One of the first things I learned from you was about removing your self from the danger. I think this is a different situation where this mentality is the appropriate response. Bad training partner? Remove yourself. Bad gym? Remove yourself. I think it's a good idea at least
@From Maui thx for the answer , that's what im doing , muai thai for the strikes and i manage distance pretty well . i train 5 time a week so i start to have good BJJ base , take down and wrestling , im not there yet , but i can see the opportunity while doing strike . i need to train technique more . it 's comin piece by piece , long journey hey ! Peace
The best thing to do if you find a douchebag who always goes too hard and is always trying to hurt you is to talk to the instructor and say that you refuse to spar with that person anymore, and why. Most instructors will be understanding. If it's the whole class, or it's the instructor, then you need to find a new place. But most people, even the scary looking ones, are good people and only there to train just like you. In my school, there is one guy whom I refuse to spar because he cheats and goes too hard. What do I mean by "cheat"?. I mean going to a striking only class where we are wearing closed boxing gloves with MMA gloves and tackling people. (he can grab, we can't). And when he does decide to strike, it's always with a lot of force. Fortunately, it's only one guy out of dozens.
that's why i am afraid , i became very confident in my BJJ , but my striking is mostly from years in the bag ... i know hoe to0 strike but not on ''real '' target kind off, so my defense is not so good , i don't want to ;earn with idiot whop cannot control because im don't know what i can do if i lost control ... i will hurt him for sure .. i go muay tai class and BJJ class , but i never roll with glove on . i got vision with elbow and things that i could do but ...
@@RamseyDewey I should go do that. Also see Bill Wallace before they banned throws in the league he fought in. But I doubt that they have to do that while wearing boxing gloves against someone wearing MMA gloves. After that incident where he surprise flying tackled me and nearly threw my back out, (where our instructions were for a few rounds of light touch sparring) I complained, and they banned MMA gloves, but somehow he kept wearing them. I'm not sure why they weren't banned before. We are not an MMA school. While we do learn grappling, punching and kicking, we don't really combined them at the same time, at least not usually. And we certainly were not at that time, or I wouldn't have been wearing boxing gloves. Finally, he got the touch sparring style gloves, (after a long absence from the school) and I thought that he would be ok to spar, so I gave him another chance. He slipped his fingers out and tried to throw me into the mirror anyway. What's weird is that he's a nice guy outside the dojo. He just can't seem to be honorable when sparring though. Perhaps he feels that he needs to "win", and so must not "lose" at all costs. We both know that isn't the point of sparring though. I'm not the only one who has complaints. The head instructor has apparently sat down and talked with him 5 times due to various complaints, but won't kick him out.
@@damabjjfloramax9498 Learning how to hit targets that are trying not to be hit is really the heart of striking though. Learning how to hit sparring partners without sending them to the hospital is mastery of striking. But you'll never get there only striking the bag, or only striking the air. Yes you will be hit, but you have to communicate to your partner what is an acceptable level. If you are new, they will go easy on you. If it ramps up too hard, don't be afraid to ask them to tone it down. If they refuse, or worse, accept, but then don't actually do it, don't feel bad about refusing to accept them as a training partner. There are good partners, and bad partners. But you have only one body, and getting injured over pride is the worse way. A good partner will try to work with you. Try to work with them back, and you'll learn a lot.
@@RamseyDewey I heard from my Sanda coach that we are starting to adopt Muay Thai style kicks instead of snap kicks despite our point system because we found that we wouldn't get thrown even when we get caught if we kicked the crap out of their thighs. Is that true? He's also said a bunch of other things I can't remember even something about new ways to fight in clinches. Might ask you about it after my next training session.
that's right ! no guard pulling for tha streetzz and no lalala i grab your collar , i put it in your wrist , i turn on the left , lalala jackie chan ... that don't work on tha streetzz
Martial Arts styles exist to hone SPECIFIC skills for sport, generally Part of that is sportsmanship, humility and discipline Which is why Martial Arts is good for kids, generally
Well said, I can't tell you how much he said is true. Took me a while but I managed to find people that shared similar interests mma wise by going out. Might be harder with covid, that said it's not impossible to find like minded individuals. One of our great strengths as humans is to network and socialize. Hope it goes well for you!😊
It's not about the style/type of martial art, it's all about the coach and the way he/she manages the gym. Humans are competitive by nature and even the most gentile and relaxed persons can get a bit aggressive during sparring if not properly trained and supervised.
i seldom see or get injuries during rolling or sparring almost all my injuries come from drilling or sequencing. it seems like the body does its thing and protects itself when you're allowing it to, but when your in that weird space of overthinking how somthing should be done and trying to do it at the same time thats when things go bad. or when your being the receiving partner (Uki) and just being a floppy body and someone tries somthing harder than your expecting.
For sure LALALA meant the Gi "4 da Streets", lol. Most UFC fighters are well versed in many martial arts just go to any MMA fighters channel and easily see them in multiple facets of their training with probably includes boxing, kickboxing, BJJ/Judo, Wrestling, etc,.... When I practiced Judo I remember I used to return home with many many injuries , sometimes it was my fingers all busted, my arms after an armbar that was kept for to long or a badly throw technique that hurt my back, or simply choose the wrong Randori partner (its like finding a dance partner).... Sure there are really bad people that are in it to hurt others but to tell you the truth, that didn't made me quit the sport, and at least in my experience not everyone was like that. Great topic Coach!!
thx for the knowledge mate , yea gi is lalala i grab your wrist , i turn the clothes , i turn your arm around... i choke you with the collar .. man i hate Gi , i have swallow my pride and go back for more GI , but it doenst work in tha streetzz , thats false confidence and bullshit in my opinion. The more injury i am afraid is heel hook , leg lock .. im not there yet but slowly im getting there peace
Great stuff coach! You should make more of your bjj sparring sessions while doing commentary over them. Saw some amazing moves in the background. Amazing striking drills as well especially with elbow frames and elbow blocks
Yeah I don't buy that reasoning either. From what I have been witnessing MMA fighters are really usually pretty cool people and they're not out to harm people. I fully agree with you I think that coach had some kind of bad experience in her past
I love the gi. People tend to wear clothes. And the gi is functionally close to what I'm wearing usually. It isn't less "realistic" than pretending to fighting like we were naked Ken Dolls. And the end of the day only one thing matters wich sport you enjoy the most. I find clothes technics and grip fighting much more interesting and i have much more fun with it then hooking my arms and arm wresstling. Also great video, i love the sparring in the backround. Also my arm is injured because of somebody who don't know how to handle a smaller noob.
