What’s up with pro fighters saying “I don’t spar anymore”?

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Have you heard fighters say they don’t spar? What does that actually mean?
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I fought professionally in Mixed Martial arts, Sanda, Muay Thai, K1 and American kickboxing from 2004-2011 when I was forced to retire due to a broken skull and being blinded in one eye. I hold a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Black belts in multiple traditional martial arts, including Taekwondo and kyokushin karate. I also train in catch wrestling, sambo, taijiquan, judo, and boxing.
I currently coach at the the Extreme Fight Lab, and the Mordor Fight Club, in Shanghai, China.

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  • @RamseyDewey
    @RamseyDeweyАй бұрын

    Got questions for the next Q&A? Leave them in the comments section of my videos.

  • @PaMuShin

    @PaMuShin

    Ай бұрын

    Question> Do you know Spider-Pig - The Simpsons? Can we imagine you in the ring like spider fighter, spider fighter ... from my experience i have no doubt that you were capable of this after seeing your Ken and Ryu video.

  • @jswets5007

    @jswets5007

    Ай бұрын

    Question: What would Vince McMahon name your microphone?

  • @soonahero

    @soonahero

    Ай бұрын

    Why are you making videos on KZread if you’re firewalled

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    @@soonahero VPN’s exist

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    @@jswets5007 Micro “The Mangler” Phone

  • @KARATEbyJesse
    @KARATEbyJesseАй бұрын

    Thanks for sharing your opinion on my video! :)

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    Thanks for taking my opinion so well Jesse! Nothing but respect my friend.

  • @slee2695

    @slee2695

    Ай бұрын

    What a classy response to a classless remark

  • @itpugil

    @itpugil

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@slee2695nothing classless about trying to objectively share an opinion. And no offense was taken, constructive criticism, however, was.

  • @slee2695

    @slee2695

    Ай бұрын

    @@itpugil from a guy who wasnt even an accomplished fighter

  • @itpugil

    @itpugil

    Ай бұрын

    @@slee2695 accomplished or not, he has the right to have an opinion since he is also an expert, he has more experience than even both of us. You're probably worked up because he's criticizing Jesse, Ramsey is an MMA coach and has his own gym and fighters, so that has to account for something. It doesn't matter if he didn't achieve something world class, because Jesse isn't world class either.

  • @ajshiro3957
    @ajshiro3957Ай бұрын

    You said 18 years on KZread. Then I realized that KZread is almost 20.

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    Yep. It used to be video dating site, did you know that?

  • @PaMuShin

    @PaMuShin

    Ай бұрын

    >>Steve Chen, it was designed as a way for people to upload videos of themselves talking about the partner of their dreams.

  • @PaMuShin

    @PaMuShin

    Ай бұрын

    @@RamseyDewey The illusion thing is actually the reason why they are hyped although they do not talk to them. They can idolize people and hunt after a dream, the carrot always hanging in front of their nose. Maybe that is the reason why such people are called idols in japan.

  • @PaMuShin

    @PaMuShin

    Ай бұрын

    @@RamseyDewey Strange thing that i never see any women in the commentaries on yours or jeff chans page that make compliments about your tights or want to date you. Maybe you should make more videos where you show us how rich you are. Lets start with your sword collection.

  • @skipinkoreaable

    @skipinkoreaable

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@PaMuShinHis wife's comments are set to private.

  • @jasonhoyt8232
    @jasonhoyt8232Ай бұрын

    I'm 50. I remember when .Meldric Taylor was on the rise in about 1990. At the time, some people were criticizing Philly gyms for "gym wars." The criticism was that boxers were "leaving their best fights in the gym."

  • @BobSaint

    @BobSaint

    28 күн бұрын

    That's practically the whole story of Dutch kickboxing.

  • @artyombychkov2134
    @artyombychkov2134Ай бұрын

    2:16 I’m sure professional spiders also don’t spar.

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    I want to know me how much a professional spider gets paid.

  • @meidicht6453

    @meidicht6453

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@RamseyDewey Never, they get eaten by humans, on average 8 of them. Every year.

  • @artyombychkov2134

    @artyombychkov2134

    Ай бұрын

    @@RamseyDewey 300 flies a month

  • @Malt454

    @Malt454

    Ай бұрын

    @@RamseyDewey - The money's not the point; professional spiders are just spiders because they have to be, that's what makes them professional.

  • @martialgeeks

    @martialgeeks

    Ай бұрын

    I'm a professional spider 🙋‍♂️...I guess, I have more spiders as pets than I have friends...does that count? Ps. Spidermam comics too haha

  • @rfbite
    @rfbiteАй бұрын

    "Do your best but accept the chaos" is a message I need for life

  • @Devil-by5lt
    @Devil-by5ltАй бұрын

    In my gym, we only do some some level of sparring. But the rest is gym fights. So for me, I feel like I’m not learning much from constantly fighting.

  • @treadstoned9915

    @treadstoned9915

    Ай бұрын

    You might have to talk to your partner or talk to the coach and if that doesn't work I would say find a new gym. You don't really need to have gym wars unless maybe you are preparing for a fight or you and your partner agree beforehand.

  • @Malt454

    @Malt454

    Ай бұрын

    You're learning that fights are something to be avoided, if possible; it's just not a popular lesson in places that sell gym fights.

