I'm just going to post the Kudoka in the question's challenge up here since i can't link it. Will do my best with the translation : Craving for a bike ride and craving for conquest... From today, I give up my honored title with my style, becoming an ordinary Kudoka like everyone else in the discipline. What I'm doing does not represent the entire Kudo community I want to go with my small bike, carry the Gi set, and conquer everywhere, first of all, every single Karate schools in this S-shaped land. ... Karateka friends in Vietnam, do you feel humiliated when you're wearing the Gi but with such weakness? You guys can't fight, cocky against everyone, but all you do every time someone challenged you is "oh i practice only for health benefit". But you still dare to put on the Gi, the spiritual Gi of a true Karateka. Maybe you're new, young, and don't understand much about martial arts. Your masters, who are also wimps, put inside your heads false confidence, idiotic ideas, make you think you're strong and can fight anyone, but the reality is that you guys are weak .... So, "sensei", would you accept my challenge ? Me, an ordinary 50 years old Kudoka, will fight any "Karateka" you send out. I will fight them all, even with no rules. If you lose, you will have to learn from me, how to be strong, how to become a real Karateka, how to not be a weak coward, so your future students and the new generation will also become true fighters who deserve to wear that karate Gi. SO, Karateka(s), from August i will start my conquer everywhere who accepted my challenge. You hypocrites back stabbing cowards who can't do anything but talk shit behind people's back, please share my post even further, to your sport karate groups. You guys are weak, and can't last more than 2 hits under full contact rules, so please, share. Weaklings, if you crave for actual power, come learn with me, and i will show you what true karate fighting is all about. WEAK.
@@jaketheasianguy3307 That's awesome, but my point is that he might end up fighting a 25 year old full contact karateka because of how broad his challenge is. There's no martial art that reverses age.
He specifically challenges the "weak Karate", namely the olympic sport karate WKF in Vietnam. His story is quite inspirational if you look at it. His name is Giang, as in "River". He was a black belt in Shotokan, a major karate style in WKF in Vietnam. Like some other black belts of this country (not all), they realised how weak and impratical this style is when facing other martial arts, so Giang find another better style, he arrives at Kudo (he himself said he han't taken any Kyokushin karate training - a white belt in Kyokushin, I assume he went directly to Kudo). Vietnam at that time had no Kudo dojo or classes, only 2 Kyokushin dojos (with legit origin) one in Saigon and one in Hanoi. He, in a sense, was the pioneer. He wore his Shotokan black belt to train and teach Kudo, spreading the spirit to young guys (he himself said he had to wear that fake belt to make a foundation for Kudo in Vietnam). And some time later, Kudo federation in Japan noticed him. They took him to Japan to train him to be an actual Kudoka, it took 1 year so I've heard. He and another guy, mr Huy (he's now 2nd degree Kyokushin black belt) were the two, who then brought Kudo in Vietnam to a more recognized sport and martial arts. Since then they have built many dojos in all parts of Vietnam, you would find a Kudo dojo easier than a Kyokushin one here. This incident, when he voiced his thought on how weak Karate in Vietnam is and want to challenge everyone, is only recently. Since then, he's no longer in the "Vietnamese Kudo federation" or something anymore. He still teaches, but it's his own gym and his own free will, so not to divide Vietnam Kudo with other martial arts federation. All in all, I see this as how he kick starts the will and urge to become stronger, to prove oneself in Karate community as a whole. Since this guy is not a joke, if you can fight him, you are formidable yourself.
@@RamseyDewey head gear for kudo is so you dont get superficial cuts kudo was design so anyone could do it do just fighters so you could be a business man and still go full contact with the added befit of cardio from lack of air head gear is not the worst
When I was a teenager I thought kung fu is better or karate etc etc. Now that I have several marks on my jaw and legs and arms I have understood that the practitioner makes art and not the other way around. My admiration for you and your knowledge👍👍👍
That is exactly what the "Gracie Challenges" were all about. The Gracie's would take like 20 of their students and a camera and storm a Martial Arts school just to make BJJ look better than other Martial Arts. There is this one time when they stormed a TKD school in São Paulo and the master told them: I don't wanna do this but since you insisted and brought all your students with you, I accept but we'll do it with no camera and no viewer, you choose your best fighter and we'll fight in a closed room, who ever comes out wins... Meaning it was a fight to death. Realizing he was serious the Gracie's left and never came back to tthat school again. In Brazil everybody know two things about the Gracie's: -1 they were/are fantastic martial artists and great marketeers -2 they were bullies
Context : This is the first guy who achieved black belt Kudo in Vietnam, who also brought Kudo to Vietnam. Because of personal reasons, uneducated people considered his style weak because they think Kudo is just as lame as point fighting and he has arguments with point fighting guys, he posted that he will travel across the country by bike to every single dojo out there who accepted his challenged. If they lost they have to disband their weak dojo and come train with him, to learn what real Karate is all about
@@RamseyDewey I just posted his full challenge speech up in the comment section. His name is Giang Nguyen. Hope you can pin it for people to understand the context a bit more
*wild-eyed man bursts into the gym* “I DEMAND TO FIGHT THE TOUGHEST GUY HERE! HOPE YOU HAVE UMBRELLAS, BECAUSE THIS IS A DOJO STORM!” “Sir, class is in session. You’re welcome to watch or to have a free trial session, but otherwise you should leave.” “BUT, BUT, where is your WARRIOR SPIRIT!?” “Sir, the students are paying for a service, not to watch me fight randos off the street.”
I think that this sort of thing did have more of a purpose back in the old days. In the 1960s or so, in a lot of the world, the people seeking out martial arts training were mostly tough guys who seriously wanted to get good at fighting. There wasn't a huge selection of schools to choose from, you couldn't look up information about the arts or instructors on the internet, there were no big organized competitions which seriously tested practitioners' abilities to fight. It was a lot harder for practitioners to deliberately self-sort into the schools that suited how much they cared about actually getting good at fighting vs. getting in shape or practicing an interesting tradition or something. That's a lot less true today, so it's a lot harder to frame dojo-busting as an actual service to the students.
"Dojo Storming" should be all about instructors of different schools working in collaboration with one another to bring their respective students together to train together. A coach that cares about their competitive students should want them to gain more experience and skill outside of their own gym. Boxing coaches do this, since boxing coaches in regions are often well acquainted, if not friends with one another, and they just want the sport to grow and see skill levels grow around them.,
There's a lot of fighting coaches from every style from karate to MMA to American boxing to wrestling that have injuries from past fights, and are no longer able to physically fight, but they are really good teachers, and know their stuff. So no, it's not cool at all to go to another school and challenge the instructor. And what if it's a forms school? Or a school that teaches for health purposes? Or what if the instructor just doesn't want to fight? I remember back in the 90s our teacher was a national champion from Korea. He had a lot of national championships, and used to fight on the streets as a kid when Japan controlled Korea, so he was the real deal. One time some tough guy came in to test him, and my master picked up his phone and started to call the cops, which made the guy panic and leave. So no, I hate people that want to walk in to random schools and challenge the teacher.
I mean thats a good point.... most untrained people could probably beat Teddy Atlas in a fight these days....... does that mean that Teddy Atlas isn't a legit boxing coach?
@MannElite ehh not untrained, maybe athletes not trained in fighting. But Rico from the drive through will still get his chin rocked by 55+ trained boxer. Most people never been hit, untrained people don't know what it's like to take any damage and continue then fight.
@@aresjerry Yes I'm exaggerating but you get the point. Mohammad Usman would wipe the floor with Teddy Atlas and you would not want that freak as your coach.
@@aresjerrythat’s facts man. As long as an old boxer can still move they can pretty easily take a dominate angle and put a clean one on the chin of someone who doesn’t know what there doing.
Hey coach, I'm a traditional martial artist at my core, and I know you got extensive experience in traditional arts as well. For some years now, however, I have been very pragmatic in my approach to martial arts, and have started to see traditional arts (Chinese and Japanese in particular) in a less appealing light due to what I consider limitations thanks to their traditions and esoteric background compared to e.g. Muay Thai, Sanda, Kickboxing, or HEMA that are more practically oriented. Recently, I've heard from several sources that there is a growing worry in China and Japan that less and less people show an interest in pursuing the traditional arts due to the aforementioned traditions and culture (sticklers for perfection, the idea that everything should take a long time, gated periods between belts, overly complex kata/taolu, revering the sensei/sifu almost as a god and his word is gospel, and so on). I'd love to hear your thoughts about this. Do you think that traditional martial arts will slowly die out? Do they need to adapt to a more modern age? Any other thought that comes to mind upon reading this? Thank you for your continuous hard work in sharing your experiences and thoughts with us *brings fist and palm together*
@@perceivedvelocity9914 With preserved documentation and people all around the globe discussing it and testing things in volume without any mysticism or tradition, without any grandmasters or organised dogma. It's purely "how would we do this? Let's try" and then try things through sparring. Look at Fiore's Fior di Battaglia's longsword section for stances, long, and short plays, and then compare it to any kenjutsu school. Do you see anything missing? I learnt several-fold more about weapons and weapon handling studying HEMA in a year then I did for eight years in Japanese martial arts.
