0:11 - What is the difference between wresting and BJJ? 3:48 - Catch wrestling 6:50 - If Jack Dempsey had competed in UFC 1? 9:25 - Could an internationally ranked judoka have beaten Hocie Gracie in UFC 1? 10:58 - BUT! + Close up 12:38 - Do you have to attend a martial arts school to get good at martial arts? 16:05 - When striking the face, should you aim for the chin or nose? 20:10 - Ramsey's real voice 24:22 - What should I consider when fighting taller opponents? 26:20 - Ramsey's speech impediment
I lived at Igor Zatsepin's house in LA...I was freinds with his son, Total beast. Zatsepin senior was one of Gene's Blackbelts. I would say yes. Gene teaches at Gokor's and Rhonda trained there. Gokor has moves and options not seen by bjj. I would do bits of each. Base Wrestling to stay standing... BJJ from guard. Catch Wrestling for stand up grappling and dominant position. Catch wrestling is great.
Catch wrestling is a fascinating sport with a rich, storied history. I'm fortunate enough that my BJJ coach, while being a black belt, had a successful career in catch before transitioning to jiu-jitsu. Coming from that perspective, all of our guys (blue belts and up) have great pressure and were exposed to heel hooks early on. Like you said, though, don't neglect the bottom game! It can save your life in a match and in real life.
Maybe it's good, that this channel doesn't have millions of subscribers, beacause you still have that close connection with audience. You answer my questions before I ask. THANKS for Q&A videos! (sorry for poor english, understanding speech is easy, but talking and writing is hard)
Sonya Gowiet you have great English skills. Only very minor mistakes, that really don’t matter too much. I didn’t even realize you’re not a native English speaker.
When I first started watching you RD, one of the first things I noticed were your deep, strong voice, well thought out words and that you didn’t cut up your videos every 5 seconds... it was very refreshing and I subbed right away. Keep up the good work.
+Hisoka Morrow almost but not completely. They are out there, my goal is to get to a much more proficient level myself (say another 8 years of studying) and then train as many wrestlers as I can. I’ve been training Catch about two years now, so I’d say 10 years in Catch is roughly equivalent to a Bjj black belt.
@@jimmynich4791 Blame that on them faking their matches for decades to make money. When BJJ showed up in the 80's there were no real catch wrestlers to challenge them.
Gracie jujitsu is great, but if you don't look at things objectively to find its flaws you'll never improve. there is no one magic trick style that will win you every fight. That's why its good to look for the flaws with your style and pull techniques from other styles that can repair those flaws. if your martial art isn't changing, adding what works and removing what doesn't, it will stagnate becoming obsolete.
@@antiantifa886 Hi ! I wanted to say that Bruce , said that a martial artist didn't limit himself with style, he said " take what it work". About western martial art they learn a lot from east ; Karaté, Judo Jiu jitsu and Muay Thaï are effective .
A bit of reading CAN help: When I was 11, I read "America Combat Judo" by Bernard Cosneck. i had actually just begun reading it when, through the window, i saw my neighbor getting bullied. Merely from reading a bit put me in "hero mode": I ran outside, & while not using ANY technique from the book,(obviously), I battered & chased the bully, a kid who otherwise could've just as likely beaten me in a fight.
@@lazur1 Hey I'm no hand to hand combatives expert, hence why I have a basic familiarization in wrestling, and over a decade of combat experience with firearms. If things are ever dire enough for a unwanted physical confrontation, I'll use my carry sidearm. If I'm unable to reach said weapon due to being grappled, I also keep a small blade in my carry belt, I'll be able to draw one or the other, I'll use this to poke holes or cut to get the fucker off me for enough distance to draw said firearm. If I'm grappled my wrestling skills should be sufficient to gain access to either weapon, if I can't then I'm likely gonna die anyway so why care..
Honestly I find you an inspiration. You have speech issues from before and after your injury. Explaining martial arts is not simple in the first place. But even after taken a good amount of damage you still speak clearly and succinctly and explain everything very well. You're a great coach.
@K D If you have consistent access to professionals and everything else you just mentioned plus equipment that's essentially just bringing the gym to you, lol! Pretty much the only difference at that point is less variety of training partners on a daily basis, but even that wouldn't be too hard to change. If you had access to professionals, you could just pass that down to a dozen or so people in your area who are interested and gradually increase the diversity of your sparring.
It's interesting to hear you say you've battled speech issues. Naturally, all your audience hears is a well spoken, clear and cerebral speaker who also happens to be a humble genuine human being. So again, it's so fascinating the battles that people face under the surface. Thanks. Edit* and thank God that He gives us the grace to overcome our fears.
I stumbled onto your channel and subscribed automatically. You have a wealth of knowledge and you seem to have the same opinions as myself. I loved your honesty about bjj and catch wrestling. I myself have recently started training catch wrestling under a Snake Pit coach. He is also a bjj black belt and his style really suits a mma situation or street fighting situation. I've trained and coached martial arts for 17 years. My style has always had a catch and bjj x training element to it's grappling but more no gi bjj. My sticking is a Muay Thai x Boxing style. But recently I've focused on catch wrestling and Krav Maga. The Krav is purely to help me develop weapon disarmament techniques.
Your voice just sounds really bold and proper. Almost like a put on classic narrator type voice. It's cool though man. Just never heard it before. Thank for your awesome videos
I've been wanting to learn more catch wrestling. I come from wrestling in high school, and I learned bjj and got ok at it. But I do like the wrestling a little more. I guess the way I've grappled is essentially catch wrestling by combining my current wrestling with BJJ techniques and submissions. And throwing ik n a few cranks for fun.
I’d say look online you can find alotta catch wrestling online but also look for the other wrestlers in the gym as they’ll give you the best scrambles in my opinion as a bjj guy who started learning catch fairly recently
Don’t listen to them if they give you grief about your voice. I think you have an maxing voice. I honestly very jealous that I don’t have a Similar one. You have a great speaking voice. Love the channel by the way. You have inspired me to take my first BJJ class and also dance class.
Bloody hell! You're right about the first UFC tournaments. They handpicked the opponents to make Royce look good and make name for Gracie jiujitsu. Never thought of that but it definitely makes sense.
There was a guy with a similar voice in my hostel at uni. When the first years had to introduce themselves on every hall he ended up having to sing a ring of fire 7 times in one night 😂
Good breakdown on BJJ vs Wrestling. In addition wrestlers don't really learn submissions, at least not at the level of BJJ, and many things, positions, moves in BJJ are illegal in wrestling.
My first experience with martial arts was when i was either 6 or 7 years old... Have no memories from it... After that, i started again, this time with books at age 11... Then i started again for real at 15... Books do help a bit... I highly recomend everyone to get a few books... Maybe from styles that. You cant have a teacher for, but that you could try to use those techniques in another martial art... I used karate books to get better at soo bahk do... And i will use probably a judo book to help with my shuai jiao...
Hey I've been wondering what moves are unique to BJJ and CACC? I've been told the Kimura is a double wrist lock that was taught to kimura in england. I've also been told that arm-bars and knee-bars were both independently invented by both styles and I was wondering if you know whether that is true or not. Great video as usual!
pandacommanda1 oh god who told you that bollocks? The double wrist lock (gyaku ude garami) has been a technique in judo since the very beginning, Kimura just happened to specialise in the technique. Leck locks and ankle locks were also in judo since the early days, it just got banned early in competition because the way they used to do it was dangerous (whereas the reason the gracies banned leg locos was so they could keep pulling guard). CACC came up with their own techniques, i'm sure, i can't tell you where their techniques come from. But i can tell you every single technique in BJJ (excluding your triple inversion donkey guard shite) comes straight from judo. As for where judo got them, many of them come from Tenshin Shin'yo Ryu, and many others come from Fusen Ryu jujutsu. Some (such as the trianlge choke) where independently founded. Don't trust a brazilian jiu jitsu instructor to give you bistory of BjJ. They'll tell you all kind sof stuff, such as: Helio made them Helio improved them They come from [insert not judo here] Basically they don't want to admit that all their chokes and armlocks, holds, transitions, guards, 'takedowns' and even most of their maneuvres come from judo. They'll find all kinds of excuses to deny this, but it's true. Even the berimbolo roll was in judo way before helio knew what fraud was
Jimmy is right, but the double wristlock thing is weird. It would've been independently invented in Judo and CACC, and they renamed it after Kimura, who was a Judoka, but then everybody cares about Sakuraba, who was a catch wrestler... It's all a semantic argument based on lineages. Should we use different names for techniques, based on who is performing them? To answer your actual question though, as far as I can tell, CACC has a bunch of neck cranks, cradles and shit that aren't in BJJ, also leg rides, and a whole bunch of technique from the turtle position, and anything involving the Gi or the guard would be BJJ. Also, it would be unfair to attribute armbars to any specific style, they're just so universal.
