I will never forget the idiot training partner I had in my 20's who gave me a retina injury. Train safe = train with safe partners, right equipment, gloves etc.
After three years, I finally see what you did there. I may be a little slow at times, for I too have been on the receiving end of ground and pound and potential dain bramage.
Another reason to do weightlifting and cardio: does wonders cleaning metabolic waste from neuronal activity, our brains won't lose the capacity to learn an perform as fast as they would otherwise. Keep your body in shape, and your brain will benefit from it A LOT. Take this from a psychologist and recreational boxer who is just getting into Jiu Jitsu. Ramsey, I don't say this often, you are a WISE person. Greetings from Argentina.
Ramsey: *look at the toughest guy you know and do double* Me: *toughest guy I know is 6'5 250lbs of pure muscle and his biceps are bigger than my head and he has a six pack* "bring it on."
Sir, you are the goods. I am proud to say, I’ve been saying ALOT of the same things to my people. It’s about longevity. It’s about being that amazingly fit 80-year-old. I believe one can find their peak much later in life than expected. I’m 48 and still going strong. Thank you, Mr. Dewey!!
dont even try to condition liver shots. if you take one hard enough it's just gonna drop you, better off making sure it never gets hit in the first place.
@@salamangkali-allmartialart4836 working out and building muscle could help, but ultimately a liver shot will make you lay down no matter how much muscle you have
@@shredgod6394 the shaolin monks do full body condition, and none of it is for fighting. Most can have benefits for fighting, but it’s not the primary goal.
I often wonder why people think 1 maybe 2 medium intensity sparring sessions a month will do more damage than alcohol abuse. So many people don't bat an eye when you drink multiple glasses of wine every day, smoke and binge drink on weekends. Yet when you get hit in the head by some light taps people are afraid to instantly get late stage parkinsons. Getting hit in the head is bad for you, alcohol is too
This is so true. Mi right leg got injured and ended my taekwondo career due to the bullshit of going 120% in every single trainings. We´re not machines, sometimes we have limits and have to rest or go slower. We´re not built to take infinite amount of damage. I was very happy training at my own pace and it gave me very good results. Hell, they even considered me one of the best guys on our dojang. But then I got injured, and then injured again, and then one more time (same injury on the hamstring). And THEN my big toe got injured (same leg). I was tired of that bullshit, started training at my own pace again but realized it just wasn´t the same. Throwing a simple kick became very complicated, and my footwork also became worse because my toe is not the same. Basically, in a sport based solely on kicking, I cannot kick. I really wanted to continue on my classes but I noticed I didn´t improve at all and wasn´t motivated anymore. Even though my leg is injured, I can still apply this on other areas of my life and also teach that to younger guys starting their sport career. Thanks Ramsey! You´re the man.
While less cooler... I used to do online competitive speed typing games with teams ... and kept trying to push myself .... until I got carpal tunnel. I figure just having my hands functional is more important.
Yeah, all martial arts and good deal of their training regimes were designed for men who are not going to live long on the field of battle...no need to worry about quality of life if you’re going to die in the next battle.
About this, I recall a trainer (sabonim, maybe?). His top student was a friend. He had huge knee damage like, months before this event, and wasn't fully recovered. But he still insisted on me going to see his practice. The trainer had him kick at full strenght the pad out of his hand after a inspirational speech. I moved out, but I hope that guy isn't giving lessons anymore.
Huh. Well that explains why I was able to hold my own against much bigger people when I came off the farm. Farm work was amazing strength and athletic training and trying to convince 400 all the way up to 1200 pound animals to do stuff they don't want to do really works those same muscles you use to wrestle around with your buddies in the yard and toss each other around. Wrestling is fun anyway.
Yeah. I remember a story which I heard from our local arm wrestling coach. After placing 1st in a city-wide competition (this being a huge capital city, that meant something) he visited a small settlement where his remote family lived. At some point he was asked how his life in the city was and what was he doing. Hearing the story about arm wrestling career, some local (he was a heavy equipment operator at the farm there) challenged him for a bout of that. What transpired is that our champion was able to hold his own against that man, but he could not move him, like at all. Turns out, working with a steering wheel of an old tractor that lacked any sort of a power steering all day every day is a helluva training. The coach said that if he had any technique at all, that guy would have just smashed him.
@@Annokh oh hell yeah. Luckily, dad's tractor had power steering but the ancient farm truck did not. I remember the workout from that. I don't think I would have been able to steer the tractor at all if it didn't!
I have a friend who is 1/3rd my size. Just by needing to go help his grandparents on the farm he had the physical aptitude to be at least barely comparable to me instead of just a stick.
I absolutely agree with light-contact-only sparring, especially regarding anything targeting the head. However, I am a proponent of training your body to take a hit by actually taking a hit in addition to normal training. It's an artifact of traditional Okinawan training. We often practice hits to the thighs, shins, arms, and abs with the receiver dictating how much they can handle. Each student is well within their rights to decline as well. I no longer take ab strikes due to GI issues (hereditary, not related). It's certainly different when you know it's coming, but I feel that it did prepare me to shrug it off when I've actually gotten hit. As you say, there is no magic. Just "get out there and train"!
I always learn sooo much just listening to you! Most dojo’s just teach techniques but few ever talks about the intricacies of the sciences, mentalities, biomechanics, and insights
I was knocked out in a street attack in 1978 and didn't like it. I wasn't into training at the time, but it would have helped. Soon after that I went into the military and thought the physical training there was great. Good point about not beating your sparring partners up. lol
It is hard to pick one of your videos as your best but, because there are so many topics when it comes to martial arts, fighting, the aspects of self-defense you cover and so on, but this one clearly is a contender for it. I learned a lot!
At my Kyokushin gym (this was 4 years ago btw) we did the jaw "lifts" just in case someone got kicked in the face, so the jaw bone itself wouldn't break, but rule 1 was to not let that happen in the 1st place (blocks/dodging/distance) Thank you for the video! :D
@@chaos8514 Don't worry mate, you'll get better if you keep working. Just take your time and build your strength back up. You'll be back on the mat eventually.
