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  • Practitioners of the 52 Blocks show some of the techniques that are part of the fighting style, and discuss its legitimacy as a sport.
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  • @antoniopope4398
    @antoniopope4398 3 роки тому +51

    Some of the ogz said they used this to block razors attacks back in the day

  • @barrymcgregor232
    @barrymcgregor232 3 роки тому +10

    George Foreman used the cross over block one of my favourite fighters of all time.

  • @Jamil-ei9rz
    @Jamil-ei9rz 9 місяців тому +2

    I'm saying a combination of boxing and Wing Chun Kung Fu I've been doing that for years without knowing anything about 52 blocks so it's really wonderful to see this video

  • @carltonfearrington3387
    @carltonfearrington3387 8 років тому +59

    52 Blocks could use some manuals, texts, something on paper. Very good techniques, lots of catches and counters.

  • @vespaman101
    @vespaman101 14 років тому +11

    man after watching this and learning about 52 i realised why black people fight different on the stree tthen white people. its becuz of those old influences that have passed down. look at how the russian white guys fight vs black guys in the US. our style is much more showy but still effective for street fighting. the 52 lets me see so many things ive seen in street fights but its street fighting gone completely martial art. put to maximum efficiency

  • @arikat1
    @arikat1 13 років тому +12

    It all makes perfect sense to me. A fighting technique born by need and developed via trial and error. Confuse, strike, defend in no particular order with the goal of overcoming an opponent in an everyday confined enviroment. It's clear though that it has not been perfected. In one word, is it defensive or offensive?

  • @mindyabiness2511
    @mindyabiness2511 4 роки тому +12

    Who’s here from Isreal Adesanya post / comment that was pinned? “Boy started doing the 52 blocks lol” 😭

  • @mistermindahenziandalasnus3754
    @mistermindahenziandalasnus3754 4 роки тому +6

    I beg to differ on one point. Boxing IS a Martial Art. 😉👍

  • @alldaysjboxing393
    @alldaysjboxing393 2 роки тому +3

    Its like boxing and wing chun had a baby

  • @clubbinmag3
    @clubbinmag3 9 років тому +27

    I love the idea of it, yet I really would like to see it in a real life fight, by an actual practitioner. but some reason, my 12yr old son has always fought like this (without training)... I never understood why.. (I thought something was wrong with it)... but I notice, he rarely ever gets hit.. and he always connects his punches. I'd like to see him train with real fighters one day.
    keep up the good work

    • @rpresident98
      @rpresident98 6 років тому +13

      Clubbin Mag to me it seems like a style that capitalizes on instinctual fighting, because it seems to be able to change or evolve with a user's knowledge of fighting overall.

    • @playthroughcinema
      @playthroughcinema 2 роки тому

      thts cos ur son will be a criminal one day

    • @Jamhael1
      @Jamhael1 11 місяців тому

      Your kid has a very good instinct to comprehend his biomechanics, which is something a knowledgeable master will tell you that is a central ability for combat and adaptability in a fight.

  • @kaenjin
    @kaenjin 13 років тому +6

    I believe the biggest mistake here is that the commentator refers to 52 as a sport. MMA is a sport. One in which martial arts like, Karate, Judo, Muay Thai, BJJ, and others are needed for a participant to compete in. The key is knowing that martial arts were not originally, and still not a sport but methods of fighting created for warfare and self defense. I would agree that 52 is an evolution of boxing, and a martial art in its own right. But certainly not a sport. Much like......

  • @FarisiDaniel
    @FarisiDaniel 15 років тому +3

    Could you send us some guys who fight wingchun or Kenpo who do contact?

  • @FarisiDaniel
    @FarisiDaniel 15 років тому +1

    tayari casel has an awesome ground fighting system that won him dozens of matches in the early mma days. Its more striking from the ground than chokes. Constellation will try to post some things from him

  • @ttc.o4007
    @ttc.o4007 8 місяців тому

    Good assessment. Very effective

  • @chidiokoro934
    @chidiokoro934 Рік тому +1

    If you watch the wayans brothers that's the stanve marlon does.

  • @squirrelsgarden
    @squirrelsgarden Рік тому

    Growing up in Brooklyn in the 90s everyone was doing this.

  • @trevorgamble4101
    @trevorgamble4101 10 місяців тому +1

    They should

  • @NAKMEEZY
    @NAKMEEZY 15 років тому +2

    RAHMEL VS NAKMEEZY! LETS GET IT!

