Training too many styles: The art of Fighting is one thing, not a composite of distilled systems 

Hi coach Ramsey, I'm just getting into mma for 8 months and I have a goal to take part in an amateur fight in the future. However I'm already 24 years old and I weigh around 67 kg. I'm afraid when I get to such fights I will have to compete against kids who started at 16. Would you consider this a big problem?

How do amateur mma fights differ from the ufc fights we see on tv?

@@orionfollett7056 I would say the skill pool is not as big and refined and you are more likely to lose due to weaker cardio than skill

To clarify my question, I heard that the lighter your weight class is the younger you need to start training. And the only training I have before mma is 5 years of weight lifting

Hey coach, I just started doing BJJ a few weeks ago and I have some free private lessons from the gym when I signed up. I want to use these as I am pretty overwhelmed by all this and I dont have a good grasp on what I am doing, and want to get some semblance of understanding. Would it be a good idea to use this now? or would it be better to wait until I have a better idea of what questions to ask first?

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I was never good at it... boxers are something else...

Simple to the untrained eye complex to the trainee and simple again to the master

The sweet science . . .

Basics of footwork is fairly simple too, at least compared to combining it with the rest of stuff and using it tactically in a fight (probably true about most arts but boxing is something else, I still can't do it properly)

Those are some truly badass styles!

Truely the great disciple of the mystical internal art of ‘fisty hole’.

Yes, but my kickety Mckickface is far superior.

I throw in my hidden " tickle tummy tackle" technique on my training partners...they never see it coming

@@matsuwd-emethdaath4002 all fun and games till you learn about the motor boat escape while north south.....

Are you a wizard?

I didn't say it works, just that I prefer it.

Thanks

@@RamseyDewey No. Thank you. Now back to Ramsey Dewey, coming to you live from Shanghai, China.

1st step : launch jet engine sounds behind you

@@Tanishqkanojia1163 I already got that part :D

@@Panagiotis1709 hehe nice

But the second step : loop in an infinite loop at jet speed

When I was fighting professionally, I didn’t have much money and couldn’t afford much food. I watched what I ate quickly disappear and had hunger for dinner on a regular basis. Now, if you’ve got disposable income, then of course you need to be disciplined about what you eat. Stick to Whole Foods, avoid garbage.

@@RamseyDewey thank you for your reply keep up the awesome work on you channel 👌.

In a real fight,a guy might pull a weapon on you.I personally like to train for the sake of training and not preparing for the streeeeetz

Right. Same here. I just do not like this "MMA is more realistic"-talk, because it allows more. It is still a combat sport with restrictions and rules and not a "real fight". And like every combat sport, it makes you do things, you really want to avoid in a "real fight" or "self defense".

I still want mma with soccer kicks and strikes to the spine

There was one guy in my country that kill 2 Punk armed with Sickles with his bare hand. He trained under Silat Jokotole, kill 2 armed guy but I dont think he will survive in MMA Fight.

@@cahallo5964 OneFC and Rizin allow soccer kicks. The old UFC's used to allow strikes to the spine before having to "clean up" for mainstream appeal.

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Learn these movements first, then I can give you some drills.

Yep. I’m still going to do it. I’ll be traveling without internet access for a while though, so I’m not sure when.

Train more, focus on technique, i train 3-4 hours a day, eat well and rest well, always stretch and keep the sparring light, avoid compound lifting the same muscle groups two days in a row, now get out there and train!

Depends how you train. If you're training full contact striking that entire time you'll accumulate a lot of damage but if you're mostly going light and only occasionally going heavy contact to keep you grounded in reality then you're probably fine

Howdy.

Ramsey Dewey I’m fine, thanks. I hope you are, too. Good points, as always.

Glad other people see the value of a good and easy "Howdy" xD

As for a Q&A, I would love to see your takes on some Historical European Martial Art (HEMA) grappling. Fiore, Niccolaes Petter, and Ringeck come to mind. You can find all of their treatises (that we have anyways) for free on Wiktenauer. A lot of them are surprisingly similar to Judo and other eastern martial arts systems, even though they developed entirely independently (Fiore shows some figure four wrist locks with daggers!) I'd like to see what you think does and doesn't work from the old masters.

What?

A bit contradictory, as MMA has plenty of rules.

ah, a man of culture

Wholesome references enter the game

Bruce lee type shii

Henry Cejudo mentioned it in JRE podcast that after he decided he wanted to pursuit MMA, he basically focused most of his technical training on MMA as a whole rather than each martial art separately. MMA is its own sport after all.

Once rules get established a single style will inevitably emerge. MMA will probably break down into a handful of camps, similar to boxing where you can see the influences of their coaches. Different styles of footwork, favored combinations, and approaches to grappling.

Some martial arts fandom can be weird. Instead of seeking what works they focus on what they want to work.

I'm the person who asked the question, this is exactly what I was wondering. Looking back at it now I wish I worded it better.

Dark Collective It was a great question because I had assumed the same thing. It wasn’t until he answered your question that I was able to think about the reasoning behind it

GSP might not be the best, but he is very high level. Gordon Ryan says he’s the hardest guy to sumi gaeshi.

I think GSP made everyone realize what true fighting looks like

I agree

Sharingan? 😳

Even Fiore, almost 200 years earlier in 1409, said about stances that you "not wait in them too long, due to the rapid changes that take place during grappling."