Connor Wiebe yeah, judo indepentently found a lot of techniques. An example would be the triangle choke, i don't doubt that it existed elsewhere but Oda-sensei or his student discovered it while researching newaza under Kano-sensei's orders. Same with most of the guard techniques (though most of them come from Fusen Ryu), in fact the original use of the word 'newaza' meant, in today's terminology, 'techniques performed from the guard'. They didn't have proper names for the guards, but they had closed guard, open guard, butterfly guard, spider guard, lasso guard, and they had sweeps and passes for all of them too - some of them you donmt even see in BJJ. Similar story with the choking a d armlocking techniques. Bow and arrow chokes, guillotines, omoplatas, kimuras, americanas, etc. Since before BJJ existed. But since the gracies got their name out there, managed to convince half the world they invented these techniques, the other half that they improved these techniques and that they dodn't have names in judo (cough cough kron 'i don't know anything about my lineage' gracie cough) when in fact they existed and had names, so now everyone uses the BJJ terminology. I've seen so many judo videos where someone does an armlock of choke and the comments are a shit storm of people asking how. Long they've been legal for because they never knew they existed. Or any fight between a wrestler and a judoka is invaded by people staming a flag and claiming it for BJJ. No issue with BJJ, its online community isn't exactly the best representation of it however. If i only knew about BJJ from the internet community inwouldn't have even considered training it. In fact i was put off for a while when i first looked it up, and thought that you had to start bent 90degrees to the ground, slap hands and sit down as fast as possible. BJJ's great, but there are still too many people pretending it is something it's not, and pretending ither arts are things they're not to make BJJ look even better. And most of the world bought it too
pandacommanda1 that makes sense too. A BJJ instructor would be more than happy to concur if you told them that. But if you asked them, without telling them that ude garami was something !imura learned from catch (even though i can show you 1940s instructionals of Kimura and other judoka using the ude garami from standing, from guard, from bottom in yoko shiho, from top in kami shiho and a myriad of other positions including as a throwing technique) they'd come up with some other things like 'he learned it from his judo instructor... Who stole it from [insert school of jujutsu here]' BJJ instructors, mainly ones who admire the Gracie family and the bollocks they spout, really hate admitting 'yes, all the techniques you're gonna learn pretty much up to purple belt, and maybe even right through to brown or even black belt (depending on how competition oriented you are) were all in judo's syllabus way before jiu jitsu came around... And no it was a lie that Helio improved them, they did them the same in the 40s as we do now'. The gracies had to distinguish themselves from judo and seeing as how they taught judo that was quite difficult. So they mainly came up with these styles of excuses: We didn't come from judo, we came from jujutsu Helio invented all these Helio improved all these The family improved all these These technique were in judo but they did them wrong These techniques were in judo but didn't have names These techniques were in judo but they stole them I imagine this is something in all martial arts. In that i'd guess there are some taekwondo instructors who feel the need to prove that karate stole their kicks. Or for some sort of denial like that aikido didn't come from aikijutsu (though that specific example seems unlikely). As such i'd imagine there are some catch instructors who couldn't bare to admit myes judo has the double wrist lock, and they found it by their own means/inherited it' and would rsther say 'oh yeah, my great grandfather taught them it. Without catch judo would hever have that technique they had since 1882 when it was first founded'. I'm not claiming judo invented any techniques, and i'm not even gonna say that BJj stole them because those would be ludacrous things to say. I will say that judo inherited its techniques (some of them were independently founded, like the triangle choke, but most came feom other schools, and the throws were taken and modified slightly from older schools who specialised in throwing armoured opponents) and its style, and it's proud of that which is why the founder calle it 'judo'. BJJ inherited judo's techniques. They then got rid of most of them because the gracies weren't any good at them, so they changed the rules to help them get by without any standup, and later on they decided to claim that they invented a new style of fighting. They had the UFC, their special rules, their weak opponents, their advertising and now the damage they caused is slowly being undone. So it's entirely possible also that the instructor you spoke to was given this information by someone who does BjJ, BJj fanbois will literally make up history on the spot if it makes BJj look better than judo. Sorry to rant again, especially since i think i've already said most of this. If you look up the syllabus for 'kyokushin budokai', a manual for a style of krate that is a mix of kyokushin, judo and jiu jitsu, at one point there's an excerpt from a jiu jitsu book giving the history of BjJ. It's a vile read tbh. It sounds like a child ranting about another child who's done nothing wrong but they still don't like them, so they just add little bits to the end of their sentences to make them sound bad. Like 'judo was just ankther school of jujutsu' (which is a blatent lie) 'nudo had no groundwork' (lie) 'until kano's students lost to fusen ryu, then he stole their techniques' (no, he noticed the importance of newaza and decided to incorporate them into his style, something BjJ claims they do with pride because it's a science) 'the 1886 police tournament was won by judo but the only one who fought was a man who had already learned jujutsu, so it eliminated the point of a judo v jujutsu match' (i can't even be bothered where to begin with the deceit from that one) and it carries on. You'll notice in other BJj history books and videos usually they give a great deal of info on jujutsu, then gloss over judo in an attenpt to link BJj to the ancient styles of samurai who had no requirement to learn newaza because they were clad in armour and only osaekomi waza and kansetsu waza would even be opimportant to learn. It's sort of like if you had a mechanic who invented the car, his son who built on that work to invent faster and more efficient cars and aeroplanes, then his son who specialised in making car engines. And then the grandson denies he knew anything about his father, and thhat his father gave him nothing, and said everything he got was from his grandfather who died before he was born.
Honhoa Ong that’s his point. The US took wresting and added their Jiu-Jitsu Brazil just took their Jiu-Jitsu and had pride That’s why there aren’t many good Brazilian fighters
it's ramsey night over here. I'm a pro singer. Your voice is fine and your body is more lined up than usual, and that's why your larynx floats low. It's not that deep even, it's in the middle. lol gotta love the "look at yourself" game
im jealous of your voice. its very noble and mighty. you should do voice adverts. people get funny when anything is good these days. people attack or dismiss anyone who is unique.
Regarding: Talk with your real voice. First, you talk very well and I enjoy your videos. Second, you have a delivery that reminds me a little of William Shatner. His speaking style has been dubbed "Shatneresk." Your own delivery is still different from his, but it does stand out. That might be part of what's behind the "talk with your real voice" comment. Regardless, I think your delivery reflects depth of thought. And that's a good thing.
Now I'm not one of those guys who says "Grappling is gay, LOL", I understand the importance of wrestling and BJJ in the world of martial arts, and I practice a little bit of them every now and then. But man, some of the terminology does not help at all: - "Westlers like to be on top" - "BJJ practitioners like to be bottoms" - " Full mount" Call me immature, but I can't help but chuckle a bit when I hear this kind of terminology
as a side note, in my very limited grappling experience. Isn't another difference between wrestling and BJJ the fact that wrestling tends to have better takedowns and projections, while BJJ has better ground game?
Hahaha true ! Thanks for the good laugh , it's a question of how you look. Imagine a gay Guy décidé to try this sport just after hear this terminology and later find himself with a strong Guy on a tight outfit side control him with all his weight cutting off his breathing and inflicting him a brutal Kimura .
10:00. Yeah, if I’m mistaken, I heard that Ken Shamrock was only given a one day notice that he was not allowed to wear shoes if he kicks at the first UFC. Probably messed up his game plan….
@@RamseyDewey 2 -2 in the UFC. His wins were over not great fighters. He lost the two times he fought good submission fighters then he retired. Frank beat him in 16 seconds and Inoue beat Alger in under two minutes. Being a wrestler and athlete didn't mean much if you were not adept at submission defense. That was in 98 and everyone had seen submissions work, in 93 he would of even knew less.
@@invisiblechurch9621 Exactly. And Royce wasn't even the best fighter of the family. Besides, people talking about Karelin are being ridiculous, if you need someone like Karelin, so big and full of the best in PEDs, to win against someone like Royce, it just proves their point.
Hey Ramsey, what do you think of shotokan in comparison to kyokushin? I've spent about 12 years training at a shotokan club, but I feel like I'm stagnating there so I'm thinking of changing to a full-contact form of karate.
for someone who didn't really start competing outside of his own style before ufc 1, the gracies would be hard to beat a Olympic recognized judoka.. given bjj is based from judo, i got my doubts the gracies would of won if they have of had matched. them with graplers from the get go. My understanding of Dan Servern or however you spelt his last name, he was well known in both the wrestling, shoot fighting and bare knuckles fighting arena scene, prior to ever stepping into UFC fight scene
@@antiantifa886 Farmer Burns is completely different guy. Brazilian Rufino dos Santos was the guy that got ambushed. During that era gacies lost other matches as well, for example famously Helio to japanese judoka Kimura.
