MMA books: the good, the bad, and the mediocre
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- čas přidán 17. 11. 2019
- What are some good martial arts books? Ramsey Dewey reviews the majority of the Victory Belt Publications MMA and BJJ books as well as a bunch of publications on the art of fighting.
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For those who want to look out for the books later on, here is the list, and some of my notes on the video:
# MMA Books, by Ramsey Dewey
Victory Belt publishing is apparently pretty good.
1. Jack Dempsey - Championship Fighting
2. Eddie Bravo - Mastering the Twister
3. Machado - Encyclopedia of Jiu Jitsu
4. Eddie Bravo - Mastering the Rubber Guard
5. Eddie Bravo - Advanced Rubber Guard
6. Randy Couture - Wrestling for Fighting, The Natural Way
7. Winning on the Ground - Anna Maria (Ronda Rousey's Mom)
- Great for gameplans.
8. Saulo Ribeiro - Jiu Jitsu University
9. Daniel DeMarzio - Catch Wrestling, Entering the Snake Pit
10. Antonion Rodrigo Nogueira - Mastering Mixed Martial Arts - The Guard
- Roger Gracie: 80% of Jiu Jitsu doesn't work in MMA.
11. Lt. Jack Dempsey - How to Fight Tough
- Jack Dempsey was also a Catch Wrestler and Judoka, besides a legendary boxer.
12. Anderson Silva - Striking
13. Anderson Silva - MMA Instruction Manual
- Doesn't cover the cage unfortunately.
14. Neil Melanson - Mastering Triangle Chokes
Ramsey's favorite submissions:
- Rear-naked choke (highest success percentage, about half of all submissions)
- Triangle (control even if you miss)
- Heel hook (equalizer for bigger opponents)
## Some Other Books
- Lance Freimuth - The Grappler's Manifesto
- Marcelo Garcia - The X Guard
- Marcelo Garcia - Advanced BJJ Techniques
- Fedor Emelianenko - A Fighting System
- Greg Jackson - The Stand Up Game
- Greg Jackson - The Ground Game
- Great books for beginners.
- BJ Penn - The Book of Knowledge
- Karo Parisyan - How to Use Judo in MMA
- Bruce Lee - The Dao of Jeet Kune Do
Thank you so much man!
Thanks man
Instructions unclear.
Was not able to protect myself with a book.
get a thicker book
DukeBox The Codex Gigas should be big enough.
Place thick, hardcover book over vitals. This is your Libro Aegis, and is only for DEFENSE.
Libro Malleus requires a hardcover book, of more modest thickness - your Aegis should be as thick as possible; the Malleus should be thin and light enough for fast, effective striking.
There are more advanced techniques, but be careful, as this is absolutely just FOR THE STREETS(!). You can do it the right way, or the Wong way.
Y'all stay safe.
Spoiler: I'm full of shit, don't do ANYTHING I wrote... pardon my spelling that out, I just feel obligated to highlight an obviously smartass quip as just a sardonic remark in so clinical a manner due the subject matter.
@@MarsofAritia A medical compendium will do it - they are thick and heavy 😅
Book tower defense
21:47 Advanced Brazilian Jiujitsu Techniques -- $318 on amazon in the US
LOL
Book recommendation: The book of five rings from miyamoto musashi! It's not really about mma fighting but you can learn much about mindset, some strategic stuff, life lessons and it's just very very interesting!
You didn't buy book from master Ken?
Did you get Master Wong's book, "It's for the streets"?
''Master Wong's - How to shave your head''
@@daniel-zh9nj6yn6y Master Wong's - Martial arts, the wong way
So Wong, its right!
I dont know about the books ...
But thats one great t-shirt
Man I really love you channel I've been absent for a couple months because problems have been homeless and I got to save as much battery as I can do you know but every time I see your Shadow I get happy I get hope thank you very much you're the best man I swear to God
Really appreciate this video, Ramsey. I was on the fence about a few of these, but now I feel more confident where to put my money. 🙏
Yes! Big thanks for this one!
During the winter I usually take the train to work so I have lots more time to go through books :)
You mention Marcelo saying "this is good for gi, this is good for gi or no gi."
