Hey, I have that shirt :) Also, I don't mind point sparring, but my system had such strict rules when it came to sparring that it ruined it. No spin kicks, no jump kicks (not like you would), light to no touch only, if you knock the head back, you lose a point. Was lame. My school has since closed and one of these days I will start a new system and hope to get some real sparring in.
I like it, because it teaches you to overrun your opponent. Watch a point fighter, they'll be more aggressive than someone who's afraid of getting knocked out. They'll Advance through their opponent, canceling out their offense. You couple those with someone who's throwing some heavy hands, one, you're jamming up their offense, and two, cutting down on the reaction time. I've done both, I prefer full contact, but point fighting has its strong suits as well.
You're absolutely correct. I did point karate for a few years when I was young and it instilled some things in me that I still benefit from to this day. I learned to be very explosive and developed very good eyesight and quick reflexes. I'm faster than my opponents most of the time, I'm pretty hard to hit and I'm often able to surprise people by covering a very long distance quickly and hit them at a range where they usually feel safe.
I have done MMA and Karate point sparring. I have recently dove into combatives and when it comes to real world violence neither mma or point sparring prepare you very well for an ambush by 3 people with weapons. That said MMA teaches you how to take a hit. Point sparring is good for landing your strikes. The best part of point sparring is there are usually no weight classes or a very broad range in a weight class with division of over 160ilbs or under. This helps you learn how to deal with different body types and the attributes that come with them.
Always good to do some Ju-Kumite/continuous sparring to understand the scary outcomes that sometimes people won’t stop with just one or two hit. I do like these points because they are more laser focused and decisive when moving. Be more cautious and that’s good have in mind
This was an eye-opening take on point karate. I never considered how much it could actually contribute to real fighting skills. Thanks for breaking down the benefits so clearly!
I do both points and light continuous and competed in both. Getting better at points improved my continuous sparring than the other way round. It forces you to control the fight and opponent from the outset
Man i understand alot of your points and maybe due the nature of how we train but i feel like it builds bad habits. Pull punches and develop bad habits especially footwork. I personally feel you spar how you fight, if you dance and play tag it could translate in the streets. Not everyone but most ive seen. Thank you for your perspective sir 👍🙏 keep it up 😁
You're correct. Point fighting can build some bad habits. Fact of the matter is that all forms of sparring can build bad habits. Full contact kickboxing can get you too defensive to disrupt your opponent to make sure you can last the match. MMA can train you to continue fighting on the ground when perhaps you should get up and escape. Full contact, in general, has a tendency to break down a body. All sparring has a tendency to train you to fight other skilled fighters which is very different than fighting an untrained person, even one that is street wise. The best way to train is to use a variety of methods that cover the weaknesses of each other.
Great video. Lot of good points to think about. Was never a fan of point sparring in my late teens and early twenties when I was coming up in Karate. Since I started training Shotokan last year I've been really thinking about getting back into competition again. Now in my early 40s, I think my attitude towards point sparring has changed a bit. Makes for good practice and it's not like I was ever trying to be in the UFC anyway
What you and many folks in the comments here are referring to as "continuous sparring" is what every karate instructor and every school that I know of does in every sparring class. Students pair up, or are paired up, and spar for 2 or 3 minutes straight, understanding that it's up to them to acknowledge each other's techniques. However, when we try to transfer that to a tournament situation (Sport Karate), too often the fighters go at it for 90 seconds straight, never acknowledging each others strikes and it starts to look more like a cock fight. Very little display of defensive or counter offensive technique. I agree with most of your 8 points but I think you left 2 important ones out. Because you are fighting another person who is moving and also trying to score, point fighting (all sparring, actually) also teaches timing and distance (range) that is lacking in controlled one-step (2-step, whatever) sparring training. IMO, any school that doesn't teach free sparring (and I know a few) is doing a disservice to their students.
Sparring is Applied Karate. The main thing it trains is your nerves. Some people get so scared of sparring that when you fake a move towards them they're out the door, on the parking lot, hiding behind their cars. That's not karate-do. That's karate-don't. Sparr against different minds. Train the nerves!
Im a kyokushin black belt and joined an all styles karate tournament. Ended up in a point fight with a tae kwon do black belt. There were times where I'd hit the guy and he'd wince, and the judges would somehow not see it. He was good at dancing around and running, and he ended up beating me 5-2. Point fighting is a sham. Cant fake the funk in full contact/continuous sparring.
