Hey Ramsey has anybody ever told you that your starting to look the villain in a 70s kungfu flick. Please once say " you think your kungfu can defeat me". With a evil laugh.
@E-beggar-In-Bangkok 2018 haha, street man, i defeated you with my wan ton style learned in the hills of china. The hills so far away Mongolians can't find them. My secret Jai Maice fist would crush you!
For sure. I've been sparring for around two months now. And just now I'm able to take it as a game. As a result, my body is super relaxed and I'm able to think and be creative with how I move.
Light sparring allows for immediate feedback when you make mistakes without making you fearful of the learning process. If you're getting knocked around by your sparring partner you will consistently be fearful and stiff. If you find yourself being told "you'll get used to being hit" you may be in a mcdojo.
@@skullman9216 Yes, fictional characters learning fictional fighting techniques in a fictional world are an exception for obvious reasons. But yes, Batman.
@@a-blivvy-yus Which is different from knowing what it's like to be hit and knowing how to take a hit. No one wants to be hit, but you should train yourself to still be able to fight even if you do get hit and how to receive a hit to make it hurt less.
I'm a huge fan of the elephant stance against multiple armed opponents. Their momentary confusion and looks of what the hell is he doing allows me to run away.
@cringelord i know. The reason someone would get a new couch is because their current couch isn't comfortable. Same with getting a new coach. #doublemeanings
Hey Ramsey, question for you. I recently participated in (and won) my first amatuer muay thai fight. It was 3x2 minute rounds, and I trained a lot for it. For several weeks I trained at least an hour every day, and usually two, doing cardio, bag work, pad work, sparring, weightlifting, etc etc. I got significantly fitter and gained a lot of endurance, I was even able to go 20 rounds of medium sparring in the gym, after 15 rounds on the bag and pads. However, even with cardio that was at least decent, I noticed that when in the ring, those 3 rounds were literally the hardest 6 minutes of my entire life-3 rounds wouldnt have fazed me at all in the gym, but I was panting, sweating and in tons of pain after the end of my first round in the ring. I mentioned this to several people, who agreed that it was a phenomenon a lot of people experienced. Any advice for ring-specific fatigue? Is it nerves, the increased intensity or something else? Thanks a lot
I always remember that one time during sparring with the sensei in Karate class that I was kinda laying my hands down and he gave me a slight tap on the nose with his glove and said in a friendly way "Always keep your hands up!" That helped me remember later! :) But getting beaten senseless during sparring and being forced to endure that to "learn" is stupid. Learning martial arts is learning how to get out of a fight without significant harm to yourself or your opponent.
You get a light tap if the opening is glaring but a medium bop if I have to work a tiny bit to get it. And for personal fun, I sometimes take a heavy swing that intentionally misses. It can be a real eye-opener to feel the breeze of a punch that, if two inches closer, would take off your head.
This is why I had to left the MMA gym I was training at. Eventhough our coach was telling us to take care of our partners, I used to have black eyes on almost permanently, and my neck has been injured 5 times in only one year. I'm talking about the kind of injuries that required multiple weeks of rest, and one that is now permanent.
Hey Ramsey you were right pronouncing Jan's name the second time. I'm also from South Africa so I recognized the pronunciation. Thanks for your top tier uploads.
In my former gym a lot of people became very technical and quick and good foot job and with a very good timing by making a couple or more of rounds of no contact sparring every training session "if you can hit 5 cm from the chin you can also hit the chin" that's what the coach said.
Again a quality video. I would advise this gentleman to learn to use a staff as a part of daily training because of the fact that mistakes are inevitable. It helps with training the flinch response. Flinch is a good thing and completely natural. And again great advice and tip o the hat sir👍
Hey Ramsey I love your videos and I have a question I've been thinking of for years. About cardio, does it have a muscle memory? And how long does it take to condition for a fight? Can you do burpees for example and replace running or you have to run? How many miles is good? Good topic for video thanks
Awesome video! I have a question. How can I continue to learn and improve while I am down from an injury (specifically a broken hand that needs to be reset in a day or two). Should I still go to class and take notes? Should I focus on roadwork and cardio? What can I do to better myself athletically when I can’t grapple or strike?