That's cool, but reminds me of Fiore dei Liberie
"This guard is good only in armor, the text play is good both with and without armor."
There's a martial arts book for you to read.
There's a site named Wiktenauer, it has lots of Medieval fighting manuals, but all of them are European, no Asian stuff.
I think that can be good though, since most of the European fighting traditions have been gamified or lost. So if more people know that there were fighting manuals and technical moves being performed, it could help reduce inaccurate media portrayals.
I would like to see what Ramsey thinks of the system though. Mostly the Unarmed, Baton (Cloak, Rope) and Dagger sections. Fiore mentions having to have a large knowledge of holds and escapes is needed to perform the techniques in a real situation. It would be nice if we had a better idea of how people fought in Europe before guns.
Of course, going in with the blinding eye powder could be a really good option.
I think Ramsey will get confused when he gets to the part with caustic soda and log throwing.
This is great information I just ordered a couple of them - Thanks Coach!
Awesome selections. Thanks for sharing this information. 🙏
Ramsey this is a great video. It's easy to lose interest in martial arts books especially if you happen to stumble upon the wrong selection - and between all the bad ones, oneself not being ready to understand what's being displayed and limitations associated with the older formats, that's very likely to happen. Therefore your guidance and recommendations are very welcome. How lucky was I to randomly stumble upon and read that book you started the video with in a time where I wasn't getting any power from my punches? I wish someone had actually recommended it to me.
This video I watched twice, second time making a to read list. Thank you for sharing the materials.
Now get out there and... complete the championship fighting audio book. Pretty please. :)
Very good recommendations, cant wait to see aquire these asap
* takes notes
* goes to Amazon
* puts books into basket
* notices most of them are already in the basket
... oh well ! 😆
*sees checkout total
“Oh dear ...” 😧
(And thanks for your thoughts, Coach)
Would love to see a list of the mentioned books
Man you're going crazy! Producing videos like a machine gun haha. Nice Bluescreen. Keep up the good work!
I will follow your recommendations as soon as they become available as audio-books. 😉
I love fighting books. I own a lot of Karate related books and these really appeal to me. I'll look up your suggestions!
YES!!!!!!!! Thank you so much it is great to have you opinion on this! I can't thank you enough!
Thanks for your recommendations Dewey, I'll invest in some of them 👍
What I liked about Bruce notes was it showed that you needed stand up and ground skills and he showed art from around world.
Awesome book collection and I see one I want to get now.
Great video! I listed some of these books so I can search them... I'm now reading a Choy Lee Fut book, then I will read the Bubishi.
Cheers, Ramsey! 🙏🏻
still new to this channel,(10 or so videos watched) and loving all of your content.......i'm wishing the algorithm brought me to your channel sooner!
Hey Ramsey! I just found your channel. Everything is well thought out and I really appreciate you sharing. Be Well
I would also add "FIT IN ONE YEAR" for strength and conditioning 💪
Love the collection coach!
As always LOVE your videos. I have (AND LOVE) the Riberio book also, have the BJ Penn one too. I like Helio's one also (also becoming a collector's item) lucky I got mine for $60.
Thanks for the amazing video.
The Neil Melanson book is interesting, because it's almost one book pretending to be another. It's ostensibly a triangle book, but it's more broadly a book about working different guard systems in response to different pressures and angles. It's most noticeable in those moments where he shows a back take and then jumps back into the triangle because that's the book he sold to the publishers.
Yes! Very true.
@@RamseyDewey
Hi Ramsey
Can you pls do a vdo on why khabib, Floyd Mayweather and Jon Jones are undefeated ???
The role of innate talent in their streak ??
@@RamseyDewey hello Coach 🙏🏼
What are your thoughts on .
miyamoto musashi's Fight quotes ...have u ever made a vdo on his Fight Psychology quotes ? What are your thoughts on some of His most most famous , war / fight quotes ...
Please make a vdo , at the earliest 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I just found free pdf of Championship Fighting and this is some interesting stuff and easy to read, gets straight to the point... thanks Dewey
@Rasmey Dewey
Thank you for this list especially the first book. As Kyokushin Karate fighter who is working on the punching part this fundamental text came at the right time.