One question I have kinda something similar to last video. If two people a teacher and a student have 8-12 hours of time a day to train do you believe they could progress faster in ranks due to more training time and dedication?
You are right about the judges! They play politics to the out-sider fighters! I got rob of some no.1 win because of them! Even the people's watching told me I should have won.
My Kung fu teacher would enter his class in point karate and taekwondo tournaments to see how many times we could bite our opponents before the judges disqualified us. My record was four chomps to the arm.
SO....I have an off topic question. Since you've done both American Kempo and Japanese JuJutsu, do you think many Kempo techniques come from JuJutsu or Aikido?
In my opinion more Judo version of grappling. Ed Parker was a Judoka and I can see a lot of techniques that have that influence. That would also extend to Japanese Jujutsu to a degree. I have not seen any Aikido influences in American Kenpo. They are pretty fundamentally different and I am very comfortable saying that any grappling in American Kenpo is Japanese Jutsu, but more specifically Judo.
@@ArtofOneDojo For Aikido examples, I would say Reversing Circles has Kote Gaeshi and Crossing Talon looks like Ikkyo from an AiHanmi Katate Dori cross wrist grab.
@@ValleyDragon The Kote Gaeshi moves we have in Kenpo are much closer to Judo and Japanese Jujutsu. Kenpo's circles are much smaller and tighter than what you'd usually see in Aikido. There really aren't any Aikido influences in American Kenpo.
I have a great idea for your channel, a video explaining where you get your public domain images and video and how you use them unless you do not want competitors like myself going up against your channel.
There are tons of resources online for stock footage. I don't need to make a video explaining where I get my content. Any creator worth their salt knows how to easily google and find it. But if you must know, storyblocks.com is where we get our stock footage. For the rest look up "Public Domain" and "Creative Commons" searched in Google. There are a lot of videos and photos you can use with "Creative Commons" as long as you give credit when you use them (we do). Any "Competitor" wouldn't have to be told this. I thought you didn't watch my channel anymore?
@@ArtofOneDojo how about all your Kenpo videos stuff you get them there to the first thing I did was type in Kenpo and there was like 1 page I did find other martial arts related stuff by typing in other martial arts related subject matter and I am new to this I am trying and at least I have better thumbnails but still waiting for this gal to get back from vacation who agreed to teach me how to make better thumbnails your thumbnails are awesome. mine is better that when I started this channel but room for approvement your problem with me is that I say Kenpo Sucks and your have a 5th degree BB in Kenpo so of course you going to stand up for Kenpo but watch my videos then get back to me if You still think I am wrong a Zoom meeting is still optional. hell, Rob from Mcdojolife had said in a live feed that he is open to Zoom calls why not you. great content 2 Kenpo guys disagreeing in the concepts and ideas of where Kenpo Karate is in 2024 and where it is headed in years to come that's great television as President Donald J Trump would say.
I'm sorry but the first part of what you types is extremely hard to read...it's all one run on sentence and it's hard to make out what you're saying. 1, I don't have a problem with you. 2, if I did, it has nothing to do with you saying "Kenpo sucks". I've had that conversation multiple times with people. 3, what I don't like is you DEMANDING I tell Mr. Speakman he's wrong (he's not) and I'm concerned that you get so upset with people disagreeing with you that you make a dozen videos bitching them out and then when they reply to you, you jump on that comment and make another video rant. That's not having a constructive conversation, that's you demanding attention. 4, I am open to Zoom guests, but do you want to me to be 100% honest why I won't host you in one? Ok.... A) You've been incredibly disrespectful from the start. Demanding I make certain content, and dropping challenges and then calling me "chickenshit" is not a good way to earn my respect. I actually blocked you for a while so anything you posted from that point on, no one saw. I removed the block last week in the hopes that maybe you'd be more respectful. B) No offense, but you don't have a very clear understanding of Kenpo. I have seen several of your videos, you mix up IKCA, Parker Kenpo, Tracy Kenpo all the time...and they are VERY VERY Different Kenpo systems. Your technique breakdowns are often very incorrect on what the techniques are teaching and I don't think a debate is honestly going to be very constructive. C) We already did a Kenpo sucks "discussion", not debate, my channel isn't really focuses on debates, we try to be more positive and constructive instead of an argument. We already covered most of it. I also have more Kenpo related content I'm already producing that covers what I want to say about it. D) I also can't help but feel the only reason you want me to hose a zoom episode is so that you can get more attention and exposure. I just don't think doing a zoom discussion is going to be a great use of our time. I am however, happy to provide you with a bunch of resources to help build your channel. I'll get those to you a bit later tonight if I can.
