Your MMA is JUNK Training (Video Essay)
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2019
- In response to this interview with Tristar gym MMA coach Firas Zahabi on "Junk Training" • Firas Zahabi on Junk T...
Here's a video essay on why you think you're doing all the right things at the gym, but still failing to meet your goals.
"What kind of "junk training" have you seen in combat sports gyms? I was inspired to write this essay after watching a video on the topic of "junk training" by Firas Zahabi. While there are some excellent ideas there, I wish Coach Zahabi would have given an itemized list of what he considers junk training, but he only talked about jumping rope as an example. So this video will focus on the specifics of what I consider to be junk training."
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In regards to the elevation training masks:
Let me preface this by saying: if it gives you the result you want, then that's the right way, even it's a placebo.
(1) It does not emulate elevation training (2) even if it did, real elevation training does not deliver what those manufacturers of those training masks claim it does.
Those masks simply reduce the amount of air you can breath. If you have had issues with hyperventilating, sure, it might help you learn to unconsciously control your breathing, especially in a combat sports scenario where so many people find themselves hyperventilating and running on fumes. But that's not even remotely close to elevation training. If wearing the mask motivates you to work and push yourself in ways that you did not before, then there's the answer- it's a placebo. But like I said before, if the magic feather helps you to fly, then fly away!
I spent almost three decades living and training at high altitude in the Rocky Mountains before moving to live at sea level in Shanghai. According to what the folks selling those masks say, I should have been a virtual super-man when I moved to sea level. But the truth is, the effects were adverse, I felt like I was sucking swamp water for the longest time, and it took me about 3 months to adapt to the negative changes.
In all the studies I've read about elevation training, all the alleged potential advantages from high altitude training are lost within 3 days of returning to low elevation.
Hmm..I wonder why there was a negative effect when you moved to sea level. I thought perhaps there would just be no effect at all??
@@Groteskfull Simple: my body was not used to functioning under those conditions. Your body will adapt to the demands you put on it- gradually, over time. Sudden radical changes usually aren't well received by anyone.
Shanghai AQI: Shanghai Real-time Air Quality Index (AQI).
Unhealthy
have a nice day sir
Yeah all this money they waste on all the bs to simulate something. Treadmills are ok but It’s never going to be like actual real thing running up hills and rough terrain. I can run on a treadmill like nothing out in the world it’s tougher .
Please God give me one more "situation" so I can prove myself I'm not wearing a "mask"
Just do curls, bro. That's NEVER junk training. Bro.
No! Do squats, farmers, or dl's
@@oldnatty61 how do you do that while curling?
Exactly!
@@oldnatty61 I like doing deads then farms and the sled to cool down.
u should do curls when climbing rope with legs 90 degree :P @@mattsalon7007
So how many hours a day should I spend trying to catch flies with chopsticks ?
Chinese houseflies are way easier to catch than American houseflies. The Chinese ones are actually pretty easy to catch with chopsticks. Not a joke.
All the hours.
How many flies do you plan on eating ?
@@PunchProfessor Who said anything about eating them? More dead flies for the dead fly throne!
@@PunchProfessor I don't eat them.. I send them to prison work camps to make cheap knock offs of US products.Do you have any idea how many flies that takes?
5:07 I remember when I was 11-12 years old and my trainer took me a side and spent 5 hours just teaching me to supplex, over and over as I had some fear or landing on my own neck, seeing that scene with that dummy just got that memory flooding back lol hated my trainer for a while because I felt he picked on me, as I did not understand he had selected me for my potential :o anyway when I was 14 I won my first wrestling match with a double supplex(not my first win, but first double supplex win), which is a 10-0 pts which is a technical victory and my coach who had tortured me for 5 hours that day just nodded at me when ref lifted my hand lol
The fact he still remembered, shows how he relly cares about their students
Yes, need to be young to start practice of real Supplex 😮 I had lot's of junk training in Karate without understanding approx 50% of forms are wrestlingovex 😂
Damn I'd like to have a trainer like that.
I have a friend that teaches Muay Thai, and he told me two things that have stuck with me:
1. The jab-cross combination has won more boxing matches than anything else
2. You can't get ready to fight without sparring
Basic stuff, and the humility that it requires, seems to be the path to excellence.