@@perceivedvelocity9914there's the 2 sides to it, the archaeologists that want to know how they fought, and the other group that want to learn skills and become strong in it. Lol
This is a really good question! I'm a third-generation martial artist but non traditional because I came from a school that did mostly sparring. We weren't much into wearing uniforms or belts. Over the years I've been giving a lot of crap for not dressing the part and being non-traditional and people always telling me they would give me more ranking if I did. Also people on the internet tell me to dress the part as well. I don't think traditional martial arts will die out but it may end up being disrespected. I think that Hollywood and Anime will keep it alive, but will end up all flash no substance. There isn't a lot of money in fighting compared to other sports until you get to TV and that's where the money is. Only one or two fighters can really make a lot of money at a time... It's not like basketball or football where you can go from elementary and go all the way up and get a scholarship and free college. Wushu has the strongest pipeline and they don't fight. Now from the fighting side of it the rules have to change on the Olympic level they have to bring back low kicks sweeps elbows takedowns closer to Sanda.. it's like you can watch videos from the 70s and you will see all kinds of sweeps and takedowns you don't always see today.... Overtime the rules will make the sport weaker.... It happened to Judo so it wouldn't look like jiu-jitsu taekwondo/karate can't look like kickboxing etc. MMA was very different in the 90s when there were less rules. If you want your art to be respected through fighting you have to have fighters. It gets a little more complicated when you get to different styles though. Wing Chun should go bare knuckles...... Karate combat has made some strides. It's kind of really a business thing they have to change their target audience away from just self-defense and exercise. I think the biggest default of traditional martial arts is not coaching conditioning. It's like they take these fight challenges not having any idea what type of conditioning level a boxer would have compared to their own. When you do put things like that together you get your Lyoto Machida's Georges st-pierre's or Anderson Silva using Wing Chun drills Ronda Rousey's mom was a judoka... Mixed martial arts existed way before it had a name. It's not hopeless. The last thing I would say is that the loss of weapons training it's also why there is a lack of grappling in these arts. You have to train with the weapon then take the weapon out of your hand. I come from very old martial arts used with modern adaptation. I would love to hear with some other people think about it!
So the Dojo storm is similar to Savate schools and Italian fencing schools doing street duels. The reality is that these martial arts schools were also street gangs. The Dojo storm is just gang rivalry.
Someone taped a challenge note to the dojang doors. "Anyone who thinks they are a real karate fighter....''(blah blah) meet me at this place and time for ''a true test of your combat skill." We had a good laugh. The handwriting was insane. And I mean come on guy just walk inside! Sundays are posted for open sparring. I guess he came overnight stuck a loose leaf page with scotch tape and vanished, but I liked to think he strutted up to the after school class of 7 year olds doing forms, and thought "oh it's on!"/ rolled out his calligraphy scroll behind the backs of unsuspecting parents. Funnier still is that the instructors showed me the note specifically. I think they were secretly hoping I'd go have a kumite in the park.
@@definitlynotbenlente7671 Yep, and that's how I met my wife... but that's a story for an... NO I DIDN'T GO!! Are you nuts? I quit Hapkido and bought a gun!
Karate is like a stigma. I do karate but when I am asked about what martial art I do I don't want to answer 'karate' because it sucks so much in general. I like MY school and see value in it because I look at it in comparison with others. And it actually encouraged me to go and study other styles much more than the previous school which was a more modern kyokushin derivative.
Absolutely agreed 💯👍 I am 41 and train martial arts for 31 years so with that experience I never went to beat anyone, I used it to make better situations for everyone. Only one fight that I had was when someone attacked me directly, and even that could have been avoided cause he didn't hurt me but I was young about 21 and wanted to make my point. So if you are true martial artist you will use your skills for doing good 👍😊
The Kudo dude reminds me of the main character of a manga I read called Garouden. The character's name was Tanba, and what he did in the beginning was dojo storming dojos and fighting world class fighters. One day, he went to a pro wrestling gym and then got his ass handed to him. After that, he got a wake-up call and stopped doing that so that he could work on himself. He even said that everything he did when he was younger was just to fuel his ego. Hopefully the same thing happens to this Kudo guy lol
Dojo storming is only for ego and attention. It's absolutely a threat of assault, aggregated assault, battery, and/or aggravated battery with a component of premeditation with the intent to cause severe bodily injury. The proper response is to have cameras outside and inside your dojo, to lock the doors, to have access to a firearm, and to call the police, and then your lawyer. The defense of your students and of the dojo area itself is paramount before an instructor even considers their own reputation.
0:40 - 1:05 Ramsey The bigger question is WHICH branches and what type of Karate does the Kudo guy target upon? Last time I checked, there ARE pragmatic branches of Knockdown Karate in Asia (e.g. Shidokan Karate and Seidokaikan Karate) which regularly spar with head punches and retain a grappling session like their Okinawan predecessors from pre-1945. It is not just the mainstream branches of modern Karate Do which only spar light contact without grappling or don't spar at all and focus too much on Kata exhibitions for some asinine reasons. The description from that Kudo guy sounds like Miyagi wannabes if you ask me, Ramsey. A lot of people forget that Karate never existed as a singular and pure art as it is just an umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of light contact and heavy contact systems of unarmed fighting that commonly share a standard set of Kata, Kihon and whatever type of Kumite they work on. It is the same thing with the term 'Koryu Jujutsu' for various style of grappling from Feudal Japan. Not everyone trains the same way with the same mindset..
I did a kind of dojo storm way back when I was in college. I was practicing with a club that shared a common dojo room with several other martial arts clubs. One of the clubs would leave the doors open when they trained which allowed leaves and trash to blow into the dojo. Then they would never clean the mats afterwards. We would come in the next day after them and the place was always trashed. We talked with the other clubs and identified the culprits. We had our campus representative contact the other club, but the situation continued. Finally after a couple months I went to the other club's class. At the end of the class they invited me to spar. I accepted and ran rough shod over all of their students. Afterwards I introduced myself as a member of another club at the school with many years or experience. I then pointed out the cleaning supplies in the corner and asked if they needed help keeping the mats cleaned. After my visit we never had problems with dirty mats after this club had their practice.
I feel fortunate in that I've never encountered a Karate instructor who brags that theirs style is better than others. They have referred to the existence of McDojos, but not too much, and never named one. For which I'm glad, because if it's the one I think they are referring to, I think that even there, trainees can learn something. They just have to keep an open mind and not think of any traditional style has sacred, taking what works for them and leaving the rest. Admittedly, that's a hard judgement to make if you don't have exposure to other training styles for context, and especially if you haven't sparred, but you have to start somewhere.
If he came to the school I trained karate at, the head instructor would have adjusted his attitude, and it wouldn't have been the first time for him. Jim came from a school in San Jose that was renowned for how tough the fighters were. His best friend from that school was Roger Greene, the first person that Joe Lewis promoted to black belt.
ramsey is right about the karate schools acting like religious zealots, thats one of the reasons I stopped. Also if any karate "sensei" heard what ramsey said about them all being the same they would get a heart attack and say "he just doesn't understand" or "he's never done real karate" 😅😂. Never the fault of the style eh
Yep. I've heard all those things before many times! But that's what happens when you earn multiple black belts and you're honest about what you actually learned in the process.
My coach is middle-aged and has been injured, and there are certain things he doesn't do anymore. It does not make him weak, just older. So now he teaches.
I agree 110% with everything you said, Ramsey. You've got excellent insight, considering you practice a style inferior to mine in every way, of course.
The comment before the answer was important and telling. I know people who will accuse you of writing an "essay" on social media if you use more than two lines of text. The future, for humans, is not very bright. 😬
I started BJJ around 20 years ago. When dojo storming was a thing in America. It was done to stop the mysticism of martial arts. Fast forward 20 years. Traditional martial arts gyms are a desert compared to MMA/BJJ/Boxing/Muay Thai/Wrestling. It worked.
absolutely, the Gracies never faced grapplers of any kind ... until they had no choice but to and every time that happened, people like Rufino Dos Santos, Sakuraba, Eugenio Tadeu and Kimura SLAMMED them ... and that's not even counting the "special rules" in favor of the Gracies every time that happened ...
The classic story of martial arts movies is : my kung-fu is better than yours. I am gonna kick your ass. That's more or less the motivation of some traditional martial arts schools entering kickboxing tournaments.
I think Dojo storms have one currently relevant purpose: exposing martial arts frauds who clearly can't fight, and are lying to their students about giving them magic fighting powers. I tend to think with MMA being a thing, most traditional martial arts students know what they are doing, and would pick boxing or muay thai or BJJ if they wanted to maximize their fighting prowess. The John Dillmans of the world are still a problem though, and I applaud the work of people like Xu Xiaodong who challenge them to fights to expose them.
Yeah I get you. I think that a lot of traditional martial arts are more about preserving and passing down culture than being the most effective for combat. MMA doesn’t really do that as much.
I mean all TKD Fighter in Olympic wont win in MMA under MMA Ruleset. Even BJJ and Judo purist wont survive in MMA Ruleset. Khabib can take on Shohei Ono all day in MMA Cage. But put it into IJF Ruleset, the story will be different. Ono can take on Khabib all day.
@@Whosyourdaddy21 To be clear, I'm not saying trad martial artists and martial arts frauds are the same. If you want to practice an art to preserve an art, that is valid. But I do take issue with people who sell ineffective fighting techniques as "self - defense", and especially people who are teaching "no touch knockout" and other stuff that is complete bullshit.
Thank you, Coach I was just thinking about a dojo storm in a HEMA environment (long story short - a guy started a "samurai flavoured" HEMA class), so... You are right - me, thinking of beating him (which would probably happen) is nothing other than being a fanatic. Thanks for the reminder!
To comment on the part of the video where you said, "it's weird", to go off with a new martial arts teacher who beat up your instructor; it's not weird, it's pragmatic. If you're learning martial arts for life and death struggles, you're not going to think, "who is this jerk who beat up my awesome master", you're going to think, "I've been wasting my money paying this charlatan who told me his art was the best". It's the same reason a woman who witnessed her boyfriend get beat up loses attraction to him, you were trusting your master to be able to protect you and make you as strong as possible, and they betrayed that trust.
People who think they're learning martial arts for life and death struggles are delusional. They drank the poison Koolaide offered to them by fear-mongers. Most people won't even go to the gym if it's raining outside. Most people will choose a gym based on how close it is to their house. Asking people to travel anywhere outside of their comfort zone is like pulling teeth.
