I love your pauses: They give me the time to follow, understand and appreciate your thoughts.

*I like your pauses* A moment of silence is always good from time to time to think about things very well. It also makes me feel like we're in a conversation.

i really like your style of talking .

You present your ideas with logic, and with clarity; which I find convincing as well as entertaining. Thank you!

You know, there's a Marvel super villain named the Taskmaster who's only super power is that he can master any technique simply by observing it, and that's enough to make him a threat. Because if that were possible, it would indeed be a super power.

I believe it was Kousei Inoue who said, when asked how he became so good at uchimata (a judo throwing technique): I liked uchimata. And i used it every session. I would always be countered by uchimata sukashi (where the opponent steps out of the way of the sweeping leg, resulting in you flipping over). But i kept using it, and everybody asked 'why do you keep doing uchimata, we see it coming every time?'. I used to get thrown 500 times per session. But soon i only began getting thrown 300 times. Then i'd be thrown 100 times, but i would throw them 100 times. And then i would throw them 500 tmes, and would be thrown zero times

I really wish I could train with you in MMA. You seem down to earth and relaxed and just an all-around good fellow course that all could be an act for KZread you know how that is but from what I can see You'd be almost the ideal instructor

@RamseyDewey

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, I rally appreciate your kind words! If you're ever in Shanghai, stop by the gym and join us for training!

Life advice from a fighter whose put his body and life on the line is profound in a sincere level. Than you.

I actually quite like the way you pause every now and then. It shows that what you are constructing are your actual ideas and that you are conveying them to us in an organic way. Thank you for sharing your stories and wisdom

Not only a fighter but also enlightened beyond his years.

@RamseyDewey

Жыл бұрын

Well, I’m 44… not exactly a spring chicken

I love your pauses !

"No, your screen didn't just freeze" it's probably my favourite phrase by you

One of the things why Bruce Lee was great, he made notes about everything what he did, tested and learned.

I'm extremely late to this party, but I have to say that I am (rather was) one of those guys who struggled to listen to you because of how deliberate and slow you are when you speak. But as I watched this, my feelings changed. Really it my own impatience and lack of stillness (mindfulness) that keeps me from listening. There's a quote that I love, "Make haste slowly." I'm always in a hurry, but going nowhere. Rather, be deliberate, go slow and keep going after the guys behind you gas out. 10/10 good stuff

Fxxk that! Those pauses just belong to your signature style of talking - which I find really excellent! When I some time ago saw a thumbnail to your first video, I thought, another "expert" to discuss martial arts, but after seeing it I quite got hooked and have kept watching many more. I have similar thoughts and in some cases doubts about martial arts. You also bring a very interesting view of an American living abroad in a rather exotic and a bit puzzling country like China. So being a BJJ practitioner and a former expat as well, I really like the content that you give and the style u give it with. Great voice too, BTW!

I like your pacing and thoughtful pauses

I would never have guessed your phobia of public speaking. You speak with such confidence and the pauses are an awesome addition that lets the audience fully digest key ideas before moving onto new ones. I love your videos! Keep up the good work!

that example from the bible was great!. God bless brother ramsey!

Thanks to this video, I understood better the parabola of the talents, also, thank you for this and other videos.

Ramsey I love you man you never fail to put a smile on my face with your genuine good natured banter and self deprecating humour.. and ofcourse excellent martial arts knowledge and instruction as I have observed as an avid martial artist myself I’ve studied western kickboxing, Wado-Kai karate, a little bjj but personally for me the paramount is boxing. It’s my go to every time. In my opinion nothing teaches you timing, distance, range, footwork and technique like simple plain old boxing. I’ve seen many martial arts over the years and I still haven’t seen anything that works your fundamentals and principles of fighting as much as western boxing. But this MMA business... now there’s a new concept altogether.. thank god for the UFC where fighters not just boxers can showcase their talents and show their ability’s which you will not find in the sweet science. Both amazing sports. Keep up the good work coach god bless you and your family my friend. P.S sorry though dude you do look funny and you do sound weird 😉😂 haha OJ man that’s the greatest coach voice ever you got class my man 👌🏻

I have started training a martial art for the first time a month ago. That's my talent I'm hoping to double.