Having read the Tao Of jeet Kun Do I share your opinion on the matter, even if I find the last chapter abut the 5 Ways of Attack useful. Now my attack strategy has a lot more coherence than before. Another con's for the book is that since they are notes and not final work collected from Bruce Lee, we may not know what he at the end would have deleted.
I would want to know your opinion about the other series of the book from Bruce: Te Bruce Lee Method of Fighting in 4 volumes. Especially of their validity in an MMA setting since they seem to focus more on a no grappling and no low kicks situations.
Thanks again
Thanks for the recommendations
I've got most of the books you have here, along with some rare vintage Judo books. I spent the last year or two hunting them down for fair prices. It was frustrating, but it paid off.
Wrestling for fighting was my first mma book i ever bought
There’s nothing like a physical book. I find it difficult to hold on to information I read on my phone screen. Thank you for the great recommendations!
After reading Championship Fighting I can honestly say that it is the most informative text on boxing I have ever read. My only criticism of the book is the chapter on train could go into more detail about the different calisthenics exercises available to a fighter. But this point is rather mute these days, as a simple CZcams search is all that you need to find more information about the topic.
Niel mellansos triangle choke book is amazing
So many excellent BJJ/MMA books in this video. I own quite a few of them, but there are at least 6 more that I'm going to buy, due to your recommendations after watching this vid.. :-). Thank you for the great advice, Ramsey. ( Maybe you should be on commission from the various book publishers in your selection, because you are definitely going to boost most, if not all, of these author's sales figures :-)).
Wowwww. U reLy r the man. I thought I was a life long practitioner. U swop me mate. Love this channel I’m one of those guys that saves up there money and goes and trains overseas. I’m hopes oneday I can train with you Ramsey
how can you forget all rounder meguru 😂
Just ordered that Boxing book never heard of it tell now cheers Ramsey
Also the pajama game is a really good book on judo.
i've been trying to buy Marcelo Garcia's books (at human prices) for years. In fact, I had completely given up. Thanks for reminding me lol.
I picked up his X-Guard book used for €20. His follow up Advanced Jiu-Jitsu is almost impossible to find.
My first revelation came from reading a martial art book. It has some basic judo throws in it, it was written that you need a partner to practice for fighting. When I was 11 years old and only shotokan karate was a thing around my town that was a huge change in mentality.
Hi I love your videos and would love to see you try an Escanore impression from seven deadly sins please, also the narrator would be great if possible.
Ramsey dewey who would win in a fight. Freddie mercury or Michael jackson.
Freddie Mercury........In his youth he actually boxed in Zanzibar.
@@walterevans2118 micheal Jackson..... He break danced in his youth
For fighting boxing might be more useful than break dancing.....lol
@@walterevans2118 Well I didn't knew that. You learn new things every day
'JEW JITSU' ???....lol....oki
Should be titled "MMA books: the great, the good, and the not-so-bad-either" :-)
Thanks for the list!
Nice. One question: how you define: "game plan". I noticed you used that concept often in this video.
A game plan is a systematic approach to winning a fight rather than a list of techniques.
I have a feeling you should be thinking of releasing a photographic version of FIGHT TOUGH, where you show the techniques.
Thank you mr. Tortoro!
Love your content coach Ramsey. What do you think about Karo Parisyan’s book Judo for Mixed Martial Arts? Do you think it is applicable in any way?
i came to learn about books, i learned about ramsey's intenstines
How about you make a book? Like pls, I would LOVE it, EVERYONE WOULD LOVE IT, since you have so much information and wisdom to say
Very good stuff! Any recomendations on kickboxing/muay thai books? Specially about gameplans and positioning on the ring?
To be honest, I have only read terrible books on Muay Thai.
@@RamseyDewey that's a shame! Thanks for replying!
Ooooohhh, jack slacks articles on fightland are sublime. He's the master at breaking down mma fights particularly from a striking perspective. He famously called the holly Holm vs rhonder rousey upset. Also lawrence kenshins CZcams videos are also great and he has more or a maiy thai/kickboxing focus. But jack slack is the king.
Please make a part two
Hey Coach, normally my wife doesn't like it, if i am watching youtube videos without earphones.
