I can't stretch that enough: the setup is everything. Without setting the right conditions, no technique is gonna work. The same goes for your voice: this is the right moment to become the new Barry White.
Great video. I was always bad at infighting and my coach telling me to "stick to what i know" and avoid going toe to toe at all costs didn't exactly make me better at infighting. Free sparring breeds one-trick-ponys, not complete fighters.
@@poleag This is VERY true, especially with the Shotokan fighters. All they do is front kick followed with a reverse punch. They do it so much that you can almost set your watch by it, but they have it so refined that there is literally no telegraphing when they do it.
I’m currently in Thailand training MuayThai, I’ve been here since november. Compared to back home (England) The sparring is so light, allmost touch sparring, some of the gym’s i’ve trained at sparr every day so it has to be light, i prefer it to back home. A sparr can easily turn into a fight & neither of us learn anything. I’ve noticed since the rise of “Spar Wars” videos online people think thats the correct way to sparr because they see elite level pros do it
The thing is that back in the day it was thought that you had to "train as you fight", so sparr very hard because a real fight is also hard. But sparring hard the whole time leads to injuries, wrong learning of techniques and no real progress. The muay thais fight very often, so logically they don't want to get hurt in sparring (one reason they often only sparr very light), but boxing also has progressed from "sparring hard every week" to "sparring hard once a month maximum", because hard sparring is usually just useless. Of course you learn to take a blow, which is very important, but you can't make real progress in form, technique or fatigue.
Totally agree. We call it "situational sparring". People always go on about how important is to be sparring and blah blah, but what they're usually thinking of is simply free sparring and/or rolling. That's fine if you're there to have fun, move and train recreationally, but the problem is that it inevitably turns into playfighting. You get too used to that smooth, safe, inconsequential tempo and intensity, you end up doing what you always do and what you feel good about and you don't really improve or learn anything.
I spar light to avoid brain damage as much as possible. If you want to improve, you'll try new things and improve. I find that not getting cracked when I mess up a new thing makes me way more likely to experiment. Could be entirely up to the individual
Whats the alternative? go out and fight for real. Sparring and harder sparing are the closest thing you are going to get to getting hit hard, dealing with your energy, adrenaline etc.. Spar different people enter tournaments is the next step up. It will help you in a real fight
I have optimal sparring partners and free sparring if we find stuff that works we usually roast each other for not getting out of the positions, if they don't learn it themselves we look what's wrong and then start drilling how to fix that hole in the game. goal is to never have any aces up your sleeve with the trusted sparring partners.
2:30 Well said about positional sparring, agreed 100%. Traditional forms are GREAT for positional sparring because they give you a firm foundation. It works for stand up just as well as ground fighting.
And speaking of sparring, my sparring days are over. I’m 57, with forced retirement from getting a leg and hip injury on the job, so it’s solo training for me now. Working for a school district for 20 years really paid off financially in regard to this, I’m set for life financially. It’s times like this where traditional forms shine. And working out on the wooden dummy helps solo training too.
That all makes sense - and rang true for me especially when you mentioned the BJJ omoplata scenario. Seems every jiu jitsu spot I've gone to does exactly that
as someone who started martial arts precisely from an interest in fighting games, these are pearls of wisdom. i actually got better at those games after learning timing & positioning in the dojo lol
Oh I remember some sparring we did recently where we were told we couldn't use any back leg kicks. That was an experience for me and made me realise how much I rely on my back leg front kicks to pressure my opponents and cover distance. Varied sparring with additional limitations can be a great way to learn. I still like my kicks, but I have been trying to work on some better combos when I am toe to toe. It is helping me learn a lot.
Enjoying your capoeira sequences from 12:45. Always enjoy the kicks, but even better to see the integrations with grappling that you mention capoeiristas should practice more often.
A god portion of capoeira is shadow wrestling. It's just you stabilize with your arms instead of having the person's body. I started to notice it all after a video ramsey did with sensei seth. Also, some of the standing parts can resemble exaggerated boxing movements.
In wrestling, we called what you call sequences drills, and we called positional sparring live situation, and sparring was just live wrestling. Those of us who were better or had a position on varsity, you were held to a higher standard, and had to go hard during all aspects of practice or we would potentially get the whole team additional punitive conditioning work. It's all necessary, but live and live situation are essential IMO.
Damn. Loads of insight here in this video. Thank you so much for uploading man. It really is great to have someone willing to share this kind of wisdom with all of us. It isn't common like one would think in the modern age. If anything, it's getting more rare.
So, free sparring is like playing a full chess match, and position sparring is those chess puzzles where you’re put in a certain situation and try to find the solution in a certain number of moves.
I have been training Muay Thai here in Thailand during my retirement, and I wish more Thai coaches understood this concept better. When you try to explain partner drills, or focused sparring drills, they don’t understand. Only 1 out of 5 trained this way. I have had others that said “sparring is from instinct.” It has been a major source of headaches. And it drives my translator (girlfriend) crazy when she has to try to communicate what I want to my trainers
Maybe you can intentionally put yourself in a position to practice what you need in your sparring session. Like if you need to work on kick defense try to draw your parnter into kicking or if you need to work on clinch tighten your defense for everything except for the clinch. Who said that in free sparring you have to aim to win? Use it for what you want.
Ramsey is 💯 right! Free sparring made me feel much weaker than I actually was, with all these restrictions. But then, ya know, out in da screetz, it was a totally different thang! Man, I can't even tell y'all how incredible I did there!💪💪💪
You can do free sparring and give yourself a task beforehand like "Try to apply technique X at least 5 times in each sparring round." That way you drill your technique in a somewhat realistic situation. What's important there is the mindset to not try to "win" a sparring round (because then that happens what Ramsey said, you fall back to the techniques you're already good and comfortable at). You need to accept that you'll fail most of the times with the technique you want to train until it eventually works.
I took over a cardio kickboxing gym a couple years ago. I’ve had to peel back the curtain for a lot of the veteran members who’ve developed so many bad habits from just hitting a bag hard… We now spar 3 times a week and focus purely on defense, counters, and free sparing. It’s done nicely, but I can see how as they develop more if they don’t pick it up, it’ll create bad habits as well.
Awesome video coach, I love the concept of progressive resistance, I like to teach “mission based” sparring where the intention is to work on a specific technique or goal, sparring just for the hell of it is ok but as you say you ain’t likely to learn anything
Thanks for another great explanation! Really makes me want want to go out there and train! :P More seriously, though, my training partner had to leave he city entirely (they were from a different region) due to losing their job & then their apartment and not finding anything else before they ran out of $... It was a great deal, too, since they were going to a local bjj gym and then practicing with me! :) I guess I'll have to find someone else to convince... though all of my current friends are not into any grappling martial arts (or any martial arts, really) and/or are too unfit to practice in their current state. Time to hunt! :S
I like your analogy about fighting games. I’ve used it as well, and I’m blessed to have sparring experience with friends that know how to spar properly without treating it like a fight. Also, good explanation about sparring to get better at scenarios. That makes a lot of sense.