You mentioned that it takes focus to manage your speech impediment. I don’t want to be too presumptuous but I think that’s turned a weakness into a strength. You’re very articulate and your speech is deliberate and poignant as a result: it works well with your naturally deep voice that adds gravitas to your words. Anyway, that’s enough about your voice which already takes up too much comment space. However, I’m just trying to say not to feel too bad. A speech impediment may be something you feel insecure about but it may have helped you become a better speaker than most as a result. Now you have a RUclips channel with half the comments talking about loving your voice. That’s pretty inspirational.
I'd say you do not need to go to school for it. Musashi considered the greatest swordsman taught himself after running away from home around 9 living as a vagabon. His first duel at 13 he killed the swordsman with a wooden sword. His last duel which I believe was duel number 60 he killed the considered the best swordsman in Japan with a wooden ore. He wrote the book 6 rings aswell.
Ramsey - I love you guy but wrestlers didn't know submissions back in those days. BJJ is a vastly superior system for submissions so early on I would have to give it to BJJ. I grant not so much now because wrestlers have learned escape and submissions. I remember when Dan Severn got Triangled. Everyone was stunned - we all thought Dan was killing Royce, but then suddenly Dan was tapping! Nobody had ever heard a triangle choke back then much less seen one. I remember an interview after where Dan said that he thought he was winning just before he realized that he was being choked out. We all did. Who had ever thought that the man on the bottom could win? Also, where are your sources for this claim that the Gracies rigged the matches? These are pretty serious charges you are making here. I have heard it before but never seen any proof of these claims. I mean now they have rigged the rules to favor strikers because that is what the public wants to see, which is to say that the system is rigged, but I never hear too many claiming that the fights are fixed.
As you said, he is not implying the fights were fixed, just that UFC was set up in such a way as to appear to be clearly designed to give Royce Gracie several advantages. IIRC some of the main issues are: 1. The participants, which some argue were not the highest standard they could have been or were chosen to be less trouble for Royce's style. Also things like Gerard Gordeau being chosen to fight an extremely large sumo wrestler rather than Royce, who might be expected to have extreme difficulty with submitting such a heavy opponent, and that the fight was arguably stopped unnecessarily early. Gordeau also claims to have initially been set to face Royce instead in his first match, before they found out he had MMA experience in Japan. 2. Ken Shamrock was infamously not allowed to wear his wrestling shoes despite reportedly being initially told he would be. This despite the fact that Royce Gracie could wear his gi and was allowed to use it as a weapon to choke his opponents, which he did. Shamrock was the only grappler to face Royce, and Art Jimmerson had worn boxing shoes in a previous fight so it's not as if all footwear was banned either. 3. Fighters were not allowed to wrap their hands, disadvantaging strikers (i.e. people who are not Royce Gracie). 4. IMO, it's also suspect that they billed Gordeau as representing Savate when he appears to have had much more experience in karate and kickboxing and could not possibly have been engaging in anything that could legitimately be called Savate while barefoot. This is presumably an attempt to increase the number of fighting styles that Gracie Jiu Jitsu could be said to have beaten in competition. Some of the points are perhaps very arguably, but for several of them I can't see any reasonable possibility other than purposefully attempting to give Royce Gracie an unfair advantage.
@@seanseanston Well, it will never be proven one way or the other. And I don't think that the Gracie's were above getting any advantage they could via gamemanship. But the fact is that Gracie BJJ had dominated almost every fighting style for decades before the UFC. I have seen Royce fight a Sumo wrestler and win in fights - it's on youtube somewhere. Google it. Complaints and supposed stories from the losers are so much sour grapes. As much as I love Ken Shamrock - he had to step up his game and training to give Gracie good fights. He doesn't sound at his best with all his whining about it. The fact is that everyone in the world has had to incorporate BJJ into their skill set because it is the most dominant fighting art in the world. Of course, now it has been neutralized by rules and other fighters incorporating it into their system. I don't believe that any of the fighters in the early UFC's had a chance against Gracie regardless of the lineup. Not until people figured out what BJJ was doing and the rules were changed to favor strikers did it lose its dominance. Just my opinion. thanks
Unfortunately catch is dying, marco raus could also destroy royce and all rember that happend in royce when faced matt huges, royce beated shamrock in ufc 1 final
You get a lot of weird comments about your looks and voice and a lot of other things. I can't figure out why. Its distracting for the rest of us that are trying to learn.
I got the same thing when my voice broke, because i went from high for a child to basso profondo in the space of 4 weeks when i was 15. I feel your pain
Hey coach, any advice when dealing with newcomers when light/no touch sparing that don't take pressure? What I mean is like they simply ignore the motion of a frontal snap kick to the stomach and just keep going in because I held back on the power Thanks
Add 10% each time until they start respecting the distance. Who knows, maybe your kick needs work and they're right to just walk you down. Probably warn them before you add too much.
It may be lack of experience togheter with no contact sparring, because most of these cases just the motion should be enough to show them I could be hitting a kick right into their stomachs Note that I'm saying "them", this happens commonly with people new to sparring that i practice with
@@tBarkEditing As someone who has never even seen no contact sparring, I don't understand. How much of the kick do you perform? A front kick can easily be turned into a push kick, for these scenarios, but if you knee stays bent the whole time, there really isn't a kick to react to.
It's more like shadow boxing with a partner so total begginers can have an idea. We sometimes do that with newcomers and i guess in this case is pointless trying to make a point about this The kick in this case is a frontal snap kick to the stomach, but light enough to do no damage. But yeah, pushing might do it, thanks
@@tBarkEditing I was one of those idiots, as an expert in that field I would recommend you to explain it to them or tell the instructor to do it. Also don't hold too much back, when you hit someone in a spar it should still "hurt" That's how you build character.
Good video. Question : Don't you think stand up striking sports (boxing, kickboxing, muay thai...) should need a new weight class in between 91 and 100/105kg ? Nowadays, guys too heavy to go cruiserweight, but too short to reach the giants of 2m+/115kg+ (Anthony Joshua, Rico Verhoeven...etc) have a hard time going anywhere. Since the Klitschkos reign the "short" heavyweight almost don't reach champion status anymore.
Talent Dance TV not jsut Ken. Did you see what happened in the rematch between Royce and Yoshida? And in the actual match, when Royce clearly oked out but woke up quick enough to cry to the ref to get the decision changed. And this has been going on way before the UFC. Carlos would make skilled opponents wear suit and ties, Helio would fight on canvas so throws don't hurt him, and they banned leg locks because they kept getting caught in them. No offence to BjJ, but the Gracies just stole judo (weren't even as good as other judoka of their time even at groundwork) and changed the rules to suit them. I'm pretty peeved at how thte IJf have limited newaza so that newaza specialists are at a disadvantage, but the gracies effectively got rid of throws and half the other grappling syllabus
jimmy alderson no I didn’t see that match I’m afraid I like the Gracie’s , even met Royce , he’s a nice guy ..and I think BJJ is an awesome style But people have felt and I agree with them that the Gracie’s have had “special” rules just applicable to themselves and have worked fights to their favour But I don’t get why because if you are so confident with your style you should win anyhow regardless
jimmy alderson, dude fuck the IJF and USJF. The fragmentation of jiut-jitsu/judo is awful enough. But now Judo has warped its rules in ridiculous ways. Maybe I'm delusional about how the rules were applied before, idk. But it saddens me. Judo today feels like the Tae Kwon Do of grappling. With BJJ being somewhat more inclusive, but warped around whatever ruleset the old Gracies favored back in the day, as you said. Very frustrating.
