Best Martial Arts Ranked by Undercover Police Officer
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- Former undercover police officer and SWAT operative Paul Sharp ranks the best martial arts for self-defense.
Learn more about Paul Sharp and his teachings here: www.paulsharpcoaching.com/
Watch 6 martial artists compete in self-defense challenges here: • 6 Martial Artists Comp...
00:00 Intro
00:07 Boxing
02:22 Paul's story of fighting three people in the street
04:08 Is Boxing the best martial art for multiple attackers?
05:46 Kickboxing
07:08 Is Boxing better than Kickboxing?
08:34 Muay Thai
12:41 Lethwei
15:37 "Updating the software without damaging the hardware"
17:24 Capoeira
19:21 Jeet Kune Do
24:10 Why did Jeet Kune Do lose Bruce Lee's essence?
28:12 Karate
31:12 Taekwondo
34:30 Wing Chun
36:47 Japanese Jiu Jitsu
39:11 Aikido
40:16 Judo
41:55 Paul's story of using Judo in the street
46:50 Why is Judo not S?
48:47 Wrestling
50:16 Does Wrestling have an advantage in MMA?
52:53 Sambo
54:15 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
58:14 Not being biased toward BJJ
01:01:45 Falsely believing you're a "natural"
01:04:38 Kudo
01:08:17 Ninjutsu
01:09:16 Tai Chi
01:10:13 Filipino Martial Arts (Kali-Escrima-Arnis)
01:12:33 "Anything can be used as a weapon"
01:13:14 Systema
01:13:34 MMA
01:15:59 Krav Maga
01:17:22 Pencak Silat
01:18:27 Catch Wrestling
01:19:59 Best martial art for knife defense
01:21:11 Best martial art for women's self defense 
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Learn more about Paul Sharp and his teachings here: www.paulsharpcoaching.com/
Watch 6 martial artists compete in self-defense challenges here: ruclips.net/video/NdzuimQYswQ/видео.html
Normies: "when's the new Avengrs movie coming out?"
Maj Enjoyers: "can't wait for USDC2"
For real, screw the next Marvel movie, give me USDC 2!
Came here to see about the mother of martial arts... But you guys didn't even mentioned it.. so disappointed .. I think u guys don't even know about Kalaripayattu.. without it ur entire list is a joke.. 😂😂😂
If you want a Fighting System that delivers on the false Promises that Aikido makes it is Target Focus Training not BJJ.
Absolutely gutted that there are so many poorly regulated independent Krav Maga schools out there, because the Krav Maga philosophy to self-defence is sound. If they were all only able to be licensed to teach by the likes of Itay Gil, Eyal Yanilov and a select few others it would push the charlatans and fakes out. For the sake of the reputation of the art they should trademark the name Krav Maga and raise its standards.
Just came to say Karate 🥋 Carry on.
Message received 🫡
Wise message 👨🦳🙏
Okinawa, it's birth place
Kyokushin Karate ..carry on !
Okinawa, the birthplace of....
He’s thinking of old school American Kickboxing not Dutch/Japanese kickboxing that is heavy on low kicks
Came too say this! Dutch style kickboxing has heavy emphasis on the lead leg kick, and as he said he ended a streetfight with a single leg kick.
Bro I was gonna say this too 😂
Dutch kickboxing is essentially muay thai, but without the elbows and clinching
@@warsawcattus only in terms of rule set. The fighting tactics are different though.
Big leg kick will stop a fight against most , without the danger of killing anyone .
"His real fake ID" super funny sentence😂
Haha, I can't disagree 😄
Hands down the biggest surprise on this list was Kickboxing's ranking.
the biggest surprise was that this super legit expert thinks that there are no knee techniques in kickboxing and some surprises may also come with the idea that they don't know how to box. LOLOL
No knees in kickboxing.
K1 is kickboxing With knees
@@JJOV00 learn to listen -- he said "kickboxing has a bunch of different rule sets" -- there are plenty of videos on youtube of muay thai fighters fighting kickboxers under modified rules (no knees, no elbows - sometimes even no low kicks) because the kickboxers aren't used to them -- he even mentioned some famous kickboxers of the past who didn't use knees -- and there is a HUGE difference between boxers boxing ability and kickboxers boxing ability
@@okramoffacebook1381 whoopee -- you named one organization that allows it -- do ALL kickboxing organizations and rulesets allow knees ?? -- learn to listen -- he said "kickboxing has a bunch of different rule sets" -- there are plenty of videos on youtube of muay thai fighters fighting kickboxers under modified rules (no knees, no elbows - sometimes even no low kicks) because the kickboxers aren't used to them -- he even mentioned some famous kickboxers of the past who didn't use knees -- and there is a HUGE difference between boxers boxing ability and kickboxers boxing ability
@@JJOV00 He is thinking of kickboxing in the more traditional sense. There were never any knees in kickboxing for years until the Muay Thai influence. It was also known to be weaker in hand technqiues, even Muay Thai has undeveloped hand fighting until later on when influenced by Western boxing.
