What is cauliflower ear, how do you get it, and why you might want to wear earguards in BJJ class. One option to check out are our BJJ earguards on Amazon at tinyurl.com/BJJ-Ear-Guards-Amazon
I wear an ear guard, mouth guard, groin cup, knee pads and tape my fingers. A training partner had a detached retina from accidentally being poked in the eyes with who he was rolling with. Now I am thinking about wearing sport goggles, when I found about this. It almost seems like I am going to war, just when it is training.
Good on you my man. Look after your health. The mocking commends from brainless training partners are there for a few minutes, your body is there for life. Keep it safe.
Great video Stephan! I have been wearing ear guards for over five years. I don't care if people make fun of me in class because I'm more worries about my ears.
@@MrArtschannel if they try to get mouthy, tell them I said stfu. I'd lay someone out if they ran their mouth to me. It should always be used especially in Olympic wrestling but they banned it to be sheep and follow the clueless Olympic boxing organization.
+Zombie69 If you want to avoid the nasty ear look then you have 2 options. Ear guards or stop doing any form of wrestling. Without the guards you will not be able to roll freely and competitively as you will be worried about your ears.
@@TheSantos173 No, if you get the fluid out it wont calcify over and become a hard lump that makes cauliflower ear. Your options to avoid it are wear the headgear or make sure you dont fight through bad situations by pulling your head free. Most cauliflower is from grinding the head free from guillotines or other times your opponent is wrapped around your head.
I remember an old wrestler named Paul Boesch who did a commercial for a jewelry store. The commercial had romantic music playing while the camera focused on his cauliflour ears while he was wearing some diamond earrings then he looks at the camera and says if the (jewelry store's name) can make my ears look good imagine what they can do for yours.
I joined a jiu jitsu gym two weeks ago. Somehow never thought of the cauliflower ear risk (or any other health risk). Now im all wigged out 😂. Thanks for your video! I'll probably be purchasing ear guards to ease my anxiety
I'd never heard of cauliflower ear until I injured my ear in BJJ and got the precipitating condition: auricular seroma (the swelling). Got it treated just in time; you only have a few days before it's permanent. It's ear guards for me from now on.
@@brandopeyno: You might have auricular hematoma (blood; darker swelling) or auricular seroma (serum; lighter swelling). I went to a GP in a hospital. You'll need to have it aspirated (i.e., fluid sucked out with a tiny needle), then immediately put it under constant, substantial comoression in order to stop the fluid from coming back. They might either sew a temporary button on your ear to maintain compression or give you a formed ear clamp. Knowing the condition might help you get treatment. I had to go to 2 physicians who dismissed it before going to one who knew what it was because he boxes.
@@brandopeyno: If it's auricular hematoma (blood), ask about topical heparin. It's a blood-thinner (often prescribed to pregnant women) that can be rubbed on the area to reduce blood coagulation in the swelled area and enable some of it to pass back out of the ear.
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Thank you, very helpful. I'm close to 2 months in to bjj, have sore ears after rolling at times, but no cauliflower, I just ordered some soft earguards like you described, thank you
@@TheSantos173 Thank you for asking. I'm now 8 months in, and I wear the Matman if I feel things are getting rough, like maybe some drill that has impact potential to that area. For the most part, I don't wear them and thank God am ok so far. I do wear them if I feel soreness, and I also ice my ears after class as precaution, and also massage and pull my ears to warm them up beforehand via Fedor, who I have seen do and recommend this, and he has pristine ears after all his wars amazingly! I now have two stripes on my white belt and may get the 3rd soon. I am enjoying the journey very much and may compete soon for the first time. Good luck! ps - I have found that if you sew the head and back strap of the Matman, it will never come loose. Just put some stitches in those areas when you get it to fit ok. The chinstrap of course, you cannot sew, just use the velcro and it will be ok.
Radish Beet that’s awesome man thanks for sharing and congrats on your stripes! 💯 I will definitely look into Matman. Do you do BJJ with a Gi or without? I also apply ice after my sessions when I feel they got roughed up a bit. I hope applying ice helps at least some for ear redness
I’m 7 months in and likewise no cauliflower apparent but the ears sometimes do feel sore cause of being in head chokes and not tapping for a good minute trying to be a tough guy lol. Granted, I only do no-gi so the lack of rough garment that my skin has to deal will probably benefits my ears
I wear ear guards too, but not for training but for sensitive ears, as noise hurts, I often use the hard shell ear 2 piece Matman Ear Guard. I sleep with on with foam pads and earplugs, when the weather is stormy.As I hate thunderstorms and they spook me something terrible along with the lightning which I can hear it’s presence, I tend to freak out if I am not wearing my ear guards with foam and earplugs to block the sound out. I have several, as I sleep with em on and I wear nearly 24 hrs & & days a week. That’s the price I pay for having super sensitive hearing.
