Kungfu is NOT a Martial Art. Practice vs Tournaments. Position is power. Martial arts and crafts

Q&A with the Coach
Time stamps:
0:00 intro
0:32 dojo vs tournament
2:21 original judo gi
3:56 Kungfu is not a martial art
6:10 explosive strength
7:37 martial arts and crafts
Why do I perform differently in the gym and at judo tournaments?
Judo, jiu-Jitsu, and sambo sleeve grips are modern developments in martial arts. The original do-gi had short sleeves and short pants. Many modern gi specific grappling techniques would not have existed during the development of judo, let alone during the days of the samurai.
Kungfu is not a martial art. Gong fu is not a fighting style. It means great skill or developed talent.
How to balance combative and performative aspects of martial arts as illustrated with sanda and wushu.
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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.

[@RamseyDewey]

Time stamps: 0:00 intro 0:32 dojo vs tournament 2:21 original judo gi 3:56 Kungfu is not a martial art 6:10 explosive strength 7:37 martial arts and crafts

[@duskooljaca2453]

Based on your background can you give me an advise? I am considering trying an grappling martial arts like Judo or BJJ. In comment above i wrote that i have experience in boxing and taekwondo. I want to expand my knowledge. What are pros and cons of Judo or BJJ? Also if i chose to stick with striking, in order to get more practical experience should i start training kickboxing and go to have more and more fights or if there is other way to get desired experience? Best regards!

[@TremereTT]

I like the outfits. can I order them with a Chrysanthems motive, would you add that ?

[@MzuMzu-nx1em]

4:45 4:47 that technique should be done on reverse. Step back with knee block with the feet , grabbing with the hand, going leverage with the other hand .

[@bemusedalligator]

speaking of video reviewing, could we get a video of you doing a video review on yourself and/or of/with a student so we can see what type of thing you look for in these reviews, both someone reviewing themselves and someone reviewing someone else?

[@MzuMzu-nx1em]

@@bemusedalligator his technical knowledge his huge . You should be becmore specific on your request

[@dimble3]

Master Wong just felt a great disturbance in the chi force

[@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed]

That guy is exactly what Bruce Lee was.

[@357_SWAGNUM_MAGA_X]

​@@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeeda concealed weapon license holder ?

[@AztecUnshaven]

Master Wong would agree 100 percent with Ramsey. Gongfu is a general term of "skills over time".

[@TheLuconic]

Master Wong isn’t a chi master. He’s a wing chun master.

[@dimble3]

@@TheLuconic master Wong only fights for da streetz, he has no style

[@firstname4337]

the reason the 14 year old is winning in the dojo is because they are LETTING him win -- if the higher belts went full blast in the dojo they would SLAM him as soon as he stepped up to them -- they are going easy and giving him the chance to learn, to experiment, to practice

[@TheEnrieb]

I agree, it sounds like he is competing in the dojo when more experienced belts are training and working on their technique and drills. In sparring and rolling you are supposed to practice your techniques and will sometimes put yourself in a weak position so that you can work on how to defend and escape. If you see sparring as a competition you a supposed to win, then you will get good at winning the sparring but will never learn. Win in sparring, lose in the ring.

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

Thats what it sounded like. And also, how people practice isn't always how they are in competition. And he's probably not facing the literal same people he trains with. He's probably learned his partners style/antics. A real opponent is gona be different.

[@Thesavagesouls]

Judo is very beginner friendly. Black belt wont slam you like they would in competition, they wont use the more advanced techniques on you. And they will try to go down to your level. Theses guys are an example of puting aside their ego.

[@RS-xq6je]

​@@TheEnrieb when I did grapple I think most of the learning came from free rolling with other experienced members they'd talk you through what you could do from where you were

[@itpugil]

Thought exactly the same thing. They let him win and the 14 year old arrogantly thought he was actually owning them.

[@TonyqTNT]

It doesn't matter if it looks good in a fight, but doing the forms keeps the body in great physical shape for the actual fight!!!

[@Bob-uz4ov]

I joined a couple of trial classes of a Kung Fu called Shou Shu. What is impressed me if they had me doing hard striking with hands and feet the entire hour the first day. The second session was learning more techniques and self defense techniques that really did seem effective. I did tell them I have a TKD background. So that may be why we went so hard right away. They were big into sparring but I was worried that it might get more into less practical areas with the Chi and animal stances that were part of it. So I decided to take Muay Thai which is no joke either. We started sparring the first week. The hour is pretty much non-stop 3 minute rounds of sparring, foot or bag work depending on the day. Definitely, not easy and quite exhausting.

[@teeprice7499]

Since Chi/ Ki is simply one's ability to focus, I don't understand why people have a problem with it. Animal stances are part of the discipline.

[@Bob-uz4ov]

@@teeprice7499 I think because it gets a bad reputation with the George Dillmon no touch knockout types referring to Chi. I'm sure there are more normal views of it as well. It's just hard to know without more training in that school. Also, it was a sub-type of Shou Shu which probably isn't that common. So if they school goes away in time there is little path to continue.

[@teeprice7499]

@@Bob-uz4ov I ignore the George Dillhole-types, as should any other sane practitioner of a martial art; if The Force worked, I'd have Force-choked half the world's leaders when they appeared on my tv.

[@BS-cc4ks]

@@teeprice7499 Chi is definitely refering to spiritual energies, given the Taoist and Buddhist backgrounds of Chinese culture. You can interpret it some other way, but why not stop calling it Chi/Ki at that point?

[@Memorixt]

Kung-fu IS a (family of) Martial Art(s). Originally it surely meant and should have been/ is interpreted as You said, but in nowadays (general use of language / popular culture) it refers to traditional (hitting-kicking based) Chinese (rooted) Martial Arts. ...As so often happens (a bit similarly as with Ju-Jitsu & co.), the original concept went down to every day’s language with a somewhat twisted meaning, but today it is, what it is.

[@BeamMonsterZeus]

It became attached to dismissals of eastern martial arts as viable forms of exercise or self-defense, commonly used by non-practitioners or advocates of boxing or some other martial art they identify with more. In other words, xenophobia has corrupted language far and wide for centuries.

