What do I think of Tae Bo?
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Q&A with the coach. Shanghai based MMA coach and Kunlun Fight Combat League ringside commentator Ramsey Dewey answers questions from the viewers.
This time: what’s my take on Billy Blanks and Tae Bo?
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Best advice I ever got was from a wrestler who was built like an M1A1 Battle Tank. He said "If you can't do anything, at least do something".
Sometimes I see Ramsey's face in a thumbnail, read the title and think "this i need to hear".
"sometimes" = every time I see a new Ramsey video
Man, I listen to these things when I'm driving just to keep up.
I haven't worked out since the Army. It's been too long. Going for a run in the morning after some light warm up. Thanks for calling me out. - Six
My Muay Thai training is supplemented by repeated watching of the 1988 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship! I even got the tune stuck to my head even while I light spar!
Well, thank you sir. I'm going to Mauy Thai in 15 minutes, I'll have this in my had now and srew up royally. :D
I came across this video the day after I was diagnosed with diabetes and cardiac issues, weighing 365 pounds, and actively eating cheez-its while watching it. I’m basically bedridden right now with a blown out L5S1 disc, but after my surgery on the 30th I’m going to start turning my health around. Thanks for the inspirational words, coach.
I have not heard of Tae Bo before
I love that I learn many new stuff from your content!
I met Billy Blanks at an event in Southern Cal where he was signing autographs. This was years after his first Tae Bo tapes which I happened to have. He was a real nice guy and called me sir since I was older than him. His daughter who appears in his videos was standing behind him. He was seated at a table and there was a rope line to meet him and get a signed photo. The Advanced Tae Bo tape will get you in shape if you can get through the whole thing. Even half of it is a great workout. I wish Bill the best. He does seem to care about getting people in shape.
I feel the same way about Tony Horton from p90x. I had never really exercised until 2013 when i started doing Cardio X. I could only make it 15 out of 45 minutes. I've done lots of various programs since then and am now a Blue Belt in BJJ, working out every morning, and eating healthy. Oh also I am no longer suicidally depressed :) Those exercise videos gave me confidence to train with real people :) "do your best and forget the rest"
I think that Tae Bo is awesome and I think it's an excellent activity to do during your free time and even if for some financial reason or whatever other reason you can't go to a dojo then doing Taebo is better then doing nothing.
Billy is all so the real deal of martial arts 🤘🤘
This legitimately makes me want to try tae bo. I do taekwondo and the one thing that I see myself lacking most is cardio. I'm flexible, I'm coordinated, I can jump, I can break, but after 2 minutes of sparring I am usually completely worn out. I could definitely use a bit more stamina.
Just stumbled across this one. What a gem! I loved doing Tae Bo back in the day. Sage advice, too.
Taebo is the best workout in the world to me. I started doing it in the 90s and still doing it. And at 55 I’m still strapped
Yesterday i had sparring sessions with 2 muay thai guys and a rugbier, it does burn some calories... But the one time in my life i tried tae bo i lost my breath almost inmediatly... Respect the cardio guys!
I used to do Taebo on a regular basis. I loved it. No, its not a martial art. However, it is a great work out. You get what you put in. I have taken Moo Yea Do, Muay Tai kick boxing, also some training in Jui Jit Su, and Kenpo and boxing. I love Taebo for the energy it gave me used to drive 1 and 1/2 hours to and from from Orange County to Sherman Oaks once a week to take Billy Blanks class. And took a OC class at my Do Jang 4 to 5 times a week. Once you start doing it it becomes part of you. Someone gave me a personal training session with Mr. Blanks. I always had trouble with high kicks. The training session was amazing, Billy was so soft spoken and a true professional on that day and only that day I was able to do the splits. Lol memories last forever. Billy is a wonderful instructor and does have his students best interest at heart.
Coach Ramsey,
If you look closely in Enter The Dragon I the scene with Jim Kelly in his inner city Los Angeles Dojo, You will see Billy Blanks as a young teenager extra sitting leaning against by the entrance. Uncredited.
Aloha from Texas,
Dr. Liam Stone, D.D., Ph.D., N.D.