I think it really depends on the teacher and the school. Like for example (just an example guys don't hate me) Japanese jujitsu guys are allowed to compete in National USA Judo matches if they are a members of "A.T.J.A." (American Traditional Jujutsu Association) so how can Japanese jujitsu be rated a D while judo is A-? The answer is unfortunately not all martial arts schools are made the same. If you want to know if a school is worth your time. Here's a simple test, answer these two simple questions 1. Does the instructor participate and challenge himself along with you. 2. Does he like to spare/roll with bigger faster guys then himself. If the answer to those two questions is yes! then your coach still considers himself a student also and any good teacher will tell you, they never stop learning. Avoid the teachers that never train and only demonstrate techniques on compliant, weaker, or slower people.
So, I had a similar experience with BJJ. I've always wanted to learn martial art primarily for self-defense. I did BJJ for 2 years, and now I exclusively train Judo. In Bjj, we were just on the ground all the time, no takedowns, no takedown defence, no explosive aggression. Now I train judo, and I feel far more confident in my ability to defend myself.
Best if you are standing and someone else is not... you won.
good info, was thinking about doing bjj to combine with my muay thai, now i know to go for judo instead, which i was thinking as a third art initially.
You were probably at the wrong BJJ school. At good schools they train you for takedowns regularly
Fundamental classes usually aimed at standing and self defence some time takedowns. But judo imho is decent for standing self defence
@@aler8910 at super competitive schools i've been too most of them butt scoot. sad.
Thank you very much Rokas for this honest-down-to-earth ranking! Really glad you are back in good health and looking forward to more great content.
What Paul forgets is that a front kick is extremely useful to offset pressure. Secondly, kicks to leg are devastating to an untrained person.
While Front/Teep Kicks are amazing in fighting in general to disrupt the breathing off your opponent. Leg kicks are also a very good tool in fighting. But i think his perspective is that you don’t want to balance on one leg any time in a fight in a street. There are multiple factors why, being pumped with adrenaline often gives you tunnel vision which if you are not used to fight with adrenaline can upset your timing and accuracy a lot. If you miss your kick or it’s partially blocked/checked there’s a higher chance you get thrown or take-downed on the Concrete. Also neither of this moves are an instant finisher which are sub-optimal in a street fight just for that reason alone.
Kicks in general are too risky in a street situation because even if you connect untrained people will grab your legs and fall into you. Maybe a front snap kick is good.
The brain of your opponent is not in the knee/shin...
@AndrewLaReal
The problem with a front mae geri is that the man can be on top of you as the weight is in the back leg. The pendulum low kick might work better due to there being an escape route. Also the traditional Chinese arts create an angle with their foot which makes it difficult to get out the way of: if the knee lifts it would be a kick, if the knee does not lift the chances are it is a throw.
@@coltizz missing kicks and feeding into giving them a free check/counter is a skill issue on the operator. We're under the presumption that generally you're skilled enough to make it work more often than not
Just came to say: Strike first, strike hard and no mercy. 🐍 Carry on.
That is pure Sucker-punch-ido 👊🏼
There are lot of problems with this advice. Leaving aside legal issues - and remember that everything is on video nowadays - it is an observable fact that this is one of the biggest fails in self defense fighting. I personally have around 17,000 clips of self defense fights that I have collected in and studied in slow motion in recent years. As I said, one of the biggest fails is failing at the "intital entry". In fact, as many as 40% of all initial entries fail. An initial entry fails when the attack fails to prevent the opponent from being able to continue to attack. In general, guys miss, fail to hurt, fail to follow up, simply lose their balance and fall over, choose poor points of attack (very common) and so on.
This was a quote from Cobra Kai. Not serious.
@@Ectrue1977 Many people believe that it is true. "Just go first bro" Yet, very very often people do "just go first" yet they fvck it up. You have to train in how to go first properly.
I feel like Wonderboy Thompson and Paul would have an... interesting... discussion on karate for self-defense. The distance management, timing, etc. you learn in karate are very much effective from a self defense perspective. I'm not saying JUST karate is good enough for EVERY self defense situation, but I would like to have the option to end the fight with a well placed front kick then relying solely on my ability to fight in my opponents range, where weapons can come into play. "Point karate" has really done wonders to delegitimize karate as a self defense MA.
Yet i believe is Point Karate,or at least the way it was done before,that is the best to develop the unique karate skills. It is basically an unarmed version of fencing,far related to boxing and savate due to shared ancestry.
They ,like fencing,also tend to develop timing,distance and movement more than the average thai kickboxing style.
I see your point, however I feel like point karate can teach bad habits, such as not protecting yourself at ALL times. They tend to not leave themselves in a defensive position after executing techniques. However, with a background in some grappling martial art it can be highly effective
Yeah... Wonder Boy the genetic freak + decades of dedication VS. This guy. It would be interesting.
I'd agree, karate and boxing teach some of the same skills. That said, I think point karate could be more effective for self defence IF cross trained with a grappling art, like Wrestling or Judo.
I wanted to come to the comment section and argue for the sake of Karate as well, but I had to take a step back and listen to their approach.
They weren't saying if you trained for 1 year at a random average karate dojo. Not specifically Upstate Karate where you'll be trained by Wonderboy and Papa Ridgehand.
Yes some Karate Dojos are more grounded in reality and do teach a legit form of fighting. However a large number have become "McDojos" and lost credibility.
Track and Field might be the best form of self defense.