That’s really insightful. Thank you.
That's true about the jab cross when you include point victories, but when it comes to stopping a fight by knockout, the left hook leads by such a wide margin that it's not even close.
GOD OF THUNDER Kelley jab, cross, lead hook ☺️
Michael Harder SOLID!! That is real as it gets!
Many martial arts classes are entertainment not training: I went to so many classes where you see lots of different techniques in every classes, but rarely breaking down basics or repeting the same exercice over and over striving for perfection.
At our gym we had a bit of a problem with consistent instructor availability for some BJJ classes for a while. Now that we've finally the same instructor for all classes, teaching the same technique for several weeks before moving on, I feel I'm finally learning some things. Current instructor picks some technique chain such as half guard to deep guard with a hook to waitress' sweep setup to x guard. Then we learn each step over several weeks and then repeat the full thing over several classes. It's a really nice way to learn stuff, you learn about the basic positions, you learn about the basic transitions, and then you get the basic sweep. It's really annoying to try to understand how to use some technique if it's done without the transitions and without the context of how the fight might end up there.
yeah i noticed that same problem. took a bjj classs. new to bjj and they were teaching advanced stuff, and it was never the same thing class to class. it was always a new technique. even the muay thai class. there was no striking principles. i learned more from bazooka joe's youtube series.
True there are some martial arts schools alot of which are karate(not saying that karate inheritly sucks or has nothing to offer)which are primarily geared to those who are either hobbyist fans of martial arts but are not really serious athletes.
In our BJJ class here in the Philippines, we have a solid but kind of general area for a solid month. Like we work on bottom positions with sweeps and submissions with about two new-ish techniques and/or variations and then drill them. By the latter part of the month we're putting it all together and have a solid understanding and a few moves to do from that position. The next month we learn the area of top game with transitions and counters to the previous month. This is the white belt class so it's all pretty basic stuff.
That’s to keep the middle class clients happy that wana stay in shape. But get bored
I believe MMA is becoming like Karate. Victim of it's own popularity. Too many subpar schools are opening up.
@@Machaotake
I started training in MMA back in 2003 & back then there weren't as many schools & it wasn't so trendy.
True. But the fact that there ist competition will save it from completely watering down like a lot of tma
@@jonny5415 There are also competitions in TMA but to actually reaffirm your statement, it's hard to water down a full contact, brutal combat sport like MMA. Karate has it's own contact competitions but many are point based and others that are more emphasized on full contact only go up against other karate practitioners. A combat sport as gritty as MMA may be trendy but to be a legitimate athlete and combatant (not even just a contender, maybe just a regional/national circuit guy), will take a lot of toughness.
You are absolutely right. In my town alone, I know dozens of guys who think they are the new Anderson Silva just because they take 2-3 bullshido MMA classes a week in between chugging beers. All of them trained by instructors that no sane person would consider qualified. It's the same thing that happened with Karate and Tae Kwon Do 20-30 years ago.
@@Machaotake Its pretty easy to look up a guy's MMA, Boxing, Kickboxing, etc. record. If you can't find any record of his past matches then yeah, you should find a better gym. See if any of the students are competing in legit fights. If there aren't any, find a better gym. It's alot harder to get away with bullshit nowadays compared to the McDojo 80s and 90s.
Literally the same thing can be said about music. It's amazing how martial arts can be related to anything. My first job (paid hobby really) was teaching guitar. My experience was mostly classical training, but I was able to expand on my own. A student's grandfather would always tell her that I should just teach her chords, but I told her that you wouldn't know what notes made the chords and how to use really finger technique along with picking. A lot of people don't realize that many stars guitarist use classic training to at least know some music theory. I was honest and said that a chord book and CZcams could teach you chords.
Yeah teaching music is hard but it's good when you can find a good teacher ;-)
Doing cords is easy. But actually playing and changing up is hard. (Granted, i know little about guitar as i am a pianist, but same thing in this regards).
My ex was an excellent musician, she does shows and teach guitar, and she said she doesn't even know how to read music notes =))) SHe said she just sing and practice her vocal.
Yeah, instead of pretending to stretch i just skip stretching completly.
