The Striker’s Guide to getting up in MMA

[@themilkemissary7898]

As a boxer, this is a survival guide

[@dusk6159]

Yet another fine Ramsey's video.

[@hypnoticskull6342]

Same

[@RamseyDewey]

@topher nolastname send your best white belts! This sounds like a great video idea.

[@astrosherlock374]

@topher nolastname Bridge from mount has saved my life a few times against much more experienced white belts so.....

[@pieguymcduck8600]

@@RamseyDewey OMG PLEASE

[@hypnoticskull6342]

I’m a striker who’s gonna try to transition into MMA soon, and this’ll work great

[@Choppy_Z]

I'm a striker but I get tunnel vision and completely forget that I can get up when I get taken down, in my mind it's like when I go down it's a completely different ruleset and I try to grapple better grapplers 😐

[@wagfortes]

This is a good teaser for a bjj-fanatics instructional. Shout out to Bernardo "huge honor for me" Faria.

[@ThatFreeWilliam]

It's also weirdly easy to accidentally end up standing up by scrambling for the back with more enthusiasm than technique, but it's easy to forget you were trying to stand in the first place when you're doing that.

[@liamcage7208]

This is the perfect instruction for me. From my point of view learning to ground fight was always about learning to survive long enough to get back to your feet. I have no desire to "master" another martial art (BJJ) just supplement what I know.

[@jezwarren-clarke2471]

I remember going in a bit of grump because we where doing butterfly guard (in bjj class)… I kept thinking surely nobody is going to shuffle around on their bum In a fight.. then I searched up butterfly guard in mma.. it’s all about context. The bjj moves are all there in mma.. but they happen in a flash

[@TheRoot2944]

As a jiu jitsu guy getting beat up at fight team is step one get off your back and wrestle up !

[@kevinstern2490]

Thanks coach ! I always learn something new from every video you make. The jump back with technical standup is really cool , now I understand why I got crowded so often, and had to bail back to guard, when I was doing it in the past. Lifting your opponents foot , as you both are about to try to stand up, is one of my favourite moves. It's let me stand up first so many times.

[@e.e.8589]

I know this isnt a selfdefence channel, but the best thing you can learn to defend yourself IMO are those: 1. Learn how to avoid punches 2. Learn to avoid takedowns 3. Learn how to get up on the ground 4. Learn how to run away fast

[@Ash__Adler]

Also known as: 1. Train in striking. 2. Train in wrestling. 3. Train in ground-fighting. 4. Don't neglect general athleticism. 🙂

[@e.e.8589]

@@Ash__Adler you arent wrong. But if your focus is too much on combat SPORTS, you can easily go in the wrong direction, if you want to train for self defence. IMO you dont want to train too much takedowns where you go on the ground with your attacker and you dont want to waste your time on the ground with the 38 version of a fancy heelhook

[@ShinFahima]

Also learn to trip 'em!

[@Ash__Adler]

@@ShinFahima Ah, yeah, I tend to think of trips, throws, sweeps, dumps, etc. all as part of standing grapples 🙂

[@Ash__Adler]

@@e.e.8589 For self-defense purposes, you don't learn those takedowns or advanced locks to use them. You learn them to learn how to defend against them, because you can't guarantee that an attacker won't be skilled (or just luck into doing something good). Same theory as Nathan Corbett never drilling how to defend against elbow strikes because he knew how to use them well enough to understand how to stop them.

[@TheRoot2944]

Also Neil melanson has awesome guard series for MMA

[@davidjadeaeckhard9625]

The Danger! Thank you for your clarity about "The GOAL of the Guard in a Fight." First, things first. Second, things second. Third, things third. And, so on and so fourth. There is a natural order to things when we acknowledge The Laws of the Universe. Thank you for promoting "The Truth." Thank you for the Lesson(s). Pure Love & Respect. Two Tigers 🟥🟨🟩🟦

[@adam5words688]

Love it! Not talking too much, not overexplaining, just straightforward tips. Thanks!

[@katokianimation]

"If you are watching this video you probably stucked in a position like side control or mount" Yeah exactly, i'm still fighting and trying to figure how to not get tko-d

[@hagenanon9484]

i like how you adress the fact that jiujitsu sometimes gives you a wrong idea about how fights go down. Even in NoGi class i continuosly think to myself... yeah ok sure looks fine but you could never pull that off in any fight where striking is allowed as well.