1. You can probably out run them.
2. Someone tries to mess with you... On the day you have your pole vault. Youll easily evade your attacker by gaining roof access with eas.
3. Could you imagine fighting someone with a javelin? Not only can you use it close up it actually a range weapon.
I never leave my house without my shotput
@@artemrevelskyI carry a discus in the buff, no one messes with me.
The smell of feet in my running shoes knock people out real quick.
Gunfu
Then making money is the best self-defense.
Brilliant to see you raise awareness of KUDO again! Many thanks from the UK KUDO FED 🔥👍 Great video, he clearly knows his stuff
Most people don't know how to take a punch, even fewer people know how to take a kick. The ability to take out your opponent outside their reach should definitely be considered too. A solid roundhouse to the leg and the average dude is down like a sag of potatoes.
Always felt low kicks were under rated. They're extremely painful, but at the same time they won't knock someone out or put them in the hospital- so in a way they could be a great "warning shot" for someone to back off.
That, and it looks better in court than punching someone in the face.
Glad my karate sensei taught me that and he’s right nobody has really been punched in the face
@NickKano11 and leg kicks are also low risk high rewards. You dont need to commit so much when you throw a leg kick, but they hurt like hell after 3-4 hits.
@@jagkanlagapasta they hurt after 1 hit! 😂
But the number of people with training in has gone way up and you’ll run into a lot of us who know how to check a kick. On the other hand with the training comes knowing how to check a kick. So yes valuable but not the ultimate weapon you make it out to be
Wow excellent interview and great breakdown of the different arts! Thank you! 🥊🥊🥋
18:14 the gentleman is talking about "Only the Strong" with Marc Dacascos.
The Quest
I enjoy these tier lists, especially when they are debated by people from completely different perspectives and backgrounds. Very cool idea for a video, and the guest had some interesting experiences to draw upon while rating these different martial arts.
It's so great to see another video from you. We missed you Rokas!
Awesome video!
This felt like a solid talk on the topic. Well done, officer!
dang, was really expecting the sanda and kempo ranking
So happy to see kudo getting some love
Boxing and judo is all you need. Maybe, a little of BJJ if you can't find a judo dojo.
Best striking, best grappling. It's why both are common sights in prisons as well.
I’ve been doing Boxing for 2 years (it’s my first and only art) and I was thinking about starting Judo or Jiu!! It’s a good combination right ?
@@Solid-Old For self-defence, totally! In addition to the judo throws mentioned in the video, you'll be surprised at how effective foot sweeps can be to end a confrontation. The problem with BJJ is you're grappling on the ground; it's ineffective self defence.
@@Solid-Old I practice judo/boxing combination. Try it.There will be a new world opening in front of you. 🙂
JuDo doesn’t teach you how to sprawl though
Working 15 years in public transportation security, I can honestly say that using Wing Chun defense in a train while 2 heavy set eastern european trying to put my lights out simultaneously on a subway train was nullified,(and who both eventually ran away), and Aikido nagawaza arm throw and arm lock on the ground subdued a shirtless drug induced individual on the platform, and this then became my "go to technique" - especially when the assailant(s) can only squirm on the ground like a fish, and biting punching,spitting, and kicking doesn't do anything to solid concrete. Multiple attackers is where boxing and escrima (defense stick) can be employed. A fellow Patrol Guard from France who was a semi professional kickboxer with a very small frame had the nickname "Van Dam" and the patrol boots surprised many unsuspecting aggressors, so it's about timing, application and intention - and you will be able to defend yourself with: ALL OF THE ABOVE listed in this video.
Good to see you after a long time! You are looking great and thank you for the wonderful video. Btw, would've been great if you guys talked about Chinese Sanda (Sanshou). But still great though!
It beat me in tkd
Kickboxing most of the time allows knees.
I have around 17,000 clips of self defense fights. I have closely studied all of them. Using the knees is very common. It is also the single biggest failing technique in my entire collection with a 99.999% failure rate. I think I have maybe two examples of the successful use of knees, and in these cases the knees attack the side of the head from a third man (2-on-1 situations). But every self defense course teaches them.Why do knees almost entirely fail? First, most people do not have the hip flexor strength or hip extension to produce the necessary power. Second, good power requires that we go up on the toes as we extend the hips, but it is dangerous to go up on the toes in self defense situations. We always want to keep our hips low. This is very basic and very important. Overall, it is a big mistake to think of SD fighting as being in any way similar to sportsfighting and sparring. They are as different as meat and vegetables. If someone is in bent-over a position to be kneed, it makes much more sense to just push or drag him to the ground and then kick him. The use of clothes to drag and pull is a very important part of SD fighting and is a feature of perhaps more than 90% of all SD fights.
@@stmartinhk Very interesting. Where can I read more about this study?
@@Traps510 It is my own study. As i said, i have 17,000 clips of self defense fights that I have studied.
@stmartinhk OK. What else were you're findings? Any other interesting statistics that you discovered?
That's Dutch kickboxing
Took a self defense seminar with him at sbg Athens. Awesome seminar. I remember that illegal judo throw he thought. Love judo.