Here are some resources you asked for and hopefully additional helpful ones: Stock Footage: There are TONS of subscription sites for stock footage The one I use is part of Storyblocks, it's called Videoblocks.com Envato Elements also has a lot of video. Pexels.com also has free videos Photos: I use Dreamstime, but there is istockphoto, Shutterstock, and Adobe that has extensive libraries. For free photos, check out Unsplash.com and pexels.com (The libraries are small, but they are great quality and FREE) Public domain you need to search for. A lot of historical Wikipedia photos (like old Grandmasters) are in the public domain and free to use. You'll need to check the description of each picture, Wikipedia will tell you. Creative Commons, sites like Flickr have HUGE photo collections and you can use them as long as you understand what "Creative Commons" is. It means you can use photos as long as you give credit to the user. There are different levels though, levels 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. They have different requirement and restrictions so make sure to adhere to that. Many UA-cam videos are also sharable, look in their description and see if you see "Creative Commons" listed at the bottom the description. Midjourney and AI is another option, good for specialized things you can't find in stock photos. I did an Australian wrestling video and I wanted an image of a kangaroo in a sumo belt. Well...I couldn't really find any actual stock footage of that LOL, so that is where AI can help. I use Midjourney, Adobe, and Dreamstime for my thumbnails because I usually require very specific shots or poses. Music: Storyblocks also has music called Audioblocks.com, that is what I use. There is also Epic Sound But UA-cam itself has a pretty good free collection. There are also UA-cam music channels with creative commons music, you just have to give them credit and their descriptions tell you how. Your thumbnails have definitely improved, but there is always room to grow. Thumbnails are TRICKY because you never quite know what is going to catch a viewer's eye. Using a site like Canva is a good way to make them. Filming tips, try not to have the sun behind you. Have it behind the camera. It might be in your eyes but when the sun is behind you the camera aperture has to adjust to either show the background or show you, and sometimes you look like a silhouette or have lens flares over you that make it unappealing to look at. Have the sun behind the camera, or 45 degrees to the side of you and that will give you much cleaner lighting. Audio is a big thing, if you don't have good audio you will lose your audience. Most of your time your audio is pretty good, I saw you got a microphone so that's a good stuff. For being outside (which is hard to film) your audio is pretty good so good job on that. Video structure, generally people choose to watch a video because they want to learn something. Even if it's an opinion based video, you want to have a good structure. I like the "essay" format. You make a claim at the beginning of the video, then you have 3 points that support that claims (you can spend a couple of minutes on each point) and then at the end you want to restate your claim. It's also good to have a "bonus" tip or something you can tease at the beginning. You want to hook your viewer at the very beginning and keep giving them little hooks to continue watching. That is how you increase view duration and UA-cam algorithm LOVES that. Also use end screens to lead people to other videos you've made. For example if you make a video "3 ways you're doing a Front kick wrong" do that presentation and at the end lead them into something else. Something like "now that you know you were doing the front kick wrong, let's correct that reverse punch" and add a link to a video you may have done to fix punches. Something like that. It's all about flow and keeping the viewer engaged and the longer you keep them on UA-cam, the more UA-cam likes it and spreads your recommendations. Overall, UA-cam is a tricky beast. It's REALLY hard to grow a channel and it takes a lot of time and patience, so make sure you're doing it for the love of what you're doing. If you love the process then it can be very rewarding. I hope some of these tips help.
I trained for continuous sparring but point sparring help me a lot with timing. Keep competing as long as you can
that Florida Expo in November looks quite tempting. I love Martial Arts, and I hate travelling during the Summer, so this looks perfect for me..
Hey, I have that shirt :) Also, I don't mind point sparring, but my system had such strict rules when it came to sparring that it ruined it. No spin kicks, no jump kicks (not like you would), light to no touch only, if you knock the head back, you lose a point. Was lame. My school has since closed and one of these days I will start a new system and hope to get some real sparring in.