  • @jacksonlikesbagels6237

    @jacksonlikesbagels6237

    Ай бұрын

    does not sound like the best gym lol

  • @gordiandres

    @gordiandres

    Ай бұрын

    Brother no lie you should really think about the gym you’re at for your own well being

  • @stanparker9556

    @stanparker9556

    Ай бұрын

    You need to leave that gym. I'm 38, had a good run as an amateur. I left my best fights in the gym also. Now dealing with the consequences.

  • @scottsullivanmma
    @scottsullivanmmaАй бұрын

    I've always thought that the main reason CTE occurs in combat sportdls is the sparring not the fighting. 3 fights a year isn't a lot. But when you're also fighting in the gym 2-5 days a week you're taking dings you don't even think are going tk cause the problems

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    Most likely.

  • @blockmasterscott
    @blockmasterscottАй бұрын

    Oh man, I’m 57 years old with hip arthritis. My sparring days are over, but I still “get out there and train”. I should have stayed 30, having birthdays was a bone headed move. 😂😂😂

  • @kennethjohnston9736

    @kennethjohnston9736

    Ай бұрын

    I'm 51 and still training. I was not the most active person in my 20's and early 30's so I don't have the "mileage" on my body like a lot of people do. But yeah, having birthdays was a mistake!😂

  • @Xzontyr

    @Xzontyr

    Ай бұрын

    Wow, way to go guys. Yup, I dont care how old I am, or what condition. If I'm 80 and loose an arm, I'm still gonna be jabbing at a pad like I'm kamcha.

  • @andreaslack8379

    @andreaslack8379

    Ай бұрын

    Well done continuing to train. I am about to turn 60 and didn't touch any martial art till I as 55 and that was self defense with no sparring. I started boxing and kickboxing when I was 58 specifically to get some sparring. I guess because I didn't do younger I didn't have built up wear and tear, but the age certainly has its limits. I do love sparring but keep it light, hits to the body aren't much concern but definitely at my age don't want hard hits to my head.

  • @jasonhoyt8232

    @jasonhoyt8232

    Ай бұрын

    I'm 50. I still spar once per week. It's usually 30%. There are a couple old dudes my age, though, that I do go hard with.

  • @raccoonmyroom6861
    @raccoonmyroom6861Ай бұрын

    I always love your talks about managing our expectations around our fighting performance. Its a valuable message!

  • @xiaoliu4617
    @xiaoliu4617Ай бұрын

    intentionally missing that wheel kick to Nick's head in the intro is impressive. you were in range to land your heel, but slowed down and went over his head.

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    I’m never going to knock out or injure my training parters. Ever.

  • @MrImm0
    @MrImm0Ай бұрын

    I love those long videos... Your long rants are quite enlightening. I really enjoy your tangents as well.

  • @dasloyal
    @dasloyalАй бұрын

    5:55 Darth Ramsey mode activated 😄

  • @kevinjung6130
    @kevinjung6130Ай бұрын

    People will seek out any excuse not to train and continue to live in a bubble. Great vid!

  • @cloudmaster182

    @cloudmaster182

    Ай бұрын

    ??? You're saying this in reference to some of the highest level individuals in combat sports today..doesn't really make sense lmao

  • @minhducnguyen9276

    @minhducnguyen9276

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@cloudmaster182 But "Pros do that all the time" is also not a good excuse since they are on the different levels that allow them to work with different methods.

  • @californiacombativesclub202

    @californiacombativesclub202

    Ай бұрын

    Are you going to vote for Universal healthcare when injuries and had concussions add up? This ain’t it

  • @ajshiro3957
    @ajshiro3957Ай бұрын

    We just do light sparring. It'll be at maybe 60 percent, still trying to land shots, but we're not trying to lay each other flat on the floor. That's for competition. Save the real damage for fights. You need your body for those fights. Why damage it?

  • @rcangelanddemon2450

    @rcangelanddemon2450

    Ай бұрын

    Makes sense I know for certain places like where I am we sometimes go hard to the body for conditioning but not to the head of course

  • @martialgeeks
    @martialgeeksАй бұрын

    The runnaway microphone disagress with you on sparring...must be a fan of Master Wong

  • @mattirealm
    @mattirealmАй бұрын

    Ramsey, I LOVE the fact you read all your comments! Most creators just don't and that stinks. I might not always agree with you on some topics, but I think it is awesome that you interact and hear people out. And now I will "get out there and train!"

  • @khalidbinwaleed5072
    @khalidbinwaleed5072Ай бұрын

    I’ve always been a fan as you never BS. Plus are proud of you’re faith

  • @IvanBarsch
    @IvanBarschАй бұрын

    Thanks for the video coach! I wanted to hear your take on this. Howdy from the desert.

  • @mattlawyer3245
    @mattlawyer3245Ай бұрын

    I remember watching Jesse’s video and thinking, “You keep using that word… I do not think it means what your think it means…”

  • @7771Java

    @7771Java

    Ай бұрын

    you get that feeling with every second video from Jesse

  • @ccamarena21

    @ccamarena21

    Ай бұрын

    Yeah, I saw it and thought: “ok, I’ll bite, clickbate worked”

  • @jamestaylor5995

    @jamestaylor5995

    Ай бұрын

    We should all go post on his video and say, "They're not sparring? Inconceivable!"

  • @nickolasdesouza3610
    @nickolasdesouza3610Ай бұрын

    1:16 I appreciate that about you man. I checked into outpatient for my drinking, besides being hospitalized at only 26, you were a major influence to me. I was wondering if we could chat sometime, biggest fan this is stan

  • @OverproofMMA
    @OverproofMMAАй бұрын

    I like your long form content for backround listening at work. I've found a lot of value especially from the longer content on your religion / philosophy channel.

