I think this typa sparring breeds better fighters to deal with what its like to actually be in the ring but its worse for longevity and im sure theres some people who come here and get injuries so they can never start their fighting carreer. but all these guys look skilled though and they're sparring hard but have good defense and decent control
Yesterday, I had my 2nd smoker in kickboxing. I did terrible on the first one as I gased out in a first round. I forgot every technique I knew, and I broke under pressure. I thought my training for 5 months went to waste. 2 months later, I had another smoker. I came upon your channel 10 days before my smoker fight. I took advice about pressure, defense, combinations, and training methods. I outskilled my opponent, who had 2 years more experience than me. This channel really is a hidden gem. Im definitely going to win my first amateur fight, thanks to you. Keep up the work!
@@Sulamanjansulttaanifights in the gym, still 100% trying to win but it’s just an unofficial fight in the gym but still taken more seriously than sparring
They can afford to spar this intense because they are skilled and experienced. They makes sure to keep their chins tucked and recognize the signs of when someone took damage like snapping heads and weak knees.
I liked how you mentioned head impact being different for others. A lot of beginners and intermediates don't realize the pro fighters they see sparring heavy have good enough defense to hardly ever get fully rocked. Heavy sparring before knowing how to move with punches, block, slip, and parry is beyond reckless.
I sort of had the same reaction watching this sparring. Maybe some of the guys were going too hard but a lot of the guys were slipping or rolling with the punches really well.
When it comes to brain damage, last month a locol boxing gym held a local match which caused a death due to severe brain damage and lack of medical help. According to the news and corpse inspection, they found that the athlete already damaged his brain with bruises two weeks prior to the match.
When you are young, you think you are bullet-proof. I was probably lucky to have started sparring in the blood and guts era because we didn't wear any protective equipment and fought bare handed so if we went this hard too often the injuries would have slowed us down.
Honestly we do these types of sparring sessions a lot at the gym I train at Gabriel. I find it very beneficial as well but you have to be careful when doing so that you have the basics and that you are somewhat skilled as well. But the guys in Uzbekistan are pretty tough and skilled I must say! 🥊
Haha you sound like my uncle when he is talking about racing. Slowly admits to have done it while shit talking the youngsters but repeatedly makes the point that you have to be strong lol But true stuff Man you give so much back
Honestly, I agree. If you’re training to actually compete and fight then you have to do hard sparing. Not every week, not even every month. But definitely in the middle of fight camp. And if you don’t have fights for a whole year then you need to hard spar 2-5 times a year to really test your stamina, skill, and evaluate your game. So many people on YT crying about hard sparring. It’s mainly when it seems like one person is bullying an inexperienced fighter, which I never think that’s ok. On the flip side, 2 skilled individuals, with similar skill, “respectfully” hard sparring… is necessary if you plan to compete, or are already a competitor.
At our Muay Thai camp here in Las Vegas (OKG)… we do “technical” sparring (touch spar) twice a week. Everyone should be touch sparring, consistently. And only hard spar for the month before a fight. We stop hard sparring 1 week before the actual fight when our weight cut is getting pretty steep and then we’re mainly running drills and conditioning to keep stamina up for the fight. I think our gym has a good approach to sparring and fight preparation. IMO🤝
@@KYLE_FROM_THE_FUTURE "We stop hard sparring 1 week before the actual fight" And what if somebody knocks you out 1 week before the actual fight? According to "medical rules", after a knockout fighter is not allowed to fight for some period of time (longer than a week)?
@@Rotaks If a major injury occurs then that individual wouldn’t fight. Hard sparring doesn’t mean “kill each other”. It means throw strikes with intent. We’re all teammates in our camp, so we’re not trying to kill each other, we’re trying to “ready ourselves” for competition. While wearing full pads (headgear, shin, knee, and elbow). It’s pretty hard to knock somebody out with full headgear on honestly. When I was doing my amateur career, I mainly KO’d people from body shots or the technical KO from the referee stepping in because opponent wasn’t protecting themselves anymore. But a “head KO” like a head kick or punch… pretty rare to see those types of knockouts in full head gear and amateur fighters. But yeah, god forbid somebody gets really injured… then that individual does NOT fight and heals. You have to remember that hard sparring “should” still occur with respect, equal skill level, and relatively similar weight between opponents (teammates). We want to help each other get ready for battle… not stroke our ego’s and injur ourselves right before a fight. That’s not how this goes (in our camp at least). #respect
@@napatt.7943 Check my earlier response to the other guy asking about concussions. But yes, if a concussion or major injury occurs… that individual no longer takes the actual fight and heals up. Yeah, you’re more likely to have “some” damage in hard sparring, but like my previous comment… if you hard sparring with respect, same skill level, same weight, and full pads… it’s not like what you’re thinking. We’re not trying to kill each other, we’re just throwing out strikes with more intent and higher percentage of strength. Still with complete respect and care for our teammates. Think of hard sparring as: getting the body used to harder strikes. Rather than your body getting shocked in the ring 🤯 Where REAL injuries mainly occur. But, if you’re at a douche bag gym with a bunch of ego maniacs… do NOT hard spar and find another camp to train at. 👍
i was at my first sparing session last Friday, had my head popped back twice and hurt my jaw in clinch so my teeth are now out of alignment i also got two blue eyes and a swollen nose. i told my partners i am new and i also went against lighter against the guys that popped my head back since i was taller and heavier.