You want me to think?! IMPOSSIBILIS!!!

Risk is right. This reminded me of Amy Cuddy's ted talk

I love your slow pace. It’s charming.

After 2:50 min I have to write a comment - I really felt (at last) at tune with these wonderful short bursts of thought and enough time to process them. Combined with your on-spot mimic It has now become my daily psychic hygene excercise. Thank you for that - it is awesome to hear own thoughts from another planet.

Good subject, good talk, great human being!

Mind without mind...not Descartes...but Bruce Lee. I find your videos very motivating and insightful, just discovered your channel yesterday, thank you for the great content, 3 videos was all it took to subscribe. You have a new Belgian fan from Tanzania Africa! Greetings, Sensei

just listened to this for the first time. It is instantly one of my favorite of your videos. so much wisdom in here

Absolute brilliance

thanks man.

No your screen didnt freeze" im rolling lmao

Okay okay I'll do it thank you for all your insights

Besides jokes u really have learned me , personally. On a lot of subjects

I actually find it more terrifying to hide my head in the sand, than to do something ambitious.

Relaxing video , I just breath every time he breathed. Actuall healthy video where you can breathe while watching. Good for the heart.

I want 2 of whatever this guys on.

I wish Ramsey Dewey narrated my life

Dear Ramsey, I am fairly new to your channel but your content has earned a rather rare form of intrigue from me. You are the FIRST youtuber to which I have not only subscribed, but also hit the notification bell for. You are entertaining, humerous, intelligent, wise and I find your voice to be rather calming during days of great turmoil. I have learned so much from you in such little time. I have always wanted to do MMA and actually have done some bocing but never really was goof ay staying motivated and always allowed doubt to get the best of me. Since I have started watching your videos I have begun training again, my self esteem has returned becuase you have taught me to see the good I've done in my sport as blessings and to only take the negatives as a learning opportunity to better myself. I came across your channel because I have been doing Shaolin Kung Fu forms as a form of meditation and you popped up in my feed. I would love if you posted some more technique videos. I find that after turning the speed down to x.025 and watching and studying closely I learn quicker from you than any coach or partners I've had. In retrospect I haven't had the best but I still learned great deals. I want to actually fight competitive and want to go proffesional. I'm willing and currently am putting in 100% of the effort I am able to expend (between daily life things to survive) to get to that point. I train as much as I can, I eat properly, I spar whenever I get the chance, I've made home made grappling dolls to try to start learning some grappling. I want it badly and more than anything else. I have found that I have a form of combat addiction. It's not the fighting itself I'm addicted to though. It's the learning how, the mastery of each skill just to progress to the next. I have run into the problems of not being able to afford going to an actual gym and not having many friends, let alone many willing to spar and train with me. I am 6'3" (190.5cm) and 230-240 pounds (104-108kg) and have had some honest trouble finding same sized or larger sparring partners. My current one is 5'10" (177.8cm) and about 200lbs (90.7185kg) and it isn't half bad but I do feel I am cheating myself a small bit. I have two questions for the coach. 1. I want to join MMA but want to get my foot in the door first. I was wandering what I should start with; I am deciding between Muay Thai and BJJ. Both due to my long legs and arms. Which would you recommend? 2. I can tell that I'm not at my maximum build nor even close. I know you emphasize on being an athlete and lifting but I was wondering if I should push that weight limit and potentially cross over into super heavyweight territory(if I AM in the heavyweight division currently). Should I be the best Heavyweight I can be or should I push myself to be even more? Thank you for uploading and being the charismatic, funny, and caring youtuber that you are. I'll be sharing your channel. Deep Respect and Good Fortune to you, Kyle P.S. (I may post this on two or three videos)

@RamseyDewey

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Kyle! Thanks so much my friend! Great questions: I’ll answer one right now. It sounds like you’re walking around closer to Light heavyweight (225 lbs upper weight limit) even though it sounds like you’re a pretty big dude, you would be the small guy in the heavyweight division (upper weight limit 265 lbs) with guys cutting down from around 300 lbs. super heavyweight divisions have no upper weight limit, so you could end up fighting actual sumo wrestlers. My advice: keep working toward your physical potential. Get as strong and fit as you can- to the point you feel really good moving around and fighting. When you get there, check the scale and pick the weight division where you can do the most damage for your size pound for pound.

