My first Jiu-Jitsu instructional is now available on www.jujiclub.com be sure to use coupon code JIUJITSU-JUNE and get 5$ off. I cover the reverse De Le Riva "Lock down" position, how to avoid getting smashed passed, create elevation and flow into leg locks. Hope you all enjoy!
Thank you for doing these videos. You must have a very busy schedule, but you are bringing value to many people for free. Just know your time is appreciated by all
In Catch wrestling you win by pin or submission. Catch wrestling is usually no holds barred, all submissions are legal- although some CACC competitions ban certain strangle holds. Either way, you'll see a greater emphasis on neck cranks and leg locks than you usually see in BJJ. Because you can win via pin in Catch Wrestling, the "guard" has a whole different set of priorities (eg: get off your back) because of that, CACC tends to be a much more tiring sport than BJJ since the rules force the grapplers to move more.
Tristar Gym I want to elaborate a little on the differences between Catch Wrestling (or Catch as Catch Can) and Bjj + Folkstyle (or freestyle) wrestling. 1) Folkstyle is a neutered version of Catch. What I mean by that is that all the rips (essentially illegal pain compliance moves to get a reaction from your opponent) are illegal in Folkstyle, frowned upon in Bjj and considered the right thing to do in Catch. In Catch, if you are not constantly causing your opponent to be uncomfortable on the bottom, you are doing it wrong. Also, obviously submissions are illegal in Folkstyle. 2) BJJ has a different approach to submissions than Catch and they attack from different positions, in different ways. In Bjj the classical strategy to take the back, put in the hooks and get the rnc. Bjj has a positional hierarchy (pass the guard, move to side control, gain the mount, take the back etc). In Catch it is all about control, like Folkstyle. So getting your opponent on his shoulders and pinning him is the goal and then you look to make him as uncomfortable as possible while going for the submission. 3) Although the submissions exist in both styles, they emphasize different ones. In Bjj the main holds are the rnc, the armbar, the heel hook, the triangle and the guilliotine. In Catch the main holds are the Facelock (this is because often the rnc is barred by the rules), the toe hold (there are dozens in catch, it isn't just the figure four toehold) and the Kimura (aka double wrist lock). Just like a Bjj practitioner works on their holds and improves minute details years after year, so does the Catch Wrestler. Now of course there could be a Bjj Kimura specialist and a Catch Wrestler who loves arm bars, but the difference in the holds is largely because of the positions stressed. 4) The Guard. This is huge. Catch Wrestlers may work on subbing from their back, but their priority, always, is to get off their back. Catch wrestlers don't have as well developed a guard as Bjj guys and therefore aren't as good at passing and dealing with it if they are always training with other Catch Wrestlers. That said, Catch teaches a lot of tricky ways to enter into leg locks after breaking the guard. 5) A lot of things Bjj guys say you "can" or "can't" do, don't apply. For example the old idea in Bjj that you will just get your back taken from scarf hold, doesn't apply to Catch. Bjj guys suck at scarf hold because from day 1 they are told it is dangerous and they will get their back taken, so rather than getting really good at not getting their back taken, they ignore it. 6) Catch wrestling has no time limits so it approach to takedowns is different that Folkstyle or Freestyle. Catch Wrestlers like throws and grips that are illegal in Folk or Freestyle. Plus they are more patient and use less athleticism to get the takedowns. Catch is more about ground fighting than the other wrestling arts. I could go on, but you really need to train it to understand it. I hope Coach Zahabi reads this.
Catch wrestling allows one to win by pin. I think that's why they don't train from the guard as much as BJJ. And they don't use a gi. The cool part is that it's a British form of wrestling that originated from the North of England with it's roots in working class communities.
Emotional sensitivity and empathy is a strength, not a weakness. There is a reason why it occupies space in your pre-frontal lobe, it is one of the most important high level brain functions, along with logic, reasoning, and impulse control. It is the last part of the brain to fully develop, because of its significance. I feel that you are doing yourself a disservice by stifling your growth on behalf of your ego. There are many examples of people who have suffered either damage or a lack of development of that part of the brain, they become sociopathic or narcissistic.
Emotions are regulated primarily by the limbic system, not the pre-frontal cortex, which is largely responsible for logic, reasoning, and impulse control (as you stated correctly).
Spontaneity "The ventromedial prefrontal cortex processes feelings of empathy, shame, compassion and guilt." from an article in the LA Times titled: Damage to brain limits empathy / Prefrontal cortex injury found to alter moral judgment It was the first thing that came up when I searched empathy pre-frontal cortex in duckduckgo. I would link directly to it but links are autodetected and flagged as spam in YT chat.