Well, those are just as effective. But stretching is very important.
Started training at an MMA gym last week. Man, you do not know how out of shape you are until you hit the mats. But we do start grappling from the knees, except for a few who instinctively get on their feet at the start and try to wrestle. I try to find these guys and work with them as much as possible. Thanks Ramsey.
learn technique
drill it
then try to apply it in combat situation
Yep. Then when you land it it feels so good that the work you have done paid of
@@bobthebuilder2922 First time I pulled off a lefthook-shuffle-shoot for TD-combo was fucking awesome xD I´d never managed to get a good takedown on anybody in MMA sparring before (other than catching a kick to the ribs and tripping) and I´d been trying for weeks on the bags to get smoother at mixing hands and clinches/takedowns. It started to pay off, after a few shitty attempts where I got flattened and ended up barely squirming to get halfguard to save myself from getting smacked in turtle-position for the rest of the round (lol, the beginner-grappler-struggle is REAL), I finally pulled it off pretty good. Leaping/gazelle/whatever left hook, dude did the "answer the phone" move so I dove my shoulder to his right side with my head on the inside and pulled a (surprisingly) decent single-leg out of my ass (probably only worked coz he got caught off guard and stepped back with his front leg which gave me the leg I had on my side, but that´s still a win in my book since I was tryna make someone start slipping and catch them). There was almost 2 mins left in the round so I got fucking smashed afterwards on the ground but hey, progress is progress hahahah
Repeat.
All of it
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Again and again. And that's real training.
Forms do help !
But you have to do them correctly and know what they are for.
It is the same with shadowboxing without visualisation.
And drilling without understanding the technique. I think one of the biggest issues with many gyms/dojos/whatever is they don't actually teach their students to understand why they do the movements, they just focus on the pointless details in form. Even if they do spar, when the students don't understand the context of the techniques, they can't actually do them against a resisting opponent.
I would agree when talking about low and wide karate stances and movement in them - it is really tough static strenth training for legs.
If your katas are just for strenght training you should just train your strenght. There are better ways to do that
I specially stressed the static srength. One thing is to do lunges and another (but related) to move in zenkutsu dachi, or my personally most hated - kiba dachi. 20 minutes in moving around in these stances and one's legs are shaking. I agree that one can simply stand for some time in the similar positions and achieve similar effect (if I remember correctly Charles Bronson stressed the iimportance of static training for overall strength), but moving around makes it more difficult in my opinion. And of course much depends on how even basic technique (probably any Martial school) is performed. I mean you can simply swing your hads back and forth, or you can trow that zuki as ast and as hard as you can. Combined with movement in those long and low stances it becomes quite a workout. And yes - you can always find a better way even for your better ways :)
Forms/kata are fun, but they didn't help me last month when I got sucker punched in the face by a random Russian guy (I live in Eastern Europe).
Cool video. Back in the day (1970s) virtually nobody was doing any worthwhile training. Kicking air, doing static SD, doing stances. The two top male and female belts in my area could not kick the bag (I saw them try and fail and give it up). So we had to learn to self-coach. People these days have it so good. They're lucky to have real coaching.
I remember karate and taekwondo teachers back in the actively discouraging students from kicking heavy bags. Looking back on that, it's absolutely mystifying that ever happened!
One thing that I consider junk training is something very common in bjj schools. Teaching a technique once and then never teaching it again and then doing this day after day with new technique after new technique and expecting us the students to learn and absorb these techniques as if we’re all some types of savants or something. I rather drill a few set of techniques for a month or two until they are fully engraved into my brain and muscle memory than the type of “training” I just mentioned.
That's a big one!
I hate this so much, it is absolute poison and it has infected mma to the point where many schools do it in striking too, like they're afraid if they get their students to do too many 1-2s they'll get bored and quit or something. Never doing drills the students already know is also a massive missed opportunity to get more conditioning in, if you do something your body is already efficient at you can pump out reps and get your heart rate up instead of spending half the class listening to the instructor talk and the other half fumbling through an embarrassing imitation of how some elite black belt won their match on the weekend
@@0n344BJJ has lots of talking involved in most of the gyms and classes are usually very short e.g. 45 minutes instead of 1.5 hours Shinkiokushin or 2 hours Judo classes.