Excellent 👏
It would be interesting if you could get Erik Paulson to do one if these. He's always seemed really knowledgeable about a lot of different martial arts
@LouisianaMechanic
I do not know much about groundfighting but I do know that Erik Paulson is a real handful. To my amazement he can relate empty hand kali and chi sao to groundwork.
Merci de la vidéo. Cela confirme l'importance des coups de têtes comme en Lethwei et au Sambo.
Another thing which caught my attention was Paul talking about wrestler, who also emphasize boxing. This reminds me of Ramsey Dewey, who talked about learning both grappling and striking, I think Ramsey was saying the situation could change from a striking situation to a grappling situation, or a grappling situation to a striking situation. So the situation in a fight is fluid
I would love to do boxing but the brain trauma you develop overtime with sparring whether light or hard is a throw off for me :(
I understand what you are saying about the brain trauma however I have never been in a fight were some guy was not trying to hit me in the head. yeah gotta have an answer for it..
Rokas, perhaps your next comparison video should be based on 6 months to a year’s training, two to three times a week.
I LOVE this idea
I can see why he ranked Karate low, and all those Mcdojos are to blame; but if you train honestly and give Shotokan its due, then its ability to put an opponent down with one well placed shot is something he forgets; since its not just punching but also elbows and knees, just like the May Thai guys use. Shotokan teaches you to get in fast, deal a powerful blow and get out as fast as you went in, seems an ideal way to deal with a mugger if you have to! By the way, I train with Shotokan Karate of America, Mr Ohshima's organization, and I would never want to try to take on any of his black belts!
Season 3 of the championship needs a college/US-Folkstyle Wrestler
Preferably a "pure" 1 without much cross training for control
Would love to see what you think of/ where you rank hapkido-especially with your aikido background. I'll begin my studies of it starting next week, but I'm aware it has a...mostly questionable reputation in the martial arts world, at best
well you wristlock into literal somersaults in the air which kinda beats aikido tbh
Top👊🏼, a very good talk👏🏼
some legit analysis here, thank you sir for making this..
yeah I totally agree, BJJ is great as a sport and martial art. But for self defence... You need to be aware that some moves are just not safe to pull on the street.
Then stop training sport jujitsu and focus more on Gracie/mma jujitsu.
@@HaroldBluetooth-uz1zz Well not everyone trains jiu jitsu for self defence. Some people just wants to train as a hobby or just to exercise. If you want to train jiu jitsu for self defence then you'll need to be aware that not everything you learn at a jiu jitsu gym is for a street fight.
@@jiujitsumemoir True. That’s why I really enjoy the gym I go to. They kinda cater to cops and military so they have more of a self defense system rather than pure sport. You just have to find the right gym.
Bjj breaks the 2 biggest rules of self defense. Keep your attacker at arms length and stay on your feet
@@conor7179 First Off, those are not rules. You either want to be right outside of the guys reach or completely within. The middle ground is where you get his. Secondly, bjj does not teach sitting down for self defense. If you actually this sport bjj is what we preach for self defense then you are a moron.
You have to know people who have been in combat to know how to truly defend yourself. They have to be seasoned to be a true master. Great video.
You really should make separate categories for Dutch Kickboxing and American when you carry out these interviews.
It would save a lot of time with the explanations and get us more specific answers.
Agree! Even more so French kickboxing (Savate) is more of a kickboxing style than the previous two. Yet it's little known outside of France or even the rest of Europe.
I did boxing and taekwondo in college. Very true about boxing. It really showed me, I'm going to get hit, but tough through it and throw your combos. My instructor for taekwondo really focus on the basics. I believe taekwondo helped me a lot with my footwork and balance. Instructor was always yelling, KICK HARDER. I got a little practice with Hapkido, feels like Aikido trying to be like BJJ. Was interesting but I didn't continue with it. I want to find a Judo and Muay Thai school in the future and train in it. Get my kids to train in it too. I was interested in Jeet Kune Do in the past and found a school, but left very fast. From what it sounds like, they were point sparring and learning too much.
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." -Bruce Lee
Crash course Air Force Combative Programs was interesting. Super quick, learn to jab, cross, choke, and try to not get choke or pin. I remember the instructor saying, if we ever have to go hands-on, it's probably a shitty day because 95% of us were from support units. LOL T_T
Totally agree with this guy, I was amateur boxer in highschool back in the 80s and 90s, and got so much respect from winning streetfights until I watched the first UFC in 94 and started taking Gracie jujitsu in 95, and got to use it in a few streetfights that combo of boxing and bjj is all you need to be formidable
Why so many fights ?
@@Cuffsmaster I was hanging around the riff raff crowd
Kickboxing and wrestling is really all you need
I still say we need to separate karate into 2 categories at least, Japanese karate, and Okinawan karate. A Japanese karate *usually doesn't have close fighting, grappling, throws, etc. a traditional Okinawan karate, kept all of that (for the most part)
Nice discussion. 👍
It's kind of impossible to grade MAs because it all comes down to HOW they train. I studied Japanese jujitsu and judo at the Houston Budokan and it was a very traditional school. But we grappled a lot and we also would have to spar against someone boxing (with gloves) on while we could only use judo and jujitsu. So when you say "I went to a school for this or that and it's not physical enough"....that all depends where you're training.