Just did some superficial research on the area; it seems to involve the processing and inhibition of emotional responses. So it definitely plays a role in emotional expression, but the root of emotions lies in the limbic system.
Catch wrestling is more focused on rides than bjj. It also is about making each position more painful and they like to use "strong man" moves like neck cranks and chest compressors etc. Other than that it's pretty much bjj with a really rude top game
Last week I went to Montreal with the plan to train at Tristar, but broke my thumb grappling a few days before. Instead I just checked out the city and enjoyed Tim Hortons coffee.
I don't know too much about Catch Wrestling, but there's a guy called Curren Jacobs who is souly a catch as catch can guy. I think he's got NCAA freestyle wrestling credentials too (not sure here). I don't think he's entertained by the idea of going into BJJ/ submission only matches thou. He mainly wrestles/catch wrestling, and MMA. He beat Travis Newaza a while back in a catch wrestling comp. Also He's got some beef with Josh Barnett which will get squashed soon as both of them will meet in a elimination catch tournament this year. He might get smoked in some bjj/ submission only tournaments, but I'd like to see more bjj guys challenge him in catch wrestling. I think he's mates with Randy Couture.
:OOO How? If it's not a really bad question maybe sometime answer it in short detail, I am sure the viewers would dig it. Keep it up Firas, you can be a youtube star later.
The only thing you have that is completely yours is yourself. Nobody can do anything to you, without asking, if you do so that is wrong. So any physical action against another person is objectively wrong. My opinion ofc.
In a 3 year long boycott of Tim's and since I started they have continued to go downhill. They are not Canadian anymore. Also hilarious that Starbucks has an ad leading into this video for me.
Regarding the moral relativism vs moral objectivity issue, I can sense that your "I will praise you if you can find one example of something that is objectively moral or immoral" statement is, for the most part, rhetorical, but I find this discussion to be very interesting and thought I would contribute anyway. The moment you mentioned this topic a particular book and author to came my mind: The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris poses the argument for moral objectivity. Harris makes an argument for moral objectivity that I personally found to be compelling, if not at least worthy of considering. I am not claiming that his book is the perfect champion to put up against your challenge as finding something that is perfectly objectively moral or immoral, because within the book Harris has to make definitions, boundaries, caveats, limitations, and qualifiers. In other words, he did have to “draw lines in the sand” that were man-made and, hence, imperfect. For Sam Harris or others who have read the book, please forgive my imperfect summary as it has been a little while since having read it, but there are two primary ideas that stuck out to me: 1. The primary boundary he uses to define morality is with regard to the wellbeing of beings; 2. Morality exists on a spectrum, i.e. shades of grey as you have said. A very simple, but memorable example for me, was something about, at some time in history, a group of people put cats in a sack of some kind, set it on fire, and threw or thrashed the sack about as a form of entertainment. While the people may have derived some pleasure from this activity, this was no doubt at the cost of the wellbeing of the cats. It would take some serious mental twisting to make the argument that the cats were somehow better off being tortured in this manner, than not being tortured. Using wellbeing as our metric, this act is a more immoral, rather than moral, treatment of cats. Again, not a perfect answer to your challenge, but I recommend the book to anyone who finds this topic interesting. Thanks for taking the time to read my response! I really enjoy your channel and appreciate your content.
Coach, I know that you don't like using or hearing curse words... but Joe Rogan uses them a constantly. Are u going to say anything to him about it, whilst you're on the podcast?
Coach you stated that there cannot be a logical argument or reason that points to objective moral truth, only god can. Here you are begging the question. Why do you assume there is a god in the first place? Why do you assume if there is a god it has to be the grounding for moral truth? How do you know it isn't a lying evil god? Also, how do you know there is objective morality in the first place? Kant argued for objective morality in his categorical imperative. Derek Parfait from Oxford also argued "we can and do know moral truths but not because moral judgments describe some fact. Indeed, moral judgments do not describe anything in the external world, nor do they refer to our own feelings. There are no mystical moral or normative entities." Appealing to a god does not answer the question of objective truth at all.
You only disagree with veganism because you and your family aren't the victims being torn apart from exact other just for five minutes of sensory taste bud pleasure. Every time you eat meat it's the body of an entirely different being who had their own thoughts, personalities, and feelings. Nobody is wrong for not being vegan, but you cannot morally justify the action of killing a living being that does not want to die. And once you realize this truth and have his knowledge you should act on it to prevent the suffering to other beings just like you try to prevent suffering for yourself. Put yourself in their shoes and you might look at it differently. Veganism is one of the only purely true paths of empathy that a human can direct their life with.