Back in the day, if the guy was respectful we would oblige and do a round robin style spar. Generally catering to their style. (Typically boxing, or Thai boxing). It made us learn to adapt, we were a bit rougher than the average mcdojo. Respect is important in sport combat.
Dojo Yaburi: the original term for a person that goes to other dojos to beat them all and take their dojo sign. An historical thing in Japan now reserved only to anime
Kudo is a mix of Judo and Kyokushin, i think he took Mr. Oyama's life story to heart, since he went dojo storming and beating other Karate styles. I think it's better to just learn new tricks at different dojo's but who am i. He should come to the Netherlands and learn a thing or 2 since the Kyokushin/Judo/Kudo gyms are pretty well represented out here. His attitude is not of this time really. Osu
The only time I see any value in this, when the school in question markets itself with unfounded claims about self-defense, or general fighting prowess. Still an ego move, but some places are outright scams in this regard, as most of us know.
Hey man, how are you ? I wanted to ask you, do you have any news from Red Chucks that you can share with us ? It’s been a while since he’s posted anything on either Instagram or UA-cam.
His wife sent me an email a while back explaining that he ended up in jail after getting into an argument with someone who called the cops and got him arrested on what sounded like trumped up charges. I don't have much information other than that, unfortunately.
I have to disagree a bit here. A lot of the time people will go to whatever school will make the biggest promise and use the flashy moves. That's why in my opinion McDojo's exist at all. There are legit schools out there but hard work and slow progress towards actual mastery doesnt appeal as much as instant reward and a "black belt". I see this a lot like the incident in China where an amature MMA guy was challenging Kung Fu masters and showing they were not really fighters. People claiming to teach how to fight need to actually teach how to fight and at a certain point talking smack and hyping yourself up as this great master fighter isnt confidence its arogance. I agree seeking out weaker fighters to beat up is bullying but if those weaker fighters are lying to themselves and their students maybe they all need a wake up call. Love your work just my two cents on the mater.
What's funny is, I'm not a great fighter, but I've got a good eye for detail and an understanding of the physiology and physics of why fighting works. I'm also highly experienced at teaching physical skills. Long story short, I could easily teach an athletic person to kick my ass. Does that make him better than me? Or is that a stupid question from people who don't understand that people have different roles?
@@RamseyDeweyI looked for more info about the KOF organization and apparently most of their events are illegal and had to be done in secret. They don't tell the fighters participating the exact location and few people are allowed to join the audience. So yeah it's def a criminal org organizing these events. I'm kind of confused as to how youtube is allowing them here for some reason.
Hi Ramsey. Question for you. You frequently talk about the tremendous advantage granted by superior size and weight, particularly on the ground. Was wondering if you had any comments on the MMA match between Ikuhisa Minowa and the boxer Butterbean, given Butterbean's massive size advantage. The video of the fight can be found on UA-cam. Thanks!
Forget about dojo storms I feel like people from different styles should definitely interact with each other more especially if there's mutual respect because it's not as if you're going to go your whole life only ever coming across one person and exposing the scammy schools is definitely a good thing and I've ranted about how bad things can get before with the scammy schools dominating associations with their numbers because they bring in the students. I do agree though on the other side of the scenario, let's be real, we've all seen those guys out and about, they've got an attitude problem and they're all over the place, it's a shame there isn't more interaction because it would be a nice way to get to know people too who have similar interests and also deal with people like that.
If anyone joins the dojo-stormer, those guys are probably ambitious brutes. If I followed, I'd expect to get slapped around in class. What I mean is, just a tactic would filter out rough jerks.
It's a double-edged sword. Without dojo storming - the ridiculous mythos of martial arts become the marketed norm like it was in the USA during the 80s. Gimmicks and misunderstanding become "common sense" and the rough nature of actual combat becomes less and less popular. WWE style 'pro wrestling' becomes more popular than CACC kind of evolution. Then - In comes the bullies (and they ARE bullies - that's not wrong) who are willing to beat up the loud but incapable - like the Gracie Family. Add marketing - like UFC 1 - and all of a sudden years and years of mythos become shaken to the core, and reality rears its ugly head.
Hi one question as i notised it, it seams like a new stupid thing in my oppinion. Now the days manny m.a. styles have sudenly start say oss that have never been sayd before! I started training martial arts 1975 or 1976 and been training manny different styles but never heard that word before some year back
"Oss" an abbreviated version of 押忍 "osunobu", a Japanese phrase that wasn't uncommon to hear at traditional Japanese judo, karate, and jujutsu schools. It's basically just a affirmation of agreement and acknowledgement. Eg: the instructor teaches a technique and asks the class if they understand, the students might respond with 押忍! The Brazilians are largely responsible for shortening 押忍 to "oss" and popularizing the abbreviated version in BJJ schools. Non-BJJ schools saying "oss" is kind of funny. I think deep down, a lot of us want some exotic sounding foreign tradition to latch onto because we don't feel properly connected to the culture around us. That's probably why "Oss" is spreading like a social contagian.
7:20 - "badass" 8:58 - "damn" Such rough language! 😂 You can tell Ramsey is really riled about this. Understandably so! If someone did come to our gym and beat up our coach, I would jump at the chance to smash that guy, or at least give it my best shot. Unfortunately I'd have to take a place in line because I am sure I wouldn't be the only one. Our team is bigger than any one person, it's a community and we care about the people we train with. Such a pity, kudo seems so freakin' cool to me, it is just shameful that this guy is casting a bad light on it.
It depends. If it is a mcdojo with a fake sensei, it will quickly be made apparent to any person with a working brain during the training process. However, if your teacher is a frail, wise mentor and some bozo comes to beat him up... Said bozo will be having a bad, baaaad time with law enforcement.
🤣 lol its just to epic "I will cleanse the evil and deceptions of this art with the fire of my fists! Prepare yourselves!" (16 year old black belt instructor looks at him confused and nervous with a class full of children under 12.) A perfect tekken character storyline. Yup, guy needs to settle down. Theres no place for bullies in martial arts, which is why they often seem to attract one another and flock to just one gym it seems. When i had a different position for the company i work for, i did alot of travelling, so there were times i wasnt able to train at my base gym until the weekend. Lil karate dojos in the middle of no where, far away from any city will always have a special place in my heart for that reason. I did sambo in the city but I would attend the open mat sessions of these small dojos when out on the road. sometimes the sensei expected me to get through a white belt regular class to than spar with the brown and black belts lol. The joys of belt rankings. I think i could still do kihun kata just because iv done it so many times before lol. Im pretty sure i qualify for an award of some sorts, like longest reigning white belt that never got a promotion. I think the best part of it was when id be wearing my rashguard and shorts, and than theyd provide me with the largest white belt they had, which wouldnt even tie correctly, so id have this lil waste bow tie of a belt on over my rashguard. As if i didnt look creepy enough mingled in with mostly youngsters doing the good ol kihon kata. I was always very respectful when visiting the dojos. It would be very heartbreaking to know someone else trained in mma essentially went in and hurt someone attending it. For that reason, i hope the Kudo guy runs into someone like me at the time. If someone went into one of those lil dojos and beat up the sensie, even if i didnt know anyone there, i would of asked him for a round, and im pretty sure after that he wouldnt want to grapple on hardwood floors ever again. Or visit a lil dojo. That really is shameful of him.
I'd challenge my local McDojo posing as an advanced Kenjutsu school with only two Sensei and Jake Mace's uncle, but I'm pretty sure they'd charge me for it. (Kidding, mostly) $200 a course to learn the secret ways of self-defense, but trust me, it's totally nothing like D.U.S.T./Jake Mace/Stephen Seagal(it is). They take advantage of people's fear and ignorance just like any other McDojo. It is my opinion that such places should not exist, as they've maligned with time.
The old time-y dojo storms were probably aimed more at the people who were about to pick a dojo rather than at the already existing students. If you want to get your name out there, you don't exactly have a tiktok in 18th century China, so to show you know your stuff... well, it's either a tournament or a dojo storm, and only one of those is available year-round. And if you are someone about to pick a place where you will live for years of your life to learn how to fight, well, "a guy who beat up 70 percent dojos in a hundred mile radius" isn't a bad bet.
It is much like people desiring to impose paranormal phenomenon, then I get the DoD R&D types involved. The mental realm powers the more gross astral where imagination structures the perception of the spirit. All of the physical manifestations are about from the western occultism perspective, putting in the time to do the grind to receive the find, with energetic accumulation. This is where poltergeist, shadow orbs, easier access to channeling spirits, evoking spirits, and other items occurs. Because it eventually reaches the Base-Level reality of the physical world. Cherished books are replaced by other books, charge up the hated with energy and it will travel into the etheric realm, while the item after exhausting the relation with it will drop into the physical realm. The nightmare-fuel for no-touch-knockout is, collecting people that are indifferent to if no-touch-knockout works or does not work. And all of the etheric energy will be dissipated by the crowd, even if the individual strains enough to crap their underwear. And American Military Research and Development has confirmed these findings.
