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Love the channel, and love that you’re bringing awareness to busters like coach zero. I have had no less than 3 concussions from high school football, and I no doubt have got a form of brain damage due to head trauma and I know the damage that it can cause. Thank you for what you do!
@@McDojoLife no worries, it’s my pleasure. Oh and to let you know that I watched the whole video, my background is that I dabbled in Tae Kwon Do when I was a kid , and later in some Wu Shu, then high school wrestling. But I studied boxing, wrestling, jui-jitsu, Muay Thai and combatives for about 17 years, and I competed in amateur MMA for a couple of years, 6 fights total, 2W-4L .
When are people going to realize that you absolutely can NOT toughen up the skull with impact the same way you can your arms and legs without causing compounding brain damage!
You can toughen the skull by doing pressure exercises. Just place the forehead on a wall the hands behind the back and roll it slowly on the wall. This will thicken the skin and desensitize the skull. The brain on the other is a gelatinous organ with the consistency of hard pudding no way to go around this.
Right?! The way bones toughen up through impact is by causing fractures and then those fractures heal and add bone density. Doing that to the skull is going to cause multiple concussions as your brain bounces off the inside of the skull like a pinball!
Let’s just take a moment that Mcdojos editing skill have been proving over the years. Newer videos like this look much better and have some comedic outlets to help lighten the mood in sometimes heavy topics. Great video
In 1990 I was 9 years old and enrolled in my 1st TKD class. Hooked ever since. Nov 2001 I signed with an outreach program to teach TKD in various churches and recreation centers here in my city. Sadly I'm now 40 years old with congestive heart failure, can't work out as hard as I want to, but I still teach because it what I love doing.
I was a lawyer for about 20 years. At 45, I retired for health reasons - fat, anxious, stressed, and depressed. Began training MMA to improve my health and started a charity for terminally ill children (Doernbechers Children's Hospital Foundation). People would donate based on weight lost or simply made a contribution. I had the opportunity to train with Team Quest in Tualatin, OR with the support of Chael Sonnen. I had 5 amateur fights while with Team Quest and Animals Martial Arts (under Enoch "the Animal" Wilson). We collected around $5,000.00 for Doernbechers. Now, I am a purple belt at Impact Jiu Jitsu in Clackamas, Oregon under Professor Michael Chapman. Thank you for exposing these people that jeopardize their students and give martial arts a bad name.
30 years of Karate (about 10 years of teaching), lots of dabbling in other Martial Arts but no gradings (outside Karate). Yeah this kind of training is just nuts - you can't condition your brain. Head contact should always be minimal and light unless you're competing for money. That's the only time it's worth the health risk - and even then I would strongly encourage mouth guards, Vaseline and headgear.
Damage to the brain can also be a long, slow process. Repeated trauma stacks up over time, so some of his students may already pay for this "training" in 20 years time and be completely unaware of it now. In soccer over here in the UK, heading the ball during training has been limited for both kids and adult training, following a series of studies linking repeated heading of the ball and development of dementia in later life. Heading a ball isn't exactly the same as getting punched in the face either.
@@richardg8376 You are right there. There is a very prominent case ruclips.net/video/S5OUt53-6YM/видео.html Gary Goodridge. What they are doing is just madness.
Grew up in a tough neighborhood and fought a lot (stupidly) as a kid... then I wrestled in high school. So not much training, but I am a firefighter/paramedic with an understanding of trauma physics and allowing this abuse on your students... as well as them accepting it is crazy!!! Thanks for what you do.
Goju karate for 13 years, now sniffing around BJJ dojos in my new town. McDojoLife is always a cozy watch, can't wait for the documentary. Keep up the good fight as always!
It scares me that there are still Instructors like this all over the world, hell there are even several I can think of in England 🇬🇧 hopefully with you and others like you highlighting these unsafe practices things will get better for the uninitiated that it's wrong. 40 years in mainly Japanese martial arts as a student 24 as an instructor, and 10 years learning assorted fma but become a ptta student strictly for the last 2 years
@@leodouskyron5671 BRO. Frank Dux is like Steven Seagal if Steven Seagal was as good as Frank Dux. With a little Sprinkle of George on him. Hidden Ninja Death Fight in the forest champion. Fuck the UFC. Blood Sport FTW. Real power. Frank Dux 4lyfe. Hasthag Death Touch. Hashtag Chi Power. Hashtag Count Dante. Hashtag Your Mom.
@@Dazzletrain Look at the end of the video. I mean go to the end of it to see what I am talking about. It has nothing to do about what you are talking about - I even gave you a thumbs up 👍🏿. Return the thumbs up when you see what I mean.
Just found your channel and love it! I boxed & did jujitsu for 2 years, with 2 exhibitions. I wasnt very good but always said i could take a punch... until i detached a retina. I quit after that. Great channel man!
Good for you! I’m glad you found a martial art that you love and that you have good instructors. Ignore any negative comments from others. They are just unhappy people.
Hi Kodi. I’m going to address your comment in two parts. First is regarding the psychological component of a practice such as Krav Maga. Firstly, I am a woman. No matter how much I work to build my body, I will ALWAYS be smaller and weaker than the average man. My body is a playground, an opportunity, for a bad man. People often talk about the “fight or flight” response, but I want to talk about a third one: “fawn/freeze.” My reaction over the years has ALWAYS been to freeze and try to make friends with my attacker out of fear. My goal in Krav is not to become the biggest meanest baddest person around impermeable to harm. That would be futile. My goal is to retrain the response so that my first reaction is to defend myself. Not to put up with it anymore. The plain truth is that when a man puts his hands on me without my permission, he has lost the privilege to be treated kindly. But after a lifetime of being told to sit down, shut up, and “be a lady,” I’m done. I’m tired of the bs and I’m tired of not standing up for myself. My goal is one of mental strength and courage in the face of those things I fear. It’s also been an opportunity for me to face these traumas in a controlled setting so that I can process and work through them. Secondly I would like to address the culture surrounding the attitude of “this martial art is better than that one” or “this school is better than that school.” Listen, everyone who enters a martial arts studio is looking for something different. That 54 year old guy that just started Tae Kwon Do? He wants to stay in shape so he can pick up and play with his grandchildren. That 7 year old girl who just started karate? Her mom wants to instill confidence and strength in her. All martial arts (and yes, I know Krav is not technically a martial art) have their place, and therefore their own validity. Taking martial arts does not mean that the student wants to be an MMA fighter, or Bruce Lee, or even wants to compete. Given the state of the world, I would encourage anyone who wants to adopt a discipline and move their body to improve their health to do so. Thank you.
Thank you for pointing this stuff out! I've been training for 16 years now, starting in Tang Soo Do then kickboxing and now I teach Taekwondo specifically for kickboxing and self-defense.
I respect this project man, keep it up. I started doing Hapkido around age 6, but quit and didn’t do anything until age 12 when I got into karate and I’ve been doing it ever since (I’m 21 now)
To answer the end of video question, I train in ITF Taekwondo, and have been going for two and a half years now. I found your comments about how the students in the first clip aren't wearing headgear interesting. When my dojang introduces the students to sparring, the instructors explain the purpose of the headgear. We kick and hit to the head in sparing with light contact, and so many of the newer students assume the headgear is to protect the head from the strike. This is partially true, however, the main purpose of this gear is to protect from fall impact! I can't imagine sparring outside on concrete and not protecting my head! Thanks for posting these videos. As a newer martial arts student, I find all this information interesting and helpful! I lucked out and ended up in a good dojang, but when I started, I had very little idea of what I should be looking for, aside from the Chi/Kiai kind of BS. I am now confident that I do not have McDojo! Keep up the work, I think it is very important to do this kind of thing.