Absolutely agree that hard sparring should be limited. Only technical sparring can create a false sense of confidence in another regard I didn't hear you mention: not everybody has the chin or the grit to make it once real punches start landing. Sifu says: wild punch defeats the great master!
The main issue with any kind of sparring is speed. If you go at 80% power with correct technique, that means 80% speed too. You get used to thinking you can react in time to what you can't, block/deflect in ways that you can't, throw strikes from angles that will have no real power when done at full speed, etc etc. Then when you go at full speed, nothing works the way you thought it did.
Nailed it. When you start hard sparring you gas from moving so fast too and thats a way bigger shock than getting hit hard (for me at least, my chin is pretty good)
Speed doesn’t automatically mean power, unless you sit on your punches or punch through. Pull back. Have you never tried punching a bag fast without moving it? It’s about control. Beginners cannot do it because they tend to get too tense. So they punch not to fast, but punch hard enough to hurt more advanced boxers if the more advanced boxer is too nice. That’s why you gotta plant a bit stiff jab every now and then, to keep some distance.
The video game analogy works even better than I think you realize as a non-gamer. Fighting games have a tutorial/practice mode where you can try to nail your specials on an opponent with a pre-set difficulty level. You can have it stand there and do nothing or have it fight back. Your health bars are infinite and the charge bar or whatever you need to hit your special in a real match are always full so you can practice it again and again until you can nail it at will. Then you can finally beat your older brother for once.
Totally agree. I Box. But purposely take the time to work on areas that I'm bad at. Being tall i worked on infighting, clinches for a couple of months and basically anywhere people of my build is 'poor' at. Then i work on things like out fighting and working on what my build is best for. Even if im not the best any anything but i dont find my self in a position where i cant work
I always set goals when free sparring... Otherwise I will just goof around. But if I decide beforehand to try and go for specific strategies, I feel like I get a lot more out of the free sparring. At the very least I become aware of the holes in my game, when I'm unsuccessful with the plan.
You're talking about the 2nd I in the 3 I's of training that Matt Thornton, founder of SBG wrote about over 20 years ago, Introduction of a technique, Isolated sparring and Integration into free sparring. Interesting.
It depends on your natural talent and how hard you train. I did 1 hour cardio kickboxing and 2 hours traditional karate for 6 years, 5 days per week. I did full contact sparring for 6 years worth of Isshinryu karate training. I eventually got to where I could beat a 235 lbs natural heavyweight 2nd Dan who was an ex-marine in sparring when I was a natural 185lbs black belt candidate. I could also disarm him when he had an escrima stick vs me being unarmed. What's more, I can train people to be that good at martial arts.
I'm of the mindset that grappling, Judo, BJJ is great for 100% sessions..!! Striking, however, I prefer light to moderate...!! Too easy to get hurt..!! All 3-5 times per week 1hr sessions, good to go..!! Personally, once you reach a certain level, it's kind of like riding a bike..!! You pick back up very quickly even after long absences..!! At that point shadow drilling becomes invaluable and is where the sequence development blossoms..!!
We sparred a few times in my kickboxing club and once we went to do a light contact kickboxing match we realized how unprepared we were. 🙈 We have sparred light but like not even light but with good quality. Light with bad quality. Pulling shots to the extent that we(or at least I) can't perform them proper in the match. Or if the match was just the wake up call 🤷♂️
Unfortunately, the context of some real life experience is necessary before any simulation will be truly productive- including, but not limited to sparring, bagwork, and shadow boxing.
Free sparing has its use, particularly when you spar with someone totally new to you. I wouldn't say you won't get better, but it is very ineffective way. The problem with it, is you usually fall back to you usual hobby. You can improve over time, but it would be very very slow, assume you do try new things and work on your weakness.
I said "you can thrash around like a stupid white belt", not that all white belts thrash around in a stupid fashion, or that you are stupid because of your rank.
How dare you the rank stupidity of my white belt thrashing? Meet me at midnight in the alley behind Fang's Bike & Bar in Boksburg, South Africa, and we'll sort this out in da streets!
@@RamseyDewey How dare you impugn the rank stupidity of my white-beltist-thrashing? Meet me at midnight in the alley behind Fang's Bike & Bar in Boksburg, South Africa, and we'll sort this out in da streetz!
Salaam, Coach Ramsey! I’ve a questioned for you about sparring larger partners. I’m an average 5’10”, and my (kickboxing) sparring partners range from a relatively newbie in Muay Thai, to my BJJ coach who has over 30 (pro) mma fights; but even with him I’m not nervous or unsure what to do when we spar. But I have one classmate that just causes my brain to freeze. He’s a great martial artist that just happens to be 6’4”, and while not fat by any means, he outweighs me (I’m 150lbs for context) by at least 80lbs, and is just a solid man all the way around. And whenever we spar, my brain just shrugs as what to do. Do you have any advice for facing larger sparring partners when you’re on the smaller side. This is for striking (kickboxing/Muay Thai) I should say. Thanks again!
What if the "free sparring" is with people who know you and focus on exploiting your weaknesses? And there's a whole group, of all sizes and body types? And you have to "tap out" for a round to be over? And we're all good friends who look out for each other, but also toughen each other up.
Question. Just discovered your cntent and enjoying it. I have just moved to Tokyo, almost 40, BJJ blue belt, back injury so can't really wrestle but ground work at 50%intensity is ok. Want to train for health, self defence and social. Looking to add striking as have never trained it so naturallt is a big hole in my abilities. Options- 1- Big kickboxing gym(Target Sugamo), fun trainers nice facilities, lots of people who speak English. 2 - BJJ gym(Triforce), medium size, nice trainers. 3- Small MMA gym (Katana mma), 2-6 a class, not much English spoken. Would appreciate your thoughts! :) P.s. the XMartial gear looks good. I john Danaher an affiliate?! Looking at my budget to see if I can afford 2. Tried Muay Thai and was really fun but the gym is allot further than these 3.
I do Catch wrestling and began working from the bottom as i would gas out. Currently in MMA im practing kick boxing as my boxing was good but when adding kicks i immediately realized how screwed i was as i haven't practiced on a live opponent. Folks forget you're a coach and have sound advice.
Looks like some of the sword guys are responding to your "weapons sparring kinda sucks" video, I haven't watched them yet but I have them saved for later.
Of course they did. They think it's about them, and they're all arguing the strawman "Ramsey thinks weapons sparring is pointless". And as a result, 96% of the people commenting on that video (according to youtube annalytics) didn't even watch it, and the fans of these other channels came to my comments section to parrot the aforementioned straw man (ie: a different argument than the one I actually made which is easier to refute) I gave these commenters the benefit of a doubt at first, and tried to reason with them. But no, they are not interested in reason, they want a witch hunt. Some of those weirdos made me question the limits of human stupidity, to be honest.
@@RamseyDewey one commenter said that your argument that sparring is different from the real thing works against you since you aren't try to kill each other in sparring or not dislocated limbs, it was pretty ridiculous. I thought what you said was actually a good point to your argument, I was going to reply but decided it was pointless.