Talent Dance TV the reason wa sbecause the UFC wasn't a science experiment like they claimed. They knew who they'd fight, and who they could beat. Some of the guys there had never been in a fight in their lives. One guy was even just a taxi driver who said he had a black belt, and they took him in because they knew it'd make them look good, i know of other people who say they've met royce and who said he was a twat, but if you like him fine. I can't say i like him based on his behaviour during the ufc. They fixed fights when they knew they couldn't win, they did everything they could to make BJj look as original and unique and invincible as possible. Helio even lied about what went down with Kimura. They even assualted someone in the streets over a match carlos lost to a man he tried to make wear a suit and tie. They were skilled, but they knew who they could and couldn't beat, and they knew how to bend the rules to help them win
Anguel Roumenov Bogoev i agree completrly. I live in the Uk, so IjF's all i've got. If i'm REALLY lucky, and Brexit actually happens, then i'm even more lucky maybe the BJA will revert back to kodokan rules. At the clubs i train we do whatever rules we want as long as our partner agrees. But in comp i have to forget 9/10 of my techniques because they're either illegal, or the ref'll think i got thrown, or the refmll stand me up while imm half way through getting a choke on. The IjF disgust me, they've clear,y never read a word of Kano's writing. They've done exactly what he didn't want to happen, and now judo's seen as a subpar martial art because all people know about are the olympic rule sets. Don't even need to bow properly anymore. If your opponent keeps attacking you then you get DQd for being too defensive, got no newaza, got not big kata gurumas or ko uchi gari to ipponzeoi, got no time, got no judo. Apparently at the IJF meetings what happens is: the IjF offer to destroy everything that made judo great, and everyone else keeps their heads down and agrees, and neil adams swollows his pride and gets paid to tell everyone they're good rules. There's no individuality. Gone are the days of newaza experts, sutemi experts, ashidori experts. Here are the days of 'just do uchi mata til it works'. Any shite throw is a waza ari, and any mediocre throw is ippon. I can't even begin to list everything that's gone wrong thanks to them. They've fucked up the rules so much that the only rule changes they have left is to undo rule changes they made a few years ago, then reinstate them. It's a joke
If Catch Wrestling was more commonly taught instead of Collegiate/Free style wrestling, would BJJ be as popular as it is today? Would Royce Gracie have beaten a sound Catch Wrestler in the 1st UFC?
I legitimately think Billy Robinson, despite his age, would've slaughtered Royce Gracie at UFC 1. Catch Wrestling was his life, it wasn't about making money, it wasn't about marketing, it was pin or submit. Not to mention the sixty pounds he had on him. Yes, he was fifty five. Yes, he was far out of his prime, but Royce was a gimmick. He was the British National Wrestling Champion as well as the European Open Light-Heavyweight Champion, Not to mention all of the top level athletes he taught who went onto slaughter BJJ guys. What do you think Ramsey? Do you think he would slaughtered Royce due to superior strength, takedown arsenal, and superior top game or do you think Royce's age and stamina would've overwhelmed him?
I agree that you need People to train with when you want to learn fighting. Maybe what also could be interesting: do you need a teacher to learn a martial art? Or if you got people to train with and some books/ videos that can explain some things, do you think one could figure out how to efficiently fight for oneself?
Hi Ramsey, pretty cool Q n A , I've got a serious question about Brasilian Jiu jitsu and self défense ; Many people said Bjj is a very effective martial art but I would like to know your opinion , if I 've got the Time to only choose one martial art , wich will be better for self défense ? Bjj, judo or boxing ?
I've just recently seen a video explaining how the Gracie's engaged in some less than professional activities and some Tonya Harding type revenge against a catch wrestler. Haha, the voice thing, I'm a voice guy, broadcaster for years, I think they may mean "how you talk" as opposed to your actual voice perhaps.
Hi ramsey. Great videos. Lots of info and really entertaining. How do you think Alexander Krelin would have done as an mma fighter at a top level in his prime.
I live very near to the area cacc was invented, but it's not big around here, I think there are only 2 gyms in the entire country that specialise in it that I know of.
i'm not from Wigan, but it is a shame imo that there isn't more of a legacy left there and the surrounding area. Go to Liverpool or Manchester and you'll find a good boxing culture, lots of old, good, serious gyms producing a lot of good fighters. It seems like that culture of wrestling in Lancashire's been lost. Where did you train in Wigan?
In my experience if you can't hit hard enough to knockout a strong chinned man, punching should just be a distraction to set something else up. And if you can hit hard enough to knock him out... be prepared to have very broken hands if you get in fights regularly!
Well as Ramsey says in the vid above, ideally hard weapon should hit soft target e.g knuckles to nose, the reverse is also true e.g palm strikes to hard bony areas like the head. An exception being the chin, it's like a lever and has some 'give' in it, it also causes a lot of knockouts. Bone on bone, with enough force means damage both sides, even Thai boxers chip their well conditioned shins pretty regularly. It may depend why you're fighting as to the level of commitment an attacker has, I'd rather presume they're willing to go all the way, a lot of drunk and mentally ill people are. So they need to be disabled not deterred.
I've actually looked for that too, nothing around. My old jujitsu coach used to incorporate it, but not to competition level. Unfortunately in the UK we pretty much only have boxing, muay thai, BJJ and some Judo (though that seems to be getting less and less popular). I won't even include traditional jujitsu, the standard's generally so poor.
Hey Ramsey. I have a question, I like yourself am an older person. I have trained(many moons ago) kung fu & Capoeira. These days I'm basically a gym rat. Have been thinking that I would like to do something different. I was thinking about BJJ. But, from a self defence/fitness point of view would MMA training be more beneficial? I guess I am lucky, because there is a gym in my town that teaches all kinds of fighting techniques. Kick boxing, Krav maga, defendo, BJJ, MMA etc. Many thanx. Oh, by the way. You have a great voice😁
Could you tell me what is better elastic or cotton hand wraps? Which one do you use? PS. Started Muay Thai, 2 weeks ago, partially thanks to you, I couldn't be more happy!
I have a question for you, Ramsey. Now, you've said that you started in TaeKwonDo and have moved on to MMA. You also say that you've studied BJJ, wrestling, catch wrestling, boxing, Muay Thai and what else? You're still a young man, so how on earth can you have studied all of these arts since each takes lengthy training.
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0:11 - What is the difference between wresting and BJJ?
3:48 - Catch wrestling
6:50 - If Jack Dempsey had competed in UFC 1?
9:25 - Could an internationally ranked judoka have beaten Hocie Gracie in UFC 1?
10:58 - BUT! + Close up
12:38 - Do you have to attend a martial arts school to get good at martial arts?
16:05 - When striking the face, should you aim for the chin or nose?
20:10 - Ramsey's real voice
24:22 - What should I consider when fighting taller opponents?
26:20 - Ramsey's speech impediment
Thank You
I lived at Igor Zatsepin's house in LA...I was freinds with his son, Total beast.
Zatsepin senior was one of Gene's Blackbelts.
I would say yes.
Gene teaches at Gokor's and Rhonda trained there.
Gokor has moves and options not seen by bjj.
I would do bits of each.
Base Wrestling to stay standing... BJJ from guard.
Catch Wrestling for stand up grappling and dominant position.
Catch wrestling is great.
Royce beat Ken Shamrock in UFC 2.
@@harrisfrankou2368 Gokor complete grappler, i wonder what if Gene is even better, must've been an absolute monster grappler in his prime.
@@jimmynich4791 I find it interesting as Gene is old school Judoka and out of the whole of LA he is at Gokors
Catch wrestling is a fascinating sport with a rich, storied history. I'm fortunate enough that my BJJ coach, while being a black belt, had a successful career in catch before transitioning to jiu-jitsu. Coming from that perspective, all of our guys (blue belts and up) have great pressure and were exposed to heel hooks early on. Like you said, though, don't neglect the bottom game! It can save your life in a match and in real life.
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"Do you hear the sound coming out of my throat? Thats my sound"
That's the sound of Batman lol
It would be cool if we could get him to say "I'm Batman!" next time.
Maybe it's good, that this channel doesn't have millions of subscribers, beacause you still have that close connection with audience. You answer my questions before I ask. THANKS for Q&A videos!
(sorry for poor english, understanding speech is easy, but talking and writing is hard)
Sonya Gowiet you have great English skills. Only very minor mistakes, that really don’t matter too much. I didn’t even realize you’re not a native English speaker.
Sakuraba was a catch wrestler
Talent Dance TV mark Schultz did well in ufc 8.
Jasen Turnquist wow
@Jasen Turnquist He was the Gracie Hunter LoL
@@MrJohneblaze822 and Beat some tough fighter : Victor Belfort, Rampage Jackson, Kevin Randleman etc...
Don't forget Josh Barnett ! One of thé best MMA heavyweight.
When I first started watching you RD, one of the first things I noticed were your deep, strong voice, well thought out words and that you didn’t cut up your videos every 5 seconds... it was very refreshing and I subbed right away. Keep up the good work.
Amen brother. Catch Wrestling IS awesome!
But it almost impossible find a legit catch School even a luta livre school
+Hisoka Morrow almost but not completely. They are out there, my goal is to get to a much more proficient level myself (say another 8 years of studying) and then train as many wrestlers as I can. I’ve been training Catch about two years now, so I’d say 10 years in Catch is roughly equivalent to a Bjj black belt.
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Imagine if catch was as popular as BJJ, level would be unreal.
@@jimmynich4791 Blame that on them faking their matches for decades to make money. When BJJ showed up in the 80's there were no real catch wrestlers to challenge them.
Gracie jujitsu is great, but if you don't look at things objectively to find its flaws you'll never improve. there is no one magic trick style that will win you every fight. That's why its good to look for the flaws with your style and pull techniques from other styles that can repair those flaws. if your martial art isn't changing, adding what works and removing what doesn't, it will stagnate becoming obsolete.