Yeah, hitting like that in training is totally insane. Background is 10 years of Shotokan, stopped for almost 20 and just picked it back up a month ago. Glad you confronted him. Hopefully his students realize how crazy he is!
Been doing martial arts in general for 14 years. I started out in karate, Shotokan (still do it and teach it today) and I still train in kickboxing and MMA. I did a few amateur MMA Fights but I retired from fighting.
Totally , this is bonkers! I can’t even think of *why* you could possibly do such a thing (apart from you hating your students, of course. Then again - if so - one should probably do something else for a hobby than martial arts/combat sports. Model railways, perhaps?) I started doing boxing 34 years ago and have been on/off at it since then. Currently - I train (personally) to keep fit and for the social aspect of it. I started to coach grown up beginners last week. (Oh, and I’m Swedish - sorry for my bad English.) Thank you so much, Rob, for you efforts keeping the martial arts legit.
Instructors like this have a bully mentality that is driven by ego and it's the worst. When I briefly attempted to learn ninjutsu, the senpai would bully the women students in the class to the point they wouldn't come back. When I called him out on it, he got all up in my face claiming that he was trying to make them stronger and then attempted to fight me. So of course I didn't go back. Any instructor who would just tee off on a student for any reason, especially so called "conditioning" doesn't know the first thing about instructing. Conditioning should come from the training and the sparring and the partner exercises, it doesn't come from this. I know of people who have ended up with hernias because of going through "conditioning" like this. If an instructor ever does this to you, don't go back. This is assault and risking your health in any way just isn't worth it. Even MMA and other fighters who risk their health in their sport are getting paid to take calculated risks. Background: started with traditional Japanese jujutsu. Learned some mixed combatives taken from different traditional martial arts. Mostly weapon based training these days in historical sabre disciplines and HEMA. Been training for three decades.
I did JKD for a few months, did BJJ for a couple of years, one year each in 2 different gyms, cause I had to move. I haven't been to a gym since quarantine, but there's one nearby where I live that does Kickboxing and No Gi Jiu-jitsu that I need go to. I miss the training 😔. Thank you for sharing ☺️.
Thank you for your videos. I have about 8 years of training in ITF taekwondo. This "coach" is nuts. Having his students just taking head shots is so freaking dangerous. Especially with the power he puts into it. This guy needs to be run out of town.
Always love your content........and this is just insane. He is not only putting his students in an injury situation but he also lied to you every time you called him out.
my martial arts background is "a while in kenpo karate as a kid" and then starting BJJ as an adult, currently 3 stripe white belt :P that said, I suffered a very complicated TBI during construction as a teenager, and have had life-long mental echoes of it - physically, I appear fine. but it had a long lasting impact on my mood (much more easily prone to depression) and short term memory issues. it's gotten a bit better over the years, but it's still hard. so seeing this kind of abuse sickens me.
Awesome video, and this guy is ridiculous. My martial art is Jiu Jitsu, Under Andre Galvao ATOS, my professor is Marlon Loor Vera , and I’m currently a blue belt
I had never been in trouble or had any problems with my attitude or temper before 2013. A drunk driver hit me in the head with his f-150 mirror at 50 mph. Since then I have been arrested for assault 3 times. I struggle daily with losing my cool and memory issues. It's 2022 and I'm still severely effected by it. Thanks to starting combat sports I've managed to stop getting locked up, but a tbi will change you forever. My memory is fucked and I've lost over a year and a half of my life due to my tbi causing personality changes.
Damn man, that's messed up. I hope the driver was caught. I wound up with seizures from brain injuries my self, so I definitely understand the effect brain damage can have on your daily life.
I did shotokan for 15 years, some kyokushun, mma and finally Enshin karate. Was actually getting ready to open my own school but a shitty chiropractor ruptured 2 of my discs, so I haven’t trained in 6 years now, to say I miss it is the understatement of the century 😭
Being in martial arts and biomedical research I looked pretty deep into the combat sport tbi research and man do videos like this scare me. 6 years of Muay Thai and BJJ, also did about 10 years of TKD growing up :)
After dabbling in other martial arts from the age of 16, I signed up for Shotokan karate in 1993 at the age of 21. I've been with the same Shotokan club since 1993 and have now been teaching for 9 years. I have competed at State and National level (in Australia) and represented my country in overseas tournaments with successes resulting in international silver and bronze medals. I retired from competition fighting in 2019 after winning bronze in kumite in Japan. Required knee surgery in 2020, but pushed hard to get back into training. Now I teach, coach and referee, with the occasional training sessions with my Shihan to keep me honest. Currently, I'm 3rd Dan. Plus, I started BJJ last year. Still white belt. Still loving it.
1st degree black belt in Shotokan, 2nd degree black belt in Okinawan karate, 1st degree black belt in Tae Kwon do, MMA, self taught as a kid until i was 16 then started Shotokan and went from there, military combat, now a defensive tactics instructor (GST, Controlled Force) for the agency i work at...
2 years late but still answering the end of video question... I don't know If I could consider this a background, but I've done 2 years of Thai boxing and loved it, and I'm about to start doing HEMA, though I don't think that falls under what one would normally consider 'martial arts' in the traditional sense. Super excited about it though and I'll see where that journey takes me! As always, thanks for the videos and keep up the good work!
hey Rob love all your videos, my name is Greg and I've been training in various martial arts for about a decade, a little bit of muay thai, taekwondo, BJJ, and a few years of baguazhang kung fu. Currently training in traditional goju ryu karate. Please keep up your awesome work!
I'm pretty sure repeated trauma to the head only achieves the opposite of the effect that fraud is selling his students. What do I know though. Ive only trained traditional martial art for eight years(specifically shotokan and shaolin Kempo) and have been training mixed martial arts for the past two years. Its a pleasure as always Rob. I really appreciate the work you do.
When the bully is your trainer... I've been practicing shotokan karate for 25 years, then i discovered bjj and judo, but at the moment i cannot practice due to injury, bad thing aging, i really loved to discover this 2 martial arts when i was younger!
I am training MMA, BJJ, kickboxing and wrestling for about 12 years now and I had good and bad coaches and I have never seen any of them doing anything similar. I trained on concrete once or twice in one gym, but it was only cardio or stand up technique, nothing that could lead to falling and injuring yourself.
19 years in karate, about 6 years in American Kempo karate/kickboxing and 13 years in my current school, American Ching-Sai-Do, which is basically just Goju-ryu with kicking from taekwondo and small circle jiu-jitsu as that's what my instructor has studied and ranked in i also have been taking BJJ and some balintawak and Muay Thai classes on the side, I'm actually testing for my 3rd dan in 2 weeks!
30 years- 3rd degree black belt in Shotokhan, Judo Black Belt, Purple Belt in BJJ. My love for Martial Arts Runs deep, I started at 6. All my years of injuries caught up to me so I don’t get to train BJJ like I used to train. I’m not sure I’ll move past Purple belt.
Wrestled in middle school, high school and some college. 1st degree Kenpo Karate Black Belt, been training since 2016. BJJ blue belt, training since 2020.