  • @brysonntoth367
    @brysonntoth367Ай бұрын

    Thank you Ramsey this helps a lot I’m gonna have my first middleweight amateur bout and I’ve been watching you all up until this point it’s in July and I’m probably still not ready but everything you have said has been great insight for my training I have a full time job so it will be tough for me but I train every day except Sunday I play volleyball for active recovery so just thanks again for your wise words

  • @martialartnerd1396
    @martialartnerd1396Ай бұрын

    very good talk Ramsey

  • @foxredt2
    @foxredt2Ай бұрын

    Sparring is the best part of training for me. Fighting (light) with a good partner is one of the best things ever. What constitutes a good partner for me is fight chemistry.

  • @assanari
    @assanariАй бұрын

    Coach is back with his voice, the unique one, and seems to be healthy! Welcome back

  • @GoodGame-du4ps
    @GoodGame-du4psАй бұрын

    Hi there Ramsey. I just had my first amatuer boxing match yesterday and your advice of expecting sub-optimal performance and embracing the chaos really helped me. Thanks.

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    Very cool!

  • @Xzontyr
    @XzontyrАй бұрын

    That's honestly some of the best advice you can give someone thats new at combat sports. I really wish I didn't take as many unnecessary hard hits while sparring back in the day. We were really foolish not to lighten up. Your point about just practicing on a punching bag is good. Shadow boxing should give a person that sort of control. These days we go light in our group. We have to, some guys get dizzy while doing ne waza in the wrong positions now when too much blood gets flowing to their head. We do pretty light take downs aswell and have started doing way more ne waza. We will never start on our butts or knees, but from just any real position, and we are very guilty of doing this alot more as of recent. It's actually really ironic. What iv noticed, and heard from a cousin of mine a province over is that alot of places are finally doing alot more wrestling, which we use to do and thought others should to, but it seems like alot of even pro fighters, aswell as small gyms are giving up on ne waza. I think there's just been too many guys saying "oh just stand up." Amongst other things. You don't get to stand up when I have you in mount or side control. Maybe if I'm on bottom, but if you don't practice ne waza, and just a bit of wrestling, I can almost guarantee that I won't be. Maybe too much pro influence. Yes there's some good wrestlers and boxers, but people need to remember the greats and how they won alot of their hardest fights in dire times. Like Fedor and Randleman, memory eternal. Or even Hughes and Gracie. I actually recently had doubts in grappling for a while when I sparred against a guy that tried to play dirty, and push and grab onto my neck, arm pit, ribs, all that stuff. I was really torn for a bit losing to this guy. However, I found out that he got cleaned up by some grapplers that didn't tolerate his bs. My buddy had a good point, and other grapplers said it well to. There will be a day where this guy will really regret trying to stick his fingers into other guys necks and ribs when they get him in a belly down backmount. Might not be much of a question, but what would your reasoning, and advice be to fighters as to why they shouldn't give up on ne waza?

  • @Domzdream
    @DomzdreamАй бұрын

    Ramsey. Hope you’ve been good man. You’re such a good teacher. I hope all’s going good for you in Hong Kong (or China) 👌

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    I live in China, not Hong Kong.

  • @Kenjitsuka
    @KenjitsukaАй бұрын

    Sending some more love for the knee, coach!

  • @MatthewTheSplendid
    @MatthewTheSplendidАй бұрын

    I also found that Jesse was circling around the sparring word in that video. By the way that one video you did on the poomse/kata techniques being wrestling techniques was really good. Nowadays whenever I coach hosinsul lessons in TKD I always stress that these are mostly grip fighting/pummeling techniques, not blocks or strikes. Thanks to you I also was able to figure out myself what most of them are used for. Training BJJ also helped to understand them.

  • @SparhawkPandion-kg6kl
    @SparhawkPandion-kg6klАй бұрын

    Great video as always Ramsey. Just wanna say I was at the Mordor Fight gym about a month ago, but they told me you were sick! :( Still trained though, and did some partner work with the guy fighting in the video! Shame I missed you at the gym, but maybe I'll catch you the next time I'm in China! Cheers from Australia!

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    Oh that’s a shame! I was pretty sick for the last several weeks. You might have noticed my absence from KZread lately because of that. Abu, my student in the video, is a really cool guy to train with. He’s been on a tear lately, winning his last 4 MMA fights.

  • @aexndr387
    @aexndr387Ай бұрын

    We love you Ramsey! When are you coming back to the States :D

  • @hermeticinstrumentalist6804
    @hermeticinstrumentalist6804Ай бұрын

    Always appreciate your perspective. Unfortunate about the mic, now you know how to make it sound like that again if you want though. I wouldn't mind some light sparring, right now I don't have a place to even do that. I know I'd be bad, but, it'd be good to at least start. Been going to the gym more lately, I don't enjoy going alone, but that's not a good excuse. Not one I'll allow myself to use anymore. Forged in chaos.

  • @jeddylajos
    @jeddylajosАй бұрын

    Massive like for Remsey for interacting with the viewers, this man for me always had some great insight and an unique and very positive life wisdom. It's one thing to be very knowledgeable about martial arts, but apart from this having this kind of attitude and being humble and honest makes him a true master, anybody is able to look up to him, to be an image figure and that is a very rare thing.