Agree. That's problem with most traditional oriental martial arts. They can't accept that there are things they do that don't work...
Yes, Bruce Lee Say a similar things about style.
Pierre Bridenne Bruce Lee’s style worked because he studied western fencing.
@@antiantifa886 Hi ! I wanted to say that Bruce , said that a martial artist didn't limit himself with style, he said " take what it work".
About western martial art they learn a lot from east ; Karaté, Judo Jiu jitsu and Muay Thaï are effective .
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A bit of reading CAN help: When I was 11, I read "America Combat Judo" by Bernard Cosneck. i had actually just begun reading it when, through the window, i saw my neighbor getting bullied. Merely from reading a bit put me in "hero mode": I ran outside, & while not using ANY technique from the book,(obviously), I battered & chased the bully, a kid who otherwise could've just as likely beaten me in a fight.
This only happened in the figment of your daydreaming after reading said book..
@@colinkillian9265 Back to your mommy’s basement, “Colin”.
@@lazur1 Hey I'm no hand to hand combatives expert, hence why I have a basic familiarization in wrestling, and over a decade of combat experience with firearms. If things are ever dire enough for a unwanted physical confrontation, I'll use my carry sidearm. If I'm unable to reach said weapon due to being grappled, I also keep a small blade in my carry belt, I'll be able to draw one or the other, I'll use this to poke holes or cut to get the fucker off me for enough distance to draw said firearm. If I'm grappled my wrestling skills should be sufficient to gain access to either weapon, if I can't then I'm likely gonna die anyway so why care..
Irrelevant
Honestly I find you an inspiration. You have speech issues from before and after your injury. Explaining martial arts is not simple in the first place. But even after taken a good amount of damage you still speak clearly and succinctly and explain everything very well. You're a great coach.
Put simply... You can learn martial arts without attending a gym, but you'll never be good at them without one.
АлтайскийКазак just like music, you can learn theory and how to read all you want but it won’t mean you can actually play an instrument
@K D If you have consistent access to professionals and everything else you just mentioned plus equipment that's essentially just bringing the gym to you, lol! Pretty much the only difference at that point is less variety of training partners on a daily basis, but even that wouldn't be too hard to change. If you had access to professionals, you could just pass that down to a dozen or so people in your area who are interested and gradually increase the diversity of your sparring.
It's interesting to hear you say you've battled speech issues. Naturally, all your audience hears is a well spoken, clear and cerebral speaker who also happens to be a humble genuine human being. So again, it's so fascinating the battles that people face under the surface. Thanks. Edit* and thank God that He gives us the grace to overcome our fears.
"I understand the bottom game." -Ramsey Dewey quoting Sir Mix-a-Lot.
He also beat Remco Pardoel in UFC 2, a jujutsu, judo, and taekwondo black belt with an 80 pound weight advantage.
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*For those who want hear his real voice*
BJJ matches would be way more entertaning if takedowns were awarded 4 points to
I agree. The point system is heavily flawed.
Catch is not just top work. Tons of submissions from all over, at least in the circles that I traveled. Great video, thanks.
That Mickey Mouse voice coming from Ramsey is top 5 most terrifying things I've ever heard.
I stumbled onto your channel and subscribed automatically. You have a wealth of knowledge and you seem to have the same opinions as myself. I loved your honesty about bjj and catch wrestling. I myself have recently started training catch wrestling under a Snake Pit coach. He is also a bjj black belt and his style really suits a mma situation or street fighting situation. I've trained and coached martial arts for 17 years. My style has always had a catch and bjj x training element to it's grappling but more no gi bjj. My sticking is a Muay Thai x Boxing style. But recently I've focused on catch wrestling and Krav Maga. The Krav is purely to help me develop weapon disarmament techniques.
Have to thank that guy who said "Talk normal" because that response was life changing stuff. Amazing.
Your voice just sounds really bold and proper. Almost like a put on classic narrator type voice. It's cool though man. Just never heard it before. Thank for your awesome videos
also great micky mouse impression
If you could put the mountain in early UFC (hell, even the current UFC), without weight class, he would dominate a lot of martial artists there.
I've been wanting to learn more catch wrestling. I come from wrestling in high school, and I learned bjj and got ok at it. But I do like the wrestling a little more. I guess the way I've grappled is essentially catch wrestling by combining my current wrestling with BJJ techniques and submissions. And throwing ik n a few cranks for fun.
I’d say look online you can find alotta catch wrestling online but also look for the other wrestlers in the gym as they’ll give you the best scrambles in my opinion as a bjj guy who started learning catch fairly recently
Me too
LMFO!!! Your real voice sounds like Mickey Mouse!!!
*Zhdata,* laughed my ass off on that part haha!
I cracked tf up 😂😂
Don’t listen to them if they give you grief about your voice. I think you have an maxing voice. I honestly very jealous that I don’t have a Similar one. You have a great speaking voice. Love the channel by the way. You have inspired me to take my first BJJ class and also dance class.
So uncle is a safe word XD
Remember that big Sumo guy who fought in one of those first UFC things? We don't see so much Sumo these days.
Sumos have a history of losing badly in MMA
Thank You for your FOCUS Sensi,...
Thanks coach, again you never cease to amaze.
Bloody hell! You're right about the first UFC tournaments. They handpicked the opponents to make Royce look good and make name for Gracie jiujitsu. Never thought of that but it definitely makes sense.
Ramsey, I wanna hear you sing. Sing something classic like Elvis or Queen.
Queen sang in bass :) I vote for Cool Cat :))
There was a guy with a similar voice in my hostel at uni. When the first years had to introduce themselves on every hall he ended up having to sing a ring of fire 7 times in one night 😂
BUT....BUT....BUT.... that close up. Lol
I'm really glad to hear someone know the actual history about what the Gracies were doing to promote GJJ. You really know your history.
Exactly!
Royce fought these grapplers
Remco pardol
Ken shamrock
Dan Severn
Nobuhiko Takada
Sakuraba (won 1 and lost 1)
Good breakdown on BJJ vs Wrestling. In addition wrestlers don't really learn submissions, at least not at the level of BJJ, and many things, positions, moves in BJJ are illegal in wrestling.
I like Sambo I beat a BJJ purple belt got him in a Heel hook after 30 min's he was a tough SOB though.
Kevin Randelman was a BEAST! rip.
My first experience with martial arts was when i was either 6 or 7 years old... Have no memories from it... After that, i started again, this time with books at age 11... Then i started again for real at 15... Books do help a bit... I highly recomend everyone to get a few books... Maybe from styles that. You cant have a teacher for, but that you could try to use those techniques in another martial art... I used karate books to get better at soo bahk do... And i will use probably a judo book to help with my shuai jiao...
Hey I've been wondering what moves are unique to BJJ and CACC? I've been told the Kimura is a double wrist lock that was taught to kimura in england. I've also been told that arm-bars and knee-bars were both independently invented by both styles and I was wondering if you know whether that is true or not. Great video as usual!
pandacommanda1 oh god who told you that bollocks?
The double wrist lock (gyaku ude garami) has been a technique in judo since the very beginning, Kimura just happened to specialise in the technique. Leck locks and ankle locks were also in judo since the early days, it just got banned early in competition because the way they used to do it was dangerous (whereas the reason the gracies banned leg locos was so they could keep pulling guard).
CACC came up with their own techniques, i'm sure, i can't tell you where their techniques come from. But i can tell you every single technique in BJJ (excluding your triple inversion donkey guard shite) comes straight from judo. As for where judo got them, many of them come from Tenshin Shin'yo Ryu, and many others come from Fusen Ryu jujutsu. Some (such as the trianlge choke) where independently founded.
Don't trust a brazilian jiu jitsu instructor to give you bistory of BjJ. They'll tell you all kind sof stuff, such as:
Helio made them
Helio improved them
They come from [insert not judo here]
Basically they don't want to admit that all their chokes and armlocks, holds, transitions, guards, 'takedowns' and even most of their maneuvres come from judo. They'll find all kinds of excuses to deny this, but it's true. Even the berimbolo roll was in judo way before helio knew what fraud was
Jimmy is right, but the double wristlock thing is weird. It would've been independently invented in Judo and CACC, and they renamed it after Kimura, who was a Judoka, but then everybody cares about Sakuraba, who was a catch wrestler... It's all a semantic argument based on lineages.
Should we use different names for techniques, based on who is performing them?
To answer your actual question though, as far as I can tell, CACC has a bunch of neck cranks, cradles and shit that aren't in BJJ, also leg rides, and a whole bunch of technique from the turtle position, and anything involving the Gi or the guard would be BJJ.
Also, it would be unfair to attribute armbars to any specific style, they're just so universal.