That's just silly. Not sure why people do that. Your jaw will realign. I've had that happen before. I'll have to make a video explaining how to heal that faster.
Gabriel, do you have any idea on how to stop gassing out when on the backfoot. This guy was just jabbing me and walking forward, i got way gassed for some reason and i didn't even throw that much counters. Anything that can help?
@@averagecasual4801 Try to relax yourself a bit. I notice that if I’m tense (rightfully so because someone is approaching me trying to hit me!) I get gassed out earlier. The mental game is just as exhausting as the physical. Second tip: use that damn front teep kick to keep your opponent from continuing to press forward on you. (Or your own front jab). Third tip: Clinch that mofo and learn some good clinch knees and sweeps. That’s stops an opponent from pressing forward (in most cases). The more you learn to control your opponents… the more you can control the entire tempo of the fight (or sparring). Think of it as an “aggressive dance” and you want to be the one on control, not the one being controlled. You want your “partner” to slow down, then make a move to slow the flow. You want your ”partner” gas out, let them throw, have good counters, have a good guard, good evasion, and when they gas… press forward for the win. A lot of people think fighting is an aggressive and archaic concept. When in reality… It’s a game of chess and technical “dance”. Our faces and bodies just happened to be the targets in the meantime haha. Make your face and body… harder to get to. 🙏
I’m in NY so the gyms are mixed and have a lot of people from different backgrounds. And on average, the Russians from the ‘Stans’ and Ukrainians tend to go the hardest, and they don’t do it out of malicious intent, that just seems to be how they are and how they train Even in harder sparring I tend to hit lighter to the head, and on 2 different occasions my sparring partners from there noticed, stopped the spar and told me hit them harder 🤣
The best fighters always come out of gyms like this. You can never be a best fighter, if you come from gyms that play spar only. This wasn't even hard either, this was controlled and light. This is what real light sparring is.
@@mandown5599 If you thought that was hard, you don't know what hard sparring is. You probably think "light" sparring is that BS sparring that the youtubers like to do. That slow motion play sht lol. This was pretty dam light.
@@Dante3014 Well there is no such thing as "you spar like". Individuals can spar however hard or soft they want whenever they want. There is nothing that dictates that except them, or the gym that they may train in. But this was not hard anyways.
Gabriel, do you have any idea on how to stop gassing out when on the backfoot. This guy was just jabbing me and walking forward, i got way gassed for some reason and i didn't even throw that much counters. Anything that can help?
not gabriel but wondering if it might be a breathing control issue. if your opponent is walking you down and you're feeling under pressure, it's easy to forget to control your breathing. my suggestion: try drilling this specific scenario in your training sessions with a partner. hope this helps. cheers from california.
Unless you train for it, you're always going to gas out faster on the back foot. We are much more efficient at going forward. Muhammad Ali among others ran backwards for this reason.
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I think this typa sparring breeds better fighters to deal with what its like to actually be in the ring but its worse for longevity and im sure theres some people who come here and get injuries so they can never start their fighting carreer. but all these guys look skilled though and they're sparring hard but have good defense and decent control
Can you react to Kru Clifton and Jeff Chang sparring. It was crazy hard
Yesterday, I had my 2nd smoker in kickboxing. I did terrible on the first one as I gased out in a first round. I forgot every technique I knew, and I broke under pressure. I thought my training for 5 months went to waste. 2 months later, I had another smoker. I came upon your channel 10 days before my smoker fight. I took advice about pressure, defense, combinations, and training methods. I outskilled my opponent, who had 2 years more experience than me. This channel really is a hidden gem. Im definitely going to win my first amateur fight, thanks to you. Keep up the work!
What is a smoker? You do bong rips against another fella and see who lasts longer?