  • @GeorgeOu
    @GeorgeOuАй бұрын

    I think there's utility in saying I don't spar because there are just too many meatheads with egos who have to "win" in sparring. So if you call everything including technical sparring a drill, then there's no ego in letting yourself "lose" because it's part of the script to lose half the time to give your partner a chance to work. As soon as you say the word spar, it's like waving red cloth in front of a bull and everything just escalates into a gym war. And suddenly you're fighting without pay.

  • @nomad155
    @nomad155Ай бұрын

    Coach became Megatron! Thanks for the lesson

  • @andrebaxter4023
    @andrebaxter4023Ай бұрын

    I liked Jesse’s message of the video about light, technical sparring being superior, within context. I thought that it was weird when some fighters said that they don’t spar. You clarified it nicely that they meant hard sparring.

  • @deltacharlieecho4732
    @deltacharlieecho4732Ай бұрын

    I wish people would just start using the language my gym uses to distinguish between hard and soft sparring. We call soft sparring “timing” and the power is dialed down to roughly 10%. Lots of guys, even experienced guys, use this as a way to beat up on new people but I can’t say that I care all that much. I’ve only ever done hard sparring in boxing and I have very little interest in actually sparring in Muay Thai for at least a year. Both ways of sparring train combat but one is actually a positive learning experience that encourages form and technique correction while hard sparring is a negative learning experience that reinforces the consequences of poor form.

  • @ThunderFlameAttack
    @ThunderFlameAttackАй бұрын

    Anderson Silva was a proffessional spider.

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    Perhaps he was.

  • @hkoelmeyer1
    @hkoelmeyer1Ай бұрын

    I 'spar' this way nowadays light and playful. It's a bit hard with someone new who doesn't understand control, distance etc.

  • @mrsenkur613
    @mrsenkur613Ай бұрын

    Ramsey could you do a breakdown on how to land more leg kicks?

  • @honigdachs.
    @honigdachs.7 күн бұрын

    I agree with what you're saying at 04:54. Yes, there's been a bunch of study and tracing back history in the last 10, 15 years and by now we've realized that karate used to be a style that combined striking and grappling. We can see the okinawan tegumi wrestling components, we realize the influence of Judo/Jiu Jitsu, and that's all nice and fine. But there's limited use in studying and interpreting the old kata movements because much of the practical knowledge is lost forever to the sands of time, and there's many reasons for that. WW2, people getting killed, post-war depression, martial arts politics, already having a national grappling sport but wanting to establish a striking one, at least 65 years of karate teaching by people who never knew the original training methods themselves etc. Who cares. The bottom line is, it's lost. So you either forget the traditions and kata and treat the whole thing as kickboxing (which is basically how kickboxing got its start in the first place), or you learn the grappling stuff by studying contemporary grappling arts and incorporating their training methodology. It's already there. But you need to start drilling the stuff in a modern way and incorporating it in the sparring. You can point out similarities between old kata movements and modern grappling application all day, but as long as you don't make it a core element of your everyday training like it once was, it's just a fun little pastime.

  • @johannesheinrich9240
    @johannesheinrich9240Ай бұрын

    the shirt is hilarious :D

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    Get your own at Xmartial.com (use my code RAMSEY10 for 10% off)

  • @discofoot6443
    @discofoot6443Ай бұрын

    Ramsey, if you were to cast Robby Lawler in an Elder Scrolls movie, what Elder Scrolls race would you cast him as?

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    An Argonian has obviously.

  • @discofoot6443

    @discofoot6443

    Ай бұрын

    @@RamseyDewey fighting out of the Black Marsh, Robby "The Ruthless-Scaled" Lawler!!!

  • @metalinside
    @metalinsideАй бұрын

    Man, you just ruined the high some Aikido master had. "YES! I KNEW THAT THE KEY TO MARTIAL GREATNESS WAS NOT FIGHTING FOR REAL!"

  • @mjerelb8659
    @mjerelb8659Ай бұрын

    Totally agree, but with that said. Though there are a lot of geek, traditional martial artist who don’t actually want to spar, and use any excuse not to spar. There are many of us from traditional martial arts that do hard sparring, in fact, my school probably did way too much, and we had to utilize the traditional concept of use more light sparring to preserve your well-being Thanks for your videos

  • @theoutsiderjess4869
    @theoutsiderjess4869Ай бұрын

    They want to make it seem like they arent taking their opponent seriously

  • @aphidbowler7027
    @aphidbowler7027Ай бұрын

    'the neighborhood of make believe is a fun place to visit but you don't want to live there.' i think of this line a lot. it's a very good line.

  • @Emperor_x8
    @Emperor_x8Ай бұрын

    personally I see this as a signal of how much hearts sparring integrated in MMA

  • @brownjenkin8422
    @brownjenkin8422Ай бұрын

    Coach, what advice would you give to someone looking to become a professional spider?

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    Grow a few more legs and start working on your web spinning immediately!

  • @StanleyPinchak

    @StanleyPinchak

    Ай бұрын

    Start the transition by developing an open guard game focusing on sleeve control and putting your feet on your partners biceps.

  • @mmaforwoman6383
    @mmaforwoman6383Ай бұрын

    In UFC PI manual we can find 5 levels of sparring. Even on the 5th, the toughest level, high -kicks are with limited contact etc.

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    They have a sparring manual at the performance institute? Interesting. Every time I go there to spar with the fighters, the coaches usually just say more intensity to the body, light contact to the head.