Connor Wiebe yeah, judo indepentently found a lot of techniques. An example would be the triangle choke, i don't doubt that it existed elsewhere but Oda-sensei or his student discovered it while researching newaza under Kano-sensei's orders. Same with most of the guard techniques (though most of them come from Fusen Ryu), in fact the original use of the word 'newaza' meant, in today's terminology, 'techniques performed from the guard'. They didn't have proper names for the guards, but they had closed guard, open guard, butterfly guard, spider guard, lasso guard, and they had sweeps and passes for all of them too - some of them you donmt even see in BJJ. Similar story with the choking a d armlocking techniques. Bow and arrow chokes, guillotines, omoplatas, kimuras, americanas, etc. Since before BJJ existed. But since the gracies got their name out there, managed to convince half the world they invented these techniques, the other half that they improved these techniques and that they dodn't have names in judo (cough cough kron 'i don't know anything about my lineage' gracie cough) when in fact they existed and had names, so now everyone uses the BJJ terminology. I've seen so many judo videos where someone does an armlock of choke and the comments are a shit storm of people asking how. Long they've been legal for because they never knew they existed. Or any fight between a wrestler and a judoka is invaded by people staming a flag and claiming it for BJJ.
No issue with BJJ, its online community isn't exactly the best representation of it however. If i only knew about BJJ from the internet community inwouldn't have even considered training it. In fact i was put off for a while when i first looked it up, and thought that you had to start bent 90degrees to the ground, slap hands and sit down as fast as possible. BJJ's great, but there are still too many people pretending it is something it's not, and pretending ither arts are things they're not to make BJJ look even better. And most of the world bought it too
@@jimmyalderson1639 well I've never actually talked to a BJJ instructor I was told this stuff by a catch wrestler.
pandacommanda1 that makes sense too. A BJJ instructor would be more than happy to concur if you told them that. But if you asked them, without telling them that ude garami was something !imura learned from catch (even though i can show you 1940s instructionals of Kimura and other judoka using the ude garami from standing, from guard, from bottom in yoko shiho, from top in kami shiho and a myriad of other positions including as a throwing technique) they'd come up with some other things like 'he learned it from his judo instructor... Who stole it from [insert school of jujutsu here]'
BJJ instructors, mainly ones who admire the Gracie family and the bollocks they spout, really hate admitting 'yes, all the techniques you're gonna learn pretty much up to purple belt, and maybe even right through to brown or even black belt (depending on how competition oriented you are) were all in judo's syllabus way before jiu jitsu came around... And no it was a lie that Helio improved them, they did them the same in the 40s as we do now'. The gracies had to distinguish themselves from judo and seeing as how they taught judo that was quite difficult. So they mainly came up with these styles of excuses:
We didn't come from judo, we came from jujutsu
Helio invented all these
Helio improved all these
The family improved all these
These technique were in judo but they did them wrong
These techniques were in judo but didn't have names
These techniques were in judo but they stole them
I imagine this is something in all martial arts. In that i'd guess there are some taekwondo instructors who feel the need to prove that karate stole their kicks. Or for some sort of denial like that aikido didn't come from aikijutsu (though that specific example seems unlikely). As such i'd imagine there are some catch instructors who couldn't bare to admit myes judo has the double wrist lock, and they found it by their own means/inherited it' and would rsther say 'oh yeah, my great grandfather taught them it. Without catch judo would hever have that technique they had since 1882 when it was first founded'. I'm not claiming judo invented any techniques, and i'm not even gonna say that BJj stole them because those would be ludacrous things to say. I will say that judo inherited its techniques (some of them were independently founded, like the triangle choke, but most came feom other schools, and the throws were taken and modified slightly from older schools who specialised in throwing armoured opponents) and its style, and it's proud of that which is why the founder calle it 'judo'. BJJ inherited judo's techniques. They then got rid of most of them because the gracies weren't any good at them, so they changed the rules to help them get by without any standup, and later on they decided to claim that they invented a new style of fighting. They had the UFC, their special rules, their weak opponents, their advertising and now the damage they caused is slowly being undone. So it's entirely possible also that the instructor you spoke to was given this information by someone who does BjJ, BJj fanbois will literally make up history on the spot if it makes BJj look better than judo.
Sorry to rant again, especially since i think i've already said most of this.
If you look up the syllabus for 'kyokushin budokai', a manual for a style of krate that is a mix of kyokushin, judo and jiu jitsu, at one point there's an excerpt from a jiu jitsu book giving the history of BjJ. It's a vile read tbh. It sounds like a child ranting about another child who's done nothing wrong but they still don't like them, so they just add little bits to the end of their sentences to make them sound bad. Like 'judo was just ankther school of jujutsu' (which is a blatent lie) 'nudo had no groundwork' (lie) 'until kano's students lost to fusen ryu, then he stole their techniques' (no, he noticed the importance of newaza and decided to incorporate them into his style, something BjJ claims they do with pride because it's a science) 'the 1886 police tournament was won by judo but the only one who fought was a man who had already learned jujutsu, so it eliminated the point of a judo v jujutsu match' (i can't even be bothered where to begin with the deceit from that one) and it carries on. You'll notice in other BJj history books and videos usually they give a great deal of info on jujutsu, then gloss over judo in an attenpt to link BJj to the ancient styles of samurai who had no requirement to learn newaza because they were clad in armour and only osaekomi waza and kansetsu waza would even be opimportant to learn.
It's sort of like if you had a mechanic who invented the car, his son who built on that work to invent faster and more efficient cars and aeroplanes, then his son who specialised in making car engines. And then the grandson denies he knew anything about his father, and thhat his father gave him nothing, and said everything he got was from his grandfather who died before he was born.
Some great advice advice, and a great voice too!
@RamseyDewey. You should make "Hi it's Ramsey Dewey from the Jx fight club in Shanghai China" into a shirt I would proudly buy one.
Also a shirt that says "Now get out there and train!"
Not suprised with rigging. Its all about the money. O well.😕
Space....the fighting frontier...... These are the monologues of Coach Ramsey Dewey......
I didn't know that dempsey was a wrestler/judoka. great vid!
Royce Gracie vs kimo also was a very close fight. If kimo didn't have that ponytail he would have beat Royce
The US learned Jiu-Jitsu and used put it to the best use in MMA. Brazil didn't care about learning Wrestling at a high level. Now we see the results.
Wesley Martins Well Gsp does wrestling. Chuck Liddell does wrestling. Khabib does wrestling.
Honhoa Ong that’s his point. The US took wresting and added their Jiu-Jitsu
Brazil just took their Jiu-Jitsu and had pride
That’s why there aren’t many good Brazilian fighters
That’s why no gi jiu jitsu is changing so much. In about 10 years no gi grappling will be completely different to gi and traditional bjj.
it's ramsey night over here. I'm a pro singer. Your voice is fine and your body is more lined up than usual, and that's why your larynx floats low. It's not that deep even, it's in the middle. lol gotta love the "look at yourself" game
im jealous of your voice. its very noble and mighty. you should do voice adverts. people get funny when anything is good these days. people attack or dismiss anyone who is unique.
Thanks!
Regarding: Talk with your real voice.
First, you talk very well and I enjoy your videos.
Second, you have a delivery that reminds me a little of William Shatner. His speaking style has been dubbed "Shatneresk." Your own delivery is still different from his, but it does stand out. That might be part of what's behind the "talk with your real voice" comment. Regardless, I think your delivery reflects depth of thought. And that's a good thing.
Now I'm not one of those guys who says "Grappling is gay, LOL", I understand the importance of wrestling and BJJ in the world of martial arts, and I practice a little bit of them every now and then. But man, some of the terminology does not help at all:
- "Westlers like to be on top"
- "BJJ practitioners like to be bottoms"
- " Full mount"
Call me immature, but I can't help but chuckle a bit when I hear this kind of terminology
as a side note, in my very limited grappling experience. Isn't another difference between wrestling and BJJ the fact that wrestling tends to have better takedowns and projections, while BJJ has better ground game?
Hahaha true ! Thanks for the good laugh , it's a question of how you look. Imagine a gay Guy décidé to try this sport just after hear this terminology and later find himself with a strong Guy on a tight outfit side control him with all his weight cutting off his breathing and inflicting him a brutal Kimura .
10:00. Yeah, if I’m mistaken, I heard that Ken Shamrock was only given a one day notice that he was not allowed to wear shoes if he kicks at the first UFC. Probably messed up his game plan….
Remember Olympic Gold medalist wrestler Kevin Jackson and college legend Royce Alger in the UFC? No because they got submitted a lot.