Modern BJJ gyms are for profit 😅
I always like watching you training. Such a smooth effortless style.
I love how your videos are really insightful and full of wisdom. You teach principles that are not only useful in the mastery of martial arts, but also to life in general, to make us better individuals. You're like a master, a sage, a philosopher whatever the word. Thank you for the inspiration! When my life starts spiraling down, sometimes all I need are some wise words. Thank you again!
Just paused Joe Rogan when I saw the notification for this :)
that is the highest of complements. speaking of which, get on JRE Ramsey!
@@tmass1 I second that. Jamie look him up!
Dewey beats Rogan any day.
Proud of you Ramsey. Been subscribed for a while, and the quality and editing have been getting better, and content is great as always. Can’t wait until you get to 100k.
Max Holloway proves that basics, technical striking, fitness and great footwork is paramount and more important than flashy spinning back fists, spin kicks etc. Very few land a spin kick and it's a massive waste of energy.
That's why Max looks like he can go for days.... Very technical in his punching (generally straight 1+2s) and fantastic in and out foot work. That's why dancers can make great fighters. Footwork is so key.
Footwork is imperative to make spinning attacks work. That's why so many people are absolute garbage at landing them. They don't understand the foundation of setup, angle, and follow-up, and they skip straight to the "WOO-HOO! I'M SPINNING AROUND! WEEEEEE!!!!" part.
Max is great but then you have people like raymond daniels who proves that spinning attacks are far from a waste of energy if they land
@@CobDaGOAT Most of the people that land spinning shit on decent guys already made them go "shit, this guy has crisp punches/takedowns/legkicks/elbows/whatever, I gotta watch out for that". Spinning shit without the basic shit and positional knowledge that sets you up for that spinning shit will only make you waste energy or worse yet get your jaw knocked off. If you already got the guy guessing by taking him down or landing some sharp counters or whatever, THAT'S when you pull out the spinning shit to make him have an "oh shit, I fucked up" moment right as he eats a heel to the face.
Ramsey explained why I decided to take boxing and wrestling before I take MMA.
Junk training? I thought this was going to be about how to train my junk. I'm trying to get my GF to tap out.
Get more stamina
@HungLoWang it works, but that is not the way of dick-fu
From what I understand there is a whole system around "junk" training.
Step back and let me demonstrate while you watch.
Oh don't worry...I'm heading the other way.
Ramsey, you need to get a second career reading audio books.
Thank you coach, this video made me realize I wasn't putting enough effort to my bjj drilling. After watching this video I immediately paid more attention to the technique we were drilling and where I felt I was coming short with the execution. The sad part is, I wasn't just wasting my own time, I was wasting my teachers time just going through the motions and not really trying to improve myself.
Absolutely perfect point, the amount of junk training that's going on in the dojo that I'm in is insane, you waste your time running circles for "warmup", then waste 10 minutes of useless stretching, then putting gloves on, drilling same techniques 10 times on both stances, finally we'll have 10 minutes of sparring and that's the whole training...
I do combat sports and music, and I've adapted a lot of pedagogic tools from music (instrument practice, etc) into martial arts in general because there's a distinct lack of focus in HOW to practice things to actually get results, rather than to just do them "cuz you have to." I've spent a lot of time doing this also because I like to teach and I don't want to teach garbage I wouldn't want to be taught myself and also because the root of teaching people properly is so they can become masters of their own destiny, so to speak, and be able to judge for themselves if what they're doing makes any sense or not. As an aside, I've also implemented a lot of martial arts training techniques backwards into music for the exact same reason, since they complement each other quite well.
I'll give an example: when you say drilling vs sequencing, it's the same thing as in music when you say you're "learning" something instead of "practicing" something. If you want to play for real, you need to actually practice, not just "learn" it. That means that once it's learned, you need to sink in the hours on top of that to get the proper result and iron out the problems you may have. In fighting it's the same thing. You may be able to do a technique five or six times OK, but that's still far away from having learned it enough to really practice it. To REALLY practice a technique you need to push it into situations where you have a clear failure point. In music it's, again, similar. You can play something at tempo 120, fine, but the piece is at tempo 150 and that in itself brings a host of problems and so long as you can't do it at speed, you need to practice more (not "learn" more, PRACTICE more.) Your example of a guard exercise is a good one precisely because it involves a clear failure point against which you are constantly measuring your ability.