@@Sulamanjansulttaanifights in the gym, still 100% trying to win but it’s just an unofficial fight in the gym but still taken more seriously than sparring
Hell yeeeeeeeaaaa dude!! Good luck w your first ammy brotha!!! You got this!! 👊
@@hockeytalk6084 Thanks! 💪🏻
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They can afford to spar this intense because they are skilled and experienced. They makes sure to keep their chins tucked and recognize the signs of when someone took damage like snapping heads and weak knees.
I liked how you mentioned head impact being different for others. A lot of beginners and intermediates don't realize the pro fighters they see sparring heavy have good enough defense to hardly ever get fully rocked. Heavy sparring before knowing how to move with punches, block, slip, and parry is beyond reckless.
I sort of had the same reaction watching this sparring. Maybe some of the guys were going too hard but a lot of the guys were slipping or rolling with the punches really well.
When it comes to brain damage, last month a locol boxing gym held a local match which caused a death due to severe brain damage and lack of medical help. According to the news and corpse inspection, they found that the athlete already damaged his brain with bruises two weeks prior to the match.
Good to watch and nice to hear. Jealous you never got headaches from sparring 😁
White tshirt at 4:09 got the assignment. Love sparring like this
You're a great fighter and coach. I wish I were young once again. I would definitely try to train under you.
I only had a headache from sparring the first time I sparred, I learned very quick.
4:09 Omg that exchange was so beautiful to watch
When you are young, you think you are bullet-proof. I was probably lucky to have started sparring in the blood and guts era because we didn't wear any protective equipment and fought bare handed so if we went this hard too often the injuries would have slowed us down.
Yeah I’ve seen young guys go from sparring to basically gym fights.
Every Russian I sparred sparred like I stole money from them
Honestly we do these types of sparring sessions a lot at the gym I train at Gabriel. I find it very beneficial as well but you have to be careful when doing so that you have the basics and that you are somewhat skilled as well. But the guys in Uzbekistan are pretty tough and skilled I must say! 🥊
Flying knees with no knee guards on is CRAZY
Haha you sound like my uncle when he is talking about racing.
Slowly admits to have done it while shit talking the youngsters but repeatedly makes the point that you have to be strong lol
But true stuff
Man you give so much back
Honestly, I agree. If you’re training to actually compete and fight then you have to do hard sparing. Not every week, not even every month. But definitely in the middle of fight camp. And if you don’t have fights for a whole year then you need to hard spar 2-5 times a year to really test your stamina, skill, and evaluate your game.
So many people on YT crying about hard sparring. It’s mainly when it seems like one person is bullying an inexperienced fighter, which I never think that’s ok. On the flip side, 2 skilled individuals, with similar skill, “respectfully” hard sparring… is necessary if you plan to compete, or are already a competitor.
At our Muay Thai camp here in Las Vegas (OKG)… we do “technical” sparring (touch spar) twice a week. Everyone should be touch sparring, consistently. And only hard spar for the month before a fight. We stop hard sparring 1 week before the actual fight when our weight cut is getting pretty steep and then we’re mainly running drills and conditioning to keep stamina up for the fight.
I think our gym has a good approach to sparring and fight preparation. IMO🤝
isnt hard sparring during fight camp more risky? Cuts and concussion and stuff
@@KYLE_FROM_THE_FUTURE "We stop hard sparring 1 week before the actual fight" And what if somebody knocks you out 1 week before the actual fight? According to "medical rules", after a knockout fighter is not allowed to fight for some period of time (longer than a week)?
@@Rotaks If a major injury occurs then that individual wouldn’t fight.
Hard sparring doesn’t mean “kill each other”. It means throw strikes with intent. We’re all teammates in our camp, so we’re not trying to kill each other, we’re trying to “ready ourselves” for competition. While wearing full pads (headgear, shin, knee, and elbow).
It’s pretty hard to knock somebody out with full headgear on honestly. When I was doing my amateur career, I mainly KO’d people from body shots or the technical KO from the referee stepping in because opponent wasn’t protecting themselves anymore. But a “head KO” like a head kick or punch… pretty rare to see those types of knockouts in full head gear and amateur fighters.
But yeah, god forbid somebody gets really injured… then that individual does NOT fight and heals.
You have to remember that hard sparring “should” still occur with respect, equal skill level, and relatively similar weight between opponents (teammates).
We want to help each other get ready for battle… not stroke our ego’s and injur ourselves right before a fight. That’s not how this goes (in our camp at least). #respect
@@napatt.7943 Check my earlier response to the other guy asking about concussions. But yes, if a concussion or major injury occurs… that individual no longer takes the actual fight and heals up.
Yeah, you’re more likely to have “some” damage in hard sparring, but like my previous comment… if you hard sparring with respect, same skill level, same weight, and full pads… it’s not like what you’re thinking. We’re not trying to kill each other, we’re just throwing out strikes with more intent and higher percentage of strength. Still with complete respect and care for our teammates.