I do remember Kevin Jackson. He lost 2 out 6 fights.a
@@RamseyDewey 2 -2 in the UFC. His wins were over not great fighters. He lost the two times he fought good submission fighters then he retired. Frank beat him in 16 seconds and Inoue beat Alger in under two minutes. Being a wrestler and athlete didn't mean much if you were not adept at submission defense. That was in 98 and everyone had seen submissions work, in 93 he would of even knew less.
@@invisiblechurch9621 Exactly. And Royce wasn't even the best fighter of the family. Besides, people talking about Karelin are being ridiculous, if you need someone like Karelin, so big and full of the best in PEDs, to win against someone like Royce, it just proves their point.
Hey Ramsey, what do you think of shotokan in comparison to kyokushin? I've spent about 12 years training at a shotokan club, but I feel like I'm stagnating there so I'm thinking of changing to a full-contact form of karate.
for someone who didn't really start competing outside of his own style before ufc 1, the gracies would be hard to beat a Olympic recognized judoka..
given bjj is based from judo, i got my doubts the gracies would of won if they have of had matched. them with graplers from the get go.
My understanding of Dan Servern or however you spelt his last name, he was well known in both the wrestling, shoot fighting and bare knuckles fighting arena scene, prior to ever stepping into UFC fight scene
Jason howe look up farmer burns. He beat the Gracies with catch but the Gracies jumped him with iron bars!
@@antiantifa886 Farmer Burns is completely different guy. Brazilian Rufino dos Santos was the guy that got ambushed. During that era gacies lost other matches as well, for example famously Helio to japanese judoka Kimura.
Lalli yeah I got that one mixed up. My bad but check out didos channel good documentaries.
Dewey, who wins? Ed Strangler Lewis or Jack Dempsey?
You mentioned that it takes focus to manage your speech impediment. I don’t want to be too presumptuous but I think that’s turned a weakness into a strength. You’re very articulate and your speech is deliberate and poignant as a result: it works well with your naturally deep voice that adds gravitas to your words.
Anyway, that’s enough about your voice which already takes up too much comment space. However, I’m just trying to say not to feel too bad. A speech impediment may be something you feel insecure about but it may have helped you become a better speaker than most as a result.
Now you have a RUclips channel with half the comments talking about loving your voice. That’s pretty inspirational.
Wait jack Dempsey studied the same arts as Teddy Roosevelt?! I didn't know this. I have his book. Where did you find this out?
You should do one that compares catch wrestling vs BJJ. Just a thought :)
I'd say you do not need to go to school for it. Musashi considered the greatest swordsman taught himself after running away from home around 9 living as a vagabon. His first duel at 13 he killed the swordsman with a wooden sword. His last duel which I believe was duel number 60 he killed the considered the best swordsman in Japan with a wooden ore. He wrote the book 6 rings aswell.
Ramsey - I love you guy but wrestlers didn't know submissions back in those days. BJJ is a vastly superior system for submissions so early on I would have to give it to BJJ. I grant not so much now because wrestlers have learned escape and submissions. I remember when Dan Severn got Triangled. Everyone was stunned - we all thought Dan was killing Royce, but then suddenly Dan was tapping! Nobody had ever heard a triangle choke back then much less seen one. I remember an interview after where Dan said that he thought he was winning just before he realized that he was being choked out. We all did. Who had ever thought that the man on the bottom could win? Also, where are your sources for this claim that the Gracies rigged the matches? These are pretty serious charges you are making here. I have heard it before but never seen any proof of these claims. I mean now they have rigged the rules to favor strikers because that is what the public wants to see, which is to say that the system is rigged, but I never hear too many claiming that the fights are fixed.
As you said, he is not implying the fights were fixed, just that UFC was set up in such a way as to appear to be clearly designed to give Royce Gracie several advantages.
IIRC some of the main issues are:
1. The participants, which some argue were not the highest standard they could have been or were chosen to be less trouble for Royce's style. Also things like Gerard Gordeau being chosen to fight an extremely large sumo wrestler rather than Royce, who might be expected to have extreme difficulty with submitting such a heavy opponent, and that the fight was arguably stopped unnecessarily early.
Gordeau also claims to have initially been set to face Royce instead in his first match, before they found out he had MMA experience in Japan.
2. Ken Shamrock was infamously not allowed to wear his wrestling shoes despite reportedly being initially told he would be. This despite the fact that Royce Gracie could wear his gi and was allowed to use it as a weapon to choke his opponents, which he did. Shamrock was the only grappler to face Royce, and Art Jimmerson had worn boxing shoes in a previous fight so it's not as if all footwear was banned either.
3. Fighters were not allowed to wrap their hands, disadvantaging strikers (i.e. people who are not Royce Gracie).
4. IMO, it's also suspect that they billed Gordeau as representing Savate when he appears to have had much more experience in karate and kickboxing and could not possibly have been engaging in anything that could legitimately be called Savate while barefoot. This is presumably an attempt to increase the number of fighting styles that Gracie Jiu Jitsu could be said to have beaten in competition.
Some of the points are perhaps very arguably, but for several of them I can't see any reasonable possibility other than purposefully attempting to give Royce Gracie an unfair advantage.
@@seanseanston Well, it will never be proven one way or the other. And I don't think that the Gracie's were above getting any advantage they could via gamemanship. But the fact is that Gracie BJJ had dominated almost every fighting style for decades before the UFC. I have seen Royce fight a Sumo wrestler and win in fights - it's on youtube somewhere. Google it. Complaints and supposed stories from the losers are so much sour grapes. As much as I love Ken Shamrock - he had to step up his game and training to give Gracie good fights. He doesn't sound at his best with all his whining about it. The fact is that everyone in the world has had to incorporate BJJ into their skill set because it is the most dominant fighting art in the world. Of course, now it has been neutralized by rules and other fighters incorporating it into their system. I don't believe that any of the fighters in the early UFC's had a chance against Gracie regardless of the lineup. Not until people figured out what BJJ was doing and the rules were changed to favor strikers did it lose its dominance. Just my opinion. thanks
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*Goofy Ramsey Alert!*
My guy Dewey gots the Saitama action going on.
Unfortunately catch is dying, marco raus could also destroy royce and all rember that happend in royce when faced matt huges, royce beated shamrock in ufc 1 final
AHA! now thats why i lay on my back below a dude all the time lol
thanks
You get a lot of weird comments about your looks and voice and a lot of other things. I can't figure out why. Its distracting for the rest of us that are trying to learn.
I second that.
I think this guy is funny as hell
I got the same thing when my voice broke, because i went from high for a child to basso profondo in the space of 4 weeks when i was 15. I feel your pain
You have an awesome voice!
BJJ is cool...BUT...BUT...BUT WHAT??? omfg finish the sentence!!!
As far as Ramsey Dewey doing that funny sounding voice it makes me ask the question what if Ramsey Dewey decided to dabble in vioce acting?
I have done quite a bit of voice acting.
Your voice impersonation had me dying!
you can definitely be very good at martial arts with very few people, look at all the amazing wrestlers that come out of places like small-town Iowa
Well explained. Thanks!
Hey coach, any advice when dealing with newcomers when light/no touch sparing that don't take pressure?
What I mean is like they simply ignore the motion of a frontal snap kick to the stomach and just keep going in because I held back on the power
Thanks
Add 10% each time until they start respecting the distance. Who knows, maybe your kick needs work and they're right to just walk you down. Probably warn them before you add too much.
It may be lack of experience togheter with no contact sparring, because most of these cases just the motion should be enough to show them I could be hitting a kick right into their stomachs
Note that I'm saying "them", this happens commonly with people new to sparring that i practice with
@@tBarkEditing As someone who has never even seen no contact sparring, I don't understand. How much of the kick do you perform? A front kick can easily be turned into a push kick, for these scenarios, but if you knee stays bent the whole time, there really isn't a kick to react to.
It's more like shadow boxing with a partner so total begginers can have an idea. We sometimes do that with newcomers and i guess in this case is pointless trying to make a point about this
The kick in this case is a frontal snap kick to the stomach, but light enough to do no damage. But yeah, pushing might do it, thanks
@@tBarkEditing I was one of those idiots, as an expert in that field I would recommend you to explain it to them or tell the instructor to do it.
Also don't hold too much back, when you hit someone in a spar it should still "hurt"
That's how you build character.
As a bjj fanatic I recommend taking a catch wrestling seminar to add some spice to your game
Remember Travis Fulton vs. Jeremy Bullock? That’s why there is weight class.
Good video. Question : Don't you think stand up striking sports (boxing, kickboxing, muay thai...) should need a new weight class in between 91 and 100/105kg ? Nowadays, guys too heavy to go cruiserweight, but too short to reach the giants of 2m+/115kg+ (Anthony Joshua, Rico Verhoeven...etc) have a hard time going anywhere. Since the Klitschkos reign the "short" heavyweight almost don't reach champion status anymore.
