3 Goofy things that happen in BJJ gyms we need to stop

3 goofy things that happen in EVERY BJJ gym that need to stop. What kind of goofy things do you see in jiu-jitsu academies that we need to put an end to?
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Ramsey Dewey is a retired pro fighter, combat sports coach, referee, and fight commentator… and occasional musician based in Shanghai, China.
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I fought professionally in Mixed Martial arts, Sanda, Muay Thai, K1 and American kickboxing from 2004-2011 when I was forced to retire due to a broken skull and being blinded in one eye. I hold a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Black belts in multiple traditional martial arts, including Taekwondo and kyokushin karate. I also train in catch wrestling, sambo, taijiquan, judo, and boxing.
I currently coach at the Animal MMA gym, the Extreme Fight Lab, and the Mordor Fight Club, all in Shanghai, China.

[@blockmasterscott]

The Black Hole happens with us stand up fighters too, no matter how big the place is, sparring couples will always bump into each other. It's weird!

[@annoyed707]

It is a pain, but there is value to training wider awareness while rolling and grappling with more than two.

[@nickolasdesouza3610]

Yes but this is still stand up fighters who participate in grappling participate in this phenomenon

[@blackpsalmmusic9180]

I never seem to run into this, our gym seems to have an opposite magnetic field in the center of the mats because we all tend to roll right off the mat onto the floor/into the walls 😂

[@blockmasterscott]

@@blackpsalmmusic9180 I once saw a guy grappling roll over and place his head in a plaster wall. That hole was there for months until it was patched up lol.

[@Tahllia]

Happens in HEMA too while swinging 3lb+ hunks of metal. Like, get out of my personal space!!

[@brenthill3241]

I'm an older guy and that vortex is terrifying. Hilarious yet terrifying. I think I'll just continue to do katas in the safety of my room .

[@kaizenproductions00]

Another weird thing I found is when we're shrimping as a warm up, I always try to do it correctly but the guy behind me always runs into me. This happens because the guy behind me tries to shrimp as fast as possible in what can only be described as a seizure

[@actuallywetsocks2374]

This was in muay thai sparring, but I've had an encounter with the claw guy, he forgot to trim his toenails, and whenever I got kicked or blocked a kick it scratched me up and I came out looking like I fought Freddy Krueger

[@M_K-Bomb]

That whole belt ranking scene at the end got me laughing. To be honest the whole black hole of the rolling matt got me too, and I haven't trained MMA in quite a while. But, yeah, you do tend to get all of that.

[@hailhydreigon2700]

Killer editing in this one! The disappearing effect was smooth!

[@masoncornish6663]

Don’t give Ramsay’s friends any sharp objects and if you must DO NOT AND I REPEAT DO NOT LEAVE THEM UNSUPERVISED 😂😂😂

[@CarlySB]

"Goofy" seems to be the new "stupid". "Though shalt not call stupid things stupid or thou shalt forever be castigated!". 🙃😁

[@Sbv-25]

Jourdan went from knife wielding maniac to claw possessing psycho! The video editing seems to have upgraded too!

[@cahallo5964]

THE BELT ONE IS SO TRUE HAHAHA. It's also true with the brown one because of you what you said at the beginning, everybody wanna start their own school!

[@moreparrotsmoredereks2275]

I try to stick to the walls ever since a 250 pound dude I wasn't rolling with basically wheel kicked my head while I was on the ground

[@CarlosVerdinOfficial]

Omg I said I was sorry ! And I’m only 230 pounds

[@PM-hh9ur]

Same, I got concussed.

[@mickjansson-cc1og]

In my experience there is so much people with no space awareness. Sometimes in sparring there is someone backing in on us from the side and my sparring partner is almost trying to attack me through the other person. It is when you signal like "We should move" they are like "oh yeah good idea!" 🤣

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

What if just for fun, 2 pairs sparred parallel to each other starting maybe 1-2ft apart, and they have to maneuver without touching the other pair.

[@grindordie3336]

Good directing RD. The Music, cuts, lines and story were all well done. I was laughing many times too.

[@MetalLP]

The 1 is quite funny, because our gym has the exact opposite problem. Everybody just gets stuffed on the edges, where they hit walls or eachother, but the centre is an empty void mostly.

[@goncaloalmeida7029]

It's an inverted black hole 😁

[@RamseyDewey]

You reversed the polarity?

[@MetalLP]

@@goncaloalmeida7029 White hole

[@skipinkoreaable]

​@RamseyDewey Do it right and nobody will get close enough to grapple you anyway.

[@MartialCoachJF]

Useful and funny too! Thanks Always Coach, keep rocking💪💪🥋🥊🤗

[@mieralunarlunishion]

So true! And man, I love video's with Jourdan in it. So funny! :D

[@me0101001000]

To add to the problems with long nails. If you mess up badly, you could end up getting a nail ripped off, which I've seen before. I can't imagine that it feels very good.