For myself, I have studied Muay Thai and Savate under my Uncle Darian, as well as CSW/STX at his school. I have also done some Judo under my grandpa and BJJ under Christen Jensen. But my favorite martial art, is the most ridiculed of all martial arts. Yes, prepare for someone in the comments to make a disparaging remark. ...I like Taekwondo. I just do. It resonates with me. It's fun, enjoyable and my favorite thing to do. And I remember once amongst some martial artists at the Combatives Center in Fort Riley, KS (During my time in active duty Army), I remember a guy who did Kung Fu not really being interested in combatives or BJJ. Some mocked him but one BJJ instructor actually said this: "Look. The way I see it, if it's you, if it's what you really love, go for it." From my experience, it's RARE for a BJJ person to say that. But I remember at a Taekwondo school in my youth, some BJJ guys came in. And they promptly challenged the instructor there at that time, (I'm not mentioning his name but it was in Oklahoma) to a strict BJJ rules match to grapple. The instructor decided to try it, lost and got tapped out (That taekwondo school also did Japanese Jujutsu as a secondary class as the head instructor was a 1st Dan black belt in Jujutsu). And that bearded, crunchy-haired guy pushing 40 with blonde highlights stood up, with the biggest smug grin and said, "Well, that's a real fight for ya. Taekwondo doesn't work, pal!" And he kept that grin, he was really ENJOYING himself. I happened to be standing by the mats and the BJJ guy turned with that big toothy grin and said "What about you? You wanna come learn at my school?" I kept a grim face as I looked at him (At the time, I only had a green belt in Jujutsu and was working towards my black belt in Taekwondo and just had a basic understanding of Judo from my gramps) and I said coldly, "...rather burn in Hell." He blinked, jerked his head back, squinted his eyes and forcefully kept his grin and looked away then shrugged and said, "Okay! Why?!" I kept my grim face as I told him, "Because you're an asshole. I don't respect you." My instructor pointed at me and warned me about foul language. I nodded and apologized. My instructor simply said that while he appreciated the BJJ coming in, he didn't appreciate this being just an attempt to take students and attack his business. The BJJ guy looked awkward as he tried to keep his grin and tried to still look smug and forced a chuckle as he said, "Okay! Then you guys don't really wanna learn how to fight!" My instructor said, "Sir, we are not here to beat each other up and hurt each other. In our sparring system, we PLAY. We only fight in self defense and we don't look for fighting." The BJJ did a forced laugh and kept that forced grin as he said, "Well, I guess you're not a real martial artist then!" and then left. the whole situation was awkward and embarassing. I stayed at that school until I moved. When I moved, I went to my Uncle Darian's MMA school. And then Christen Jensen was there and noticed I seemed to enjoy playing around with people after class by rolling for fun. She asked me if I grappled, I said I did know SOME Judo and had a green belt in Jujutsu. Christen said, "You should join our BJJ class! You might have fun." I immediately declined. It took Darian a YEAR to finally convince me to come to Christen's BJJ class and he made it clear, "Look, at my school, there is no 'superior' martial art. We're all about improving and having fun. Now, if you want to be a kickboxer, I am gonna recommend Muay Thai because it's popular and effective but you can still use your Taekwondo if you want or Savate. I'll HELP you adapt your TKD if you want. If you want to get into MMA, I'm gonna recommend you keep training CSW and STX. But I can promise you, BJJ is NOT about storming schools, running people out of business. It's just about being better on the ground and being a better submissionist. You REALLY seem to enjoy submission grappling, Sean (my name). Nobody is going to degrade you or belittle you for liking striking better." So I did and I actually really enjoyed BJJ. ...then I joined the Army. Remember the attitude of that 40 year old BJJ guy with the crunchy hair and blonde highlights? Multiply that by 3. It's about the same attitude of any purple belt in BJJ that completed the old Modern Army Combatives Program. Whenever I sparred at the Combatives Center, so many of them would say "No kicks!" (yes, really) or they would say "Not so much kicking, guy! Just use Muay Thai, nothing else!". Whenever I used Osoto Gari and then followed up with some basic ground technique universal between Judo Ne-Waza and BJJ (or if I used a Jujutsu technique), I was informed, "Well, it only worked because of your BJJ background. It's not an example of Judo or Jujutsu ever being any good. You don't need takedowns or Jujutsu techniques. Just focus on combatives and our BJJ if you ever really want to be able to fight". Didn't matter if I tapped them out. I constantly heard "That will never work in a fight" to everything I ever learned that wasn't BJJ or Muay Thai. And even then, they specifically told me BJJ was MUCh better than any Muay Thai, "especially in a MMA fight". Nowadays, I'm 39 and I just attend a Taekwondo school in Wisconsin. An NCO near here has a BJJ school and is still impressed that I keep in practice with grappling (we meet every now and then at an open mats session to support veterans) and he still wants me to come to his school as he feels I have potential in grappling. But after years of the smug, arrogant BJJ attitude constantly degrading and insulting the years I dedicated to other martial arts (and by extension, all my other instructors, including my Grandfather and Father), I really have a sour taste in my heart towards BJJ. That "dojo storm" was the beginning of my distaste towards BJJ. And the similar attitude I saw in Fort Riley pretty much ruined BJJ. I haven't practiced it since.
China, hell. I remember the dojo wars in Chicago during the 1960's when buildings were fire bombed and people stabbed to death as a form of primal rivalry with one's economic competitors.
Kudo practitioner here, I personally find it shameful that a high ranking kudo guy decided to dojo storm other style as it would give kudo a bad name. There is not many kudo dojos outside Japan and Russia and this would only turn potential newcomers away from kudo. I think that there is good things to take from any style, even in point karate.
3:30 Well was it weird that some folk used to sword duel eachother for fun in Europe the other day? A lot of stuff happened back in the day. Black people used to be treated as goods and stuff. You have to take many possibilities into account. A lot of what we do today would be weird to people from the past eather. But I don't think it necessarily worked the way you described anyway. You can beat someone up in order to ruin his reputation and build yours from that in order to attract NEW students more effectively. Also I don't find it that weird to ditch someone if you find him weak after he got his ass kicked. A master back in the day could never be your friend btw. I can't see that happening as regularly as today. Only today a coach is your buddy because it's not quite good looking down on people today. Back then he was above yourself no doubt. Today the relationship has much more monetary nature to it. I think that the loyalty to the master was based on entirely different principles. Such as for example your own commitment to the school. After you've put years into it it's quite hard abbandoning it. So yeah the point is to steal the popularity instead of building it up from scratch. Remember that back in the day competitions and sports weren't such a big thing back then with no mass media. Times were rough.
7:00 Don't know if I would say your friend did something 100% positive. Because now that coach is permanently shame-scarred (if he did what you said in front of others).
Have you ever been dojo stormed Ramsey? And wait, how does a dojo storm even prove anything? I'm sure when Helio Gracie was in his 90's most blue belts could dojo storm him and win? But that doesn't mean they can teach as good.
I'm just going to post the Kudoka in the question's challenge up here since i can't link it. Will do my best with the translation :
Craving for a bike ride and craving for conquest...
From today, I give up my honored title with my style, becoming an ordinary Kudoka like everyone else in the discipline.
What I'm doing does not represent the entire Kudo community
I want to go with my small bike, carry the Gi set, and conquer everywhere, first of all, every single Karate schools in this S-shaped land.
...
Karateka friends in Vietnam, do you feel humiliated when you're wearing the Gi but with such weakness?
You guys can't fight, cocky against everyone, but all you do every time someone challenged you is "oh i practice only for health benefit". But you still dare to put on the Gi, the spiritual Gi of a true Karateka.
Maybe you're new, young, and don't understand much about martial arts. Your masters, who are also wimps, put inside your heads false confidence, idiotic ideas, make you think you're strong and can fight anyone, but the reality is that you guys are weak
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So, "sensei", would you accept my challenge ?
Me, an ordinary 50 years old Kudoka, will fight any "Karateka" you send out. I will fight them all, even with no rules. If you lose, you will have to learn from me, how to be strong, how to become a real Karateka, how to not be a weak coward, so your future students and the new generation will also become true fighters who deserve to wear that karate Gi.
SO, Karateka(s), from August i will start my conquer everywhere who accepted my challenge. You hypocrites back stabbing cowards who can't do anything but talk shit behind people's back, please share my post even further, to your sport karate groups. You guys are weak, and can't last more than 2 hits under full contact rules, so please, share.
Weaklings, if you crave for actual power, come learn with me, and i will show you what true karate fighting is all about.
WEAK.
I think he should have been more specific, 'cause that challenge might end with him facing a 25 year old Kyokoshin guy
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May not go well.
@@Phandiw Kudo came from Kyokushin, and it's practitioners added Judo and Jujitsu into it's curriculum
@@jaketheasianguy3307 That's awesome, but my point is that he might end up fighting a 25 year old full contact karateka because of how broad his challenge is.
There's no martial art that reverses age.
This sounds like someone who is going through a midlife crisis.
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He specifically challenges the "weak Karate", namely the olympic sport karate WKF in Vietnam.
His story is quite inspirational if you look at it. His name is Giang, as in "River". He was a black belt in Shotokan, a major karate style in WKF in Vietnam. Like some other black belts of this country (not all), they realised how weak and impratical this style is when facing other martial arts, so Giang find another better style, he arrives at Kudo (he himself said he han't taken any Kyokushin karate training - a white belt in Kyokushin, I assume he went directly to Kudo). Vietnam at that time had no Kudo dojo or classes, only 2 Kyokushin dojos (with legit origin) one in Saigon and one in Hanoi. He, in a sense, was the pioneer.
He wore his Shotokan black belt to train and teach Kudo, spreading the spirit to young guys (he himself said he had to wear that fake belt to make a foundation for Kudo in Vietnam). And some time later, Kudo federation in Japan noticed him. They took him to Japan to train him to be an actual Kudoka, it took 1 year so I've heard.
He and another guy, mr Huy (he's now 2nd degree Kyokushin black belt) were the two, who then brought Kudo in Vietnam to a more recognized sport and martial arts. Since then they have built many dojos in all parts of Vietnam, you would find a Kudo dojo easier than a Kyokushin one here.
This incident, when he voiced his thought on how weak Karate in Vietnam is and want to challenge everyone, is only recently. Since then, he's no longer in the "Vietnamese Kudo federation" or something anymore. He still teaches, but it's his own gym and his own free will, so not to divide Vietnam Kudo with other martial arts federation.
All in all, I see this as how he kick starts the will and urge to become stronger, to prove oneself in Karate community as a whole. Since this guy is not a joke, if you can fight him, you are formidable yourself.