[@Taekwon-Brando]

Fantastic!!! I don't know how your videos line up with all of my coaches lessons but it's so awesome because you add on to what my coach says. Very basic movements that aren't always so common!

[@XarkoCZ]

I though Jourdan didn't look his usual cheerful sefl today, was a bit worried, but then 7:27 happened.

[@TheRoot2944]

I train jiu jitsu at a MMA gym and Ramsey inspired me to branch out and honestly MMA has helped improve my bjj game alot

[@whoknows8223]

For someone who never grappled this is like the best compilation of how to get up

[@AyahuascaSage]

At 2:15 I believe this is called a pendulum sweep (hooking the back of the knee) or a flower sweep (same basic motion but grabbing pant leg near ankle instead in gi jiu jitsu).

[@daverosewood4459]

I like the stand up from the sweep attempt, good stuff

[@jtkachlmeier]

I love your live Q and As man. We need another, soon! But on your own time! Don't go out of your way brother.

[@kenkongermany7860]

2:17 K-Guard sidedrop 4:00 Preparing backdoor mount escapes 5:55 K- Guard backdoor 6:38 Upkick get up

[@fcmerces]

You know how long I've been waiting for this video! Thank you

[@narikdavido9335]

Love the smooth transition Ramsey...thx for another great training vid...🤜👋

[@bolieve603]

From bottom of mount sometimes you can mix it up off the bridge by rolling to turtle and getting out the back door or using any of the wrestling referee position escapes. Getting stuck in turtle is bad but getting through it quickly works

[@rezlogan4787]

This is completely consistent with the technique we use to regain our feet. At our school we train multiple attacker drills and usually discourage going or staying on the ground. Our preferred technique is to first make space by bridging or shrimping, then attacking a vital area (eyes, striking nose) to distract, then either kicking the legs back and standing like you showed or rolling out the opposite direction and popping up to the feet. This can make it harder for a group to surround you and stomp kick if you’re taken down.

[@kenf333]

This would probably work too: an example of a seamless transition is, with their posture broken in guard and bottom clinch, the body lock with arms, uncross your legs, and if they try standing up they'll carry you with them, if not then push off hips with feet, and frame and push off their shoulders back to standing. Essentially a way to wrestle your way back to a technical standup with the added touch of the body lock for consistent control. Hmm, I wonder how many transitions to standing there are from bottom clinch specifically as it's the most secure position on bottom with their posture broken.

[@ellisv8866]

Very nice video. I particularly liked the scissor sweep the most

[@liljacket9422]

Awww dewey the legend

[@abra00cadaver]

Very helpful video, thank you!

[@SamSung-jn5fi]

This is the video that convinced me to subscribe

[@RamseyDewey]

Cool!

[@dzen_dzenkazan8050]

Finaly! Thanks a lot for this video

[@TalesForWhales]

As a fencer this won't snag me a win but I greatly enjoyed learning new things. Is there a martial art that could make me a better fencer? I'm not overly concerned with self defense in this context. The big items are, explosiveness, flexibility, and stamina. Subscribed.

[@barrybbenson7025]

taekwondo or maybe karate?

[@RamseyDewey]

A few of my students were fencers. The best one loved boxing and always talked about how much athletic crossover there was between fencing and boxing. They’re radically different sports, but he seemed to find a strong connection.

[@TalesForWhales]

@@RamseyDewey Thank you! I picked up kick boxing on the side but wasn't sure if I was overlooking something.

[@TalesForWhales]

@@barrybbenson7025 TKD looks the funnest to be honest. I know people look down at it but just to be able to spin in the air all the time like that must take a lot of gymnastic mastery.

[@fazalihtisham4421]

Boxing probably, jabs are kinda used like a fencing weapon

[@simonyu8838]

"It's a bit of a fight" I find that most MMA matches are

[@CrazyDEntertainment]

There it is .

[@ralfhtg1056]

Very interseting! Thx alot for tall the info!

[@andyfrancisjohnson567]

As a kickboxer I will use these if I'm ever grappling

[@pyronicdesign]

Question. I am having lower back problems. Not major, but it's there. I make sure to do pull-ups every day, and hang, and that got rid of the upper back problems, but it did not help my lower back any more asde from relieving a little pressure. Do youu have exsersize I can do for the isolatevthe lower back?

[@RamseyDewey]

Low back pain is usually associated with weak glutes. Exercise your butt basically.