@LovinglyStoned Productions .... that was Sensei Steve Sanders now Grandmaster Steve Muhammad of BKF (Black Karate Federation) who played Jim Kelly’s Sensei. As kid growing up in the 70’s LA & competing in Tournaments
every weekend there was always lots of BKF Fighters competing. Always super tough guys
Robert Newell yes, True! 🙏 Thank You.
Aloha from Texas,
Dr. Liam Stone, D.D., Ph.D., N.D.
Spot on Mr Dewey! You said everything that needs to be said about this subject.
I used to have a kickboxing coach who occasionally ran us through several Billy Blanks drills, not for striking skill but for cardio. Excellent way to get in shape
Any training is better than none. I did stretches, basic exercises and I used to do a lot of Latin dancing too and that helps with cardio, posture, weight transfers and the management of the space against multiple moving parties. Now I just sit at my desk or couch. Gotta to start moving again.
Another great post, fair and objective. Tai Bo for cardio is awesome.and FUN!
Respect to you for always respecting and being encouraging to viewers who are trying.
Ramsey's response was roughly what I expected from him. It's just more positive than I thought.
In the year before the one where I got into Muay Thai, I regularly attended Body Combat aerobics classes at my local gym where I punched and kicked the air while being surrounded by women in yoga pants doing the same thing. I did this because I was a chub and because it was all I had. That might've been embarrassing for me after half a year but I probably wouldn't be throwing punches the way I do now without it.
P.S: I was fully expecting you to call us 'silly' for not getting out there and training at the end of the video
about a year to late, but i decided to loose weight after my birthday (31st of october) and stopped my worst habbit ever. Drinking. (I only drank during christmas and that wasnt like I was used to drink like, that was like a beer or 2 instead of 10..)
Considering im 6'4 and weight around 264 lbs (had to convert that) I decided my perfect weight before having a massive workout schedule would be around 220 lbs.
the first month i lost 11 lbs and that was only due to Tae Bo! I was looking at some cardio workout and thought that taebo, the hype thing from the 90's, would be my perfect workout in the first few months.
at this point (due to calestenics and taebo) I lost 24 pounds (started eating differently aswell) and lost 3 inches around my waist, my arms grew around 1 inch and my legs start to bulk up like they went when i was doing basketball!
I didnt know taebo could do that for me honestly! I still got a few KG's to go (yes yes, im EU ) but I know that with this workout and food intake that i do right now i will finally be released of the 20KG weight i wanted to lose, and with a bit of luck it'll be around june!
Ramsey as I have said before I love your explanations, Tae Bo is a good work out, for a non fighter will give them muscle memory if they ever have to kick or punch may be enough? A non fighter may be able to defend themselves with this to a point or do a kick or punch and get away. As you say for someone who can't afford training who knows I think it would help. Hell it helps teach someone to kick and punch. Be safe looking forwarded to more to more videos
In the jungles of burma I once saw a thai bo practitioner kill 7 tigers that were all full grown cubs.
Frank Dux was hiding in the underbrush.
I love how positive you are with your comments. It is so simple, what u can. doPlus I love Tea Bo.
😎 Cool Throwback, I think I still have in storage some of the Tae Bo VHS Video Tapes yay! 😃
Tae Bo is great aerobic exercise, if anything it will at least keep you in decent shape, if you supplement it with some strength training.
Did you know Dee Jay from the Street Fighter video game series was inspired by Billy Blanks?
Also, Tae Bo won't work in cage fighting, because Tae Bo...
Is 4 DA STREETZ!!!!!
You should do more women’s self defence videos, those were fun to watch
My karate Sensei when I was 4 (35 now) use to tell me about this guy he trained with named Billy Blanks. I didn't think about it much until about 6-10 years later when Tae Bo first came out. By this time my Sensei had left my small town for Hollywood. He actually did pretty well and made it into a few big movies. His best part was as Cristos in the movie Desperado. He had a small part but was the guy that broke the other guys leg with a legit Karate move in the fighting ring scene( easy to find on RUclips, guy was legit and still is). But I remember seeing Billy in the Tae Bo commercials and at that young, full of testosterone age, I was thinking "THIS is the guy my Sensei was talking about? This sissy teaching womens aerobics in tights?...Fast forward a few years later and I got a chance to meet and train with both this time..Billy is made of iron, with crazy fast twitch kicks and punches and a GREAT eye for what moves you're gonna throw so he can counter them..I have pictures and old videos if you wanna know more Ramsey
Found the video clip from the movie..Hes the guy with the Tattoos and no shirt...ruclips.net/video/pFpESgKVFxg/видео.html
I'm glad I'm not alone on this! It's great for conditioning and doesn't require anything but a computer/TV and some space. I'll never forget the first time I tried it my wife comes into the room and says 'Hey, you have smoke coming from your head!'.