  • @FreebyrdFayelanx
    @FreebyrdFayelanxАй бұрын

    Ramsey, is Beach Wrestling a martial art/effective? Or should I teach myself Judo with my grappling dummy? There is, no close Wrestling or Judo school (jerk choked me unconscious even though I tapped); and I liked BJJ - but got sick of reading on the instructors IG how BJJ is the greatest art, aggressive nature of the guys. I come from a very long TKD background and want to cross-train.

  • @Neyreyan
    @NeyreyanАй бұрын

    Classic case of " i fixed the mic". I also have 2 questions. Why is it so hard to get into mma? I went to a gym and the trainer had me and a new guy train like the rest of the guys. The drills were the same for everyone, it seems trainers just want to get to the sparring part after a long "warm up". The second question is: can you recommand someone who actually has some videos on how to get started mma at home, seems silly but i gave up on the idea of just going to a place to train mma.

  • @teeprice7499
    @teeprice7499Ай бұрын

    People are going to do stuff wrong if its their first or hundred and first fight. Why? Because they get hit and the way a lot of people train doesnt prepare them for that. Keep up the good work Coach

  • @PaMuShin
    @PaMuShinАй бұрын

    If you have some skill in story telling then longer videos are fine, some people even like to watch longer videos under this condition. You are mostly fine to listen too. But i personally seldom watch videos longer than 30 minutes or if longer split them and watch them 30 minute unit by 30 minute unit

  • @minhducnguyen9276
    @minhducnguyen9276Ай бұрын

    In Max Holloway case he said he had enough of hard sparring that now he mostly does light sparring.

  • @BaptistMarine
    @BaptistMarineАй бұрын

    I've seen people shattered because of gym fights, and they just quit because a gym bully beats the tar out of a newbie! At the higher competitive levels, it is true you don't have to hard spar anymore, or at least very little.

  • @Danetto
    @DanettoАй бұрын

    every time i get into a real fight, i always surprise myself thinking those 13 year olds arent as tough as they look, it surely pays off to be a 100kg hunk right now ;)

  • @jamestaylor5995
    @jamestaylor5995Ай бұрын

    We occasionally put on gloves and train with striking as part of our BJJ training. But my Professor says, "Never go with 100% contact, unless you're getting paid."

  • @adamkadir3803
    @adamkadir3803Ай бұрын

    Im only 30. Competing in MMA in Australia. I don't spar much anymore. When I spar its with objectives in mind. Its more "you're doing rounds with this group of people, your objective is practicing the set up for this position/technique." its a drill, with a resisting/unpredictable opponent. You're not sparring for the sake of pretending you're in a pro match. No brain damage. No random opponents. No gym wars. You're paired with specific people, and you've got a specific objective.

  • @Goval400
    @Goval400Ай бұрын

    As always, great video coach. Speaking of sparring i wanted to share something here. I Just had the worst training session ever with a pro fighter. We drilled and then light sparred for 3 5 minutes boxing rounds. The problem was his attitude the entire time, every time he kicked and hurt his foot he bitched and said I was doing something wrong but when i asked him what i was doing wrong he didnt say explain. Im a dedicated hobbyist so i had little to no ego, i always listen to my partners and try to be as fair and good partner as possible, matching energy and all that but this dude just kept bitching and making me feel stupid the entire time, then in the sparring rounds he kept going a little too hard on me with smaller MMA gloves. I have had grueling wrestling classes more enjoyable than that one on one with that dude. At the end “I said good training bro” and left, my question(s): i wonder what would you have done? have you had encountered people like this? What did you do?

  • @stuartpaul9211
    @stuartpaul9211Ай бұрын

    in judo you can't escape a gym fight. can do multiple damage with a bad landing as well as getting punched as they through you (yes, a common cheat as long as they still hold the gi they can elbow, for arm and punch you in the direction your going).

  • @Seaweedsz
    @SeaweedszАй бұрын

    Hey Ramsey, last week I was doing some hanging excercise and I ended up falling on the back of my head. I feel better now but I can still “feel” the hit. Like, I can think and work just fine, but I would probably get knocked out more easily that before the hit. Has something like that ever happened to you while training? Do you have any advice for it? For a bit more context, I have been training boxing since october (have had 48 classes so far), though on the last ones I talked to my instructor about it is just training drills that involved and I don’t spar very often to avoid making the hit worse.

  • @makenjikarate
    @makenjikarateАй бұрын

    I feel like the Jessie video title was very much click bait. But I do agree with the idea of not hard sparring but lots of technical light sparring. At my club we're not professionals nor do we train for the ring specifically so for us to take hard hits to the head on a regular basis is not worth the long term injury. We find that we can do light sparring every session, sometimes situational sparring from different positions and sometimes we put some grapples and throws into it and honestly it's been so much fun. In case you do read this Ramsey, I do hope your leg rehab is going okay, take care mate.

  • @henritoivari4310
    @henritoivari4310Ай бұрын

    I only do greco-roman wrestling after a 20 year brake and a stroke but apparently I train like pros. Easy on the gym, technical sparring and I try to have as much matches this year as I can. I sucked in every match so far but I knew it already. Somehow my coach didn't know it.

  • @johnnyguitar6639
    @johnnyguitar6639Ай бұрын

    Hey MR ramsey . If someone is right handed, but left footed dominant. You think there are any martial arts that are better for that "handicap" than oher?