Yes they did hand pick every one ..the gracies...and limited ken shamrock to make sure he would lose to royce
Talent Dance TV not jsut Ken. Did you see what happened in the rematch between Royce and Yoshida? And in the actual match, when Royce clearly oked out but woke up quick enough to cry to the ref to get the decision changed.
And this has been going on way before the UFC. Carlos would make skilled opponents wear suit and ties, Helio would fight on canvas so throws don't hurt him, and they banned leg locks because they kept getting caught in them.
No offence to BjJ, but the Gracies just stole judo (weren't even as good as other judoka of their time even at groundwork) and changed the rules to suit them. I'm pretty peeved at how thte IJf have limited newaza so that newaza specialists are at a disadvantage, but the gracies effectively got rid of throws and half the other grappling syllabus
jimmy alderson no I didn’t see that match I’m afraid
I like the Gracie’s , even met Royce , he’s a nice guy ..and I think BJJ is an awesome style
But people have felt and I agree with them that the Gracie’s have had “special” rules just applicable to themselves and have worked fights to their favour
But I don’t get why because if you are so confident with your style you should win anyhow regardless
jimmy alderson, dude fuck the IJF and USJF. The fragmentation of jiut-jitsu/judo is awful enough. But now Judo has warped its rules in ridiculous ways.
Maybe I'm delusional about how the rules were applied before, idk. But it saddens me. Judo today feels like the Tae Kwon Do of grappling. With BJJ being somewhat more inclusive, but warped around whatever ruleset the old Gracies favored back in the day, as you said. Very frustrating.
Talent Dance TV the reason wa sbecause the UFC wasn't a science experiment like they claimed. They knew who they'd fight, and who they could beat. Some of the guys there had never been in a fight in their lives. One guy was even just a taxi driver who said he had a black belt, and they took him in because they knew it'd make them look good, i know of other people who say they've met royce and who said he was a twat, but if you like him fine. I can't say i like him based on his behaviour during the ufc.
They fixed fights when they knew they couldn't win, they did everything they could to make BJj look as original and unique and invincible as possible. Helio even lied about what went down with Kimura. They even assualted someone in the streets over a match carlos lost to a man he tried to make wear a suit and tie.
They were skilled, but they knew who they could and couldn't beat, and they knew how to bend the rules to help them win
Anguel Roumenov Bogoev i agree completrly. I live in the Uk, so IjF's all i've got. If i'm REALLY lucky, and Brexit actually happens, then i'm even more lucky maybe the BJA will revert back to kodokan rules. At the clubs i train we do whatever rules we want as long as our partner agrees. But in comp i have to forget 9/10 of my techniques because they're either illegal, or the ref'll think i got thrown, or the refmll stand me up while imm half way through getting a choke on. The IjF disgust me, they've clear,y never read a word of Kano's writing. They've done exactly what he didn't want to happen, and now judo's seen as a subpar martial art because all people know about are the olympic rule sets. Don't even need to bow properly anymore. If your opponent keeps attacking you then you get DQd for being too defensive, got no newaza, got not big kata gurumas or ko uchi gari to ipponzeoi, got no time, got no judo. Apparently at the IJF meetings what happens is: the IjF offer to destroy everything that made judo great, and everyone else keeps their heads down and agrees, and neil adams swollows his pride and gets paid to tell everyone they're good rules. There's no individuality. Gone are the days of newaza experts, sutemi experts, ashidori experts. Here are the days of 'just do uchi mata til it works'. Any shite throw is a waza ari, and any mediocre throw is ippon. I can't even begin to list everything that's gone wrong thanks to them. They've fucked up the rules so much that the only rule changes they have left is to undo rule changes they made a few years ago, then reinstate them.
It's a joke
If Catch Wrestling was more commonly taught instead of Collegiate/Free style wrestling, would BJJ be as popular as it is today? Would Royce Gracie have beaten a sound Catch Wrestler in the 1st UFC?
I legitimately think Billy Robinson, despite his age, would've slaughtered Royce Gracie at UFC 1. Catch Wrestling was his life, it wasn't about making money, it wasn't about marketing, it was pin or submit. Not to mention the sixty pounds he had on him. Yes, he was fifty five. Yes, he was far out of his prime, but Royce was a gimmick. He was the British National Wrestling Champion as well as the European Open Light-Heavyweight Champion, Not to mention all of the top level athletes he taught who went onto slaughter BJJ guys. What do you think Ramsey? Do you think he would slaughtered Royce due to superior strength, takedown arsenal, and superior top game or do you think Royce's age and stamina would've overwhelmed him?
I agree that you need People to train with when you want to learn fighting. Maybe what also could be interesting: do you need a teacher to learn a martial art? Or if you got people to train with and some books/ videos that can explain some things, do you think one could figure out how to efficiently fight for oneself?
Hi Ramsey, pretty cool Q n A , I've got a serious question about Brasilian Jiu jitsu and self défense ; Many people said Bjj is a very effective martial art but I would like to know your opinion , if I 've got the Time to only choose one martial art , wich will be better for self défense ? Bjj, judo or boxing ?
I've just recently seen a video explaining how the Gracie's engaged in some less than professional activities and some Tonya Harding type revenge against a catch wrestler.
Haha, the voice thing, I'm a voice guy, broadcaster for years, I think they may mean "how you talk" as opposed to your actual voice perhaps.
They didnt put him against other grapplers because they wanted to prove that pure grappling always beats pure striking (not always but almost always)
That voice change caught me off guard 😂
You should sing Michael row the boat ashore in one of your posts that will shut up those questions about your voice.
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Hello Ramsey, Good impersonation of Mickey mouse with that voice
Hi ramsey.
Great videos. Lots of info and really entertaining.
How do you think Alexander Krelin would have done as an mma fighter at a top level in his prime.
Dominance, for sure. He was so crazy strong that he probably would've destroyed everyone, especially since they didn't respect weight classes.
I live very near to the area cacc was invented, but it's not big around here, I think there are only 2 gyms in the entire country that specialise in it that I know of.
i'm not from Wigan, but it is a shame imo that there isn't more of a legacy left there and the surrounding area.
Go to Liverpool or Manchester and you'll find a good boxing culture, lots of old, good, serious gyms producing a lot of good fighters.
It seems like that culture of wrestling in Lancashire's been lost.
Where did you train in Wigan?
In my experience if you can't hit hard enough to knockout a strong chinned man, punching should just be a distraction to set something else up.
And if you can hit hard enough to knock him out... be prepared to have very broken hands if you get in fights regularly!
Well as Ramsey says in the vid above, ideally hard weapon should hit soft target e.g knuckles to nose, the reverse is also true e.g palm strikes to hard bony areas like the head.
An exception being the chin, it's like a lever and has some 'give' in it, it also causes a lot of knockouts.
Bone on bone, with enough force means damage both sides, even Thai boxers chip their well conditioned shins pretty regularly.
It may depend why you're fighting as to the level of commitment an attacker has, I'd rather presume they're willing to go all the way, a lot of drunk and mentally ill people are.
So they need to be disabled not deterred.
Digs 1 check out savate that’ll up your game.
I've actually looked for that too, nothing around.
My old jujitsu coach used to incorporate it, but not to competition level.
Unfortunately in the UK we pretty much only have boxing, muay thai, BJJ and some Judo (though that seems to be getting less and less popular).
I won't even include traditional jujitsu, the standard's generally so poor.
Hey Ramsey. I have a question, I like yourself am an older person. I have trained(many moons ago) kung fu & Capoeira. These days I'm basically a gym rat. Have been thinking that I would like to do something different. I was thinking about BJJ. But, from a self defence/fitness point of view would MMA training be more beneficial? I guess I am lucky, because there is a gym in my town that teaches all kinds of fighting techniques. Kick boxing, Krav maga, defendo, BJJ, MMA etc. Many thanx. Oh, by the way. You have a great voice😁
Royce beat a judoka in UFC 2.
thanks
Could you tell me what is better elastic or cotton hand wraps? Which one do you use?
PS. Started Muay Thai, 2 weeks ago, partially thanks to you, I couldn't be more happy!
catch wrestling...= high energy..= Americana
I have a question for you, Ramsey. Now, you've said that you started in TaeKwonDo and have moved on to MMA. You also say that you've studied BJJ, wrestling, catch wrestling, boxing, Muay Thai and what else? You're still a young man, so how on earth can you have studied all of these arts since each takes lengthy training.
I’m 40
Oh my god!!! Coach were possesed by Mickey for a sec!! ^o^
You're channeling Professor X at 26:41 there Coach.
20:06 People just be jealous of your sweet baritone swagger
Kazushi Sakuraba, Gracie hunter
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No only that but controversial competition politics
4 Gracies: Royler, Renzo, Royce, Ryan