live worlds apart or I'd join ur gym freaking yesterday.
Very good explanation of slapping kick. Brilliant answer . Just to add. There two kinds of impact ( following your examples), one is a massive powerful it , on a lower rib, which is visual, you bring the rib bending towards inside , and hit the lever in that specific place, where the gal bladder is, and it produces over dose of bile form of hydrochloride, and it is toxic inorganic acid, that makes you mussy, even if you survive the pain. The other way of slapping , causes a “wave” through soft tissue , that makes the fluids in the cells and tissues to move. In waves . Expanding through All the neural system . The pain itself is like instantaneous emptying the axons of metabolites , like , when someone calmly blocks a head kick, on the body kick level. It is because his axons had no metabolites , after weight lose , in third round, and he thought he blocks the head but the hand comes short . Same at knockout . The CNS blocks itself , or the pain kills the men
Hey Coach! Question, Did you ever do a video on arm wrestling? I'm curious what you think of those guys, especially SchoolBoy who has some insane strength despite his appearance. Like any sport I'm sure it's all in the technique but it's still incredible. Devon Larratt even called it a martial art since you're always vying for position.
The foundation of weight training comes down to grip and grit. Grab weights with as much intensity as possible so your wrists don't break don't stop until your fingers feel numb repeated until strong. And grit spend more time on your feet. Train standing most of your gym routine. Also fun fact about the liver. People who are right sided sleepers are more likely to have heart burn and headaches because the liver needs constant consolation from every fiber in your body.
My instructor was big on Palm strikes. Taught us alot of bare handed fighting. A palm strike to the liver is not a fun thing. Oddly when it came to self defense he was very dedicated to using body shots. Yet, depending how you do the Palm strike, its much less of a slap than a punch. It can have alot of push to it as we all know yet the damage isn't superficial on the outside it always seems to go through you.
Ramsey, I have a liver punch question for you as well. We all know that processed sugar is damaging to the liver. Therefore, do you feel like a punch to the liver will do more damage to someone in a fight if the person doing the punching has a candy bar or something inside his fist? Would love for you to answer this one in a video! 😀😀🙂🙂🙂
That's a good question, sounds quite plausible to me. But if you look into it logically: Do you know that excessive sugar is going to be stored as fat? It is possible for the candy to get sucked into the flesh of the opponent and being transformed into a big bulk of flesh. That means that this fat is going to absorb your punches energy and therefore doesn't do any damage to the body. There is also another problem that could come up for you... The possibility that your opponent is able to use this stored energy from your punch and release it as an Kamehameha. Let's get now to the upsides: Like you already pointed out, excessive sugar is going to damage the liver and your opponent is going to get diabetes. But that doesn't do anything in that fight in terms of the effect that it is going to be taken.This unbelievably psychopathic malicious plan wouldn't work, only in long terms.
Slapping = kinetic energy delivered with the highest combined force. Maximum speed + greater surface area delivers the energy in less time and results in the highest rate of accelerating the target.
Thanks for the advice Coach. I've used the liver shot to TKO successfully ( through luck mostly) although it was due to compression at a moment when my opponent wasn't braced. Have to say about a slap, during some Karate no-glove sparring a dude slapped my kidney once and I nearly threw up on the spot. Put on a brave face, but on the inside I was dying. Cheers.
There was a japanese karateka who fought in Dream FC who had a great liver kick. He hit with the ball of the foot when doing the left round house to the body, dangerous but effective. I've sadly forgot his name, but I believe it's a thing in karate to use that kick for a precision hit on the liver. The ball of the foot coming in from the side is a bit trickier to defend against also, since it curves inwards from the shin, so even if you block the kick with your arm the foot can find it's target behind the elbow.
O the grip strength for fatilities, thats actually not a bad idea... Having a grip.stromg enough to hurt just by gripping would actually be good... Imagine being able to grab someone with enough grip to crush an apple, or something, sinking the fingers, right on their forearm, as part of a setup for a throw... Like, one of the throws i love is the hiptoss, grabbing the wrist or forearm, hooking under the oposite arm and throwing over the hip... I bet it would be much more efective if the grip alone would hurt alot
I understood exactly what you meant when you said slapping instead of digging. I like when you brought how with the tkd kicks the foot needs to do something as well and how that's fine for body shots. Shane fazen I love his two main video breakdowns of different ways to punch as well how he describes what is supposed to be happening while a punch is being thrown ( by the way I hate the term throwing a punch) from start to finish to get maximum damage as well what needs to happen after it. I know alot of people hate on arm punches but shane talked about adding shoulder pop to hooks I believe it was. For another one he says imagine like a whip. I have a good idea for the dude to help develop grip strength. Carry to thin handle buckets full of water up and down a hill.
I finally have some calluses on my hands form my pull-ups training and it helps with the grip as I can hold on longer. I probably have the worst grip but I'm getting better😉
Big forearms put mass behind punches in a very special way. Big forearms also extend the inertial moment when your muscle have started contracting but your arm hasn't moved yet. This loads more facial tissue deeper. Squeeze the balls. Hang from bars, pick up heavy stuff, grab uniforms, but also train grip. Popeyes arms hit hard.