i don't like the Gi , it;'s a lot of LALALA , false sence of confidence , they all say it work ... i'm not convince at all ,\especially spider guard , guard pull , this type of rubbish .. well it's my opinion , you don't see no spider guard in the octagon . hey !! he answered me !! sick !!! i just do class sparing with glove and kick , and BJJ , separetely shame
@@damabjjfloramax9498 guard pulling is awsome. If There is a guy who had been traning judo since he was borned. He is an olimpic champion. You can render 80% of his skills useless by pulling guard. You don't see much anymore because laying on the floor or crawling like a spider isn't legal anymore. Also you are loosing points for being at the bottom
@@katokianimation im trying to learn bjj for mma , i don't really understand or care about point . pulling guard is dumb and dangerous , i was so surprised when it happen the first time , you do dat on dat street ... you gonna get bashed bad . i really not a fan of guard pulling , but i know , when roll multiple time , it;s easier to start on floor and enjoy the roll ... very badd habbit imo
Best form of martial arts thats safe and effective is public discourse. It requires years of practice to get good at and a human proficient at it can defeat a nation or his own weak self. No replacement for it. No physical injury, but a lot of potential for psychological trauma.
Hey Ramsey. Here in California, where I live, Corona virus cases are off the charts. It is the state with the most amount of corona virus in the US. Last Friday I went to an MMA gym, tried out Muay Thai for the first time, and I really really enjoyed it. When I went back home, I was scolded by my parents and they said that I shouldn't be going out during a time like this, and since I was on a free trial at the MMA gym, I need a parents permission/signature saying that if I get injured I can't sue them, and things like that. I am really upset that I can't train MMA right now. I am 15 years old, and I just feel like I am wasting my life. I want to be some sort of MMA pro fighter when I grow up, but at this time in my life, I feel like 15 is kind of an old age to start. I mean you look at people like Justin Gaethje or Khabib, and they started grappling when they were like 4-5 years old. Even someone like McGregor started boxing when they were my age, and I am about to turn 16 this December. I feel like when I grow up, and I want to compete at their level, I'm gonna have a late start in every department, striking, wrestling, jiu-jitsu. What should I do in my scenario?
i started bjj at 35 , im a killa sky is the limit , you never know , gaethje didnt have long striking experience .less than 10 year in training. same as kabib , they were wrestler , but they don't have striking or someone like MAx or silva for exemple. Work your craft , i wish i was 15 , im 37 , ufc and dream are behind, still i still train 6 time a week. we all have dream , peace
The biggest thing the GI does for me is it forces me to slow down and manage my frustration. It's harder to advance position in a Gi because of grips. It creates frustration, which creates mistakes. In MMA, things don't always go your way and you have to learn to manage your frustration in the fight. The GI simulates this for me.
that's the only reason why in swallow my pride at the moment and go for Gi class as well , damn i don 't like that collar , but as you say it makes me slow down heaps and think more. and manage my frustration and pride ..
The worst I've ever been hit was in a professional ballet rehearsal, not sparring in boxing. I was spinning my partner and she elbowed me with a downward slashing elbow in the bridge of the nose.
I'll be honest, as an outsider to both bjj and mma, one thing that would worry me in training is injury. As could effect my career. Not intentional injury of course, but just by accident when grappling with a fellow student. ( not so much strike injury, that does not worry me, more like a shoulder injury or neck or back is what would worry me). I wonder, how common are these kinds of injury among students?
Finger and toe injuries are the most common. Then knee injuries. Then neck issues (usually, but not always exacerbated pre-existing neck and spinal conditions, often as a result of a sedentary lifestyle) And in spite of having dislocated my left shoulder twice, shoulder injuries are less common.
yea at the gym they all like , i broke this and that and this im like aRE you crazy >>?>? im niot trying to break anything and be proud of it fouck that , journey is still far from the top , getting injured as a white belt ,....
@@RamseyDewey thanks. I do have an old back injury and perhaps the number one reason people quit my proffession is shoulder injury so glad you did not mentiin shoulder as common or serious. When i did akido and karate i was told my shoulders are freaky double jointed level of supple so maybe i will be okay. But sedrntary life style is perhaps the point you made that wilk be most helpful to me. For sure i should get in decent physical shape before i take the plunge. I am thinking weights and swimming. And perhaps lose a bit of weight. I could injure a fellow student just falling on them at the moment 😉
If I ever went to a martial arts class someone puts me in an arm lock, I tap out and they break my arm, I sure would never come back. Might try to see the gym.
Hey Coach Ramsey, I have a question. Have you ever experienced fighter guilt? By this I mean you got in the ring or cage, got the knockout, but then felt guilty that you just shorten the career or even the life of another human being. And of so, do you have suggestions as to how to overcome this guilt?
Honestly, rough partners, if you can endure them, are some of the best partners there can be. Because they allow you to develop one crucial martial arts skill, that is required both for competition and for street: subduing and controlling a dangerous, aggressive oponent or minimize your injury in case you failed. You can say all you want about sportsmanship and spirit of competition, but fighting dirty and rough is not a new thing. Wether by accident or malice, by abusing the rules or breaking them. I had a partner, who was basically hated in three gyms he attended in a loop after being thrown out from the previous one due to the way he grapples. Nobody taught me more about Ju in Judo more then this guy. Either directly by sharing parts of his enormous expirience (20 years of Judo, 20 years of Karate, freestyle wrestling in university, military background and 20 years of body guarding) or indirectly by trying to kill me. After that guy, every other grappler I ever encountered was somewhere between "angry toddler" and "mild annoyance". Not to mention his indirect, but enormous contributions to my then future Karate and all time favorite Muay Thai by basically showing in practice how you use strikes to unbalance your opponent. It is one hell worth visiting
Subduing and controlling is not something you learn properly if there isn't some BS trick up a guys sleeve you have to be prepared for. And it is a skill a lot of fighters lack. Because there is a difference between "there is nothing legal this guy can do" and "there is nothing this guy can do"
My gym is advertised as an MMA gym, but we just have classes for BJJ, wrestling and Kickboxing (mixed with some Muay Thai, Jun Fan, etc), but very few do MMA sparring or sparring in general - outside of regular class times. In fact, it is pretty much just me, the head coach, a few of the other coaches and my teammate that started when I started (turns out that people in general just don't like getting hit in the head).