Good point fighting has to have good contact. Otherwise you're not learning timing and distance
I like it, because it teaches you to overrun your opponent. Watch a point fighter, they'll be more aggressive than someone who's afraid of getting knocked out. They'll Advance through their opponent, canceling out their offense. You couple those with someone who's throwing some heavy hands, one, you're jamming up their offense, and two, cutting down on the reaction time. I've done both, I prefer full contact, but point fighting has its strong suits as well.
I should have stipulated, a good point fighter.
Point fighting is great if you actually HIT with your strikes. It's great.
You're absolutely correct. I did point karate for a few years when I was young and it instilled some things in me that I still benefit from to this day. I learned to be very explosive and developed very good eyesight and quick reflexes. I'm faster than my opponents most of the time, I'm pretty hard to hit and I'm often able to surprise people by covering a very long distance quickly and hit them at a range where they usually feel safe.
I have done MMA and Karate point sparring. I have recently dove into combatives and when it comes to real world violence neither mma or point sparring prepare you very well for an ambush by 3 people with weapons. That said MMA teaches you how to take a hit. Point sparring is good for landing your strikes. The best part of point sparring is there are usually no weight classes or a very broad range in a weight class with division of over 160ilbs or under. This helps you learn how to deal with different body types and the attributes that come with them.
Always good to do some Ju-Kumite/continuous sparring to understand the scary outcomes that sometimes people won’t stop with just one or two hit.
I do like these points because they are more laser focused and decisive when moving. Be more cautious and that’s good have in mind
This was an eye-opening take on point karate. I never considered how much it could actually contribute to real fighting skills. Thanks for breaking down the benefits so clearly!
I do both points and light continuous and competed in both. Getting better at points improved my continuous sparring than the other way round. It forces you to control the fight and opponent from the outset
Man i understand alot of your points and maybe due the nature of how we train but i feel like it builds bad habits. Pull punches and develop bad habits especially footwork. I personally feel you spar how you fight, if you dance and play tag it could translate in the streets. Not everyone but most ive seen. Thank you for your perspective sir 👍🙏 keep it up 😁
You're correct. Point fighting can build some bad habits. Fact of the matter is that all forms of sparring can build bad habits. Full contact kickboxing can get you too defensive to disrupt your opponent to make sure you can last the match. MMA can train you to continue fighting on the ground when perhaps you should get up and escape. Full contact, in general, has a tendency to break down a body. All sparring has a tendency to train you to fight other skilled fighters which is very different than fighting an untrained person, even one that is street wise. The best way to train is to use a variety of methods that cover the weaknesses of each other.
Great video. Lot of good points to think about. Was never a fan of point sparring in my late teens and early twenties when I was coming up in Karate. Since I started training Shotokan last year I've been really thinking about getting back into competition again. Now in my early 40s, I think my attitude towards point sparring has changed a bit. Makes for good practice and it's not like I was ever trying to be in the UFC anyway
What you and many folks in the comments here are referring to as "continuous sparring" is what every karate instructor and every school that I know of does in every sparring class. Students pair up, or are paired up, and spar for 2 or 3 minutes straight, understanding that it's up to them to acknowledge each other's techniques.
However, when we try to transfer that to a tournament situation (Sport Karate), too often the fighters go at it for 90 seconds straight, never acknowledging each others strikes and it starts to look more like a cock fight. Very little display of defensive or counter offensive technique.
I agree with most of your 8 points but I think you left 2 important ones out. Because you are fighting another person who is moving and also trying to score, point fighting (all sparring, actually) also teaches timing and distance (range) that is lacking in controlled one-step (2-step, whatever) sparring training.
IMO, any school that doesn't teach free sparring (and I know a few) is doing a disservice to their students.
Heyy man!! You look great! Keep competing!
Sparring I didn’t like at first scared to do but now I do excited 😆 to do it at red dragon karate. These are good tips
I always felt that you need both full contact no protection and point sparring. You’re really lacking if you do only one of them.
Stellar video
Thank you
I was wondering if you could do a more detailed video on Ninjutsu. After watching your Bujinkan video it leaves me with more questions.
Sparring is Applied Karate. The main thing it trains is your nerves. Some people get so scared of sparring that when you fake a move towards them they're out the door, on the parking lot, hiding behind their cars. That's not karate-do. That's karate-don't. Sparr against different minds. Train the nerves!
The Wall. So if you were a fighting game character, you would have armored moves with hard hits.
Possibly lol.