Who doesn't need more grip strength. Its amazing what strong hands do for you in lots of tasks not just rolling. Coach your hands are massive I expect it don't take much for them to be very strong. Genetics makes a massive difference.
I saw your vid but I am talking about the whip like motion u have to generate with your torso and shoulder and finally having your arm swing release it. I like the your perspective about defence with the arm swing but I really want to develop that whip-like power. When I swing my arm I can really feel that whip but transitioning that to a kick is something I can't seem to do.
I know this is unrelated but I lost my fight last night man, kinda bummed about it but John Dodson was the ref so that made it pretty cool !! 👊 thank you for all the tips ramsey
Cool! Oddly, one of things I remember most vividly about my fighting career was who the referees were. It’s not something I expected to remember or even notice, but yeah… it happened.
Thanks for the info! I've always wanted to get your opinion on what you think about the International MMA Federation and Amateur MMA in general. I feel like it gets far less the recognition it deserves
I have an unrelated question, Coach. Is it legal to fake an illegal move under the unified rules? For example can I fake a knee to the face of a downed opponent? Maybe I want him to cover up so I can get around to his back more easily.
👍 I use grippers and Chinese medicine balls for grip strength exercises. As for using liver shots just go to a Mexican boxing gym. You'll learn quickly.🥊🥊
Devon Larrat the arm wrestling champ has a few interesting videos on what he does for grip strength. Kind of unorthodox stuff, but if you're trying to take it to the next level why not.
You said it was an old video. But if you want to work on your grip, don't use reverse grip. In my opinion, you should never use reverse grip either way, but especially not if you want to focus on grip strength.
I landed once what i thought a light left body kick on a 100kg guy and to my suprise he stops and drops down... it was in sparring btw, since he was bigger than me i kinda got suprised for a bit, in my mind i just threw the lightest slap kick...
as a commercial fisherman who grabs line and does 100s of reps per day I can say that my grip strength routine is more extensive than most professional fighters. What does this mean though? Does this mean they won't be able to resist my takedown? No. Because proper technique can negate a strength advantage. At the end of the day it gives me a small advantage because maybe they aren't used to being gripped that firmly and this makes their techniques harder to execute. but not ineffective. Still, when I grip you, YOU WILL KNOW THAT YOU"VE BEEN GRIPPED!!!
so you're saying I should flick the liver with one finger? hahha.. awesome tip! I am training to box JUST to get a good liver punch in case I have to defend myself. this is one very simple but MASSIVELY important tip for sure! thanks again!
@@nickdavis5420 yeah, but i think that it would be easier with lifting because one can do that far more often. When you climb something, you gotta descend it if you want to climb it again. And climbing the same thing many times isn't that fun. So: you can climb a big mountain, but when you do it, you will be pretty much done for the day. But you can lift for many hours and without many breaks, and you can still lift more on another part of the day.
I boxed competitively and that's something I have been hearing these years, stronger and fitter guys than me drop to body shots and I dont get it, in boxing I dont remember ever defending the body in a conpetition, the only time I think I felt the liver was in a thai fight with a kick.
In bass rutten videos he goes full in is not a slap. How can you prove what you are saying? Any thing you hit would be more damaged if you hit hard and gompress it than if you slap it. Why would it be different with the liver? Physics works different with the liver? Sorry if you give me to choose between a hard punch or knee or kick to the groin or a slap i choose every tine the slap.
I throw my liver shots with my thumb facing me (this is with boxing gloves, mind you) I saw GGG do it a lot and with this discovery I’ve managed to down a lot more people with my new body hook
Coach if you train mma for a couple of years and stop, would you forget the vast majority of what it takes to fight? Like if you take a major break due to injuries etc.
If you’re trying to build abnormal grip strength/forearms, it pays to remember that the tendons, ligaments, and other connective tissues recover quite a bit more slowly than muscular hypertrophy occurs. I use a “low weight, high rep” approach to help avoid injury, but also eat your collagen. Niche info, but hope it helps someone
I all now and then keep hearing about these whip or slap strikes, but has anyone really calculated the physics behind them? I have hard time believing that pulling your strike back instead of striking through, would have any positive impact on power of the strike. I may be wrong but if you think that, show me the math
Grip strength also heavily applies to Wing chun, bruce lee consistently worked on his forearm muscles and grip strength to increase his grip strength on wing chun trapping 😃😃😃
Fist with wraps and gloves are far superior weapons to palm strikes in every measurable way by a significant margin. That’s why. Bas Rutten used palm strikes when he fought in Pancrase because close fists were illegal. When he fought in the UFC, he punched like everyone else. How did Bas hurt people with palm strikes? He hit them really hard.
My grip strength has never particularly failed me in mma practice, but when I deadlift or do chin ups, I almost exclusively use wraps does this have any detriment?