@@donovankennedy1113 🤣Oh wow! My argument that sparring is different from fighting is contradicted by the fact that sparring is different than fighting- pure genius!
Every now and then when I interact with someone in the combat sports community. Who I guess gets rubbed the wrong way. They'll say I don't train at first, then they'll ask around. Only the people at the last gym I trained at it seems. This is usually what they start talking about in their next video/post "escape from bottom" Its an area I had an issue with once. This is the only time in the 3yrs of training as an adult (I started when I was 12 wrestling/Jujitsu) where I got submitted cause I couldn't escape from bottom. The guy was 6' 4", 320lbs, our best competition blue belt ultra heavyweight. Me (220-240lbs at the time) and like one other guy (the blackbelt asst. Coach 185lbs who also trained since he was 12) were the only ones able to submit him in the gym while I was there. Me and big country locked horns a few times tho. He was good in the gi which I've submitted him in. If my former teammates are honest, they'll acknowledge that. This ultra heavyweight was really good at getting grips on my lappels or sleeves and using trips then going knee on belly and transitioning to mount he even learned some good sweeps from bottom towards the end. It's was tuff last time we rolled for me I was recovering from Covid the gyms had just opened back up and my conditioning was at like 60%. He had just added all thes tools to his arsenal. First time we had gone live was a gi day where I submitted him. He didn't really know what he was doing yet. He kept trying to shoot blast doubles even tho I have a Lower center of gravity than him ( I'm 5' 10"). I made it clear early on I was able to sprawl and stuff all of his takedown attempts never the less he continued to try to brute force me. The last half hearted attempt he made to shoot on me I sprawled and then used a Greco-Roman style move. I learned it my first year of wrestling we called it the chancery. I sprawl and stuff his takedown attempt while pressing the back of his head down usually with my right palm. I Snake that hand under his chin and around his neck to where I have him in a front head lock with my right arm. Use the opposite arm to get the under hook. Turn clock wise and circle so you end up chest to chest in side control. In wrestling that's a pin in BJJ/MMA I go knee on belly to full mount a taste of his own medicine perhaps. At that point he was completely gassed out. I didn't even get to properly submit him he cardio tapped. This was in 2019 I was a white belt when this happened I Improved as well especially with binging YT videos.😁 Second time it was a stale mate with no gi he couldn't get ahold of me couldn't get a successful takedown especially with no grips. Never saw him at a no gi practice again. The third and last time we rolled was gi. The gym had just reopened after months due to Covid, which I had like 2 days prior but wanted to ease back in. Dude was there. we warmed up, we drilled and went live. He had been studying as well. He figured out that if he grips my lappels and sleeves, he doesn't have to be fast or exert nearly as much energy. He could use his longer wider legs to tilt and sweep me. He must've been watching judo videos. When I started breaking the grips and he couldn't take me down anymore, he started complaining, I "Was I trying to snap his fingers?" Even tho when he got on top and went for a Kimura he shoved his elbow as hard as he could into my temple. so I'm not real sorry about that.😂Anyways I felt like I had learned what I needed to learn with grappling for MMA, my ultimate goal. I think he caught on an off day. If he wanted to run it back, I'd give it to him in grappling or MMA. I started boxing at 16, he doesn't have better hands than me. He was in his mid to late 30s when I was 23. I figured I'd recover from Covid continue skill building for MMA. Focus on getting good at Muay Thai. I have the opportunity to run it back with him later in life if he still wants smoke. Sifu Dewey I believe if I trained at you're gym your respect and appreciation for me would grow drastically. I understand some things can't be conveyed with words. You have to demonstrate for people to feel you. I'm getting back to training 2x a day 6x a week. It's been a bit of a financial journey as well funding my gym, nutrition, travel and competition expenses. I'm figuring it out tho, I plan to have content for YT and amateur bouts for 185lbs by August at the latest.
Hey coach I have a question regarding sparring round times and intensity. Would you say there's a optimal round time and intensity? Like 5min for mma, 3min for kickboxing etc (basically competition times?) Or is there any good in variety. Like short rounds with higher intensity sometimes and longer, lighter rounds at other times? Or even short light rounds, Sometimes even longer harder rounds? I'm asking because I found out the hard way that any training done without proper, free resistance is bound to fail, even when the techniques would otherwise be good. I'm (trying to) recover ever since and one of the best things I've found so far was sparring, but I just don't have the experience or data ppol to make sense of what I see. Btw, all of that goes for positional sparring primarily, since a lot of great coaches recommended that over free sparring.
I hope your voice feels better already! I do have a question that came from this video regarding the positional sparring with increasing steps of removal from the end game. I apologize in advance - I'm coming down with something myself, so I have exactly one brain cell and can't really figure out how to formulate my question concisely. In short, is there a good formula for applying this to striking? What should be the first level, and how to appropriately raise the level of resistance? More detail about where my gap in understanding lies: In grappling it's fairly obvious, and in self defence as well, but I've found it difficult to apply the same method for striking where there is no constant contact with the partner. It often feels like there is a step missing between fully mannequin training and a fully resisting opponent, and I'm not sure how to adjust the opponent's reaction in sync with the hitter's. Secondly, should learning a new combo (assume beginner-ish practicioners) start from the last technique/step of the combo like in your grappling example, even though it might be from an awkward angle that would never happen without a set-up? I've been starting to think yes, though I haven't seen striking combos taught this way after 1-2-3 and 1-2-low kick have been learned. I'm sure there are tons of videos about this already on youtube, but I don't really know how to find them. However I do apologize if this has been talked to death already, and will appreciate a nod to the direction of the existing videos! 🙏 (if you decide to use this as a question in a video, you can just call me Julia instead of trying to pronounce... that.)
Processionals always says that it's not needed to have so much hard sparring but most instructor's i know lives for the sparring war's 😅 they aren't going to become professionals fighters again but want to have serious resistance and have fun 😊 if you are already passed 35 and done martial arts most of your life and isn't ever going to become much better striker's at least you just hanging in there is just Good enough to survive three rounds with a average professional then sparr hard with those who likes it and thinks the fun overweights the risk by a lot..yeah yeah i know it doesn't make you smarter or much better you basically just becomes really good at sparring,, like you get good at anything else that is fun..
silly fun question here : how would you make the actual ULTIMATE fighter? as in you get a kid (or think back to when you were a kid and apply the same question) to train and you can put him/her through whatever training you see fit. caviat: the answer cannot be just "put him/her on MMA and keep him there." for example: i send him first to boxing for 2-3 years and he does MMA on the side (kid is 6 years old), next is muay Thai for another 2 years with again MMA on the side, next is BJJ with MMA on the side, etc. etc.
Can’t you achieve the same effect as positional sparring by going into free sparring with specific goals? “This round my goal is to stay in the pocket the whole round, rather than stay in my usual range”
No. Specific goals during a five minute round of free sparring can be useful, but it will not give you the same experience as ten 30 second goes of positional sparring with a specific goal.
ec·o·log·i·cal adjective relating to or concerned with the relation of living organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings What do you mean by that?