Im a kyokushin black belt and joined an all styles karate tournament. Ended up in a point fight with a tae kwon do black belt. There were times where I'd hit the guy and he'd wince, and the judges would somehow not see it. He was good at dancing around and running, and he ended up beating me 5-2. Point fighting is a sham. Cant fake the funk in full contact/continuous sparring.
One question I have kinda something similar to last video. If two people a teacher and a student have 8-12 hours of time a day to train do you believe they could progress faster in ranks due to more training time and dedication?
You are right about the judges! They play politics to the out-sider fighters! I got rob of some no.1 win because of them! Even the people's watching told me I should have won.
My Kung fu teacher would enter his class in point karate and taekwondo tournaments to see how many times we could bite our opponents before the judges disqualified us. My record was four chomps to the arm.
That's sound horrible. Like a martial artist without any respect.
You should cross train with Fencing.
SO....I have an off topic question. Since you've done both American Kempo and Japanese JuJutsu, do you think many Kempo techniques come from JuJutsu or Aikido?
In my opinion more Judo version of grappling. Ed Parker was a Judoka and I can see a lot of techniques that have that influence. That would also extend to Japanese Jujutsu to a degree. I have not seen any Aikido influences in American Kenpo. They are pretty fundamentally different and I am very comfortable saying that any grappling in American Kenpo is Japanese Jutsu, but more specifically Judo.
@@ArtofOneDojo For Aikido examples, I would say Reversing Circles has Kote Gaeshi and Crossing Talon looks like Ikkyo from an AiHanmi Katate Dori cross wrist grab.
@@ValleyDragon The Kote Gaeshi moves we have in Kenpo are much closer to Judo and Japanese Jujutsu. Kenpo's circles are much smaller and tighter than what you'd usually see in Aikido. There really aren't any Aikido influences in American Kenpo.
Can you upload your fights with commentary?
That tournament pays better than ADCC
I have a great idea for your channel, a video explaining where you get your public domain images and video and how you use them unless you do not want competitors like myself going up against your channel.
There are tons of resources online for stock footage. I don't need to make a video explaining where I get my content. Any creator worth their salt knows how to easily google and find it. But if you must know, storyblocks.com is where we get our stock footage. For the rest look up "Public Domain" and "Creative Commons" searched in Google. There are a lot of videos and photos you can use with "Creative Commons" as long as you give credit when you use them (we do).
Any "Competitor" wouldn't have to be told this.
I thought you didn't watch my channel anymore?
@@ArtofOneDojo how about all your Kenpo videos stuff you get them there to the first thing I did was type in Kenpo and there was like 1 page I did find other martial arts related stuff by typing in other martial arts related subject matter and I am new to this I am trying and at least I have better thumbnails but still waiting for this gal to get back from vacation who agreed to teach me how to make better thumbnails your thumbnails are awesome. mine is better that when I started this channel but room for approvement your problem with me is that I say Kenpo Sucks and your have a 5th degree BB in Kenpo so of course you going to stand up for Kenpo but watch my videos then get back to me if You still think I am wrong a Zoom meeting is still optional. hell, Rob from Mcdojolife had said in a live feed that he is open to Zoom calls why not you. great content 2 Kenpo guys disagreeing in the concepts and ideas of where Kenpo Karate is in 2024 and where it is headed in years to come that's great television as President Donald J Trump would say.
I'm sorry but the first part of what you types is extremely hard to read...it's all one run on sentence and it's hard to make out what you're saying.
1, I don't have a problem with you.
2, if I did, it has nothing to do with you saying "Kenpo sucks". I've had that conversation multiple times with people.
3, what I don't like is you DEMANDING I tell Mr. Speakman he's wrong (he's not) and I'm concerned that you get so upset with people disagreeing with you that you make a dozen videos bitching them out and then when they reply to you, you jump on that comment and make another video rant. That's not having a constructive conversation, that's you demanding attention.
4, I am open to Zoom guests, but do you want to me to be 100% honest why I won't host you in one? Ok....
A) You've been incredibly disrespectful from the start. Demanding I make certain content, and dropping challenges and then calling me "chickenshit" is not a good way to earn my respect. I actually blocked you for a while so anything you posted from that point on, no one saw. I removed the block last week in the hopes that maybe you'd be more respectful.
