Ramsey Dewey on Effective Combat Sports and What Self Defense Experts Get Wrong

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@beenright5115 2 ай бұрын

As a taichi guy, I loved this conversation...and I don't care if you laugh at me at the park, Stephan 😂

@rakusoverthecoals861 2 ай бұрын

"No one's going to attack you in a Speedo." "Maybe if you're on a beach?" "It could happen - at the wrong beach - you might only have one handle to hold on to..."

@andrewbenton943 2 ай бұрын

You're more likely to get attacked by someone in a Speedo in Europe. This recalls the conversation I had with an American who lived in Germany, and woke up one morning to find his neighbor mowing his lawn in a speedo. Add booze to yardwork, and your likelihood of getting attacked by a man in a Speedo in Europe is low, but not zero.

@martialgeeks 2 ай бұрын

Let's go! Now that's a team up I've been looking for, haha 👌

@derrick_smitty 2 ай бұрын

This is awesome to see both of you on one video. I follow both of you and I’ve always wished I could take classes from both of you. I’m 53 and still have a love for martial arts and hand to hand self defense that works.

@HotHeadGio-y5t Ай бұрын

I don't know what's more magnificent, Ramsey's voice or Kesting's handle bar mustache 🤭

@thestrenuouslifepodcast4282 Ай бұрын

Why make it one or the other?

@HotHeadGio-y5t Ай бұрын

@@thestrenuouslifepodcast4282 Right, you're both epic.

@raccoonmyroom6861 2 ай бұрын

You guys make a great colaboration group!

@ramondiaz2851 2 ай бұрын

I sparred with a headgear with a face shield & I still got my tooth cracked because the shield reached my front teeth just enough to crack one tooth in 1/2 & my opponent 300 pounds with a forceful cross punch, he knew how to punch!! I was ok but it cost me money .

@jonpicojones4032 2 ай бұрын

A strong boxing and wrestling base will make you an effective fighter against 90% of people.

@unityma 2 ай бұрын

Ramsey you absolutely don't need a knee replacement for a torn PCL. That ligament heals by itself. It's an ACL that's commonly believed not to heal and a knee construction surgery is recommended (not knee replacement btw). But even for ACL there's two new alternatives available. 1. BEAR Implant (alternative surgery without reconstruction) 2. Cross bracing + PT (natural healing without surgery) The cross bracing method works also on PCL. For that you could also accelerate your healing with PRP + cross bracing + PT. I did BEAR implant on my torn ACL btw. it worked.