I started ninjutsu martial arts Japanese Jujutsu and nimpo bugei Ryu. Some years ago. They closed down due to covid. And have started bjj locally it's not the same but there are similarities been doing this just a month or so. In both disciplines I have never met any one who trained wanted to hurt their training partner, as in time no-one else would train with them. Yes accidents happen and mistakes, but not intentional full on fights it's just training and sparing. Firstly for exercise, knowledge and social interaction. Hope it helps
Well yes and no. Even though the mentality, ideology or whatever you want to call it behind Tai chi is not about harm. The history of it is far from 100% peaceful, in fact, pretty much ALL of the Chinese martial arts comes with the intent of offence. Shao Lin kung fu, Tai Chi, ba gua chan, all of them has history connected to fights, wars. Martial arts is like fencing, there's always a side of offence cus that's kinda what it's meant for.
My old coach tried a series of striking classes over a number of years, MT, MMA, boxing, and it was always the same. Initial interest, small peak, and then ultimately died out. Conversely, I knew another coach who was against having an MMA class in his BJJ school. His compromise however, was to implement 1-2 classes per week that focused on combat JJ. That seemed to work out better, but it still died out. I think MMA schools that offer BJJ is the solution, as opposed to BJJ schools that offer MMA.
I'm almost certain I can win most fights against people in the streets but since I've done martial arts I haven't been in a street fight because I don't like getting hurt. I don't like hurting people. And especially in striking, people can get lucky so best not to risk it
Not convinced about the Gi. If only there was a non Gi option. If only. Anything like Judo, Aikido, Jujitsu... if you hit someone with a planet over and over, they will fail a breakfall eventually and get hurt.
I do wonder why exactly i'm more interested in the more 'realistic' martial arts where you actually learn how to fight like MMA. I don't need to know how to fight, yet learning it is just more fun than something like points-karate.
Great topic. MMA folks are getting unfairly stereotyped when in my experience the bad attitude types can appear in any combat sport training school or style.
It is not unfair, but it is because of the internet MMA fanbois trolls, all I can say that MMA is surrounded by negativity, at least the image. While there're bad persons everywhere but MMA fanbois are the loud ones. I myself reject MMA culture because of that. If just want to mix between martial arts, I can do it myself without disrespecting, degrading or looking down at any martial arts, without looking for trouble in martial schools/dojos/gym and without joining any MMA club/gym/tournaments. MMA now is a cult, soon it will become like TMA.
To simplify, a gi is a jacket, if someone is wearing a jacket, you can use those same grips and throws without much issue. The stiffer the jacket the better. It can also be applied to baggy clothing in general Edit: he was talking about MMA training so my comment is a little out of place.
Training in thick winter jackets is much better then Imo gi isn't as comfortable as jacket or t shirt. Especially the belt keeps coming off every round lol Even in striking arts, I once threw the high straight kick in tkd and the belt came flying at my face, luckily I tucked my chin and it hit my skull instead of the eye loool
*Hi, coach I have a question* I am 17 and I would like to improve my wrestling specifically for MMA. I want to focus on wrestling because as you'll know almost all the fighters that could be considered the goat can attribute a great ammount of their success to wrestling, whether it be offensively or defensively. And the greatest fighters ever (GSP and Khabib) are very wrestling focused. I live in the UK so I am currently limited to wrestling schools and good competition, however there is a wrestling school near me that I intend on going to. What I am asking is how does someone who does not have an extensive background in wrestling, who doesn't live in a wrestling heavy region, and is starting wrestling somewhat late, develop top level MMA wrestling? Such as GSP. Bare in mind I'm more than willing to move countries and take other big steps in the future, in pursuit of this goal. Thanks, Ramsey. Have a good day.
100% Facts! There will always be those people that do damage to their training partners...whether on purpose or by accident. You can also learn from these people...how better to protect yourself under pressure and how not to be a dick in training!
Why does one seek to learn martial arts in the first place? One's answer speaks volumes about their character. This is not something for the undisciplined.
There is no martial arts or other sports where you dont get hurt ( maybe board games) . I have got broken noose, broken ribs, joints out of place. I started ad 7 years old with Goju Ryu karate till 20 years ( i am now 49 years old) back i get back problems and had to stop. Greetings from the Netherlands. 🤘🤘
Hey Ramsey I hop you're doing well. Dunno if you remember me but I'm the "BJJ ruined my self esteem" guy from around a year ago. Im doing my second year of Journalism and am doing an article on Khabib's retirement and I was wondering if I could do a short interview with yourself over a voice call of some kind?
Recognize toxic training environments asap and stay away from them. Make sure the people you train with are all on the same page when it comes to safe and effective training.
Regarding what you said about Matt bullies, whem I in high school my brother was a matt bully. So I got bigger stronger and better at wrestling than him to get him to stop. It worked quite well
I hold a blue belt in rank. Belt colour is overrated I just try to be my best and also alot of my best friends fight in the cage and are among the most kindest and intelligent people ☺️
I got injuries even from my Aikido classes ... lol and I've met way nicer peopleand training partners in my KB gym than in my former TKD and Aikido gyms respectively, that's more of a lottery than related to the MA/Sport itself.
I feel like martial arts where hierarchy is formed primarily through seniority tend to breed bad attitudes, whereas ones that feature constant pressure testing tend to keep their practitioners more grounded and humble.
It's actually easier for bullies to hide in Aikido because of ranks and the non-existent of sparring. If you try to rock the boat, you might be labelled as a troublemaker.
@@peterwang5660 Actually, all Aikido works. It builds the foundation, but making it work in an actual situation requires flexibility and self awareness.
She may also have a concern about including MMA, because she has no striking background and has no one she trusts to teach the stand up. AND/or maybe she has a lot of promotions for kids classes and having full on MMA “might” turn off potential paying parents.
i didn't want to dig more by fear to be irespectful , she is world champ BJJ , gi and No gI , She also mention me that SHE wanted someone with actual experience to teach us , not any average dude .. now i just do class of muay tai and class of Bjj , it ;s just i would like someone to help me mixed the 2 . not in my imagination if i can say ..
