Defense and Counter Drill

Bas demonstrates a defense and counter drill.
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As a professional fighter, one of his favorite tactics was the liver shot (both punch and kick), and he popularized its use in MMA.Rutten is known for his charisma and has capitalized on his celebrity status since retiring from fighting in 1999. He workes as a color commentator in MMA organization WSOF, and every Friday at IMMA at AX.tv , he has appeared in numerous television shows, movies, and video games. He also coaches MMA and has authored several instructional materials.
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[@Knight_Jon_Artorias]

Man that poor boy probably saw countless versions of his own life flash before his very eyes with every one of Bas' punches coming only inches away from his face. Great video man!

[@alejandroleon9078]

🤣🤣🤣✨

[@PotatoBobsFoodLab]

bas is the man! jab jab jab, 3 hooks, right upper cut left hook, 4, 2, jab, liver shot and time.

[@TheShinobiOne]

How is there only 500 likes? Bas is a great teacher.

[@TheBruceKeller]

and just 4 dislikes at 50k views. If you took all his videos and added up the dislikes it'd probably be well under 1k :)

[@safdarkh786]

TheShinobiOne now it's 1.7k

[@DedicatedSpartan]

2.1K

[@ciawantsutothinkbillgatesi7642]

Not great, his speaking skills can improve. Sometimes he makes important points that are not easy to discern.

[@DedicatedSpartan]

@@ciawantsutothinkbillgatesi7642 How so? I find him easy to understand, but I just started Podcast so I like listening to advice on speaking.

[@sasazivanovic777]

Damn, he's still fast ! Bas the Legend.

[@xxgiorgioxx80]

Bas you are the best

[@eddied1695]

An essential lesson from a brilliant teacher. Thanks, Bas.

[@ignaciomayenthegoldenrule9618]

Definitely a high skill demonstration. His principals are solid.

[@adolfo33]

As always your drills are dynamic, simple and 100% effective. Always a pleasure to watch you teaching. Godbless!

[@kayode50]

Thank you Bas. You need more videos like this.

[@yagacomicart]

Simplifying the defense like this is great especially for self defense situations. Great video.

[@Kev80ification]

Bas is the greatest!

[@jackson1614]

Bas Rutten has so much knowledge and an excellent ability to relay that knowledge.

[@JJones-nf9ce]

Too bad there isn't footage of bas's wild bar fights. Bas is a true warrior

[@Polentaccio]

Great practical style and drill for practitioners of any art and transfers nicely outside the ring! It's like a way better wing chun and control of the center inside line.

[@ririoncam3288]

Bass techiniques is great!!

[@OldWorldNY]

Absolute golden knowledge 🔥🙏☝️

[@Jazzman-bj9fq]

Wow, Bas is THE Expert!!!

[@frncs062786]

El Guapo!!! You're the best, man. How I wish i could be you're student. It would be such an honor! I hope you keep posting videos. Keep up the good work!

[@JeetKuneDoBelgrade]

Simple and useful.

[@MrSneakyNicky]

It's my life goal to come and train with you Bas!

[@michaelkiser919]

I love this guy

[@angeltrevino945]

He visto sus peleas...y realmente sabe lo que hace ....es un genio. 👏👏👏👏

[@bodyboardingchronicles602]

Thank you Champion!

[@maxxb0n3saw]

Bas Rutten GOAT

[@tldogmeat]

Jammin' the Paul Van Dyk, in the background. Good taste, Mr. Rutten.

[@TheLeoAriel]

Love Bas

[@brian4479]

This is the right way

[@kuroryudairyu4567]

Grandissimo, Leggenda vivente

[@fewhavestrength]

he's the best

[@Jdavid1976]

I don't care what anybody says, Bas is the goat

[@gReCuTF]

Bas the best !!!!

[@safdarkh786]

I always had a feeling that using a complete pak sao to parry punches will make unnecessary openings for the opponent to hit me! Thanks a lot Sir 😍😍😍

[@blazecarr]

0:50 brutal but effortless speed and precision by the legend

[@Fruttmaster]

still a beast !!!!!

[@beingtoughmmafitnesschanel5372]

Good master

[@britishcig5462]

I would love to take a class with Bas for even one week

[@stamatouvable]

Legend

[@Amjadali077]

Sir u r great

[@patman4917]

Bas El Guapo! awesome vid

[@urtxman1970]

Bas is the man! Just started a security (bouncer) position at a bar. They offer no training. Im getting all my training from Bas and a few others on you tube.

[@DOTHfreqs]

#centerline ...great post

[@dilloncoop2500]

Hey look its Dana from the streams! I recognized her from her punch sounds lol.