I started with grecco roman when i was 7 years old. Stopped training wrestling officially when i was 13. Started with boxing when i was 15 but only trained a year. Did Light kickboxing when i was 18-20. Trained mma for 6 months but got banned for getting into arguments with strangers on facebook. I have been a goalkeeper in football (soccer) for 25 years. I am 32. Martial arts has always been a part of my every day life, i have only listed the time i have been training at an official gym. In my spare time, on my own, i have obsessively been training my kick and strikes for many many years and I am, according to my experience, far better then most people when it comes to slowing down time in heated situations.
The reason I don’t want to fight professionally is because I don’t want brain damage. This guy is accelerating the brain damage to his students. I started training BJJ and some kickboxing May of last year.
I have no interest in being a fighter. I do BJJ and striking classes because they're fun and good exercise. I may eventually move up to occasional hard sparring, because I want to be able to use it for self defense, so I don't want to be afraid of getting hit, but even that is a long way off. I haven't even gotten the basics down yet.
I have been training in one kind of martial art or another for just shy of 2 decades. I started in Tang Soo Do as a child. As a preteen I left my Tang Soo Do studio and started training at an MMA gym. I spent a few years at the MMA gym training in Boxing and No-Gi BJJ while wrestling for my middle school. After my time at the MMA gym, I transitioned to a dedicated Muay Thai gym while I continued to wrestle throughout early high school. I stopped wrestling after someone dropped a knee on my hand and broke it, and I transitioned to training in Muay Thai full time. I had a few amateur Muay Thai fights in my last couple years of high school and have been keeping up with my Muay Thai as best I can throughout college as there is no Muay Thai (or boxing) near my college. Once I am living in a place with Muay Thai again, I intend to continue my training with proper coaching. It feels a bit foolish to even say this, but I don’t think it is ever acceptable for a coach to be striking a student outside of a sparring setting, and even in sparring, I feel that if the coach is going to spar they should go light as they are most likely much more technically proficient than the vast majority, if not all, of their students.
Started Martial arts 9yrs ago and during that time I've went around & trained at every martial arts club in my local area, I've done Judo mixed with Kempo Karate, Taekwondo, BJJ, some Boxing.
I do light sparring with my adult students on concrete but that's mainly because I've been teaching from home during Covid. We NEVER try to KO each other. I NEVER try to KO them. It's strictly light sparring for reps, timing, fighting on a different surface, fighting with shoes on , etc.. Even our clinch grappling is focused on position and set up, not executing the throw but getting to the position and resetting. It's a fun and safe way to train clinch grappling when you don't have mats available. As an instructor, the safety of my students is the MOST important thing! As my Grand Master always said, "Without you, there's no me." Train hard. Stay Safe! Ooss!!
@@McDojoLife You'd have to see it to understand what I'm talking about (in terms of intensity) but you are right, there is some inherent risk. Accidents do happen. I'm in the process of bringing mats over so we can grapple more so I may use them for stand up sparring as well.
Hey, just saw this video even though you posted it a year ago. Yes everything you said is spot on. I have been training in Muay Thai for going on six years and before that I was a practitioner and instructor of Taekwondo (and a smattering of other martial arts under my belt). He appears to be just competent enough, he is still a sub par instructor who is getting off on the power he has over others (cult indeed)
Yo I watched n I love da videos. I started martial arts with boxing as my base, started cross training karate and boxing as a six-year-old and was actually allowed to spar (no head shots)! Eventually, I had stopped training karate after reaching orange belt because I had to move, but I never stopped training boxing. My dad was a boxer (boxed on US Navy team) and a blue belt in BJJ. He was my primary coach for boxing and showed me a few tricks from BJJ but I never wanted to sign up as a kid because I ain't like the idea of rolling at the time. My dad passed and I stopped training everything. I ain't even pick up boxing again until I was 18, and then I picked up general MMA where I was taught kickboxing in a hybrid style (Muay Thai influence). I train lightly but regularly, always looking at martial arts from a coach's perspective too.
backgroud: karate blackbelt, some boxing/kickboxing. a few years of judo, same for gracie bjj, jjj, wing chun, wrestling & tang soo do. brown belt in kali arnis eskrima
Did Tae Keon Do and Karate as a kid, boxed in college and the army and then started judo. I did some MMA seminars with Bas Rutten and Chute Boxe, then started training BJJ and Muay Thai in 2007. I received the fourth stripe on my purple belt and then about four months later our gym closed due to COVID. I’ve since moved and teach at a local school three nights a week and look forward to my next move bringing me close to a real school again so I can complete my journey.
This makes me really appreciate the coaches I had growing up. They were always quick to pull us up on unsafe practices, no matter how many dumbass teenage stunts we pulled. Folkstyle wrestling, 3 years.
Unfortunately i got in late. Ive started going to the boxing gym since mid 2019 at the age of 35, have been going consistently ever since, 5 days a week. Have also been able to take some mma n muay Thai classes when my schedule alows, not enough tho. Not nearly enough. Sure wish id started anything when i was young
Preach. In well managed and quality training, it's still easy to get serious injuries. I can see some half power body shots with gloves, but this stuff is ridiculous. My background is 30 yrs of martial arts. 2nd Dan Shotokan, 6th Dan Shin Shin Mugendo, Purple Belt BJJ (where I spend most my time these days). Spent 8 yrs training MuyThai as well as dabbling in other systems along the way
The way I see it, boxing sparring is excellent training, with the one downside being that you will accumulate punches to the head. If you decide that 'x' number of head-shots over 'y' years is what you're prepared to accept for the value of that training, then you don't really want to waste 'x' just LETTING someone punch you in the head for no reason. [Ah now I see why the comments are full of people giving their MA backgrounds 😄 ]
This guy is a cult leader and he hits his students like this for power and control thru fear. BTW: I’ve been training in martial arts since 1997 and although I train/trained in MMA I have not competed. Just didn’t have the opportunity until recently but can’t get licensed to fight due to my age (52) and a previous neck surgery. Now I train for self defense and work (Corrections). ALWAYS train safely and live/pressure test everything so you don’t get clapped trying to look cool. Deus Vult
I was training with Michael venom Page’s father in the early 80s. A student fell back and hit his head on the floor mocking another student who had done the same few minutes earlier, unfortunately he died shortly after.
@@pavlovsdogman two guys were sparring on mats. When the match finished one guy pretended he was so exhausted he fell backwards on the mats for a joke. Next match another guy did the same but head missed the mat and hit the hard floor! We all laughed until we realised he was badly injured 🤕🥲. I was around ten or eleven at the time.
@@silverfox8801 Jesus! That's a disturbing thing for a kid to see? It shows how easy a little mistake can take your life when it comes to brain injuries!
Started karate (goju-ryu) as a kid and revisited as an adult for 8 years collectively, and then started BJJ in Nov 2015 but haven't really trained much over the past 2 or so years due to covid, finances and health issues; so yeah Karate and BJJ. I've seen these videos of this fucking douchebag doing this elsewhere and its absolutely absurd and insane. I'm not in the field since graduating 3 years back but have a bachelors degree in Sports Therapy and studied pain within BJJ practitioners specifically in my 3rd year, as well as injuries and their occurrences for combat sports/martial arts in my 2nd year. It was crazy how much of the research is head related. Especially scary when you start looking into TBI and CTE complications.