[@rykehuss3435]

@@BeamMonsterZeus One of the most delusional takes I've ever read lmao. Eastern martial arts are by and large unviable for physical self-defense (aka fighting). Thats why we dont see them in MMA. We see stuff that actually works. Boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, BJJ and so on. We also see amateur level MMA guys kicking so called kung-fu master ass in China with the greatest of ease. If you disagree with me youre a westernphobe and need to check your privilege.

[@bemusedalligator]

prescriptive vs descriptive language in a nutshell. etymology and definition are different; the etymology - or study of the origin of a word - can be fascinating, and useful when dealing with similar words, but the definition is simply "what do people mean when they say this word" - so kung-fu means "eastern martial art" and while yes it has a very interesting etymology that doesn't change its definition.

[@andrewyp6724]

_Nowadays_ as in when? Since Hollywood or Western media started using it? Even then, it feels like it was much later, like, after internet, people started to call Chinese Martial Arts as Kung Fu (Kung Fu Panda comes to mind, "I love Kung Fu~", what Po said. I'm Asian, and growing up, Hong Kong movie was pretty popular. Guess what? I don't remember much about hearing the word Kung Fu at all. If anything, Wushu would've been the word, which translate to simply 'Martial Arts'. So no, I don't agree with your premise at all. Kung Fu is still more a Hollywood expression.

[@varanid9]

In order for it to mean a "family" of martial arts, the arts would have to either stem from a common source or exhibit similar principles. As Chinese martial arts are so varied in focus and origin, this simply cannot be the case.

[@CrazyTom34]

Funny that both ancient Chinese and Greeks referenced here. In the antiquity field, particularly among people who read or study casually, there is a "oh the greeks invented that" response that reaches the point of reflex for some people and I feel like the ancient Chinese occupy a similar space in martial arts culture, no matter what it is seemingly to part of the community the anicent Chinese did it first and do it better, regardless of the what the actual evidence suggests

[@evankalis]

Coach, I do Judo and Sambo 3x a week for 1 hour a session. If I want to also lift weights concurrently do I need to lower the workload or can I do a training regimen similar to starting strength etc? I do grip stuff like yanking some moving straps attached to a pole and I put in extra pulling work like barbell rows and pull ups but just want your perspective. Thanks!

[@PaMuShin]

This is a pretty mean question, the workload your body can handle is a lot dependend how you feed yourself like protein, vitamin etc. to nourish your tissue and the kind of rest you are getting, take mike tyson, he slept two times a day and was conditioned for deep sleep needed to regenerate. Maybe better get yourself a book about training like General physical preparedness for your sport or something

[@hudnix]

There's a big survivorship bias in the observation that martyring people amplifies their messages. It's easy to come up with the famous examples of wildly "successful" martyrs, But we know little to nothing of all the people who had an unpopular viewpoint and were just killed ignominiously and never heard from again, and it seems likely that that list would be substantially larger.

[@mizukarate]

Well rounded is good but specialization has to be explored too. If you work hard enough you will find the right balance.

[@duskooljaca2453]

As a guy who trained boxing and later Taekwondo, i was always wondering why Taekwondo should be limited the way it is when comes to competitions? Why do we train all those blocks, punches, joint locks if only thing that matter is kicks? And 4 years ago when i was rewinding things in my head about history of Taekwondo and remembering how Taekwondo was made i realized that i already knew the answer. Taekwondo as Korean national martial art is modern version of Taekkyon. Old Korean martial art that is all about kicking. As nationalism plays role in modern martial arts that can be one of the large reasons. Karate is part of Taekwondo and Karate is Japanese martial art and Korea was under Japanese ocupation during WWII. I get it. Korea wanted their own martial art that is different than that of other countries. Asian of course. But why limit your martial art only to art, instead of making something your own that is also effective in combat? What i find funny is when people call full contact martial arts as "combat sports". Martial is synonym for fight or combat. In "Combat Sports" we see that martial part. In others that just practice choreographed techniques we see art. I know that people are afraid of getting hurt in sparring or matches. Everyone is is scared of CTE. I get it. I have been in boxing matches and i do not like geting hit in the head either. And that is the point. Learning to avoid getting hit in the head. That is part of martial arts. Learning do defend your self and not allowing to get hit. I had brain scan in june 2019. and my brain is as it suposed to be and is working fine. I am not human vegetable. My point is, why reducing martial art to something that is just meant to look good and not be as effective? As this video is about Chinese martial arts. And in my opinion they have worst rating except Sanda or Shuai jiao, which are excellent.

[@varanid9]

"Martial" refers to war. Kenjutsu was the main martial art of the Samurai, who also practiced other martial arts such as Yarijutsu (spear fighting), or Jujutsu. TKD is simply the Korean version of Shotokan, which is a sport developed from Okinawan Karate by taking out the grappling and adding Savate kicks for competition and exhibition, the original Okinawan Karate having come from Chinese civil pugilist schools, not martial arts. Practically all the "Kung Fu" styles existing today were used by Chinese peasants to brawl amongst themselves. The actual fighting arts of Chinese warriors no longer exist, having died out after the advent of the firearm in Chinese warfare. All the so-called "martial arts" as we call them are sports, simply practiced for different purposes. Aikido and Karate-do are systems of moving zen meditation, though some styles of Karate train for competition. Judo is practiced primarily for competition today. Many people train various martial arts for exercise, though, obviously, there can be a lot of cross-over. Some martial arts, such as the more acrobatic ones from China, are trained for exhibition, such as Eagle Claw or Choy Li Fut, some of the famous ones having actually come from choreographed fight scenes for Chinese "boat operas". Yes, there can be some benefit for "street defense" if one trains hard and long in various aspects of different styles, particularly the more brutal competitive schools, but, if one's main concern is simply defense, then you're much better off with a firearm and knowing how to avoid trouble.

