The only thing that makes you better at fighting is being in a fight ,sparring is the closest you will get ,you need to desensitize your self to violence and dissipate your adrenaline. ,if you don't You are fighting 2 people your opponent and yourself.also You need to learn how to take a strike and recover ,it's fking brutal. You are completely right 😀.

You only can do that on person at a time lol

I'm gutted, please give us Daniel Mendoza part 4 😪

Thank you for this ,I'm watching in December 2024 it's fkin g great 👍

Wow I'm watching this in December 2024, when I saw you sat there with a cuppa I thought ,I'm gonna get bored real quick here , but I'm totally captivated . This is great bud😊👍

I can agree with a 30 min warmup being unnecessary; but a 10 minute warmup to loosen up is no bad thing and helps prevents injuries....yes it helps that the movements are more BJJ related such as shrimping, brigding etc rather than situps and pushups; but I don't agree that you can 'trust' everyone to do a decent warmup before class. As for 'unwanted coaching', if a purple belt or higher stops by to correct your technique, especially if you're a white belt, it's probably because you are doing it wrong.

Alot of Hema fencers are just nerds who are poor fighters because they lack the souls of warriors, plain and simple. They care more about running drills based on medieval manuscript they don't even understand than picking up the damn weapon and training practically by sparring consistently. Technique from a poorly drawn picture book can only get you so far. You need diversity in opponents and understanding of violence itself.

cool I enjoy watching the Samurai vs the English,etc!

If you think you are really that good why not try to fight Bobby taboada.. he is old but i want to see if how you deal with him.. you far younger than him much stronger much bigger

Yes and no 😂 strictly, cults don't just let you leave and they try to isolate you from other people. Never experienced either. It's definitely 'more' of a community than most sports. The Gracies were very important for the history of grappling, jiu-jitsu and MMA but as great as they are, they and some of their followers like to pretend they are even greater. I don't blame them that much. They've lost control of the sport, interest competition, in rulesets, in business. They're jiu-jitsu aristocracy now, but not royalty, and that's fine. My gym my coach have always been open, chill, egalitarian. There's lots of those. Find one if you want that. 😊

"It's uplifting and a force for good:" says the totally not an indoctrinated member of the cult. "We're not like those OTHER cults, we're good guys." Hahahahahahaha

I don't practice HEMA but i did train in boxing and this is what I learned there are a lot of different styles ( weapons) in HEMA or any martial arts you can go to three different boxing gyms in the same day with three different coaches and they will all teach you something different I know there's no historical manuscripts in boxing but this is the point I'm trying to make those manuscripts are more of a guide line and to be honest most people that practice HEMA are probably way more advanced and over all better fighters then the people that practiced and wrote those manuscripts because in Middle ages Renaissance you call it wasn't really a time where everyone had a weapon and was trying to kill you for your goods HEMA practitioners fight against more variety of weapons and more often then the kings and queens of medieval Europe the church pretty much owned all city States back then and the people of those city-states kingdoms what ever you want to call them were actually really religious so just knowing this those manuscripts may have indeed water down some of the techniques to keep things fair and just so people can have honorable combat now this is just a theory and I have no evidence to back that up

Jesse recently started to try and appeal to self defense and TMA dorks that hate bjj.

In my Shaolin Kung Fu class, we spar, learn the applications of the forms and learn the wrestling part of it. The problem begins when students aren't thought how to use the martial art, but rather are used as a hardrive to preserve the forms and moements without learning their use.

Sir I love the humour, and the tirade regarding juijitsu is understandable. I await your your next video lecture.

Most of the techniques used by Tommy are all from Tan-Green belt in MCMAP

How many adcc champions does catch Wrestling have

Those mustaches were epic

Is there a any martial art use a stick or like cop batton I don't remember the weapon name 😅like double small staffes etc

Good stuff. Yes, do your own warmups. Quit wasting time. Great stuff as usual. Grapplers are nasty and mats are nasty. Enforce the fucking rules on hygiene. For some reason BJJ in particular seems to have a population that is less educated.

This dude rocks!

One of my favorite channels. I’m hereby requesting the algorithm to recommend your channel to more people.

I wonder who would have won in a punch-up? Walter Armstrong or Aleksandr Karelin?

My students are expected to be capable fighters by 1st black belt. By 3rd I expect them to be able to dismantle someone in seconds. I don’t keep many students, not many people want real karate anymore.

bjj beats catch because you studied it and are devoted to it, more so than catch

I am a ncaa div 1 wrestler. My bjj club is filled with horrible black belts. Soft fat old men who think they are special are everywhere in bjj. Feels like boy scouts.

You pay your instructors and they give you belts to help you feel better about yourself. The belt system is a multi level marketing system. It all about the money. Helio gracie was a horrible human who went to jail. They always leave that part out.

Every martial art with belt system, uniform, syllabus is a cult. But in a good ways. Some movement needs cult in order to preserve authenticity.

Haven’t watched any of your content for a while and as someone in my mid 50’s I can relate to the question, can I compete with those in their 20’s ? Physically not a chance, I’m definitely getting less supple, harder of hearing, rickty knees and I really have to work on that and thats the benefit, I’m in better shape than I would otherwise be. Pick another attribute probably true for that as well, no sense stopping now.

Id' vote for the backswordsman over the saber-officer, NCO, in a duel any day (assuming some kind of time travel...). I'd bet the English backsword was created in, and used for, an age where dueling was quite to be expected-- thus the far higher, wider, range of technical options, to survive the day; whereas the saber, was for far more restricted social, legal, and moral, arrangements.