Started doing Karate in 97 until 2000-2001 during 1st-4th grade, returned to karate i was 18, stoped because of professional reasons. While away for 4 years i tried kickboxing for 4 months and boxing for 5 months before covid. And last year 2021 returned to karate because i missed training that martial art and im still doing it today. And recently i signed up to a free traffic gym where they train combat sports (boxing, kickboxing, muay thai and bjj). So yeah, i love A LOT of martial arts and combat sports, so i cant do just one.
finally subscribed. i've watched a few of your videos but i already have a bunch of subbed channels. it takes something outstanding to get me to actually subscribe. i agree with you on this guy. i trained for about 15 years before i got injured in a MVA and was no longer able. NEVER have i seen the level of irresponsibility as with this guy. i do understand the idea of toughness training but what this guy is doing is just downright abuse.
I’ve been training Kickboxing and Muay Thai for the last 10 years. BJJ and wrestling for the last three as I have transitioned to MMA competitions. I’ve also taught for many years and it really concerns me to see people out there like this calling themselves coaches. Most of the people you break down are full of shit but are all in all “harmless” with their chi KOs haha. This guy on the other hand is 100% doing to permanently hurt someone or worse. I hope this gets stopped. Thanks for your continued hard work @McDojoLife
Martial arts background: 20 + years. Mainly Kali and Kickboxing. Agree with everything you've said. Hitting your students full power to the head is abuse, not training. Doing it on concrete is playing Russian Roulette with your student's lives. A great uncle of mine killed a man in a street fight; knocked him out with a single punch and the guy struck his head on the pavement.
When you join a gym or dojo you are trusting your instructor to not only teach you good stuff but to keep you safe, this is a complete betrayal of that trust. I have been training in RyuKyu Kempo for the last 4 years and hold a brown belt, testing for shodan this summer.
Background is fairly diverse, but primary training is Filipino Martial Arts and I've been training in that for about 6 years now. But been training in martial arts since 2008.
Love the camouflage gi, started with wrestling when I was 6, went over wing tsun to Kali/escrima and then to Muay boran, still practice escrima and Muay boran to date, I am 43 now and thinking to pick up jiu jitsu but there are no schools nearby 🥴, clearly watched to the end
I'd love to see you review some vintage martial arts footage. My Dad trained Judo at the Kodokan in Japan, taught me. In HS (84-88)I took TKD (chung do kwan style) until brown belt. College studied Aikido/aikijujitsu (91-96) from a decent instructor, moved and took my black belt test from one of those feather touch chi bullshit schools. Got my black belt and put it in the closet, went and trained Lohan Chuan style (2007-2012) Kung Fu from a great school. Did six months of BJJ and one year of Taijitsu.
no formal training, just years and years of being in rough environments, working bars, private security, picking up what i could when i could from ppl that had training. iv lost a few , won a bunch , made a bit of cash, only got hurt badly once when i was slamed on my head at 19 or 20 and iv needed glasses ever since, some thing definitely got rattled., how ever now at 43 my body definitely feels the years of fighting. but still going strong, rarely get into fights now, but does happen living were i am living, thankfully i fight smart now and the young kids here just swing wide and run at you. so im not getting hurt,
Still floors me to think *falling* in a fight is the most likely thing to kill you. Did TKD and aikido actively for about 8 years each, done a smattering of BJJ. I work with an old-school JKD & MMA guy these days. I'd love to try out catch wrestling once all -this- clears up.
Kickboxing, ju jitsu, karate for little over 20 years. Also a level 2 Army Combatives instructor with a MACP tournament record of 10 wins 2 loses. Can you make a video on the King of the Streets fights? Curious to hear you commentary on these fights being that they fight on concrete.
5 years TKD and 2 years Judo. Love how he says he wasn’t actually hitting his students but you can see the body flex to protect every hit. His students must be really great actors then.
Absolutely disgusting! Sickens me to see this kind of abuse. He will seriously hurt someone someday. My background is JKD, 17 years. As always, thanks for the great content.
I'm just a guy who loves martial arts, and I've been training for fitness for about five years. Though in the past I did Judo for a couple years, and so I'll say that the students are lucky he wasn't THROWING them on concrete. Then again, if he had done that he'd be in jail...
5 years of Capoeira and 3 years of Brazillian Jiujitsu. Plus a little bit of muay thai and freestyle wrestling, but usually just occasional workshops hosted at the gym.
Is he trying to condition their head to take a punch? Absolutely stupid to spar on concrete. Seriously doubt his fight records. To show I watch your videos till the end: I started martial arts 25 years ago with Tae Kwon Do. However, now I’m currently a student of NSI and I also train in Pekiti-Tirsia Kali. I gave up sport/competition style fighting all together.
23 yars of martial arts experience in Jeet Kune Do, Muay Thai, and kickboxing with a national Muay Thai championship (Chile) won back in 2015. I have NEVER being hit like that by a coach, nor seen anyone doing so. At most, my M Thai teacher hitted us sumetimes with low kicks while we received them properly to get used to them and always under control.
I’m pretty new to martial arts, I’ve been training in Jugoshin Ryu JuJutsu under Brandon Hetzler Sensei for a little over a year, thinking you can condition the head is insane. We do conditioning once in a while but never ever think about attempting to condition the head, especially on concrete. That “instructor” is just negligent.
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Love the channel, and love that you’re bringing awareness to busters like coach zero. I have had no less than 3 concussions from high school football, and I no doubt have got a form of brain damage due to head trauma and I know the damage that it can cause. Thank you for what you do!
@@robertnguyen9493 thank you for the support
@@McDojoLife no worries, it’s my pleasure. Oh and to let you know that I watched the whole video, my background is that I dabbled in Tae Kwon Do when I was a kid , and later in some Wu Shu, then high school wrestling. But I studied boxing, wrestling, jui-jitsu, Muay Thai and combatives for about 17 years, and I competed in amateur MMA for a couple of years, 6 fights total, 2W-4L .
When are people going to realize that you absolutely can NOT toughen up the skull with impact the same way you can your arms and legs without causing compounding brain damage!
Not true! My head got way tougher with... with... with... what were we talking about? What is this place? What time is it? Wha...
@@MrUbikkk yep.
You can toughen the skull by doing pressure exercises. Just place the forehead on a wall the hands behind the back and roll it slowly on the wall.
This will thicken the skin and desensitize the skull.
The brain on the other is a gelatinous organ with the consistency of hard pudding no way to go around this.
Right?! The way bones toughen up through impact is by causing fractures and then those fractures heal and add bone density. Doing that to the skull is going to cause multiple concussions as your brain bounces off the inside of the skull like a pinball!
That’s just basic biology knowledge. But some people have muscles in their cranium rather than brains.
Let’s just take a moment that Mcdojos editing skill have been proving over the years. Newer videos like this look much better and have some comedic outlets to help lighten the mood in sometimes heavy topics. Great video
Thank you for that. Trying hard to make it better daily
frankly I think there's too many pop culture references
@@JohnRBIV Yup I agree, i don't like it. Ruins the continuity of the video.
@@JohnRBIV you’re welcome
It sucks these clowns still exist. Thank you for exposing them, hopefully it helps people choose a good gym
They will ALWAYS exist. People are stupid and/or gullible.
Dudes like that piss me off. He is treating those men like stage props.
I’m a Taekwondo blackbelt. I’ve been in Taekwondo for six years. Great video, expose these damn frauds!!!!!
Hang on a second... do you spar against resisting opponents? Please say yes, or shut the hell up, you're one of them.