[@varanid9]

BTW, most of those "ineffective" Chinese arts can be quite effective IF they are trained properly (most aren't), IF the instructors actually know the real purpose of their techniques (most don't), and IF they're open minded enough to cross train (most aren't). Tracing a lot of popular styles today back to when they were actually used, you'll find that they didn't even have "forms". Forms were a way to transmit the syllabus of a style to the students because the practitioners were mostly illiterate. They were not meant to replace actual fight training, but, over generations of lack of use, the fear of forgetting caused the forms to attain a level of importance far out of proportion to their actual usefulness. Today, they are interesting cultural time capsules that contain contributions made by certain masters over the years to their respective styles. They can be good exercise for drilling basic principles, though, when you don't have a training partner.

[@varanid9]

I grew up in Korea in the '60s. Back then, a shuto was called a "Judo chop" because Judo still had a lot of its combat focus and Karate wasn't that well known yet. My TKD training included brick breaking from an early age, contact sparring bare knuckle (though it was understood, on the honor system, that we would try not to hurt each other too much. It USUALLY worked, LOL), and sparring included punches and knees. I hated forms so I didn't do them, nor was I forced to learn any. I don't know how or when modern TKD got so goofy, but I suppose it can be a good way to isolate your kick training.

[@Cleatus546]

Hey Ramsey, I lost my phone about a week ago and just got a new one. Nice to see you again. 😃👍

[@arisnomidisbrazas326]

Hello again Ramsey, I used the pronouns trying to say that the ancient athenians, even though they possessed versatile knowledge, were not made any wiser (because the education I mentioned was standard for those who could afford it). I am aware of Socrates and his importance, as well as martyrdom as a concept since Greece is, as you might know, very Christian so we learn all about how the religion spread. I am struggling to phrase my sentences partly because I do not want them to get too long, but mostly because I struggle to really grasp what I really want to know myself, apparently. I thought I had it and wrote it down but it seems like it came out weird nonetheless. Apologies! It does seem, however, that you kind of pieced together what I was going for and gave an answer in the end. Also you are right about Plato, the word means wide, but it's not obvious in the modern version of the language. I, for one, had to hear it from someone else and I learned it relatively recently too. Also fun fact about Socrates you might not have known: He looked down upon runners and sprinters, thinking "Their legs become fast, but their shoulders grow small". He preferred Horchesis, which was used often as a form of dancing.

[@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed]

Kung Fu just like the streatz was invented in Greece.

[@arisnomidisbrazas326]

It's funny until you see that a fair amount of people here would actually believe this, if they don't already.

[@Bonaventurax]

Na, da streatz were invented in rome, da ships were Greece inventions, as anything else like thinking, writing, mathematics. Before Greece, people had no thoughts, before rome they didn't know da streatz!

[@ajshiro3957]

That's interesting. I didn't know that the gi was short sleeve at first.

[@ajshiro3957]

That's so true what you said about messages. All the most famous lines and thoughts are said by people that have died suddenly because people don't agree with what they have to say. It's the nature of publicity. Bad news draws more attention to people. And if that bad news is tied to a good person who had a good message, they'll hear it even more.

[@gingercore69]

I have a question about mma, that you with your experience might be bale to answer... what is a better base style for mma? A specific martial art like bjj, muay thai, boxing, wrestling... etc... that gives you great skills in a single aspect of the competition... but you can build on top of that for... or a style that has a similar ruleset to mma so it teaches a little bit of everything? My mma instructor watched my sipalki matches, and said i have a good base for mma with it... and i wonder if its a me thing or a thing about styles that allow basically anything

[@RamseyDewey]

MMA is not a bit of everything. It’s striking and grappling without artificially separating those skill sets and pretending the floor is lava.

[@thac0twenty377]

​@RamseyDewey what if the floor is, indeed lava...

[@gingercore69]

What i mean is... whats a better style tonhave as a base for mma? A well rounded style where competition allows for bith grappling and striking like sipalki, kudo, irikumugo, japanese kempo? Or a style that developes a single skill to a very high level like bjj, boxing, etc? As in... whats better? To have already a very high skill in one thing and work om the others to complement your style? Or a very well rounded style and then maybe work on whatever is your weakpoit?

[@TheCCBoi]

I’m glad someone is pointing put the fact the Judo standardized the gi, belts and all the other trappings of martial arts today. Traditional jujutsu trained in a variety of clothing.

[@guardianchaos]

hey Ramsay I have a question, I'm a recent kung fu instructor ( got my black belt in may of this year ) and ive heard that I should be called Sifu or Shifu, does it matter which one I choose I've always said Shifu but some people say that it has to be Sifu

[@Sbv-25]

I think this is more a dialect choice like UK people say crisps but US people say chips when referring to potato snack slices If i’m not mistaken, Shifu is the original way of saying it

[@richardparker7710]

"Shifu" is Mandarin pronunciation , "Sifu" is Cantonese. Basically mean the same thing: master, teacher. Take your pick.

[@tchaliz4925]

Hello, speaking of traditional and/vs efficiency, what do you think of shorinji kempo?

[@RamseyDewey]

I am not very familiar with it.

[@PaMuShin]

well i think it was dewey with the iron crotch device, this already takes 50% of kempo techniques away, if you give dewey a helmet like in the ultimate self defense championship better go somewhere else, cause only 2% are left and to fight dewey with this percentage, do not know man, sounds kind of unfair

[@B..B.]

The bug with the color grade persist for me lol The video stay more greyish and if a touch the volume button the color gain some life. Anyway. Your videos are always great. Thank you. Wish health and prosperity for you and your family.

[@RamseyDewey]

Sounds like you have a hardware problem.

[@B..B.]

@@RamseyDewey I don't know. Is only in your videos hehe. But I don't mind about it, is just something I noticed sometimes, the experience don't lose quality. You're sir is a great example for me

[@forrestmalcom8351]

Hello Sir … what is your take on the R.A.T fighting system?

[@user-vb8yl2lp4p]

What do you think about the fight between Buakaw and Saenchai?

[@Gieszkanne]

Funny how many people comment about your wrong title and exposing they didnt watch your video. You should have wrote "Kung Fu is the wrong term for Martial Art" which is Wushu. But what today is understood as Wushu is more a modern MA based gymnastic than a MA.

[@darrylkemp3253]

I know you have read jack Dempseys book on video would you ever do an instructional video on his techniques falling step, jolt, shoulder whirl etc?

[@RamseyDewey]

Another one?