You're lucky that it's an injury you can recover from. I'm reminded of Bill "Superfoot" Wallace. He adopted a bladed fighting style because his right leg had a permanent injury, but he didn't let that stop him from training.
Hey Ramsey, love your work. A few months ago I started at a boxing gym and happened to receive a mild concussion in my very first sparring session. I was paired with someone much larger than me who irresponsibly came out throwing relatively hard. After a weird month where I experienced some typical post concussion symptoms, I realized that sparring/fighting may not be for me. Are some people genetically not able to take punches as well as others? I love training and will continue to train martial arts "boxercise" as they say. But I don't think I'm cut out for getting hit in the head sadly, and am not willing to risk it again. Which sucks as sparring is the only way to simulate real combat. Thanks buddy.
Many years ago i trained at kickboxing in a gym with an enormously strong guy, he won matches left and right . He was a good guy but our coach wanted to me to spar full contact with him and ended up with black eyes , broken nose and the like all the time. I was used to punches and all but this guy was so strong it seems he was tearing you apart with paddig and all , no joke. Well after the first year i was still stiff because i was instinctively " bracing for impact" to survive . Then the guy left the gym ( he broke a knee ) , we resumed light sparring and.. it worked miracle , even for full contact sparring.
Very good advice as always! One thing I wanted to mention, the people in the comment section have the habit of discrediting the coach of every person who asks a question involving his experience in a gym, and I find that very annoying! If I have a question and I come to this Channel to ask it, that does not mean that my coach is brain damaged, a fraud, or lacking information. Perhaps this kid needs time to get the hang of things not an essay by his coach, maybe his coach understands that a couple of months in this gym will help that kid loosen up and find his rhythm. Ramsey doesn't know you in person obviously, so he will answer your question in video format judging by what he understood from the information your amateur self has given him. Perhaps if he takes one look at you he might find out that your problem requires a whole different solution. The ultimate truth is, it takes years for you to be truly comfortable while sparring, these are foreign soils you are operating on and your body will need to adapt with a lot of experience and practice, so if you don't think you're getting what you need from your gym, that does not mean you are right! You are still a little baby(in terms of experience) who does not know crap about martial arts and that is a fact, you don't have the proper tools, set of eyes, or experience to judge if a gym is good for you. This is why federations exist, this is why coaches need to be registered in federations and have specific qualifications to be allowed to teach you! So do your research and find out if your coach is "really" a coach, and if he is, give yourself time to learn. This is not an anime, you can't become bruce lee after 2 minutes of compiled training footage. I am a Muay Thai instructor who has taught a bunch of students already, I have to constantly remind them that this is not an anime.
Hey Ramsey, love the advice on sparring, I would think it's common sense for people, but guess I just got lucky in my first MMA gym where we shared the general consensus of "we're not here to walk out hurt", I have a question for Q&A with the coach, I'm 24, and the gym I go to is a really small class of 3-4 students so I get alot of 1 on 1 time with the coach/instructor, but gives me limited sparring experience with other students since lack of variety, one of the students there is a 16 year old teenager who has 50 exhibition matches in boxing(I was amazed), she asked me to spar, and when I noticed she was hitting me as if it was a real match I stopped it right there and told her to take it down a notch since we'd just get hurt(more on her end than for me since a adult male versus a teenage girl no matter how much experience she has you can't beat basic biology and weight/height difference), the rest of the sparring session she barely graced my skin and looked like she didn't care anymore. We haven't sparred since. How would you get through to someone who has these terrible sparring habits? not only to spar with you, but do it at a light-level where you can learn without getting injured?
This is exactly how my gym/school trains. In the school that I train at, woman spar with the men, the big guys with the smaller guys, the teenagers with the adults. The more experience fighters, slow it down a lot when they go with the newbies, or throw lighter and concentrate on movement, cutting angles, paring, slipping etc. There is no reason to go hard, all of the time the only thing to be had from always sparing hard is CTE. Especially if you do not have a fight coming up, there's no need for it.