[@AcceleratingUniverse]

He says not to scoop block but usually that's intended to set up a counter or takedown, not just as a normal block.

[@notstrangerswiththee6962]

Hey, Bas, first let me say, you were/are a great fighter, and I definitely respect your skill and power. You were one of the most entertaining fighters, and you have a great sense of humor!😂 I have a question for you though. Did you sustain a neck injury, and/or an injury to your right arm at some point? It looks like you have quite limited mobility in your neck, and your right arm is considerably thinner than your left. Just curious.

[@44556613able]

l love you Bas

[@Sam-uv7pf]

#MisterRutten i love your videos!!! 🖖🏼 thy for all 😉

[@Chrisredfieldlineage]

I have a playlist called " fight tips" full of bas videos lol

[@thetruth775]

Hmmm. I'm guilty of that (over committing to the blocks). Interesting, as usually it creates an opening for me but I can clearly see the danger now in what I do. Thanks Bas.

[@av733]

Fighting seems to require a tricky kind of wit to predict and surprise the opponent.

[@uneasywerewolf]

With practice, a person can become more dynamic and begin to notice patterns and predict certain movements

[@giorgosandrigiannakis1375]

Technically ring fighting becomes chess after one point.

[@wakanakapisihello5655]

There are good, fighters, bad, fighters, fast, slow, some hit hard, some dont get hit...but the old ones knew of another kind of fighter, one so rare they are almost fotgotten...the Clever fighter is unmatched

[@jamesmiles9048]

Bas rutten legend,he seems to have very own style very forward stance similar to Tyson just with much more skills

[@dimitriskatsoulis4986]

His right bicep though... (I would never dare to say this to him in person of course hahaha)

[@Hjominbonrun]

pak sao with boxing gloves.

[@philosopher0076]

Why block and lose your guard plus creating a pattern for the opponent to take advantage of? Why not just intercept the person's punch with your own attacking punch using it as a fencer uses his foil.. while simultaneously pivoting to the blind side so any counter won't be able to reach you ( or will barely be able to reach you in a worst case ) ?

[@m96920]

Nice tut Bas, but you didnt add rounded punces here.

[@donluchitti]

I'm giving this video to my little brother and prayign for the best.

[@billytheweasel]

How did it go?

[@donluchitti]

billytheweasel he like most lil kids didn't take the video seriously and got clowned in a fight that was video taped. The kid that he got into a fight with acted like he wasn't gonna fight and hit em with a sucker punch. My bro got flustered and ended up getting his ass whooped lol.

[@billytheweasel]

Don L That's too bad. Is he in the loop now? Or a stubborn butthead like Me? lol

[@donluchitti]

billytheweasel How are you stubborn? Not going for the liver punch? haha. He's given up fighting.

[@billytheweasel]

Don L Good that he's given up fighting. Sprinting away has zero pain and no legal issues. I was stubborn when I was young, most of us were I bet.

[@lovetownsend]

Average people training with Bas and yet I'd do anything to be trained by him! Unfortunately his gyms not on the east coast :/ ehh makes me sad, so much knowledge and I can tell it's not absorbed like an martial arts addict would AH! haha sorry sorry just jealous

[@TS-1267]

... TOP BANANA ...

[@richarmiguel-medina357]

I would love to be his pupil

[@asforemita]

Bas what is wrong with your right arm? It looks thinner than normal. Love your videos.

[@friedrichschopenhauer2900]

asforemita Atrophy

[@spaljenibackup9339]

0:44 holy shit Bas is scary sometimes

[@joviromero9224]

El Guapo is the man 😉

[@nohbdy1122]

How do you block an uppercut like this?

[@xiniks]

your opponent needs to be closer for an uppercut.

[@safdarkh786]

Nohb'dy 11 why blocking when you can move a side ?!

[@mariusneumayer4419]

BAS IS THE BEST ! He is teaching in this video for a specific "scenario". You train for each punch, block or kick accordingly....one step at the time. You are a "BAS" when you perfect all of them.

[@limonglobal1092]

Watch Mike Tyson vs. Reggie Gross fight - Mike uses head movement to avoid uppercuts.

[@dexterrosales5321]

Nobody does uppercuts in streetfights tho.

[@flux3714]

Would this work the same for a Southpaw?

[@Tacolompa]

Yes, your hands move the same way even though your feet are "switched".

[@billytheweasel]

How does that guy not blink with a Bas hand heading his way?

[@baskroeze7217]

billytheweasel trust

[@fightingtothepoint4u732]

Is that kwonkicker

[@giuliogalli1164]

I'm doing this all the time in my wing chun school :)

[@wexaztor9394]

basically 90% of wing chun ^^ was fun for the year i practiced it.