It is and straps also change the exercise slightly you can ALWAYS pull more with straps even if your grip strength is good enough to hold the weight without them. I would also highly recommend fatgripz the blue ones the extremes or manus grips depending on your hand size open hand strength is very important for grappling.
If you want to improve grip strength for deadlift, then don't use straps and use a double overhand grip. You might only be able to do it on your warm-up sets at first, but eventually you'll develop the strength to get triples at a substantial percentage of your 1RM.
@@GripDevil I worry about specificity with those. If you're trying to grip a 29 mm radius bar, then gripping a thicker bar should be more challenging, but do axle bars roll the same way as an Olympic bar? Also, I've seen some axle bars online that are sprayed in powdercoat, which is obviously not going to prepare you for the slipperiness of an Olympic bar. And in any case, not every gym has an axle. I do think I'll buy one one for mine one of these days. Maybe Christmas time.
Hey Ramsey I just started striking. I’m a shorter guy so when I shadow box, or practice on the bag should I be punching up to get used to hitting talker opponents ? Thanks
Ramsey, I was watching a video on Silat and the instructor pointed out that the value is in being proactive with your technique. So this says that Silat is a proactive art and isn't very good in terms of self defense since that requires you to be reactive. So what are the dangers of taking a proactive style like Silat, Muay Thai or BJJ and teaching it as a reactive style like Aikido?
@@Phospion Silat is actually good if you learn from legit sources. But yeah, if you learn from McDojos and scam artists, every fighting style is essentially garbage.
I was honestly surprised to see MVP winning the decision. I may have to watch it again, but on a first viewing, I though Lima won the fight. They’re probably trying to set up a trilogy fight since MVP is one of Belator’s biggest draws and Lima is the only man to have beaten him.
You have talked before about the karate hip punch and TaiChi forms coming from grappling techniques before. Is there any similar explanation for the karate knife hand? As a striking technique, I can't imagine the situation where a knife hand is more practical or effective compared to a hammer fist.
It must be a pain to fight someone like Tyson Fury. Dude is just heavy. As someone who trains boxing, what training (considering you're in MMA) is needed to have better stamina against a heavy guy on the clinch?
@@RamseyDewey Yes they are, but you performed a pin squat in the capture, you just did not bare the load at your shoulders. Rack pull is a partial DL, where you are ment to crank your torso up by the action of hams and glutes, dude, you squated it, not pulled. I hate to be that guy but you might want to look in to it deeper.
@@demoncore5342 This is false lol one of the deadlift cues is that you try and push the earth away with your feet. You just shouldn't squat down to reach the bar which he didn't
@@GripDevil DL is a hinge, and he simply did not hinge, another cue is hips, once you clear the knee. He just squats it up, not that it's not beneficial to do partial pin squats, but that's not a DL just as leg press is not a squat. If you do what he did in the clip, you work the squat lock out, not DL lock out.
@@demoncore5342 The sole purpose of this exercise is building grip strength it has nothing to do with squatting or deadlifting lol. This exercise is called a rack pull above the knee the word deadlift isn't even in the exercise. Rack pulls above the knee is a terrible way to build lock out strength things like bands or chains would be way better this is a grip strength exercise if you are doing this to build your deadlift you are wasting your time.
Overtraining your grip can lead to carpal tunnel and arthritis in your hands. A lot of grip strength is good, but enough to avoid permanent long lasting injuries would qualify as enough for me.
@@juliansanderson839 that's why I said it has to be balanced with extension (and to a lesser degree deviation). And I don't mean doing exercises like reverse wrist curls where you still grip the db, I mean ones with completely extended fingers, it's surprisingly hard because of the lever. PS I actually learned it the hard way by practicing thumb draw archery without doing the opposite movement. In fact I've also lost so much ROM in the thumb I can't straighten it when extending the wrist lol
Here’s a hypothetical, you often emphasize the importance of size, strength and athleticism to succeed in combat sports, and your style of fighting is very much second to that. So let’s say you have the most freakish athlete in the world, let’s just use Brock Lesnar, and all you did was teach them some bullshido styles, let’s say they are a black belt in Hapkido, Aikido, Krav Maga, Systema, Tai Chi Forms, Jeet Kune Do, Wing Chun, form based “inner” Kung fu styles, Pressure Point fighting etc. Could that version of Brock Lesnar who only trained in all that crap still win a UFC title? And for fun let’s say he has access to all the steroids in the world.
False. I teach that three things determine who wins a fight: athleticism, aggression, and technique. If you are deficient in any of those areas, you will lose most of the time against someone who is more complete. For example, if you are a lousy athlete who doesn’t understand effective aggression, but your technique is pretty, you’ll probably get killed fighting an athletic, aggressive fighter. If you are an effective aggressive technician but a poor athlete, competing against a highly athletic person with no concept of effective aggressiveness or fighting technique, you’ll most likely school him. Pay attention, man.
