Don't Stand & Bang with Bigger Opponents! 

Last year I visited Warrior Nation MMA, where I learned a valuable lesson: don’t stand and bang with bigger opponents!😂

Always amazed by your ability to deal with larger sparring opponents 😮🔥🔥🔥🔥

Inside low kick kept Jeff alive. 🔨

Your head movement, footwork and overall slick counters/combos are always a fascinating thing to observe Jeff!! Your creativity and mastery of the "flow" is what makes you such a technical inspiration to us 💯

I appreciate how you continue to be objective and humble about what happened and how you are accountable for your actions in these kinds of situation, I'm definitely guilty of mutual escalation with bigger sparring partners myself. But yes, big guys don't know their own strength 😂

You are the real deal Jeff. Not afraid of putting yourself on the line in sparring.

That kick at 1:47 looked painful lol... You could tell by the guys reaction. Everyone used to getting punched but not everyone used to getting kicked.

Nick definitely has power. He did start to feel the low kicks and stopped planting like an oak tree after 2:26 . 100% agreement. Stand and bang with a big opponent is never a good plan. Chop and evade! Eventually the tree will fall...

As a big dude, I especially love watching these types of videos before sparring! It helps me 1. Get ready for the movement of smaller partners & 2. Prepare myself to move like someone with a smaller body 😅 atleast that's what I'm trying to accomplish... Love the stuff Jeff, always referencing you to my Muay Thai classes 🙏

Hey Jeff, nice to see that with all your experience and high level you still remain self-critical. That's exactly what convinced me when I subscribed to your channel back then and still does. Very nice sparring session!

Another great video Jeff! I really like watching you reflect on how things can escalate, even if the person who started it may not be doing it on purpose or even realize it. As someone who likes to keep it light and technical most of the time, it reminds me about the need to keep a cool head even if your opponent does something they shouldn't

Sparring with a big difference in weight is always challenging! I completely understand that my 50% is a lot for smaller fighters, and I try to stay mindful of the weight and power gap while sparring. However, us bigger guys tend to be slower at a give intensity than the smaller guys, and when a smaller fighter is taking advantage of the speed difference to land shots it's a very similar situation to when we use our power. The only way us big guys can close the gap in speed is to increase explosiveness, which will increase the power of the shots. At both levels, there's gotta be a relaxing of ego. The best sparring is where both guys give and take IMO. Anyways, great sparring footage and great conversation fodder. Love the vids, as always.

You're a class act Jeff always fun watching you bring some dudes back to earth

Glad he gives clues to what is happening while sparring. Good communication helps a ton.

2:31 love the sudden switch to a karate style, great martial artist always entertaining to watch this guys videos

Going for my second mma fight as a young amateur in September! Videos like yours really help me mix it up and see new angles with my striking!

I really think you were in the bad here. Nick Is keeping really calm even after the really hard kicks you are trowing. Even if the big swing is trow and it feels strong he can still control the hit before landing. Also remember that this is your work and life, and i don't know if this guy Nick is just an amateur or doing this as a hobby. If you are more experienced you should be able to back of for 5 seconds and lower the tempo and control your energy. :)

looked like a pretty even match to me. One of the outside leg kicks visibly bothered him, while he also landed a pretty good combination too.

A lot of great exchanges here. Thank you for the study material🙌

beautiful to watch. I was hooked watching it.

Gosh!! Thanks for the great vid. You guys are great. Love the comentary

Its always such a good learning experience watching your videos Man, Keep up with the good work, you re an amazing example as a martial artist. Greetings From Chile !

I enjoy watching you spar, your technique, timing and flow are beautiful to watch. I can't understand how you spar so hard like that without getting hurt/injured!

You’re fight IQ and analysis is amazing! Striving for that brain power💯

Great vid, love to see how you both move around and put the combos together. Good to get some tips to try out when next sparring!

Super helpful for me right now, thx Jeff!