@@RamseyDewey it’s a method of learning martial arts with an emphasis on developing skill over developing technique. It’s been talked about a lot in the bjj community but I’ve been seeing it talked about in mma and muy Thai gyms. Rather than demonstrating, and then drilling a technique, coaches instead have their students participate in extremely limited situational sparring/gameswith very clear goals in mind. They pretty much don’t practice technique if I’m right, at least very little from what I hear. It’s sounds like gyms that focus on this style of training are more active throughout the class. Person in the top closed guard needs to stand all the way up and person on bottom must keep them down on the ground is an example I tried with some child students the other day. I only just recently heard of this but I guess it’s becoming increasingly popular, so wondered if you had come across it and if you had any thoughts on the positives and negatives of training this way.
Hello, sir. I love your channel. First question: As a coach and training partner, how do you identify specific positions and objectives for positional sparring? Put in another way, are there key positional sparring games that every fighter needs to learn to play? I ask because I hate going to most gyms (except for their open mats) because I find the way most places drill techniques to usually be pretty pointless and not much fun. I also don't care for the insanely long warmups of situps and running around in circles and doing jumping jacks! However, I love the positional sparring/ecological/games based approach, and I train with a few of my friends that way whenever we can. But I lack experience in many aspects of fighting. So I am basically always researching TH-cam for ideas and just experimenting without knowing exactly what I'm doing. Second question: If you wanted to train a fighter to maximize their use of dodging instead of blocking, how would you do that? I ask because the older I get the less I want to get hit and I also find the quality of sparring to be more fun when it's primarily a dodging thing. Third question: I realize full well that being a good person doesn't make anyone a good fighter (physically) and vice versa, but do you find that your Christian faith or any spiritual insights you may have had have influenced the way you fight, train, or coach? I ask because I'm really just curious. Last question: In your professional opinion , if John Wick from John Wick 2 went toe to toe with the Predator from Predator 2, who would win?
Sadly, the only 100% sure way to see the content that vou subscribe to is to be proactive and look it up directly like in the old days of TH-cam before subscriptions were a thing. A lot of my own subscriptions don't even show up in the subscription feed anymore (not speaking of the home page recommendations)
How effective would grappling techniques from earth martial arts such as Judo, Jui-Jitsu Western Wrestling ect be against aliens? Would they work or woruld humans need to invent a new martial art to grapple with them?
Ramsey,is it fine if I switch to MMA after few months of boxing? I'm nowhere near good at boxing but I like the idea of incorporating kicks,takedown,knees,elbows and clinches more than just punching. Practically,I like the idea of having options.I have been practising low/leg kicks alone and Conditioning my shins as well
How do you navigate the social pleasantries if most of your sparring partners (in a class) have control but a few don't? The obvious answer is probably asking them to not throw as hard, but I'm very non-confrontational. Just had my first day and left with a headache and stiff neck. I only want to go super light/technical but some people clearly don't. Thanks!
Question: What does positional sparing look like for striking? Seems like the natural tendency to want to square up when in a disadvantageous position, and the speed at which it happens, would make all starting positions revert pretty quickly to a basic squared-up position…
Really interesting stuff. Food for thought. My follow-up question would be, how would you approach making the most of your rolling time when there's a language barrier?
@@RamseyDewey How do you negotiate what you're trying to accomplish, what the intention of the session is and so on when you don't share a language? It's hard to be specific and do much beyond go at it.
@@Mokujinko Google can do voice to text/speech pretty well now with most of the major languages on the planet. A massive improvement over what it was 15 years ago.
What positional sparring would you recommend for muay thai, I'd imagine it'd be different ranges you have to stick to and then clinch fighting. But how would you enforce long range for example? It's easy to constrict distance, but how would you make sure to keep it? Would a rope tied between the two combatants that must never be slack work?
@@RamseyDewey that black and red stripped one sleever sure looked like a cut off shock but " clearly" I was just pulling your " socks" with the choice of attire sir. Mind you, I will only make fun from a far :) lol
Heres a question I have coach. I joined a local amateur boxing club for fitness and was excited to take part in sparring and even experienced both light and hard sparring here and there. I took a year off and now my excitement for sparring is got. Im just doing this for fitness and not.to compete. My question is is it normal to have fallen out of love with sparring?
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Damn, coaches voice is even smoother than usual. He's about to release an R&B album soon lol.
Coach got me acting up.
The new Barry White.
@@nomad155 ayooooooooo
He should try ASMR lol
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🎶’cause fights involve more than one person, baby🎶
🎶ooooh, specifically… two🎶
Well, I for one don´t need to spar to be delusional about my fighting skills.
I can't stretch that enough: the setup is everything. Without setting the right conditions, no technique is gonna work.
The same goes for your voice: this is the right moment to become the new Barry White.
Great video.
I was always bad at infighting and my coach telling me to "stick to what i know" and avoid going toe to toe at all costs didn't exactly make me better at infighting.
Free sparring breeds one-trick-ponys, not complete fighters.
But also... don't be surprised when the one-trick-pony catches you with the one trick. He's really, really, good at it.
@@poleag This is VERY true, especially with the Shotokan fighters. All they do is front kick followed with a reverse punch. They do it so much that you can almost set your watch by it, but they have it so refined that there is literally no telegraphing when they do it.
"Dont fear the man that pratices 1000 techniques 1 time fear the man that practices 1 technique 1000 times" Bruce Sun Tzu Einstein
Yeah well, thats bullshit in fighting.
I’m currently in Thailand training MuayThai, I’ve been here since november. Compared to back home (England) The sparring is so light, allmost touch sparring, some of the gym’s i’ve trained at sparr every day so it has to be light, i prefer it to back home. A sparr can easily turn into a fight & neither of us learn anything.
I’ve noticed since the rise of “Spar Wars” videos online people think thats the correct way to sparr because they see elite level pros do it
The thing is that back in the day it was thought that you had to "train as you fight", so sparr very hard because a real fight is also hard. But sparring hard the whole time leads to injuries, wrong learning of techniques and no real progress.
The muay thais fight very often, so logically they don't want to get hurt in sparring (one reason they often only sparr very light), but boxing also has progressed from "sparring hard every week" to "sparring hard once a month maximum", because hard sparring is usually just useless. Of course you learn to take a blow, which is very important, but you can't make real progress in form, technique or fatigue.
You joined a tourist gym where they try not to hurt the foreigners. Congrats.
@@GuyInAHotdogSuit69 Tourist gym’s dont have fighters on One 👍🏻you clearly dont understand what your talking about
@@ORIGINOLINDIVIDUAL You're getting scammed lil bro
@@GuyInAHotdogSuit69 Its common knowledge that the standard intensity of sparrings in Tailand is pretty light, idk what ure going about
awesome video!
Thanks Jeff!
Totally agree. We call it "situational sparring". People always go on about how important is to be sparring and blah blah, but what they're usually thinking of is simply free sparring and/or rolling. That's fine if you're there to have fun, move and train recreationally, but the problem is that it inevitably turns into playfighting. You get too used to that smooth, safe, inconsequential tempo and intensity, you end up doing what you always do and what you feel good about and you don't really improve or learn anything.