Clearly you've never done Kravmakido, no one gets injured there. No one... On a serious note, I completely agree. I do think that it's not helped by the theatrics of MMA that encourages like arrogant displays are trash talking and "ruffian behaviour". Coz a lot of young mma students look to these fighters and mimic the theatrics rather than the technicals turning them into loud mouth, trash talking ruffians rather than disciplined fighters. Atleast, that is my observation
You sir are a good person with a great gym so there is a heaven of righting. For injuries prehab is the the solution. I tried a bjj and eas the worst place full of people with a bid of their self inonly see big egos. While I did boxing muay Thai or judo this nevee happened. I meamt we have some jerk but in this bjj gym all were jerks.
I had my ribs kicked by a sparring partner that doesn't know what easy sparring is, and then in bjj my rib did a ripping sound. Now i have to be out of training... Do you have any tip to protect my ribs better?
Elbows in connected to you body on impact, and time your breathing so you forcefully exhale about 20% while contracting your abdominal muscles on impact.
When it comes to 'those kinds' of guys, look at attraction and filters. Aikido, etc., will generally attract fewer jerks, but also is bad at filtering them out. BJJ tends to attract more jerks, but it's great at filtering them out. MMA, wrestling and boxing attract the most jerks, but also filter most of them out. Regardless, so much comes down to the particular culture of the gym/dojo, etc. If you smell palpable testosterone and 90% of the guys are in their 20s and have bacne, maybe train somewhere else. It all comes down to what you're looking for. It sounds like your instructor wants more of a safe space. There's nothing wrong with that, but it does put limitations on the experiences you can have there.
Yes we find bas people in bjj even if it is a minority. I remember 1 wild guy, very athletic, who, during his first day, litteraly jumped on me in a randori, he was so aggressive it was like a street fight. Finally 1 month later he was punched in the balls by his partner during a randori. It was very very painful for him and he never came back. Btw the only one experience with him was very instructive in how to deal with extremely agressive person, but I had a dozen of bruises almost everywhere (nothing serious) .
Honestly? BJJ should attract mat bullies quicker than any striking art. I say "should" because a mat bully is honestly, first and formost, a moron, so they would probably have trouble figuring this out anyway. But what sounds better if your goal is to actually do harm just for fun? Learning how to dodge, and parry, and counter, while you slowly wear someone down with strikes? Or you learn how to leverage someone's joints out of their sockets the second they put themselves out of position? Maybe there's something to beating someone that I don't get because I am not this way, but the latter sounds WAY more instantly gratifying for such a sick mindset to me.
At 5:33 I see you and your students are doing a multiple attacker type exercise. Let me ask you, what is your opinion on the subject? Some martial artists insist it is a fantasy invented by Hollywood and a single defender could never possibly beat two, three or more attackers. Do you agree with them? Were you just messing around here, or did you take that exercise seriously? I do know the smart thing for the defender is to leave, but it is fun to contemplate these scenarios. Let's say, purely hypothetically, just for the fun of it, that the outnumbered single guy for whatever reason decided to stay and fight. If he was athletic, had the right training and had enough of it, do you think he could take on two, three or more attackers and prevail?
I have to disagree with his BJJ coach. Martial arts and specially BJJ is one of the best ways to turn a jerk into a decent human being. That actually makes me wonder, does a martial art coach(or any coach) has the responsability to teach morals as well as fighting and generally try to turn people into the best version of themself in any aspect of their life ?
Hmmmm I don't buy it as well 🤔🤔 striking is as good as grabbling she can't cross that out. I think she should try another gym cause I started to doubt the bjj that this instructor is teaching 😅😅maybe it is not that bad but I don't know why I had this feeling 😅😅
belt are overrated , so many purple belt and above hidding against the wall waiting to be fresh before a roll , never put themselves in embarrassing POSITION always avoid roll very often . i m still withe belt , but don't worry , they see me coming fast at their level.
This title can't be more true.
One of the first things I learned from you was about removing your self from the danger. I think this is a different situation where this mentality is the appropriate response. Bad training partner? Remove yourself. Bad gym? Remove yourself. I think it's a good idea at least
but my gym is awesome , just no m ma class , i do muay tai and bjj . i want to learn to mix both
@From Maui thx for the answer , that's what im doing , muai thai for the strikes and i manage distance pretty well . i train 5 time a week so i start to have good BJJ base , take down and wrestling , im not there yet , but i can see the opportunity while doing strike . i need to train technique more . it 's comin piece by piece , long journey hey ! Peace
Damn this guy has such a narrative voice
The best thing to do if you find a douchebag who always goes too hard and is always trying to hurt you is to talk to the instructor and say that you refuse to spar with that person anymore, and why. Most instructors will be understanding. If it's the whole class, or it's the instructor, then you need to find a new place. But most people, even the scary looking ones, are good people and only there to train just like you.
In my school, there is one guy whom I refuse to spar because he cheats and goes too hard. What do I mean by "cheat"?. I mean going to a striking only class where we are wearing closed boxing gloves with MMA gloves and tackling people. (he can grab, we can't). And when he does decide to strike, it's always with a lot of force. Fortunately, it's only one guy out of dozens.
You should watch some sanda fights. Fighters here in China get ridiculously good at doing takedowns with boxing gloves on.
that's why i am afraid , i became very confident in my BJJ , but my striking is mostly from years in the bag ... i know hoe to0 strike but not on ''real '' target kind off, so my defense is not so good , i don't want to ;earn with idiot whop cannot control because im don't know what i can do if i lost control ... i will hurt him for sure ..
i go muay tai class and BJJ class , but i never roll with glove on . i got vision with elbow and things that i could do but ...
@@RamseyDewey I should go do that. Also see Bill Wallace before they banned throws in the league he fought in.
But I doubt that they have to do that while wearing boxing gloves against someone wearing MMA gloves. After that incident where he surprise flying tackled me and nearly threw my back out, (where our instructions were for a few rounds of light touch sparring) I complained, and they banned MMA gloves, but somehow he kept wearing them. I'm not sure why they weren't banned before. We are not an MMA school. While we do learn grappling, punching and kicking, we don't really combined them at the same time, at least not usually. And we certainly were not at that time, or I wouldn't have been wearing boxing gloves.
Finally, he got the touch sparring style gloves, (after a long absence from the school) and I thought that he would be ok to spar, so I gave him another chance. He slipped his fingers out and tried to throw me into the mirror anyway.
What's weird is that he's a nice guy outside the dojo. He just can't seem to be honorable when sparring though. Perhaps he feels that he needs to "win", and so must not "lose" at all costs. We both know that isn't the point of sparring though.
I'm not the only one who has complaints. The head instructor has apparently sat down and talked with him 5 times due to various complaints, but won't kick him out.