@Guru. Quill. What you're doing is literally denying nature.. Animals kill one another to eat. It's how things are, and have always been. You're here right now because our ancestors hunted animals.. It's an entirely different thing to be against something like, factory farming, because that's just needless torture of animals. But to be against the consumption of animals for the sake of survival, is a joke. "five minutes of sensory taste bud pleasure." Surely you jest? It's called being alive another day. You think lions kill gazelle for "five minutes of sensory taste bud pleasure?"
The opposite of eating meat/fish isn’t veganism. It’s just not eating meat. Veganism is fraught with fake processed foods and high carb garbage and fake sugars.
My first Jiu-Jitsu instructional is now available on www.jujiclub.com be sure to use coupon code JIUJITSU-JUNE and get 5$ off.
I cover the reverse De Le Riva "Lock down" position, how to avoid getting smashed passed, create elevation and flow into leg locks. Hope you all enjoy!
Thank you for doing these videos. You must have a very busy schedule, but you are bringing value to many people for free. Just know your time is appreciated by all
Looking forward to the JRE podcast!
Coach Zahabis talk about ethics is gold!
Super greatful for your content. Thank you.
In Catch wrestling you win by pin or submission. Catch wrestling is usually no holds barred, all submissions are legal- although some CACC competitions ban certain strangle holds. Either way, you'll see a greater emphasis on neck cranks and leg locks than you usually see in BJJ. Because you can win via pin in Catch Wrestling, the "guard" has a whole different set of priorities (eg: get off your back) because of that, CACC tends to be a much more tiring sport than BJJ since the rules force the grapplers to move more.
I have never watched MMA and I have no interest but I definitely became a fan after watching you with Joe Rogan.
Josh Barnet trains with a guy named Erik Paulson. He has a lot of videos on catch wrestling.
Tristar Gym
I want to elaborate a little on the differences between Catch Wrestling (or Catch as Catch Can) and Bjj + Folkstyle (or freestyle) wrestling.
1) Folkstyle is a neutered version of Catch. What I mean by that is that all the rips (essentially illegal pain compliance moves to get a reaction from your opponent) are illegal in Folkstyle, frowned upon in Bjj and considered the right thing to do in Catch. In Catch, if you are not constantly causing your opponent to be uncomfortable on the bottom, you are doing it wrong. Also, obviously submissions are illegal in Folkstyle.
2) BJJ has a different approach to submissions than Catch and they attack from different positions, in different ways. In Bjj the classical strategy to take the back, put in the hooks and get the rnc. Bjj has a positional hierarchy (pass the guard, move to side control, gain the mount, take the back etc). In Catch it is all about control, like Folkstyle. So getting your opponent on his shoulders and pinning him is the goal and then you look to make him as uncomfortable as possible while going for the submission.
3) Although the submissions exist in both styles, they emphasize different ones. In Bjj the main holds are the rnc, the armbar, the heel hook, the triangle and the guilliotine. In Catch the main holds are the Facelock (this is because often the rnc is barred by the rules), the toe hold (there are dozens in catch, it isn't just the figure four toehold) and the Kimura (aka double wrist lock). Just like a Bjj practitioner works on their holds and improves minute details years after year, so does the Catch Wrestler. Now of course there could be a Bjj Kimura specialist and a Catch Wrestler who loves arm bars, but the difference in the holds is largely because of the positions stressed.
4) The Guard. This is huge. Catch Wrestlers may work on subbing from their back, but their priority, always, is to get off their back. Catch wrestlers don't have as well developed a guard as Bjj guys and therefore aren't as good at passing and dealing with it if they are always training with other Catch Wrestlers. That said, Catch teaches a lot of tricky ways to enter into leg locks after breaking the guard.
5) A lot of things Bjj guys say you "can" or "can't" do, don't apply. For example the old idea in Bjj that you will just get your back taken from scarf hold, doesn't apply to Catch. Bjj guys suck at scarf hold because from day 1 they are told it is dangerous and they will get their back taken, so rather than getting really good at not getting their back taken, they ignore it.
6) Catch wrestling has no time limits so it approach to takedowns is different that Folkstyle or Freestyle. Catch Wrestlers like throws and grips that are illegal in Folk or Freestyle. Plus they are more patient and use less athleticism to get the takedowns. Catch is more about ground fighting than the other wrestling arts.