It is easy to development a flinch, lots of precious training time to lose it, so don't train in a way you find yourself flinching. I wasted time developing a flinch, training bad technique because of a flinch, and more getting rid of it. Never again.
Ramsey, Big fan of your's. I admire your fighting knowledge and experience a great deal. I was recently struck by your comment about IBJJF jiu jitsu being a game. I agree with you, but as a jujitsuka, it made me wonder: when does the game become fighting? Is MMA close enough to reality to be a fight? ADCC grappling? Boxing? Or are they all games and the only real fights happen on da streetz?
One of the reasons I stopped going to my last martial arts class and moved on to Muay Thai was the lack of light/technical sparring, sparring class was invites only and everyone was so under pressure by each other, we sparred live and there was no progress, we instantly fought on a default state and nobody was learning new things as it was a matter of surviving the one minute round which was unmitigated. There’s no room for trying new things in that environment.
Alex from Mesa, Arizona USA. I have watched all ufc events, bellator, 1fc, etc. since then, I have had an absolute passion to replace my interest into the mma sport. I have pro amateur experience in skateboarding. Every different but very similar sports. My question is this, given NO mma experience, but YEARS of athletic movement(skateboarding). How do you feel for a athletic competitor switching to a mix martial arts for a replacement. Reword it as you please. My main question is this. What are my chances to succeed in the sport, given that I have no experience in the octagon, but yet have years of experience in movement and precision, timing and pain. Thank you. Alex.
When i started judo after many years of kickboxing, i found at first ne waza , ground fighting, difficult because i got stiff and tired very early. I was surprised because i had a very good cardio ! A black belt training partner of mine , who is also an expert kickboxer, told me to breath while grappling as if i whoul be doing during kickboxing sparring , cohordinating inhaling and exhaling with what you're doing . well it worked like magic , you have to change rhytm, but it's more or less the same thing .
Hey Ramsay I had a question what advice would you give someone like me that wants to get in shape like muscle ton and strength training but I have zero experience with working out and all that?
It's funny you would mention getting hit today. Of course I agree with what you said, but I was sparring a student of mine today and he hit me this one time in the face. He asked if i was OK. I said I was fine and went on to add that I actually liked getting hit that time, lol I went on to add that his glove cushioned the blow, and that it was a good lesson for me, because I was fixated on a target and not watching the whole action.
My sparring partner became a expert kick blocker from hundereds of hours blocking my kick combos full contact as I wondered how he could not flinch and take the pain and aways used his tried and true technique, So one day I caught him fixing his long sleeves to discover he wore studded arm guards hidden, I was like you! It goes to show pain you inflickes is the pain you fell unless control it more. thanks for vid
I think the ability to relax in sparring comes with time. I've been training for just over a year and I'm noticeably a lot more relaxed and flowing, but I'm probably still really stiff. I think a lot of it comes from the inability to control my power properly. I can either hit you at 10% or at 50% and I can't seem to be able to do inbetween without tightening up. I'm trying to mimic some of the advanced people in my gym who are just amazing. 2 people in particular who have this uncanny ability to hit you hard enough to make you step back, but not actually hurt you.
So many things that can drop us into a sympathetic nervous state that no one thinks about. and how much being in that state can impede the learning process. Question, this one not so deep as my last one. I need a name for my own style. I want to call it Nerd-fu, because why not. My roommate has veto'd it. What are your thoughts on naming a style built by and for nerds? Any other recommendations? I agree with him, it needs something better, but I can't think of anything either.
Being able to take a hit is important. You need to be able to still know how to function after getting kicked in the side or bopped in the face. But find the balance in sparring. Too light, and you don't train a response (because it didn't connect or was just a tap). Too heavy, and you're getting legitimately hurt. Generally, you can take heavier, padded hits to the body but, you and your partner should show proper focus and ease up on contact to the head. Or spar specific drills aimed to work on your reaction. Isolate a movement to practice against a set attack, and your partner can play with the timing of the attack so it becomes more challenging but is otherwise a safe build up to working on movement.
Ramsey ,what is your opinion about QiGong(ChiKung)?Is it any good ?Are exercises like the Iron Short,for example, effective?Thank you for your kind answer.