Yeah
In 1990 I was 9 years old and enrolled in my 1st TKD class. Hooked ever since. Nov 2001 I signed with an outreach program to teach TKD in various churches and recreation centers here in my city. Sadly I'm now 40 years old with congestive heart failure, can't work out as hard as I want to, but I still teach because it what I love doing.
You’re doing an amazing thing! Gd bless you!
I'm so sorry about your heart condition bro 💗 Beat wish's and God bless. Do what you can as long as you can
I was a lawyer for about 20 years. At 45, I retired for health reasons - fat, anxious, stressed, and depressed. Began training MMA to improve my health and started a charity for terminally ill children (Doernbechers Children's Hospital Foundation). People would donate based on weight lost or simply made a contribution. I had the opportunity to train with Team Quest in Tualatin, OR with the support of Chael Sonnen. I had 5 amateur fights while with Team Quest and Animals Martial Arts (under Enoch "the Animal" Wilson). We collected around $5,000.00 for Doernbechers. Now, I am a purple belt at Impact Jiu Jitsu in Clackamas, Oregon under Professor Michael Chapman. Thank you for exposing these people that jeopardize their students and give martial arts a bad name.
I have been training muay thai for 3 years! I love it and couldnt be happier
Very realistic fighting art. I love it too.
30 years of Karate (about 10 years of teaching), lots of dabbling in other Martial Arts but no gradings (outside Karate). Yeah this kind of training is just nuts - you can't condition your brain. Head contact should always be minimal and light unless you're competing for money. That's the only time it's worth the health risk - and even then I would strongly encourage mouth guards, Vaseline and headgear.
Damage to the brain can also be a long, slow process. Repeated trauma stacks up over time, so some of his students may already pay for this "training" in 20 years time and be completely unaware of it now.
In soccer over here in the UK, heading the ball during training has been limited for both kids and adult training, following a series of studies linking repeated heading of the ball and development of dementia in later life. Heading a ball isn't exactly the same as getting punched in the face either.
@@richardg8376 You are right there. There is a very prominent case ruclips.net/video/S5OUt53-6YM/видео.html
Gary Goodridge. What they are doing is just madness.
For money, that's not martial arts, for self-defence, and real life.
Can you imagine the damage in MMA!
Why would a history of karate qualify you to comment on contact sports?
Grew up in a tough neighborhood and fought a lot (stupidly) as a kid... then I wrestled in high school. So not much training, but I am a firefighter/paramedic with an understanding of trauma physics and allowing this abuse on your students... as well as them accepting it is crazy!!! Thanks for what you do.
Goju karate for 13 years, now sniffing around BJJ dojos in my new town.
McDojoLife is always a cozy watch, can't wait for the documentary. Keep up the good fight as always!
It scares me that there are still Instructors like this all over the world, hell there are even several I can think of in England 🇬🇧 hopefully with you and others like you highlighting these unsafe practices things will get better for the uninitiated that it's wrong. 40 years in mainly Japanese martial arts as a student 24 as an instructor, and 10 years learning assorted fma but become a ptta student strictly for the last 2 years
YES! A Frank Dux rating system!!!!
I guess you did not get to the end?
@@leodouskyron5671 BRO. Frank Dux is like Steven Seagal if Steven Seagal was as good as Frank Dux. With a little Sprinkle of George on him. Hidden Ninja Death Fight in the forest champion. Fuck the UFC. Blood Sport FTW. Real power. Frank Dux 4lyfe. Hasthag Death Touch. Hashtag Chi Power. Hashtag Count Dante. Hashtag Your Mom.
@@Dazzletrain Look at the end of the video. I mean go to the end of it to see what I am talking about. It has nothing to do about what you are talking about - I even gave you a thumbs up 👍🏿. Return the thumbs up when you see what I mean.
@@leodouskyron5671 Hashtag DeathTouch Hashtag 1inchpunch
Just found your channel and love it! I boxed & did jujitsu for 2 years, with 2 exhibitions. I wasnt very good but always said i could take a punch... until i detached a retina. I quit after that. Great channel man!
Been training Krav for about 9 months. Absolutely LOVE it, and appreciate the hell out of my instructors because they put student safety first.
Good for you! I’m glad you found a martial art that you love and that you have good instructors. Ignore any negative comments from others. They are just unhappy people.
Hi Kodi. I’m going to address your comment in two parts. First is regarding the psychological component of a practice such as Krav Maga. Firstly, I am a woman. No matter how much I work to build my body, I will ALWAYS be smaller and weaker than the average man. My body is a playground, an opportunity, for a bad man. People often talk about the “fight or flight” response, but I want to talk about a third one: “fawn/freeze.” My reaction over the years has ALWAYS been to freeze and try to make friends with my attacker out of fear. My goal in Krav is not to become the biggest meanest baddest person around impermeable to harm. That would be futile. My goal is to retrain the response so that my first reaction is to defend myself. Not to put up with it anymore. The plain truth is that when a man puts his hands on me without my permission, he has lost the privilege to be treated kindly. But after a lifetime of being told to sit down, shut up, and “be a lady,” I’m done. I’m tired of the bs and I’m tired of not standing up for myself. My goal is one of mental strength and courage in the face of those things I fear. It’s also been an opportunity for me to face these traumas in a controlled setting so that I can process and work through them.
Secondly I would like to address the culture surrounding the attitude of “this martial art is better than that one” or “this school is better than that school.” Listen, everyone who enters a martial arts studio is looking for something different. That 54 year old guy that just started Tae Kwon Do? He wants to stay in shape so he can pick up and play with his grandchildren. That 7 year old girl who just started karate? Her mom wants to instill confidence and strength in her. All martial arts (and yes, I know Krav is not technically a martial art) have their place, and therefore their own validity. Taking martial arts does not mean that the student wants to be an MMA fighter, or Bruce Lee, or even wants to compete. Given the state of the world, I would encourage anyone who wants to adopt a discipline and move their body to improve their health to do so.
Thank you.
Thank you for pointing this stuff out! I've been training for 16 years now, starting in Tang Soo Do then kickboxing and now I teach Taekwondo specifically for kickboxing and self-defense.
I respect this project man, keep it up.
I started doing Hapkido around age 6, but quit and didn’t do anything until age 12 when I got into karate and I’ve been doing it ever since (I’m 21 now)
Thanks Rob for your contribution to the martial arts community. My background is Jiu Jitsu and have been training for almost 4 years!
To answer the end of video question, I train in ITF Taekwondo, and have been going for two and a half years now. I found your comments about how the students in the first clip aren't wearing headgear interesting. When my dojang introduces the students to sparring, the instructors explain the purpose of the headgear. We kick and hit to the head in sparing with light contact, and so many of the newer students assume the headgear is to protect the head from the strike. This is partially true, however, the main purpose of this gear is to protect from fall impact! I can't imagine sparring outside on concrete and not protecting my head! Thanks for posting these videos. As a newer martial arts student, I find all this information interesting and helpful! I lucked out and ended up in a good dojang, but when I started, I had very little idea of what I should be looking for, aside from the Chi/Kiai kind of BS. I am now confident that I do not have McDojo! Keep up the work, I think it is very important to do this kind of thing.
Yeah, hitting like that in training is totally insane. Background is 10 years of Shotokan, stopped for almost 20 and just picked it back up a month ago. Glad you confronted him. Hopefully his students realize how crazy he is!
Been doing martial arts in general for 14 years. I started out in karate, Shotokan (still do it and teach it today) and I still train in kickboxing and MMA. I did a few amateur MMA Fights but I retired from fighting.
Totally , this is bonkers!