Diamato gave Floyd Patterson an extremely high guard to compensate for his glass jaw, Floyd (in my opinion) is one of the greatest heavy weight champions. He couldn’t condition his jaw to take a hit, so they worked on having a solid guard. They worked on technique to compensate for his weakness.
Just came across your channel and I really love the honesty. Too much bad advice out there. As a personal trainer I find there's tons of bad training and dieting advice and it drives me bonkers. I really appreciate your dedication to the truth.
You learn this in childhood from nuns and bullies. Never go down is my motto.I might not be the greatest fighter in the world but one thing I'm proud of is I never went down, or cried, except maybe later in private.
I know I was in the best shape of my life wrestling, I was running circles around TKD guys...hardest hits I ever took was from a boxer who was on the wrestling team, I think the years of TKD had conditioned me to take hits better than others, cause no one else on the team could last 8 seconds with this guy...
@Hippy(Bboomer) oh yeah like this guy Cain (he's the one I boxed) they gotta fight harder cause they're smaller...and there was one psycho who said his goal in every match was to just make em bleed, not even win, he just wanted to make em bleed
You should have your own show, Mr. Dewey. You make so much sense. I've heard about some MMA gyms where they spar hard all the time and a lot of their fighters get hurt or don't have long careers. That's so sad. But you have a very sensible approach to the whole matter. Thank you, sir!!!
Great book by Ferdie Pacheko, Muhammed Ali'a doctor. He mentions that people initially thought Ali might be "chinny" especially after he was heavily floored by Henry Cooper. He said they worked on his legs and neck, and did specific exercises to make his body a better "shock absorber ". Ali would go on to be regarded as having one of the best chins in history. That being said, the most important is to avoid as much damage as possible by watching everything.
I found your videos when i was looking for knuckle conditioning ideas. So far you've convinced me to avoid any kind of real fighting like the plague :) You've inspired me to up the weight training thou.
at my old gym, we did ab conditioning all the time. crunches/sit ups, dropping medicine balls on our abs, striking our abs while crunching, etc. and my body was more adept to taking body shots, however, I wasn't as used to taking face shots even with light sparring. so I think some practice taking light face hits can be beneficial. I'm always way too flinchy and its not productive.
Being able to roll with the punches to the head is a subtle art. Bounce them off your frontal bone- headbutt your opponent’s fist if it gets through. Get your handfighting up to the task so fewer shots get through. Minimize shots to the face as much as possible. You’ll take plenty of punches to the face in normal sparring. You don’t need extra.
Have heard that sitting in a pool and rapidly chopping the water in front of your face can train you to not blink or flinch when things come at your face. Rasmey can probably confirm or deny the truth of that.
I started my Goju Ryu training because of a brain injury. I first spent 2 years learning to walk again in a therapy pool, then I started to train, into year 3 now, I have also started Tai Chi. We have no punches to the head, kicks are ok if you can land them, so far none have. But nobody is trying to hit my head either, another shot to my head may just kill me, but living a life is very important as well. But the training is everything now, my body is starting to work again, new Neural Pathways created.
@@rokrok27 I have had 13 major concussions over the past 40 years or so . Likely many more . In 2016 I had 3 accident that I never was able to recover from. I could not even walk properly anymore. I started to train to save my life as I was going into very bad areas. I now live my life, pain and suffering and all and my training is what did it. Hope that helps.
Great video great advice...He talks True...even with Chess(one of my hobbies...as i am too old for serious competition now)(which is completely different from what this discussion is all about ) there is this thing that the best Grandmaster in chess say and teach = The Best Defence is a Counter Attack just like Dewey saying here "aggressive defence" it shows you the truth is the same in all fields...even ones very remote from each other!
vijay rao cuzz there more volume strikers but there boxing is good they have been known to spar with pro boxers and Shane fazed even said their boxing style is better for mma due to smaller gloves basically bare knuckle
@Tam Ago dark chocolate 85% always! Best preworkout ever! Also makes me want to be friends with everyone around me. Mix with a tub of strawberries. You're chest and heart will feel open and incredible
I have microdosed shrooms as a prework out i take them before i go to sleep then wake up ready i smoke bud tho edibles r better for muscle fatigue so i can keep goin while on a small amount of coffee for a lil more energy but all this while fasting i only eat about once a day but i make sure i eat quality food and i take long breaks from workin out when ive been doin it for months to reset i have really good muscle memory since ive been active since i was a child thru group homes and state prison and county i have no excuse to be weak lol
very nice info for gut I use a heavy ball and do belly push outs to work the inner liner muscle of the abs. also an old eagle claw guy told me to roll a heavy bar on arms and legs and gave me a list of herbs to make dit dow jow rub. in sparring I had to learn not to always tighten up but you have to see it coming then its like you use body to parry off the force. your right breathing plays a massive part in taking and putting out energy qigong taught me that.
Congrats for good work! Great analysis and hints. There's an excellent conditioning work taught on Iron Fist and Iron Palm Kung Fu, holding weights, that puts some Iron in our abs, arms and legs. Interesting stuff on resistance to blows! Sorry for poor English, I'm a fighter from Brasil.
30+ years later my jaw STILL pops sending nerve strike through system caused from a lunge punch 🤛 to jaw when I was 15 or 16. (There was no 10 and 13 black belts. That was my Sensei who did that strike, I was the best for to spar with for his training too.
Great video. You could have gone a bit more into details about the different parts of the body, like you mentioned that it's impossible to condition oneself to take blows to the head, so that is an area where I won't try but rather I will make extra sure to avoid getting hit there. The same seems to be true for the liver to a slightly lesser extent, right? But what about the opposite side of the abdomen? Obviously, I work on breathing and strong muscles and I will try to have the best defense possible. But, it would be helpful to know if and how I can prepare parts of my body to better take a blow and what parts I have to protect more than others.