I spar light to avoid brain damage as much as possible. If you want to improve, you'll try new things and improve. I find that not getting cracked when I mess up a new thing makes me way more likely to experiment. Could be entirely up to the individual
Whats the alternative? go out and fight for real. Sparring and harder sparing are the closest thing you are going to get to getting hit hard, dealing with your energy, adrenaline etc.. Spar different people enter tournaments is the next step up. It will help you in a real fight
@@tlb963 Just quit all together since you're such a coward
@@ksang0013 hurr durr I so tough I got cte signs at 27. Shut the fuck up knucklehead.
Are you being serious?@ksang0013
I have optimal sparring partners and free sparring if we find stuff that works we usually roast each other for not getting out of the positions, if they don't learn it themselves we look what's wrong and then start drilling how to fix that hole in the game. goal is to never have any aces up your sleeve with the trusted sparring partners.
2:30 Well said about positional sparring, agreed 100%. Traditional forms are GREAT for positional sparring because they give you a firm foundation. It works for stand up just as well as ground fighting.
And speaking of sparring, my sparring days are over. I’m 57, with forced retirement from getting a leg and hip injury on the job, so it’s solo training for me now. Working for a school district for 20 years really paid off financially in regard to this, I’m set for life financially.
It’s times like this where traditional forms shine. And working out on the wooden dummy helps solo training too.
That being mounted to triangle transition was so goddamn sick. Wow
That all makes sense - and rang true for me especially when you mentioned the BJJ omoplata scenario. Seems every jiu jitsu spot I've gone to does exactly that
as someone who started martial arts precisely from an interest in fighting games, these are pearls of wisdom. i actually got better at those games after learning timing & positioning in the dojo lol
Oh I remember some sparring we did recently where we were told we couldn't use any back leg kicks. That was an experience for me and made me realise how much I rely on my back leg front kicks to pressure my opponents and cover distance. Varied sparring with additional limitations can be a great way to learn.
I still like my kicks, but I have been trying to work on some better combos when I am toe to toe. It is helping me learn a lot.
When I trained boxing they had us open sparring sessions with a few rounds of jab only or straights only or lead hand only.
Greetings MArts community..love free sparring along with rolling 💯
Enjoying your capoeira sequences from 12:45. Always enjoy the kicks, but even better to see the integrations with grappling that you mention capoeiristas should practice more often.
A god portion of capoeira is shadow wrestling. It's just you stabilize with your arms instead of having the person's body. I started to notice it all after a video ramsey did with sensei seth. Also, some of the standing parts can resemble exaggerated boxing movements.
In wrestling, we called what you call sequences drills, and we called positional sparring live situation, and sparring was just live wrestling. Those of us who were better or had a position on varsity, you were held to a higher standard, and had to go hard during all aspects of practice or we would potentially get the whole team additional punitive conditioning work. It's all necessary, but live and live situation are essential IMO.
You are my hero
Thanks Always great Coach 🙏💪🙇♂️🥋🥊
We're getting a bit of a deluge of Coach videos and I'm here for it! Hoping for better knee health as always!!!
Damn. Loads of insight here in this video. Thank you so much for uploading man. It really is great to have someone willing to share this kind of wisdom with all of us. It isn't common like one would think in the modern age. If anything, it's getting more rare.
Oh my God, another one! Can you keep em coming daily cave dragon Ramsey!❤
So, free sparring is like playing a full chess match, and position sparring is those chess puzzles where you’re put in a certain situation and try to find the solution in a certain number of moves.
Basically yes.
I have been training Muay Thai here in Thailand during my retirement, and I wish more Thai coaches understood this concept better. When you try to explain partner drills, or focused sparring drills, they don’t understand. Only 1 out of 5 trained this way. I have had others that said “sparring is from instinct.” It has been a major source of headaches. And it drives my translator (girlfriend) crazy when she has to try to communicate what I want to my trainers
Maybe you can intentionally put yourself in a position to practice what you need in your sparring session. Like if you need to work on kick defense try to draw your parnter into kicking or if you need to work on clinch tighten your defense for everything except for the clinch. Who said that in free sparring you have to aim to win? Use it for what you want.
Ramsey is 💯 right! Free sparring made me feel much weaker than I actually was, with all these restrictions.
But then, ya know, out in da screetz, it was a totally different thang!
Man, I can't even tell y'all how incredible I did there!💪💪💪
fo' da streetz!!!
You can do free sparring and give yourself a task beforehand like "Try to apply technique X at least 5 times in each sparring round." That way you drill your technique in a somewhat realistic situation. What's important there is the mindset to not try to "win" a sparring round (because then that happens what Ramsey said, you fall back to the techniques you're already good and comfortable at). You need to accept that you'll fail most of the times with the technique you want to train until it eventually works.
Thank you, Mr. Dewey. You are a great teacher, to say the least.
i need to make friends because i can't dictate these things at my gym, we do what the coach tells us to do
This is not suprisingly very similar to how modern fencing methodology works, but makes me think about it a little differently. Thank you :)
This was some really nice footage for making your point.
Dig the capoeira groundwork toward the end, there
Great stuff man! And as soon as I thought your voice couldn't sound cooler... lol... here ya go! LOL
💯 agree. Gaps show up in self defence games.
I took over a cardio kickboxing gym a couple years ago. I’ve had to peel back the curtain for a lot of the veteran members who’ve developed so many bad habits from just hitting a bag hard… We now spar 3 times a week and focus purely on defense, counters, and free sparing. It’s done nicely, but I can see how as they develop more if they don’t pick it up, it’ll create bad habits as well.
Awesome video coach, I love the concept of progressive resistance, I like to teach “mission based” sparring where the intention is to work on a specific technique or goal, sparring just for the hell of it is ok but as you say you ain’t likely to learn anything
Thanks for another great explanation! Really makes me want want to go out there and train! :P
More seriously, though, my training partner had to leave he city entirely (they were from a different region) due to losing their job & then their apartment and not finding anything else before they ran out of $... It was a great deal, too, since they were going to a local bjj gym and then practicing with me! :)
I guess I'll have to find someone else to convince... though all of my current friends are not into any grappling martial arts (or any martial arts, really) and/or are too unfit to practice in their current state. Time to hunt! :S
Respect.
Thank you very much.
I like your analogy about fighting games. I’ve used it as well, and I’m blessed to have sparring experience with friends that know how to spar properly without treating it like a fight. Also, good explanation about sparring to get better at scenarios. That makes a lot of sense.
Absolutely agree that hard sparring should be limited. Only technical sparring can create a false sense of confidence in another regard I didn't hear you mention: not everybody has the chin or the grit to make it once real punches start landing.
Sifu says: wild punch defeats the great master!
Excellent advice, coach!