[@darrylkemp3253]

@@RamseyDewey I didn't know there was a first one!

[@RamseyDewey]

@@darrylkemp3253 there are quite a few. I have over 450 technique videos on this channel.

[@darrylkemp3253]

@@RamseyDewey 450 jack Dempsey technique videos lol

[@fmills1583]

Are you any relation to the library code guy?

[@RamseyDewey]

No. But I’m glad someone else remembers the Dewey decimal system.

[@mizukarate]

Good advice on the film study.

[@MartinGreywolf]

Modern martial arts and combat sports have katas just as much as the traditional ones do - they just call them drills, because they don't have their terminology in a language that isn't English. This isn't limited to Japanese terminology either, traditional German wrestling sometimes refers to its drills as Stucken (literally "piece", meant as a specific piece of the whole), some are called plays, and so on. When Anglophone people talk about these martial arts, they tend to leave the technical jargon in the original language, and the name for the action sequences gets taken with them. A;though granted, modern katas from Asian TMAs tend to far longer than any other. Longest European kata I can think of on the spot has 8 motions, some Asian ones go past a hundred.

[@blaa443blaa2]

10:02 When he's saying "they" he is referring to the ancient Greek who did possess the traditional signs of education : musical prowess and knowledge.

[@themartialsam6946]

I can't fing Redchucks /swoleverine Channel anymore can you contact him?

[@j.robertvillarreal5926]

Big difference between Art and Research & Development. The only reason why some Martial Artists fail is because they don't understand the difference. The art gives you a foundation to build upon. Constant full contact sparing is how you separate Art and Science.

[@WuzuquanSpain]

Excellent video, as usual, Coach. I hate using the term "Kung Fu" because, for me, it evokes images of Hong Kong movies or guys in silk jackets who talk in quiet tones about "internal power" while sipping tea. I coach neither Sanda nor modern Wushu but, as far as I can see, there is zero technical connection between the two. In fact, I know there are Sanda competitors who have never trained in forms at all. And, unfortunately, most CMA practitioners (in my experience) do not know how to apply their forms. However, in traditional CMA, the way you spar is supposed to reflect they way the forms teach you to move. Unfortunately, I see a lot of CMA schools switch to some form of kickboxing when they spar because they practise their forms only for exhibition (demonstrations and competitions), rather than for what the forms are supposed to teach them about posture, position, footwork, power-generation, etc. When TCMA is practised correctly, forms and sparring do not "counter-balance" each other. It is a continuum from one to the other. Any perceived dichotomy between the aesthetics of forms and the function of fighting is false. Traditional forms are functional and their main function is to develop the right physique for the martial art you are training in. Moreover, in TCMA, it should not matter whether the forms look good. They are functional, not performative. I know people whose forms do not look as good as mine but their execution is better. I visited one "Shaolin Temple" affiliated school and when I explained to the instructor how, in Wuzuquan, you progress from forms to cooperative partner drills to non-cooperative partner drills, to continuous hands (similar to both "pushing hands" and "sticking hands") to one-step sparring to sparring. A puzzled look fell across that instructor's face and he said: "So you practise forms for their application, not for exhibition?" A "Shaolin Temple" instructor, with decades of training behind him, who never considered that forms were for something more than entertainment. I weep for the state of TCMA. Apologies for the long comment.

[@RamseyDewey]

Well, most of the folks at Shaolin train to do demos for the public, so that makes sense. I have met precious few masters of Chinese martial arts who actually knew how to fight.

[@WuzuquanSpain]

@@RamseyDewey precious few indeed. In fact, they are not "masters" at all. Most "masters" I have met or seen in videos are not even competent.

[@PaMuShin]

So Dewey, do you have a top 5 or top 3 of Martial Styles you deem worthy? Recently i found a video on 7 Star Mantis that explained an interesting strategy the street fighter character gen is using, i still wonder if there are people, who have survived, who know the theory behind the style, without it is hollow and worthless> kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6iponlnhq2LgdE

[@PaMuShin]

@@RamseyDewey Another one interesting are the branches of Zha and Hua, although long fist has a bad reputation nowadays the video Huaquan Fist | 滑拳：传承武德 成就大武术观 surprised me

[@PaMuShin]

You guys should consider, that most people knowing Kung Fu were many times eradicated in china, like while japanese occupation, culture revolution and after the qi gong wave near the nineties, to secure the control of the ruling party and have less resistance in riots. The few overseas got eradicated partly by chinese intelligence, most of the strongest styles are tried to get recreated but basically if no one knows the methods anymore it just stays modern dance

[@Xzontyr]