B) No offense, but you don't have a very clear understanding of Kenpo. I have seen several of your videos, you mix up IKCA, Parker Kenpo, Tracy Kenpo all the time...and they are VERY VERY Different Kenpo systems. Your technique breakdowns are often very incorrect on what the techniques are teaching and I don't think a debate is honestly going to be very constructive.
C) We already did a Kenpo sucks "discussion", not debate, my channel isn't really focuses on debates, we try to be more positive and constructive instead of an argument. We already covered most of it. I also have more Kenpo related content I'm already producing that covers what I want to say about it.
D) I also can't help but feel the only reason you want me to hose a zoom episode is so that you can get more attention and exposure.
I just don't think doing a zoom discussion is going to be a great use of our time.
I am however, happy to provide you with a bunch of resources to help build your channel. I'll get those to you a bit later tonight if I can.
Here are some resources you asked for and hopefully additional helpful ones:
Stock Footage: There are TONS of subscription sites for stock footage
The one I use is part of Storyblocks, it's called Videoblocks.com
Envato Elements also has a lot of video.
Pexels.com also has free videos
Photos: I use Dreamstime, but there is istockphoto, Shutterstock, and Adobe that has extensive libraries.
For free photos, check out Unsplash.com and pexels.com (The libraries are small, but they are great quality and FREE)
Public domain you need to search for. A lot of historical Wikipedia photos (like old Grandmasters) are in the public domain and free to use. You'll need to check the description of each picture, Wikipedia will tell you.
Creative Commons, sites like Flickr have HUGE photo collections and you can use them as long as you understand what "Creative Commons" is. It means you can use photos as long as you give credit to the user. There are different levels though, levels 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. They have different requirement and restrictions so make sure to adhere to that.
Many UA-cam videos are also sharable, look in their description and see if you see "Creative Commons" listed at the bottom the description.
Midjourney and AI is another option, good for specialized things you can't find in stock photos. I did an Australian wrestling video and I wanted an image of a kangaroo in a sumo belt. Well...I couldn't really find any actual stock footage of that LOL, so that is where AI can help. I use Midjourney, Adobe, and Dreamstime for my thumbnails because I usually require very specific shots or poses.
Music:
Storyblocks also has music called Audioblocks.com, that is what I use.
There is also Epic Sound
But UA-cam itself has a pretty good free collection.
There are also UA-cam music channels with creative commons music, you just have to give them credit and their descriptions tell you how.
Your thumbnails have definitely improved, but there is always room to grow. Thumbnails are TRICKY because you never quite know what is going to catch a viewer's eye. Using a site like Canva is a good way to make them.
Filming tips, try not to have the sun behind you. Have it behind the camera. It might be in your eyes but when the sun is behind you the camera aperture has to adjust to either show the background or show you, and sometimes you look like a silhouette or have lens flares over you that make it unappealing to look at. Have the sun behind the camera, or 45 degrees to the side of you and that will give you much cleaner lighting.
Audio is a big thing, if you don't have good audio you will lose your audience. Most of your time your audio is pretty good, I saw you got a microphone so that's a good stuff. For being outside (which is hard to film) your audio is pretty good so good job on that.
Video structure, generally people choose to watch a video because they want to learn something. Even if it's an opinion based video, you want to have a good structure. I like the "essay" format. You make a claim at the beginning of the video, then you have 3 points that support that claims (you can spend a couple of minutes on each point) and then at the end you want to restate your claim. It's also good to have a "bonus" tip or something you can tease at the beginning. You want to hook your viewer at the very beginning and keep giving them little hooks to continue watching. That is how you increase view duration and UA-cam algorithm LOVES that.
Also use end screens to lead people to other videos you've made. For example if you make a video "3 ways you're doing a Front kick wrong" do that presentation and at the end lead them into something else. Something like "now that you know you were doing the front kick wrong, let's correct that reverse punch" and add a link to a video you may have done to fix punches. Something like that.
It's all about flow and keeping the viewer engaged and the longer you keep them on UA-cam, the more UA-cam likes it and spreads your recommendations.
Overall, UA-cam is a tricky beast. It's REALLY hard to grow a channel and it takes a lot of time and patience, so make sure you're doing it for the love of what you're doing. If you love the process then it can be very rewarding.
I hope some of these tips help.
@@ArtofOneDojo Thank you! I have no money so free is always good.
Just wanna say i love ur channel n i enjoy ur knowledge 😺 🤜🫷☯️