@ekklesialifeapplicationbib7352 2 ай бұрын

Great discussion 👍

@Xzontyr 2 ай бұрын

This was a great collab. Hope you guys can do it again sometime. On the point of traditional martial arts finding functionality, I recently met a martial artist this summer that had a very wide array of techniques, and had obviously trained in an mma catagory of sorts, having experience in all 3 core ranges. Anyways, regarding his technique, however, it really shocked everyone that he sparred against and who watched him spare. To this day, were not sure if he just made it up himself or if he was actually trained in a legit system, but it was very unorthodox. The best way to describe his stance would be to compare it to Royce's in the early ufc, particularly his fights against Ken. However, he tweaked it a bit so that he was more in line with his opponent like bas rutten. Another similarity is that he also didn't really telegraph anything, much the same as rutten aswell, infact the way he went about it was better. So he would be in a somewhat double long guard, with his arms slightly bent, and the way he would strike is what got most people. He didn't have any wind up. He'd just launch out at you, with these punches only extending a few inches. Sometimes, they weren't the hardest punches, but they still got you, and it was usually to set up something else. My training is in combat sambo, so I'd say i'm fairly well rounded. When i went to spar against this guy, though for the first time, it was a very strange experience. So, his boxing was very unorthodox, as mentioned. It's the sort of case, where when you watch someone spar against him, you think to yourself that your going to knock this guy around with his silly stance, but then when you actually experince it, you realize it's alot harder than what it seems. He obviously had some other training because he also had amazing head and foot movement. He was hard to hit, and i can say i swing pretty fast for my size. Had a coach that made us take our shadow boxing pretty seriously and expected us to do it on our own time. He knew when someone wasn't practicing. This guy made me feel like all of my training was for nothing. Im not afraid of loss. I'm not afraid to tap out or box against a guy that's competing and bullies me around. I enjoy it all the same. It's when you lose and feel almost helpless. It was a weird feeling. Maybe similar to a karateka that never pressure tested their stuff, and went against a 1 year kickboxer or something similar. So, as mentioned, it started off as just a friendly sparring session, but he slowly kept turning up the heat, and i didn't back down. Pretty soon, we were in full combat. This was bare knuckle also. I was able to get him down, but he obviously had some bjj or wrestling training because he knew how to get back up, and one thing we allowed was finger jabbing into muscle tissue. Obviously, it's a rule for him. I always made fun of the eye pokers because if they don't know how to sweep someone, they probably won't do well, but it's somewhat true when a person knows what their doing. He never got me in the eye, or pulled my hair, or did a Keith Hackney did to Jo, but he would get me in the neck, collar bone, armpit, ribs, etc, and ya it had me hunting for his hand, but he was clever with it, and knew how to capatalize with it. So i gave up on ne waza pretty fast. Even going for takedowns, he'd sometimes get his fingers going. So, i just tried to box with him. That didn't work out well. He was incredibly defensive and knew how to get swift shots in. The most annoying thing is when you can successfully block hard jabs and hooks from orthodox fighters just fine, that are coming in at high speeds, but than this guy with his crab arms, is somehow getting in this shots that almost seem slow, and have no wind up what so ever. You think to yourself that this should be so easy to block, but he'l even look at where he's going to strike, you'l prepare for it, and he somehow gets it in. It's maddening. It's so frustrating. So the thing about these crab punches, is that they didn't just jut out. He would also move his body at an angle, usually to give him an advantage, and then just launch out while in that angle, similar to a basic hook. He knew how to play that game incredibly well. Much like a muay thai fighter will test anothers leg with some hard kicks, i actually called it quits with the guy because he bashed up my forearms too badly. It's embarrassing to say, but he really went to work on them. he openly punched them while i was guaring, but then he would create scenerious where we would bang our forearms together. or he'd just try hit me with both inside and outside forarm strikes. He's obviously a fan of Bas because he was going for those swinging forearm strikes that Bas recommends modern fighters do, but nobody does. I'm a fan too, so i saw a lot of mimmicking. Pretty soon i didn't want to keep my hands up, and movement only would have saved me for so long. So i called it quits after a few minutes. My ulner nerve was spent, and he got some good body shots in to. Me and the guys actually went on a mission trying to research what kind of style he was using, but we didn't really find anything. So were guessing he just created something that works for him. He got a bit of a rep, and he had a few losses against very experienced grapplers from what i heard, but his stand up never seemed to let him down. We arranged a bit of a private smoker a month in a half down the road, so i got training. My two coaches had me take a really unorthodox strategy. So when the time came for us to meet up again, we both had the weirdest stances. I'll just leave it at that. If someone would have taken a photo of us, they could of sent it in to a fighting video game studio for ideas. Anyways, so the time came, and we went at it. It wasn't a pretty match, and there were no knockdowns from strikes, or epic submissions. Nope, instead it was a very boring and long starring contest as some put it. I got him though, winning by decision. He was still suseptable to takedowns, so i got a few on him, and than landed a few swift mid level front snap kicks, that i would also feint with a cross after to get him to react, than, because of the distance situation, i'd play bas rutten right back to him, and get him with a wide swinging slap. not a punch, not really a slap either, but a wrist bone palm strike. He didn't like those two much, but i got 2 good ones on him. After that he made it a bit more difficult. I train those now, they can still be done in mma gloves. Might seem easy to defend, and a swinging punch may be more optimal, but you keep power and balance after a kick, or even during it with them, and have about the same reach as the kick. So that was about the fight. Few slaps, kicks, take down. He crab armed me a bit, but didn't destroy my forearms, or jab his fingers into my neck as much. So i still won the staring contest. However, one thing i did learn, is that if he stance and style did come from a traditional martial art, than it certainly does have effectiveness. Maybe he just transformered some ideas from both Bas and Royce, and made BasRoycetron, but who knows. He didn't like answering too many questions. At first it was suppose to be a synergy of a karate style with aikido, but there was no aikido at all in any of the sparring sesssions, than it may have been a form a taijutsu, but who knows. Not too sure if he's still around town or not. He was new to town, and we were guessing that maybe he was just working for a while with his profession. Common thing in the city and surrounding area if it's trades involved. I guess this raises the biggest question. How many stances could be out there, that if utilized with boxing, would actually have effectiveness. Especially in a bare knuckle situation?

@ramondiaz2851 2 ай бұрын

Holy shit I have knee problems too!!

@casperthegst 2 ай бұрын

intersting on the head gear because my karate school was religious about always having your gear on

@WadeSmith-oe5xd Ай бұрын

I took Isshinryu Karate for 6 years and Gracie BJJ for 1.5 years, and Isshinryu > BJJ. I know first hand. I've tapped out 2nd and 3rd degree Gracie Black Belts pretty easily, and they were professional fighters with over 20 wins in professional leagues. Furthermore, Gracie BJJ does not practice striking AT ALL. I punch 2 or 3 times harder than any BJJ black belt, and I kick two or three times harder.

@DenshaOtoko2 2 ай бұрын

I heard from an individual that Karate kata done repeatedly will make you into a good fighter. I respectfully disagreed and told him the truth. I hope he listens to me but he's set in his ways.

@trevordowning4055 2 ай бұрын

did catch wrestling ever use a gi? nogi submission grappling is basically just catch wrestling right?

@RamseyDewey 2 ай бұрын

No. CACC never used a gi. And no, CACC is not the same as nogi BJJ. The rules and objectives are different. In CACC, a "fall" = pin or submission. Best of 3 falls wins. If there is no winner when the time limit expires, winner by sudden death = first takedown wins. Some CACC competitions ban chokes, some are no holds barred.

@trevordowning4055 2 ай бұрын

@@RamseyDewey so in regards to the early nogi development would CACC have been a good resource for those athletes even with the ruleset difference? they can get useful skill by practicing outside the rules too right? Love your channel btw!

@RamseyDewey 2 ай бұрын

@@trevordowning4055 with some guys who competed at a high level in both sports, like Brandon Ruiz, for example, sure. But Catch wrestling has been a very niche sport for most of recent combat sports history, so I can’t say how much influence it’s had on BJJ as a whole.

@SalomonEspinosa70 2 ай бұрын

@@RamseyDewey that's a rules based issue though isnt it? Vs. the actual techniques used in Catch which, from what I have seen, tend to be similar to basic BJJ. No?

@flamezombie1 2 ай бұрын

@@SalomonEspinosa70There are similar techniques but a much greater emphasis on the top game means you’ll see a bigger variety of takedowns, little guard pulling, neck cranks, many more leg locks, etc.