First Sparring Session Of Fight Camp!

I'm not going to lie. I'm feeling pretty rusty after only 4 sparring sessions since my last fight in June. But that's okay because the first couple weeks of training camp is specifically to get rid of that rusty feeling. I'm this session I'm sparring with local Victoria athlete Suraj who is an amateur kickboxing world champion. We've been sparring together for at least 3-4 years now.
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[@hard2hurt]

You gotta look out for guys with two different shin guards... that's usually a bad dude.

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Haha 👍👍👍 ...but it can also mean they're too cheap to buy a new matching set (my case😀)

[@timontide6404]

In my experience, avoid the dude in the pink shorts.

[@ivanhannel]

You are a silly goose. Also, revisit the idea of using leg kicks in a street fight! It worked well for me after a lunatic here in San Francisco attacked me on a tennis court.

[@chucknorris202]

@@ivanhannel Same here but in my case it was a body kick(roundhouse) that stunned him (visibly shaken and unable to move after eating my kick) followed by a right hook to the side of his head that knocked him out. leg kicks are extremely effective in street fights. A trained guys shin against an untrained "tough guys" unconditioned thigh or side of his body? it is DEVASTATING. That said I wouldn't try head kicks in street fights. I'd be too afraid of slipping or it being caught even by an untrained thug loser, the types that start street fights.

[@ivanhannel]

@@chucknorris202 Wow, what a great outcome for you! The week prior to my incident, I was having a CT scan for a hernia, so I was in not the best shape for an impromptu street fight, ha. Please don't say your fight was here in San Francisco, too! This place is nuts.

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

I'd love to see my sparring partner Suraj fighting in the big promotions. Hopefully I'll be able to get him in Karate Combat.

[@АрсенийАрсений-з3у]

Hi,I m your subscriber,and I love your content.Can your explicit about calf kicks?Maybe calf kicks is something dangerous.Thanks

[@whoknows8223]

Or Glory or One maybe

[@ivanhannel]

@topher nolastname I just asked a similar question before I read your comment. I think Gabriel, in just starting camp, will work that in soon enough. I'm not sure he should actually release such footage, if so.

[@ivanhannel]

@topher nolastname I think to just get back some timing and vision, you might start with the big gloves, but after a week or two at most, you have to switch to smaller gloves. I've watched many UFC fight camps and, of course, it's all small gloves (5/6 oz not the actual fight gloves which are like 3 oz I think).

[@bizmonkey007]

The fact you would admit, as a world-class seasoned pro, that you have to get used to getting hit again in camp is just very honest and refreshing.

[@martialartsunlimitedvictoria]

Thank you so much for the kind words about our spot! We feel blessed to have been a part of your journey over the years. 🙏

[@christuckley1689]

I like that you didn't sugar coat some of the emotions and feelings when it comes to sparring and camp training, makes it a lot more relatable and somewhat a relief for either currently training or aspiring martial artists that even the pros are human.

[@TheHappy_Tree]

This is an ideal pace. Love seeing both sparring partners get their work done. Nice flowing pace.

[@waterlegend72]

I love watching and listening to sparring footage like this MMAshredded used to do this a lot and I'm glad you are doing it too I listen or watch during my warm ups or stretches before I train

[@avaandlilah8133]

Great to watch a real professional training, It’s obvious that the learning curve is actually steeper With that type of sparring.

[@christopherbaxter434]

It’s nice too see relaxed focused sparing, I need to get back in the gym, it’s been too long, family and all 🙏🏾

[@KiNTOLiMBO]

Please do more videos like this! You have a soothing aura for a pro fighter. More power to the channel!🤙

[@mohanad0408]

Man it's so comfortable having sparring partners who know the right pace.

[@plexq]

Love the content. Love all of this. Sparring, drilling, clinching - yes please. It's very helpful out here for us to see what it looks like to train at this level. What does really good drilling look like? I think I'd like to see what that looks like!

