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Well said! 👍

Sparring is crucial. Avoid brain damage by sparring with people who have control and common sense.

Remids me of oldschool approach to soviet boxing style.

I have following goals with martial arts: Cardio and be able to defend myself

Quality video. So much good information here. Really appreciate it.

I am not an expert, but one thing I do know is that you NEED TO TRAIN THE NECK, its just overall better in all aspects of life to have a strong neck...

unless your nearest gym is seriously terrible or you want to go pro, you should probably just go to your nearest gym. You're going to be going there multiple times a week so any time saved travelling will add up enormously. Plus most gyms for bjj/boxing/kickboxing/mma are good enough.

Punching heavy things that barely move like heavy bags can give brain damage!

Great video but I will like there are a lot of times you repeat yourself over and over, almost word to word...

Wow great content

You can spar , just keep it light, it’s about movement training, timing and reflexes and dealing with moving targets, you don’t have to smash each other in the head and body in ego driven gym wars , that behavior needs to be avoided at all costs

back in the 1980s my instructor always said. " Train smart.protect your brain & joints, spar light , fight hard.".

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I like Scott Sievewright's method. you start sparring from day one with no head contact. Only when Scott sees you have the control to spar light you can do head contact (if you want to). I think he also does some in-house competitions to prepare people who want to compete. sparring is the only thing that actually gives you proper defence so doing this a lot will let you get hit way less if you put most of your focus on the not getting hit part. I've also seen an interview where a reporter asked Seanchai how he trained at jocky gym when he was young. he said the only thing we did all day every day was sparring.

dont be fooled YOU WILL get hurt and you will get brain damage, if this is something you don't want just don't pursue a career in this sport

¡Exelente video! Qué bueno sería que los dueños de gimnasios y profesores de artes marciales vienen este video. Gracias.

I think it is still useful to have sporadic hard sparring sessions. The thing is that you have to have experienced what it is to absorb a full on blow and have your arm cranked to determinate if you will pursue in competing and if you like hiiting people and getting hit, or you will be a martial artist with no pretention of ever fighting.

Train Smater Not Harder. 🫵😊

Best sparring approach are the sitjaopho twins in Thailand..

Very informative video, but I miss any information about shime waza/choke holds. I went from Karate and Kickboxing to traditional Jujutsu and Kobudo to find more knowledge about self defence and weapons. Training was very safe and disciplined and we NEVER choke our training partner out. My teacher was very clear about that. Yet I find tons of videos and hear from other martial artists that they regularly choke each other unconscious in training! What is your opinion about that?

The Brain is not designed to be hit hard or repeatedly, even heading the ball in soccer where you dont even feel shook causes serious brain damage later in life.Nine out of the eleven of the English football team in the 1970s died prematurely of brain trauma.Blows to the head from even light strikes shake the brain significantly more than a soccer ball on the forehead.All head sparing will cause some brain damage , you just have to choose the level of risk, you feel comfortable with, but everyone will suffer some defecit and for some it wil be catastrophic.You can reduce the risk of catastrophic brain damage, but even light sparring does not eliminate it.

I feel like ultimately this video is irresponsible because it doesn't really circumvent the underlying mechanic that is actually responsible to cte which is blows absorbed to the head on a regular basis. Many studies show that subconcussive blows taken with regularity are the ones that cause CTE concussions and similar brain injuries are not required whatsoever for the condition to develop. That's not to say these aren't good practices in terms of giving yourself the best chance to avoid serious brain injuries but the risk is still there even if everything in this video is done to the letter.

Ur so underrated bro

I have this same problem, how can I work with you?

totally agree.

People hate the traditional martial arts for one step fighting but it's no different than Drilling in a boxing gym or in MMA The impetus is and has always been to mitigate injury.

Can you do one for boxing?

Im a beginner, thank you for this

Have you seen Jesse Enkamp's video "Sparring is dead" Yours and his video go really well together! Edit: The title of video is now "Something WEIRD Is Happening In Martial Arts..."

This isn't novel nor an advancement in training methodology but rather the way Martial Arts has been trained traditionally over years. Old school boxing manuals also emphasize instructionals on t techniques and functionality with limited sparring. Good reminder video tho

Great video

Prize fighting in mma or any martial art sport with money on the line don’t have to be for everyone especially when they’re cheaters of steroid and drug users in prize fighting combat so when one chooses not to train martial arts for prize fighting and just for self defense are smart training martial arts just for self defense to use when needed and have fun learning yourself through martial arts which is perfectly fine.

Most of the boxing gyms that I went to in my youth had a toxic machismo culture with mostly bro-science. Glad to see things are changing nowadays, at peast in the US.

All of the fighter who say hard soaring is useless have themself got to that position by doing it, its not Important what you say on top of the mountain but what you did to climb it. Name me one guy who never ever spared and got somewhere

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Hey man what goin on with this website? Idk if you’ll get this but I’m very interested and I think I got a decent amount to offer. Thankyou awesome vid

Whats the show at 2:05 looks sick

Essential watching

Never seen an amateur geting CTE this is a very rare condition to be honest, it usualy only happen with high level pros becasue they live off the sport, it is like people like to advertise this desease just to get views, there should be waaaaaay more concern for other aspects of the athlets health like their shins and knees for example

Wow, Very insightful video! 👍🏽

Spot on. I bounced around a few gyms prior to settling on my current one. Funny enough, I started with a couple that were closest to my home, then decided on one thats further away w/ a very strong coach, relaxed but focused training environment, and an emphasis on technical sparring. This is some of the most actionable advice I've seen in the MMA community, well done!

Also considering the fact that the was majority of ufc fighter is on gear gyms should opt for spreading the truth to as many young athletes as posible so they can save as many kids as posible

Without any heavy sparring u cant get really get ready for a competitive fight unless you've already had many of em. All the people mentioned here are grizzled veterans with dozens of pro fights and most likely over 100 hours of heavy sparring during their lifetime

Sparring wars are stupid, they suck the fun out of training. You should feel safe at a gym and be able to have a laugh from time to time. Light sparring drills allow for this. Good video!

Great video, I use a 6 week peaking cycle of sparring with one heavy kickboxing and heavy boxing session through the week when training for upcoming fights. This will be low volume and fight specific. No place in doing 8 x 3’s heavy sparring when fighting 3 x 3’s etc. also will reduce this two weeks before the fight to prevent injuries etc.

Is there any concern about permanent damage to internal organs from the hard sparring on the body?

Good video I will take action now since I started boxing 6 months ago I didn’t know how bad cte is I will be doing more technical sparring than hard sparring

Great video. But I just have some feedback, this video could have been 10-15 minutes, which is a better sweet spot and will get more views for this type of content