Hey Mr. Dewey, American exchange student studying abroad in Japan. Thank you so much for inspiring me to start my journey in MMA. My personal inspirations in MMA are very deceptive and technical strikers like Israel Adesanya, Anderson Silva and Saenchai. I find myself trying to emulate some of their fakes, trickery, and mind games in my sparring. My question is, am I taking away from any sort of striking fundamentals by focusing on the mind games that these strikers play? Should I focus on learning more basic positional play and fundamentals in striking before I start trying to copy their styles? Or is deception a necessary aspect of becoming a better striker? I appreciate you and your videos so much. Thank you. - Luis
breathing is one of my main issues in boxing, i do more fitness than anyone there but when im against someone better than me i go into panic mode, start holding my breath and am gassed by the end of the first round! but when i feel relaxed i can go all night. i am consciously working on it though!
Hallo Ramsey im a great fan and i have a question well i practice martial arts with one teacher at a gym but the thing is this guy (the teacher) gives like 4 different martial arts. pencak, boxing, kickboxing and juijistu but the thing is every week he changes the martial arts he trains 2 times a week so the first week we have boxing and the next pencak is it good for me to train there or should i focus on only 1 martial art i hope you will answer this question
i got a fear of choking if i dont notice that im breathing in and thats what creates that for me. the focus on breathing out is interesting. if i soley focus on breathing out , i dont have to think about breathing in and getting scared about it to begin with. its kind of like a meditation to focus on breathing outwards. because when that happens all the thoughts that create that fear blur out and become almost none existent. and all there is , is the little song you play.
I have a legit question for you Ramsey, I've always wondered are you allowed to have this RU-vid channel in China? does the Chinese government allow you or do you have to use a VPN? I wouldn't want you to make a video about it in case the answer is no lol, but i've always been interested.
in getting hit's defense:P, i got over my fear that way. But obviously not as u think. i started very slow, often getting the hang of covering up with ur guard high and letting someone tee off a bit, once u can trust ur defense by building up the strength that ur opponent is putting to u, just for him to hit at a slightly uncomfortable pace until it becomes comfortable, and then more and more, until you are at the point to trust ur defense enough to not worry this much. this has goods and cons but its an decent way to make you not flinching even when ur blocking
At my former Aikido Dojo, the instructors would train close to the entrance and we newer students had to train further away. They said that they did that to protect us if a rival Dojo would attack us. Do you also train near the entrance to protect your students? What would you do if a rival gang attacked your Fight Gym? And what do you generally do to protect your students from getting hurt?
Dear @Ramsey Dewey, my name is Ash and i am 24, i have no combat experience, and thoughtout my life ive been athletic in ball sports until about 3 and a half years ago where i started to deal with really bad anxiety and depression. currently im on the road to recovery and in a better place than i used to be, my question is, is it too late for me to get to a decent level in mixed martial arts that id feel satisfied with before i get too old? i dont want to waste the rest of my prime years getting to a good level and then by the time i get there im too old. i want to compete as im a competitive person at heart. thank you so much if you read this
I worked on my flinching and anytime I got startled I made sure I brought my hands up afterwards. Eventually I trained it and my natural reaction is to step away and bring my fists up. The other day a dog was barking as I hiked with my mum and she laughed at me 😅
Question for you Ramsey...does CTE concern you, in regards to sparring? And also...I've worried a bit about possibly developing (albeit they're more often than not non life-threatening) aneurysms from training as I've heard that excessive exercise is a contributing factor to this. Is this common among fighters? Is there some way to prevent this...besides a healthy diet and plenty of rest?
Hey Ramsey, great stuff as always. Are there any alternatives to hissing? I feel a little awkward when i do that at kickboxing. If theres none, i will just keep trying to get over the awkwardness of hissing xD
IMO, the most underlooked aspects of Martial Arts are footwork and head movement. When was the last time a guy just couldn't be hit in MMA? I'd say that was a prime Dominick Cruz. He made guys look like amateurs back when he was on top. Not saying every fighter should work to emulate that style, but the approach to defensive offense cannot be ignored.