Hi Ramsey, I love your videos, I was just wondering how many martial arts is too many for a young beginner, and how far I could go in martial arts training as a 13 year old. I really want to get into martial arts like muay Thai, boxing, wrestling, and jiu jitsu but I’m wondering how many of those I could conceivably train at the same time. I’m a pretty developed 13 year old, I’m 5’11, 155 lbs and I weightlift regularly just for a little background information. I’m thinking I could do wrestling as a school sport and in the off season do a couple or all of the rest of those martial arts, but I don’t know if that’s realistic. I also want to know if adults would actually let me light contact spar in their gyms, and whether I would be taken seriously. Thanks for reading this if you are, I really love your Chanel and your videos and I’d be super happy if you maybe answered this in your next Q and A.
My Dad did Tang Soo Do back in the 80s training under Tommy Myers. Saw Billy Blanks a few times. Tough as nails. Billy Blanks and Tommy Myers got into a big dispute once he was famous due to Blanks saying he was self taught (which is false)
It’s crazy to hear you mention Shane Brenner! He is one of my professors in Salt Lake at Fusion Academy. Small world!
Shane is one of the greatest coaches and human beings upon the face of the earth. That’s a man who can teach you to learn how to learn how learn!
This is my personal experience with Tae bo, yes you will not learn to fight but, as all school aerobics and gymnastics work, I had and have at first was an old tape from 1979 the year I was born that my mom use to do every day and I do religiously my mom is close to her 70 but she still touches her feet, can stretch and is a simple tape you can do every day and damn work those glutes, in the same way, the old 90s tapes of Tae bo work great to lose weight, to improve your cardio, are amazing damn you can break a swept really good if you do all them in a row, and you will feel great, I passed all these media to digital and saved it in case the tapes cease to function look you will not learn to fight but you will move, and get a better shape, are not a fully equipped gym but they work, same the old calisthenics and yes thanks to Couch Ramsey I found Championship Fighthing writen by Jack dempsey and Oh my god is a great book, yes I know I normally just do for the laugh comments but I had to say that.
I loved tai boe as a teen and billy was awsome fave movie was showdown and talons of the eagle
Good times für a lot of Q&A I guess.
Great video as always. Now I have to redouble the amount of time I spend shadowboxing and shadowgrappling
Can you make a What do I think of ITF taekwondo?
"Are YOU getting out there and training?" A question for every keyboard warrior.
I like the cardio kickboxing where you do HIIT and combos on an actual bag, like Title (which seems to be for MMA fighters who supplement their training/income by working there or people who want to cosplay as MMA fighters) or ilovekickboxing (which seems to be mostly for soccer moms).
They're...not free, though.
I have always loved martial arts, but I think the US Marine Corps theory that if you can do twenty pull-ups and run three miles you probably can fight and that is probably the correct theory.
This has nothing to do with fighting but what do you think about Richard Simmons exercise videos
Bro, tae bo is GREAT for fitness training
👍👍👍
I had no idea it was a real thing. I thought it was just a running gag in marvel movies! :-)
I understood "Yul Brynner was one of my greatest coaches" - somehow that Makel sense to me... 😂
Didn't know Tae Bo before this, just searched it up and oh boy does it look fun! I'm going to try an early 00's Tae Bo with my girlfriend lol
Billy Blanks was great in king of the kickboxers, that whole era of martial arts films are terrible but completely fantastic at the same
Hey, Ramsey for the last year I've been training Muay Thai, (and the 4 years prior to that I trained Taekwondo), I've just recently had to move and there is no Thai gyms for 125km in any direction. I have however been lucky enough to find a boxing gym 45kms away and have joined it and train there twice a week. Im glad that I have the opportunity to improve my boxing as my kicks are miles ahead of my boxing. Unfortunately I am finding it hard to integrate my boxing into my Muay Thai due to differences in stance/posture/footwork. I have no one to spar with (in kickboxing/Muay Thai), and test out combinations with. So I'm just wondering if you have any ideas or drills that could help me test combinations out while training by myself the days I can't get to boxing?