You can condition your core & your neck to protect the vitals... but you cant rely on it as it only goes so far & defense is more important however I will always condition those areas just as another preventative measure. Thanks for another good vid.
The only time I almost got knocked out was during an indoor hockey game at school, when I slammed into a friend's shoulder head first. Yeah, that doesn't seem like something I wanna train to get used to ^^ I love how you stress that you do this for longevity and quality of life, I completely agree! I'm not fifty yet, but I hope to retain my mental and physical capabilities for as long as possible.
Very interesting as always! I'm fed up with sparring partners who want to hit hard. It's not fun when it means you can't train normally for weeks or months. I had the bruised ribs, the huge hematoma on the leg that gave me pain all summer, the brain injury was the worst. I don't mind the other blows, it's good to get used to them but I want to spar for the fun and the technique because I'm not training to become a fighter, I want to be fit now and in my 90's 😜
There´s also ´freeze´ in the fight, flight, posture, submission list. And that´s an important one that gets a lot of us when we are scared or surprised. The classic deer in the headlights
@@RamseyDewey Thanks for the reply! Personally I think they are different. Submission is a dog laying on its back. To take a human example: say a cop comes across a ne'er-do-well and commands them to raise their hands. Submission would be them raising hands and following every command, resulting in them getting cuffed and arrested. But freezing would be them being too scared or shocked to follow commands, resulting in them getting shot. If you watch a lot of police videos, 'freezing' is not uncommon where people simply won't act or will act very strangely (but not compliantly, nor by way of fight or flight) because of fear. So it's that noncompliant aspect that I think separates it from 'submission'. In the animal world I also think of it as a first response (ie. could happen before fight or flight but unlikely to happen after), whereas submission happens as a last response (ie. could happen after fight or flight but unlikely to happen before).
I have taken a good deal of hard kicks and punches to the head, in my time, without going down. Then I saw Tyson doing neck bridges, and I thought that if I did the same I could improve even further, but it fucked up my neck. Don't do it
Well the breathing is very correct combined with understanding the transfer of energy between you. And proper movement to manipulate that are basically the best/only things you can really do aside from just your ability to ignore pain/biochemical processes that occur in your body etc. Your never going to reach a point where your soft human body is too "hard" to hurt no matter what you do. But pain is just another electromagnetic interaction between the body nervous system and brain, it doesn't actually have to hurt you just expect or choose for it to.
Dopamine and serotonin aren't endorphins. Endorphins are peptides with complex names. Although the rest of your video is amazing, especially being honest about brain damage.
One thing you can do to help simulate the effect of being stunned by a hit to the head: Make yourself dizzy (spin around or whatever) then defend! Gets you used to covering up and coming back from the effects of a hard shot. Minus the brain damage. But don't do too much in a session. Or you might hurl. 🤢
Very responsibly said. It’s hard to balance safe training with effective recreation of a ‘real’ combat situation where the strikes are harder and with the intent to cause harm. I’ll have to try wrestling, which I’m new too. Hopefully it’ll provide the physical conditioning I’m looking for to go hand in hand with the self defence aspect. I’ve still got one question in case you reply to this comment (or anyone else who knows what they are talking about.) wouldn’t wrestling everyday impede recovery time and overall training efficiency? I always thought it was better to train every other day?
It's mostly genetic, but a thick neck helps, and that you can train. A big skull probably, thinking about it; and a very thick skull. I say this having been hit hard with some guys best shots in street fighting situations - they're always a little amazed you're still standing.
My boxing coach had us lay flat on our backs then lift our heads, (a neck crunch I guess you'd call it) then lift our head 50x's like nodding yes, then look to the right lift 50x's, look to the left 50x's. It made our necks stronger as to not get your neck snapped back when a straight smacks you. The right and left were for hooks. Now, it did build our necks up and our whole gym and our/his greatest prodigy Johnny "Mi Vida Loca" Tapia all had great chins. I cannot say for a fact this is why we had good chins, could all take a punch to the head good, maybe it was a mental thing but to this day I can take a good punch. He (our coach) Henry Anaya sr. Was also a pro. I took state my first year (silver gloves). However, after my first loss which happened to be my second year fighting state (I took second) I took it horribly. Started training less, then got into hanging with the wrong crowd, smoking weed and shit. When I went back not even a summer later, my old sparring partner , whom I used to take through the paces easily, took my wind with a liver shot. I was obviously out of shape and not as sharp.. i quit, right then...wasted talent. 😔 It still fucks with me till this day.. My sparring partner went on to go pro. Last time I saw him he said that coach was so disappointed that I quit that he blamed himself for putting me to spar so quickly. He died shortly after that. My old sparring partner was going to his "dojo to train, and i should go with him to meet his new sensei to learn a new art, called Brazilian jiu-jitsu " he said. I thought I was too cool for school, never learning my lesson and passed. Anyway, I got into music everything turned out cool. Still I wish, damn I wish I would've hung in there. I guess since I told a story there at least should be a moral for the ending.. Moral of the story: #HustleHard #NeverGiveUp Sorry for the novel lol
yea greath video Buddy....its true u can train take some shoot to body i eat that ...but nothing can safe u agains good aimed hard hit to chin...liver ...or ribs its over only body movemend ...and good defence can protect u from that good contra strike technique is best
1:50 Some guys have a high tolerance for taking a punch. It's called having a "tough chin". Even that considered it's still good to train good defense. Why take a punch when you don't have to tough chin or not?
I think that has more to do with genetics and the brain fluid in the skull. People with "tough chins" who get knocked out a few times end up losing their tough chin and getting glass jaws. I wouldn't take a punch to the jaw even if my jaw was literally steel because it's still a lever that rattles the brain.
@FuriousJesse It's more then a few times that makes it a glass jaw. It is quite a bit that they have to get rocked to lose that iron chin. Now if we're talking middle ground, then yeah they would lose it much faster.