I can’t even think of *why* you could possibly do such a thing (apart from you hating your students, of course. Then again - if so - one should probably do something else for a hobby than martial arts/combat sports. Model railways, perhaps?)
I started doing boxing 34 years ago and have been on/off at it since then. Currently - I train (personally) to keep fit and for the social aspect of it. I started to coach grown up beginners last week.
(Oh, and I’m Swedish - sorry for my bad English.)
Thank you so much, Rob, for you efforts keeping the martial arts legit.
Instructors like this have a bully mentality that is driven by ego and it's the worst. When I briefly attempted to learn ninjutsu, the senpai would bully the women students in the class to the point they wouldn't come back. When I called him out on it, he got all up in my face claiming that he was trying to make them stronger and then attempted to fight me. So of course I didn't go back.
Any instructor who would just tee off on a student for any reason, especially so called "conditioning" doesn't know the first thing about instructing. Conditioning should come from the training and the sparring and the partner exercises, it doesn't come from this. I know of people who have ended up with hernias because of going through "conditioning" like this. If an instructor ever does this to you, don't go back. This is assault and risking your health in any way just isn't worth it. Even MMA and other fighters who risk their health in their sport are getting paid to take calculated risks.
Background: started with traditional Japanese jujutsu. Learned some mixed combatives taken from different traditional martial arts. Mostly weapon based training these days in historical sabre disciplines and HEMA. Been training for three decades.
Hell, a lot of MMA fighters don’t even do head contact sparring at all.
I did JKD for a few months, did BJJ for a couple of years, one year each in 2 different gyms, cause I had to move.
I haven't been to a gym since quarantine, but there's one nearby where I live that does Kickboxing and No Gi Jiu-jitsu that I need go to.
I miss the training 😔.
Thank you for sharing ☺️.
I miss training so much too. It feels like it's been so long since the Varus™ took out all of my local dojos and gyms.
Nice on the JKD. Just be careful, there are lots of mcdojos calling themselves JKD.
Thank you for your videos. I have about 8 years of training in ITF taekwondo. This "coach" is nuts. Having his students just taking head shots is so freaking dangerous. Especially with the power he puts into it.
This guy needs to be run out of town.
Massive kudos for calling a public danger like that guy out, namely to his face (figuratively)!
Always love your content........and this is just insane. He is not only putting his students in an injury situation but he also lied to you every time you called him out.
my martial arts background is "a while in kenpo karate as a kid" and then starting BJJ as an adult, currently 3 stripe white belt :P that said, I suffered a very complicated TBI during construction as a teenager, and have had life-long mental echoes of it - physically, I appear fine. but it had a long lasting impact on my mood (much more easily prone to depression) and short term memory issues. it's gotten a bit better over the years, but it's still hard. so seeing this kind of abuse sickens me.
Awesome video, and this guy is ridiculous. My martial art is Jiu Jitsu, Under Andre Galvao ATOS, my professor is Marlon Loor Vera , and I’m currently a blue belt
I had never been in trouble or had any problems with my attitude or temper before 2013. A drunk driver hit me in the head with his f-150 mirror at 50 mph. Since then I have been arrested for assault 3 times. I struggle daily with losing my cool and memory issues. It's 2022 and I'm still severely effected by it. Thanks to starting combat sports I've managed to stop getting locked up, but a tbi will change you forever. My memory is fucked and I've lost over a year and a half of my life due to my tbi causing personality changes.
Damn man, that's messed up. I hope the driver was caught. I wound up with seizures from brain injuries my self, so I definitely understand the effect brain damage can have on your daily life.
I did shotokan for 15 years, some kyokushun, mma and finally Enshin karate. Was actually getting ready to open my own school but a shitty chiropractor ruptured 2 of my discs, so I haven’t trained in 6 years now, to say I miss it is the understatement of the century 😭
Being in martial arts and biomedical research I looked pretty deep into the combat sport tbi research and man do videos like this scare me.
6 years of Muay Thai and BJJ, also did about 10 years of TKD growing up :)
After dabbling in other martial arts from the age of 16, I signed up for Shotokan karate in 1993 at the age of 21. I've been with the same Shotokan club since 1993 and have now been teaching for 9 years. I have competed at State and National level (in Australia) and represented my country in overseas tournaments with successes resulting in international silver and bronze medals. I retired from competition fighting in 2019 after winning bronze in kumite in Japan. Required knee surgery in 2020, but pushed hard to get back into training. Now I teach, coach and referee, with the occasional training sessions with my Shihan to keep me honest. Currently, I'm 3rd Dan. Plus, I started BJJ last year. Still white belt. Still loving it.
Nice job bro!
1st degree black belt in Shotokan, 2nd degree black belt in Okinawan karate, 1st degree black belt in Tae Kwon do, MMA, self taught as a kid until i was 16 then started Shotokan and went from there, military combat, now a defensive tactics instructor (GST, Controlled Force) for the agency i work at...
2 years late but still answering the end of video question... I don't know If I could consider this a background, but I've done 2 years of Thai boxing and loved it, and I'm about to start doing HEMA, though I don't think that falls under what one would normally consider 'martial arts' in the traditional sense. Super excited about it though and I'll see where that journey takes me!
As always, thanks for the videos and keep up the good work!
hey Rob love all your videos, my name is Greg and I've been training in various martial arts for about a decade, a little bit of muay thai, taekwondo, BJJ, and a few years of baguazhang kung fu. Currently training in traditional goju ryu karate. Please keep up your awesome work!
Thank you for the support
I'm pretty sure repeated trauma to the head only achieves the opposite of the effect that fraud is selling his students. What do I know though. Ive only trained traditional martial art for eight years(specifically shotokan and shaolin Kempo) and have been training mixed martial arts for the past two years. Its a pleasure as always Rob. I really appreciate the work you do.
4 years of karate, 5 years of wrestling (high school plus 5th year) and a little bit of bjj and muy thai. Great video btw.
Trained in TKD as a kid (4 - 16), Switched to Aikido for ~ 20 years. Now been training in BJJ for 2 years.
When the bully is your trainer...
I've been practicing shotokan karate for 25 years, then i discovered bjj and judo, but at the moment i cannot practice due to injury, bad thing aging, i really loved to discover this 2 martial arts when i was younger!
I am training MMA, BJJ, kickboxing and wrestling for about 12 years now and I had good and bad coaches and I have never seen any of them doing anything similar. I trained on concrete once or twice in one gym, but it was only cardio or stand up technique, nothing that could lead to falling and injuring yourself.
19 years in karate, about 6 years in American Kempo karate/kickboxing and 13 years in my current school, American Ching-Sai-Do, which is basically just Goju-ryu with kicking from taekwondo and small circle jiu-jitsu as that's what my instructor has studied and ranked in i also have been taking BJJ and some balintawak and Muay Thai classes on the side, I'm actually testing for my 3rd dan in 2 weeks!
I did a bit of karate as kid, but now I'm old I do BJJ. I started almost exactly four years ago.
30 years- 3rd degree black belt in Shotokhan, Judo Black Belt, Purple Belt in BJJ.
My love for Martial Arts Runs deep, I started at 6. All my years of injuries caught up to me so I don’t get to train BJJ like I used to train. I’m not sure I’ll move past Purple belt.
That was an amazing kick in that video by the way.
Wrestled in middle school, high school and some college. 1st degree Kenpo Karate Black Belt, been training since 2016. BJJ blue belt, training since 2020.