@@damabjjfloramax9498 Learning how to hit targets that are trying not to be hit is really the heart of striking though. Learning how to hit sparring partners without sending them to the hospital is mastery of striking.
But you'll never get there only striking the bag, or only striking the air. Yes you will be hit, but you have to communicate to your partner what is an acceptable level. If you are new, they will go easy on you. If it ramps up too hard, don't be afraid to ask them to tone it down. If they refuse, or worse, accept, but then don't actually do it, don't feel bad about refusing to accept them as a training partner.
There are good partners, and bad partners. But you have only one body, and getting injured over pride is the worse way. A good partner will try to work with you. Try to work with them back, and you'll learn a lot.
@@RamseyDewey I heard from my Sanda coach that we are starting to adopt Muay Thai style kicks instead of snap kicks despite our point system because we found that we wouldn't get thrown even when we get caught if we kicked the crap out of their thighs. Is that true? He's also said a bunch of other things I can't remember even something about new ways to fight in clinches. Might ask you about it after my next training session.
I love watching you show off some slick moves, especially the standing wrist lock at the end
"Tha streeetzz"
that's right ! no guard pulling for tha streetzz and no lalala i grab your collar , i put it in your wrist , i turn on the left , lalala jackie chan ... that don't work on tha streetzz
Martial Arts styles exist to hone SPECIFIC skills for sport, generally
Part of that is sportsmanship, humility and discipline
Which is why Martial Arts is good for kids, generally
In modern times martial arts or at least TMA have been redesigned that way. None of them were created for sport.
Well said, I can't tell you how much he said is true. Took me a while but I managed to find people that shared similar interests mma wise by going out. Might be harder with covid, that said it's not impossible to find like minded individuals. One of our great strengths as humans is to network and socialize. Hope it goes well for you!😊
thx mate
It's not about the style/type of martial art, it's all about the coach and the way he/she manages the gym. Humans are competitive by nature and even the most gentile and relaxed persons can get a bit aggressive during sparring if not properly trained and supervised.
i seldom see or get injuries during rolling or sparring almost all my injuries come from drilling or sequencing. it seems like the body does its thing and protects itself when you're allowing it to, but when your in that weird space of overthinking how somthing should be done and trying to do it at the same time thats when things go bad. or when your being the receiving partner (Uki) and just being a floppy body and someone tries somthing harder than your expecting.
You answered me !! waaaaaaaa
you made my day !!
For sure LALALA meant the Gi "4 da Streets", lol. Most UFC fighters are well versed in many martial arts just go to any MMA fighters channel and easily see them in multiple facets of their training with probably includes boxing, kickboxing, BJJ/Judo, Wrestling, etc,.... When I practiced Judo I remember I used to return home with many many injuries , sometimes it was my fingers all busted, my arms after an armbar that was kept for to long or a badly throw technique that hurt my back, or simply choose the wrong Randori partner (its like finding a dance partner).... Sure there are really bad people that are in it to hurt others but to tell you the truth, that didn't made me quit the sport, and at least in my experience not everyone was like that. Great topic Coach!!
thx for the knowledge mate , yea gi is lalala i grab your wrist , i turn the clothes , i turn your arm around... i choke you with the collar .. man i hate Gi , i have swallow my pride and go back for more GI , but it doenst work in tha streetzz , thats false confidence and bullshit in my opinion.
The more injury i am afraid is heel hook , leg lock .. im not there yet but slowly im getting there
peace
You are a wise man Ramsey
I'm 3 seconds in but just from the title I have to sadly say this is sad but true
thx for honesty
it 's not easy !
The background training videos are really fun to watch
Great stuff coach! You should make more of your bjj sparring sessions while doing commentary over them. Saw some amazing moves in the background. Amazing striking drills as well especially with elbow frames and elbow blocks
Yeah I don't buy that reasoning either. From what I have been witnessing MMA fighters are really usually pretty cool people and they're not out to harm people.
I fully agree with you I think that coach had some kind of bad experience in her past
Yeah that's generally true... until you meet Mike perry
There are always a few crazies in the bunch!
@@ficedulamortis6434 I'm going to assume that if somebody I don't want to. Yes?
@@RamseyDewey yeah hopefully the coaches or instructors catch on to that. Oust the toxic people.
@@RamseyDewey I know that I would feel safe training in your gym.
17 WAS IN THE HOUSE!!!! TY RAMSEY!!!!
I love the gi. People tend to wear clothes. And the gi is functionally close to what I'm wearing usually. It isn't less "realistic" than pretending to fighting like we were naked Ken Dolls. And the end of the day only one thing matters wich sport you enjoy the most. I find clothes technics and grip fighting much more interesting and i have much more fun with it then hooking my arms and arm wresstling.
Also great video, i love the sparring in the backround. Also my arm is injured because of somebody who don't know how to handle a smaller noob.
BJJ or Judoka in the winter: “my time is now”
[proceeds to flying guard unsuspecting pedestrians]
@@bbqseitan7106 people take off their jackets before fight. coincidence? Everybody fear the judoka
i don't like the Gi , it;'s a lot of LALALA , false sence of confidence , they all say it work ... i'm not convince at all ,\especially spider guard , guard pull , this type of rubbish ..
well it's my opinion , you don't see no spider guard in the octagon . hey !! he answered me !! sick !!!
i just do class sparing with glove and kick , and BJJ , separetely
shame
@@damabjjfloramax9498 guard pulling is awsome. If There is a guy who had been traning judo since he was borned. He is an olimpic champion. You can render 80% of his skills useless by pulling guard. You don't see much anymore because laying on the floor or crawling like a spider isn't legal anymore. Also you are loosing points for being at the bottom
@@katokianimation im trying to learn bjj for mma , i don't really understand or care about point . pulling guard is dumb and dangerous , i was so surprised when it happen the first time , you do dat on dat street ... you gonna get bashed bad . i really not a fan of guard pulling , but i know , when roll multiple time , it;s easier to start on floor and enjoy the roll ... very badd habbit imo
Best form of martial arts thats safe and effective is public discourse. It requires years of practice to get good at and a human proficient at it can defeat a nation or his own weak self. No replacement for it. No physical injury, but a lot of potential for psychological trauma.
Very interesting. Got to go with the flow.
