Met Jeff when I was living in Vietnam and he was passing through. Dude definitely has the signature Canadian niceness, but man you could tell he's got that edge just lying underneath. Super glad to see most of my favorite combat sports/self defense youtubers in one room
As someone looking at getting into Muay Thai, and who also loves Street Fighter, hearing you reference hit confirms blew my mind. It also confirmed I wasn't crazy for seeing parallels to fighting game concepts.
So this is the kind of super advanced shit that you get in the paid courses. That bit about looking to the left during the straight right blew my mind.
Late on this one. I love when you guys work together on this type of stuff. Informative and interesting. It’s odd, like, I can watch stuff like this like seinfeld. I can’t quite define it.
It's so funny you used the fighting game term "hit confirm" it's so true. I use it all the time to make sure I'm in the right place to use my special moves.
This is a interesting tactic. Also you did great on USDC episode 2, can't wait to see how you'll do in episode 3. But yeah I've been subscribed to Jeff for a while, he's got great stuff ☺️.
Icy Mike talking about fighting game terminology like hit confirms in the context of fighting irl is very cool. Would like see you play a fighting game on the channel just for fun, would be cool and entertaining.
The martial arts at its core is basic level teaching us the basics and once you know it and can understand your own body and how your body adapts to fights then from that point on you can adjust to make it work for you. I like how Jeff has implemented that into his art because not many do that. Here are some good examples for Muay Thai Saenchai does it all the time, in UFC Israel Adesanya does it all the time, like Jeff mentioned Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao breaks rules in there boxing. Good video guys keep it up.
@9:30 This is the same with chess. There are 'chess principals' that you learn to win. However, once you become experienced enough, you can learn how to break these principals to catch your opponent and win.
I love seeing Ramsey in your videos, I've watched both of channels for a long time, and in my wildest dreams I didn't expect a colab since he's located in china. Seeing him casually walk into your video is jarring :D
O tsuki (the stepping cross) & the stepping lowkick I I've seen & learn in the early lowkick full contact karate/kickboxing. I think its a combination of taught in the Boxe Francais curriculum. While there is an above the waist version taught in the PKA curriculum.
@8:15 In my kf style we call that a running step straight punch. Great technique for certain situations. That leg kick tho is awesome. Going to totally use that foot work and method.
Jeff gets a lot of flak but the dude can throw hands. I watched him spar with Saenchai, it was not like they were equals, but it was close enough where you could feel the tension mount.
I like stepping with my rear leg to switch up the rhythm. But after you step out to the side. How do you like to reingage? I could see potential for some capoeira style kicks or moving into a turning attack off that new angle.
The "you gotta know the rules to break the rules" reminds me of playing music. If you play a note outside of the key with intent in jazz, it no longer becomes a "wrong" note. Fighting becomes like physical jazz. It's cool to see the parallels between the arts and martial arts.
I feel like a child and its Christmas! Watching Jeff, Mike, Ramsey and Rokas all together is super fun, insightfull and wholesome. Jeff and Ramsey are partly what got me into MMA five years ago.
Jeff knows so much it blows my mind like every time I watch him break something down Plus his movement is so advanced it reminds me of Dominick Cruz footwork, I like how he builds exits and head movement into all his stuff Hopefully we get to see this in action somewhere in the challenge, it seems super useful
The reason Jeff is so gigabrain about this stuff is because he does it so damn much with hard sparring and high level fighters. And then he films everything and goes back and analyzes it. He doesn't need to rely on theory when he has that much experience.
Oh is Jeff.. wait is THAT RAMSEY DEWEY FROM SHANGHAI CHINA ! sorry got excited. I love Jeff weird bird like movement, he jumps in attacks goes back and repeat . And is more fun to watch than an orthodox style of fighting.
TRUE that would’ve been super interesting as his striking is really based on fundamentals and he does have grappling experience, but much less than Jeff
Geezus this is so gold!! This should be perfect for shorter (like myself 5'-6"7" )fighters to not only close the gap against taller fighters, but it's freaking adaptive at the same time?? Thank you Mike for expounding on Jeff landing this on you and you wanting to figure it out! And Thank you Jeff for the reveal/breakdown! You're the best
Discovered Ramsey 2 years ago. Became a fan and subscriber. Discovered Mike last year. Became a fan and subscriber. Now, I've discovered Jeff Chan and have beome a fan and subscriber. These three are GREAT TEACHERS and Communicators. They seem to just exude excitement in teaching you things they know.
I have always called that the "Jeff Chan Kick". Man, love it when martial artists get together, share ideas on how to get better. Its good for future martial artists because they can always improve the ideas you guys put out today!
I call these "lunging invasions" it looks beautiful when you do it man. I call those "in and out" kicks "Rat Kicks" cuz thats how rats will escape cats and crows literally by kicking and bouncing off of them.
Awesome collab, two of my favorite fight channels ever. You and Jeff should release some sparring footage, would love to see it. You can also transfer the double step into body kicks as well
It was interesting to see you guys trade notes. I’m glad there was a ultimate self-defense championships, which brought you guys together and where are you traded notes.
I like that theory, about advanced striking is bad stuff done on purpose. I’ve always thought of it as “there are many ways to move your body, and sometimes one person’s right way, is another person’s wrong way. But if they work is all that matters “