All this talk of dojo storming reminds me of the early scene of the Ip Man movie where the northerner beats up all the kung fu masters
Same
A common theme in Kung Fu movies of the 70s
I love when Ramsey rips head gear. He is 100% right.
Headgear is the worst. The truth needs to come out.
Ramsey, you're a bully yourself from China you traitor spy and you're not on our side!
I always hated headgear as an amateur boxer. All it does is block your vision
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@@RamseyDewey head gear for kudo is so you dont get superficial cuts kudo was design so anyone could do it do just fighters so you could be a business man and still go full contact with the added befit of cardio from lack of air head gear is not the worst
When I was a teenager I thought kung fu is better or karate etc etc. Now that I have several marks on my jaw and legs and arms I have understood that the practitioner makes art and not the other way around. My admiration for you and your knowledge👍👍👍
That is exactly what the "Gracie Challenges" were all about. The Gracie's would take like 20 of their students and a camera and storm a Martial Arts school just to make BJJ look better than other Martial Arts.
There is this one time when they stormed a TKD school in São Paulo and the master told them: I don't wanna do this but since you insisted and brought all your students with you, I accept but we'll do it with no camera and no viewer, you choose your best fighter and we'll fight in a closed room, who ever comes out wins...
Meaning it was a fight to death. Realizing he was serious the Gracie's left and never came back to tthat school again.
In Brazil everybody know two things about the Gracie's:
-1 they were/are fantastic martial artists and great marketeers
-2 they were bullies
Buena historia donde puedo saber mas de eso ?
I'm curious about this, could you provide information on where this came from? I'm trying to look this up.
Context : This is the first guy who achieved black belt Kudo in Vietnam, who also brought Kudo to Vietnam. Because of personal reasons, uneducated people considered his style weak because they think Kudo is just as lame as point fighting and he has arguments with point fighting guys, he posted that he will travel across the country by bike to every single dojo out there who accepted his challenged. If they lost they have to disband their weak dojo and come train with him, to learn what real Karate is all about
Do you know the kudo fighter in question?
He can take on all Judo Dojo even if that their Judoka in SEA Games or Asian Games.
@@RamseyDewey For some reason UA-cam keep deleting my comments when i post the link where the Kudoka issued his challenge.
@@jaketheasianguy3307 Yeah, youtube often auto-deletes links. What's his name?
@@RamseyDewey I just posted his full challenge speech up in the comment section. His name is Giang Nguyen. Hope you can pin it for people to understand the context a bit more
*wild-eyed man bursts into the gym*
“I DEMAND TO FIGHT THE TOUGHEST GUY HERE! HOPE YOU HAVE UMBRELLAS, BECAUSE THIS IS A DOJO STORM!”
“Sir, class is in session. You’re welcome to watch or to have a free trial session, but otherwise you should leave.”
“BUT, BUT, where is your WARRIOR SPIRIT!?”
“Sir, the students are paying for a service, not to watch me fight randos off the street.”
Police gets called
I think that this sort of thing did have more of a purpose back in the old days. In the 1960s or so, in a lot of the world, the people seeking out martial arts training were mostly tough guys who seriously wanted to get good at fighting. There wasn't a huge selection of schools to choose from, you couldn't look up information about the arts or instructors on the internet, there were no big organized competitions which seriously tested practitioners' abilities to fight. It was a lot harder for practitioners to deliberately self-sort into the schools that suited how much they cared about actually getting good at fighting vs. getting in shape or practicing an interesting tradition or something. That's a lot less true today, so it's a lot harder to frame dojo-busting as an actual service to the students.
Look up the "Dojo Wars" in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s.
"Dojo Storming" should be all about instructors of different schools working in collaboration with one another to bring their respective students together to train together. A coach that cares about their competitive students should want them to gain more experience and skill outside of their own gym. Boxing coaches do this, since boxing coaches in regions are often well acquainted, if not friends with one another, and they just want the sport to grow and see skill levels grow around them.,
Exactly, it could be a proper social thing, it's a shame it isn't.
@lethn2929 it can all start with you and your peers :)
"Would you follow that strange man into his van?" Lol!!
Thank you for the video coach.
There's a lot of fighting coaches from every style from karate to MMA to American boxing to wrestling that have injuries from past fights, and are no longer able to physically fight, but they are really good teachers, and know their stuff. So no, it's not cool at all to go to another school and challenge the instructor.
And what if it's a forms school? Or a school that teaches for health purposes? Or what if the instructor just doesn't want to fight?
I remember back in the 90s our teacher was a national champion from Korea. He had a lot of national championships, and used to fight on the streets as a kid when Japan controlled Korea, so he was the real deal. One time some tough guy came in to test him, and my master picked up his phone and started to call the cops, which made the guy panic and leave.
So no, I hate people that want to walk in to random schools and challenge the teacher.
Forms school? Health style fighting? What are you on dweeb
I mean thats a good point.... most untrained people could probably beat Teddy Atlas in a fight these days....... does that mean that Teddy Atlas isn't a legit boxing coach?
@MannElite ehh not untrained, maybe athletes not trained in fighting. But Rico from the drive through will still get his chin rocked by 55+ trained boxer. Most people never been hit, untrained people don't know what it's like to take any damage and continue then fight.
@@aresjerry Yes I'm exaggerating but you get the point. Mohammad Usman would wipe the floor with Teddy Atlas and you would not want that freak as your coach.
@@aresjerrythat’s facts man. As long as an old boxer can still move they can pretty easily take a dominate angle and put a clean one on the chin of someone who doesn’t know what there doing.
Hey coach,
I'm a traditional martial artist at my core, and I know you got extensive experience in traditional arts as well. For some years now, however, I have been very pragmatic in my approach to martial arts, and have started to see traditional arts (Chinese and Japanese in particular) in a less appealing light due to what I consider limitations thanks to their traditions and esoteric background compared to e.g. Muay Thai, Sanda, Kickboxing, or HEMA that are more practically oriented.
Recently, I've heard from several sources that there is a growing worry in China and Japan that less and less people show an interest in pursuing the traditional arts due to the aforementioned traditions and culture (sticklers for perfection, the idea that everything should take a long time, gated periods between belts, overly complex kata/taolu, revering the sensei/sifu almost as a god and his word is gospel, and so on).
I'd love to hear your thoughts about this. Do you think that traditional martial arts will slowly die out? Do they need to adapt to a more modern age? Any other thought that comes to mind upon reading this?
Thank you for your continuous hard work in sharing your experiences and thoughts with us *brings fist and palm together*
I'd like to hear Ramsey's thoughts on this as well. Interesting question, kinda hits close to home for me.
I'm sorry HEMA is not a practical martial art. It's experimental archaeology.
@@perceivedvelocity9914 With preserved documentation and people all around the globe discussing it and testing things in volume without any mysticism or tradition, without any grandmasters or organised dogma. It's purely "how would we do this? Let's try" and then try things through sparring.
Look at Fiore's Fior di Battaglia's longsword section for stances, long, and short plays, and then compare it to any kenjutsu school. Do you see anything missing?
I learnt several-fold more about weapons and weapon handling studying HEMA in a year then I did for eight years in Japanese martial arts.
@@perceivedvelocity9914there's the 2 sides to it, the archaeologists that want to know how they fought, and the other group that want to learn skills and become strong in it. Lol
This is a really good question! I'm a third-generation martial artist but non traditional because I came from a school that did mostly sparring. We weren't much into wearing uniforms or belts. Over the years I've been giving a lot of crap for not dressing the part and being non-traditional and people always telling me they would give me more ranking if I did. Also people on the internet tell me to dress the part as well. I don't think traditional martial arts will die out but it may end up being disrespected. I think that Hollywood and Anime will keep it alive, but will end up all flash no substance. There isn't a lot of money in fighting compared to other sports until you get to TV and that's where the money is. Only one or two fighters can really make a lot of money at a time... It's not like basketball or football where you can go from elementary and go all the way up and get a scholarship and free college. Wushu has the strongest pipeline and they don't fight. Now from the fighting side of it the rules have to change on the Olympic level they have to bring back low kicks sweeps elbows takedowns closer to Sanda.. it's like you can watch videos from the 70s and you will see all kinds of sweeps and takedowns you don't always see today.... Overtime the rules will make the sport weaker.... It happened to Judo so it wouldn't look like jiu-jitsu taekwondo/karate can't look like kickboxing etc. MMA was very different in the 90s when there were less rules. If you want your art to be respected through fighting you have to have fighters. It gets a little more complicated when you get to different styles though. Wing Chun should go bare knuckles...... Karate combat has made some strides. It's kind of really a business thing they have to change their target audience away from just self-defense and exercise. I think the biggest default of traditional martial arts is not coaching conditioning. It's like they take these fight challenges not having any idea what type of conditioning level a boxer would have compared to their own. When you do put things like that together you get your Lyoto Machida's Georges st-pierre's or Anderson Silva using Wing Chun drills Ronda Rousey's mom was a judoka... Mixed martial arts existed way before it had a name. It's not hopeless. The last thing I would say is that the loss of weapons training it's also why there is a lack of grappling in these arts. You have to train with the weapon then take the weapon out of your hand. I come from very old martial arts used with modern adaptation. I would love to hear with some other people think about it!
the better fighter is not necessarily the better teacher imho
True. Those are two radically different skill sets.
So the Dojo storm is similar to Savate schools and Italian fencing schools doing street duels. The reality is that these martial arts schools were also street gangs.
The Dojo storm is just gang rivalry.
Someone taped a challenge note to the dojang doors.
"Anyone who thinks they are a real karate fighter....''(blah blah) meet me at this place and time for ''a true test of your combat skill."