I find myself to be very disappointed anytime someone refers to kung fu as only being a chinese martial art, not knowing the deeper meaning. Speaking of Jack, it was suggested that he proffered a vertical fist. There are 2 guys that i train with that are starting to use it alot more, and i must say i'm beggining to wonder if they are on to something. Any nerd here, as some martial arts youtubers call there fan base, whether they intend to be polite about it or not. I'm guessing not. Not you Ramsey, I beleive you understand us. Regarding a few that have studied mma, looking into the deeper parts of it, we know what the pros and cons of a vertical to horizontal, to diagonal wrist rotation does for the fist. The one Thing i must admit though, is that it's great for point sparring. I won't get into detail, but there are some great setups using it. I'm really suprised more point karateka, and boxers in general don't use it more for its speed, lack of telegraph, and even defense. It also works fairly well against a person thats good with a double long guard, which a friend of mine uses, who angers almost everyone he spars against. By judging some of the setups and suprise strikes it has to offer, as mentioned, especially when being defensive and back stepping, to just simply block with a good tight and fair guard, i personally think it has some potential and may try work with it a bit. Which, i don't know if it will synergize with my body type, i'm fairly broad like a plato myself, so getting that rotation and force with a horizontal punch does me well with damage output. I gotta give away a beautiful combo my buddy does, which seems to work well with the vertical fists. This is an example of what i mean. So he'l be very heavy on the quick body shots, that are just a quick out and in, but once he gets us trained and tries to get our defense low, he'l start to feint and still come down with a somewhat chopping shot. basically a shot from his chin, but arching down to the body, rather than having any kind of low wind up for it. Now power, but all points. He'l do this with both his rear and lead hand. He prefers to do it with his rear, depending on their footing. What he's looking for is to open up their outside and come in from that angle. So once hes got a few low shots on you, and has been successful in defending against your attacks, obviously your going to get really annoyed with those low shots that you wish you didn't have to worry about. So after a quick chopping low feint with his right in orthodox stance, he'l piston his back into a chambered postition, but while hes doing that, hes stepping in, and trapping his opponents left arm that went down to guard with his left, preferably with thumb facing in writst control. best way to catch it is by having the left hand follow behind the right obviously. At that point, hes also ducking down to dodge the cross that will most likely be coming at him. From there he pulls on his opponents wrist, down and towards him, while rising up with an elbow to the head. It leaves a guy very open for an elbow that cant be defended, and if theirs no cross, it still leaves a person pretty defenseless against it. If for some reason it doesn't work out, it's also a great postion to be in to take the person down with that arm trapped down there, whether stepping in to regrip and do a lateral drop, maybe even take the back etc. Its not an easy catch and takes alot of drilling, but thats the best way of describing it, when it works however, he doesn't hit anyone with the elbow, but you get the idea, and i don't know if i'd ever wanna see it. Ofcourse, if they just drop an elbow low to try block the low shot, than it might be a bit tougher to chamber back and go for a right hook, but thats an obvious setup to, especially if they bring their hand down. The position could probably transition into some good clinch fighting with knees and elbows. I don't know much about Muay Thai, nor do any of us in our lil team, so this concept is actually fairly new, when it comes to setting up elbow strikes from somewhat of a clinch. I might have to look at some of your older material available Ramsey and see what i can find. Your fairly well versed in Muay Thai from my understanding. Something that was always engrained in us was that we didn't have to know Muay Thai if our standup grappling was good. I cannot fully agree on that these days. I beleive Muay Thai and strikes from the clinch, or with an arm trapped can be invaluable. Aswell as against the cage fight. We never did any barrier fighting in our samno gym back in the day, but there is no denying it is a whole other art to learn iv discovered, and can be very effective. It's one thing to be in a clinch, and spin out of it, but when your against a barrier with no where to step, its not so easy. Curiours about what your thoughts are on the vertical punch situation if you'd like share them. Any tips? Know any other good arm trapping techniques?

[@hamurabi1066]

Chinese cinema suggests that learning martial arts requires a great deal of violence against pottery. Is there a good reason to commit violence against pottery while learning martial arts?

[@saawysorenson4585]

The martyr killing part is somewhat funny to me, because by killing the messenger you also make him the favor of not letting him destroy his own messege, which the living ones almost always do in the end.

[@alaychem]

Still using short sleeves and pants gi

[@obscurelines]

Likely the young judo fella is coming up agaonst aggressive geip fighting in comp which is rarely a part of randori in club.

[@jackwalters3928]

"It doesn't seem like their education helped them in the face of fear in the end." I guess that yes, he does talk about the ones who got exiled and/or executed like Socrates. Their education didn't help them in the face of fear (those who feared them and thus exiled/killed them).

[@ianthomas1983]

Kung Fu 2000 years old

[@letsunnahgoforth]

How do I ask a question

[@RamseyDewey]

You just did.

[@PaMuShin]

damned Aurelius are ya doin your meditations again? Go away ramsey is still hanging out with the greeks, you are not born yet

[@IoriYamashita]

Ooohhh as a kung fu combatant , I need to hear this video 😬

[@jonatho85]

So let me jump back in on the forms. Yes, it’s like 80 percent cardio and mental work. Grey matter in the brain is engaged by forms. It’s likely the use of the brain, working with physicality. Then you learn the darn form. And then we’re talking cardio. Trust me, a whirling palm set, which doesn’t contain movements I will typically use (although even that’s not true, has takedowns) is a tofu cardio challenge. Jump smash kicks aren’t useful in fighting for me, but if I gotta do that form 5 times, good lord those smash kicks add up. We’re talkin dropping 25 pounds and keeping it off. We’re talking lower body strength needed to do a jump smash kick (think butterfly). So it’s cardio for sure. Koryo? Well the trap and kick at the begging. Highly useful for me. Once I learned that form, incorporated that, and suddenly I stack trophies. I’m more in tuned to strike above the knee because of that. Now when it came time for Judo throws- basic forms 1-3 in karate helped just by the turning action. Planting your foot, grabbing hold and turning some 270 degrees and for the throw. Man the action was built in. Again, is there easier ways to get cardio and training without forms. Yes. But at some point the hard training causes injuries. You have to balance all things. Not that you can’t tear an ACL during a form. But my point is it’s something you can incorporate like jumpin rope. Is it 100 percent necessary- yes and no depending on who you ask. But there’s merit.

[@RamseyDewey]

Ooooo… you’re going to hate what I have to say about skipping rope!

[@jonatho85]

Hehehehe I doubt that. You’re the man Mr. Dewey! You’ve thought things through. Lol

[@beenright5115]

When a video title is both clickbait and true at the same time

[@thegeniusfool]

I don’t agree at all. That is what martial ART really is. More efficient activities are either sports or defense techniques…. It’s more like these latter practices have borrowed the ART moniker from the former practices.

[@Legomanfred]

Great video Ramsey, I love your videos and the way you break things down. Always interesting. 👍❤️💪

[@chadlpnemt]

It's just the manner in which the word is used. In the US, we have cookies. In the UK, they have biscuits but are basically cookies. Kung Fu IS a martial art, painted with a broad brush, as you say there are so many different styles. Even Bruce Lee called it Kung Fu or Gong Fu. It is what it is.

[@RamseyDewey]

Bruce Lee was an American.

[@chadlpnemt]

@@RamseyDewey Yes, which does reinforce the point of different uses of the word between China and everyone else. He did spend a fair amount of time in China though if I recall.