And it's not just doing the same exercise over and over, it's working out variations and implementations that use the same principles and becoming familiar with them so nothing catches you by surprise. This is still "learning," not truly practicing. When you're actually practicing, you go through ALL the variations and all scenarios, you make up all the adverse conditions to test your technique against all measures of resistance to understand exactly where the failure points lie. This is the same thing in music when you're hammering out a quick passage and you're playing at a higher than normal tempo so the technique problems come out and you can then start to correct them. In fighting many fundamental problems only start to appear when you're actually facing proper resistance, so without this testing there's no hope of any improvement.
Or something.
Right on
As a musician and training in martial arts as well, I’ve similarly applied my musical experiences to my martial arts training for structure and focus. I agree with all of these points as well.
Junk training is anything that doesn't have specificity towards advancing a skill- regardless of whether you're lifting weights, hitting the heavy bag, jumping rope, doing hill sprints, or even sparring/rolling, if you don't have a specific *goal* in mind beyond the general concept of an exercise, and merely include them in your regimen at an arbitrary level, while you might get better at the individual things those exercises are meant to tackle, you absolutely need to have a long term game-plan in terms of why you're doing them in order to either sharpen an already existing skill, or strengthen a weakness in your present skill-set. Lift weights to better develop a mind-muscle connection, hit the heavy bag to sharpen your technique, jump rope to improve footwork, do hill sprints to improve your cardio so that you can spar longer, and when you spar do so with the goal of increasing your situational awareness and "fight IQ"
I love coming to your Internet Dojo to work out my mind. Inspirational my friend.
That is why I try to allways train fighting even if I want to get more stamina.
In Ving Tsun you do sparring, pushing and pulling and exercises with the long pole to train stamina and endurance.
As my first trainer allways said:" I am a martial arts teacher not a fitnesscoach."
I've been practiced ITF Taekwondo since -94. The first 15 years I had a trainer who, in hindsight, was a truly crappy trainer in many ways. He was too full of himself to catch up with the times or even listen to his seniors. He even trained with General Choi Hong Hi for 200 official hours and still implemented his own ideas in direct conflict with what General Choi tought him. Sure, his training got me to the national team for several years, but at the same time he destroyed my body with crappy and uneducated training.
I went on hiatus for about 3 years and then got back too it. When I came back my previous trainer was in jail (story for another time) so I went to another gym. All of a sudden had to relearn about 60% of everything I've been tought. My body may never be what it used to be, but I can help my students avoid the same fate and help make them an even stronger foundation for themselves than I had.
Last time I was fighting I spent far too much time on gimmick training and never paid attention to a real strength program or real discipline. As a consequence, I lost and got beat up several times.
This time is going to be different, because I'm training all aspects of fitness and training, and spending less time doing junk, like a lot of trapping and fancier kick work.
"Nobody gives a damn about the ideas in your head."Thats very profound and not only does it appy to fighting but it applies to all aspects of your personal life.If the ideas in your head are never aplied than they have no impact and there nothing more than just ideas.
I'm sitting at the bus stop and gotta wait for the bus that will arrive in 20 minutes. Perfect time to watch your new video.
Always one of thee most informative and a real training fighters channel ever. Keep it up "Coach "
One of your most amazing and inspiring videos yet.
You've broached very important subjects with a poetic touch which it's pefect to my today's training in bjj and mma.
Fvark! *This* is the kind of stuff that can't seem to be said enough! Another masterpiece-of-a-video from you Ramsey, as always. I'd love to see you collaborate with Luke Holloway from Raw Combat International in a training video, or podcast, or a life philosophy video, or maybe all of those things. If it's you two men creating videos, then regardless of the topic it'll be a home run, that's an undeniable fact.
You two are some of the few people on CZcams worth watching, and some of the only people worth getting training from, regardless of the price.
I’m going to have to look up Luke Holloway now!
@@RamseyDewey Ah, sweet! He's amazing as well. In addition to you, he's also someone who I wished was located in the US so it'd be convenient to train with him on a daily basis, however, he lives in Japan.