[@andymcevoy3109]

You’re so cerebral about your training and I love that you’re athletic and gifted enough for ur smart training to pay off dunno if this makes sense but yeah yours vids are great tyvm for showing you don’t have to go balls to the wall every session

[@natemartel4375]

Keep the sparring coming, this was awesome 👌 👏 👍

[@diegorodrigueztrigas4148]

Very controlled and technical! Beautiful

[@angusmulcahy7946]

Thank you for your content, I did taekwondo when I was younger and your videos will help me in my new kickboxing journey.

[@manfrombritain6816]

love the honesty about the eyes and stuff

[@honigdachs.]

Totally hyped for the next fight! Suraj is a good sparring partner. Would be cool to see him fight, he looks like a great candidate for KC or Glory.

[@jaren4512]

keep the sparring footage coming drills are cool as well

[@michaelacuna6241]

I'd love to see more sparring footage. I love watching controlled and technical sparring! thanks for the vid

[@angeljimenez9909]

Love your videos! Excited to watch you compete again and thanks!

[@honestlee9921]

1:45 that whole exchange was beautiful. He had to get you back for that body shot

[@Docinaplane]

Nice work! Loved the different combinations by both of you.

[@Explorshon123]

Very informative as always, one of the most useful combat channels on youtube, quality.

[@Humletrolden]

Would love to see more sparring footage with comments and Clinch :)

[@Ash__Adler]

This was very cool to see. Appreciate you sharing it 🙂 I'm pretty new to sparring (well, new to training martial arts in general 😅), so I tend to go _very_ light in terms of power and try to stop all my strikes just at contact (or just before, for knees and elbows) because I don't trust myself to pull back on reaction when something's going to land flush. Nothing to prove by hurting a training partner, and there's always time to actually throw some weight around in padwork 😁

[@KingandCaptain]

Watched this after sparring tonight and it was a nice reminder that even pros eat some shots. Would love to see more sparring videos!

[@vacinden]

Yes please keep uploading sparring videos.

[@dontblink3042]

My coach always talks about having your elbows glued to your body at all times. I'd love a video where Gabriel talks about his guard more.

[@boy_cold]

You provide valuable insight in your videos and that's awesome! I go through the same exact thing when I haven't been sparring for long periods of time. The blinking and not being able to throw punch combinations in fear of counters is 100% accurate, at least for me lol

[@Guenonymous]

Best Muay Thai channel on here. Thanks for the eyesight tip.

[@DavidTremblay]

Love the raw sparring rounds

[@TenemdaMc]

Surely more videos like this would be nice! I love watching the controlled pace and nice crisp techniques!

[@illumitabris]

Train smarter, not harder. Love stuff like this and training like this, you won't just cut your lifespan and instead you have an amazing sport that you can continue to do and a lifetime obsession. It's just small things, preventing unnecessary injuries cuz injuries are dime a dozen just moving around the way you do in martial arts.

[@kiryukiwami98]

Great to see sparing without cut !

[@niku10]

Loved it. Put more sparring video so the people can understand the difference between sparring and fighting.

[@ElDrHouse2010]

you combinations that end up in a liver punch are really good

[@kirkshammett94]

Would definitely like to see a lot more sparring vids

[@yorkshireR9T]

Great advice, thanks champ.

[@pixelpaxil]

I'd literally watch this every day while I stretch/shadow box/eat/assemble IKEA furniture.

[@Chris-e9y4e]

Good for you man, biggest regret of my life not getting into any martial art

[@RoguePlanetSounds]

Thanks for all the videos! Your work ethic is incredible and inspirational as hell.