Ive always been the small guy compared to people i have fought all but two have been about 6ft pr tall 180lbs to about 280lbs while im only 5'9 1/2" 145 to 165lbs if i got big so im just used to harder hits
Hi man, like your knowledge and wisdom specially with Jack Dempsey tips, I bought the book from your recommendation, it’s a Gem to be quite honest. There is a golden tip for taking a hit in the jaw. BITE YOUR TEETH, that makes the jaw a lot compact and stronger. That’s what Oscar Dela Hoya have mastered, that’s also the reason why he didn’t get knocked out cold his career. Just a little tip, hope it helps 🙏🏽
I would like to get your opinion on whether handstand pushups are more beneficial for boxing than regular pushups. One of my strength and conditioning trainers thinks regular pushups are better but I have seen videos of a Ukrainian Heavyweight boxer named Alexander Usyk doing alot of handstand workouts. What do you think?
What are your thoughts on iron body training? I've done many years of it and I've been taught to breath in and drop your body weight, creating a sort of pressurisation with the diaphragm, contracting your core. Core is 90% of my training. I've also noticed though how quickly I've come to be able to recover over the years from the shots that I wasn't ready for. I believe you can condition your organs for impacts. I think the organs becoming denser, more rubbery. Better at absorption. Just curious if you'd looked into, or trained anything iron body, wise.
Every competent fighter times their breathing and abdominal contractions to take body shots. I don’t personally know anyone who calls it iron body training.
We sometimes train technic so one guy will hold the high guard and the other one does a combo. Now my question is taking many hits against the high cause brain damage because your hands still are on the head
You should have more subscribers bro. Well, you got one now. Appreciate everything you do! Keep up the videos! One question for you - what's your age at the moment?
Okay so I took Jiu Jitsu and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and we never started on a knees or bottom form we would always transition into from stand up to take down the submissions
i always found the hit i couldnt condition for was the hit i couldn't see coming. those always messed me up.. sidenote, i think the mouth guard with a string to a weight is a neck work out, not jaw, but maybe i misunderstood
Quick question: Wouldn't strengthening your neck be a great way to make it more difficult for punches to spin that chin you call "a lever" ? I've heard that your neck is a shock absorber and so strengthening it will prevent knockouts from occurring easily.
@@RamseyDewey First off, Merry Christmas! I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am. Yesterday, just 4 hours before having a Christmas party with my family, I was able to complete 625 pushups in an hour. I have been doing as many squats and pushups as I can to failure 2-4 times a week. I'm aiming to do 1000 pushups in an hour or 2. I had recently watched a video about an Indian catch wrestling legend by the name of 'Great Gama' who trained by doing 3000 to 5000 handstand pushups daily. It's said that he won 5000 matches without losing. Are handstand pushups extremely beneficial for wrestling? Does it strengthen your upper body to the point you're able to throw guys around much easier?
Me big brain take many hits and LIVE. I CONDITION BRAIN TO TAKE HIT. I UNDEFEATED.
@Colin Cleveland No, he's a leftist in disguise.
oh lucky you. if you where to be in estonia ehemm with me then undefeated title goes away
Tell yourself whatever you need to sleep at night
#Egotistical
#Pathetic
me done conditioned brain
Well, if you’re a Traumatic Brain Injury Patient then you can’t get more conditioned than breaking your skull 💀 #hardhead
I will never forget the idiot training partner I had in my 20's who gave me a retina injury. Train safe = train with safe partners, right equipment, gloves etc.
Ash I can not agree more. I mostly train bjj and having a good skilled partner is golden and everyone goes home happy after a good workout.
My instructor said "don't break your training partners. If you do, nobody will give you new ones."
How did they give you a retina injury? Did they gouge you? While _sparring?_
@@batfan1939 Getting hit in the head. Closer to the eye usually.
how can you tell that you'll be safe with them?
I got concussed from a ground and pound once, but I don't think I got dain bramage. Wait...
Nice one
PMSL
After three years, I finally see what you did there. I may be a little slow at times, for I too have been on the receiving end of ground and pound and potential dain bramage.
@@RamseyDewey bazinga
@@RamseyDewey Don't be sputid, Ramsey; it's grain bamage.
Another reason to do weightlifting and cardio: does wonders cleaning metabolic waste from neuronal activity, our brains won't lose the capacity to learn an perform as fast as they would otherwise. Keep your body in shape, and your brain will benefit from it A LOT. Take this from a psychologist and recreational boxer who is just getting into Jiu Jitsu.
Ramsey, I don't say this often, you are a WISE person. Greetings from Argentina.
¡Aguante Argentina!
único argentino que vi acá
This man talks smooth like butter
"yer after yer after yer"
Ramsey: *look at the toughest guy you know and do double*
Me: *toughest guy I know is 6'5 250lbs of pure muscle and his biceps are bigger than my head and he has a six pack* "bring it on."
Nothing a good overhand right can't fix
Sir, you are the goods. I am proud to say, I’ve been saying ALOT of the same things to my people. It’s about longevity. It’s about being that amazingly fit 80-year-old. I believe one can find their peak much later in life than expected. I’m 48 and still going strong. Thank you, Mr. Dewey!!
dont even try to condition liver shots. if you take one hard enough it's just gonna drop you, better off making sure it never gets hit in the first place.
Thats like conditioning your testicles
Conditioning the ribs and muscle over it is worth it though.
@@salamangkali-allmartialart4836 working out and building muscle could help, but ultimately a liver shot will make you lay down no matter how much muscle you have
@@Lemme-sniff-ya
The shaolin monks actually do that
@@shredgod6394 the shaolin monks do full body condition, and none of it is for fighting. Most can have benefits for fighting, but it’s not the primary goal.
Please don't condition your brain to concussion. Thanks for the reminder ! I am sure some would have tried at home.