If you also do seminars in the US as he does, then that would be perfect. Traveling over to China to train with you at your Gym, and flying over to Japan to train with Luke at his gym, would be worth it.
Nice one Ramsey. Training consistently and with focus is important. Don't socialize when you're training, don't sit around, get in there and do it. You get out of it what you put into it everytime.
It's wild how you can hear such graceful anger in his voice.
Pearls of wisdom. I can hear the years of frustration of trying to explain how to push oneself to their own limit. Thanks for posting quality stuff.
Great content to ponder yet again, thank you
I think i watched all your videos and I also think this is the best one. This is art in martial art.
Earlier this year, I was visiting my old school and was surprised to see that they had completely changed the way that they trained (for the better). I was training at a new school in a different city, and I assumed that it was a good school because it was similar to what i used to do.
But during my visit, i asked about the changes and the reasons for them. They worked to remove the junk and replace it with good fighting drills and sparring. This made me realize that I was attending a junk school.
I now train at the MMA gym in town and it has shown me how wasted my years of "training" have been.
This video is high-quality and downright inspirational.
I agree! Very good vid. I do think, though, there are exceptions to some of these. Running is conditioning without strength training, but I still think it's very valuable. I know you've questioned in the past whether fighters need to run, but I stand by it. Likewise, jump roping when done properly is also very good.
Also, mindless repetition is usually bad, but sometimes you need to give your brain a break and just build some muscle memory.
Richard Harrow How do you jump rope “properly”?
This is my favourite video of yours! Absolute masterpiece
Good video and wise words Ramsey..like it...keep training hard!
What a really nice vid !! great work
So good you got some well deserved subs! Haven't looked at that number in while. Excellent video as always
This video essay was awesome to hear. And God bless you.
Really liked this. Good stuff.
Knowing a technique doesn't mean mastering a technique, and techniques can always get better. Knowing a technique doesn't give you excuse to not train that technique.
AMAZING video! Just extremely impressive, stellar work in every aspect.
Such wisdom.
General points made but with great depth.
My father told me once, if you want to get better at punching people, then punch people. If you want to get better at wrestling people, then wrestle people. Sparring is king. Spar with intent.
Great vid, very true for all kind of skills. Thanks!
Good, solid, sound advice... can't beat that!
OK, I have to say it.
I have very little experience in Martial Arts and Combat Sports, always as a hobby, but I kept on watching and learning. When I started watching this video I was so amped up I wanted to train again. Then, as I googled some gyms I was frustrated because I'm in a small town and I can't find any place that fits my work schelude. I resumed watching the video and realized what I can do is work more in my strenght and cardio until I find a gym to train, move out or whatever, is not going to be "lost time" and is going to pay off. Congratulations, you're an awesome comunicator and inspiration.
Another great video i always learn something when i watch your videos as far as my personal growth i am finding the cause of my ignorance about alot of things i know i have bad habits im trying to break and some of those bad habits i have had has gave me limits that limit me physically i just hope i can overcome them
Ilove this kind of videos, thanks sensei, please do more.
Very Nice Background Music, Thank you sir !!!
You know the training was legit when 5 years later, you bump, sweep, and block "devastating" high fives, hand shakes and fistbumps on accident.
This guy knows what he is talking about
@@georgesavvidis1132 yeah, it's devastatingly accurate
@@briztolx1219 Some of the most embarassing social interactions of my life.
@@misterwalrus4139 ;) i didn't wait less than that
You are such an inspiration man! Respect ✊
Best video so far. Gott me thinking about my own training.
Great video. All young or new to fight training should watch this video. Sticking to favorite techniques & constantly training within your comfort zone is what keeps the majority of individuals & fights school from performing above mediocre levels. Looking back over 30 years I have seen & have been all these things you talk of....lol
I watch Firas Zahabi too...much like you he is a philosopher and an intellectual yet with the everyman touch. My fighting days are over but I love to hear the coaching perspective.
Dear Ramsey, I always liked your youtube channel because of your filosophy and approach to combat. This one is so far my favourite. I like that you tackle sensitive issues and honestly say what you think instead of being overly politically correct.