But she supports me watching your videos if she wants to sleep, because of your voice :D so thank you for that :D
Rude bro! Put the earphones in!
The best book I ever got was Zen in the Martial Arts by Joe Hyams. Nothing to do with fighting. But it sure does inspire.
Hey Ramsey, could you recommend any purely boxing books? I've read Championship Fighting; just finished Box Like the Pros by Joe Frazier. I'm at kind of a loss as to what to pick up next.Any recommendations would be much appreciated!
You should do a video about training DVDs.
Saulo Ribeiro is one of the best. His book is great.
Much thanks. Dempsey's book is gold. A good book is a million times more valuable than 100 bad youtube videos
thank you coach
Ramsey, thank you for the book advices, I've put them on my list.
I have a question for you :
do you recommend any method aside from those books (for example dvd, planning, advices...) for training mma and mma applicable wrestling when you have no mma/wrestling gym around ?
I used to train boxing and bjj separately, but I'd like to be able to practice at home with some friends to connect stuff into a more global mma approach.
If you have a space at home big enough for a wrestling mat and some friends, that’s what you need.
@@RamseyDewey box checked. So from here I assume using the mma books you advise here among other things, and drill/train and so on. Thank you. :)
@@antoninb.6735 Matt Lindland from wrestling to mixed martial arts
Have you read Mastering Jiu Jitsu by John Danaher and Renzo Gracie? I'm reading it now and enjoying it quite a bit, though it isn't as extensive with moves and positions as Jiu Jitsu University.
Also have Mastering Jiu Jitsu, and particularly enjoyed the compressed history lesson, as well as clarity on the distances. Fantastic background for a relative newbie.
Definitely getting the jack Dempsey book a lot of people recommend it
Ramsey, have you read and if so what do you think about "judo" Gene lLebelles' encyclopedia of finishing holds?
Ramsey please can you make audio of these books because these books are not available in India please I'll be grateful for this help me sir.
I only own Bruce Lee's _"The Tao of Jeet Kune Do'"_
I'm gonna buy Jack Dempsey's Championship Fighting one day
Your love for that book made me curious about its content
Same goes for me. But i do have a harder time for buying these, most of the books he showed aren't available here in Brazil.
@@channelMasterGuiGame get them off the internet
Just order it I'm reading it atm it's great
Bruce Lee loved Dempsey and references his book in the "Tao of Jeet Kune Do". Both Dempsey and Wing Chun stress a complementary "3 knuckle" striking system. Dempsey has perhaps the best description of how to punch properly I've ever seen. Get the book if you can.
@Mestre do Val , Dempsey's book is available on Web Archives. Tons of Books and vidéos are stores there.
archive.org/details/Championship_Fighting_Explosive_Punching_and_Aggressive_Defense_1950_Jack_Dempse/mode/2up
Saulo's book is by far the best single resource for BJJ. MMA is obviously different, but every student who has gotten that book has gotten better.
There is also a book from John Danaher i dont know how its called.. but its alot about using jiu jitsi and no gi grappling in mma! I think you will like it ^^ also i cant agree more about the Jack dempsey books and he is one of my favorite boxers of all time 💪😎🥊
Hey ramsey..If you only had an option to get 3 books from your list which ones will they be?
AnnMaria De Mars was also the first US judo world champion, back in 1984.
Brings back memories
Had a lot of the books of the seventies and eighties a Wrestling Judo boxing and Muay Thai kickboxing in the karate
Great topic
damn, i wish some of these books were more readily available
Please continue with the jack dempsey audiobook
Yes....also, will there be a part 2 to the video about how MMA judges evaluate fights ?
Do you/did you have many books on TKD? If so, which would you say are worthwhile in your opinion?
Eddie walks into a bar… everyone shouts "Bravo!".
Neil melanson is the best I've got that same book
Would you say its possible to learn judo from watching CZcams videos? Practicing at home with a partner but learning from CZcams?
I liked the victory belt Karo Parisyan, Matt Linland, and Minotauro Nogueira books. I did not like the striking in the victory belt books; it just seemed to rehash what all the punches looked like and some combinations presented kinda randomly. For striking I wish victory belt would have done something like Lawrence Kenshin's work.