Umm.....doing rack pulls with an over/under grip barely if at all does anything to develop your grip lol. If you want a strong grip then do natural stonelifts. That will absolutely fry your grip and has a large number of advantages relevant to grappling that aren't possible with your conventional bodybuilding/powerlifting movements. Also, Ramsey despite your weightlifting you have a pretty fragile looking build. You're built alot like my brother when he was a teenager- narrow shoulders, sloped inward shoulders and a caved in chest. Give the natural stones a try as well as sled pushes and sled presses. Not only will you get more combat functional strength you'll have a more intimidating build as well.
@@RamseyDewey Your comment is beyond gay. Wow. Lmao, but seriously consider more functional strength training methods and you'll be very impressed by how quickly it turns you into a man. I wish you all the best Ramsey and keep up the great videos.
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Ima rock climber, I use to hang from door frames to increase my grip. I have since upgraded to a hang board that specifically designed for climbers to increase grip strength. Hope this helps someone
Liver shots it's amazing when you manage to land it perfectly and it's horrible when you get hit. I'm a boxer and during some sparrings sessions got hit in the liver and immediately felt like a bolt of electricity through my spine and 10 or 15 seconds later my legs gave up and stayed with one knee in the floor trying to recover.
Thanks for the info, I haven’t been hit in the liver YET lol
That's not what should happen in sparring...
@@bartimaus8738 definitely easy to drop someone or get dropped due to a liver shot even going moderately hard
Every time Bas Rutten hit the liver, the sound of that snap shot cracked the sound barrier.
Deadlifts without alternating grips are brutally hard on the grip muscles. The Okinawan Karate Masters seem to have some hardcore grip exercises and they've mutated their fingers and toes into weapons. As for liver kicks, Crocop was famous for using his instep or shins. I like aiming for shins and if they move back, it lands on the instep. If you aim the instep and they move back slightly and you land with the tips of the foot to the body, that's a sprained ankle.
As for punches to the liver, look up "White Chocolate boxer". He's a young boxer who has notorious liver shots and won many fights in the first few seconds or the first punch to the liver. He uses long-range extended arm punches which trade velocity for torque. The higher velocity might be more difficult to react to and harden against. If it's a slower moving short-range punch, the target has more time to harden the rib muscles and fade away to lessen the damage.
Alternating grip is a stupid trend in my opinion
A good liver shot eclipses a shot to the balls any day. I’ve taken many of both (both REALLY hurt) and from experience , the liver shot is total misery! Twice as bad as a groin shot IMO.
*Master Ken wants to know your location*
@@Philo68 lmao
is the damage similar tho?
I'm sure a groin shot (specially if not wearing jeans or heavy fabric) could bust your balls
@@Koraxus I ruptured my 1st testicle aged 16 - it wasn’t mine though…
I actually found out that I don't even notice ball shots when adrenalin is flowing through me lmao
Q: How much grip strength is enough for you?
Answer: closing the Captains of Crush #4,
or in other words: YES
Sheet...I have a way to go. I can only close the CoC #2 for a couple of reps. #3 will take a while.
Two good uses for grip strength are opening jar lids and crushing a soy boy's hand when shaking hands.
@@asimian8500 Man don't crush people's hands, that shows insecurity and low self esteem, only do it to assholes who do it to you first.
@@imambaybars3405
Found the coffee with soy milk creamer drinker here....
It reminds me of how sound vibrations move through the air when a drum or percussive instrument is hit. Instead, all of those ripples are pain being sent throughout the body.
@I Coroa ikr...fuck that. Lmao. In Dragonball Z Season 2, Goku threw just one pointed elbow into the gut of one of the bigger of the evil guys. Then it showed how the ripples of pain spread through his body until they overloaded his body and shattered everything. One strike and their body had been rendered useless. Those Japanese Animation Creators have some twisted minds...but I love the shows nonetheless. 🤣
The liver punch, a big reason why I avoid fights in da streetz. Because everyone knows, as soon as you step outside your house the level music starts, the timer counts down ... suddenly you approach some barrels and a guy named Axel Steele rambling about his next big business idea, chickens inside of barrels. No thanks!
What? Street fighter? XD I want to understand this but I don't 😂 but I can tell it's a funny comment XD
Grip strength for Mortal Kombat fatalities, new goal to aim for 👊👊👊
Dude, your content is seriously very high quality. Beats many other coaches out there. Not only are you knowledgeable, you're a warm person. I'd want to be on your team because when we win no one will be able to help themselves but get behind it (english?). I'm trying to say that even if people didn't want to, in their hearts they'd have to approve of the champions.
Cheers a lot bro. It's a shame we live worlds apart or I'd join ur gym freaking yesterday.
Very good explanation of slapping kick. Brilliant answer . Just to add. There two kinds of impact ( following your examples), one is a massive powerful it , on a lower rib, which is visual, you bring the rib bending towards inside , and hit the lever in that specific place, where the gal bladder is, and it produces over dose of bile form of hydrochloride, and it is toxic inorganic acid, that makes you mussy, even if you survive the pain.
The other way of slapping , causes a “wave” through soft tissue , that makes the fluids in the cells and tissues to move. In waves . Expanding through All the neural system .