Hey Ramsey. Here in California, where I live, Corona virus cases are off the charts. It is the state with the most amount of corona virus in the US. Last Friday I went to an MMA gym, tried out Muay Thai for the first time, and I really really enjoyed it. When I went back home, I was scolded by my parents and they said that I shouldn't be going out during a time like this, and since I was on a free trial at the MMA gym, I need a parents permission/signature saying that if I get injured I can't sue them, and things like that. I am really upset that I can't train MMA right now. I am 15 years old, and I just feel like I am wasting my life. I want to be some sort of MMA pro fighter when I grow up, but at this time in my life, I feel like 15 is kind of an old age to start. I mean you look at people like Justin Gaethje or Khabib, and they started grappling when they were like 4-5 years old. Even someone like McGregor started boxing when they were my age, and I am about to turn 16 this December. I feel like when I grow up, and I want to compete at their level, I'm gonna have a late start in every department, striking, wrestling, jiu-jitsu. What should I do in my scenario?
i started bjj at 35 , im a killa
sky is the limit , you never know , gaethje didnt have long striking experience .less than 10 year in training. same as kabib , they were wrestler , but they don't have striking or someone like MAx or silva for exemple. Work your craft , i wish i was 15 , im 37 , ufc and dream are behind, still i still train 6 time a week.
we all have dream ,
peace
The biggest thing the GI does for me is it forces me to slow down and manage my frustration. It's harder to advance position in a Gi because of grips. It creates frustration, which creates mistakes. In MMA, things don't always go your way and you have to learn to manage your frustration in the fight. The GI simulates this for me.
that's the only reason why in swallow my pride at the moment and go for Gi class as well , damn i don 't like that collar , but as you say it makes me slow down heaps and think more.
and manage my frustration and pride ..
The worst I've ever been hit was in a professional ballet rehearsal, not sparring in boxing. I was spinning my partner and she elbowed me with a downward slashing elbow in the bridge of the nose.
Hope you were not TKO.
@@JCBPARISPARIS No, but I had to stop for a while and had a headache for the night. Almost broke my nose.
I got KO’d with an accidental collision of cartwheels during a modern dance rehearsal once.
@@GeorgeOu Haha brutal. Sorry for your nose.
I'll be honest, as an outsider to both bjj and mma, one thing that would worry me in training is injury. As could effect my career. Not intentional injury of course, but just by accident when grappling with a fellow student. ( not so much strike injury, that does not worry me, more like a shoulder injury or neck or back is what would worry me).
I wonder, how common are these kinds of injury among students?
Finger and toe injuries are the most common. Then knee injuries. Then neck issues (usually, but not always exacerbated pre-existing neck and spinal conditions, often as a result of a sedentary lifestyle) And in spite of having dislocated my left shoulder twice, shoulder injuries are less common.
yea at the gym they all like , i broke this and that and this
im like aRE you crazy >>?>? im niot trying to break anything and be proud of it
fouck that , journey is still far from the top , getting injured as a white belt ,....
@@RamseyDewey thanks. I do have an old back injury and perhaps the number one reason people quit my proffession is shoulder injury so glad you did not mentiin shoulder as common or serious. When i did akido and karate i was told my shoulders are freaky double jointed level of supple so maybe i will be okay.
But sedrntary life style is perhaps the point you made that wilk be most helpful to me.
For sure i should get in decent physical shape before i take the plunge. I am thinking weights and swimming. And perhaps lose a bit of weight. I could injure a fellow student just falling on them at the moment 😉
Broken ribs are not rare.
If I ever went to a martial arts class someone puts me in an arm lock, I tap out and they break my arm, I sure would never come back. Might try to see the gym.
Hey Coach Ramsey, I have a question. Have you ever experienced fighter guilt? By this I mean you got in the ring or cage, got the knockout, but then felt guilty that you just shorten the career or even the life of another human being. And of so, do you have suggestions as to how to overcome this guilt?
Hi coach Dewey! I love what you have to say :)
All these clips have been more revealing than every episode I’ve watched of yours.
Martial arts, like life is unpredictable and there are to many variabilitys to predict an outcome but you can make educated guesses
Even Tai Chi in the park!?!
I train at an mma gym I do mostly gi and no gi jiu jitsu but everyone is cool we look after ourselves and our training partners
Honestly, rough partners, if you can endure them, are some of the best partners there can be. Because they allow you to develop one crucial martial arts skill, that is required both for competition and for street: subduing and controlling a dangerous, aggressive oponent or minimize your injury in case you failed. You can say all you want about sportsmanship and spirit of competition, but fighting dirty and rough is not a new thing. Wether by accident or malice, by abusing the rules or breaking them. I had a partner, who was basically hated in three gyms he attended in a loop after being thrown out from the previous one due to the way he grapples. Nobody taught me more about Ju in Judo more then this guy. Either directly by sharing parts of his enormous expirience (20 years of Judo, 20 years of Karate, freestyle wrestling in university, military background and 20 years of body guarding) or indirectly by trying to kill me. After that guy, every other grappler I ever encountered was somewhere between "angry toddler" and "mild annoyance". Not to mention his indirect, but enormous contributions to my then future Karate and all time favorite Muay Thai by basically showing in practice how you use strikes to unbalance your opponent. It is one hell worth visiting
Subduing and controlling is not something you learn properly if there isn't some BS trick up a guys sleeve you have to be prepared for. And it is a skill a lot of fighters lack. Because there is a difference between "there is nothing legal this guy can do" and "there is nothing this guy can do"
like any skill.you go slow and get the techs right then speed up but still use control till.you are good with it
I thought you were a beast you MMA ROUGHIAN
So true
My gym is advertised as an MMA gym, but we just have classes for BJJ, wrestling and Kickboxing (mixed with some Muay Thai, Jun Fan, etc), but very few do MMA sparring or sparring in general - outside of regular class times. In fact, it is pretty much just me, the head coach, a few of the other coaches and my teammate that started when I started (turns out that people in general just don't like getting hit in the head).
I started ninjutsu martial arts Japanese Jujutsu and nimpo bugei Ryu. Some years ago. They closed down due to covid. And have started bjj locally it's not the same but there are similarities been doing this just a month or so.
In both disciplines I have never met any one who trained wanted to hurt their training partner, as in time no-one else would train with them. Yes accidents happen and mistakes, but not intentional full on fights it's just training and sparing. Firstly for exercise, knowledge and social interaction.