[@nicholasgreen339]

​@@chadlpnemtNot sure how much time Bruce spent in mainland çhina As he was from Hong Kong The martial arts that r taught in Hong Kong Were changed slightly To a lot of Chinese people Kung means skill Originally wu shu meant to fight/Martial arts etc But that changed over time Now Wu Shu is forms and demonstrations I think jet li is from the 1st or 2nd wave learning what is now known as wushu Or known as modern Wushu Ironically at a wushu academy you learn training methods that existed before shaolin Kung Fu I'm not sure but in jet lis era the training was very hard and combat based But you didn't fight in competition Because they were going in a different direction

[@PaMuShin]

@@RamseyDewey Is that why you always curse on bruce lee on one side and on the other wear a bruce lee coloured gi?

[@user-rc8br5sw6j]

And americans have biscuits but they appear to be more like scones but you have them with chilli not with jam and cream. I've never partaken but it seems like it could work

[@SteveJuszczak-dx3gz]

Of the three spectrum kung fu is in the health fighting spectrum

[@ivanguthrie0420]

Why did you dismiss what that person said about Greece as a diatribe?

[@BMO_Creative]

Wow man! Some cool deep stuff in answering these questions! If Satan knew the plan, he would have never helped kill Jesus!

[@dsgdsg9764]

I appreciate the religious commentary thank you

[@rickykeim2005]

I like That Shirt you Have on Ramsey.

[@M-gb6np]

I love you only non Chinese Panda is Mexican🏁🇲🇽

[@adim00lah]

Gung fu just means skill over time, so skill in anything can be gung fu.

[@Technoanima]

Exactly why 给我看您的功夫。(Show me your kung-fu) is considered insensitive and offensive as it shows a lack of trust and borderline accuses someone of lying.

[@hungsingkwoonusa650]

Choy Lee Fut is still one of the best traditional kung fu "Martial Systems".

[@RamseyDewey]

Why do you believe that?

[@hungsingkwoonusa650]

After 40 years in my system, this is my conclusion. @@RamseyDewey

[@RamseyDewey]

@@hungsingkwoonusa650 How many Chinese martial arts systems are you familiar with?

[@hungsingkwoonusa650]

after 40 plus years, im familiar with many. but my primary focus is my system. don't really care about others @@RamseyDewey

[@RamseyDewey]

How many?

[@ianthomas1983]

Kung Fu combat sports

[@shawnsmith2610]

Every fighting sysyem is martial arts be it boxing,judo,kung fu,karate,kick boxing or what ever else.

[@Gieszkanne]

You didnt watch the video!

[@animalinstinct6786]

But MY Kung-Fu is fo da STREETZ!!!

[@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed]

Do bears shit in the streez?

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Too bad you don't know how to spell is THE STREETS

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

​@@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeedno they shit in streets stop the RAPCRAP Talk

[@brandonhalvorsen2185]

Are you LDS by chance? Your terminology when speaking about the church seem to suggest you might be.

[@RamseyDewey]

Of course I am! True blue, through and through!

[@azraelknightquest5754]

Question: Great Grandmaster Dewey. Most handsome bald man with the gloriously deep and rich voice. There is one style of Kung Fu (I think) I cannot find ANY videos on, anywhere. Have you ever played Mortal Kombat Deception or Armageddon? If they had modeled Shujinko after you, he would be more popular. Nonetheless! There is the infamous mysterious Lin Kuei Ninja Smoke. His fighting style is Mi Tzu. Google and wiki and KZbin have said it's called "Mi Tzu Quan" meaning "Rice Ancestor" and one of the Shaolin styles. ....and NOTHING else. No history, no videos of techniques, NOTHING! Can you teach or show any of this deep, mysterious style? Does it even really exist?

[@RamseyDewey]

Look up these characters and you’ll get a bunch of results: 米祖拳

[@azraelknightquest5754]

@@RamseyDewey Thank you. You are the best! Also....is "Mi Tzu" even remotely CLOSE to what it's called or is that just some very jacked up American bastardization of it?

[@RamseyDewey]

@@azraelknightquest5754 in pinyin, it's spelled mi zu quan, there's no "T"

[@phoenixmountain]

When they referred to "they" and "them" they might have been referring to the Athenians themselves. After all, they were ultimately defeated in the Peloponnesian War.

[@734gman-vs5uf]

Mabye in training, theyre busy trying stiff they arent good at or learning new techniques. Mabye theyre goin easy on ya so you can learn.

[@fredricclack7137]

Kung Fu 4 LIFE! 🤬☯️

[@ohmmohmm5891]

Yin and yang vibes

[@SteveJuszczak]

Kung fu is in the health fighting spectrum, MMA IS IN THE SPORT FIGHTING SPECTRUM, THERE ARE CROSS OVER TECHS THOUGH

[@ianthomas1983]

Don't know on about Kung Fu Indian

[@TonyOcasiowingchunpressure]

In my opinion choy Lee fut is the only kung fu style that can stand a chance against boxers and MMA fighters...Bruce lee even said that choy lee fut is the only martial art that can fight multiple people at once and also it is the only successful kung fu style that defeated muay Thai fighters and never lost...i believe choy lee fut has the potential to be part of today's MMA fighting styles

[@bruceleeroythatswho]

if it was that great shy didnt bruce lee pursue it properly than . they all have good points n bad points

[@TonyOcasiowingchunpressure]

@bruceleeroythatswho Bruce lee did invest and look into choy lee fut...he took the backfist and takedowns from it...and he also said that choy lee fut is the only kung fu style that went to Thailand to beat the muay Thai fighters and never lost....so yes he did look into choy lee fut

[@taiji1478]

You know who has good Gongfu? Everybody that competes in the Olympics. Whatever their sport or event, if they are the best of the best in their lane, then they have good gongfu. When you watch extreme mountain biking or snowboarding or surfing monster waves, that's gongfu, An artisan blacksmith or carpenter or tailor, has "gongfu". As an equation, gongfu is: "effort invested to get gud" + "time invested to get gud" = skill level = gongfu. So, if you don't practice, your gongfu sucks.

[@pranakhan]

The Gongfu of pronouncing random user names is being developed as we speak!

[@KeytoKungFu]

How Kung Fu works: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2Kmi2Omjduiqac

[@stanlim9182]

Personally, I find Chinese food as the best kung fu

[@mutchney]

I think that Kung Fu IS a martial art, it's just that there's far more emphasis put into the "art" part than the "martial" one. It's hardly useful for combat nowadays, but it still has martial roots

[@ShadowParalyzer]

Ramsey's argument was that Kung Fu is a more general term for great skill in any given field. And that there are lots of different kinds of Chinese martial arts that are very different from each other. So there is no such martial art style called "Kung Fu".