I often wonder why people think 1 maybe 2 medium intensity sparring sessions a month will do more damage than alcohol abuse.
So many people don't bat an eye when you drink multiple glasses of wine every day, smoke and binge drink on weekends. Yet when you get hit in the head by some light taps people are afraid to instantly get late stage parkinsons.
Getting hit in the head is bad for you, alcohol is too
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This is so true. Mi right leg got injured and ended my taekwondo career due to the bullshit of going 120% in every single trainings. We´re not machines, sometimes we have limits and have to rest or go slower. We´re not built to take infinite amount of damage.
I was very happy training at my own pace and it gave me very good results. Hell, they even considered me one of the best guys on our dojang. But then I got injured, and then injured again, and then one more time (same injury on the hamstring). And THEN my big toe got injured (same leg). I was tired of that bullshit, started training at my own pace again but realized it just wasn´t the same. Throwing a simple kick became very complicated, and my footwork also became worse because my toe is not the same.
Basically, in a sport based solely on kicking, I cannot kick. I really wanted to continue on my classes but I noticed I didn´t improve at all and wasn´t motivated anymore.
Even though my leg is injured, I can still apply this on other areas of my life and also teach that to younger guys starting their sport career.
Thanks Ramsey! You´re the man.
While less cooler... I used to do online competitive speed typing games with teams ... and kept trying to push myself .... until I got carpal tunnel. I figure just having my hands functional is more important.
Yeah, all martial arts and good deal of their training regimes were designed for men who are not going to live long on the field of battle...no need to worry about quality of life if you’re going to die in the next battle.
About this, I recall a trainer (sabonim, maybe?). His top student was a friend. He had huge knee damage like, months before this event, and wasn't fully recovered. But he still insisted on me going to see his practice. The trainer had him kick at full strenght the pad out of his hand after a inspirational speech. I moved out, but I hope that guy isn't giving lessons anymore.
@@luishamnstrom4830 Wow that sucks! Yeah sometimes people get way too inspired... and forget we actually have limits.
I am not a fighter but I love to hear your talks.
Me to, Im a lover, not a fighter.
heroldable smooth...
Huh. Well that explains why I was able to hold my own against much bigger people when I came off the farm. Farm work was amazing strength and athletic training and trying to convince 400 all the way up to 1200 pound animals to do stuff they don't want to do really works those same muscles you use to wrestle around with your buddies in the yard and toss each other around. Wrestling is fun anyway.
Yeah. I remember a story which I heard from our local arm wrestling coach. After placing 1st in a city-wide competition (this being a huge capital city, that meant something) he visited a small settlement where his remote family lived. At some point he was asked how his life in the city was and what was he doing. Hearing the story about arm wrestling career, some local (he was a heavy equipment operator at the farm there) challenged him for a bout of that. What transpired is that our champion was able to hold his own against that man, but he could not move him, like at all. Turns out, working with a steering wheel of an old tractor that lacked any sort of a power steering all day every day is a helluva training. The coach said that if he had any technique at all, that guy would have just smashed him.
@@Annokh oh hell yeah. Luckily, dad's tractor had power steering but the ancient farm truck did not. I remember the workout from that. I don't think I would have been able to steer the tractor at all if it didn't!
I have a friend who is 1/3rd my size. Just by needing to go help his grandparents on the farm he had the physical aptitude to be at least barely comparable to me instead of just a stick.
and yall wonder how Mayweather stayed in the game for so long
thank you so much Ramsey! I appreciate every minute of your detailed answer here
I absolutely agree with light-contact-only sparring, especially regarding anything targeting the head. However, I am a proponent of training your body to take a hit by actually taking a hit in addition to normal training. It's an artifact of traditional Okinawan training. We often practice hits to the thighs, shins, arms, and abs with the receiver dictating how much they can handle. Each student is well within their rights to decline as well. I no longer take ab strikes due to GI issues (hereditary, not related). It's certainly different when you know it's coming, but I feel that it did prepare me to shrug it off when I've actually gotten hit.
As you say, there is no magic. Just "get out there and train"!
I always learn sooo much just listening to you! Most dojo’s just teach techniques but few ever talks about the intricacies of the sciences, mentalities, biomechanics, and insights
I was knocked out in a street attack in 1978 and didn't like it. I wasn't into training at the time, but it would have helped. Soon after that I went into the military and thought the physical training there was great. Good point about not beating your sparring partners up. lol
It is hard to pick one of your videos as your best but, because there are so many topics when it comes to martial arts, fighting, the aspects of self-defense you cover and so on, but this one clearly is a contender for it. I learned a lot!
At my Kyokushin gym (this was 4 years ago btw) we did the jaw "lifts" just in case someone got kicked in the face, so the jaw bone itself wouldn't break, but rule 1 was to not let that happen in the 1st place (blocks/dodging/distance)
Thank you for the video! :D
Great advice. I think neck exercises are more valuable than jaw exercises.
Very good point on wrestling! You can wrestle often close to 100% and not accumulate brain damage.
Gotta be careful with that spine, though.
and knees
@@smradztoiek exactly bro im wrestler i injured my neck ..feeling depressed,, it been almost a year
@@chaos8514 Don't worry mate, you'll get better if you keep working. Just take your time and build your strength back up. You'll be back on the mat eventually.
How do you get brain damage from wrestling? Do you get slammed on your head a lot?
I'm only conditioning my head by solving logical and creativity-related problems lol
Diamato gave Floyd Patterson an extremely high guard to compensate for his glass jaw, Floyd (in my opinion) is one of the greatest heavy weight champions. He couldn’t condition his jaw to take a hit, so they worked on having a solid guard. They worked on technique to compensate for his weakness.
iv'e conditiond my brain many times
The best conditioning for brain is reading interesting books :)
Just came across your channel and I really love the honesty. Too much bad advice out there. As a personal trainer I find there's tons of bad training and dieting advice and it drives me bonkers. I really appreciate your dedication to the truth.