[@lutchdomanengroomupadiachy7281]

I hope those buddies know the privilege they av to train with a master like Bas Rutten.

[@TYUIO11111]

looks a lot like wing chun from what I'm seeing

[@bignoseharry6561]

If it functions, adapt it. Good fighters do this.

[@critterwatene8073]

Faaark...you know if those punches connected..that boys head would be dis-connected. Shiiiet...bas.

[@Fighterbharat]

yes why wouldnt you thumbs down on this video on art of fighting made by a former world champion because what would he know about fighting right? are these people psychopaths? one of them is ted bundy saying oh you broke knees thats cute i ate people.

[@cervacio]

I think Bas should give levels to his student. So the beginners, like the ones in the video, dont have too much to process. Most of the time our opponents in a street fight do not fight like Bas Rutten.

[@Cin9999]

so they dont punch and grapple you?

[@rickybushy]

You'd be f**ked if they did!

[@darrylgreer68]

Anybody else feel the fear for this guy bas is demonstrating on? Lpl

[@kokoriko999]

It's a shame that his right arm atrophy never recovered :(

[@Twobarpsi]

Still could knock someone out!!

[@rustemmuslumov5831]

Səhf bucür mudafie olmurlar

[@MarcoToniolo]

That only work over a tatami or on a ring. Real life may punish you very hard if you apply something like that in street.

[@dickbison]

It's literally the best way to block in a real fight.

[@asishb6673]

Kicks to the groin are not allowed in MMA . So the MMA stance exposes the groin too much. How could this be useful in a real life situation ? or he would switch to another stance in real fights ?

[@rickybushy]

Move. Or block. All fight training useful... I don't hear many stories of mma fighters getting owned on streets by a kick to the balls but I've heard plenty on people picking on the wrong guy and getting messed up!

[@notstrangerswiththee6962]

Asish Anatta Good luck beating a competent MMA fighter on the street with a groin kick. I know, I know... Your sensei/sifu trains you for real-world, instant kill practical self-defense, right? Your techniques are all too deadly, and not allowed in MMA, which is why nobody from your discipline can step in the octagon and win an MMA fight. I mock you as someone who has studied traditional Chinese martial arts, enjoys traditional martial arts, and respects traditional martial arts (for what they are, which it seems more and more is anything but a valid modern fighting system). When are the Wing Chun, Tai Chi, and Aikido guys gonna start dominating in the octagon? Can't win a fight unless you are allowed to do the Chinese "Vulcan nerve pinch", or "throw your chi" and melt the opponent's liver? I consider MMA guys athletes/fighters, not martial "artists" in most cases. But they will beat the pants off martial "artists" 85% of the time. Why? They train to FIGHT, while the traditional guys simply don't.

[@safdarkh786]

Asish Anatta in a street fight never make a cheesy stance !.keeping the hands up and ready is what one should do!

[@safdarkh786]

NotStrangersWithThee most don't !. But there are exceptions !

[@dickbison]

When you get kicked in the groin ina fight you only notice the pain AFTER the fight.

[@DexterHaven]

I wish you would visit Conor McGregor's camp to give him some help for Aldo. Especially with your favorite submission set-ups. I want Conor to win.

[@DexterHaven]

unzunzvroom No, you are full of crap. Conor is 5-0 in the UFC. And you? The other fighters respect him a lot, both his wit and his fighting skills. You seem like a bitter loser who picked Siver and Poirier to beat him. Ha! You lost.

[@unzunzvroom]

Dexter Haven He fights well, but he's far from being a great fighter - his personality is absolutely awful and he's given the sport a black eye.

[@DexterHaven]

unzunzvroom Are you nuts? Why the hell do you think he's so popular, sells out events, and has so many tribute videos and fans? You've got it totally backwards.

[@DexterHaven]

North American KZbinr That's irrelevant to my comment above. I was speaking about "submission set-ups," such as he could have used on the ground vs. Mendes.

[@asilkx1]

+Dexter Haven still doubt King Mcgregor? He understands both the mental and physical aspects of the sport. He's the new breed of fighters and he is here to stay.

[@Trickninty6]

That's terrible technique to show beginners.

[@mariusneumayer4419]

From your point of view, yes. Depending on your background and your skills. Bas is a fighter and he goes straight to the point. No need for kata, karate forms or stands, perfect move "cock and punch" etc. You are not wrong or right. Many MMA starts with some sort of martial arts, or grappling background, but in the end is street fight who wins.

[@stephenboyes5189]

Why is it...Bas Rutten knows his stuff....hes not gonna show stuff that doesnt work