The main issue with any kind of sparring is speed. If you go at 80% power with correct technique, that means 80% speed too. You get used to thinking you can react in time to what you can't, block/deflect in ways that you can't, throw strikes from angles that will have no real power when done at full speed, etc etc. Then when you go at full speed, nothing works the way you thought it did.
Pull your strikes back faster. That’s the game changing element for light sparring faster that will have athletic crossover to full contact fighting.
Nailed it. When you start hard sparring you gas from moving so fast too and thats a way bigger shock than getting hit hard (for me at least, my chin is pretty good)
Speed doesn’t automatically mean power, unless you sit on your punches or punch through. Pull back. Have you never tried punching a bag fast without moving it? It’s about control. Beginners cannot do it because they tend to get too tense. So they punch not to fast, but punch hard enough to hurt more advanced boxers if the more advanced boxer is too nice. That’s why you gotta plant a bit stiff jab every now and then, to keep some distance.
you need to be the voiceover on a nature show, man.
"I don't spar, because my technicks are so deadly"(eats potato chips)😂
Love your feedback on this one coach 🎉
I always remind myseld that I lack experience...
The video game analogy works even better than I think you realize as a non-gamer. Fighting games have a tutorial/practice mode where you can try to nail your specials on an opponent with a pre-set difficulty level. You can have it stand there and do nothing or have it fight back. Your health bars are infinite and the charge bar or whatever you need to hit your special in a real match are always full so you can practice it again and again until you can nail it at will. Then you can finally beat your older brother for once.
That’s very considerate of you to explain how video games work to a guy who has been playing video games since Pong😁
@@RamseyDewey Oh, my mistake! Must have gotten it mixed up with anime as the thing you're unfamiliar with.
You mean Japanese cartoons?
@@RamseyDewey The very same
Happy Easter. Get well soon sir.
Needed to hear that, tjank u
Love the voice!
Totally agree. I Box. But purposely take the time to work on areas that I'm bad at. Being tall i worked on infighting, clinches for a couple of months and basically anywhere people of my build is 'poor' at.
Then i work on things like out fighting and working on what my build is best for. Even if im not the best any anything but i dont find my self in a position where i cant work
He got the same sick voice as peter griffin
I like doing sparring because i get to apply things i thought of like combos. Seeing if and how they work
I always set goals when free sparring... Otherwise I will just goof around. But if I decide beforehand to try and go for specific strategies, I feel like I get a lot more out of the free sparring. At the very least I become aware of the holes in my game, when I'm unsuccessful with the plan.
You're talking about the 2nd I in the 3 I's of training that Matt Thornton, founder of SBG wrote about over 20 years ago, Introduction of a technique, Isolated sparring and Integration into free sparring. Interesting.
It depends on your natural talent and how hard you train. I did 1 hour cardio kickboxing and 2 hours traditional karate for 6 years, 5 days per week. I did full contact sparring for 6 years worth of Isshinryu karate training. I eventually got to where I could beat a 235 lbs natural heavyweight 2nd Dan who was an ex-marine in sparring when I was a natural 185lbs black belt candidate. I could also disarm him when he had an escrima stick vs me being unarmed. What's more, I can train people to be that good at martial arts.
I'm of the mindset that grappling, Judo, BJJ is great for 100% sessions..!! Striking, however, I prefer light to moderate...!! Too easy to get hurt..!! All 3-5 times per week 1hr sessions, good to go..!! Personally, once you reach a certain level, it's kind of like riding a bike..!! You pick back up very quickly even after long absences..!! At that point shadow drilling becomes invaluable and is where the sequence development blossoms..!!
You should look at wing chun and silat for those hand fighting games. 😉
Get well soon from your cold
It's funny how you telling the street fighter analogy being fighter, and I'm fighting game couch doing the same but reversed
We sparred a few times in my kickboxing club and once we went to do a light contact kickboxing match we realized how unprepared we were. 🙈 We have sparred light but like not even light but with good quality. Light with bad quality. Pulling shots to the extent that we(or at least I) can't perform them proper in the match. Or if the match was just the wake up call 🤷♂️
Unfortunately, the context of some real life experience is necessary before any simulation will be truly productive- including, but not limited to sparring, bagwork, and shadow boxing.
This dude's voice is deeper than my depression
Free sparing has its use, particularly when you spar with someone totally new to you.
I wouldn't say you won't get better, but it is very ineffective way.
The problem with it, is you usually fall back to you usual hobby. You can improve over time, but it would be very very slow, assume you do try new things and work on your weakness.
Heyyyyyyy!!! You just called me a "stupid white belt"! Sounds like fighting talk! (Even if it's true.)
I said "you can thrash around like a stupid white belt", not that all white belts thrash around in a stupid fashion, or that you are stupid because of your rank.
How dare you the rank stupidity of my white belt thrashing? Meet me at midnight in the alley behind Fang's Bike & Bar in Boksburg, South Africa, and we'll sort this out in da streets!
@@RamseyDewey How dare you impugn the rank stupidity of my white-beltist-thrashing? Meet me at midnight in the alley behind Fang's Bike & Bar in Boksburg, South Africa, and we'll sort this out in da streetz!
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Salaam, Coach Ramsey!
I’ve a questioned for you about sparring larger partners. I’m an average 5’10”, and my (kickboxing) sparring partners range from a relatively newbie in Muay Thai, to my BJJ coach who has over 30 (pro) mma fights; but even with him I’m not nervous or unsure what to do when we spar. But I have one classmate that just causes my brain to freeze. He’s a great martial artist that just happens to be 6’4”, and while not fat by any means, he outweighs me (I’m 150lbs for context) by at least 80lbs, and is just a solid man all the way around. And whenever we spar, my brain just shrugs as what to do.
Do you have any advice for facing larger sparring partners when you’re on the smaller side. This is for striking (kickboxing/Muay Thai) I should say.
Thanks again!
What if the "free sparring" is with people who know you and focus on exploiting your weaknesses? And there's a whole group, of all sizes and body types? And you have to "tap out" for a round to be over? And we're all good friends who look out for each other, but also toughen each other up.
The guys in my gym can’t let their ego go off. I sm literally the only one doing it softly so i stopped
Question. Just discovered your cntent and enjoying it. I have just moved to Tokyo, almost 40, BJJ blue belt, back injury so can't really wrestle but ground work at 50%intensity is ok. Want to train for health, self defence and social. Looking to add striking as have never trained it so naturallt is a big hole in my abilities. Options- 1- Big kickboxing gym(Target Sugamo), fun trainers nice facilities, lots of people who speak English. 2 - BJJ gym(Triforce), medium size, nice trainers. 3- Small MMA gym (Katana mma), 2-6 a class, not much English spoken. Would appreciate your thoughts! :) P.s. the XMartial gear looks good. I john Danaher an affiliate?! Looking at my budget to see if I can afford 2. Tried Muay Thai and was really fun but the gym is allot further than these 3.
I do Catch wrestling and began working from the bottom as i would gas out.
Currently in MMA im practing kick boxing as my boxing was good but when adding kicks i immediately realized how screwed i was as i haven't practiced on a live opponent.
Folks forget you're a coach and have sound advice.