[@ratmelvin]

Everyone: Act natural. Me: 7:25

[@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed]

Some people can generate power in their strikes as they lay pinned on the ground.. It's like a 3-in punch. If you're given the room to swing your shoulders just a little bit, You can generate power to actually punch or elbow pretty hard.

[@User-54631]

I’d recommend not punching from the ground. You produced the most explosive energy standing. It’s physics

[@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed]

@@User-54631 no way ! 🤨 you can create Way more power laying flat on your face. You use your hamstring to do a scorpion kick. Maybe Ramsey can demonstrate 😃🙏

[@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed]

@@User-54631 One is live right now you're not watching?

[@RamseyDewey]

From guard bottom position, elbows are heavily underutilized in MMA right now. It’s not usually a fight ending technique by itself, but a series of calculated strikes can motivate your opponent to move the way you want him to move, create space, and set up your get ups, sweeps, and submissions.

[@Agustin-zg5wk]

That is because of something you always say: People don't train MMA as a its own sport, they grapple and strike separately so no one strikes in bjj class.

[@vicentealencar9132]

Amazing

[@Fanaro]

One thing that completely changed my bridgin was doing it with my ankles off the floor, I get way taller, and there's much more room to maneuvre. What do you think about it?

[@RamseyDewey]

That can help.

[@MeteWayne]

nice dance at the end :D

[@ashtraydekay6624]

Ramsey, there is a channel called "martial arts journey" talking about a tournament for KZbin martial arts instructors....and in the comments.....your name keeps coming up as champion! Thought you'd like to hear about the comment section

[@Danetto]

martelo do chao xd about the only ground fighting we have learned XD

[@dennismason3740]

Fall down, get up, slow down, this is complicated.

[@PanzehVideos]

Personally, I go for the wake up shoryuken, it's not that safe but it will get an opponent out of your face pretty quickly.

[@MartialArtUK]

Coach has been watching my Grappling videos lol

[@dannnyjos]

So much info on this video. Thank you, sir!

[@ShinFahima]

Ha! I knew Jordan would sneak some personality in there at some point. XD

[@ciscokid1214]

Hi coach im training shotokan karate and bjj , and i want to start training tkd because i want to learn all the kick combos in that style is it posible to train 3 styles at the samw time or should i stick to just the 2 im training already

[@klyok]

Question: is there such a thing in the scientific literature as "optimal muscle mass" for particular activity? And how one can determine it for a specific activity? Or should I just look at the most successful athletes involved in a particular activity? E.g., I do pole dancing, and the more mass I have in my body, the more mass I need to be able to lift and move in the air. So, I need less mass to be lighter, but at the same time I need more mass to be able to reach higher acceleration.

[@thomasotto8693]

Thx Ramsey,here´s that WC/JKD-Streetfighting guy from germany again. Told you guys like EMIN BOZTEPE and VICTOR GUTIERRES tried to develop "ANTI-GRAPPLING",this fits in well,from BJJ and CAPOERA ...?!!!😳

[@RamseyDewey]

What?

[@restistance4387]

Off topic coach,but have you ever done a video on why the jab isn't utilized much in mma? And should it be used more.Or less in mma.Can't find a good answer on this topic.when I do a Google search.

[@RamseyDewey]

It’s the most common punch in MMA. It’s the also the most common way to lead and set up a combination in MMA. Who are watching in the UFC right now?

[@restistance4387]

@@RamseyDewey The only UFC fighter.that I can remember using the jab affectly was GSP, but am behind the times.

[@nathantheophilus4856]

@@restistance4387 moreno, Yan, aspinall, shevchenko , Weili Zhang, wonderboy , usman, izzy

[@78my9]

Ill-equipped/ill equipped for all the grammar Gestapos out there. Great vid!👍🥊

[@hasanagic96]

We need some wall get ups. People usually smash us there

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

Oh...

[@narikdavido9335]

Are u shocked Mr Williams ? ....Lol what movie is that Ramsey.

[@RamseyDewey]

Only at how sloppy your man works!

[@narikdavido9335]

@@RamseyDewey 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 bolo dooohh

[@narikdavido9335]

@@RamseyDewey nice 👍 ....

[@ethanstover9859]

Ramsey how do you elevate your opponent in mount if they're using their legs to stay tight?

[@RamseyDewey]

If your opponent narrows his base like that trying to squeeze your torso with his legs to stay on top, that’s when bridging and rolling becomes easiest. Mount escapes are all about alternating between plan A and plan B until you find the way out.