  • @Komodokhan148
    @Komodokhan148Ай бұрын

    Sparring is essential if you want to be any good at fighting. But a seasoned and experienced pro fighter doesn't need to hard spar anymore so they just stick to light technical sparring. But if your an aspiring or up and coming fighter than hard sparring should be very limited.

  • @extra2042
    @extra2042Ай бұрын

    A video should be as long as necessary to convey ones point. It should not be artificially increased/decreased in length, otherwise it will appear unnatural in rhythm.

  • @deivytrajan

    @deivytrajan

    Ай бұрын

    How do you think movies work? Just use basic editing / script

  • @tzaeru
    @tzaeruАй бұрын

    I think you had some video with Seth about if MMA is its own martial art (or style) some 5 years ago. How do you feel about that nowadays? I've had.. lengthy (way lengthier than I should on a work day) arguments of it online. Personally I feel like there's been convergence in MMA and we're seeing more fighters specifically having started martial arts with MMA. And things as they are taught and done in MMA have gotten a bit different from any other sport, e.g. the average MMA stance as it is seen today is not the same as the typical boxing stance or muay thai stance. I think most people I've talked with would say that MMA is rather a combination of different martial arts, that it's e.g. a sport or a ruleset and combines different martial arts together. Feels like that approach also leads to conclusions like that to be good at MMA, you should train separately in BJJ, in kickboxing, in wrestling, and only then combine them in MMA classes; to me, that feels inverted, and if I was coaching an athlete, I'd rather suggest they do mostly MMA, and if they want, then sprinkle in training in other sports. In short, I guess the questions are: Do you fee MMA can be called its own martial art or style? How do you feel about cross-training in other combat sports under their context? Is it generally worth it to invest heavily to e.g. muay thai specific training for an MMA athlete?

  • @TheWillToFight
    @TheWillToFightАй бұрын

    I had my first Gym challenge the other day I made a KZread video about it. I’ll be interested in your thoughts. Do you think I done the right thing

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    I took a look at it. Sure man, the guy wanted to grapple, you grappled with him, you didn’t bully him or injure him. The video had a positive message. You didn’t post it for egotistical reasons. You educated your audience about jiu-jitsu- and hopefully that guy comes back to learn more because of it.

  • @TheWillToFight

    @TheWillToFight

    Ай бұрын

    @@RamseyDewey 🙏 thank you for your reply. I know you have a lot to get through

  • @namepending155
    @namepending155Ай бұрын

    I think a lot of the people that say they don’t read the comments are also big enough to pay somebody else to read their comments, filter and address them. Then they are just doing the phrasing so it’s in their words.

  • @namepending155

    @namepending155

    Ай бұрын

    And don’t take the “big enough” as a ding. I am just saying I don’t think it’s always a big moral victory like they pose it to be. IMO anyone not already famous and having 100k+ subscribers has a well thought out and maintained channel.

  • @kwanitaheie2968
    @kwanitaheie2968Ай бұрын

    Ramsey what's your opinion on professional spiders?

  • @digital_mindmeld
    @digital_mindmeldАй бұрын

    First time i truelly got punched in the face outside beeing bullied at school was in my first "fight". Lost that one so bad, at that time i never wanted to set foot in another gym again. However i am happy there was someone to cut the fight short. As in a lot of gyms,... those situations tend to be kept going way to long here in the Netherlands. One set of eyes over multiple hard sparring sessions,... not my cup of tea.

  • @Bongdog420
    @Bongdog420Ай бұрын

    Hey coach, i do bjj at a gym and boxing at home, so i wonder if in an actual fight would the stress test from bjj help me remember my boxing practice? Or should i just go to a boxing gym and actually train.

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    I hate the phrase “stress testing” but I love this question. Obviously boxing prepares you for boxing more than BJJ prepares you for boxing, HOWEVER, the question is how much does the combat stress from grappling cross over to striking? Honestly I don’t know, but I’d love to set up an experiment to empirically discover the answer.

  • @badart3204

    @badart3204

    Ай бұрын

    I’m no professional but personally I found my bjj experience led to me performing better while being pressured in boxing. Obviously the skills were not there but the ability to bite down on a mouth guard and swing were

  • @BobSaint
    @BobSaint28 күн бұрын

    So, does Sean Strickland spar, as in "light, technical sparing session", or does he do "gym wars"? Because according to everyone - sparring is all he does.

  • @sin-pelos-en-la-mente
    @sin-pelos-en-la-menteАй бұрын

    You should train harder than you fight, so when you fight you wouldn't be afraid.

  • @DaniloCatania-vm7nb
    @DaniloCatania-vm7nbАй бұрын

    One of my friends just had a smoker mma fight, I feel less bad now for telling him that it wont go exactly how it pictured it in his mind, he wanted to be ready for any scenario and was hoping to get a flash knockout, I told him that it ll be messy, chaotic and being his first fight, the anticipation will sap his energy away, I walked in in my first one feeling dead tired, I felt like an asshole, like I was shooting his enthusiasm down but reality hits harder than any of us can

  • @ashtraydekay6624
    @ashtraydekay6624Ай бұрын

    Omg, the mic !!!!! Lol nope I made it worse, somehow you went underwater

  • @Domzdream
    @DomzdreamАй бұрын

    So I take being hit in the face really seriously. Because when an accident happens, you should use that to your advantage and see what you’re made of. How you’re going to handle the shock value. I lost a front tooth delivered by my girlfriend’s sister while sparring. I kept fighting until the teacher ended it 10 mins later. I needed to learn from this. Fortunately my fellow black belt practitioner just started a dental technician business, so I was in the chair the very next day getting a replacement 🤣🤦🏽 Lucky me….I guess.