Man sounds like a show host of the soul train
Looks like some of the sword guys are responding to your "weapons sparring kinda sucks" video, I haven't watched them yet but I have them saved for later.
Of course they did. They think it's about them, and they're all arguing the strawman "Ramsey thinks weapons sparring is pointless". And as a result, 96% of the people commenting on that video (according to youtube annalytics) didn't even watch it, and the fans of these other channels came to my comments section to parrot the aforementioned straw man (ie: a different argument than the one I actually made which is easier to refute)
I gave these commenters the benefit of a doubt at first, and tried to reason with them. But no, they are not interested in reason, they want a witch hunt. Some of those weirdos made me question the limits of human stupidity, to be honest.
@@RamseyDewey one commenter said that your argument that sparring is different from the real thing works against you since you aren't try to kill each other in sparring or not dislocated limbs, it was pretty ridiculous. I thought what you said was actually a good point to your argument, I was going to reply but decided it was pointless.
@@donovankennedy1113 🤣Oh wow! My argument that sparring is different from fighting is contradicted by the fact that sparring is different than fighting- pure genius!
@@RamseyDewey it's actually pretty entertaining. Please keep doing this.
this title is hilarious by the way
Every now and then when I interact with someone in the combat sports community. Who I guess gets rubbed the wrong way. They'll say I don't train at first, then they'll ask around. Only the people at the last gym I trained at it seems. This is usually what they start talking about in their next video/post "escape from bottom" Its an area I had an issue with once. This is the only time in the 3yrs of training as an adult (I started when I was 12 wrestling/Jujitsu) where I got submitted cause I couldn't escape from bottom. The guy was 6' 4", 320lbs, our best competition blue belt ultra heavyweight. Me (220-240lbs at the time) and like one other guy (the blackbelt asst. Coach 185lbs who also trained since he was 12) were the only ones able to submit him in the gym while I was there. Me and big country locked horns a few times tho. He was good in the gi which I've submitted him in. If my former teammates are honest, they'll acknowledge that. This ultra heavyweight was really good at getting grips on my lappels or sleeves and using trips then going knee on belly and transitioning to mount he even learned some good sweeps from bottom towards the end. It's was tuff last time we rolled for me I was recovering from Covid the gyms had just opened back up and my conditioning was at like 60%. He had just added all thes tools to his arsenal. First time we had gone live was a gi day where I submitted him. He didn't really know what he was doing yet. He kept trying to shoot blast doubles even tho I have a Lower center of gravity than him ( I'm 5' 10"). I made it clear early on I was able to sprawl and stuff all of his takedown attempts never the less he continued to try to brute force me. The last half hearted attempt he made to shoot on me I sprawled and then used a Greco-Roman style move. I learned it my first year of wrestling we called it the chancery. I sprawl and stuff his takedown attempt while pressing the back of his head down usually with my right palm. I Snake that hand under his chin and around his neck to where I have him in a front head lock with my right arm. Use the opposite arm to get the under hook. Turn clock wise and circle so you end up chest to chest in side control. In wrestling that's a pin in BJJ/MMA I go knee on belly to full mount a taste of his own medicine perhaps. At that point he was completely gassed out. I didn't even get to properly submit him he cardio tapped. This was in 2019 I was a white belt when this happened I Improved as well especially with binging YT videos.😁 Second time it was a stale mate with no gi he couldn't get ahold of me couldn't get a successful takedown especially with no grips. Never saw him at a no gi practice again. The third and last time we rolled was gi. The gym had just reopened after months due to Covid, which I had like 2 days prior but wanted to ease back in. Dude was there. we warmed up, we drilled and went live. He had been studying as well. He figured out that if he grips my lappels and sleeves, he doesn't have to be fast or exert nearly as much energy. He could use his longer wider legs to tilt and sweep me. He must've been watching judo videos. When I started breaking the grips and he couldn't take me down anymore, he started complaining, I "Was I trying to snap his fingers?" Even tho when he got on top and went for a Kimura he shoved his elbow as hard as he could into my temple. so I'm not real sorry about that.😂Anyways I felt like I had learned what I needed to learn with grappling for MMA, my ultimate goal. I think he caught on an off day. If he wanted to run it back, I'd give it to him in grappling or MMA. I started boxing at 16, he doesn't have better hands than me. He was in his mid to late 30s when I was 23. I figured I'd recover from Covid continue skill building for MMA. Focus on getting good at Muay Thai. I have the opportunity to run it back with him later in life if he still wants smoke. Sifu Dewey I believe if I trained at you're gym your respect and appreciation for me would grow drastically. I understand some things can't be conveyed with words. You have to demonstrate for people to feel you. I'm getting back to training 2x a day 6x a week. It's been a bit of a financial journey as well funding my gym, nutrition, travel and competition expenses. I'm figuring it out tho, I plan to have content for YT and amateur bouts for 185lbs by August at the latest.
"I've got a sore throat"
Bro you sound like the sin city narrator
Hey coach
I have a question regarding sparring round times and intensity.
Would you say there's a optimal round time and intensity?
Like 5min for mma, 3min for kickboxing etc (basically competition times?)
Or is there any good in variety. Like short rounds with higher intensity sometimes and longer, lighter rounds at other times?
Or even short light rounds, Sometimes even longer harder rounds?
I'm asking because I found out the hard way that any training done without proper, free resistance is bound to fail, even when the techniques would otherwise be good.
I'm (trying to) recover ever since and one of the best things I've found so far was sparring, but I just don't have the experience or data ppol to make sense of what I see.
Btw, all of that goes for positional sparring primarily, since a lot of great coaches recommended that over free sparring.
Coach went full Phil Anselmo im this one
2:55 I like that a lot
Sparring for me is humbling, not delusional
I hope your voice feels better already! I do have a question that came from this video regarding the positional sparring with increasing steps of removal from the end game. I apologize in advance - I'm coming down with something myself, so I have exactly one brain cell and can't really figure out how to formulate my question concisely.
In short, is there a good formula for applying this to striking? What should be the first level, and how to appropriately raise the level of resistance?
More detail about where my gap in understanding lies: In grappling it's fairly obvious, and in self defence as well, but I've found it difficult to apply the same method for striking where there is no constant contact with the partner. It often feels like there is a step missing between fully mannequin training and a fully resisting opponent, and I'm not sure how to adjust the opponent's reaction in sync with the hitter's. Secondly, should learning a new combo (assume beginner-ish practicioners) start from the last technique/step of the combo like in your grappling example, even though it might be from an awkward angle that would never happen without a set-up? I've been starting to think yes, though I haven't seen striking combos taught this way after 1-2-3 and 1-2-low kick have been learned.
I'm sure there are tons of videos about this already on youtube, but I don't really know how to find them. However I do apologize if this has been talked to death already, and will appreciate a nod to the direction of the existing videos! 🙏
(if you decide to use this as a question in a video, you can just call me Julia instead of trying to pronounce... that.)