Hope it helps
Nonsense, Tai Chi is definitely completely safe from evil beings and all forms of physical contact! (Hurls energy wave, gently stopping attackers)
Didn't Ramsey already proven legitimate Tai chi is a grappling art and not a mystical mumbo jumbo bullcrap ?
They will fight you on the internet
@@RamseyDewey lol
Well yes and no. Even though the mentality, ideology or whatever you want to call it behind Tai chi is not about harm. The history of it is far from 100% peaceful, in fact, pretty much ALL of the Chinese martial arts comes with the intent of offence. Shao Lin kung fu, Tai Chi, ba gua chan, all of them has history connected to fights, wars. Martial arts is like fencing, there's always a side of offence cus that's kinda what it's meant for.
If it wasn't clear, my comment is a meme.
True, Ive met people in the martial arts community (originally taekwondo) who aren't as upright as the media potrays them to be.
My old coach tried a series of striking classes over a number of years, MT, MMA, boxing, and it was always the same. Initial interest, small peak, and then ultimately died out. Conversely, I knew another coach who was against having an MMA class in his BJJ school. His compromise however, was to implement 1-2 classes per week that focused on combat JJ. That seemed to work out better, but it still died out. I think MMA schools that offer BJJ is the solution, as opposed to BJJ schools that offer MMA.
i never know any difference me , i didnt even know what BJJ was 20 month ago ...
I'm almost certain I can win most fights against people in the streets but since I've done martial arts I haven't been in a street fight because I don't like getting hurt. I don't like hurting people. And especially in striking, people can get lucky so best not to risk it
Saitama has spoken 😂
Excellent video
Not convinced about the Gi. If only there was a non Gi option. If only.
Anything like Judo, Aikido, Jujitsu... if you hit someone with a planet over and over, they will fail a breakfall eventually and get hurt.
Hi coach! Could you make a video about proper fall breaking during different throws?
thats one that i am scared off. i only stand up with calm pp . it can turn out ugly very quick with a matt bully
I do wonder why exactly i'm more interested in the more 'realistic' martial arts where you actually learn how to fight like MMA. I don't need to know how to fight, yet learning it is just more fun than something like points-karate.
I mean, if you hit somebody, according to physics, there will be equal force + that person hitting back
Great topic. MMA folks are getting unfairly stereotyped when in my experience the bad attitude types can appear in any combat sport training school or style.
It is not unfair, but it is because of the internet MMA fanbois trolls, all I can say that MMA is surrounded by negativity, at least the image. While there're bad persons everywhere but MMA fanbois are the loud ones. I myself reject MMA culture because of that. If just want to mix between martial arts, I can do it myself without disrespecting, degrading or looking down at any martial arts, without looking for trouble in martial schools/dojos/gym and without joining any MMA club/gym/tournaments. MMA now is a cult, soon it will become like TMA.
To simplify, a gi is a jacket, if someone is wearing a jacket, you can use those same grips and throws without much issue. The stiffer the jacket the better. It can also be applied to baggy clothing in general
Edit: he was talking about MMA training so my comment is a little out of place.
Training in thick winter jackets is much better then
Imo gi isn't as comfortable as jacket or t shirt. Especially the belt keeps coming off every round lol
Even in striking arts, I once threw the high straight kick in tkd and the belt came flying at my face, luckily I tucked my chin and it hit my skull instead of the eye loool
*Hi, coach I have a question*
I am 17 and I would like to improve my wrestling specifically for MMA.
I want to focus on wrestling because as you'll know almost all the fighters that could be considered the goat can attribute a great ammount of their success to wrestling, whether it be offensively or defensively. And the greatest fighters ever (GSP and Khabib) are very wrestling focused.
I live in the UK so I am currently limited to wrestling schools and good competition, however there is a wrestling school near me that I intend on going to. What I am asking is how does someone who does not have an extensive background in wrestling, who doesn't live in a wrestling heavy region, and is starting wrestling somewhat late, develop top level MMA wrestling? Such as GSP.
Bare in mind I'm more than willing to move countries and take other big steps in the future, in pursuit of this goal.
Thanks, Ramsey. Have a good day.
o girls be like that
100% Facts! There will always be those people that do damage to their training partners...whether on purpose or by accident. You can also learn from these people...how better to protect yourself under pressure and how not to be a dick in training!
Why does one seek to learn martial arts in the first place? One's answer speaks volumes about their character. This is not something for the undisciplined.
There is no martial arts or other sports where you dont get hurt ( maybe board games) . I have got broken noose, broken ribs, joints out of place. I started ad 7 years old with Goju Ryu karate till 20 years ( i am now 49 years old) back i get back problems and had to stop. Greetings from the Netherlands. 🤘🤘
Hey Ramsey I hop you're doing well. Dunno if you remember me but I'm the "BJJ ruined my self esteem" guy from around a year ago. Im doing my second year of Journalism and am doing an article on Khabib's retirement and I was wondering if I could do a short interview with yourself over a voice call of some kind?
Recognize toxic training environments asap and stay away from them. Make sure the people you train with are all on the same page when it comes to safe and effective training.
Regarding what you said about Matt bullies, whem I in high school my brother was a matt bully. So I got bigger stronger and better at wrestling than him to get him to stop. It worked quite well
The only thing I care about is increasing my odds of survival in a potentially deadly situation.
I hold a blue belt in rank. Belt colour is overrated I just try to be my best and also alot of my best friends fight in the cage and are among the most kindest and intelligent people ☺️
Ramsey can you do a comic book review?
I’ve done a few for MMA themed manga
I got injuries even from my Aikido classes ... lol and I've met way nicer peopleand training partners in my KB gym than in my former TKD and Aikido gyms respectively, that's more of a lottery than related to the MA/Sport itself.
I feel like martial arts where hierarchy is formed primarily through seniority tend to breed bad attitudes, whereas ones that feature constant pressure testing tend to keep their practitioners more grounded and humble.
It's actually easier for bullies to hide in Aikido because of ranks and the non-existent of sparring. If you try to rock the boat, you might be labelled as a troublemaker.
@@peterkhew7414 Oh dude, look up tomiki Aikido, it will blow your mind (they actually spar! So it kind of works!).
@@peterwang5660 Yeah, I know about Tomiki Aikido. The professor's solo exercise is not bad, less fluffy compared to Tohei's Aiki Taiso.
@@peterwang5660 Actually, all Aikido works. It builds the foundation, but making it work in an actual situation requires flexibility and self awareness.
Say coach why do boxing gyms always seem to hav a lot more outright fights in the gym?