You learn this in childhood from nuns and bullies. Never go down is my motto.I might not be the greatest fighter in the world but one thing I'm proud of is I never went down, or cried, except maybe later in private.
I know I was in the best shape of my life wrestling, I was running circles around TKD guys...hardest hits I ever took was from a boxer who was on the wrestling team, I think the years of TKD had conditioned me to take hits better than others, cause no one else on the team could last 8 seconds with this guy...
@Hippy(Bboomer) I know man, I thought I was SOOO tough as a football player until I stepped on a wrestling mat!
@Hippy(Bboomer) oh yeah like this guy Cain (he's the one I boxed) they gotta fight harder cause they're smaller...and there was one psycho who said his goal in every match was to just make em bleed, not even win, he just wanted to make em bleed
Great advice given Sir, thanks a lot.
Great video! I'm really enjoying your channel. Thanks!
Loving all the questions you get Ramsey and wisdom of fighting
The best combat advice video and channel I have ever watch. Thank you very much for all the very valuable information.
a must to listen for all new fighters, Very educational about life too.
more than knowledge , this is real wisdom. two thumbs up.
excellent video. thanks
Great stuff. Thank you
Ramsey Dewey, thanks for sharing your straight forward and to the point knowledge. It’s genuinely appreciated.
A no brainer! Another excellent explanation.
''no brainer'' teehee.
:-)
I love the analogy of Conor McGregor to WWF. Respect in the octagon is so much more appealing to me than shit talk and mean behaviour.
You should have your own show, Mr. Dewey. You make so much sense. I've heard about some MMA gyms where they spar hard all the time and a lot of their fighters get hurt or don't have long careers. That's so sad. But you have a very sensible approach to the whole matter. Thank you, sir!!!
Great book by Ferdie Pacheko, Muhammed Ali'a doctor. He mentions that people initially thought Ali might be "chinny" especially after he was heavily floored by Henry Cooper. He said they worked on his legs and neck, and did specific exercises to make his body a better "shock absorber ". Ali would go on to be regarded as having one of the best chins in history. That being said, the most important is to avoid as much damage as possible by watching everything.
I found your videos when i was looking for knuckle conditioning ideas. So far you've convinced me to avoid any kind of real fighting like the plague :)
You've inspired me to up the weight training thou.
at my old gym, we did ab conditioning all the time. crunches/sit ups, dropping medicine balls on our abs, striking our abs while crunching, etc. and my body was more adept to taking body shots, however, I wasn't as used to taking face shots even with light sparring. so I think some practice taking light face hits can be beneficial. I'm always way too flinchy and its not productive.
Being able to roll with the punches to the head is a subtle art. Bounce them off your frontal bone- headbutt your opponent’s fist if it gets through. Get your handfighting up to the task so fewer shots get through. Minimize shots to the face as much as possible. You’ll take plenty of punches to the face in normal sparring. You don’t need extra.
Have heard that sitting in a pool and rapidly chopping the water in front of your face can train you to not blink or flinch when things come at your face. Rasmey can probably confirm or deny the truth of that.
Ramsey Dewey isn't that exactly how your head got dented? ;)
@@siddified Other guy had loaded wraps.
@@manlyadvice1789 lol that's a great name you got there
I started my Goju Ryu training because of a brain injury. I first spent 2 years learning to walk again in a therapy pool, then I started to train, into year 3 now, I have also started Tai Chi. We have no punches to the head, kicks are ok if you can land them, so far none have. But nobody is trying to hit my head either, another shot to my head may just kill me, but living a life is very important as well. But the training is everything now, my body is starting to work again, new Neural Pathways created.
How’d u get a head injury
@@rokrok27 I have had 13 major concussions over the past 40 years or so . Likely many more . In 2016 I had 3 accident that I never was able to recover from. I could not even walk properly anymore. I started to train to save my life as I was going into very bad areas. I now live my life, pain and suffering and all and my training is what did it. Hope that helps.
Great video great advice...He talks True...even with Chess(one of my hobbies...as i am too old for serious competition now)(which is completely different from what this discussion is all about ) there is this thing that the best Grandmaster in chess say and teach = The Best Defence is a Counter Attack just like Dewey saying here "aggressive defence" it shows you the truth is the same in all fields...even ones very remote from each other!
theres a theory that the diaz brothers developed durability from endurance training whille sedated on marijuana
yes! there is science to back this up. Endurance athletes develope tougher brain full of endorphins
vijay rao cuzz there more volume strikers but there boxing is good they have been known to spar with pro boxers and Shane fazed even said their boxing style is better for mma due to smaller gloves basically bare knuckle
I take Ritalin with weed and I think it will help
@Tam Ago dark chocolate 85% always! Best preworkout ever! Also makes me want to be friends with everyone around me. Mix with a tub of strawberries. You're chest and heart will feel open and incredible
I have microdosed shrooms as a prework out i take them before i go to sleep then wake up ready i smoke bud tho edibles r better for muscle fatigue so i can keep goin while on a small amount of coffee for a lil more energy but all this while fasting i only eat about once a day but i make sure i eat quality food and i take long breaks from workin out when ive been doin it for months to reset i have really good muscle memory since ive been active since i was a child thru group homes and state prison and county i have no excuse to be weak lol
very nice info for gut I use a heavy ball and do belly push outs to work the inner liner muscle of the abs. also an old eagle claw guy told me to roll a heavy bar on arms and legs and gave me a list of herbs to make dit dow jow rub. in sparring I had to learn not to always tighten up but you have to see it coming then its like you use body to parry off the force. your right breathing plays a massive part in taking and putting out energy qigong taught me that.
Congrats for good work! Great analysis and hints.
There's an excellent conditioning work taught on Iron Fist and Iron Palm Kung Fu, holding weights, that puts some Iron in our abs, arms and legs. Interesting stuff on resistance to blows!
Sorry for poor English, I'm a fighter from Brasil.