  • @federicofekete2419
    @federicofekete2419Ай бұрын

    I believe what they actually mean is they don't go all out in sparring. Which in hindsight, they do technical light spar like the thais

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    Watch the video

  • @willtherealrustyschacklefo3812
    @willtherealrustyschacklefo3812Ай бұрын

    They do , it's just that majority of them have a misconception of what "sparring" actually is in the first place and they really don't do much of what they believe sparring is. Which frankly is something they really shouldn't be doing much anyway

  • @MP-db9sw
    @MP-db9swАй бұрын

    Hitman Hearns did very little bag work or pad work. He pretty much just sparred. A LOT.

  • @13buthead
    @13butheadАй бұрын

    I think they still spar everyday, just extremely lightly.

  • @13buthead

    @13buthead

    Ай бұрын

    oh, That's what the video said as well.

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    That is what was discussed.

  • @bernarddato3221
    @bernarddato3221Ай бұрын

    I see you continue sparring with your microphone 😏 🫸🤛

  • @tjbjjtkd
    @tjbjjtkdАй бұрын

    My Karate instructor said 26 years ago, "keep it playful!" Sparring in the gym, there are no winners or losers. We are to learn. Most of the time, we listened, but it didn't take long before we started sparring hard again.😂

  • @RipleyEll
    @RipleyEllАй бұрын

    Nothing is worse than sparring someone who is waiting to try and sleep you when your not expecting a hard spar. I got to point where I didnt want to spar unless it was a full contact spar, but at that point its not even sparring. Now I would just rather not at all being 44 years old.

  • @bunklypeppz

    @bunklypeppz

    Ай бұрын

    It really is important to have good training partners. Relying on your opponent taking it easy so you can try to land a hard shot is a real dirtbag move. It can be safer to just have a real fight than to be treating it like light sparring and wind up going against someone who will allow themselves to take a light punch just to swing hard and try to land before you can get you hand back to cover up or dodge. That's also why I don't like the idea of going 50% or 30% etc, because the reality is that people can't calibrate their intensity with even a remote degree of accuracy, so when you pretend to designate a specific "percentage" as many people claim to, it just because a game of gradually hitting harder and harder and pretending that your attempt to hurt your sparring partner was just you throwing with "30% power" because you think you can hit harder if you really tried. There's really only two types of sparring-- trying to hurt your opponent or not trying to hurt them, and trying to do something in between is usually foolish in the long run.

  • @ashtraydekay6624
    @ashtraydekay6624Ай бұрын

    Professional spiders!

  • @Maddie-ps1jy
    @Maddie-ps1jyАй бұрын

    The mic wanted to spar 🤭

  • @aarontowns
    @aarontownsАй бұрын

    Man I would HATE to spar with a professional spider 😬 🕷️🕷️🕷️

  • @Fabian-zd3ms
    @Fabian-zd3msАй бұрын

    What do you think about spirituality/metaphysics? For example that time is an illusion crrated by the mind and the only thing that exists and will ever exist is the present moment. Or that we are not our ego (mind) but Consciousness. And we are all the same Consciosness, and there exists no matter, only Consciousness and Love.

  • @jc5754
    @jc5754Ай бұрын

    Hello Ramsey, I am judo practitioner and I do not claim to know how to fight, but I'm curious, with your experience in combat, what's the point of katas and forms if the movements are not applicable in combat, for example a tai chi master can be Chinese wrestling champion but doesn't use tai chi movement, he uses Chinese wrestling.

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    Taiji is wrestling. That’s a common misunderstanding. I have made quite a few videos on the subject. Kata/taolu/poomse, (or whatever you call your forms) are usually practiced by people who never, ever use the techniques being taught by those forms. For example, about 80% of the movements from all karate and taekwondo forms are grappling, pummeling, handfighting, breaking grips, clearing ties, and framing (ie: wrestling techniques) meanwhile 100% of karate and taekwondo competitions are kicking and punching. It’s the right information embraced and taken out of context by the wrong audience.

  • @PaMuShin

    @PaMuShin

    Ай бұрын

    You are talking about Zhang Weili?

  • @PaMuShin

    @PaMuShin

    Ай бұрын

    Ramsey again, the definition of wrestling is the sport or activity of grappling with an opponent and trying to throw or hold them down on the ground, typically according to a code of rules. Against ramseys opinion there are no throws or pins in Taiji, there is just unbalancing the opponent with the aim to attack the center of gravity of opponents cause they are helpless at that time.

  • @PaMuShin

    @PaMuShin

    Ай бұрын

    The western system of wrestling was made with the intent of finishing people in a group effort. watch movies about the spartans and romans, they had their formation and worked together. One guy pins you on the ground the other guy kills you. Asian Martial arts are more indiviual oriented, like you attack the weakest spots of people and after beeing incapacitated they are helpless to defend against the finisher.

  • @PaMuShin

    @PaMuShin

    Ай бұрын

    It is even featured a little in the Dragon Blade movie with jackie chan where Chinese practice with Romans

  • @3halfshadows
    @3halfshadowsАй бұрын

    Hey Ramsey, I can't find the original comment because youtube sucks so I'll just post it here. I made a point that Judo always had the "do" in the name and you were saying it was called jujutsu first and pointed to an interview you did with some Japanese guy saying all the martial arts changed their names from jutsu to do basically for financial reasons/subsidies from the government. I checked some sources and they all say that what Kano taught at his school, that eventually turned into the kodokan, was called Judo from the outset. Kano jujutsu is what other people called it but Kano insisted it was Judo. That's what the sources I checked say. Interestingly, I learned there was a subset of one of the jujutsu that Kano learned that had Judo in the name so apparently the use of that term was not completely novel.