Hey Rokas,
When you talk about TKD in these videos is it the Olympic WTF or the more traditional ITF style? I think there's a big difference given the WTF is more of a sport.
28:00 Sensei Seth and Jesse Enkamp would like to have a word 🤣
I have had a LOT of success using Karate, but I also lucked out with my sensei, and the substyle they taught being combat-focused rather than sport focused...
Thank you bro
Seth and Jesse have both addressed that “karate” is overall very poor for self defense because most places don’t teach it very well.
It’s sad because if you look the Kata and study what the original applications were meant to be, Karate should be VERY effective for self defense. Unfortunately most Karate schools today don’t teach applications and many that do teach applications are terrible applications and don’t do any pressure testing of any kind.
Thankfully there’s a small but growing movement of practical Karate so hopefully this may change in a decade or two
@@alexanderren1097 indeed so. by pure happenstance My sensei was one that was obsessed with applicability and warring-states-period Karate/Jiu-jitsu, and also required all students (even little ones) to spar every class in order to rank passed green belt (weeding out the tryouts), and who'd been taught by an american-born japanese man who; in order to reconnect with his heritage, but also inspired by the then-new-Kung Fu Icon Bruce Lee; traveled back to japan and learned karate at a 'revivalist' school, trying to reconstruct and teach non-ritual, actual combat as it was done by the Samurai... then brought that back to (Wisconsin? IDK, we were in AZ at the time...)
It's fascinating, and wild, while researching, to see how radically the Japanese Martial Arts changed after Japan was unified, and the samurai all but stopped fighting: only a small portion participated in policing, with most considering fighting non-samurai to be beneath them (and they didn't really know how to fight without killing).
A lot of folk forget how many whole generations of Samurai never set foot on a battlefield, and before the Caste was wholly dissolved, the last generation or two didn't even fight duals to the death, which were outlawed by then, (though even those had become so ritualized by then as to be basically unrelated to actual combat. some even argued that modern kendo is more combative than some of the last duals were).
Interestingly, TKD has a traditional, combat-oriented form as well, which is hardly recognizable as TKD at all... it's a pretty common phenomenon with the older styles, really.
Love these ranking videos! Gotta gey my coffee and watch this in peace haha
hey rokas, I was wondering if you could make one of your tier list videos but classify the martial arts according to danger for the practitioner. Just an idea 😅
Also also, had the pleasure of training with Junior Wilson at Carlson Gracie in the UK some years ago. Totally agree.
From personal experience, I don't think you can underestimate the efficacy of low kicks in any style. Boxers unaccustomed to low kicks will at worst lose their base/mobility and at best be distracted. Conversely, many styles do not punch to the face like boxing and that works in reverse.
The Canadian your guest mentioned was probably Jean-Yves Thériault.
Really enjoyed this. I feel it’s tough not to put mma at the top. It wasn’t really explained why not.
Re bjj, I’m a brown belt and did agree whole heartedly with the analysis but I would have also like to have heard a ranking for the Art as Helio/Carlson intended/taught
Something I rarely see demontrated against an experienced opponent in striking, kickng,elbows and grappling but with the additional skill of "Sticking-hands" (someone like Erik Paulson). How would the skilled striker do against another striker whose main game is to not let you have control of your hands and feet after initial contact is made?
Great conversation with an informed and articulate speaker. Very nice!! 💯 Please check out Ken Ryu Jujutsu - Traditional Japanese Martial Art. 🙏
Kudo and sambo are the most complete. Striking+throws+submission
Sanda is close striking+throws
Judo doesn't have ground work? lol it's called Newaza and it has Chokes, Pins & Arm locks
This is the best of these ranking videos I've seen.
It uses the criteria I consider the best. How legit would fighting skills be of the average person after training 1 year at the average, typical school for each style.
Even though I train primarily BJJ, I would only rank it C+ only because I've discovered most schools no longer have something like the classic "Gracie Combatives" as part of their curriculum.
The school awarding me a blue belt required competency in these self defense skills as about 30% of the requirements for that belt. The rest was classic Gracie "rice and beans" BJJ, which is still mostly applicable for self-defense fighting. No pulling guard, flying cool-slick-whatever ninja moves.
My current school offers 2 classes a week focused on self-defense and fighting skills, often including someone putting on gloves and training with punches.
I've been at other schools that claim they teach self defense, but in practice they may teach a "self defense" technique every few weeks, and my opinion this is kind of lip service to it so they can put "self defense" on their marketing material. Sad.
gracie jiu-jitsu is already separate from brasilian jiu-jitsu? Lol.
As a russian I must say systema is a scam. I guess some competent trainers under systema umbrella filled it with some actual useful moves, but in its original vbersion it was bullshido.
And somehow systema is more famous that sambo and combat sambo in the west? I mean those are legit real martial arts, instead of "top secret KGB military deadly martial style".
Good video
I trained a fair bit of Japanese Jujitsu - we did competitions and a lot of pressure testing with multiple attackers - depending on the club it gets pretty intense
If one wants to train Judo and BJJ to become good at fighting, what would the best gyms be?
I describe boxing like the myth of the blind kung fu master who's sense are heightened because he's blind. Because in boxing you can only use your hands you get a lot more sensitive to understanding timing, distance, speed, reaction, defense, strategy etc.