@MT-lw6yh

5 жыл бұрын

@@RamseyDewey Thank you. I will keep this in mind moving forward even if I end up taking one or two steps back to face the right direction. Keep up the amazing work man. Deep Respect and Good Fortune to you, Kyle

@MT-lw6yh

5 жыл бұрын

@@RamseyDewey Hey if you find possible do you think you could address being extremely poor and still trying to stay healthy and work towards these goals? I do my best to budget. Bills always come first and then I try to go for healthy foods but that also means I'm able to get less due to prices. I have a garden and grow some veggies on my own. I use heavy objects for my lifting instead of proper equipment which honestly seems dangerous. I guess I just want to know some cheaper and better alternatives if you know any

Super video. Thanks.

man! you’re the best

Thanks jefe these videos help

Yet how much more humble must have the third servant in the talent parable been to not risk the Master's talent.

@RamseyDewey

5 жыл бұрын

That’s not what he was asked to do.

@khananiel-joshuashimunov4561

5 жыл бұрын

@@RamseyDewey I've rewatched the segment like ten times and I can't find the directions given. I have trouble keeping attention, but I tried my best. When I was taught the story the people were tasked with safeguarding the money they were given. One spent it all, another buried it, and the last invested it and came back with more.

I actually love your style of talking. I'm a fast talker myself and sometimes I need to slow down and have someone else slow down so I can think about and focus on what they are saying.

It seems like the third serving got it right. He's no longer a servant he can be his own man.

@craftpaint1644

4 жыл бұрын

Freedom without trust, but back in those days freedom wasnt common so the guy has something rare to himself anyway.

I honestly love your videos, keep this up. And yes pauses are welcome :). Judo is very good example btw, if you afraid to fall, you will never learn anything.

"We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery" by Samuel Smiles. You fall before you learn to walk, you make sounds before you learn to speak... We're learning FROM mistakes MUCH more than from success. So.... it's funny that we're afraid to make mistakes. It's... limiting us, it's limiting our potential. It's giving birth to REGRET! But when the fear of mistakes it's (allmost)hardwired in our brain (thanks school), mmm... it's hard to try something which may result in a failure. Self-conscious... well... this thing... sometimes i would want to let me be! Half the time it's f****** with me. 😅 PS: Thank you for the pauses! They're good for digesting ideas. For the rushers: Guys and gals, go listen to some good audio movies, they're great for relaxation. And then you'll see how good pauses are! 🤪

Great video. This helps me. I feel anxiety before going to train Muay thai on most days...and ive been doing it 1 year and 6 months, and immediately before that I did jiu jitsu for a little over a year. I have some experience, but i still get anxiety.. Ive always considered it a problem. It has GREATLY lessoned since I first started martial arts, and after I got used to taking hits in sparring that also really helped(in muay thai). But its still there. Do you deal with that kind of stuff?

@RamseyDewey

6 жыл бұрын

You never stop being human. You just get better at it.

@robertjones4931

4 жыл бұрын

yeah i used to get it bad before bjj, got bad enough i quit - don't quit you'll regret it.

A great voice for narration.

Gooooo ransey that's what I feel all the Chinese ppl tell u after they see how good u are 🤣🤣🤣

awesome video!

great video, learned a lot;) keep up the good work!

The great thing about living abroad is that you have the opportunity to become inarticulate in multiple languages ... when I lived in Tokyo my English would change and become strange

thanks

Failure is the greatest teacher.