  • @MartialArtUK
    @MartialArtUKАй бұрын

    Tai chi has the right idea a balance of hard and soft , as we mature, it's the natural flow of things. Plus getting injured isn't the smart thing to do in the long run.

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    Taijiquan is throwing fools on the ground and breaking their arms. Qigong and Zhan Zhuang is the stuff you’re thinking of.

  • @MartialArtUK

    @MartialArtUK

    Ай бұрын

    @@RamseyDewey really ? As a long time student of chen taiji I disagree. It is the orginal yin yang style.

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    So you haven’t learned to grapple yet as a long time practitioner of taiji? How?

  • @MartialArtUK

    @MartialArtUK

    Ай бұрын

    @RamseyDewey of course I have and I don't disagree about the hard style of chen village but the training is not all hard , lots and lots of soft training soft Grappling, learning to silk reel before learning fajing . Chen style is hard and soft together to the point of your video there's not always a need for hard sparring. Infact the better they get the softer they get , but the martial art is very hardcore . I've trained chen style for over 25 years all the forms and weapons Grappling and Striking, and the soft arts of ting jing , breath control , moving meditation. All chen masters practice alot of qi gong too . Check out my chen Library . And also being an old style chen style isn't always practiced with modern protection so not injuring each over in chen style is paramount .

  • @LupeJustinian
    @LupeJustinianАй бұрын

    Aside from the established cross-training benefits of European fencing for developing unarmed combat technique, are there any other weaponized combat sports that have application to unarmed combat sports? I may have worded that weirdly, but basically: what weapons based martial arts could help with hand to hand combat training

  • @teeprice7499

    @teeprice7499

    Ай бұрын

    Knife fighting or jo stick might be what you're looking for

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    In a somewhat abstract way, I have found a lot of connections from kenjutsu and taijijian (both sword arts) to hand to hand combat.

  • @gilgameshkingofheroes5903

    @gilgameshkingofheroes5903

    Ай бұрын

    I believe certain HEMA schools incorporate grappling.

  • @teeprice7499

    @teeprice7499

    Ай бұрын

    @@gilgameshkingofheroes5903 Particularly the ones who practice the old Norse techniques

  • @teeprice7499

    @teeprice7499

    Ай бұрын

    @@RamseyDewey Mainly for footwork. The same goes for sabre fencing. Some of the newer kenjutsu schools came from certain hand to hand styles

  • @Mathe_Baendiger
    @Mathe_BaendigerАй бұрын

    Guys.... I dont know what to do. Theres a Muay Thai Gym 45min away from me. I went there and they mainly did partner drills. Theres a guy not that experienced (just like me) and i drilled with him. I thought it was pretty hard because he got through my guard (i wasnt really trying but the guard wasnt loose?) So yeah I got my head hit a few times but the guy didnt try to hit hard I think. So yeah I plan on doing MT for 6 months before i move away where i can train wrestling. Do yall think i can get away without brain affecting injuries if i tell everyone to go light and maybe parry the punches to the head where id normally block? Im 15 btw... thats why im so scared.

  • @Paraphen
    @ParaphenАй бұрын

    For a second I thought this was just gonna go “you really read all the comments?” “Yes! That’s all for today folks, tune in tomorrow”

  • @yuriysemenikhin302
    @yuriysemenikhin302Ай бұрын

    Added a link to this video on my little talk about sparing in Aikido 👍 kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZHyWwZONXcfKcbA.html

  • @JohnDoe-sq5nv
    @JohnDoe-sq5nvАй бұрын

    Coach, how much can we learn about fighting from watching animals fight? I have cats and they wrestle all the time, and every time I've looked at them I've been consistently impressed by what just comes natural to them. But I'm also not a wrestler so I might be easily impressed. Well, I do beat them at wrestling but I think that is more because of the size difference.

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    It doesn’t come naturally to them, it’s a learned ability. Cats start practicing wrestling with the other kittens in their litter from birth in order to get to their mother’s milk. It starts as rudimentary pushing. Later they wrestle play. They don’t start out good at it, that comes with time and experience like everything else.

  • @JohnDoe-sq5nv

    @JohnDoe-sq5nv

    Ай бұрын

    @@RamseyDewey What's funny is also looking at the difference in fighting depending on if it is play or not. Real cat fighting involves more paw strikes, throws and takedowns whilst the play kind is more positional wrestling. Back when they weren't friends I once saw one of my cats sneak up on the other one, throw her to the ground and give her two proper left hooks to the chest which sounded like someone hitting a mitt. Now they never strike, only wrestle and chase, and they take turns being the aggressor.

  • @RamseyDewey

    @RamseyDewey

    Ай бұрын

    Remind me to tell you the story about the feral cats that live outside my apartment. I named one of them Red Headed Step Child, because it was adopted as a kitten by another cat… that beats it like a read headed step child… and it’s reddish orange.

  • @7771Java
    @7771JavaАй бұрын

    the problem with Jesse video is, a bunch of karateka (and similar martial artists) who don't have sparring in their training see it as confirmation Jesse could have easily countered that, but he just doesn't care

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