She may also have a concern about including MMA, because she has no striking background and has no one she trusts to teach the stand up. AND/or maybe she has a lot of promotions for kids classes and having full on MMA “might” turn off potential paying parents.
i didn't want to dig more by fear to be irespectful , she is world champ BJJ , gi and No gI , She also mention me that SHE wanted someone with actual experience to teach us , not any average dude .. now i just do class of muay tai and class of Bjj , it ;s just i would like someone to help me mixed the 2 . not in my imagination if i can say ..
Even my breathing while standing class?
I'll see this I might have said it once before you should learn grappling without and with the belt and Dobo Gi
Funky outro music.
I think that karate more specifically olympic style sports karate is kind of one of the most baby proofed martial art there is.
I think the person who asked that question may also be equating getting hit with getting hurt.
what was that submission at 2.40 ive never seen that before.
A shoulder lock with a long polysyllabic Japanese name.
@@RamseyDewey 😂
@@RamseyDewey touché. Cool move though, imma try it next roll
Clearly you've never done Kravmakido, no one gets injured there. No one...
On a serious note, I completely agree. I do think that it's not helped by the theatrics of MMA that encourages like arrogant displays are trash talking and "ruffian behaviour". Coz a lot of young mma students look to these fighters and mimic the theatrics rather than the technicals turning them into loud mouth, trash talking ruffians rather than disciplined fighters. Atleast, that is my observation
Ramsey, I want to get back into training and considering buying a heavy bag. Any recommendations?
Yep. When you get your heavy bag, use it every day.
Can you suggest a good brand? Or a brand that makes good training equipment?
You sir are a good person with a great gym so there is a heaven of righting. For injuries prehab is the the solution. I tried a bjj and eas the worst place full of people with a bid of their self inonly see big egos. While I did boxing muay Thai or judo this nevee happened. I meamt we have some jerk but in this bjj gym all were jerks.
I had my ribs kicked by a sparring partner that doesn't know what easy sparring is, and then in bjj my rib did a ripping sound. Now i have to be out of training... Do you have any tip to protect my ribs better?
Elbows in connected to you body on impact, and time your breathing so you forcefully exhale about 20% while contracting your abdominal muscles on impact.
@@RamseyDewey thankyou coach! Love your vids. Keep it up!
Bjj is the most pg martial art
Safe as hell
When it comes to 'those kinds' of guys, look at attraction and filters. Aikido, etc., will generally attract fewer jerks, but also is bad at filtering them out.
BJJ tends to attract more jerks, but it's great at filtering them out.
MMA, wrestling and boxing attract the most jerks, but also filter most of them out.
Regardless, so much comes down to the particular culture of the gym/dojo, etc. If you smell palpable testosterone and 90% of the guys are in their 20s and have bacne, maybe train somewhere else. It all comes down to what you're looking for. It sounds like your instructor wants more of a safe space. There's nothing wrong with that, but it does put limitations on the experiences you can have there.
Yes we find bas people in bjj even if it is a minority. I remember 1 wild guy, very athletic, who, during his first day, litteraly jumped on me in a randori, he was so aggressive it was like a street fight. Finally 1 month later he was punched in the balls by his partner during a randori. It was very very painful for him and he never came back. Btw the only one experience with him was very instructive in how to deal with extremely agressive person, but I had a dozen of bruises almost everywhere (nothing serious) .
Yeah man, training with the new guys is basically “fo’ da streetz 101”!
@@RamseyDewey Haha yes 😀
Even no touch martial arts?
Those are the most harmful by far! When folks buy into McDojos, people die as a result.
kinda odd to hear that generalisation from a bjj coach
Honestly? BJJ should attract mat bullies quicker than any striking art. I say "should" because a mat bully is honestly, first and formost, a moron, so they would probably have trouble figuring this out anyway.
But what sounds better if your goal is to actually do harm just for fun? Learning how to dodge, and parry, and counter, while you slowly wear someone down with strikes? Or you learn how to leverage someone's joints out of their sockets the second they put themselves out of position?
Maybe there's something to beating someone that I don't get because I am not this way, but the latter sounds WAY more instantly gratifying for such a sick mindset to me.
There are far far fewer injuries on boxing than in any grappling art.
At 5:33 I see you and your students are doing a multiple attacker type exercise. Let me ask you, what is your opinion on the subject? Some martial artists insist it is a fantasy invented by Hollywood and a single defender could never possibly beat two, three or more attackers. Do you agree with them? Were you just messing around here, or did you take that exercise seriously? I do know the smart thing for the defender is to leave, but it is fun to contemplate these scenarios. Let's say, purely hypothetically, just for the fun of it, that the outnumbered single guy for whatever reason decided to stay and fight. If he was athletic, had the right training and had enough of it, do you think he could take on two, three or more attackers and prevail?
I have to disagree with his BJJ coach. Martial arts and specially BJJ is one of the best ways to turn a jerk into a decent human being.
That actually makes me wonder, does a martial art coach(or any coach) has the responsability to teach morals as well as fighting and generally try to turn people into the best version of themself in any aspect of their life ?
Sometimes it seems like you can't be a mma fighter with bjj
Of course. Submission grappling is one of the fundamental skill sets of MMA.
@@RamseyDewey Yes but some people act like wrestling or judo isn't good enough
@@darylfields it 's not .. thats why i was asking him .. bjj is nice but it's not enough
@@damabjjfloramax9498 I understand
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kung fu is no1
Hmmmm I don't buy it as well 🤔🤔 striking is as good as grabbling she can't cross that out. I think she should try another gym cause I started to doubt the bjj that this instructor is teaching 😅😅maybe it is not that bad but I don't know why I had this feeling 😅😅
Still a white belt and worried about finding his own style. That’s cute.
belt are overrated , so many purple belt and above hidding against the wall waiting to be fresh before a roll , never put themselves in embarrassing POSITION always avoid roll very often . i m still withe belt , but don't worry , they see me coming fast at their level.
Hey Ramsey, can you teach me how to get a girlfriend, I’m thinking that I didn’t spec my stats right, did the meta change?
I think his specialty is mma and not how to find love 😂.
@@JCBPARISPARIS Ramsey is a master in all aspects of life, i recommend you watch his video on why a viewers wife doesn’t love him
@@chadthundercock1849 I didn't know that, thanks for the info.
Learning only bjj without striking is dumb if the goal is learning mma. Sounds like your viewer needs to join a different gym.