"They get comfortable in deeply uncomfortable positions." When I first started to train San Da (chinese kickboxing with some standing grappling) I really noticed that people with a predominately grappling bakcground were always dangerous in any position. Had a guy with a judo background reverse a throw when he was basically horizontal already... I was in shock..."but I had already won!" One of the great advantages grapplers have over stand up guys is that they dont give a shit about being stood up and balanced. They are still working and still dangerous until you tap them out or beat them down.

I guess, thus the popularity of the left-hand dagger

When the zombie apocalypse happens all that HEMA training will come in handy 👍🏻

Yes! Yes you can! Hi How Are You! Can go a long way 👍🏻

Hi! How You Doing? > hi guys 👌🏻

Hi! How are you doing? > hi guys 😁😍

So glad my club doesnt have this issue. We juat say if it works, it works. We fochs primarily on Italian manuscripts, but there's no enforcement. If we can't beat you, we merely aren't equipped to deal with how you fight/aren't good enough. We have a realistic approach rather than this childs play "no you cant do that because we're playing by my rules" crap.

The comments saying HEMA is invalid because of the padding/armor, is like saying MMA is invalid because they allow tap-outs. You should break their elbow with every arm-bar, keep every choke-hold locked til they stop breathing, and keep hitting them after they're already knocked out. Fractures and breaks do also happen in HEMA (inherent to swinging 3+ pound hunks of metal at treminal velocity) but as with all combat sports there's a line drawn where everyone agrees you're not actually trying to kill your opponent. Otherwise, MMA wouldn't exist because we'd just call it 'Thunderdome' and chant, "two men enter, one man leaves!" As for learning wrestling and grappling in HEMA, I agree it's a part of sword combat, but I think why tournaments stop grapples are for the same reason I mentioned earlier. It's a sport, so you're not actually trying to kill someone by pinning them long enough to get your blade through a gap in their armor, you're just trying to get that first clean strike for a scored point.

Nicely done !

One thing that mainly stopped me from training at mma/bjj gyms was that they kept trying to make me a fighter, I’m trying to be a chef and they would either look disgusted, offended, or make fun of it, the first gym I went to wouldn’t have done that but that gym closed down

I am just starting to get interested in both this and armored combat, and I’m realizing as a martial artist and athlete I don’t understand why there is such a strong aversion to adaptation to all of these combat practices. Personally as a very uneducated person in hema and hmb (if that’s the term) I actually think there should be some level of delineation between the reenacting focused and the competition focus. You see things like this in other martial arts anyway. A great example is the Japanese katana martial arts and the differences between Iado and kendo. There are other types of katana martial arts but those are probably the most popular and they are about as different as aikido and judo.

I have practiced bjj for nearly 3 years now. I cross training judo, most people in my club and that i know in bjj circles will happily look to other grappling arts. I joined a few catch Facebook pages all I saw was people ragging on bjj or how a bjj move is catch wrestling. This video rings true

I think we have a very different experience with hema... For us is only tournaments, so the study of the old shit is just to understand how to approach the fight whit an "unconventional weapon" then is tenpo, measure. Exacly what is fencing.... As per the realism of the fight, it will never be realistic. First of all, you have no fear of die, so youll never replicate a real sword fight. This is also the reason why is not possible to replicate the book strategy as were written long time ago.

I found this very helpful, thank you.

Respect is not given it is earned. The issue is that it is mix of a lot of things like swords, bow, wrestling, pole axe, spear and buckler. Which means it requires a lot of time and effort to look decent and at best it will be jack of all trades master of none similar to modern MMA. Another big issue is that the majority of the competitions are basically like Olympic fencing, but with long sword, which doesn't represent HEMA as a whole. And finally the community is small with even smaller percentage doing competitions with even less unified rules.

I am a MMA fighter, specialised in Muay Thai. According to me for hand fighting Muay Thai is the deadliest and if opponent holds a weapon then Krav Maga is best choice

Excellent video. HEMA is an attempt to recreate techniques from books, to apply them in sporting. In Japan there are koryūha (classical schools) with documented lineages, headmasters, and set curricula. There's also a very important concept called reihō - how one conducts oneself in the school, and the expected commitment to that school. This simply doesn't exist in HEMA. In Japanese koryū, you don't recreate anything - it's been preserved for centuries. It's reliably authentic and this can lead to some gatekeeping (though rare) in order to preserve the school's art. You can be expelled, for example. And they're not treated at all like sports. HEMA is in an awkward position of trying to recreate, market, and hold point scoring tournaments. This can lead to unintentional changes in HEMA schools over time, transforming it to be modern which is the antithesis of the "H".

The online "community" in HEMA has become generally a toxic place full of unintelligible squabbles , rivalry and weird politics. In real world and in the fencing salle, all I find are nice, decent people, however. So, its totally fine to just ignore the first and put the hours in the training, events, tournaments and have a positive experience of the martial art.

first of all the guy in the video I don't think is a true aikidoka,secondly no one would teach a martial art that doesn't work,a guy in Britain used it to defend against 3 attackers and he didn't drop his fish and chips in the process.ive been doing it for 4 years all up and I've been on the end of a technique done at full force and it is very effective.

Horrible video lol. By your definition of cult every community or group of people having a common interest is a cult?! Wearing national costumes is also a cult now? Basically anything outside of of ultra individualism is a cult.