Hey Ramsey ,on different subject. Could a 40 year old with no mma experience, and an epileptic condition that’s under control with medication start training and then compete in amateur mma. I lift weights and get about 5 miles of cardio a day currently without training. Thnx Coach
Stronger things have happened. You’re younger than me, by the way.
Thanks for the reply, I think I’ll try an amateur kickboxing or kyokishin tournament before I step into the mma waters, big ups Coach
"Cheap shots, Ambushes and other Dirty Lessons" book on Street fighting and Survival by Mark "Animal" McYoung. Very "80's style
Amazing!
Eddie Bravo's books work. After I read that book. I'm married to half guard.
I don't really like talking about myself, much less "life story" level shit... but: I'm 39, a life-long student of practical combat "arts" (armed & unarmed), have a hole in my skull (with a much less badass story behind it, tbh), and also have TP bookmarks in all of my reference books... at least I'm in good company.
It didn't quite occur to me how insane some of those "guides" I've read are -- maybe a single low-res, still photo of a technique per 20 pages of descriptive text - which, as you astutely observe: won't teach 99/100 people a damned thing unless they're already somewhat skilled.
I have to order some resistance bands and other misc gear today, ya convinced me that I NEED to get every book Jack Dempsey authored, and should have gotten them long ago. Definitely before I got/read Tao of JKD, which is... handy, for theory, less so for practical gains, imho (addendum - well shit: yeah, what you said, much more eloquently... wrote before I heard you got to that one, lol.).
Sorry for rant, in addition to the (relatively rare, I think) commonalities I blurted out, I tend to skim comments when I'm watching & not busy; a lot of the people here actually know what they're talking about and I'll rattle off a few hundred words w/o realizing it, as there are good, civil discussions to be had, and I love that. Y'all stay safe and take it easy.
Yeah boy
You might want to try Mark Hatmaker books on submission grappling as for guard books the Joe Moreiara series, although the first book was not written by him but tha last two are.
I’m not a big fan of Hatmaker’s books, to be honest.
Speaking of martial art related media did you hear shenmue 3 is about to be released after like 20 yrs of fan waiting? Have you gave this video game series a try? Apparently this one may be a system seller. Some video reviews already exist.
Currently also reading "Say uncle!" by Jake Shannon when in the bathroom :D
Your shirt is epic
Speaking of Brazilian jujitsu what is the difference between that and regular jujitsu
I'm curious on your thoughts of the book' "Footwork Wins Fighte" by David Christian. I ordered it recently because it's one of the the most sold on amazon. It is made by a fellow youtuber!
I haven’t read it
I would read the tao of jeet kune do for some good standing footwork
Have you read the Bas rutten's Big book of combat? Or did you ever heard things about? Do you have an idea if it is a good or a bad one?
Nope.
My martial art only has palm strikes and finger jabs. Any books thou will recommend?
Finger jabs? Now I'm curious what's the martial art?
lol
@@shinji_ikari I would guess some form of kung fu.
thanks
Hey Coach ramsey why don't you have cauliflower ears? if you're fighting for a long time how did you avoid that injury? It would be awesome to know that becoming a great grappler doesn't require having the cauliflower ears..
He answered that some times ago. IIRC he just doesn't get cauliflower ears. Human bodies are different and do different things. And his blood just doesn't clot in the ears.
Some people get it, some people don’t.
@@RamseyDewey oh that's awesome! Now i gotta go and train to fight!
He's gotten as much coliflower ear as he can, it can be removed by a simple surgery. If you can get coliflower ear the only thing you can do is cover your ears.
scythe death People only tend to get that by going to the ground a lot..Grappling game...although Ramsey trained for all this perhaps he was a striking fighter who won more contests not having to go to the ground...Hence he doesn't have those kind of ears. Guys like Brad Scott was UFC pro for eight years so he has them.But I understand Ramsey had to retire from Pro MMA because of a very serious head injury.
Ramsey have a look at the snakepit manuals.
B.J Penn's MMA Book of Knowledge is a good one too.
random recommended video.,binge watched your videos. if I was your agent I would pitch a modern version of david carradines kung fu starring you.