Jeff always holding it down for the lighter and smaller fighter much respect ✊🏾

This one is like a bad relationship, things would be perfect if they could just communicate better😂. It offers so many valuable reminders and shows how things can escalate easily. We have everything on display in this one including desperation, misreading of an opponent, heavy telegraphing, failure to adjust to the opponents size and weight, along with a sickening amount of ego. I love it. The cornicopia of egos is of course offset by the display of phenominal cardio and breath control. You handled this one so well. You are absolutely fearless and this manifests in so many ways here. You hold your own impressively well, like a MA version of Optimus Prime negating the size/weight differential. You still manage to have an admirable level of fluidity and flow (think Optimus Prime with a lot of karate and jeet under the metal). Nick's nod is super intimidating! But also very cage rattling. He has a load of power and that power is consistent even after a few good hits. I like his pace. Initially I was hoping for one of you to dial it back and hoped that it would soon be followed by the other. Obviously I was expecting too much;) After the nod that changed to me wanting you to move in with an aggressive barrage. If ever Nick is ever in a street fight, that nod is going to be like waving a red flag at a bull;) It's one of those times where you sit down afterwards and realize that neither party intended it to be this way and that both opponents are nice and respectful, just a little ego reactive at times. This was a good one, ego filled but also very valiant on both parts, well done.

Beautiful flow man! Love Jeff’s style. I once said it’s like a clean Dominick Cruz lol other guy is like stone like Alex Pereira, scary and puts on pressure but not much head movement. Great vid, great spar. Hats off to both men💪🏼

I love watching these, ty Jeff

Watched your video a couple weeks ago getting your blackbelt! Congratulations man! Well earned! I'm going to study now at a university, I hope I can have the same dedication in my studies as you have in your martial arts training 💪❤️

Jeff, I have so much respect for you fighting skills. I also appreciate you being transparent with how your ego often gets activated easily. This is something more gyms need to emphasize. There is a lot that is suboptimal in many traditional martial arts schools, but, IF they are doing it correctly, they are usually good at teaching proper character traits like respect, self-discipline, and focus, which form a basis for dealing with ego. These are all skills taught in traditional Asian martial arts. Currently, MMA has a more American flavor of promoting competition and aggression. Both approaches obviously have their benefits. However, I hope the next phase of MMA won’t just take and choose techniques, but also incorporate the deeper lessons of the martial arts. 🙏✌️

Bro that is some hard sparring! You held your own definitely. I couldn’t keep this level of sparring up more than once in 2 weeks lol. Please stay safe out there…

I love how you spar/fight . Looks like" flow like water" .. really awesome 🙏

Obviously the best and favorite MMA RU-vidr in my opinion

Great to watch 👍 you're very skilled mate

Ha, yeh i can see how it's hard to see who escalated exactly 😅, but which exchange it was is crystal clear. I love these breakdowns and hats off to you standing there with a bigger opponent! And also props that we know that when the sparring is over probably all is fine again 😉👍🏽👌🏽

Really love how Jeff exchange attacks with his enemies

That jab to lead high kick I love doing as well. Great stuff man!

Love this Jeff Chan! Stay safe ❤

This was actually an amazing exchange!

Aye, I've been waiting for this ever since the short 😂😂

WOOOOO!!!! Beautiful my brotha! 🔥🔥🔥

Your skill is so high level man, movement and techniques are sharp

That body jab to the high kick was slick as hell! Must take some good hip flexibility.

Amazing sparring 👍👍👍. Those inside low kick are just 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮. So fast 😍😍 and precise. I need to learn that...

You're a absolute skilled warrior. Been a sub since 4ever. I always learn frm ur viddy's😎🔥💯

I love how you fight man ! keep it up ;)

Awesome Vid💪🔥🔥

Watching you spar hard always reminds me that you're a pro 😭really efficient technical power.

Jeff really nice video. When youre in holland you should visit sokudo gym. Thats were the legend ernesto hoost started. He right now gives lessons there . I think u would love to do the a lesson when hoost is teaching and then the sparring start

I was just chillin and watching nick throw those low kicks, I unintentionally twitched my left leg a few times to try and check the non existent kick. 😂

You know what's funny, I stumbled across your videos randomly at 3am . And I have been binge watching ever since. Not only are you passionate about your craft, and educational 😇🎉🎉🎉. But, you've personally inspired me to get back in the gym. To get moving , and I just want to say THANKS BUDDY 🤗😇🤗. Keep grinding and never give up. I can honestly see you being in a managerial position for the next up and coming hot talent. ( you know, like a don king. But without the drama, scandal, or the hair 🤣). Or a personal trainer, if you haven't done that already 😇.