It might be cool if you added Sumo as one of the options next time you go through this tier list. I'd be interested to see what people think of it.
1:15:00 it's like working out for sports. If you're an athlete, you'll still want to break it down to do leg day, core day, and arm day (or w/e). but you're mostly going to be doing the sport.
Could you do a video on the best martial art for senior citizens for self defense? Thanks!
380 acp
Irish stick fighting because as a senior cit, you can carry a cane and the art is tested in situations you might encounter in the streets.
CZ 75 Shadowboxing
Just to add Newaza is a part of Judo, the club I used to go to was 10min warm up and then 50min of Newaza 😅and a bit of Randori at the end to "warm down"
There's no such thing as "Japanese Jujutsu" in the same way we talk about "Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu". It's not a unified entity. Instead, there are several schools (lineages/styles) of traditional Jujutsu with samurai origins. For example, Kodokan Judo, which influenced Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ), is actually a combination of different Jujutsu styles. The main schools that contributed to Kodokan techniques include Tenshin Shinyō-ryū Jujutsu, Kito-ryū Jujutsu, and Yagyu Shingan-ryū Jujutsu. However, there are other traditional Jujutsu styles that Jigoro Kano trained in and integrated into Kodokan.
Similarly, Aikido itself emerged from a traditional school with samurai origin known as Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu. If you compare these precursor styles, you'll find them quite similar. However, Kano refined and improved the techniques, while Ueshiba degraded the techniques from Daito-ryu, resulting in something more limited and less rigorously tested. 🤣
If you're referring to literal Ninjutsu, it shouldn't even be on this list because Ninjutsu isn't a martial art. The Bujinkan, the largest organization claiming to teach Ninjutsu, is essentially a compilation of 9 traditional Jujutsu styles or variations like Koppojutsu, Dakentaijutsu, etc. (while there are differences between these styles and those that influenced Judo and Aikido, they may not be immediately apparent to outsiders), taught both mixed and separately. However, some of these styles have questionable lineage, particularly the three claiming ninja origins. When they attempt to adapt techniques for modern contexts, it essentially becomes a degraded version, much like what Aikido did with the original Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu form.
Nevertheless, if you mention "Ninjutsu" in reference to Bujinkan or Genbukan, it should still rank higher than Aikido simply because they are essentially Jujutsu schools with the original form preserved (excluding unconventional and questionable modern adaptations), whereas Aikido represents a degradation of the original Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu form, with a possible exception for Shodokan Aikido, which incorporates real-time pressure testing.
Thanks mate, it's a bless to find some culture sometime about what jujutsu is, instead of the usual bla bla and ignorant misconceptions. I would like to add, also partially related to jujutsu, that most of the martial arts were born to fight armed, and somehow try to survive once disarmed, in the end what most people nowday call martial arts were mostly simple sports or violent game for the last 2000 years(look boxe and wrestling in europe and sumo in japan). In the end if someone really want to learn how to defend himself he simply need to learn one style and how to apply it, or choose one concelable weapon and to ise it, stop.
Man this one guy has done it all :)
So which of these is the best Self Defense? Krav Maga, KAPAP, Keysi, Defence Lab or Systema? 😅
Hey really nice video i just wanted to ask your opinion,i was talking with my friends about mma vs boxing for self defence and my friend was saying that mma is better because it has a lot more options as opposed to boxing which is a lot more limited but i was thinking if you take a normal person betwen 25-40 years old that does 9-5 work and trains 2x to 3x per week(1 hour sessions ) for a year you would be much better at boxing than in mma making it kind of more effective for self defense? Because i was at couple sessions in mma gym where we did 30 min grappling and 30 striking and i kind of felt like i didnt learn much?Maybe i need to give it more time anyway thanks for answer
I'm of the same opinion. Boxing is the best bang for your buck, the one that will make you into a competent fighter fastest. I've been training boxing for 2 year, twice a week. The gym where I box is actually a MMA gym that offers a couple of boxing sessions a week. Some of the MMA guys are absolute beasts who could destroy me in any specialized fighting discipline, including boxing, but they basically live at the gym. Once in a while I've light-sparred relative beginner MMA who rarely come to boxing class. Their boxing is really shitty.
I see it like this: defensively, choosing MMA makes sense because you have a lot of options and you won't be completely lost in any aspect of the fight. The strength of boxing is that you'll get really good at what you do, and what you do just might mean knocking out multiple opponents in one shot each. It's high risk, high reward.
The first thing a self defense beginner needs to learn is basic wrestling and how to execute and thwart body locks, single legs, double legs, and head controls both bcs standing grappling is very very common in self defense fights and bcs the worst thing that can happen to you in a fight is that you get picked up and body slammed onto concrete. As for boxing, it has great value bcs it teaches you how to ecnoomically generate hitting power. Just make sure that you practise hitting from cover guards (chin down, shoulders up) bcs a blow to the face/head will finish things and learn to throw tight, targetted punches at close quarters (not time-wasting looping shots). Also note that you will be fighting without gloves, so learn to also makes good use of your big knuckles to the face and to hit USING THE INSIDE OF YOUR FIST against head targets, in particular for high-value targets such as behind the ear or the side of the head. For these, keep your elbow pointed down as you hit. Also, train to have a fist that closes properly so that you do not break it and strong wrists. Get a block of piece of foam, say 5 inches by 5 inches, and practise squeezing it to make a fist. Involve all of your fingers. Make sure the fingers also supprt each other as you squeeze. This is a great exercise.