The pain itself is like instantaneous emptying the axons of metabolites , like , when someone calmly blocks a head kick, on the body kick level. It is because his axons had no metabolites , after weight lose , in third round, and he thought he blocks the head but the hand comes short . Same at knockout . The CNS blocks itself , or the pain kills the men
Hey Coach!
Question, Did you ever do a video on arm wrestling? I'm curious what you think of those guys, especially SchoolBoy who has some insane strength despite his appearance. Like any sport I'm sure it's all in the technique but it's still incredible. Devon Larratt even called it a martial art since you're always vying for position.
The foundation of weight training comes down to grip and grit. Grab weights with as much intensity as possible so your wrists don't break don't stop until your fingers feel numb repeated until strong. And grit spend more time on your feet. Train standing most of your gym routine. Also fun fact about the liver. People who are right sided sleepers are more likely to have heart burn and headaches because the liver needs constant consolation from every fiber in your body.
YOU DIDN'T SAY GET OUT THERE AND TRAIN!
My instructor was big on Palm strikes. Taught us alot of bare handed fighting. A palm strike to the liver is not a fun thing. Oddly when it came to self defense he was very dedicated to using body shots. Yet, depending how you do the Palm strike, its much less of a slap than a punch. It can have alot of push to it as we all know yet the damage isn't superficial on the outside it always seems to go through you.
Ramsey, I have a liver punch question for you as well. We all know that processed sugar is damaging to the liver. Therefore, do you feel like a punch to the liver will do more damage to someone in a fight if the person doing the punching has a candy bar or something inside his fist?
Would love for you to answer this one in a video! 😀😀🙂🙂🙂
That's a good question, sounds quite plausible to me. But if you look into it logically: Do you know that excessive sugar is going to be stored as fat? It is possible for the candy to get sucked into the flesh of the opponent and being transformed into a big bulk of flesh. That means that this fat is going to absorb your punches energy and therefore doesn't do any damage to the body. There is also another problem that could come up for you... The possibility that your opponent is able to use this stored energy from your punch and release it as an Kamehameha.
Let's get now to the upsides: Like you already pointed out, excessive sugar is going to damage the liver and your opponent is going to get diabetes. But that doesn't do anything in that fight in terms of the effect that it is going to be taken.This unbelievably psychopathic malicious plan wouldn't work, only in long terms.
Slightly related to your question I would say it's more dangerous for someone who is a heavy drinker or it's taking antibiotics.
Slapping = kinetic energy delivered with the highest combined force. Maximum speed + greater surface area delivers the energy in less time and results in the highest rate of accelerating the target.
Humble as always, you are a mentor my brother!
Thanks for the advice Coach. I've used the liver shot to TKO successfully ( through luck mostly) although it was due to compression at a moment when my opponent wasn't braced. Have to say about a slap, during some Karate no-glove sparring a dude slapped my kidney once and I nearly threw up on the spot. Put on a brave face, but on the inside I was dying. Cheers.
There was a japanese karateka who fought in Dream FC who had a great liver kick. He hit with the ball of the foot when doing the left round house to the body, dangerous but effective. I've sadly forgot his name, but I believe it's a thing in karate to use that kick for a precision hit on the liver. The ball of the foot coming in from the side is a bit trickier to defend against also, since it curves inwards from the shin, so even if you block the kick with your arm the foot can find it's target behind the elbow.
O the grip strength for fatilities, thats actually not a bad idea... Having a grip.stromg enough to hurt just by gripping would actually be good... Imagine being able to grab someone with enough grip to crush an apple, or something, sinking the fingers, right on their forearm, as part of a setup for a throw...
Like, one of the throws i love is the hiptoss, grabbing the wrist or forearm, hooking under the oposite arm and throwing over the hip... I bet it would be much more efective if the grip alone would hurt alot
I understood exactly what you meant when you said slapping instead of digging. I like when you brought how with the tkd kicks the foot needs to do something as well and how that's fine for body shots. Shane fazen I love his two main video breakdowns of different ways to punch as well how he describes what is supposed to be happening while a punch is being thrown ( by the way I hate the term throwing a punch) from start to finish to get maximum damage as well what needs to happen after it. I know alot of people hate on arm punches but shane talked about adding shoulder pop to hooks I believe it was. For another one he says imagine like a whip. I have a good idea for the dude to help develop grip strength. Carry to thin handle buckets full of water up and down a hill.
I finally have some calluses on my hands form my pull-ups training and it helps with the grip as I can hold on longer. I probably have the worst grip but I'm getting better😉
Big forearms put mass behind punches in a very special way. Big forearms also extend the inertial moment when your muscle have started contracting but your arm hasn't moved yet. This loads more facial tissue deeper.
Squeeze the balls. Hang from bars, pick up heavy stuff, grab uniforms, but also train grip. Popeyes arms hit hard.
Who doesn't need more grip strength. Its amazing what strong hands do for you in lots of tasks not just rolling.
Coach your hands are massive I expect it don't take much for them to be very strong. Genetics makes a massive difference.
Deadlifts and hanging exercises are the best grip strength.