We had a good laugh. The handwriting was insane. And I mean come on guy just walk inside! Sundays are posted for open sparring. I guess he came overnight stuck a loose leaf page with scotch tape and vanished, but I liked to think he strutted up to the after school class of 7 year olds doing forms, and thought "oh it's on!"/ rolled out his calligraphy scroll behind the backs of unsuspecting parents.
Funnier still is that the instructors showed me the note specifically. I think they were secretly hoping I'd go have a kumite in the park.
And did you go?
@@definitlynotbenlente7671 Yep, and that's how I met my wife... but that's a story for an... NO I DIDN'T GO!! Are you nuts? I quit Hapkido and bought a gun!
Karate is like a stigma. I do karate but when I am asked about what martial art I do I don't want to answer 'karate' because it sucks so much in general. I like MY school and see value in it because I look at it in comparison with others. And it actually encouraged me to go and study other styles much more than the previous school which was a more modern kyokushin derivative.
Great words, from a wise man. Perspective is everything, "that's bullying". Yup, pretty much. Great video Ramsey! 👍❤️💪
Absolutely agreed 💯👍
I am 41 and train martial arts for 31 years so with that experience I never went to beat anyone, I used it to make better situations for everyone. Only one fight that I had was when someone attacked me directly, and even that could have been avoided cause he didn't hurt me but I was young about 21 and wanted to make my point.
So if you are true martial artist you will use your skills for doing good 👍😊
I can’t help but imagine some guy in full head gear trying to headbutt a random mcdojo owner into submission.
Kudo Daido Juku is mixed martial arts, its baise is Kyokushin karate and Judo, it is MMA with Budo spirit ... OSU
The Kudo dude reminds me of the main character of a manga I read called Garouden. The character's name was Tanba, and what he did in the beginning was dojo storming dojos and fighting world class fighters. One day, he went to a pro wrestling gym and then got his ass handed to him. After that, he got a wake-up call and stopped doing that so that he could work on himself. He even said that everything he did when he was younger was just to fuel his ego. Hopefully the same thing happens to this Kudo guy lol
Garouden Chad
Gotta admit it's an ogre-tastic move. But then again ogres are always beaten by more responsible men in the end.
He didn't storming any dojo though. He issued a challenge and will only go to a school if the headmaster of that school accepted his challenge
@@jaketheasianguy3307
That's dojo storming
@@jaketheasianguy3307 That is sadly less ogre-like.
I always love these kind of videos of yours, and always learn something or at least am forced to think/rethink things...
Dojo storming is only for ego and attention. It's absolutely a threat of assault, aggregated assault, battery, and/or aggravated battery with a component of premeditation with the intent to cause severe bodily injury.
The proper response is to have cameras outside and inside your dojo, to lock the doors, to have access to a firearm, and to call the police, and then your lawyer.
The defense of your students and of the dojo area itself is paramount before an instructor even considers their own reputation.
0:40 - 1:05 Ramsey The bigger question is WHICH branches and what type of Karate does the Kudo guy target upon? Last time I checked, there ARE pragmatic branches of Knockdown Karate in Asia (e.g. Shidokan Karate and Seidokaikan Karate) which regularly spar with head punches and retain a grappling session like their Okinawan predecessors from pre-1945. It is not just the mainstream branches of modern Karate Do which only spar light contact without grappling or don't spar at all and focus too much on Kata exhibitions for some asinine reasons. The description from that Kudo guy sounds like Miyagi wannabes if you ask me, Ramsey. A lot of people forget that Karate never existed as a singular and pure art as it is just an umbrella term that encompasses a wide range of light contact and heavy contact systems of unarmed fighting that commonly share a standard set of Kata, Kihon and whatever type of Kumite they work on. It is the same thing with the term 'Koryu Jujutsu' for various style of grappling from Feudal Japan. Not everyone trains the same way with the same mindset..
I did a kind of dojo storm way back when I was in college. I was practicing with a club that shared a common dojo room with several other martial arts clubs. One of the clubs would leave the doors open when they trained which allowed leaves and trash to blow into the dojo. Then they would never clean the mats afterwards. We would come in the next day after them and the place was always trashed. We talked with the other clubs and identified the culprits. We had our campus representative contact the other club, but the situation continued.
Finally after a couple months I went to the other club's class. At the end of the class they invited me to spar. I accepted and ran rough shod over all of their students. Afterwards I introduced myself as a member of another club at the school with many years or experience. I then pointed out the cleaning supplies in the corner and asked if they needed help keeping the mats cleaned. After my visit we never had problems with dirty mats after this club had their practice.
You have such an incredible clearness in your thinking
Well thanks!
Agreed you can go about this a different way. Show your the best in a better way.🥋🥋🥋🥋🥋🥋🥋🥋🥋🥋🥋
Kudo is really cool , I have seen some training sessions, and it's very effective , with the traditional aspect of the martial arts inside .
I feel fortunate in that I've never encountered a Karate instructor who brags that theirs style is better than others. They have referred to the existence of McDojos, but not too much, and never named one. For which I'm glad, because if it's the one I think they are referring to, I think that even there, trainees can learn something. They just have to keep an open mind and not think of any traditional style has sacred, taking what works for them and leaving the rest. Admittedly, that's a hard judgement to make if you don't have exposure to other training styles for context, and especially if you haven't sparred, but you have to start somewhere.
If he came to the school I trained karate at, the head instructor would have adjusted his attitude, and it wouldn't have been the first time for him. Jim came from a school in San Jose that was renowned for how tough the fighters were. His best friend from that school was Roger Greene, the first person that Joe Lewis promoted to black belt.
ramsey is right about the karate schools acting like religious zealots, thats one of the reasons I stopped. Also if any karate "sensei" heard what ramsey said about them all being the same they would get a heart attack and say "he just doesn't understand" or "he's never done real karate" 😅😂. Never the fault of the style eh
Yep. I've heard all those things before many times! But that's what happens when you earn multiple black belts and you're honest about what you actually learned in the process.
Love the shirt ramsey! Huge street fighter fan 🪭 thank you for the great video as always!
Thank ypu for a good example of positive martial ethics, Coach!
My coach is middle-aged and has been injured, and there are certain things he doesn't do anymore. It does not make him weak, just older. So now he teaches.
Going around beating weak people you know you can beat is called being a bully. Love it ❤❤
Hey Ramsey. Haven’t watched your channel fora while. Hope you’ve been good man. Stay healthy and strong. 🤝
Hey, welcome back! Good to see you here in the comments section again!
I agree 110% with everything you said, Ramsey. You've got excellent insight, considering you practice a style inferior to mine in every way, of course.
I practice many styles. Which one are you talking about?
The comment before the answer was important and telling. I know people who will accuse you of writing an "essay" on social media if you use more than two lines of text. The future, for humans, is not very bright. 😬
Ramsey reminds me of those masters in chinese martial arts movies that have a lot of wisdom
Dojo storms are actually terrifying especially done in front of the kids class. It has to be illegal got to be.
I started BJJ around 20 years ago. When dojo storming was a thing in America. It was done to stop the mysticism of martial arts.
Fast forward 20 years. Traditional martial arts gyms are a desert compared to MMA/BJJ/Boxing/Muay Thai/Wrestling. It worked.
Wasn't UFC 1 a form of dojo storming? That was the "small" Gracie taking on the other forms of martial arts, no?
absolutely, the Gracies never faced grapplers of any kind ... until they had no choice but to and every time that happened, people like Rufino Dos Santos, Sakuraba, Eugenio Tadeu and Kimura SLAMMED them ... and that's not even counting the "special rules" in favor of the Gracies every time that happened ...
The classic story of martial arts movies is : my kung-fu is better than yours. I am gonna kick your ass. That's more or less the motivation of some traditional martial arts schools entering kickboxing tournaments.
This sounds like a cobra Kai episode by the title
I think Dojo storms have one currently relevant purpose: exposing martial arts frauds who clearly can't fight, and are lying to their students about giving them magic fighting powers. I tend to think with MMA being a thing, most traditional martial arts students know what they are doing, and would pick boxing or muay thai or BJJ if they wanted to maximize their fighting prowess. The John Dillmans of the world are still a problem though, and I applaud the work of people like Xu Xiaodong who challenge them to fights to expose them.
Yeah I get you. I think that a lot of traditional martial arts are more about preserving and passing down culture than being the most effective for combat. MMA doesn’t really do that as much.
Dojo storms are stupid. It isn't the 80s, anymore.
I mean all TKD Fighter in Olympic wont win in MMA under MMA Ruleset. Even BJJ and Judo purist wont survive in MMA Ruleset.
Khabib can take on Shohei Ono all day in MMA Cage. But put it into IJF Ruleset, the story will be different. Ono can take on Khabib all day.
@@Whosyourdaddy21 To be clear, I'm not saying trad martial artists and martial arts frauds are the same. If you want to practice an art to preserve an art, that is valid. But I do take issue with people who sell ineffective fighting techniques as "self - defense", and especially people who are teaching "no touch knockout" and other stuff that is complete bullshit.
@@Shadowoftheoldones got it
Thank you, Coach
I was just thinking about a dojo storm in a HEMA environment (long story short - a guy started a "samurai flavoured" HEMA class), so... You are right - me, thinking of beating him (which would probably happen) is nothing other than being a fanatic. Thanks for the reminder!
To comment on the part of the video where you said, "it's weird", to go off with a new martial arts teacher who beat up your instructor; it's not weird, it's pragmatic.
If you're learning martial arts for life and death struggles, you're not going to think, "who is this jerk who beat up my awesome master", you're going to think, "I've been wasting my money paying this charlatan who told me his art was the best".
It's the same reason a woman who witnessed her boyfriend get beat up loses attraction to him, you were trusting your master to be able to protect you and make you as strong as possible, and they betrayed that trust.
People who think they're learning martial arts for life and death struggles are delusional. They drank the poison Koolaide offered to them by fear-mongers.