[@ethanstover9859]

Thanks coach!

[@bobmango8472]

Yo Ramsey, i found a solution to your weight cutting problem: Test fighters for their water levels at the weigh ins, and if they’re below the pre-determined level then they’re not allowed to fight. The percentage is up to you, and you can make them fight at their complete natural weights by setting a high enough water percentage. You cannot cut weight without water drainage, so boom. Easy solution.

[@RamseyDewey]

Hydration tests are the easiest to cheat. Just add water to the urine. Just have day off weigh ins right before the fight. That’s the only viable solution.

[@LeDardeursPalace]

The Derrick Lewis school of thought : just get up

[@dennismason3740]

What an excellent technique. I just remembered a bumper-sticker from the eighties - If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit. I amend that bumpersticker and I don't know how to compress it. Respect and Honesty, That's All They Want. way too corny, Imma work the phrase. I got bloodied by a dude in 1976 on the sidewalk, he threw a cup of ice on me as we walked in opposite directions. His non-karate buddy kept pace. I turned around and assumed an absurd stance, a parody of Chinese kung-fu movies. He stopped moving for 3 seconds and sized me up and kicked the living shite outta me (on the ground) until his friend screams "He doesn't know karate!" and his aggro mentor stopped beating me. I baffled with bullshit for 3 seconds. I say it counts. My split lip got infected when I scurried to the Island and I lived long enough to develop immunity. No Ka Oi. That means, the best. I met Koishi Tohei on the island and he rocked my world.

[@ladyeuro7029]

Thats a very sus thumbnail coach !

[@RamseyDewey]

That’s the position that strikers who don’t wrestle will find themselves in about 2 seconds into a fight- if they’re lucky enough to not get mounted or stuck in side control.

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

@@RamseyDewey yeah hahaha

[@ACarpenter89]

hey coach I just started MMA it's my second week and they've already got me sparring or maybe I should say getting the crap kicked out of me because I am so new. I am trying to transition from boxing. which I am not very good at this at all but maybe with practice at least get to where I can protect myself. my coach isn't really teaching me a lot of technique it's kind of more some basic stuff and then figuring things out on their own he teaches a little more grappling but with the striking not so much it taught me a kick but not how to defend a kick. as there really aren't any other martial arts places in the area I live you have any advice? on how I can improve and learn things?

[@afterzanzibar]

I like the 80's porno music to complete the 90's style instructional here. Great stuff! 👍

[@RamseyDewey]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIK4dWWVr9iknc0

[@davidvalencia773]

Hell yeah I can defend those take downs a bit better now and strike away

[@jasonmartell7112]

Ramsey I got an idea for a video. For starters now imagine you got access to some incredible medical device like in the movie Elysium, that can instantly heal all injuries including brain damage. Ok so a group of people with no martial arts training are going to learn to fight just by fighting each other several times a day every day until they get good. And in-between fights they use that medical device. After a decade or so practicing how good do you think would be at fighting? And what do you imagine their fighting style to look like?

[@RamseyDewey]

Interesting question. It’s entirely possible that we make dramatic improvement specifically because we are mortal, killable, easy to injure- and those injuries are often permanent. It creates a sense of urgency that could not exist without the consequences of violence. So while that technology would be amazing, I’m not sure it would produce next level fighters.

[@rodtheworm]

@@RamseyDewey Effectively, you could end up with the equivalent of modern sport fencing compared to historical martial fencing, where the goal is often to cause the 'damage' first without necessarily worrying about defending yourself from the counter stroke a moment later because it won't matter.

[@rodtheworm]

The other interesting question is, if you have a machine that speeds healing to instant, could you train to absolute exhaustion, heal up and do it again? Could you cram decades worth of strength training into a year or so? How strong could you make people at early twenties with the relative training history of a life-long athlete..?

[@Drinky_Crow]

Pretty sure there was an AI team that ran a simulation in a “gladiator pit” with multiple unskilled AI combatants. Constant combat and respawn for a set amount of time, and by the end of simulation, time lapsed forward, the AI had discovered all of the “best” techniques for defeating their opponents and not themselves being defeated.

[@IncredibleMD]

I've always thought it was kinda odd how many mixed martial artists just seem to resign themselves to playing BJJ just because they go to the ground. You don't have to if you don't want to! The ghost of Helio Gracie won't haunt you if you try to stand up instead of trying for that hail mary Americonda! Your opponent is never going to willingly put you in a position he thinks you can beat him in, so if he wants you on the ground, you don't want to be there.