[@BWater-yq3jx]

As above, Ramsey was referring to terminology rather than combat effectiveness.

[@florentinthomas7677]

W

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

No its short for Kung Fooey that is a chinese noodle that only karate nerds eat

[@jonatho85]

True Story Ramsey. Kung Fu- Mastery with time in effort. Shantung Black Tiger is a Shaolin fighting art. But it takes Kung Fu to master Shantung Black Tiger.

[@CromCruachTheElderK]

You don't read Socrates as a philosophy student. In fact, you can't. Because Socrates didn't write. What we know about Socrates is through his student Plato, who we cannot trust to (through varying phases of his life as a writer) always just accurately represent Socrates' original views. It's actually quite certain that there's at least 2 Socrates in Plato's writings... :)

[@KnjazNazrath]

Gongfu cha best gongfu and best cha. I'm British, so you can't prove me wrong. My Cockney Kung-Fu is too esoteric.

[@pyronicdesign]

Okay, I know i'm Pausing here at [6:09] because i just cannot help my self, as your resident fan who is also in deep with Kung Fu. THANK YOU, even if the large majority of people will just read your title and get pissed off thinking you are bout to absolutely DUNK of Kung Fu. (nice click bait there) every time i teach someone a little kung fu, the first thing i tell them is what kung fu actually is. I then have to explain that what I'm going to teach them is not pretty, is not Wushu performance arts, and i tell them what chinese martial arts actually are historically. it's a 45 minute conversation of how the martials arts developed, from conscripts, to military careers, generals, etc, to how the styles came about, due to specific training intended for VERY narrow needs, and and ing with the creation of wushu after the Chinese cultural revolution. How Chinese Martial arts became Performance Art. I finish up that conversation by sparring with my students so that they know i know how to fight. Only then can I actually start teaching them, because until that point they have one of too images in their head. Either they think that they think chinese martial arts are WUSHU and the greatest thing since sliced bread, or they think that it's total BS because of Wushu practitioners getting wrecked in fights. I am so glad you have a down to earth and ACURATE! rebuttal to this misinformation.

[@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed]

Kung Fu is a cheap copy of Pankration.

[@arisnomidisbrazas326]

That's more like the definition of wushu I had in mind, actually. However I don't think I should correct Ramsey because we do have forms in my style as well, so he isn't technically wrong. I also feel you on the 45 minute conversation part, it can be tedious. However I am not as versed in it's history very much. I only know the roots of my own style which don't go very far actually. I'd appreciate a book recommendation if it isn't too much trouble.

[@pyronicdesign]

@@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed nope

[@snowwhitever2336]

i think kung fu is martial art. back then people did fight using kung fu. in china. i think kung fu is watered down now. kung fu was designed to kill and hurt. it was used for self defense . so i think that it is martial art personally. most martial arts i think are based on kung fu one way or other.

[@charlesgraham9954]

negative people were made for the internet, they get to be miserable and not get smacked in the face for it.. lol

[@MajesticRidez]

Kung fu means taxi driver

[@EliteBlackSash]

That first Gi looks a lot like the Da Lian jacket, which seem to be introduced in China by the Manchurians as practice gear for guards the old paintings show them doing the grips, and the Dan system appears to have come from chinese board game rankings, which come from the 9 Stage government official ranking system. The beginner ranks are absolutely HILARIOUS by the way loooool, noob rank title, “Truly Stupid” 😂🤣😂🤣 一曰入神 - 1 pin Being in the Spirit 二曰坐照 - 2 pin Seated in Enlightenment 三曰具体 - 3 pin Concreteness 四曰通幽 - 4 pin Understanding changes 五曰用智 - 5 pin Applying Wisdom 六曰小巧 - 6 pin Ability 七曰斗力 - 7 pin Fighting Strength 八曰若愚 - 8 pin Being Quite Inept 九曰守拙 - 9 pin Being Truly Stupid 九品之外，今不复云。 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@DNDBOT]

Geezus Kung Fu speaks to the chinese styles under the umbrella..

[@RamseyDewey]

功夫 is not limited to Chinese things, let alone Chinese martial arts.

[@MNTrader2012]

Kungfu is a generic term, same as martial art. Chinese use them inter changeably. A catch-all generic term. To claim that Kungfu is not a martial art is like saying booze is not a drink. Only silly westerners with no understanding of Chinese trying to make an issue out of two catch-all generic terms.

[@RamseyDewey]

No they do not. 功夫 does NOT mean martial arts. It is NOT used interchangeably by the Chinese.

[@bruceleeroythatswho]

It kind of is and was. mma is not realy a system tho wot is but if somebody says I do mma I mix tai chi with sumo wrestlng hes a mix martial artist is he not that's mma lol kung fu gung fu generally is a term used for chinese martial arts in general that has a very rich and long history . chinese boxing.

[@RamseyDewey]

@@bruceleeroythatswho kungfu is a word that is incorrectly used among English speakers to refer to Chinese martial arts. That's not what the word actually means.

[@therealchristophernomiddle376]

Kung Fu is a martial art. Perhaps wushu isnt. Kung Fu and there are many styles -Hung Gar, Mantis, White Crane - are 3 examples.

[@thomasbrown3793]

Saying Kung fu isn't a martial art is like saying mma is an anything goes fighting style...when in reality it's become an organized type of fighting composed of some combination of Muay Thai, boxing, wrestling, and BJJ. Saying Kung fu isn't a martial art is splitting hairs and ignoring colloquial language lol. Chinese in America called /call it Kung Fu. It's what it's referred to as by thousands.

[@RamseyDewey]

And thousands of people are wrong.