Most people won't even go to the gym if it's raining outside. Most people will choose a gym based on how close it is to their house. Asking people to travel anywhere outside of their comfort zone is like pulling teeth.
It's pragmatic to go off into the creepy van with a psychopath who assaults people. Sure. Sure it is.
Also, isn't it just as likely that the students would want to get revenge on you for beating up their master?
Back in the day, if the guy was respectful we would oblige and do a round robin style spar. Generally catering to their style. (Typically boxing, or Thai boxing). It made us learn to adapt, we were a bit rougher than the average mcdojo.
Respect is important in sport combat.
I always thought Kudo was a hybrid martial art of like karate, judo, jujutsu, bjj, boxing, etc.
This topic sounds fun!
This coach sounds like a dork haha
Dojo Yaburi: the original term for a person that goes to other dojos to beat them all and take their dojo sign.
An historical thing in Japan now reserved only to anime
“ Come train with me, kids” lol
Kudo is a mix of Judo and Kyokushin, i think he took Mr. Oyama's life story to heart, since he went dojo storming and beating other Karate styles. I think it's better to just learn new tricks at different dojo's but who am i. He should come to the Netherlands and learn a thing or 2 since the Kyokushin/Judo/Kudo gyms are pretty well represented out here. His attitude is not of this time really. Osu
The only time I see any value in this, when the school in question markets itself with unfounded claims about self-defense, or general fighting prowess. Still an ego move, but some places are outright scams in this regard, as most of us know.
Hey man, how are you ? I wanted to ask you, do you have any news from Red Chucks that you can share with us ? It’s been a while since he’s posted anything on either Instagram or UA-cam.
His wife sent me an email a while back explaining that he ended up in jail after getting into an argument with someone who called the cops and got him arrested on what sounded like trumped up charges. I don't have much information other than that, unfortunately.
@@RamseyDewey that sounds horrible man. May the Lord be with him and his family.
@@tensae4725damm thats crazy, I was always a fan of red chucks and was wondering about this too. Hopefully things turn out ok!
@@RamseyDewey I'm sad to hear that, but I don't believe there is a single person making videos on youtube who can handle himself in jail better.
I have to disagree a bit here. A lot of the time people will go to whatever school will make the biggest promise and use the flashy moves. That's why in my opinion McDojo's exist at all. There are legit schools out there but hard work and slow progress towards actual mastery doesnt appeal as much as instant reward and a "black belt". I see this a lot like the incident in China where an amature MMA guy was challenging Kung Fu masters and showing they were not really fighters. People claiming to teach how to fight need to actually teach how to fight and at a certain point talking smack and hyping yourself up as this great master fighter isnt confidence its arogance. I agree seeking out weaker fighters to beat up is bullying but if those weaker fighters are lying to themselves and their students maybe they all need a wake up call.
Love your work just my two cents on the mater.
Hi I just started Kudo shame if people are big headed. Kudo very similar to Muy Thai we are very respectful to other arts
What's funny is, I'm not a great fighter, but I've got a good eye for detail and an understanding of the physiology and physics of why fighting works. I'm also highly experienced at teaching physical skills.
Long story short, I could easily teach an athletic person to kick my ass.
Does that make him better than me?
Or is that a stupid question from people who don't understand that people have different roles?
KUDOS to anyone training!!
hey Ramsey, have you seen the organization “king of the streets” ? its on youtube and I would like to hear your thoughts on it.
I've seen it. Fighting on concrete is extremely stupid.
@@RamseyDewey 100% agree, was wondering about the soccer kicks, headbutting, eye gouging, and biting, but all those seem stupid as well.
The whole concept just makes my skin crawl and smells of organized crime.
@@RamseyDeweyI looked for more info about the KOF organization and apparently most of their events are illegal and had to be done in secret. They don't tell the fighters participating the exact location and few people are allowed to join the audience.
So yeah it's def a criminal org organizing these events. I'm kind of confused as to how youtube is allowing them here for some reason.
@@RamseyDewey it does seem extremely sketchy.
@Ramsey Dewey My girlfriend just asked me if this was Cobra Kai or something. For a moment I thought she was serious.
Awesome T-shirt!
Hi Ramsey. Question for you.
You frequently talk about the tremendous advantage granted by superior size and weight, particularly on the ground. Was wondering if you had any comments on the MMA match between Ikuhisa Minowa and the boxer Butterbean, given Butterbean's massive size advantage. The video of the fight can be found on UA-cam. Thanks!
I need that Chun Li shirt!
I know, right?
You can just call me Grim Knight, if you ever answer a question of mine.
But how will we tell you apart from the other 3120 Grim Knights???
@@RamseyDewey WE ARE LEGION!
So, when you were doing dancing, did dancers from other schools come and try to out dance you?
Dance battle!!!
Hahahaha! No, but I wish they did!
Well, it just happens you're doing "jazz hands" in the thumbnail and it reminded me of your dance background...lol
Forget about dojo storms I feel like people from different styles should definitely interact with each other more especially if there's mutual respect because it's not as if you're going to go your whole life only ever coming across one person and exposing the scammy schools is definitely a good thing and I've ranted about how bad things can get before with the scammy schools dominating associations with their numbers because they bring in the students. I do agree though on the other side of the scenario, let's be real, we've all seen those guys out and about, they've got an attitude problem and they're all over the place, it's a shame there isn't more interaction because it would be a nice way to get to know people too who have similar interests and also deal with people like that.
Have you seen Sandra Sanchez the Olympics and World medalist and do you think her skills would allow her to win a real fight?
Thats pretty fun
If anyone joins the dojo-stormer, those guys are probably ambitious brutes. If I followed, I'd expect to get slapped around in class. What I mean is, just a tactic would filter out rough jerks.
Hey Coach, what do you think about Mike Tyson training Francis Ngannou? Do you think Francis has a shot against Tyson Fury?
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@Ramsey Dewey Didn't you have a guy show up three times to your home gym to fight you? That was pretty funny.
Ah yes, the White Eagle saga!
@@RamseyDewey I figured it out, I got a mouth guard, I'm bad ass now ha ha ha
It's a double-edged sword. Without dojo storming - the ridiculous mythos of martial arts become the marketed norm like it was in the USA during the 80s. Gimmicks and misunderstanding become "common sense" and the rough nature of actual combat becomes less and less popular. WWE style 'pro wrestling' becomes more popular than CACC kind of evolution. Then - In comes the bullies (and they ARE bullies - that's not wrong) who are willing to beat up the loud but incapable - like the Gracie Family. Add marketing - like UFC 1 - and all of a sudden years and years of mythos become shaken to the core, and reality rears its ugly head.
Hi one question as i notised it, it seams like a new stupid thing in my oppinion.
Now the days manny m.a. styles have sudenly start say oss that have never been sayd before!
I started training martial arts 1975 or 1976 and been training manny different styles but never heard that word before some year back
"Oss" an abbreviated version of 押忍 "osunobu", a Japanese phrase that wasn't uncommon to hear at traditional Japanese judo, karate, and jujutsu schools. It's basically just a affirmation of agreement and acknowledgement. Eg: the instructor teaches a technique and asks the class if they understand, the students might respond with 押忍!
The Brazilians are largely responsible for shortening 押忍 to "oss" and popularizing the abbreviated version in BJJ schools. Non-BJJ schools saying "oss" is kind of funny. I think deep down, a lot of us want some exotic sounding foreign tradition to latch onto because we don't feel properly connected to the culture around us. That's probably why "Oss" is spreading like a social contagian.
7:20 - "badass"
8:58 - "damn"
Such rough language! 😂 You can tell Ramsey is really riled about this. Understandably so!
If someone did come to our gym and beat up our coach, I would jump at the chance to smash that guy, or at least give it my best shot. Unfortunately I'd have to take a place in line because I am sure I wouldn't be the only one. Our team is bigger than any one person, it's a community and we care about the people we train with.
Such a pity, kudo seems so freakin' cool to me, it is just shameful that this guy is casting a bad light on it.
It depends. If it is a mcdojo with a fake sensei, it will quickly be made apparent to any person with a working brain during the training process. However, if your teacher is a frail, wise mentor and some bozo comes to beat him up... Said bozo will be having a bad, baaaad time with law enforcement.
if someone stormed my dojo i wouldnt join them i would be like "fuck these guys!" and get ready for a rematch!
The idea could be nice reality check, but as you are saying what a point to beat weaklings?
Dojo storming seems to me like it's for masters/instructors who don't have enough money to run a tournament.
Kudo is a next levele style.. i dnt think ramsey stands a chance against a well trained kudo practitioners like kollyan edgar..
🤣 lol its just to epic "I will cleanse the evil and deceptions of this art with the fire of my fists! Prepare yourselves!" (16 year old black belt instructor looks at him confused and nervous with a class full of children under 12.) A perfect tekken character storyline. Yup, guy needs to settle down. Theres no place for bullies in martial arts, which is why they often seem to attract one another and flock to just one gym it seems. When i had a different position for the company i work for, i did alot of travelling, so there were times i wasnt able to train at my base gym until the weekend. Lil karate dojos in the middle of no where, far away from any city will always have a special place in my heart for that reason. I did sambo in the city but I would attend the open mat sessions of these small dojos when out on the road. sometimes the sensei expected me to get through a white belt regular class to than spar with the brown and black belts lol. The joys of belt rankings. I think i could still do kihun kata just because iv done it so many times before lol. Im pretty sure i qualify for an award of some sorts, like longest reigning white belt that never got a promotion. I think the best part of it was when id be wearing my rashguard and shorts, and than theyd provide me with the largest white belt they had, which wouldnt even tie correctly, so id have this lil waste bow tie of a belt on over my rashguard. As if i didnt look creepy enough mingled in with mostly youngsters doing the good ol kihon kata. I was always very respectful when visiting the dojos. It would be very heartbreaking to know someone else trained in mma essentially went in and hurt someone attending it. For that reason, i hope the Kudo guy runs into someone like me at the time. If someone went into one of those lil dojos and beat up the sensie, even if i didnt know anyone there, i would of asked him for a round, and im pretty sure after that he wouldnt want to grapple on hardwood floors ever again. Or visit a lil dojo. That really is shameful of him.