I literally just got back to training last Saturday from a week off cause my right ear got really inflamed. I don't care if I have a permanent cauliflower ear cause my wife kind of likes it but man did it hurt. I was a little shocked that my left ear started hurting a few weeks before my right but it was my right ear that started hurting and got inflamed almost immediately. So now I have one cauliflower ear and wear gear so I don't have to go through that again. I'm also going to invest in a mouthpiece since I eat elbows kicks and knees to the chin and get a busted lip all the time
You should check us out John, virtually invisible ear guards that cause no restrictions and product already cauli ear from further trauma too. We also do custom made gum shields www.caulearprotection.com
I had my ears "pinned" early on in my jiu jitsu training. My ears were starting to harden even after draining. The next time it happened really bad, i went to the doctor and he drained both of my ears and he stitched through each ear and through splints he made to keep the form of the ear. I didn't go under, just a local. Many years later, I never have any problems with my ears now, but the cauliflower that I had before the operation is still there.
Do you think that the problems you had with your ears in the beginning were because you were first forming cauliflower and now that they've hardened they're less susceptible to being damaged or do you think it's because you've taken a safer approach to training after many years of experience that you've been able to avoid problems with your ears?
Hey, Stephan I would like to buy on of your headgear but Amazon says that the product is no longer available. Can you help me purchasing that incredible headgear in order to protect my beautiful big ass ears.
I recently recieved a hit on my ear. Not sure if it was my opponent’s bicep or hand which smashed my ear. After 2 days I am still recovering my hearing
Yeah, why not always wear head gear from the beginning. I want to start bjj and I think im going wear some ear protection all the time since I’m just doing it to learn, fun and maybe do some competitions at some point but not that serious about it that I am willing to compromise my ears lol
Good video! I'd rather be considered silly looking for the few hours training each day vs the rest of my life outside of the gym. Any chance of shipping these internationally to the UK? We have the smallest selection of ear guards available and the only soft shell ones I've found (BadBoy) have a very uncomfortable plastic bracket for the chin strap which causes insane pressure on the jaw, even before a choke has been worked on properly.
Thought I had done that with all the How to Defeat the Bigger Stronger Opponent series! They're available as apps and on DVD, and I have a pretty extensive RU-vid playlist with excerpts from those instructionals too
Hey, my problem is that the cord that ties up the headguard hurts my throat, feels like I choking myself, is it normal? the feeling goes away once you are used to? cheers!
This question is coming from a person who does not practice in BJJ, In the bjj community, how are earguards looked at ? I recently broke my ankle, and got fat. I always admired bjj and a place opened up near my town. I want to recover and sign up! Thanks !
Train five times a week. Don't really care whether the other guys wear head gear or not. It's like, bruh, we're already rolling around the ground in our pajamas: welcome to dorksville 😂
massive problem i have, i have stretched ear lobes and i am so scared someone will get his finger caught in it. i always wear silicon plugs during practice but arent there any small ear protectors? without looking to goofy
@@wmhs02dm ''repaired'' they don't need fixing... i love my stretched ears and probably will always keep them. If you wash your face and ears every day they will not smell. so i don't know what kind of goblin you have encountered that had smelly ears , but i never experienced that.
Very nice. a couple of years ago I got a detached retina while rolling. Now I wear hard shell wrestling headgear to keep my sports goggles in place. Headgear doesn't get in the way at all.
david Kipper What kind of sport goggles do you wear? Does it have anti fog? A training partner in my academy had a detached retina also, and nobody knew. I want to prevent the accident from happening.
i wouldnt, only cause headgear can slide around sometimes if the head is being manipulated, and it could shift and press on the earring and really cause a nasty cut. ive wrestled and practiced judo for 15 years :)
I shoot in with my right ear to my opponents body but my left ear gets messed up from the hands of my opponents as opposed to the people who mess there ears up on the hips of there opponent's.
arno nabuurs It can in theory happen at any time, but especially when you start rolling harder. I got my earguards after I had hurt my ears a couple times. Yeah, it's bit uncomfortable but it gives me a peace of mind personally and allows me to use my head more effectively.
Been training for 8 months and just started getting a little cauliflower, so looking at headgear now. Seems to have happened after a little while training twice a day.
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Question: I'm an actor and pay my rent from being in front of the camera, I also love martial arts, have 8 yrs exp and am just getting into bjj and obviously want to preserve the shape of my ears (if i wasn't acting I wouldn't care). Does most of the ear trauma that causes cauliflower come from rolling/sparring? Is that the only time when one would need head gear? Thanks for the help, sincerely, narcissistic white belt.
@@gamesthatmatter9374 thanks for the response! Quick update: I'm now a couple years into my jiu jitsu journey, have gotten my blue belt recently, and I just religiously wear my ear guards when rolling. I don't care what people think of them. You're totally right about what causes it, and I'm trying to learn proper head lock, triangle and guilotine escapes. Life's too short to miss out on something like jiu jitsu for fear of injury.
@@balao7777 keep going bro ... i have 1/2 of my ear destroyed as a white belt trying to muscle out guilotine chokes lmao . never again. i am using the adidas wrestling gear ... works great
I got caulis from light sparing. Ignored that for a week and then got to a doctor, as they got worse. They basically cut my ear open (at least that's what it feels like). The night I couldn't sleep from the pain. Next day they changed the gauze and I literally gagged myself with my hand and screamed. I'm buying headgear immediatelly, I'm not gonna allow this to happen again...
Some instructors don't provide or make you use headgear which I think is very silly and a liability issue, especially for the beginners that wont know they will develop it. This issue prevents me from doing judo cause I cant afford to make my ears mashed up at all or even touched.