Basic concepts of judo, boxing, wrestling, Muay Thai pretty good fighter that would want to mess with
I haven’t been to another Japanese jiu jitsu gym but we pressure test. We also do BJJA tournaments to test ourselves as well. I feel like it’s misunderstood and I’d love to talk about it with other people. We must pressure test.
Its not pressure tested as much as BJJ and since he's talking about the streets pressure testing is EVERYTHING. But I'm fully aware what is taught is super effective.
I did Judo for a couple of years there's no way you can do it without pressure testing gravity makes sure of that 😂 When people see Judo in MMA fights they don't realize that same throw would have been KO in the streets hence the Ipon in Judo we get what the martial art is really made for.
I totally agree with his take on how a lot of BJJ gyms don’t emphasize the self defense aspect of it anymore which is really unfortunate.
40:00 I used to work in a recycling center for government electronics. the most effective tool we had was our "big Hammer"... The "Big Hammer" was the ground, btw... 🤣
Hey, why is none of the Martial Arts RUclipsr make a tier list about "best martial arts for recreational exercise" (considering stuff like how well it trains the body, injury risk, easy to do when older etc) or "best martial arts for kids" (considering traini g mobility, building character etc) since those are the majority of people going to the dojo/training hall.
How many really train for self defense??
31:00 "Karate is an F"
1:05:50"Wow Kudo should be an S"
Does he know? 😏🥋
I think it is less about the art and more about the training methodology
@@Diego-hm1wdYeah, that might be a valid reason.
Still is kind of ironic Sharper generalizes all karate schools while giving Kudo (base in kyokushin karate) such a high score.
Perfect example of "It's not the art but the practitioner who matters"
@@mxvrdahegaouwu7577 I 100% agree with you on this, it is always about the practitioner
@@mxvrdahegaouwu7577maybe a lack of knowledge
@@mxvrdahegaouwu7577probably a lack of knowledge of karate remember he said he’s done it for a year
You do not want to hit the ground especially with two attackers. But good to know some judo or wrestling if it comes to that.
I'm by no means an expert but I have trained a few different martial arts.
I completely agree. Judo and boxing are an amazing combination. Bjj is great for competitive sports but judo is better for street fights where you want to avoid going to the ground but still need to have some idea what to do if you end up there
Could you take a look on more chinese martial arts like choy li fut, bajiquan, shui jiao. Also Sanda of course
My JKD class in Waltham ma does a lot of sparring and tend to do live drilling and I can personally say that I notice a difference between my school and other jeet kune do schools. Mostly because we are training « JKD Concepts » from the Dan inosanto lineage.
Muay Thai for the elbows/knees
Boxing for the head movement and footwork
(Both for regular sparring)
14:10 Skull Training is like Iron Hand training. Super hard, Risky, and you have to start young, but it IS possible, through training, to increase the thickness of the front of the skull, such that one no longer fears fractures, and so much that it holds the brain steady, so one isn't as prone to being knocked out, or the brain being damaged much at all.
Most notably, I recall Strongman and Pro Wrestler "Gino Martino" (real name John Ferraro) who, according to wikipedia:
"was featured on the August 19th 2010 edition of The History Channel's Stan Lee's Superhumans. The episode examined his hard skull as well as attempted to explain how he performed his pro wrestling and strongman stunts.
"Ferraro was studied by Harvard Medical School which determined through an MRI that his skull measured 16mm thick, over 2.3 times more than the average human skull, making it one of the thickest skulls ever x-rayed... Stan Lee, nicknamed Ferraro the "Human Anvil", which he has since adopted for his strongman performances. In addition, the episode's title ("Hammerhead") was named after him."
Personally I prefer japanese jujutsu over bjj becouse of the standing aspects in jujutsu where in bjj you only do ground work
I tend to agree with you, BJJ is great for when the fight goes to the ground but Jujutsu is better at keeping you on your feet.
JJJ has zero sparring basically.
@@pinksupremacy6076 i do not know where that misconception comes from but as a practitioner of japanese jujutsu i can say qe do spar every lesson its mostly grapling but we do spar
@@definitlynotbenlente7671 with the purpose of what? Pinning?