I don't see anything that reliably says he was a Sword Master. From what I have read, they would of considered him a Master of Defence if he was a Master. of anything Not to say his work was not important, as it gives an insight how sword fighting was perceived and performed in England at the time. That and his biases against the Italian forms.

@@mafiamole well he is certainly my Master :)

it get you fit in the process, so the other styles and any other sport or life obstacle becomes easier to do

HOW you teach techniques is often more important than the techniques you're teaching. Karate has a vast compendium of techniques that, if mastered, could be employed against a master boxer very effectively. However, few Karate dojos teach in ways that allow for the proper deployment of their techniques in the context of a live fight; whereas nearly all boxing gyms spend more time letting you practice actually using techniques in live sparring/fighting. The Muay Thai gym I attend hosts a Karate Sensei who teaches his own students there twice per week. After a Muay Thai class I once stuck around to watch a Karate class because I thought there was so much I could learn. After the first THIRTY MINUTES all they had done was meditate, talk, listen to the sensei talking, then practice shadow boxing one specific technique in a fashion that was SO ultra robotic and so over-the-top-fast that i couldn't imagine them every pulling it off in sparring they way they had practiced it. The technique was valid, but they were just doing it at hyper speed with a rigid stance that allowed no mobility, and they never tried it with each other. I feel like if they taught the same stuff, but the way my coaches teach it, they could be much better fighters.

Interesting analogy

Does that make "real world" violence the roots?

@@williamjohnson476 No, the violence are the maggots, that attack the fruits making the tree look ugly to casual observer possibly making him to cut down the whole tree in his ignorance. The roots are the values and reasons one has to learn and keep on growing. Getting waaaaay too deep thinking here, but I also think competition, like UFC is the wind, that removes weaker branches, but If the trunk is strong makes the tree stronger. This last one might get me into trouble, but people sensei Ramsey are bees, taking a little from tree, by making us drill things we find in our lack of knowledge pointless, but also spreading the seed through internet in hope making some little trees pop up through the Globe. No, I wasn't under the influence of mind altering chems while typing.

The best analogy I've heard on the subject is this. The techniques are the tools; the delivery system is the toolbox. If you give a craftsman a new tool, he'll know where it belongs in his toolbox. Give him a Phillips head screwdriver and he'll go, "Ah yes, this goes with the other Phillips head screwdrivers, between the one that's bigger and the one that's smaller." or, "Ah yes, this will replace this particular size screwdriver that I already have because it's better." or, "Nice screwdriver bro, but I've got a Phillips head in the same size that works better for me." * Or you can give the same screwdriver to a non-craftsman and he'll go, "Thanks bro!" then put it away some place he'll promptly forget. Learn how to fight first (the delivery system; the toolbox), only then go chasing after weird esoteric tools to put in it. * Related to this, you will not find a craftsman who organises his tools by colour or age or brand or by the store they were bought in. They all organise their tools into types, then by size. Similarly, all effective fighters have some similarities (effective punching is going to look a lot like boxing, effective groundwork is going to look a lot like BJJ etc.).

Wouldn’t mind watching that

That's how I feel about deep half guard. I wouldn't use it for mma/self defense, but I have had scrambles where I end up there and it's nice to know what to do on those rare occasions.

That would vary a lot from person to person. You can't guarantee any level of skill in a given amount of time if you don't know the person and their athletic background.

But in a wild guess I would say 1 year is the minimum amount of time, all conditions being favourable

I think the 10,000 hours to master a skill estimate is about accurate, but each of those hours have to be well spent. You can have been doing a combat sport for 10 years and still suck at it because you never put in serious time

What do they call it uhhh Uchi Deshi? I know some styles of karate had or do still offer this style of training which can elevate you to that rank expediently but as was said it will be a very very brutal period of time. I’d say 600-900 days would be sufficient, 600 days without time off and 900 with maybe one day off a week.

It depends mostly on how many hours you spend training. Through my experience and trying to gauge how long it took the black belts I know or people I know of to get to the skill they're at I would say in the range of 600-1,000hr range. With 600 being on the very least and 1,000 being the very most. So around 800hrs is a good sweet spot.

Every striking technique has specific footwork that will allow you to set up and land your strikes. If you want to improve your footwork learn the techniques you intend with their proper footwork rather than striking out of context.

Thanks coach, I’ll keep that in mind for tomorrow’s training 💪🏼

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This goes for most MMA Schools though

I would guess because it’s a relatively new sport But Greg Jackson’s system is not fail proof either Fighters of his have been defeated by Fighters with rather specialized abilities - keep that in mind

Yep.

George Dillman is a weird case. Today he is known as the wacky no-touch knock out guy. Back then, he was one of the most respected karate practitioners and tournament promoters in the US. My guess is when his legitimate fame dried up, he tried to stay relevant with gimmicks. Muhammad Ali was also awarded a black belt in taekwondo under Grandmaster Jhoon Rhee.

@@RamseyDewey oh i did't knew dillman was legit before the no touch thing

@@RamseyDewey the same happend to count dante he was a legit judo and karate black belt and promoter that happend alot in the 70s

Martial arts nerds study obscure arts, because they're fascinating. If we find something useful, we might try it in "A real fight" to see how that works, but even if you got into martial arts, exclusively to become a better fighter, you're going to run into something obscure, think "That's cool!" and remember it. We can't really get past that, yes we're athletes, competitive, and some might even say badass fighters (Not me) but we're also NERDS. If we weren't, we wouldn't have studied ancient obscure ARTs from countries where we don't speak the language in the fist place. We'd probably be gun nerds instead.