Kudos to Jouad. You saw what I did there? 😂
lol! he is asking for a lawsuit
I'd challenge my local McDojo posing as an advanced Kenjutsu school with only two Sensei and Jake Mace's uncle, but I'm pretty sure they'd charge me for it. (Kidding, mostly)
$200 a course to learn the secret ways of self-defense, but trust me, it's totally nothing like D.U.S.T./Jake Mace/Stephen Seagal(it is). They take advantage of people's fear and ignorance just like any other McDojo. It is my opinion that such places should not exist, as they've maligned with time.
Love the shirt!!! Is that a real thing???
It is, in fact, a real shirt!
The old time-y dojo storms were probably aimed more at the people who were about to pick a dojo rather than at the already existing students. If you want to get your name out there, you don't exactly have a tiktok in 18th century China, so to show you know your stuff... well, it's either a tournament or a dojo storm, and only one of those is available year-round. And if you are someone about to pick a place where you will live for years of your life to learn how to fight, well, "a guy who beat up 70 percent dojos in a hundred mile radius" isn't a bad bet.
People who are about to pick a dojo are not the ones in the dojo watching the dojo storm happen.
that's an awesome shirt
It is much like people desiring to impose paranormal phenomenon, then I get the DoD R&D types involved. The mental realm powers the more gross astral where imagination structures the perception of the spirit.
All of the physical manifestations are about from the western occultism perspective, putting in the time to do the grind to receive the find, with energetic accumulation. This is where poltergeist, shadow orbs, easier access to channeling spirits, evoking spirits, and other items occurs. Because it eventually reaches the Base-Level reality of the physical world.
Cherished books are replaced by other books, charge up the hated with energy and it will travel into the etheric realm, while the item after exhausting the relation with it will drop into the physical realm. The nightmare-fuel for no-touch-knockout is, collecting people that are indifferent to if no-touch-knockout works or does not work. And all of the etheric energy will be dissipated by the crowd, even if the individual strains enough to crap their underwear. And American Military Research and Development has confirmed these findings.
Try that in a BJJ school. You'll dream about winning while you're waking up from a RNC.😅
Every body was kungfu fighting……
For myself, I have studied Muay Thai and Savate under my Uncle Darian, as well as CSW/STX at his school. I have also done some Judo under my grandpa and BJJ under Christen Jensen.
But my favorite martial art, is the most ridiculed of all martial arts. Yes, prepare for someone in the comments to make a disparaging remark.
...I like Taekwondo.
I just do. It resonates with me. It's fun, enjoyable and my favorite thing to do. And I remember once amongst some martial artists at the Combatives Center in Fort Riley, KS (During my time in active duty Army), I remember a guy who did Kung Fu not really being interested in combatives or BJJ. Some mocked him but one BJJ instructor actually said this:
"Look. The way I see it, if it's you, if it's what you really love, go for it."
From my experience, it's RARE for a BJJ person to say that.
But I remember at a Taekwondo school in my youth, some BJJ guys came in. And they promptly challenged the instructor there at that time, (I'm not mentioning his name but it was in Oklahoma) to a strict BJJ rules match to grapple. The instructor decided to try it, lost and got tapped out (That taekwondo school also did Japanese Jujutsu as a secondary class as the head instructor was a 1st Dan black belt in Jujutsu).
And that bearded, crunchy-haired guy pushing 40 with blonde highlights stood up, with the biggest smug grin and said, "Well, that's a real fight for ya. Taekwondo doesn't work, pal!" And he kept that grin, he was really ENJOYING himself. I happened to be standing by the mats and the BJJ guy turned with that big toothy grin and said "What about you? You wanna come learn at my school?"
I kept a grim face as I looked at him (At the time, I only had a green belt in Jujutsu and was working towards my black belt in Taekwondo and just had a basic understanding of Judo from my gramps) and I said coldly, "...rather burn in Hell."
He blinked, jerked his head back, squinted his eyes and forcefully kept his grin and looked away then shrugged and said, "Okay! Why?!"
I kept my grim face as I told him, "Because you're an asshole. I don't respect you."
My instructor pointed at me and warned me about foul language. I nodded and apologized. My instructor simply said that while he appreciated the BJJ coming in, he didn't appreciate this being just an attempt to take students and attack his business. The BJJ guy looked awkward as he tried to keep his grin and tried to still look smug and forced a chuckle as he said, "Okay! Then you guys don't really wanna learn how to fight!"
My instructor said, "Sir, we are not here to beat each other up and hurt each other. In our sparring system, we PLAY. We only fight in self defense and we don't look for fighting."
The BJJ did a forced laugh and kept that forced grin as he said, "Well, I guess you're not a real martial artist then!" and then left.
the whole situation was awkward and embarassing. I stayed at that school until I moved.
When I moved, I went to my Uncle Darian's MMA school. And then Christen Jensen was there and noticed I seemed to enjoy playing around with people after class by rolling for fun. She asked me if I grappled, I said I did know SOME Judo and had a green belt in Jujutsu. Christen said, "You should join our BJJ class! You might have fun."
I immediately declined.
It took Darian a YEAR to finally convince me to come to Christen's BJJ class and he made it clear, "Look, at my school, there is no 'superior' martial art. We're all about improving and having fun. Now, if you want to be a kickboxer, I am gonna recommend Muay Thai because it's popular and effective but you can still use your Taekwondo if you want or Savate. I'll HELP you adapt your TKD if you want. If you want to get into MMA, I'm gonna recommend you keep training CSW and STX. But I can promise you, BJJ is NOT about storming schools, running people out of business. It's just about being better on the ground and being a better submissionist. You REALLY seem to enjoy submission grappling, Sean (my name). Nobody is going to degrade you or belittle you for liking striking better."
So I did and I actually really enjoyed BJJ.
...then I joined the Army. Remember the attitude of that 40 year old BJJ guy with the crunchy hair and blonde highlights? Multiply that by 3. It's about the same attitude of any purple belt in BJJ that completed the old Modern Army Combatives Program. Whenever I sparred at the Combatives Center, so many of them would say "No kicks!" (yes, really) or they would say "Not so much kicking, guy! Just use Muay Thai, nothing else!". Whenever I used Osoto Gari and then followed up with some basic ground technique universal between Judo Ne-Waza and BJJ (or if I used a Jujutsu technique), I was informed, "Well, it only worked because of your BJJ background. It's not an example of Judo or Jujutsu ever being any good. You don't need takedowns or Jujutsu techniques. Just focus on combatives and our BJJ if you ever really want to be able to fight". Didn't matter if I tapped them out. I constantly heard "That will never work in a fight" to everything I ever learned that wasn't BJJ or Muay Thai. And even then, they specifically told me BJJ was MUCh better than any Muay Thai, "especially in a MMA fight".
Nowadays, I'm 39 and I just attend a Taekwondo school in Wisconsin. An NCO near here has a BJJ school and is still impressed that I keep in practice with grappling (we meet every now and then at an open mats session to support veterans) and he still wants me to come to his school as he feels I have potential in grappling. But after years of the smug, arrogant BJJ attitude constantly degrading and insulting the years I dedicated to other martial arts (and by extension, all my other instructors, including my Grandfather and Father), I really have a sour taste in my heart towards BJJ.
That "dojo storm" was the beginning of my distaste towards BJJ. And the similar attitude I saw in Fort Riley pretty much ruined BJJ. I haven't practiced it since.
Yep, all it takes is one bad actor wearing a label to ruin that label for everyone else.
if you want to test your martial art enter a competition
China, hell. I remember the dojo wars in Chicago during the 1960's when buildings were fire bombed and people stabbed to death as a form of primal rivalry with one's economic competitors.
Kudo practitioner here, I personally find it shameful that a high ranking kudo guy decided to dojo storm other style as it would give kudo a bad name. There is not many kudo dojos outside Japan and Russia and this would only turn potential newcomers away from kudo. I think that there is good things to take from any style, even in point karate.
He didn't storm any dojo though. He issued a challenge and will only go to a school if the headmaster of that school accepted his challenge
i mean people followed the gracies…
3:30 Well was it weird that some folk used to sword duel eachother for fun in Europe the other day? A lot of stuff happened back in the day. Black people used to be treated as goods and stuff. You have to take many possibilities into account. A lot of what we do today would be weird to people from the past eather.
But I don't think it necessarily worked the way you described anyway. You can beat someone up in order to ruin his reputation and build yours from that in order to attract NEW students more effectively. Also I don't find it that weird to ditch someone if you find him weak after he got his ass kicked.
A master back in the day could never be your friend btw. I can't see that happening as regularly as today. Only today a coach is your buddy because it's not quite good looking down on people today. Back then he was above yourself no doubt. Today the relationship has much more monetary nature to it. I think that the loyalty to the master was based on entirely different principles. Such as for example your own commitment to the school. After you've put years into it it's quite hard abbandoning it.
So yeah the point is to steal the popularity instead of building it up from scratch. Remember that back in the day competitions and sports weren't such a big thing back then with no mass media. Times were rough.
7:00 Don't know if I would say your friend did something 100% positive. Because now that coach is permanently shame-scarred (if he did what you said in front of others).
Have you ever been dojo stormed Ramsey?
And wait, how does a dojo storm even prove anything? I'm sure when Helio Gracie was in his 90's most blue belts could dojo storm him and win? But that doesn't mean they can teach as good.
Follow me into my Van!!!! 🤣😅 Ramsey I am lmao!!!
„Sure I will follow you! Just need you to prove you can beat up my parents!“