That’s me, under the radar. Grey man in plain sight. Dont like tournaments, though sometimes go to support the school.

when i did my first block of HEMA classes (a block is 6 weeks), it was french cane and we did the class, i got really enthused, on the final session the other instructor came, hes the one that trained the instructor i was under during that class. anyway, this instructor had a bout with each of us, only a couple of us actually did it, he wanted to see how we reacted under pressure. it was one of the most terrifying things i have done, i would go in for a hit and pause at the end as i had been doing with the other students, we were all terrible so when we went for a hit or parried a strike we would pause and kind of process what had happened whether a strike connected or not. so my first couple of strikes i did that and he would just hit me three times in the head after parrying my strike. i had never seen someone striking so fast but also usefully, every one was a good strike and i was overwhelmed. by the end i had got it so he would only hit me once during each of my attacks and i actually scored a hit against him, it felt amazing even though he soundly beat me in the bout, i kept going back in for the full three minutes, trying different things. it changed me as a person and a fighter, in a good way. that instructor has been teaching me for a couple of years now and we have a good relationship, better than i have had with any of the other martial arts instructors i have had. so i actually have a question if you see this, ive been mulling a few over as ive been watching your channel, watching fights every day im about to get into Combat Jujitsu (self defence not sport) and i really want to get into boxing. my question is, have you ever had a fight that has had a really profound effect on you? changed the way you fight, changed how you view yourself, or your outlook on life. i would love to hear about it/them.

@CaptainBrash

6 жыл бұрын

i wish i had discovered a joy for martial arts earlier (im 31 now), i did karate as a kid which seems to be a racket to make money from the parents with its 20 belts or whatever, i did some kung fu which was ok and some muay thai but i always never wanted to go, i felt i had to because i wanted to better myself, now i wish i could train every day. ill be lucky if i can persuade my girlfriend that its a good idea for me to train 3 times a week, ill broach the subject when shes finished her PhD because i just want to learn and try to catch up a bit on how good i could have been if i had stuck it out when i was younger...

As a person with crippling anxiety, self consciousness is huge. I've wanted to be part of my wife's bagpipe band for seven years but can't because I'm afraid of being bad.

@Docinaplane

6 жыл бұрын

The Joe: You are already bad. Nowhere to go but better and maybe one day good! One step at a time. The best way to build self-esteem or confidence is to take on something that is challenging but doable and do it. No one can give it to you, but you can earn it yourself.

2:46 - 3:02 yes, this. Please, louder for the folks in the back!!

Consciousness is one of those things that does not need to be proven. Or rather it cannot be proven logically. Consciousness is not a problem, it's an axiom. Now the thing about Axiom is that even in an attempt to deny them you must use them. So therefore if you attempt to deny Consciousness you must be Consciousness and you must be speaking to other conscious beings.

I say this as an fan and admirer (really, if I were in Shanghai I would be training at your gym, if you'd have me) but you haven't quite got the hard problem right. It is a phrase coined by the philosopher David Chalmers to refer to the problem of explaining why consciousness exists at all. His idea is that we could be functionally identical to the way that we currently are but without any conscious awareness. The idea is that there are (relatively) easy functional problems in the field of consciousness studies (like how we remember things, or the mechanisms that underlie reasoning) and then there is the hard problem: why it feels like something to eat an orange or to listen to jazz or to take a right hook to the jaw. Some people deny that there is a hard problem (like Daniel Dennet) but no one has come even remotely close to solving the hard problem. People don't even know what a solution would look like.

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I think therefore i *am.* I dont know however if anyone else thinks therefore i do not know whether anyone else *exists.*

@mrmoth26

4 жыл бұрын

They all exist but maybe not as actual people but more like NPC's in games or just visual features of the world or whatever. If you can see something, touch something, think about something etc. It exists, that's not really up for debate, but the nature of that object and what it actually is not what it looks like is.

Whoa man you look so different with no beard i felt a little weird watching this video but then I got used to it and watched another video and then it was weird getting used to you having beard...anyway cool video as always 👍🏻

Maybe 3rd servant would have taken a risk if he had more to work with like the first two...Can't help wonder?...

hehe, came here for the double jab, left with a lesson on life :)

He gave me my Talon in the middle of Detroit and walked off, I been laying here huddled around it while the devils crew kicks the shit through me ever since. I guess that makes me the wicked servant. Like giving your 10yo a new pair of Nike Jordans at some Harlem Basketball Court and walking away. Forgive me brother when you first mentioned God to me I said to myself what would you know of God, I was frustrated. God definitely loves you and most definitely works in mysterious ways. A Mormon you say? Well, it's most definitely like God to see past our flaws lol. I even met a Muslim once who God assured me was his, the mystery of God just baffles the mind

Gud

101 likes to 1 dislike. I don´t want to break the symmetry but I want to like. SO I chose to write this comment insteead. count this as like for all purposes.

the risk it gets the biscuit !