    • @NAKMEEZY
      @NAKMEEZY 3 роки тому

      @Chaxerium Forniem The promoter thought Rahmel was gonna smash me lol

  • @Astronauten199
    @Astronauten199 11 місяців тому +1

    Sean strickland

  • @GodCarnage
    @GodCarnage 2 роки тому

    It has a Place now. We just have to get together and fight with it and put it on UA-cam it will catch on

  • @zaikapasaica
    @zaikapasaica 15 років тому +1

    Sensai? You're tha homie I saw on Yahoo Answers???- XD COOL! - :D

  • @ReachingEgo
    @ReachingEgo 3 роки тому

    Can I get this in Philadelphia

  • @BboyAcademy
    @BboyAcademy Рік тому

    Black wing chun

  • @upabittoolate
    @upabittoolate 15 років тому

    damn. farisi daniel is getting slim these days

  • @Ghaz013
    @Ghaz013 15 років тому

    cool vid

  • @kingdubbs143
    @kingdubbs143 2 роки тому

    This video makes sense to me. Because the practitioners say it born from black prize fighting and not in jail. I know inmates and no way possible could they develop a style so fancy and coordinated. So thank you for your words of enlightenment. And spread the word of this starting from black prizefighters. Dont worry. I will.

  • @christianrodriguez7749
    @christianrodriguez7749 3 роки тому

    No mames los golpes que estos tipos lanzan se parece a una mezcla de boxeo con tecnicas de puño del karate y taekwondo lo digo porque es muy parecido a los que suelo hacer en los combates al mesclar estos sitemas marciales.

  • @TheLillink
    @TheLillink 2 роки тому +1

    Montu

  • @aaronf.186
    @aaronf.186 6 років тому

    🤔 no grappling involved?

    • @ppkrex
      @ppkrex 6 років тому +6

      Generally grappling isn't wise with razors, knives, and multiple foes in a fight.

  • @reallylikedat719
    @reallylikedat719 3 роки тому

    Burly was ko d by 2 fingers. Go search it up

  • @MrTidx90
    @MrTidx90 13 років тому

    @KINGTERO8700
    you wouldn't be able to stand again if you went against me!

  • @realtalktv2105
    @realtalktv2105 2 роки тому +1

    Prison style

  • @jtmsl
    @jtmsl 14 років тому +1

    omg this shit is the lowest of fighting styles..this would never work

  • @krisztianwirsz3612
    @krisztianwirsz3612 7 років тому +1

    Unnecessary, futile hand movements, groin punches, low contact unrealistic sparring...That's what I see here. I'm no authority in combat sports but I boxed for some years (4), and I know a thing or two about fighting inside or outside a ring. 52 looks doesn't appeal to me. 2 cents.

  • @blackonblackprimenews-fba34

    Bruce Lee started 52 block back when he was in the Vietnam war. A lot of people don't know it but Bruce Lee is Jackie Chan's son.

  • @kobiesboxing4956
    @kobiesboxing4956 7 років тому +45

    Much respect to 52 Blocks & its creators. And may this style of fighting lasts as long as civilization itself.

  • @BartitsuSociety
    @BartitsuSociety 15 років тому +74

    Great to see the 52s getting some more mainstream recognition.

    • @funkymunky
      @funkymunky 3 роки тому +6

      Wow. I don't think I've ever read a YT comment that's twelve years old! I was...22 at the time of your comment. Time flies.

    • @JaeDee66
      @JaeDee66 10 місяців тому

      Why

    • @BenjaminWillis-24
      @BenjaminWillis-24 5 місяців тому +1

      My wife's uncle is a kickboxer, 52 blocks boxer and Kimura hand lock when he was in the police force back in the boomer days. He used some 52 blocks and Kimura to make an arrest.

  • @antarinthestuy4538
    @antarinthestuy4538 12 років тому +72

    I grew up in BedStuy watching guys fighting this in the 70's. I have witness guys do real damage to people using this style.

  • @thisizdub
    @thisizdub 3 роки тому +23

    The thing with the 52 is you have to CONSTANTLY work at it to be really great at it. You cant half *** it

  • @TheWaywardSpiral
    @TheWaywardSpiral 6 років тому +61

    Lyte Burly is the best 52 teacher. Find him if you're truly interested. He's got DVDs and lessons.

  • @sethkamara648
    @sethkamara648 5 років тому +51

    I see elements of wing chun in 52 blocks

    • @MrRa3500
      @MrRa3500 4 роки тому +3

      Exactly what it is. It’s wing chun and boxing mixed into one.