[@theimpaler5034]

MMA is slightly different to UFC MMA originally was callled shoot fighting because of its bad reputation in the 90s they changed it to MMA

[@RamseyDewey]

@@theimpaler5034 MMA was not originally called shoot fighting. Shoot fighting comes from catch wrestling. A "shoot", or "straight shooting" is a CACC term meaning a real submission wrestling contest. A "work", or a "worked match" is a CACC contest where the outcome is predetermined and the action is often choreographed (eg: professional wrestling) Pro wrestlers/Catch wrestlers such as Billy Robinson brought CACC to Japan where real contests, or shoots/shooting, were called in romanji "shooto", and later re-anglified as "shoot fighting". The sport now called MMA that we see in the UFC was called "vale tudo" (everything goes) in Brazil from the early 1900's to the modern era. Before the year 2000, in the US, the sport hosted by the UFC was called NHB (No holds barred fighing... which is also a catch wrestling term, meaning no holds/submissions are disallowed) or simply "cage fighting". In the year 2000, the New Jersey State Athletic control board wrote the unified rules of mixed martial arts. John McCarthy was the UFC representative on the committee. When he took the paperwork in to get approved by the state athletic commission, a line on the form he had to fill out asked what sport it was for. McCarthy wrote "Martial Arts". When asked to clarify "what kind of martial arts?" on the form, McCarthy wrote "Mixed Martial Arts" That is why we call it MMA today. When I started fighting, we still called it NHB.

[@CursedCommentaries]

Christ is King :D

[@athanasiosalexatos2204]

Sokrates had no fear of death because he knew there is a life after death. Sokrates students tried to get him out of Athens the night bevor he took the poison. He didn't left the city. He faced death with a breave heart.

[@Mbstr1]

The quote you were looking for is: "No man has the right o be an amateur in the field of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without witnessing the feats of strength and beauty of which his body is capable." - Socratese

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

No that was Alfred E Neumann from Mad Magazine

[@dsgdsg9764]

Does he really think colors are an ethnic specific occurrence I mean it's a shirt right they all have collars or at least an amalgamation of one

[@RamseyDewey]

Not all shirts have collars. T shirts certainly don’t. And very few shirts if any have a collar like a gi that can be manipulated like a gi. A traditional mandarin collar Chinese shirt certainly can’t be used this way. It would be torn to shreds instantly.

[@Kenjitsuka]

For next Q&A video: what if you put a whole horseshoe in your glove?

[@RamseyDewey]

You would be arrested for assault and battery, banned from combat sports, have your fighter license revoked, do prison time, etc.

[@Kenjitsuka]

I understand. I meant more like in the cartoons. Let's say it's 1800, a grudge match and you want to cheat really badly. Does it even fit? What would it do to your hand? Is it all absurd cartoon physics, or a feasible idea? Why do we see it in cartoons so much? @@RamseyDewey

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Then your glove will be shaped funny

[@alc3781]

Short sleeves uniform is more realistic for the "olden days streets" or the the fields

[@JusticeEvan-md4xw]

only an mma and bjj fanatic would disregard traditional martial arts

[@RamseyDewey]

Was this comment intended for a different video? I don’t get it.

[@JusticeEvan-md4xw]

@@RamseyDewey we all know most if not all your videos ridicule traditional styles

[@RamseyDewey]

@@JusticeEvan-md4xw No they do not. That tells me you have never watched one of my videos before (as you have previously admitted to). Either that or you have the attention span of a flea with no room in your brain for nuance whatsoever, but I find that hard to believe. You're talking to a guy who holds black belts in 3 traditional martial arts and equivalent experience in several other TMA styles across multiple decades. You have no clue what you're talking about or who you are talking to. You hav edone that silly thing that a lot of guys who take martial arts classes, but can't fight do, and tried to "other" me as a "MMA and BJJ fanatic" because in addition to my traditional martial arts training, I cross trained for combat sports and fought for a living- and that bothers you for some reason. Why? I've read so many thousands of comments like this over the years from people trying to excommunicate me from traditional martial arts over the internet, the dialog has become more predictable than a choose your own adventure story. Let's see, are you one of those guys who will say (option A) "true martial artists don't fight for money/ fight at all, and you did therefore I hold moral superiority over you even though I can't actually fight, therefore I'm a true martial artist" (option B) *insert ad hominem attack and homophobic remark about grappling then rage quit* or (option C) "turn to the last page to see the ending..." Because you like reading comments, but not watching videos, let me spell it out for you: You jumped to the erroneous conclusion that this is a video poo-pooing Chinese martial arts because you assumed (without even watching) that the title "kungfu is not a martial art" meant "kungfu is silly and meaningless". The reality: no, kungfu/gongfu/功夫 is a Chinese word that does not mean martial arts, nor does it refer to a specific martial art, nor is the word exclusive to the practice of martial arts. We discussed this at length in the video. If you say "The martial art I practice is kungfu", then you are using that word incorrectly. There are over 400 different styles of Chinese traditional martial arts, and none of them are called "kung fu". 功夫 refers to the acquisition of skill and talent over a long period of time. You may attain gongfu in a sport, in a a hobby, in magic tricks, in sewing, in a martial art- and it's not even exclusive to Chinese martial arts. When I first moved to China, when people saw MMA for the first time, they called it American gongfu fighting before developing a new phrase "综合格斗“ which translates to "integrated combat", or a complete fighting system. I don't know why I took the time to write that all out for you. I usually ignore the punks who ignore what I actually say in my videos and instead regurgitate their own silly narrative over it. But here we are.

[@hkunsam2410]

If you think martial art is directly equal to fighting then you are something wrong

[@RamseyDewey]

If you wrong think something martial arts then directly equal fighting you are.

[@hkunsam2410]

​@@RamseyDeweybruh what is this even mean

[@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed]

The gee like the Sreetz were invented by the Greeks!

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

No they invented streets and never talked like RAPCRAPPERS

[@DrJ3RK8]

So! You think your Kung Fu is pretty good 'uh? :P

[@bluefog1]

03:51...ha...another chinese whole universe is from china

[@AnonYmous-be9vw]

Kung fu is intimidating to an untrained opponent, I think that's how the art evolved.

[@ghostybroyo]

Mormons are cool as long as their not the child marriage kind

[@georgecostanza2695]

Ramsay dropping some truth bombs… I love it👍

[@anti_Hype_334]

until you leave the cage, that is ...

[@PaterPerker]

and what "truth" would that be lol