Hi Ramsey. I wanted to know, how much is the mountly subscribson in Your MMA club, if i ever come to China?

I've always wondered about that parable; about what it actually means when it say's talents. Talents of gold yes, but i think u hinted at talents as in skills/abilities, could it be hinting at both u reckon?

What's really going to fry your noodle is this, the evolution of technique, first people punched and kicked, then they started putting them together, then they started making them into structures, then they started building pictures and diagrams with the structures, they they learned how to use these pictures with others, then against the same structures. Then they figured out that the body has structures built into it, and these structures were very defined and some could cause problems, so they sectioned them off, they followed lines that connected them, they wrote storybooks about where they were and what they were that told people how to use them, they thought if they found the hidden sequence that destroyed life somehow they could find the sequence that made them live forever. And Enoch went to be with God.

question, body types that are better suited for particular martial arts? Question rises from being at crossroad about, where to take my efforts. Couple with two facts, first, two years ago i was working out with some fundamentals of a particular style. My wife of 12 years (she seen a lot of me and MA because of me...) said it was most natural kata/form she ever seen me "toy" with. I feel i need to preface the fact that i had 4+ years of yang short form tai chi lessons with one teacher, but the "natural" art is not a style of tai chi. Second fact, 8 months before i started my learning in tai chi, a teacher of MA, Herold Simms recommended the same Martial art that wife commented on two years ago. This recommendation came after his teaching a 90 min drop in class at his home/front yard for myself, my friend, and two others (also friends)that were current students of his. did he teach the art that he was commending? Of course he was, but i didn't feel that he was trying to sell it in any regard. thank you for your time if you choose to respond and thank you for videos and insights.

@RamseyDewey

6 жыл бұрын

Great question!

I rather want the long versions of your videos, werry good contents here and alota informative & intresteing. Rather having long video and someone think of wath thay saying, than just speed thue to the end

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I agree with most of what your saying but the story beginning at 4:07 the story is that if you are greedy and have economic luck and no morals then your master is happy, but when you play it safe and have morals then your master is unhappy. Maybe the first invested in the war industry, and maybe the second bought a gun and went on a plunder spree, while the third one has no blood on his hands and still had the money (with out spending a dime of it) to return. The poor man was honest and yet his greedy master was not pleased. So the moral of the story is that it is best to be a free honest man and not to work for geedy unethical master.

@sleep3417

6 жыл бұрын

No name I don't think he was being serious. Just pulling our pizzle.

@craftpaint1644

4 жыл бұрын

The master will talk shit about him and then the third guy will have to turn to crime.

I wish I could train at your Jim

That story with the master and the talons i disagree. I think the third guy who burried his just thought logically and if he risked and lost it the master would most likelly had killed him... yeah you can take risks, but you dont have to, it can be equally if not even more intelligent to play it safe, especally in specific situations.

Can you explain that term you use, jiu-jitsu "players?" You're the first and only person i've heard say that.

Was it Des Cartes, "i think, therefore i am"

@mrmoth26

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was Rene Des Cartes.

Were actually gods children that kinda makes us gods too. If we accept salvation. Glad to see you actually have a pair and don't mind referencing the bible.

You're gorgeous and quirky!

666 views illuminati confirmed

But Ramsey, you aren't talking in front of people. You're talking in front of a camera. Even when we watch, you're talking in front of one person at a time.

Ramsey just pausing to get 10 minute ad revenue

@RamseyDewey

6 жыл бұрын

I'll have to keep that in mind if I ever monetize mt youtube videos

@yousureaboutthis594

6 жыл бұрын

jimmy alderson

Watching this video made me notice you sound a lot like Obama: low pitch voice, somewhat monotone, with a lot of pauses.

@bunberrier

6 жыл бұрын

That's true.