That’s not true. Most BJJ teach basic wrestling and Judo
Karate in F tier is wild
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Ive wrestled for 3 years competed in boxing for 3 years and been doing muay thai for 1 year, and never been in a street fight honestly im still not sure if i can fight
Self defense situations are complex and dangerous legal-social situations. People who are predators and don't care less about other people have significant advantages. And they are careful about who they choose to attack. Most self defense situations involve UNFAIRNESS - big on small, young on old, multiple on one, aggressive on retiring, ambushes and sucker punches. If I go to a dojo and watch people train for "self defense" scenarios, the first question I ask myself is "where is the unfairness here?" bcs unfairness is normal in SD situations. If our training does not always include at least the potential for unfairness (A fights B n the car park in a "fair fight" but when A starts to win, B's friend C jumps in) then we are in the world of "sparring" and, dare I say it, LARPing - which gives people a false idea of how these things usually play out. Unfairly. People who are interested in the topic of self defense can benefit from understanding that self defense situations start from legal-social situations in certain environments and that it is these conditions that drive technique and strategy slections. For example, we often see in road rage situations that one guy will get out of this car and stand in the door of this car. He thinks he is safe and protected, but in fact this is one of the word place you can stand. You can't move, escape, generate power. Bad. Never stand in the door of your car. And related to that, if you get out of your car, move over to the sidewalk. do not fight next to traffic, unless you want to go to prison for an accidental homicide,. Anyway, the truth is out there in fight videos on the internet. We need to study them to understand SD. Just armchair speculation is not worth much,
It sounds like you are smart enough to get out of a fight or avoid places where fights are likely to happen. That is the best defense. If it does happen I'm am sure you can handle yourself
I would love to hear his opinion on body strikes,such as shoulder strikes and bumps,like in Baji. I have reason to believe they would be really practical for self defence,and i would like to know what he thinks. I have a playlist as an example of what i mean.
43:10 maybe it was a Kataguruma? Fireman Carry in wrestling.
people like him are arrogant meatheads and will probably dismiss it because it's a chinese martial art. with no regard for how it could be used
Full contact karate like Kyokushin, Ashihara, Ensin.. will work too..
1:08:20 love the ninjutsu LOL eye roll. very common attitude. I was very curious about ninjas like every other kid i knew and I had an opportunity to train Bujinkan Taijutsu(ninjutsu) back in 94-96 for about 18 months. we followed Matsaaki Hatsumi's teachings and read his books. I learned some fun stuff including history, lore and practical applications of the Bujinkan style. there is so much more than what american movies and 80's culture romanticized about it.
The Capoeria movie hes talking about is called Only The Strong
None of these but BodyBuilding (as a deterrent), Recitation (to play confident and being able to talk end deescalate under pressure), Psycotherapy (not to be shy) and Instinct drive (to listen to fear) first... these will minimize the canche of any violent encounter.
Seems like we are missing the ending?
Anyway, being a cop, ask him about where he would rank the various "defensive tactics" courses he had to take himself as a job requirement and were they any good?
Quick question, how do you think Baki x Kangean is going to go?
Good video with honest insight.👍Interesting comment about Japanese Ju-Jitsu not pressure testing and that you can go to a class and not break a sweat.
The Japanese based Ju- Jitsu that I took for many years would. Have you fighting everyday and you would come out of there feeling like a wet paper towel. The physical workrounds were harder than any football camp.
I'm surprised to hear that jeet kune do is choreographed where he practiced. Maybe it's a US thing. When I learned it in China, there was light to medium sparring almost every week. It's a hard style to rank, since it's more a philosophy of incorporating different styles, and building something that works for you. A good school could be S tier, while a poor school could be F tier. It's probably the most varied in terms of quality.
Also, I'm a bit surprised judo is so high. I only tried it for about 2 years, but found a big problem being the jacket. Everything included grips on sleeves and lapels. The throws can be modified to work without, but they still need modification.
Legitimate Krav maga organisations like IKMF, KMW, and KMG are notoriously stingy about coaching badges, grading and giving out belts. Going straight to the poor quality control in the US has become a bit of a lazy trope on this topic. How would Paul like if someone were to rank "police professionalism" based on the what they know about standards in Haiti or New Delhi?
Great advice on using the clinch in a streetfight. A friend of mine had to learn the hard way with a blade in his gut.
Luckily, he survived.
I like what Active Self Protection says.. "The eyes are the windows to the soul, and the hands are the windows to intent."
Training to monitor/feel the belt line for weapons. Learning to stop the draw is very important. 👊
like with all these videos, I feel it really breaks down to the average teaching standard and methods than the style.
Good schools teach well - regardless of style, bad schools teach poorly - regardless of style.
These tier lists might as well be a tier list of average teaching standards by art.
Personally I think its fundamental to learn a striking art, a grappling art, and a weapon awareness art for good self defense and they have to be good schools, with resistance training/sparring.
The arts that actually teach weapon awareness are few and far between sadly - and tend to be limited to either arts like budo taijistu, some traditional juijitsu, HEMA or specialist training courses for police/army/security (most of which are actually involved with one of the above groups)
As a judo blackbelt I'm always happy to see Judo ranked highly - BUT - if you only study Judo, you wont know how to take a punch, and you will have zero weapon awareness (and much of judo technique will leave you very vulnerable to being stabbed in the gut/side)
To be a complete fighter - I think you should study something like Judo(or wrestling). something like boxing(or kickboxing or muay thai) and something that involves weapon and situational awareness (such as HEMA, fencing, or historical based weapon arts from other countries)
Any of these 3 points by them self will leave you with 2 large gaps in your knowledge and skill. Its fine to specialize in the one you enjoy the most of course but study all 3 points to at least a fundamental level.
Further more if you live in a nation with guns being common (or its your job) - a firearms course is ALSO required.
Kind regards - and all the best on your journey all of you.
FYI im a Judo black belt (and lots of other styles studied), former British army engineer. former security/door staff and Ive worked with army special forces and police special operations - now retired from all of that, but I still train gently for my own health/mobility.