I saw your vid but I am talking about the whip like motion u have to generate with your torso and shoulder and finally having your arm swing release it.
I like the your perspective about defence with the arm swing but I really want to develop that whip-like power.
When I swing my arm I can really feel that whip but transitioning that to a kick is something I can't seem to do.
Cool. I definitely didn't know that about liver shots. Thank you.
I know this is unrelated but I lost my fight last night man, kinda bummed about it but John Dodson was the ref so that made it pretty cool !! 👊 thank you for all the tips ramsey
Cool! Oddly, one of things I remember most vividly about my fighting career was who the referees were. It’s not something I expected to remember or even notice, but yeah… it happened.
@@RamseyDewey i can’t even imagine the legendary fighters that you’ve met and trained with, I know I was starstruck by one of my hometown UFC heroes
Thanks for the info!
I've always wanted to get your opinion on what you think about the International MMA Federation and Amateur MMA in general. I feel like it gets far less the recognition it deserves
I have an unrelated question, Coach. Is it legal to fake an illegal move under the unified rules? For example can I fake a knee to the face of a downed opponent? Maybe I want him to cover up so I can get around to his back more easily.
I want to hear your take on the headbutt incident in UFC last night.
👍 I use grippers and Chinese medicine balls for grip strength exercises. As for using liver shots just go to a Mexican boxing gym. You'll learn quickly.🥊🥊
As a Taekwondo 1st Dan who has competed many times... and I agree with everything
Hi ramsey can you please do a video on Geoff Thompsons fence technique and how effective it is in self defence and how to ustilize it properly.
A hard blow to the nuts hurts devastatingly more than a tep. Was once kicked in the nuts so hard they were swollen for 3 days after the fight.
Devon Larrat the arm wrestling champ has a few interesting videos on what he does for grip strength. Kind of unorthodox stuff, but if you're trying to take it to the next level why not.
Yeah they teach this on Dim Mak. so like i always say: there is a lot of useful things on *every* martial art!
You can’t tell me having a hydraulic press for a hand isn’t a advantage.
Speed and sudden recoil.
thanks coach👍🏽💪🏽
You said it was an old video. But if you want to work on your grip, don't use reverse grip. In my opinion, you should never use reverse grip either way, but especially not if you want to focus on grip strength.
I landed once what i thought a light left body kick on a 100kg guy and to my suprise he stops and drops down... it was in sparring btw, since he was bigger than me i kinda got suprised for a bit, in my mind i just threw the lightest slap kick...
Never had a liver shot, closest was a solar plexus jab
Mark Preston and the Scotish Judo Team climbed canvas. Judoka think judo is not enough.
Dude having the grip strength to pull out a chunk of flesh would be badass and effctive as well. You would probably need a world class grip tho
Is pinching legal in mma? Lol
Pinching, clawing, twisting, scratching, or raking the flesh is a foul.
@@RamseyDewey ahh okay only fo da streetz then gotcha coach, thanks
Groin slaps feel good
Try finger tip push ups 1 ser to start
as a commercial fisherman who grabs line and does 100s of reps per day I can say that my grip strength routine is more extensive than most professional fighters. What does this mean though? Does this mean they won't be able to resist my takedown? No. Because proper technique can negate a strength advantage. At the end of the day it gives me a small advantage because maybe they aren't used to being gripped that firmly and this makes their techniques harder to execute. but not ineffective. Still, when I grip you, YOU WILL KNOW THAT YOU"VE BEEN GRIPPED!!!
so you're saying I should flick the liver with one finger? hahha.. awesome tip! I am training to box JUST to get a good liver punch in case I have to defend myself. this is one very simple but MASSIVELY important tip for sure! thanks again!
New MK fatality: death by overly firm handshake.
Hmmm the other good way to get better grip is climbing 🧗♀️
Yeah but lifting may be way quicker.
@@jestfullgremblim8002 maybe have too do tests to really find out what gives better results.
@@nickdavis5420 yeah, but i think that it would be easier with lifting because one can do that far more often. When you climb something, you gotta descend it if you want to climb it again. And climbing the same thing many times isn't that fun. So: you can climb a big mountain, but when you do it, you will be pretty much done for the day. But you can lift for many hours and without many breaks, and you can still lift more on another part of the day.
Grip strength:…And remember that there are no useful muscles in the fingers, so understand what you are trying to emphasize will help.
I boxed competitively and that's something I have been hearing these years, stronger and fitter guys than me drop to body shots and I dont get it, in boxing I dont remember ever defending the body in a conpetition, the only time I think I felt the liver was in a thai fight with a kick.
In bass rutten videos he goes full in is not a slap. How can you prove what you are saying? Any thing you hit would be more damaged if you hit hard and gompress it than if you slap it.
Why would it be different with the liver? Physics works different with the liver?
Sorry if you give me to choose between a hard punch or knee or kick to the groin or a slap i choose every tine the slap.
Boy did you misunderstand what was said here!