No. Two reasons: first- pick a language and stick with it. Second- taijutsu is already the name of a specific style of martial arts. If you say “taijutsu” people in the martial arts community will think you’re talking about the bujinkan tako dojo or some other branch of budo taijutsu.
Hey Ramsey you’ve helped me before and I’ve been doing Bjj for 8 months and I’ve had a lot of wrestling experience. Nobody at my Bjj gym wants to stand with me how do I get people to stand with me when we roll?
Pick them up off the mat and put them back on their feet when they pull guard. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EM_z9VGKbZ4.html Or teach them how to wrestle first.
I have a question almost like the first. I am big 300lb when I started 385. My footwork is slow and I feel like I am rooted. Skipping rope has helped and of course losing weight did as well. What other things I can do to help my footwork?
Have you seen football players run ladders? That's fantastic for working on footwork, and it's great cardio. Being 300 lbs, you should be careful not to go too fast because balance can be a big deal in that exercise, but it'll help, and you'll notice the improvement as you lose more and more weight.
Traditional martial arts Kya or shout is only used sometime and mostly for finishing blows. The reason is more about the original reason martial arts was taught, which is for ambushing, the kya is to throw your enemies into chaos or fear which is why it is done at the finishing blow, it is has a purpose of trying to scare another person. If trained properly you should not be kyaing every strike. BTW love your videos
In my experience I have noticed if you get hit and hurt you less likely to do it again. But if your getting injured it's not ok. We the black belts in our dojang (tkd) do semi contact. So we get brushes (until our body is conditioned enough then we go the tinest bit harder). And the joke is we want to become a Dalmatian.
I’m a South African and I’ve never met a Jan who pronounces thier name the way you did😂. There’s a couple of short names like that in Afrikaans actually, Jan, piet, koos ens. Almost every name will be german or Dutch when it seems like it’s not English aside from the obvious african names.
Hey Ramsey I'm looking into doing amateur then eventually professional fighting not sure if kickboxing or mma does kickboxing have the 8 count rule that boxing does thanks in advance heal up my friend
MMA has no mandatory 8 count, and no standing 8 count. If you’re down, it’s fair game for your opponent to continue the assault, and if you do not intelligently defend yourself on the ground, the ref stops the fight and calls it a TKO. Kickboxing rules vary from one organization to the next. Most use the mandatory 8 count. A few still use a standing 8 count (even though they abolished that in boxing in the 90’s)
Hello Ramsey, I'm a shorter guy I'm 17 and I'm 5'4 and I find it easier to fight people who are taller than me but when I encounter people the same size or smaller who are on my level of fighting I have a harder time. How do i fix this and why do you think this is the case?
Rasmey I have a question, so I've been training taewkondo for a couple of years, and when we spar there's this other student that always gets mad when we spar together because I try to hit his head and that I shouldn't do that but my teacher is training to go to tournament and all I try to not him really hard but its hard doing a kick to head slowly, and one time when we were sparring I hit him in the head slowly and then he grabbed my leg and throw me to the floor any tips or anything for me? Sorry for the long question
@@KameronDAaron The problem is that first we dont have many students of my age or older by that i mean like me plus two others around my age my teacher and this guy, and second I'm kind of shy and like I would feel bad for complaining to my teacher like don't take me wrong my teacher is amazing and has tons of patience and he would totally understand the situation but I'm afraid that after I explain this there would gonna be always a bad mood during training
@@leanlucas6456 you should always feel COMFORTBALE when talking to your Coach/Sensei and he should understand your predicament. I Believe your doing olympic taekwondo, if you don't have many sparring partners and the who is your size and age complains a lot, I believe you should go somewhere else. At the end of the day, YOU should always look to get better for YOU.
@@KameronDAaron Well really appreciate your help and now I have the courage to talk to my master cause I know he will help me in this situation since he never gave up on me when I started and couldn't do even the 1 ponsae really appreciate your help
When i'm running or dancing, I focus on breathing both in *and* out, because I'm wanting to keep a stable flow throughout the whole breath. In combat, that's far less relevant.