I apologise if this question is hard to comprehend I have trouble putting my thoughts into words.
I think it's worth comparing Tae Bo videos to their contemporaries on how cuts are handled. Cutting in Tae Bo videos always keeps a significant portion of the event visible and in focus. Many of the other fitness videos from the same time frequently cut to close ups of the actor... I mean fitness instructor... with the background figures too blurry to tell if they're even the same people that were in the previous shot. This is clearly not for any suspicious or misleading reasons, and clearly also doesn't give them the opportunity to get their actor... I MEAN INSTRUCTOR... time to take a break and rest before they get sweaty. Nope. Not at all.
That Billy Blanks is awesome.
Edit: HE SAID IT 😂
This is a bit off topic But as far the idea teaching yourself martial arts goes my mentality is that even though I don't want to discourage anyone by telling them what they do is either useless or would never be applicable in a fight but at the same time I also wouldn't want people who decide to teach themselves martial arts to be lulled into a false sense of security and as a result either put themselves in situations where there in over there heads or where they set themselves up for disapointment while trying to face a trained fighter and posibly end up losing.
Tea bo was fantastic it's going to be the name of my future dog!
Back in my Tae Kwon Do days me and some friends definitely used this as a supplement, a long with 8 minute abs and the cheesiest VHS's we could find for free. We were very much aware this was strictly for staying in shape though haha.
What do you think of isokinetic training?
Good stuff coach. Keep it up ^_^
Also, where can I put my question?
Questions in the comments as always!
Hey coach, I've been training traditional martial arts for the last seven years and recently transitioned to mma, any advice or tips for ne?
Say Tae Bo backwards...changes things completely.
Looks like tae bo could be especially suited for cardio and endurance... although on another topic, some isometric exercises can really be dangerous,? and certain injury with little potential reward... like chaining a curling bar to the ground like Bruce Lee, and heard some people that used to do knuckle push ups don't do them anymore... heard something about knuckle push ups and splits being bad for guys hips anyway... and Bruce Lee was super cool, not sure if some of the exercise science sets the best example... and incredible at nunchuck ping pong, and a great warrior... there's always plenty of stuff to keep learning about after 35 like me though...
Who would win in a fight? Bo Jackson or Will Smith?
What do you think about kicks to the opponent's hands? Used this tactic for the first time in a spar today
You could literally watch youtube. different fighting styles are everywhere.
Taebo advance the first (vhs) is a beast of a workout. You wont make it till the end first go unless you are in top shape lol.
Question- I really can't get into shadow boxing i just feel much more comfortable hitting something like sparing, doing pad work, or doing bag work. How can I get into shadow boxing? How do you do it properly?
Billy Blanks wakes up......
‘What do you mean I won?’
I'm Training Like a Gladiator
And yes I shall train ^^
Bad memories. I got knocked out in a full contact tournament by an illegal throat punch. Took bronze medal. And these things happen, sure. However. Next fight, finals, same guy knocks his opponent out with an illegal throat punch. And...got disqualified, other guy took gold.
Hey Ramsey, do you think losing weight or gaining weight is harder for a fight? Lets say that you had to lose 10 pounds, or gain 10 pounds in a course of a month, which would be harder? Or if someone was trying to lose 20 pounds, or gain 20 pounds in a course of 2 months, which would be harder, and so on and so forth. Also, nice hair.
:o I do Tae Bo everyday! In VR! For over a year! :) Probably not best mma training though, no Tae Bo triangle choke :p
There is always a way to train. Also do no get to much impressed each and every other fitness craze. Despite ever sexier names etc. It is all marketing there really is not much "new" under the sun. Just get out there and train..
And yet you Ramsey, was wondering why icy mike at hard2hurt was taking both sides at the master wong video he mader.
ramsey any advice on flexibility im no fighter i was taught some basic boxing by a teacher back in the day but thats about it
and i was wondering how do i get more flexible for higher kicks and such as rn i probably cant kick past about my knee height
without bending my knee
Hi Ramsey, I hope you are fine. My question is that, I practice for a year karate and I love it, but also I want to start training mma in a different gym. Do you think that's it will be a problem practice both at the same time and also in different places?