I hope to one day have you as a teacher, and would like to see other coaches listen to what you have to say.
Thank you
Awesome video Dewey
Yes. This video is... Painfully truth. Naturally hard work will triumph over all the time wasted junk activities listed in the video.
But the only valid & genuine argument I can come up with is for the non professional fighters (whose livelihood or reputation doesn't depend on fighting) might be able to use these junk exercises to keep themselves motivated, not get bored or tired & even maintain their social connection or keep having an excuse to continue spending hrs on the mat or the gym (even if it's not beneficial to improving their fighting techniques)
In conclusion & not related to the video essay, the Ramsey b roll & the head spin is truly badass.
Wow, I got MANY ideas for conditioning drills just watching this video, Ramsey. You actually teach while casually talking.
Close to the same for me. i don't have a need to train for fights. But I do like the idea of mixing up what i do to train and even optimize my time while exercising so I can get more done in less time, just so I can do more in the same allotted time. Granted, somethings will always have be done solo and still should practice things normally.
Great video coach
Good stuff Ramsey.
Also basics is basics, people that skip basics and the learning curve are the ones that get injured, and owned by superior technical fighters
Ramsey, you are a very complete athlete on many disciplines ,i'm very impressed . But the quality i like the most in you is the open minded part , someone who has move all around the world to learn and the humility that every fighter should have ,has a teacher ,as a studient.
My -2 pts on this vidéo is sound quality , you have a talent to speak and a beautiful voice with some audiovisual help it could reinforce your speech
Thank you Ramsey, thank you for helping me find motivation improving myself, for answering many questions I had and just overall for every video that you put out, cause you always teach me something.
Xièxiè nǐ zhǔrén
I wish there were more people teaching like Ramsey. I strugle so much to find a decent coach where I live... Maybe i'll just move to Beijing instead!
Great video as always!
Someone commented on one of my instagram videos of me doing some shadowboxing, and said "quit all this bs and get into a real fight, it will help you 1,00000 times more than punching the air will" the level of ignorance that some people willingly show astounds me sometimes.. Thanks coach Ramsey for enlightening us about the fallacy of fraudulent thinking, allowing us to live in totality efficiently responding to what is 🙏❤
It is like that person has never tried to out preform their own shadow. To move faster and with better form and last longer. One day shadow, it will be you who trains with me.
@@OmniscientWarrior I had to press charges on my shadow because it wouldn't stop boxing me 😢
Inspirational!
You're head movement always brings to mind the Philly legend Bad Bennie Briscoe.
Thanks for this man I hate warm ups I’ll listen to this before I fear doing them
This is great, thank you :).
I know a lot of people see gyms as a social scene; a place to make and expand social connections and not just for reaching their maximum potential at whatever discipline the gym provides instruction in.
I think it's possible to use a gym as a place to make social connections as long as they put in the work necessary to be the best that they can be as an individual (according to the gym's philosophy), help make other members better at doing the same, and know when it is appropriate to socialize about what other members' Saturday night plans are or having a long discussion about the Game of Thrones season finale (probably not appropriate at any point during their training session).
Spent to many years junk training, much time wasted, now 40 and somewhat disabled i wish i could go back and tell the young John D.L. to be honest with himself- Use What Works and Throw Away Whats Useless- Thanks a bunch for this video Ramsey Dewey it reinforces what we all must hear, sheer reality to knock down our ego and train in the most honest and effective way possible, maximize our potential in MMA/Combat sports but also life in general- 👌❤✝🎈
Excellent.
Everything you say here translates to any martial art. I am so thankful a martial arts instructor like you exists. Even the samurai during times of peace argued with each other why kata only would lead to a bad tradition in japanese swordsmanship long ago, and now almost everyone in the japanese sword arts do only kata. I see everything you say and the points you make
Thanks for the reality check. I'm not training to fight in a ring or cage. My goals are oriented toward acquiring skills and knowledge for self defense and staying physically in shape with mobility and strength as I age. Awareness and avoidance are priority, but if violence is forced upon me I want to have skills and mindset necessary to go home alive, safe, with as few injuries as possible.
It would be easy to make excuses about why something you say doesn't apply to me, instead I accept your challenge to be efficient and deliberate in my work outs and training.