[@SwordFighterPKN]

I'll add one, people that go to the bathroom with their bare feet then walk back on the mat! NASTY

[@kaizenproductions00]

Nasty 🤮

[@KodiakCombat]

Unacceptable. Gym needs to punish that behavior for sure.

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

I usually see signs for that or one gym I attended had bathroom specific saddles.

[@gaetanmarcelin9813]

that human spaghetti was a sight to behold loll ! great video coach

[@ashtraydekay6624]

When Jourd An is in the room, you know it’s going to be a good time

[@BMO_Creative]

?? LOL WHAT THE WHAT?!? LOL I can totally believe Jordan has Wolverine claws for real tho! LOL

[@me0101001000]

The knife man has become the claw man LOL

[@danielsanderson4857]

Agreed. Trim those toenails too, my brothers. I still have scars on my shins and feet from taking a toe stab.

[@jatsantsa]

trim nails, but few days before training, freshly trimmed nails have sharp edges and that suck also.

[@scottt7309]

Hi Ramsey. I agree with belt chasing thing. It's a waste of time. Can't believe Jordan has been with you 57 years. This confirms what I originally believed that you are immortal.

[@JBDacasinJr]

As a bald grappler, I bring nail clippers for my training partners. My scalp has taken a beating over the years.

[@mattlawyer3245]

Maybe we need to put a fence around the black hole. Would a ring-shaped mat area work? Haha

[@JohnCorley13]

Ok this was hilarious

[@RamseyDewey]

Thanks!

[@ymir7447]

The claws skit triggered my ptsd a little.

[@scottbelanger9531]

54 Years old, got hit in the forehead with a backstep from another group. Received nine stitches. People do have ZERO awareness.

[@marcelklein3879]

I have a green belt for more than twenty years. I stopped caring about it.

[@mattwells1036]

I'm surprised how seldomly we crashed and bumped into each other back in wrestling practices. Plenty of people in the room too. Heck one time my teammate drove me 20-30ft while I sprawled on his takedown, until we ran out of mat where I went down, somehow we didn't cross anyone else's path on the way there. I'm almost certain he did it because he was tired, and was trying to hurt me just a bit so I would want to take a break, because he kept asking me if I was ok and saying that I can take a break if I'm hurt lol. I was smaller, and I think he didn't expect going with me to be as tough as it was. He also taught me this slick/rough roll that works great for peeling off someone who has the legs in. Also works when they're trying a rear naked choke, I'd tell that story too, but I know Ramsey has heard it once before.

[@penstar]

Lol, that's funny :)

[@bucwolf]

ffs i'm on my first week of training ever and since day 1 i had a nail clipper just in case. nobody told me that

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

These are hilarious. It'd be fun if for a belt promotion, the issuer has to roll with the receiver and tie the belt around the waist. That'd be amusing.

[@robertb8673]

I heard if to much bjj got stuck in the gravitational pull they will fuse and create a new sun.

[@robertb8673]

It's cheaper than a reactor and could solve world's energy problems. So, let them roll en mass. 😂

[@danielblank9917]

Hey coach, question for you I'm a BJJ practioner and ex karateka, and I have a mindset conundrum. I tend to get obsessed with improving my skills, getting fitter and stronger, drilling and sparring, all to get better at grappling. It is unfortunately an unavoidable reality that I can never be professional as I started too late and cannot dedicate my whole life towards the sport. How do you try to reconcile with wanting to improve and grow when faced with the reality that there will always be people who outclass you in every way?

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

How old are you? Nothing says you can't compete at all. Might just have to pick your moments. Even if it's just 1-2 per yr. There are ppl that do jujitsu into their senior yrs.

[@danielblank9917]

@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 Haha I'm not senior XD, I'm 25, I'm going to compete at my second local tournament soon. I meant more that the next generation of athletes are people that have been doing it since they were 10. I definitely enjoy the sport, I just feel like it's impossible to catch up and be anything more than a hobbyist

[@danielblank9917]

@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 it's very possible I'm just being silly, I'm not going to stop BJJ at all, I just need to resolve why I'm doing it

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

@danielblank9917 well, the next generation is inevitable. I always enjoyed grappling styles cuz it's challenging, a good workout, make acquaintances, knowing how to fight a little.

[@danielblank9917]

@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 that it is, for all of the above

[@dtibvgz8441]

I just imagine a commercial poster for like action movie. Guy wrestling 5 opponents and winning in few seconds (John Wick style) and nothing outside of few sweat drops afterward. Then light sparring against attractive petite girl (with great fingernails!) and walking out like being clawed by a bear!

[@Sbv-25]

Coach, is stretching after a weightlifting session necessary?

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

It should be. Stretching before and after is good, but 1 session can be enough. Though I believe ramsey has said stretching after is better, but I myself prefer at the beginning when my muscles are warmed up.