Hi Ramsey Dewey i have a question do you think Marvin cook’s videos on boxing vs kick is it legit or not ?
Street fights are free.
Dear Coach how to properly shadow box
15 minutes on religion. 6 minutes of Tae Bo. You do the math.
i need advice for working out after an illness
i was only sick for around 3 days but my body became way less fit. like my push ups were a third of what they were before i got sick. i need some advice pls
Welcome to the wonderful world of rehabilitation! Make it a lifelong habit. When life throws a set back at you, plan to rebuild every time.
It called deload
I used to date this girl who tried her very best to convince me that Tae Bo is an effective martial arts.
We no longer date
FluffyZergling you should have got her to fight a no touch Tai Chi grandmaster, it would’ve been interesting to watch especially at the tai chi dude won.
@@Wingzero90939 omg lol. Thatd be so painful for the viewers......id watch it.
Tae Bo, still more effective than Aikido... 😂
Wow....
I think that would be a good video for Ramsey to touch on. I always thought aikido was kinda not really a good fighting art but the coachs at my gym who are ex SWAT/combat vets/cage fighters speak very highly of aikido. It always made me wonder.
@@doctorcaptainalex it always works well, with compliant opponents, or in Steven Seagal movies, but the second your opponent resists a little it all collapses, a video series could be good though aikido vs... could do tae bo first, then other things later?
Hypothetical Question for you Ramsey and this is the perfect video to ask.
Let’s say you took someone like say Mike Tyson he lifted weights, hit the heavy bag like a cardio kickboxing class, has his usual natural sense of aggression and work ethic... So who is more likely to win in a fight, Mike Tyson using strictly Tae Bo vs a classic Wingchun or basically any other contemporary Martial arts guy who goes to class once, twice, maybe three times a week the typical dojo schedule compared to the professional athlete schedule, like Boxers/ Olympic athletes, training 6 to 8 hours a day etc....?
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¡Hola!
What do you think of Tao Bai Bai?
"I don't know how they did that!".
COCAINE!!!
Just wanted to leave this here
"You Tae-Bo ho, tryna work it out, you tryna get brolic?
Ask me if I'm tryna kick knowledge?
Nah"
i thought she meant 'skipping' as in, with a rope >_<
i wonder why you never really see boxers skipping these days...
This coronavirus is looking really bad, stay healthy
If you are not elderly or sick there is no reason to worry for your own health. The danger from pandemics like this mainly comes from the hysteria and the scary look of control measures like quarantining towns or people walking around in masks.
True, but the people will still likely flip out at some point. And TBH all the misinformation is concerning, I really can't tell how serious this even could in theory be lol
Not necessarily free....... you'll get way more hungry after pushup, running, squats.
Have you heard of insanity?
Ramsey, have anyone ever told you that your laugh looks fake? I mean, I don't think it's fake, just that it looks forced and fake at least to me. Hopefully this information is useful.
What country are you from?
@@RamseyDewey Originally from SE Asia but I lived in the US for many years.
martial arts will only be effective as long as the practitioner knows how to use and has enough strength and skill. this does not include those bogus martial arts tho
Supposedly Billy blanks can actually fight
He has a karate background. Michael jai white sparred with him back in the days.
Hey Ramsey, Deontay Wilder recently fired co coach Mark Breland for throwing in the towel. Have you ever had a conflict between you and your trainees that forced you to part ways? Now stay in there and train.
Not really. About 11 years ago, a guy I coached lost his first fight, blamed me, and joined a different gym. A few years back, there was a girl in my gym who was an absolute drama queen who tried to argue with me and everyone else on every point of coaching until she quit. Those were the most extreme cases. Most of the actual fighters I’ve coached have won the majority of their fights, and most of those that didn’t fixed their mistakes and won the next one. None of them have ever been anywhere near the point where anyone would need to throw in the towel.
5:00 Wait , bad internet connection ? ,,, i tot China has 5G ?!
What do you think of Taco Bell?
TAE BO = LMAO.
Hey man can we see your feet
Hater Sensei Grand Master Chosen One your gay