I could go on, but you really need to train it to understand it. I hope Coach Zahabi reads this.
Thank you Sammy and Xavior!
Jim Benson you the man Jim!
Love you Mr Zahabi
Love the videos thank you!!!
Tim Horton must be different in Canada. The fight he mentioned was definitely fixed and there are multiple in Japan that were clearly fixed
Catch wrestling allows one to win by pin. I think that's why they don't train from the guard as much as BJJ. And they don't use a gi. The cool part is that it's a British form of wrestling that originated from the North of England with it's roots in working class communities.
Can't wait to see you on JRE!
Tim Hortans: Canada's true addiction.
DADDY yeah north america is like the Wermacht on meth with their caffeine
DADDY Double double with milk and a quarter cup of hot chocolate. :)
Firas - would you be willing to do a bjj seminar at a university?
MMA man that’s a possibility.
Emotional sensitivity and empathy is a strength, not a weakness. There is a reason why it occupies space in your pre-frontal lobe, it is one of the most important high level brain functions, along with logic, reasoning, and impulse control. It is the last part of the brain to fully develop, because of its significance. I feel that you are doing yourself a disservice by stifling your growth on behalf of your ego.
There are many examples of people who have suffered either damage or a lack of development of that part of the brain, they become sociopathic or narcissistic.
Lee's Channel very well communicated 👍
Emotions are regulated primarily by the limbic system, not the pre-frontal cortex, which is largely responsible for logic, reasoning, and impulse control (as you stated correctly).
Spontaneity "The ventromedial prefrontal cortex processes feelings of empathy, shame, compassion and guilt." from an article in the LA Times titled: Damage to brain limits empathy / Prefrontal cortex injury found to alter moral judgment
It was the first thing that came up when I searched empathy pre-frontal cortex in duckduckgo. I would link directly to it but links are autodetected and flagged as spam in YT chat.
Just did some superficial research on the area; it seems to involve the processing and inhibition of emotional responses. So it definitely plays a role in emotional expression, but the root of emotions lies in the limbic system.
Catch wrestling is more focused on rides than bjj. It also is about making each position more painful and they like to use "strong man" moves like neck cranks and chest compressors etc. Other than that it's pretty much bjj with a really rude top game
Last week I went to Montreal with the plan to train at Tristar, but broke my thumb grappling a few days before. Instead I just checked out the city and enjoyed Tim Hortons coffee.
I still remember that moment......."Let's do it, you wanna do it? You wanna do it George's??"
49:48 building muscle in a caloric deficit + Firas’ 9% body fat birthday challenge
I don't know too much about Catch Wrestling, but there's a guy called Curren Jacobs who is souly a catch as catch can guy. I think he's got NCAA freestyle wrestling credentials too (not sure here). I don't think he's entertained by the idea of going into BJJ/ submission only matches thou. He mainly wrestles/catch wrestling, and MMA. He beat Travis Newaza a while back in a catch wrestling comp. Also He's got some beef with Josh Barnett which will get squashed soon as both of them will meet in a elimination catch tournament this year. He might get smoked in some bjj/ submission only tournaments, but I'd like to see more bjj guys challenge him in catch wrestling. I think he's mates with Randy Couture.
Firas, finally be the guy who can decide once and for all who would win Mcregor or The Mountain? :D
Rajmuller Adam McGregor
:OOO
How?
If it's not a really bad question maybe sometime answer it in short detail, I am sure the viewers would dig it. Keep it up Firas, you can be a youtube star later.
Hey coach do your fighters train their neck? I'm just wondering.
The only thing you have that is completely yours is yourself. Nobody can do anything to you, without asking, if you do so that is wrong. So any physical action against another person is objectively wrong. My opinion ofc.
Try Dragonfly Coffee Roasters out
as always great conversation. Cheers Z. Peace out
Good
Will your De La Riva techniques work in the gi?
yes!😋
This made me buy a large Timmy Ho’s today.
In a 3 year long boycott of Tim's and since I started they have continued to go downhill. They are not Canadian anymore. Also hilarious that Starbucks has an ad leading into this video for me.
Regarding the moral relativism vs moral objectivity issue, I can sense that your "I will praise you if you can find one example of something that is objectively moral or immoral" statement is, for the most part, rhetorical, but I find this discussion to be very interesting and thought I would contribute anyway. The moment you mentioned this topic a particular book and author to came my mind: The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris poses the argument for moral objectivity. Harris makes an argument for moral objectivity that I personally found to be compelling, if not at least worthy of considering. I am not claiming that his book is the perfect champion to put up against your challenge as finding something that is perfectly objectively moral or immoral, because within the book Harris has to make definitions, boundaries, caveats, limitations, and qualifiers. In other words, he did have to “draw lines in the sand” that were man-made and, hence, imperfect.