Great advice.
30+ years later my jaw STILL pops sending nerve strike through system caused from a lunge punch 🤛 to jaw when I was 15 or 16. (There was no 10 and 13 black belts. That was my Sensei who did that strike, I was the best for to spar with for his training too.
Thanks,, it was great.
Maybe strengthen the neck so the head doesn't move as much when struck? Would this actually help absorb punches more effectively?
This is a good ass video. Great sagacious advice.
I'm happy to hear all this.
Great video. You could have gone a bit more into details about the different parts of the body, like you mentioned that it's impossible to condition oneself to take blows to the head, so that is an area where I won't try but rather I will make extra sure to avoid getting hit there. The same seems to be true for the liver to a slightly lesser extent, right? But what about the opposite side of the abdomen? Obviously, I work on breathing and strong muscles and I will try to have the best defense possible. But, it would be helpful to know if and how I can prepare parts of my body to better take a blow and what parts I have to protect more than others.
You can condition your core & your neck to protect the vitals... but you cant rely on it as it only goes so far & defense is more important however I will always condition those areas just as another preventative measure. Thanks for another good vid.
The only time I almost got knocked out was during an indoor hockey game at school, when I slammed into a friend's shoulder head first. Yeah, that doesn't seem like something I wanna train to get used to ^^
I love how you stress that you do this for longevity and quality of life, I completely agree! I'm not fifty yet, but I hope to retain my mental and physical capabilities for as long as possible.
Very interesting as always! I'm fed up with sparring partners who want to hit hard. It's not fun when it means you can't train normally for weeks or months. I had the bruised ribs, the huge hematoma on the leg that gave me pain all summer, the brain injury was the worst. I don't mind the other blows, it's good to get used to them but I want to spar for the fun and the technique because I'm not training to become a fighter, I want to be fit now and in my 90's 😜
How ironic i got an ad where one guy hang from a bar getting hit with a medicineball in the stomach repeatedly. „Condition your body...“
Brilliant.
There´s also ´freeze´ in the fight, flight, posture, submission list. And that´s an important one that gets a lot of us when we are scared or surprised. The classic deer in the headlights
That would fall under the category of submission
@@RamseyDewey Thanks for the reply! Personally I think they are different. Submission is a dog laying on its back. To take a human example: say a cop comes across a ne'er-do-well and commands them to raise their hands. Submission would be them raising hands and following every command, resulting in them getting cuffed and arrested. But freezing would be them being too scared or shocked to follow commands, resulting in them getting shot. If you watch a lot of police videos, 'freezing' is not uncommon where people simply won't act or will act very strangely (but not compliantly, nor by way of fight or flight) because of fear. So it's that noncompliant aspect that I think separates it from 'submission'. In the animal world I also think of it as a first response (ie. could happen before fight or flight but unlikely to happen after), whereas submission happens as a last response (ie. could happen after fight or flight but unlikely to happen before).
You can do neck curls to strengthen your neck to reduce knockout chances. Mike tyson used to do neck bridges
ChompChompNomNom neck bridges are a sure path to spinal nerve damage.
Whenever I do neckbridges, I tend to forget things faster!. I regained my proper memory after I stopped that exercise.
Yeah if neck is straight and supported by hands...but still it's very dangerous....instead training with resistance belt is the best..
Now look at Tyson
I have taken a good deal of hard kicks and punches to the head, in my time, without going down. Then I saw Tyson doing neck bridges, and I thought that if I did the same I could improve even further, but it fucked up my neck. Don't do it
Words of motivation, I'll take all of these into consideration.
Thanks Ramsey.
i like your tips, man. i could def work out in your gym
Well the breathing is very correct combined with understanding the transfer of energy between you. And proper movement to manipulate that are basically the best/only things you can really do aside from just your ability to ignore pain/biochemical processes that occur in your body etc. Your never going to reach a point where your soft human body is too "hard" to hurt no matter what you do. But pain is just another electromagnetic interaction between the body nervous system and brain, it doesn't actually have to hurt you just expect or choose for it to.
Awesome Vid, Ramsey.
Love your philosophy on this, I thought it might be more about mental conditioning after you get hit but great video as always
Ramsey! What about strengthening you neck muscles and traps? This helps to prevent rotation of your head when you get hit
Very in-depth video,please keep making such videos continuously , how many days in a week should I go for weight training , please suggest me
Dopamine and serotonin aren't endorphins. Endorphins are peptides with complex names. Although the rest of your video is amazing, especially being honest about brain damage.
They're also the third smartest creatures on Earth. If only we listened.
One thing you can do to help simulate the effect of being stunned by a hit to the head:
Make yourself dizzy (spin around or whatever) then defend!
Gets you used to covering up and coming back from the effects of a hard shot.
Minus the brain damage.
But don't do too much in a session.
Or you might hurl. 🤢
That's a good idea.
Very responsibly said. It’s hard to balance safe training with effective recreation of a ‘real’ combat situation where the strikes are harder and with the intent to cause harm. I’ll have to try wrestling, which I’m new too. Hopefully it’ll provide the physical conditioning I’m looking for to go hand in hand with the self defence aspect. I’ve still got one question in case you reply to this comment (or anyone else who knows what they are talking about.) wouldn’t wrestling everyday impede recovery time and overall training efficiency? I always thought it was better to train every other day?
In my experience, wrestlers are a world apart in work ethic in the work place
21:10 As Bruce Lee said the best defense is a Defensive Offense
This is one of my fave vids of yours, sir.
Thanks!
I’d be more curious about conditioning your shins for when shins hit other shins, conditioning your elbows/arms for blocking. That sort of stuff.
Thumbs up for good fight- and life-philosophy.