[@GrahamScanlonDrums]

Oh man! Love seeing my gym in your vids, shout out to the gang at MA Unlimited :)

[@jasonthomasmt]

Thanks for posting this, I’ll definitely use this to train my own sparring! Appreciate the content Gabriel 👊

[@tristan1g1]

Gabriel! I had no Clue your from the island, though I recognized the environment from your outdoor videos. I’m over in Vancouver. thanks for all the helpful tips you have majorly improved my Muay Thai 🙏🏼

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Very happy to hear that. Yes. Very close to Vancouver. I love the west coast of Canada 👍

[@tristan1g1]

@@GabrielVargaOfficial It’s beautiful that’s for sure ! Good luck with your camp 🤛🏼

[@addre113]

Love the honesty and no ego alpha commentary

[@sidewayzzz336]

This was dope to see n study for sure

[@wichymoon40luna25]

Excelent ! VERY SMART CHAMPION VARGA 🤙🥊

[@nvanguy6868]

I love that sparring If i had sparring partners like that id spar2-3 times a week. I just want to do sparring to get my timing on point. And the best is light to the head with speed with a little harder body contact. Hard to find good partners w no ego in regular round robin sparring in gyms

[@brayanmisaelcoronado2150]

MMA Sherred and Gabriel Varga Would be a great sparring to see

[@GL0BETREKKER]

Suraj really flows his movements nicely together, saw some great combo's from him. Gabriel is not as flowy YET, and obviously getting back into the groove, his high fight IQ is obviously still there though and i'm sure we will see him getting back stringing combo's together before long. I also appreciatie Gabriels humbleness of sharing video this early into the camp.

[@zeno_aratus]

would love to see more sparring this is great just watching ... helps me reflect on my own training

[@jakespriddell6994]

Great video

[@SuperBlake89]

This is great content. More like this please 🙏

[@theodorecormier7530]

Great sparring to watch, can’t wait for your fight

[@srichie1914]

Holy rhythm step

[@AK-zc4ov]

Thank u for being honest I thought I'm the only one who blink during sparring

[@ybu22z]

A really nice pace. Great to see.

[@joshuabrant3487]

Haha sureal Suraj used to be one of the instructors at the kiddy karate classes I did years ago. I remember watching a video of one of his fights where he said he wanted to become a police officer now.

[@erichibler2112]

Sounds reasonable 👍

[@DJ-hb6qu]

These are nice 👌

[@opasan1240]

Hey Gabriel, friendly suggestion watch out for that rhythm step that you sometimes do. Coach Barry Robinson has a lot of content about it.

[@StrikeBuddyAt]

Good stuff

[@felixrondeau5029]

Love the video! Thanks!

[@raphaelrousso7124]

Vraiment chouette !

[@cheeks7050]

Drilling Clinch Sparring are all good.

[@muaythai.8474]

I'm 50 and when started teaching years ago got into the same rut to much teaching not enough training . became really enlightening couldn't stop binking for first 2 weeks as well catching the toes to elbows with teaping in sparring which was rare etc taught me a valuable lesson training conditioning n sparring ,works wonders before teaching classes 👊2 a day well over 5 days keeps the doctor away metaphorically 👍

[@clemshovel]

A pleasure to watch! May be a bit more in depth about technic and mouvement in the voice could be nice. Again it's really nice and thanks to share that with us.

[@wolfswan5124]

nice grabs

[@captainkaboom2384]

Excellent footage and wisdom from you throughout. You say looking for sparring partners? I'm coming up from NS !!! I wish! Lol

[@aaronsnyder8751]

Been wondering, why the two different shin pads?

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

One from each pair is broken 😜

[@aaronsnyder8751]

@@GabrielVargaOfficial lol Hayabusa won't send you a pair smh

[@guerymedina4356]

I’d like videos of your whole process in training camp. I think it’d be a great series but right now I’m looking for more drills, second would be clinching

[@KevinLeeVlog]

They mix and match shin guards tho! 🔥🔥

[@wolfswan5124]

your opponent has very nice combos to. It suck starting in anything in life most of the time

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

I have so much fight footage out there that there's nothing new to learn. What I won't share is drilling I'm utilizing for my opponents. That will always stay a secret. Right now I'm just moving with no fight gameplan in place.

[@adangarcia170]

Your high guard is 👌, I wanna learn to keep my hand up that tight to the head at all time.