I started with grecco roman when i was 7 years old. Stopped training wrestling officially when i was 13. Started with boxing when i was 15 but only trained a year. Did Light kickboxing when i was 18-20. Trained mma for 6 months but got banned for getting into arguments with strangers on facebook. I have been a goalkeeper in football (soccer) for 25 years. I am 32. Martial arts has always been a part of my every day life, i have only listed the time i have been training at an official gym. In my spare time, on my own, i have obsessively been training my kick and strikes for many many years and I am, according to my experience, far better then most people when it comes to slowing down time in heated situations.
Akira corassani banned me by The way. And mma in sweden as a whole is pretty much a dictatorship
The reason I don’t want to fight professionally is because I don’t want brain damage. This guy is accelerating the brain damage to his students. I started training BJJ and some kickboxing May of last year.
I have no interest in being a fighter. I do BJJ and striking classes because they're fun and good exercise. I may eventually move up to occasional hard sparring, because I want to be able to use it for self defense, so I don't want to be afraid of getting hit, but even that is a long way off. I haven't even gotten the basics down yet.
Love the channel. Watch your stuff all the time!
My background is shotokan and shitoryu karate. Going on 27 yrs since I started as a kid.
I have been training in one kind of martial art or another for just shy of 2 decades. I started in Tang Soo Do as a child. As a preteen I left my Tang Soo Do studio and started training at an MMA gym. I spent a few years at the MMA gym training in Boxing and No-Gi BJJ while wrestling for my middle school. After my time at the MMA gym, I transitioned to a dedicated Muay Thai gym while I continued to wrestle throughout early high school. I stopped wrestling after someone dropped a knee on my hand and broke it, and I transitioned to training in Muay Thai full time. I had a few amateur Muay Thai fights in my last couple years of high school and have been keeping up with my Muay Thai as best I can throughout college as there is no Muay Thai (or boxing) near my college. Once I am living in a place with Muay Thai again, I intend to continue my training with proper coaching.
It feels a bit foolish to even say this, but I don’t think it is ever acceptable for a coach to be striking a student outside of a sparring setting, and even in sparring, I feel that if the coach is going to spar they should go light as they are most likely much more technically proficient than the vast majority, if not all, of their students.
Everything else aside, practicing to stand there and get punched in the face is literally practicing to get TKOed.
Started Martial arts 9yrs ago and during that time I've went around & trained at every martial arts club in my local area, I've done Judo mixed with Kempo Karate, Taekwondo, BJJ, some Boxing.
I do light sparring with my adult students on concrete but that's mainly because I've been teaching from home during Covid. We NEVER try to KO each other. I NEVER try to KO them. It's strictly light sparring for reps, timing, fighting on a different surface, fighting with shoes on , etc.. Even our clinch grappling is focused on position and set up, not executing the throw but getting to the position and resetting. It's a fun and safe way to train clinch grappling when you don't have mats available. As an instructor, the safety of my students is the MOST important thing! As my Grand Master always said, "Without you, there's no me." Train hard. Stay Safe! Ooss!!
Put mats down outside 🤷🏻♂️ sparring over concrete is simply not safe. Definitely would put out mats
@@McDojoLife You'd have to see it to understand what I'm talking about (in terms of intensity) but you are right, there is some inherent risk. Accidents do happen. I'm in the process of bringing mats over so we can grapple more so I may use them for stand up sparring as well.
I took judo and karate in college. Belted in judo and was in one silly competition in which I lost lol. I had a lot of fun and met some cool people! 😄
Karate, but leisurely throughout the years. Great video as always.
Seen a clip of these guys a few days ago made my skin crawl glad to see them on mcdojo. Cant condition the brain fellas
Hey, just saw this video even though you posted it a year ago.
Yes everything you said is spot on.
I have been training in Muay Thai for going on six years and before that I was a practitioner and instructor of Taekwondo (and a smattering of other martial arts under my belt).
He appears to be just competent enough, he is still a sub par instructor who is getting off on the power he has over others (cult indeed)
Yo I watched n I love da videos. I started martial arts with boxing as my base, started cross training karate and boxing as a six-year-old and was actually allowed to spar (no head shots)! Eventually, I had stopped training karate after reaching orange belt because I had to move, but I never stopped training boxing. My dad was a boxer (boxed on US Navy team) and a blue belt in BJJ. He was my primary coach for boxing and showed me a few tricks from BJJ but I never wanted to sign up as a kid because I ain't like the idea of rolling at the time. My dad passed and I stopped training everything. I ain't even pick up boxing again until I was 18, and then I picked up general MMA where I was taught kickboxing in a hybrid style (Muay Thai influence). I train lightly but regularly, always looking at martial arts from a coach's perspective too.
Couldn't agree more... thanks for your hard and important work...
backgroud: karate blackbelt, some boxing/kickboxing. a few years of judo, same for gracie bjj, jjj, wing chun, wrestling & tang soo do. brown belt in kali arnis eskrima
Did Tae Keon Do and Karate as a kid, boxed in college and the army and then started judo. I did some MMA seminars with Bas Rutten and Chute Boxe, then started training BJJ and Muay Thai in 2007. I received the fourth stripe on my purple belt and then about four months later our gym closed due to COVID. I’ve since moved and teach at a local school three nights a week and look forward to my next move bringing me close to a real school again so I can complete my journey.
Competed in boxing, judo, MMA, catch wrestling and BJJ.
This makes me really appreciate the coaches I had growing up. They were always quick to pull us up on unsafe practices, no matter how many dumbass teenage stunts we pulled.
Folkstyle wrestling, 3 years.
I started Jiu Jitsu October last year! I'm going 4 times/week for regular class, 2 times/week for open mat.
Unfortunately i got in late. Ive started going to the boxing gym since mid 2019 at the age of 35, have been going consistently ever since, 5 days a week. Have also been able to take some mma n muay Thai classes when my schedule alows, not enough tho. Not nearly enough. Sure wish id started anything when i was young
Preach. In well managed and quality training, it's still easy to get serious injuries. I can see some half power body shots with gloves, but this stuff is ridiculous.
My background is 30 yrs of martial arts. 2nd Dan Shotokan, 6th Dan Shin Shin Mugendo, Purple Belt BJJ (where I spend most my time these days). Spent 8 yrs training MuyThai as well as dabbling in other systems along the way
The way I see it, boxing sparring is excellent training, with the one downside being that you will accumulate punches to the head.
If you decide that 'x' number of head-shots over 'y' years is what you're prepared to accept for the value of that training, then you don't really want to waste 'x' just LETTING someone punch you in the head for no reason.
[Ah now I see why the comments are full of people giving their MA backgrounds 😄 ]
This guy is a cult leader and he hits his students like this for power and control thru fear.
BTW: I’ve been training in martial arts since 1997 and although I train/trained in MMA I have not competed. Just didn’t have the opportunity until recently but can’t get licensed to fight due to my age (52) and a previous neck surgery. Now I train for self defense and work (Corrections).
ALWAYS train safely and live/pressure test everything so you don’t get clapped trying to look cool. Deus Vult
I was training with Michael venom Page’s father in the early 80s. A student fell back and hit his head on the floor mocking another student who had done the same few minutes earlier, unfortunately he died shortly after.
Sorry he accidentally fell and killed himself or he was punched and fell?
@@pavlovsdogman two guys were sparring on mats. When the match finished one guy pretended he was so exhausted he fell backwards on the mats for a joke. Next match another guy did the same but head missed the mat and hit the hard floor! We all laughed until we realised he was badly injured 🤕🥲. I was around ten or eleven at the time.