Great words. We share the same goal :)
@@tundraillustration Thank you. Looks like we both also play guitar. I find many similarities between learning to play an instrument and learning martial arts.
As far as fighting with your hands down and striking with a feint not only are you are going to have a hard times pulling that off unless you were preaty well trained but if you are in a real life confrontation where you should either focus primarily defusing the situation or getting the heck out of there you are not even likely to get the opportunity use such a techique in the first place.
To agree with your statement at 10:00 about training good form, I can agree. I think that in martial arts and lifting, it’s when your tired that form breakdown actually takes place. So it’s going to be much more beneficial to make sure your jab is “clean” I’m your 3rd sparring round rather than doing “form checks” in the mirror before every workout.
I have done an inordinate amount of heavy bag work, which I enjoy. Over the next few weeks I will be doing more sparring work.
Thanks for the video. Yes junk training is everywhere alot if people font even realize there doing it even if they consider themselves a compitent martial artists.
thank you ramsey !
Thanks for this Ramsey ... you're an absolute inspiration! My story is a typical traditional martial arts one - imagine receiving a black belt in Shotokan Karate without ever having to do free-fighting, or display what a single move in a kata meant? Because this is what happened to me (I've made some significant changes in the years since). All the best from Germany 😀
One of the things that really changed the way I thought about training was the line "never do in class what someone can do at home" and that was pretty powerful. Like I've seen a lot of time wasted in class to solo drills that are inferior to drilling with a partner, when we could just be drilling with a partner. That isn't to say that you should show your training partners this stuff in class, but that falls under the category of telling them how to do the things they can be doing at home rather than actually taking up class time with them.
I have a deep down feeling that this advise should be used in anything you want to achieve in live. Eliminate the junk and work on the things that will make it work or that will it make happen.
Thanks for the inspiration
Fun fact: our trainer send us to kickboxing competition without letting using hooks and upercuts if we Don't actually throw them well in sparring,
Grappling as far as starting from the knees go. realistically speaking fights and physical confrontations don't normally start from the knees.
In my karate days, my instructor would spend 20 mins on our forms and moves, then say, pick which parts you like and moves that work for you, and we all spar full contact. With the mindset that you arent shit if you arent fit enough to pull them off full contact. and the moves arent shit if they dont work well.
Ill take it personal,
big thanks!
That metal barrier is one of the hardest barriers to overcome. You may think you know how to do something but if you truly want to be trained then forgetting what you know and having the ability to listen to your coach point out your bad habits and mistakes and learning from it benefits ones ability greatly. It is hard to be told to do something you think you already know. But every coach is different and they all have insight to offer
For the first time I enjoyed the video more than reading comments
Great video. Just imagine the guy beating you up and calmly telling you what you could ve done😂😂
I tried to single-leg a dude and put my head on the outside (I knew it was risky but I hadn´t ran into a good guillotine yet and sucked at finishing singles) so the guy slipped on a good high-elbow and I was tapping before his back hit the mat hahahahah afterwards he calmly explained what shit I should try to do to finish a TD and also what I wanna do to survive that choke. It was a pretty fun experience but shit man, I can´t imagine how soul-crushing that would´ve been if it happened in competition instead of sparring XD
@@MrRazmut yeah i have a good guillotine too it is the best counter for single and double leg make sure to push your head on his stomach and to know when to stop. Good luck on your journey
@@vegetavegeta6503 Yea for sure bro, really hard to get across to the other side of his body to defend my throat when we're both going down and he's going for the guillotine. And that shit is the worst feeling ever, it even feels deadly xD
I make damn sure to watch my neck on single legs now
@@MrRazmut when countering the guillotine try to tuck your chin and put your hands to his arm and push his hands down from your neck and boom half or top guard
@@vegetavegeta6503 Ye I do that first, then if it's too tight to squeeze out of, I try to get over to the opposite side of the guillotine so their body protects my throat(if they got my head in their right armpit, I try to get my body over to their left side) , I've pulled it off a few times and it was good as far as I could tell. I was basically in side control and the dudes squeezed for a bit then realized they fucked up. Nice to start off in a choke and then end up with top control while their arms are aching😂😂