For Sam Harris or others who have read the book, please forgive my imperfect summary as it has been a little while since having read it, but there are two primary ideas that stuck out to me: 1. The primary boundary he uses to define morality is with regard to the wellbeing of beings; 2. Morality exists on a spectrum, i.e. shades of grey as you have said. A very simple, but memorable example for me, was something about, at some time in history, a group of people put cats in a sack of some kind, set it on fire, and threw or thrashed the sack about as a form of entertainment. While the people may have derived some pleasure from this activity, this was no doubt at the cost of the wellbeing of the cats. It would take some serious mental twisting to make the argument that the cats were somehow better off being tortured in this manner, than not being tortured. Using wellbeing as our metric, this act is a more immoral, rather than moral, treatment of cats.
Again, not a perfect answer to your challenge, but I recommend the book to anyone who finds this topic interesting. Thanks for taking the time to read my response! I really enjoy your channel and appreciate your content.
Coach, I know that you don't like using or hearing curse words... but Joe Rogan uses them a constantly. Are u going to say anything to him about it, whilst you're on the podcast?
I missed it again 😪
I can prove arguments logically. Everything is not aesthetics. Truth and reality are objectively good.
USALibertarian what happens when the truth is your skull is being crushed is the truth good now its all subjective
56:36 You're welcome 😂
Firas, murder is morally wrong. Not killing. But cold blooded murder.
I do Kung fu I agree with u but that is conclusion rest on our personal perspectives
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Do more phylosophie firaz please
Coach you stated that there cannot be a logical argument or reason that points to objective moral truth, only god can. Here you are begging the question. Why do you assume there is a god in the first place? Why do you assume if there is a god it has to be the grounding for moral truth? How do you know it isn't a lying evil god? Also, how do you know there is objective morality in the first place? Kant argued for objective morality in his categorical imperative. Derek Parfait from Oxford also argued "we can and do know moral truths but not because moral judgments describe some fact. Indeed, moral judgments do not describe anything in the external world, nor do they refer to our own feelings. There are no mystical moral or normative entities."
Appealing to a god does not answer the question of objective truth at all.
Josh barnet v dean lister
Bineural beats are destructive to DNA I've heard
Crazy that you have to emphase the "no pro-communist", just because you share.
So you smoke weed, but you don't need a reason. I like it.
Canadian here, Tim Hortons is awful. For those visiting my country, please do not drink it. It tastes like someone threw an ashtray into your cup.
I feel like everyone's underrating Cormier's striking he's got the better of Gus and Jones he's nasty with his dirty boxing
Tim Hortons sucks, it was good but they sold that to McDonald's. Best coffee chain I know of in Canada is Bridgehead.
dont disrespect the button pushing profession
11gingin people like too ridicule things they dont understand he was very lighthearted
Lol- you will not like tim hortans. 😋unless its for those doughnutz
You only disagree with veganism because you and your family aren't the victims being torn apart from exact other just for five minutes of sensory taste bud pleasure. Every time you eat meat it's the body of an entirely different being who had their own thoughts, personalities, and feelings. Nobody is wrong for not being vegan, but you cannot morally justify the action of killing a living being that does not want to die. And once you realize this truth and have his knowledge you should act on it to prevent the suffering to other beings just like you try to prevent suffering for yourself. Put yourself in their shoes and you might look at it differently. Veganism is one of the only purely true paths of empathy that a human can direct their life with.
Survival of the fittest, young padawan
@Guru. Quill. What you're doing is literally denying nature.. Animals kill one another to eat. It's how things are, and have always been. You're here right now because our ancestors hunted animals.. It's an entirely different thing to be against something like, factory farming, because that's just needless torture of animals. But to be against the consumption of animals for the sake of survival, is a joke. "five minutes of sensory taste bud pleasure." Surely you jest? It's called being alive another day. You think lions kill gazelle for "five minutes of sensory taste bud pleasure?"
Lmao that's nature, go back to your cave of wonders
Guru. Quill wow aren't you the dramatic type.. why don't you do what you want and leave people alone? In other words mind your own business ((;
The opposite of eating meat/fish isn’t veganism. It’s just not eating meat. Veganism is fraught with fake processed foods and high carb garbage and fake sugars.