Processionals always says that it's not needed to have so much hard sparring but most instructor's i know lives for the sparring war's 😅 they aren't going to become professionals fighters again but want to have serious resistance and have fun 😊 if you are already passed 35 and done martial arts most of your life and isn't ever going to become much better striker's at least you just hanging in there is just Good enough to survive three rounds with a average professional then sparr hard with those who likes it and thinks the fun overweights the risk by a lot..yeah yeah i know it doesn't make you smarter or much better you basically just becomes really good at sparring,, like you get good at anything else that is fun..
silly fun question here : how would you make the actual ULTIMATE fighter? as in you get a kid (or think back to when you were a kid and apply the same question) to train and you can put him/her through whatever training you see fit.
caviat: the answer cannot be just "put him/her on MMA and keep him there."
for example: i send him first to boxing for 2-3 years and he does MMA on the side (kid is 6 years old), next is muay Thai for another 2 years with again MMA on the side, next is BJJ with MMA on the side, etc. etc.
Can’t you achieve the same effect as positional sparring by going into free sparring with specific goals?
“This round my goal is to stay in the pocket the whole round, rather than stay in my usual range”
No. Specific goals during a five minute round of free sparring can be useful, but it will not give you the same experience as ten 30 second goes of positional sparring with a specific goal.
I’m terrible at wrestling lol
who cleans the gym? you with the students or is there a clean up crew?
Would love to hear your thoughts on the ecological approach to teaching martial arts. I feel like you definitely incorporate some aspects to it
ec·o·log·i·cal
adjective
relating to or concerned with the relation of living organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings
What do you mean by that?
@@RamseyDewey it’s a method of learning martial arts with an emphasis on developing skill over developing technique. It’s been talked about a lot in the bjj community but I’ve been seeing it talked about in mma and muy Thai gyms. Rather than demonstrating, and then drilling a technique, coaches instead have their students participate in extremely limited situational sparring/gameswith very clear goals in mind. They pretty much don’t practice technique if I’m right, at least very little from what I hear.
It’s sounds like gyms that focus on this style of training are more active throughout the class.
Person in the top closed guard needs to stand all the way up and person on bottom must keep them down on the ground is an example I tried with some child students the other day.
I only just recently heard of this but I guess it’s becoming increasingly popular, so wondered if you had come across it and if you had any thoughts on the positives and negatives of training this way.
Hello, sir. I love your channel. First question: As a coach and training partner, how do you identify specific positions and objectives for positional sparring? Put in another way, are there key positional sparring games that every fighter needs to learn to play? I ask because I hate going to most gyms (except for their open mats) because I find the way most places drill techniques to usually be pretty pointless and not much fun. I also don't care for the insanely long warmups of situps and running around in circles and doing jumping jacks! However, I love the positional sparring/ecological/games based approach, and I train with a few of my friends that way whenever we can. But I lack experience in many aspects of fighting. So I am basically always researching TH-cam for ideas and just experimenting without knowing exactly what I'm doing.
Second question: If you wanted to train a fighter to maximize their use of dodging instead of blocking, how would you do that? I ask because the older I get the less I want to get hit and I also find the quality of sparring to be more fun when it's primarily a dodging thing.
Third question: I realize full well that being a good person doesn't make anyone a good fighter (physically) and vice versa, but do you find that your Christian faith or any spiritual insights you may have had have influenced the way you fight, train, or coach? I ask because I'm really just curious.
Last question: In your professional opinion , if John Wick from John Wick 2 went toe to toe with the Predator from Predator 2, who would win?
Hey ramsey. Can you do a reaction/ commentary/ breakdown on Might Mouse winning the BJJ tourney against the guy outweighing him by 100 pounds?
Im subscribed to this channel and youtube does not ping me.
Sadly, the only 100% sure way to see the content that vou subscribe to is to be proactive and look it up directly like in the old days of TH-cam before subscriptions were a thing. A lot of my own subscriptions don't even show up in the subscription feed anymore (not speaking of the home page recommendations)
@@RamseyDewey Also TH-cam just unsuscribes you from channels for no reason too, very annoying.
How effective would grappling techniques from earth martial arts such as Judo, Jui-Jitsu Western Wrestling ect be against aliens? Would they work or woruld humans need to invent a new martial art to grapple with them?
Are these "Street Aliens"?
Ramsey,is it fine if I switch to MMA after few months of boxing?
I'm nowhere near good at boxing but I like the idea of incorporating kicks,takedown,knees,elbows and clinches more than just punching.
Practically,I like the idea of having options.I have been practising low/leg kicks alone and Conditioning my shins as well
How do you navigate the social pleasantries if most of your sparring partners (in a class) have control but a few don't?
The obvious answer is probably asking them to not throw as hard, but I'm very non-confrontational. Just had my first day and left with a headache and stiff neck. I only want to go super light/technical but some people clearly don't. Thanks!
Question: What does positional sparing look like for striking? Seems like the natural tendency to want to square up when in a disadvantageous position, and the speed at which it happens, would make all starting positions revert pretty quickly to a basic squared-up position…
Really interesting stuff. Food for thought. My follow-up question would be, how would you approach making the most of your rolling time when there's a language barrier?
Spend your time rolling instead of chatting. Now do you mean how do you effectively teach martial arts if there’s a language barrier?
@@RamseyDewey How do you negotiate what you're trying to accomplish, what the intention of the session is and so on when you don't share a language? It's hard to be specific and do much beyond go at it.
Try Google translate.
@@RamseyDewey ok, thanks for the tip
@@Mokujinko Google can do voice to text/speech pretty well now with most of the major languages on the planet. A massive improvement over what it was 15 years ago.
What positional sparring would you recommend for muay thai, I'd imagine it'd be different ranges you have to stick to and then clinch fighting. But how would you enforce long range for example? It's easy to constrict distance, but how would you make sure to keep it? Would a rope tied between the two combatants that must never be slack work?
Ngl knowing I don't have the years ahead of me I just love to hard spar as much as possible
What do u mean by this because i think ive had a similar thought
The more hard sparring you do, the less hard sparring you can do.
is that a sock on your arm sir? sock it to emm eh lol anyways, yes, I love the drilling and implementaiton of positional sparring.
Why would there be a sock on my arm? No. Clearly there is not a sock on my arm.
@@RamseyDewey that black and red stripped one sleever sure looked like a cut off shock but " clearly" I was just pulling your " socks" with the choice of attire sir. Mind you, I will only make fun from a far :) lol
lolol @@RamseyDewey
I don’t even know what you’re talking about. Sorry.
Like James Earl Jones voice
Can you please describe what ring fighting taught you that sparring and/or point sports don't?
That's a great topic for a video
@@RamseyDewey Thank you.
This dude looks like Silver Surfer. They should have casted him
04:15 the gloves being used here, are 8 oz mma gloves?
6oz MMA sparring gloves
Heres a question I have coach. I joined a local amateur boxing club for fitness and was excited to take part in sparring and even experienced both light and hard sparring here and there. I took a year off and now my excitement for sparring is got. Im just doing this for fitness and not.to compete. My question is is it normal to have fallen out of love with sparring?
It certainly happens.