[@RamseyDewey]

No. Necessary for what specifically?

[@Sbv-25]

⁠@@RamseyDewey​​⁠it’s just that a bunch of people recommend me to stretch after workouts (my sister and a gym buddy for example). I’ve been weightlifting for almost 7 months and never stretched after a session. Why do they recommend me to do so?

[@jeremiahsaulnier7424]

You forgot about the extra sweaty stinky guy

[@RamseyDewey]

Considering it was ten thousand degrees hot on the day we filmed this, we were ALL the extra sweaty stinky guy!

[@bravelilspidey]

I thought you were going to mention bathroom feet, when people go to the bathroom without sandals and just go bare foot then return to the mat. Some people miss the toilet. When i mention bathroom feet to some of the students, they say "ive stepped on worse", missing my point 😅

[@NDOhioan]

In fairness, the greater BJJ culture around belts pretty strongly pressures students to fixate on them. Too many people in Jiu-Jitsu treat belts like a glorified Caste System. That doesn't *excuse* belt obsession, but I don't think it's unreasonable to say the "you must be [X] belt to have an opinion" culture *really* doesn't help things.

[@baoxidiaoyu]

1) 2 boats on the ocean will meet -- Aquaman

[@Xzontyr]

I was reading up on some stories on old Judo tournaments and why they had to change the rules, and wow werensome people extreme. A common problem was ofcoursensome guys not bathing or waahing their gi for days, and getting use to their own stink, so when they finally came around, they would smell pretty badly, causing the other guy a bit of discomfort. Than ofcourse the stubble thing which is kind of funny. Some guys would grow enoigh stubble to sandpaper up against another lol. I wouldnt doubt that the paul pheonix look came from an extreme judoka that decided to stand his hair striaght up for whatever reason. Maybe a softer kanding if he was coming down at a bit of an angle. The aftermath of that would be fasion model runway ready hair. Still cant believe that even the Tekken people got it wrong and said he practiced judo and karate when its actually judo and bajiquan, which ironically almoat fits a buddy of mines way of fighting, but he had no idea what bajiquan was. Those step in vertical punches can rock a person pretty good. Really all he does is some boxing where he keeps his hands low, and throws alot of quick straight body jabs, and uses head movement and distance for his heigh defense, one in a while shooting a vertical fist diagonally upwards afte their shot as a counter. He just came apon the stepping punch on his own. Than once they get close, he prefers to rely on his judo to take them down. Hes not much of a wrestler. If i were tonever call him something, itd be a lazy boy fighter. Keeps his hands down and only resorts to judo when someone gets close. Doesnt like to do much work. Im subscribed to a catch wrestling channel, alliance catch wrestling, and the coach there also did a bit of sumo by the sounds of it. Im pretty conflicted with some of tbe things they try to teach. If you wanted to take a look at his thought on the arm drag, which he uses a sumo reference for, im really not sure if its viable for everyone if you wanted to take a look at it Ramsey and compare. However, one thing he was going on about in a post he made, was the guilt that people should feel which either doing a neck crank kr wrist lock in practice. For a long time, there were some bjj gyms, atleast around here that really looked down at leg locks and thoight anyone that did them were monsters. Now alot do them in their gyms, and have even found great variations from jiujktsuka from abroad.aslong as someone has control and respect, is their any real dirty submission still? Id put a muscle crusher as dirty before a wrist lock or neck crank.

[@MarkoObradovich]

😂😂😂

[@BobbyxZx]

my biggest gripe is blue belts that want to gain face and roll like their life depends on it during warm ups. Yeah buddy, i'll let you have your chance to tap me, but let an old guy warm up a little bit. that, and the "training partners" that try to kill you every round. that's how you create a shtty team, y'all. if you've got a gym full of cheap shotters, injuring all the newbs, then you've got a team that will never put together a winning record. number one problem in bjj right now (besides lame guard pulls) is bad training partners. i turn more people away today than i ever thought i would. i'm not spending a minute coaching losers. and the dudes that train like that all turn out to have records you can't brag about. if you want to have a gym war, cool, but you're off the team after i kick your ass.

[@mynameismynameis666]

this is how i would expect for BJJ to work in Oblivion

[@RamseyDewey]

Hahahaha! Oblivion NPC BJJ

[@jabadashudau2422]

Did they disapear because they achieved their goal with the belt promotion and there is nothing yo do anymore?

[@RamseyDewey]

No one knows why blue belts disappear. It’s an unsolved mystery.

[@MartialArtUK]

This type of thing is a gay boys dream 😂 . My top 3. 1 M on M groin contact 😂 2 men in lycra 😂 3 everybody's on steroids 😂

[@efarjeonfgc]

Jordan's overacting is always perfect.

[@clarencesammah5443]

You need to tap out Ramesy.