It's mostly genetic, but a thick neck helps, and that you can train. A big skull probably, thinking about it; and a very thick skull. I say this having been hit hard with some guys best shots in street fighting situations - they're always a little amazed you're still standing.
being born as a bison would be the ideal scenario for head hits
My boxing coach had us lay flat on our backs then lift our heads, (a neck crunch I guess you'd call it) then lift our head 50x's like nodding yes, then look to the right lift 50x's, look to the left 50x's. It made our necks stronger as to not get your neck snapped back when a straight smacks you. The right and left were for hooks. Now, it did build our necks up and our whole gym and our/his greatest prodigy Johnny "Mi Vida Loca" Tapia all had great chins. I cannot say for a fact this is why we had good chins, could all take a punch to the head good, maybe it was a mental thing but to this day I can take a good punch.
He (our coach) Henry Anaya sr. Was also a pro. I took state my first year (silver gloves). However, after my first loss which happened to be my second year fighting state (I took second) I took it horribly. Started training less, then got into hanging with the wrong crowd, smoking weed and shit. When I went back not even a summer later, my old sparring partner , whom I used to take through the paces easily, took my wind with a liver shot. I was obviously out of shape and not as sharp.. i quit, right then...wasted talent. 😔 It still fucks with me till this day.. My sparring partner went on to go pro. Last time I saw him he said that coach was so disappointed that I quit that he blamed himself for putting me to spar so quickly. He died shortly after that.
My old sparring partner was going to his "dojo to train, and i should go with him to meet his new sensei to learn a new art, called Brazilian jiu-jitsu " he said. I thought I was too cool for school, never learning my lesson and passed. Anyway, I got into music everything turned out cool. Still I wish, damn I wish I would've hung in there. I guess since I told a story there at least should be a moral for the ending..
Moral of the story: #HustleHard #NeverGiveUp
Sorry for the novel lol
@@royalty_the1892 it's never too late dawg. At least not for BJJ.
yea greath video Buddy....its true u can train take some shoot to body i eat that ...but nothing can safe u agains good aimed hard hit to chin...liver ...or ribs its over only body movemend ...and good defence can protect u from that good contra strike technique is best
1:50 Some guys have a high tolerance for taking a punch. It's called having a "tough chin". Even that considered it's still good to train good defense. Why take a punch when you don't have to tough chin or not?
I think that has more to do with genetics and the brain fluid in the skull. People with "tough chins" who get knocked out a few times end up losing their tough chin and getting glass jaws. I wouldn't take a punch to the jaw even if my jaw was literally steel because it's still a lever that rattles the brain.
@FuriousJesse It's more then a few times that makes it a glass jaw. It is quite a bit that they have to get rocked to lose that iron chin. Now if we're talking middle ground, then yeah they would lose it much faster.
Ive always been the small guy compared to people i have fought all but two have been about 6ft pr tall 180lbs to about 280lbs while im only 5'9 1/2" 145 to 165lbs if i got big so im just used to harder hits
like the thumbnail tribute to 80's JCVD! 👍
Hi man, like your knowledge and wisdom specially with Jack Dempsey tips, I bought the book from your recommendation, it’s a Gem to be quite honest. There is a golden tip for taking a hit in the jaw. BITE YOUR TEETH, that makes the jaw a lot compact and stronger. That’s what Oscar Dela Hoya have mastered, that’s also the reason why he didn’t get knocked out cold his career. Just a little tip, hope it helps 🙏🏽
Wrestlers are CRAZY strong guys!
"Chew on some wood son..."
Fucking brutal. 😂
Great vid mate
Fight, flight, freeze and fawn. Psychologically speaking.
I would like to get your opinion on whether handstand pushups are more beneficial for boxing than regular pushups. One of my strength and conditioning trainers thinks regular pushups are better but I have seen videos of a Ukrainian Heavyweight boxer named Alexander Usyk doing alot of handstand workouts.
What do you think?
Is it possible to strengthen the ribs? Lower ribs are quite fragile
I enjoy your content Ramsey-san
"please don't try!"
What are your thoughts on iron body training? I've done many years of it and I've been taught to breath in and drop your body weight, creating a sort of pressurisation with the diaphragm, contracting your core. Core is 90% of my training.
I've also noticed though how quickly I've come to be able to recover over the years from the shots that I wasn't ready for. I believe you can condition your organs for impacts. I think the organs becoming denser, more rubbery. Better at absorption.
Just curious if you'd looked into, or trained anything iron body, wise.
Every competent fighter times their breathing and abdominal contractions to take body shots. I don’t personally know anyone who calls it iron body training.
We sometimes train technic so one guy will hold the high guard and the other one does a combo. Now my question is taking many hits against the high cause brain damage because your hands still are on the head
You should have more subscribers bro. Well, you got one now. Appreciate everything you do! Keep up the videos!
One question for you - what's your age at the moment?
I’ll be 40 in September
Ty
Okay so I took Jiu Jitsu and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and we never started on a knees or bottom form we would always transition into from stand up to take down the submissions
Can you show us some effective moves that you think will work in a self defence senerio :)
i always found the hit i couldnt condition for was the hit i couldn't see coming. those always messed me up.. sidenote, i think the mouth guard with a string to a weight is a neck work out, not jaw, but maybe i misunderstood
Quick question: Wouldn't strengthening your neck be a great way to make it more difficult for punches to spin that chin you call "a lever" ? I've heard that your neck is a shock absorber and so strengthening it will prevent knockouts from occurring easily.
It won’t make you worse. Deadlifts are great for you- neck included.
@@RamseyDewey First off, Merry Christmas! I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am.
Yesterday, just 4 hours before having a Christmas party with my family, I was able to complete 625 pushups in an hour. I have been doing as many squats and pushups as I can to failure 2-4 times a week. I'm aiming to do 1000 pushups in an hour or 2.
I had recently watched a video about an Indian catch wrestling legend by the name of 'Great Gama' who trained by doing 3000 to 5000 handstand pushups daily. It's said that he won 5000 matches without losing. Are handstand pushups extremely beneficial for wrestling? Does it strengthen your upper body to the point you're able to throw guys around much easier?