@@silverfox8801 Jesus! That's a disturbing thing for a kid to see? It shows how easy a little mistake can take your life when it comes to brain injuries!
@@pavlovsdogman I agree. I’d completely forgotten it until I found out Michael page was my instructors son? Have a great day buddy 👍
Started karate (goju-ryu) as a kid and revisited as an adult for 8 years collectively, and then started BJJ in Nov 2015 but haven't really trained much over the past 2 or so years due to covid, finances and health issues; so yeah Karate and BJJ. I've seen these videos of this fucking douchebag doing this elsewhere and its absolutely absurd and insane.
I'm not in the field since graduating 3 years back but have a bachelors degree in Sports Therapy and studied pain within BJJ practitioners specifically in my 3rd year, as well as injuries and their occurrences for combat sports/martial arts in my 2nd year. It was crazy how much of the research is head related. Especially scary when you start looking into TBI and CTE complications.
Started doing Karate in 97 until 2000-2001 during 1st-4th grade, returned to karate i was 18, stoped because of professional reasons. While away for 4 years i tried kickboxing for 4 months and boxing for 5 months before covid.
And last year 2021 returned to karate because i missed training that martial art and im still doing it today. And recently i signed up to a free traffic gym where they train combat sports (boxing, kickboxing, muay thai and bjj).
So yeah, i love A LOT of martial arts and combat sports, so i cant do just one.
finally subscribed. i've watched a few of your videos but i already have a bunch of subbed channels. it takes something outstanding to get me to actually subscribe.
i agree with you on this guy. i trained for about 15 years before i got injured in a MVA and was no longer able. NEVER have i seen the level of irresponsibility as with this guy. i do understand the idea of toughness training but what this guy is doing is just downright abuse.
25 years. Wrestling, Kickboxing, MMA. Now going on the last 3 years I have been focused on jiu jitsu.
This is the kind of stupid crap that started happening when the USMC started the train the trainer program for the semper FU training.
I’ve been training Kickboxing and Muay Thai for the last 10 years. BJJ and wrestling for the last three as I have transitioned to MMA competitions. I’ve also taught for many years and it really concerns me to see people out there like this calling themselves coaches. Most of the people you break down are full of shit but are all in all “harmless” with their chi KOs haha. This guy on the other hand is 100% doing to permanently hurt someone or worse. I hope this gets stopped. Thanks for your continued hard work @McDojoLife
Martial arts background: 20 + years. Mainly Kali and Kickboxing.
Agree with everything you've said. Hitting your students full power to the head is abuse, not training. Doing it on concrete is playing Russian Roulette with your student's lives. A great uncle of mine killed a man in a street fight; knocked him out with a single punch and the guy struck his head on the pavement.
When you join a gym or dojo you are trusting your instructor to not only teach you good stuff but to keep you safe, this is a complete betrayal of that trust. I have been training in RyuKyu Kempo for the last 4 years and hold a brown belt, testing for shodan this summer.
Background is fairly diverse, but primary training is Filipino Martial Arts and I've been training in that for about 6 years now. But been training in martial arts since 2008.
Love the camouflage gi, started with wrestling when I was 6, went over wing tsun to Kali/escrima and then to Muay boran, still practice escrima and Muay boran to date, I am 43 now and thinking to pick up jiu jitsu but there are no schools nearby 🥴, clearly watched to the end
I'd love to see you review some vintage martial arts footage. My Dad trained Judo at the Kodokan in Japan, taught me. In HS (84-88)I took TKD (chung do kwan style) until brown belt. College studied Aikido/aikijujitsu (91-96) from a decent instructor, moved and took my black belt test from one of those feather touch chi bullshit schools. Got my black belt and put it in the closet, went and trained Lohan Chuan style (2007-2012) Kung Fu from a great school. Did six months of BJJ and one year of Taijitsu.
no formal training, just years and years of being in rough environments, working bars, private security, picking up what i could when i could from ppl that had training. iv lost a few , won a bunch , made a bit of cash, only got hurt badly once when i was slamed on my head at 19 or 20 and iv needed glasses ever since, some thing definitely got rattled., how ever now at 43 my body definitely feels the years of fighting. but still going strong, rarely get into fights now, but does happen living were i am living, thankfully i fight smart now and the young kids here just swing wide and run at you. so im not getting hurt,
I trained boxing a little kick boxing and primarily Brazilian jiu jitsu for 13 years now
Still floors me to think *falling* in a fight is the most likely thing to kill you.
Did TKD and aikido actively for about 8 years each, done a smattering of BJJ. I work with an old-school JKD & MMA guy these days. I'd love to try out catch wrestling once all -this- clears up.
He learned this shit from Joshua Fabia, it's called: "How to get CTE without ever actually fighting!"
Kickboxing, ju jitsu, karate for little over 20 years. Also a level 2 Army Combatives instructor with a MACP tournament record of 10 wins 2 loses. Can you make a video on the King of the Streets fights? Curious to hear you commentary on these fights being that they fight on concrete.
5 years TKD and 2 years Judo. Love how he says he wasn’t actually hitting his students but you can see the body flex to protect every hit. His students must be really great actors then.
Absolutely disgusting! Sickens me to see this kind of abuse. He will seriously hurt someone someday. My background is JKD, 17 years. As always, thanks for the great content.
I'm just a guy who loves martial arts, and I've been training for fitness for about five years. Though in the past I did Judo for a couple years, and so I'll say that the students are lucky he wasn't THROWING them on concrete.
Then again, if he had done that he'd be in jail...
the refree in boxing and mma fights always says "protect yourself at all time"
5 years of Capoeira and 3 years of Brazillian Jiujitsu. Plus a little bit of muay thai and freestyle wrestling, but usually just occasional workshops hosted at the gym.
12 years of Muay Thai and I’m starting my third year of grappling (bjj and wrestling)
Is he trying to condition their head to take a punch? Absolutely stupid to spar on concrete. Seriously doubt his fight records.
To show I watch your videos till the end:
I started martial arts 25 years ago with Tae Kwon Do. However, now I’m currently a student of NSI and I also train in Pekiti-Tirsia Kali. I gave up sport/competition style fighting all together.
I am Turkish and thank you. Please don't forget it; Generalizing is not the right thing to do. Love from Turkey 🇹🇷
Quickly approaching a year in BJJ and just started cross training freestyle wrestling
Karate Brown belt(kyokushin) and judo black belt(1st dan) training since 2004
23 yars of martial arts experience in Jeet Kune Do, Muay Thai, and kickboxing with a national Muay Thai championship (Chile) won back in 2015. I have NEVER being hit like that by a coach, nor seen anyone doing so. At most, my M Thai teacher hitted us sumetimes with low kicks while we received them properly to get used to them and always under control.
I’m pretty new to martial arts, I’ve been training in Jugoshin Ryu JuJutsu under Brandon Hetzler Sensei for a little over a year, thinking you can condition the head is insane. We do conditioning once in a while but never ever think about attempting to condition the head, especially on concrete. That “instructor” is just negligent.
I did Tae Kwon Do for 4 yrs, wish I could have continued. Was so much fun. It's been 23 yrs since I haven't practiced.
Self-taught kickboxing 4years where martial art friends also taught me/ kickboxing/free style karate 2 years/ Shukokai Shito-Ryu nearly 4 years