Your leg kicks are the most technical and beautifully done when you landing it.

Nice job!!Espescially at the end of the round!!!

very impressive as always. the room clearly recognised that last head kick. bro lost some hp with that one 💀

You guys kept it pretty civil despite the hard low kicks. Going hard to the body and legs some of the best sparring imo.

All good, I think. Not super smart to hard sparr bigger opponents often, but once in a while gives lots of confidence.

awesome sparring great to watch

Loving this longer cuts with running commentary style.

MASTERCLASS!!

Fam I love your head movement. Great work…

Great work man 👍🏻

outstanding analysis as always

I use to have this issues back when I was a beginner but as times past. Communication and choosing of partner is very important. Learn that Coms is able to break down barriers.Light sparring should be agree throughout and apologise for accidentally Hards hits. I agree Hard sparring Is needed Sometime but I guess Do what U love is the most important.

Jeff the real g no edits not filter just the facts and truth 👍💪💪💪💪💪 respect

Bro your high kick was a form of art hahaha beautiful❤

really nice sparring. skillful, respectful🔥

Excellent breakdown!

best spar footage on YT!

Awesome!! 💪🏽😊👊🏽

Love seeing the super rare 👀

I'm wise enough now not to get my ego involved, but there's a difference between that and someone who doesn't listen to a call to calm down, and then it's just a case of given some good, clean shots under control to help them comprehend. I had to do exact this last week, and they kind of got the message. Even then, our teacher had to explain to my sparring partner how one should acknowledge a shot rather than just ignore it and punch back (if you don't acknowledge, and pause momentarily you don't understand that a proper shit would have meant you could not have thrown that punch/kick/whatever). Good video and breakdown. Keep it coming.

prefer this style of video over the slow motion version. Great content brother.

That last catch on the high kick was text book

I miss that!!

Jeff Chan spars are back baby! Time to download

Jeff, your combos, counters, head movement, footwork are amazing and very creative, you're technically better striker than a lot of ufc fighters, why did you retire you could make it to Ufc considering you're very popular on youtube

Hi Jeff. Love the channel. In the future, could you sit down with your sparring partner to breakdown what happened? Would be great to see from their POV.

That was a lit fight

Dont stand and bang is why in Wing Chun, we practice sticking to smoulder our opponents. Same principle for tai chi push hands, bagua push hands, wrestling etc.

This was awesome 😎 💪🏼

Nice work Jeff like you seeing sparring hard with bigger guys shows good techniques that high kick at end beautiful if that was full power 🔋 🎉

.... also, that lead high kick was serious 👏👏👏

That was really entertaining!

Jeff, i think I'm not the only one who would like to see more vloggy type of your video besides sparrings. I wonder where you are, who are these guys etc. Even last time, when you showed some backstage of that bodyguard's sparring was cool. What do you think about this? Cool video, like always.

That left head kick was excellent !

Just Love it!!!!!!!!!!

I interpreted his nodding as 'yes, that caught me good, that kick was good'

2:50 Jeff. I realized that if you do pressure moves like the push kick, it makes opponents default to their original stance. I think he was hiding the left leg to the back as it's already starting to hurt, hence the change of stance. When you push kicked him, him changed to a different stance where you could quickly move in for another inside kick.

I liked the slo-mo effect you had in the previous video, you planning to bring that back more often?

lovely spar tq jef!

That fake body jab high kick was fantastic

Nice sparring. Still respectful even with a little escalation.

So good to learn from

i know jeff knows not to stand n bang w heavier guys. i think he was just in a mood and wanted to get the guy back ; many big dudes arent really strategically fighting, they're just acting like punks and striking too hard. i dont blame jeff one bit from hitting back hard. jeff's analysis is great and such a nice contribution for all of our learning. thanks to jeff.

How many times have you watched this. *My Brain* : "Yes"

Great video. went through this a few weeks back. I swear we really don't mean to throw stuff with that much heat its just physics😂 but 100% agree-- just throw it back cause we need to know what it feels like too that's the only way we learn how to control our shots so we can all get better 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Good stuff

Pacquiao vs Margarito is another perfect example. Great video, btw!