Think of hard sparring as: getting the body used to harder strikes. Rather than your body getting shocked in the ring 🤯 Where REAL injuries mainly occur.
But, if you’re at a douche bag gym with a bunch of ego maniacs… do NOT hard spar and find another camp to train at. 👍
Uzbek boxers won 5 gold medals in the Olympics. Uzbek brothers won medals in judo, wrestling and taekwondo, too, I believe.
I don't see how that relates to anything, these are MMA guys striking
@@troy4298 Well, this is the internet; your remarks don't always have to relate to something.
I wonder how they'll be at 35 yo? Something tells me Uzbekistan will be CTE capital of the world!
i was at my first sparing session last Friday, had my head popped back twice and hurt my jaw in clinch so my teeth are now out of alignment i also got two blue eyes and a swollen nose. i told my partners i am new and i also went against lighter against the guys that popped my head back since i was taller and heavier.
That's just silly. Not sure why people do that.
Your jaw will realign. I've had that happen before. I'll have to make a video explaining how to heal that faster.
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You just can't spar like that in a country without global health care, Dutch's have that privilege, no one else 😂😂
Gabriel, do you have any idea on how to stop gassing out when on the backfoot. This guy was just jabbing me and walking forward, i got way gassed for some reason and i didn't even throw that much counters. Anything that can help?
@@averagecasual4801 Try to relax yourself a bit. I notice that if I’m tense (rightfully so because someone is approaching me trying to hit me!) I get gassed out earlier. The mental game is just as exhausting as the physical.
Second tip: use that damn front teep kick to keep your opponent from continuing to press forward on you. (Or your own front jab).
Third tip: Clinch that mofo and learn some good clinch knees and sweeps. That’s stops an opponent from pressing forward (in most cases).
The more you learn to control your opponents… the more you can control the entire tempo of the fight (or sparring).
Think of it as an “aggressive dance” and you want to be the one on control, not the one being controlled. You want your “partner” to slow down, then make a move to slow the flow. You want your ”partner” gas out, let them throw, have good counters, have a good guard, good evasion, and when they gas… press forward for the win.
A lot of people think fighting is an aggressive and archaic concept. When in reality… It’s a game of chess and technical “dance”. Our faces and bodies just happened to be the targets in the meantime haha. Make your face and body… harder to get to. 🙏
Mike's Gym!
This gym gave a guy a ufc contract so they might be doing something good for competitors
This is a sure way to end a career, maybe before it even begins.
Bye bye brain cells
I’m in NY so the gyms are mixed and have a lot of people from different backgrounds. And on average, the Russians from the ‘Stans’ and Ukrainians tend to go the hardest, and they don’t do it out of malicious intent, that just seems to be how they are and how they train
Even in harder sparring I tend to hit lighter to the head, and on 2 different occasions my sparring partners from there noticed, stopped the spar and told me hit them harder 🤣
Please react to Jeff Chan MMA Shredded’s sparring video with Kru Clifton!
Not all noggings are made equal.
These dudes obviously looking to go pro if not already. This is their ticket out. Too bad none of them are going
Uzbek sila
This isn't sparring......
I am uzb uzbekistan silaaaaaa❤❤❤❤
Jesus Christ
The best fighters always come out of gyms like this. You can never be a best fighter, if you come from gyms that play spar only. This wasn't even hard either, this was controlled and light. This is what real light sparring is.
You spar hard when its needed not every sparring session.
bro that was not light 💀
You’re a fucking lie 😂😂😂
@@mandown5599 If you thought that was hard, you don't know what hard sparring is. You probably think "light" sparring is that BS sparring that the youtubers like to do. That slow motion play sht lol. This was pretty dam light.
@@Dante3014 Well there is no such thing as "you spar like". Individuals can spar however hard or soft they want whenever they want. There is nothing that dictates that except them, or the gym that they may train in. But this was not hard anyways.
Those mfs are scary😳
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Gabriel, do you have any idea on how to stop gassing out when on the backfoot. This guy was just jabbing me and walking forward, i got way gassed for some reason and i didn't even throw that much counters. Anything that can help?
not gabriel but wondering if it might be a breathing control issue. if your opponent is walking you down and you're feeling under pressure, it's easy to forget to control your breathing. my suggestion: try drilling this specific scenario in your training sessions with a partner. hope this helps. cheers from california.
@@evanchen5360 what drill do you recommend?
Unless you train for it, you're always going to gas out faster on the back foot. We are much more efficient at going forward. Muhammad Ali among others ran backwards for this reason.