@@RamseyDewey maybe
3:02 tryna have that baki grip strength 😂
Lmao
I had a student nudge my liver with a knee man that hurt and like I said it was a nudge
I throw my liver shots with my thumb facing me (this is with boxing gloves, mind you) I saw GGG do it a lot and with this discovery I’ve managed to down a lot more people with my new body hook
Used to just hang from my rafters to build grip strength
Is anyone shocked that not only does Ramsey knows what a pimp slap is but doesn't think much of it? lol
N.G.O.T. A.T!
Coach if you train mma for a couple of years and stop, would you forget the vast majority of what it takes to fight? Like if you take a major break due to injuries etc.
I'm no coach, but I can tell you I can still do the aikido moves of questionable utility I learned 30 years ago.
Are we supposed to post questions in the comments or elsewhere?
Yep.
Squeeze balls are good to carry around.
Next question! Get out there and train?
If you’re trying to build abnormal grip strength/forearms, it pays to remember that the tendons, ligaments, and other connective tissues recover quite a bit more slowly than muscular hypertrophy occurs. I use a “low weight, high rep” approach to help avoid injury, but also eat your collagen. Niche info, but hope it helps someone
Just saying, dorian yates didn't do forearm workouts or grip strength exercises
I all now and then keep hearing about these whip or slap strikes, but has anyone really calculated the physics behind them? I have hard time believing that pulling your strike back instead of striking through, would have any positive impact on power of the strike. I may be wrong but if you think that, show me the math
No. We’re talking about speed. You want the math? Force = mass times acceleration.
There’s the math.
Grip strength also heavily applies to Wing chun, bruce lee consistently worked on his forearm muscles and grip strength to increase his grip strength on wing chun trapping 😃😃😃
it appears i was Early this time
Are you a Taoist?
@@jestfullgremblim8002 no
@@sagecho4510 *sad noises* i wanted some words of wisdom :'(
@@jestfullgremblim8002 oh i may not be a Taoist but i my have a nugget of wisdom...
Bas Rutten specifically says you have to "stab it in" to get the liver. Seems to me the opposite of what you're saying?
No. You’re nitpicking at semantics.
Without grip strength the rest of your strength barely matter. Can never have enough grip strength.
How did bas rutten rupture an opponent's spleen with a palm strike? Why dont we see palm strikes in mma?
Fist with wraps and gloves are far superior weapons to palm strikes in every measurable way by a significant margin. That’s why. Bas Rutten used palm strikes when he fought in Pancrase because close fists were illegal. When he fought in the UFC, he punched like everyone else.
How did Bas hurt people with palm strikes? He hit them really hard.
@@RamseyDewey have there been any spleen ruptures in competition similar the one bas did ?
It has to be like hook and uppercut at the same time and a high impact , but I assume you all know that.
Wel said mr vengeance 😂
My grip strength has never particularly failed me in mma practice, but when I deadlift or do chin ups, I almost exclusively use wraps does this have any detriment?
It is and straps also change the exercise slightly you can ALWAYS pull more with straps even if your grip strength is good enough to hold the weight without them. I would also highly recommend fatgripz the blue ones the extremes or manus grips depending on your hand size open hand strength is very important for grappling.
If you want to improve grip strength for deadlift, then don't use straps and use a double overhand grip. You might only be able to do it on your warm-up sets at first, but eventually you'll develop the strength to get triples at a substantial percentage of your 1RM.
@@roebuckmckinney I would just get an axle and do double overhand lifts with that problem solved.
@@GripDevil I worry about specificity with those. If you're trying to grip a 29 mm radius bar, then gripping a thicker bar should be more challenging, but do axle bars roll the same way as an Olympic bar? Also, I've seen some axle bars online that are sprayed in powdercoat, which is obviously not going to prepare you for the slipperiness of an Olympic bar.
And in any case, not every gym has an axle. I do think I'll buy one one for mine one of these days. Maybe Christmas time.
@@roebuckmckinney A bar should not be slippery anyway you should be chalked up.
I have one of the best liver shots in training , have to test it on humans soon .
Hey Ramsey I just started striking. I’m a shorter guy so when I shadow box, or practice on the bag should I be punching up to get used to hitting talker opponents ? Thanks
i think there's a video for that, do a little research and you'll probably find it
Squat with the weight on your chest . Not back. It is all the logic in biomechanics .
I don't think you can train for fatalities, I think I'd get dqd for brutality if I punch a hole through my oponnent
Ramsey, I was watching a video on Silat and the instructor pointed out that the value is in being proactive with your technique. So this says that Silat is a proactive art and isn't very good in terms of self defense since that requires you to be reactive. So what are the dangers of taking a proactive style like Silat, Muay Thai or BJJ and teaching it as a reactive style like Aikido?
silat is mostly garbage
@@Phospion Silat is actually good if you learn from legit sources. But yeah, if you learn from McDojos and scam artists, every fighting style is essentially garbage.
If you deadlift close to 500lb you may rip pieces of flesh.
Cool
Who do you think won mvp vs lima 2?
I was honestly surprised to see MVP winning the decision. I may have to watch it again, but on a first viewing, I though Lima won the fight. They’re probably trying to set up a trilogy fight since MVP is one of Belator’s biggest draws and Lima is the only man to have beaten him.