[@e.e.8589]

I get your point, but its hard to get away from a good grappler

[@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed]

The point here is if you are taken to the ground and mounted or whatever. How do you deal with such a situation?. You need to stay calm and save your energy. Keep your opponent as close as you can to your body so they cannot generate any power to hit you.. As your bear hugging them, you can use your legs to start getting out of that mounted position. If you don't know these things, you're going to be pummeled.

[@IncredibleMD]

@@e.e.8589 Isn't that all the more reason to NOT want to play BJJ with the guy? Just because someone's in your guard doesn't men the rules change from MMA tp IBJJF.

[@sventhestout3067]

@@IncredibleMD he’s saying you don’t always have a choice, you can’t “just stand up” if your opponent is a good grappler

[@IncredibleMD]

@@sventhestout3067 Again, there's a big difference between being forced to grapple and wanting to play BJJ just because you're on the ground.

[@deemc7756]

😮🥊

[@saralarra3325]

Mma is science

[@SomnathRoyGrimfangs]

Man, I wanna train under you. I learned more BJJ from this than I did actually sparring for three years.

[@LORDVADER357]

I always think why MMA fighters hug oponent with legs. Oponent can punch the legs, throw you. Grab upwards kick.

[@dmfaccount1272]

Punch the legs?

[@LORDVADER357]

@@dmfaccount1272 Yes. Punch the legs. I don't know if that is legal in UFC or MMA rules. But there are very effective punches vs legs.

[@donpedro3374]

If you can punch their face then why would you punch their legs?

[@dmfaccount1272]

@@LORDVADER357 that'd be more like a kick to the fist.

[@LORDVADER357]

@@donpedro3374 Cause you cant punch their face. Oponent throws kicks at you. Punch you. Its like to ask why there are low lkicks to legs while you can kick their face instead. Cause you cant. Also punch to legs if very effective.

[@katokianimation]

Btw probably that is why bjj guys excel best in mma if they are focusing on their striking and stand ups. Bjj in a real fight function as anti wrestling and anti g&p rather than a proactive grappling style. And to be honest if you love bjj and have a good guard game probably you will never be a good wrestler. While boxing dosen't interfer w your bjj habits. Probably they don't even have a stance....

[@fennec812]

Whenever I bring up the same priority list, my diehard BJJ guys will list the (short) handful of exceptions to the rule that have seen some success with a "purist" BJJ approach like Ryan Hall. Which is great and that dude is undoubtedly super good, but the effort that goes into ignoring the times he's lost on the ground is... weird. BJJ is an amazing martial art and the MA world is better for having it, but this weird polarizing effect sport BJJ has had really needs to be internally policed better, imo. I know so, so many amazing sport competitors who think BJJ is the Aryan Super Race Martial Art (tm) and that good takedowns and strikes are just a waste of time. Its wild to me that martial disciplines have become so isolated in their specialization that many just dismiss everything outside their view. The disparity between how skilled some of these folks are and their complete ignorance outside their particular discipline is absolutely jarring.

[@Boxing_Gamer]

What would krav maga man do?

[@MuslimMan377]

I wonder if you have ever read the Quran man i hope you do

[@RamseyDewey]

It’s been 23 years since I read the Quran. Maybe I’ll take a look at it again. Have you read the Book of Mormon? You should check it out too.

[@MuslimMan377]

@@RamseyDewey i will check it out. Many new discoveries about the Quran including scientifical, linguistical you name it but i think if u read it now ur gonna be very intrigued hopefully i read it two years ago give or take, it didn't take much for me to be convinced

[@megamanx766]

What? You guys can't get up? Pfftt

[@HarryTzianakisTheGodOfSpeed]

I'm lazy 🦥

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

Hahahaha

[@mikuspalmis]

They need some Derrick Lewis inspiration.

[@siekensou77]

I was watching this weapons focused KZbin account attempt dual shields vs sword+shield and the performance of the dual shield was very poor. They admitted to not having brawling training and only having weapons training. I was wondering if you had the same dual shields or anyone else with a proper brawling background, would they be more capable in the same setup. video descriptions as follows. please take a look. video title: Could THIS Make "Dual Shielding" Viable? (Brawler Style) youtube account: Skallagrim video ID: ZCawSBgz8Bc