Depends on the partner. I get hit lighter from experienced partners. New folks get excited, and underestimate striking power. However if your coach is swinging for the fences, perhaps look for a different coach. Getting a concussion every other year is one thing, getting a cuncussion every other day is another.
Well i do think that reducing flinching is pretty good for you so that you don't ball up when getting hit and close your eyes. Having someone just touch you with gloves on your head emulating a combo that would usually make you close your eyes would be amazing for you. You need to realize that blocking and taking the hits with no intention of countering isnt what you should usually work on. So training to keep your eyes on your opponent and cower in fear.
I've heard that you went some time in Argentina... Did you meet with somebody from de Demonio's Team?? Is a kick boxing team from my country, my instructor and friend is Perro Vargas (Nicolas Vargas) may be you know him.... Saludos!!
How many punches should you throw in training and training at home with no bag or pads!!??? I'm doing a minimum 10 rounds of 5 minutes and I'm throwing at least 1000 punches in a round!!!!( shadow boxing with gloves)And after I do shoulders traps and a back training, is that to munch ??? I train once or twice a week, thanks a lot!!!! You're 99% right about martial arts:)
As many as it takes to learn something from the experience. Shadow boxing is great because you can (and should) do it every day, anywhere. Consistency is key.
@@RamseyDewey thanks, I was having a similar thought and in sparing I can see that it helps much more than bag work, at least this is my experience for now ...
Sometimes, you really do need to just get it out of the way. You recently used your degree in modern dance as an analogy and I'll use skateboarding. In skateboarding we fall, on pavement, while moving, often from height, a lot (look up Thrasher's Hall of Meat for a taste of the worst slams). Like, a lot - a lot. And it hurts even if you take falls well and are wearing pads. So, you practice falling to help mitigate the damage. A lot of people do this on carpet, grass, or mats and in the same fashion you would learn break-falls in martial arts or parkour and a lot of people just learn through repetition. And there is a lot of repetition involved when you actually start falling on the pavement. The first time you fall and get back up, you get a little more confident. Every time you take a hard slam while learning a new trick and get back up, you get a little more confident. Every time you come back from an injury, you get a little more confident. This is something you have to do if you're going to skateboard. If you think you're going to skate without falling, skating isn't the activity for you because the worst slams are the unexpected ones (e.g. a punch you don't see). In context, getting hit in the face sucks for most people, myself included... I don't like taking slams while skating, either, but I skate every chance I get. If you're just terrified to get hit to the point that you're freezing up, maybe ring sports aren't for you. Train a traditional art for the "oooooh, aaaah, spoooooky" self-development aspect and take up training with a weapon for self-defense. If you really enjoy hurting other people in a ring for no reason other than to prove to yourself than you can do it, man up and learn how to take the shots you want to deliver. That's going to start with just having punches thrown at you, that don't connect, along with holding the pads for a more experienced fighter so you can feel and receive that energy coming at you. Then you put headgear on and start taking light shots. You'll get an accidental hard shot by walking into it, your partner slipping up, etc., and realize that while it sucked it wasn't really that bad. You might even get your bell rung or your lights turned off but, you'll get back up. You don't have to worry about being curb stomped. Now, if we're talking self-defense - because you're a grown-ass man who doesn't walk around looking to pick fights and, as such, have no reason to fight other than self-defense - you really do want to avoid getting hit in the head as much as humanly possible. At best, you make a friend after one of you tastes their own blood. At worst, you go to the morgue with blunt force trauma from hitting your head in an uncontrolled fall after getting knocked out. Remember, you're defending yourself and your goal at this point is making it home to your family. The more you mess around with someone who's trying to attack you, the more likely it is you end up dead... not just defeated in the ring. Train according to your goals because you will react as you train, but to your lowest level of training not your ideal level. (Maybe this is why monks who never spar or train for a ring tend to do so poorly? Their entire focus is on self-development, not on actually hurting people. Kind of like how the average competitive shooter can outshoot the average combat tested Army Infantryman when it comes to paper targets. However, when it comes to rounds coming back at you, do you want the guy who's only shot paper or do you want the guy who knows what it is to shoot another person? Exactly.)