[@Rubblage]

When shadow sparring, hitting the speed bag or light sparring, talk your way through it out loud, sounds weird but saying “gaurd” every 2 seconds helps with your gaurd, replacing that word or adding words in like “fast” or “tight” when throwing punches, or “move” every time etc for whatever you wanna work on the quality of training is way higher. This is how people train dogs

[@wolfswan5124]

that is perfect sparring session, ive watched loads and mmm alot are too full on for sparring

[@wolfswan5124]

great to watch professionals

[@andrewtanczyk4009]

Why spar in next to a mirror though? What about sparring in the ring instead? I see it’s controlled however I think sparring in the ring should be the protocol.

[@stemstudentph9246]

Wow your going to use scissor kicks in your coming fights 😎

[@silverwolf6194]

Looking Sharp. Could you do What makes Don "The Dragon" Wilson so good?

[@namecastillo4270]

Hello gabriel love your videos but i dont think ive ever heard of rainbow kicks and cant seem to find them in youtube is there another name they go by?

[@MobaCry]

I missed the news who are you fighting?

[@Collfuse]

More sparring maybe with breakdowns too

[@nem8685]

I wish I could spar with you I could learn quite a bit

[@rolandotillit2867]

His stepping is very compact, that's one thing you should take away from his style. Always stepping, always making sure the foot is faster than the hand. If you want to work on your evasiveness constant motion, even small steps can make a big difference. I notice whenever either of you gets shots in the other's feet aren't moving. When they are moving you become more ephemeral.

[@ivanhannel]

Nice analysis, I think this is just the start of his camp, so just getting back into it. Gabe seems used to a more linear, defensive shell sort of approach, and it has served him well, but 4 oz gloves are a game changer. I like that other guy's same side punches/kicks, which is why they can seem to come out of nowhere. I think he's got 30 lbs on Gabe or more.

[@KingMally89]

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@B..B.]

I love light to medium sparring. Is the only time I fell evolution. Hard sparring is not for me, sometimes the guys come to kill and hurt, and for me I can't get there in a sparring. Only in the fight itself I can release the beast. For me is a problem deal with people who are psycho mode always on

[@usurper1991]

How often do you spar? me and my team love your channel

[@stevenshar1233]

I have a question, why bother with bag work when you're doing drills with a partner? Isn't it just better to spend time drilling than just spending time one the bag?

[@Fiftee0]

Do you ever train in Toronto?? Thanks for great content 🙏

[@AdudenamedVince]

How long of a break do you take between rounds?

[@andreiamerkhan4870]

Are you using Hayabusa boxing gloves there? How are they? How would compare them to other brands you've used?

[@phineascampbell3103]

I reckon I could beat you both up tbh. Easily... Lol no I'm kidding. I couldn't. Well, maybe I could! But I'd be extremely surprised!!

[@allthingsfighting4518]

I’ve got to ask, why the different shin guards?

[@skyswall3554]

Why do you wear a different shin guard on each shin?

[@duanep48]

were you nervous before this sparring session?

[@Gene627]

Beautiful stuff, anyone i train with i always try to get the same ideology into their head. I wonder if you could do a video about like how to mix your styles or test stuff during the fight. Like if you watched footage of an opponent and he was an aggressive guy; now all of a sudden he's counter fighting, or trying to clinch and vice versa. The best representation iin the muay thai world for this is Saenchai haha

[@JesusIsKing-s6q]

Make sure you’re not rhythm stepping. Check out Coach Barry Robinson.

[@gav2898]

Okay mate 🤣

[@ivanhannel]

Gabriel, when will you spar with smaller gloves, and will you release that? To what extent will you incorporate a bit more circular movement, because those smaller gloves limit blocking?

[@GabrielVargaOfficial]

Hmmm. Not sure if I'll put that footage out. I'll decide later.

[@ivanhannel]

@@GabrielVargaOfficial I suggest not.

[@ninobrown9600]

OSU!

[@whoknows8223]

Why do you wear 2 different shin pads