@@RamseyDewey that a border line conspiracy theory.
You have talked before about the karate hip punch and TaiChi forms coming from grappling techniques before. Is there any similar explanation for the karate knife hand?
As a striking technique, I can't imagine the situation where a knife hand is more practical or effective compared to a hammer fist.
It must be a pain to fight someone like Tyson Fury. Dude is just heavy. As someone who trains boxing, what training (considering you're in MMA) is needed to have better stamina against a heavy guy on the clinch?
Being stronger also helps?
Clinch fighting. If you want to get better in the clinch, spend some rounds doing nothing but clinch sparring.
I coach boxers as well, and have for many years, by the way.
Ramsey dude, that rack pull is in fact a pin squat, you just squated it up. And those liver shots turned pretty kinky pretty fast :)
A rack pull and a pinned squat are radically different lifts. Look them up.
@@RamseyDewey Yes they are, but you performed a pin squat in the capture, you just did not bare the load at your shoulders. Rack pull is a partial DL, where you are ment to crank your torso up by the action of hams and glutes, dude, you squated it, not pulled. I hate to be that guy but you might want to look in to it deeper.
@@demoncore5342 This is false lol one of the deadlift cues is that you try and push the earth away with your feet. You just shouldn't squat down to reach the bar which he didn't
@@GripDevil DL is a hinge, and he simply did not hinge, another cue is hips, once you clear the knee. He just squats it up, not that it's not beneficial to do partial pin squats, but that's not a DL just as leg press is not a squat. If you do what he did in the clip, you work the squat lock out, not DL lock out.
@@demoncore5342 The sole purpose of this exercise is building grip strength it has nothing to do with squatting or deadlifting lol. This exercise is called a rack pull above the knee the word deadlift isn't even in the exercise. Rack pulls above the knee is a terrible way to build lock out strength things like bands or chains would be way better this is a grip strength exercise if you are doing this to build your deadlift you are wasting your time.
huh so this is way Bas Rutten's liver slap was so effective
You gotta dig deep with your strike as if you're stabbing your opponent with an invisible knife I learned that thru a Bas Rutten instructional
Try kick
dont just push them with your knuckles but instead PUNCH THEM!
Ramsey needs to work on his pimp slap.
There's never enough grip strength
It's a glancing punch, doesn't actually require a tremendous amount of power
There's no such thing as enough grip strength (assuming it's balanced with extension strength) prove me wrong :v
Overtraining your grip can lead to carpal tunnel and arthritis in your hands. A lot of grip strength is good, but enough to avoid permanent long lasting injuries would qualify as enough for me.
@@juliansanderson839 that's why I said it has to be balanced with extension (and to a lesser degree deviation). And I don't mean doing exercises like reverse wrist curls where you still grip the db, I mean ones with completely extended fingers, it's surprisingly hard because of the lever.
PS I actually learned it the hard way by practicing thumb draw archery without doing the opposite movement. In fact I've also lost so much ROM in the thumb I can't straighten it when extending the wrist lol
muay thai kick him to the spleen ignore the liver then lol
Here’s a hypothetical, you often emphasize the importance of size, strength and athleticism to succeed in combat sports, and your style of fighting is very much second to that. So let’s say you have the most freakish athlete in the world, let’s just use Brock Lesnar, and all you did was teach them some bullshido styles, let’s say they are a black belt in Hapkido, Aikido, Krav Maga, Systema, Tai Chi Forms, Jeet Kune Do, Wing Chun, form based “inner” Kung fu styles, Pressure Point fighting etc. Could that version of Brock Lesnar who only trained in all that crap still win a UFC title? And for fun let’s say he has access to all the steroids in the world.
False. I teach that three things determine who wins a fight: athleticism, aggression, and technique. If you are deficient in any of those areas, you will lose most of the time against someone who is more complete. For example, if you are a lousy athlete who doesn’t understand effective aggression, but your technique is pretty, you’ll probably get killed fighting an athletic, aggressive fighter. If you are an effective aggressive technician but a poor athlete, competing against a highly athletic person with no concept of effective aggressiveness or fighting technique, you’ll most likely school him.
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Umm.....doing rack pulls with an over/under grip barely if at all does anything to develop your grip lol. If you want a strong grip then do natural stonelifts. That will absolutely fry your grip and has a large number of advantages relevant to grappling that aren't possible with your conventional bodybuilding/powerlifting movements. Also, Ramsey despite your weightlifting you have a pretty fragile looking build. You're built alot like my brother when he was a teenager- narrow shoulders, sloped inward shoulders and a caved in chest. Give the natural stones a try as well as sled pushes and sled presses. Not only will you get more combat functional strength you'll have a more intimidating build as well.
This comment is beyond precious. Wow.
@@RamseyDewey Your comment is beyond gay. Wow. Lmao, but seriously consider more functional strength training methods and you'll be very impressed by how quickly it turns you into a man. I wish you all the best Ramsey and keep up the great videos.