    • @hoodlum4511
      @hoodlum4511 4 роки тому

      @Ron-Jacques Dessalines wasn't there a 52 blocks coach who admits he's a wing chun guy

    • @hoodlum4511
      @hoodlum4511 4 роки тому +1

      @Ron-Jacques Dessalines the blocks, and its grabbing is similar to wing chun

    • @hoodlum4511
      @hoodlum4511 4 роки тому +1

      @Ron-Jacques Dessalines did you answer your own question? I mentioned a 52 blocks coach who also studied wing chun. And Lyte is the guy I know

    • @hoodlum4511
      @hoodlum4511 4 роки тому +2

      @Ron-Jacques Dessalines but isn't it a bit? Lyte admitted he was a wing chun guy and made his style of 52 blocks out of the wing chun methods. Blending in his art with another

  • @WreckingKrew00
    @WreckingKrew00 2 роки тому +41

    52 blocks needs to be documented because it's a very effective martial art . And should also have a ranking system .

    • @jacobharris954
      @jacobharris954 Рік тому +1

      No, ranking system because it watered down

    • @JaeDee66
      @JaeDee66 10 місяців тому +1

      No lmao

  • @cuevasdecamuy
    @cuevasdecamuy 15 років тому +47

    I took some conceps of 52 to defend against ground and pound, but it only works in a bare hand fight. The art has some good qualities

    • @xayer98
      @xayer98 4 роки тому

      @Damon Case did you ever read the comment. He said SOME things work. And even then, it was against ground and pound. God forbid the guy on top tries to chike you unconcious, or worse, to death

    • @twotimetony78
      @twotimetony78 3 роки тому +7

      @@xayer98 it works for me alot. Same with yoell romero and dustin porier

    • @ClassifiedDocz
      @ClassifiedDocz 10 місяців тому

      What? Boxing gloves make this technique even easier

    • @Pablo9svn8
      @Pablo9svn8 4 місяці тому

      @@twotimetony78i can see it with yoel but what dustin does is just your basic stonewall guard. Idk how 52 works but i do know boxing and what dustin does is definitely a stonewall guard

  • @thedroidish
    @thedroidish 4 роки тому +10

    Lyte Burly, if I’m ever in NYC I’d really like to train with you. Much respect from Houston, Texas.

  • @26gdagod.62
    @26gdagod.62 Рік тому +4

    I’ve been using some of the 52 without even knowing. Wow.

  • @666kinski
    @666kinski 2 роки тому +4

    Lyte & Another Guy Named Mark Hatmaker Who's an Encylopedia on Old School Boxing,Wrestling. I Recommend Them Both here on Yt.

  • @sensai67
    @sensai67 12 років тому +53

    when you have spent some time in prison where your life is on the line every second of every day. then you will understand the neccessity for an art like this

    • @xayer98
      @xayer98 4 роки тому +2

      I'm dead 😂😂😂😂 and anyone who uses this for self defense would be ACTUALLY dead

    • @xayer98
      @xayer98 4 роки тому +5

      @Damon Case did I say that? No. And in prison, there's definitely more of a worry about getting stabbed than a fist fight. All I'm saying is that, as someone who is part of the REAL martial art community, I know what works and what doesn't. I'm not saying every technique is useless. There are SOME good things about it. But any mixed martial artist who knows even the basics of jiu jitsu and kickboxing would put anyone using 52 blocks to shame. There is a big difference between street fighters and actual martial artist. If you're using street fighting tactics against a street fighter, than OF COURSE it would be effective. 99.999% of guys in prison are street fighters. Not martial artist.
      And even military hand to hand training has holes. It's been proven that most techniques to disarm an opponent using a knife, for example, that they teach in the military will in fact end up with you still getting stabbed a few times before actually disarming your assailant

    • @xayer98
      @xayer98 4 роки тому +2

      @ yeah, when one guy KINDA knows how to fight against someone who knows nothing or very little, he'll win. Congrats. Put 52 blocks up against jiu jitsu or kick boxing or muay thai. It's NOT going to work. Why do people insist on living in a fantasy world. There's REAL stuff that works in REAL life. Go to a gym, get a coach, amd just learn it

    • @jj80808
      @jj80808 3 роки тому +6

      'He's boxing weird' Holloway,in his corner during the Poirier rematch which ended his long running win streak. Dustin was definitely influenced by 52 blocks. The fundamental's weren't always fundamental

    • @cs2710
      @cs2710 3 роки тому +6

      @@xayer98 u don’t practice no martial arts stop lying in the comment section and u never been in a fight before I see right thru u

  • @13datone
    @13datone 3 роки тому +6

    Way back In GA prison systems they called it the Alto shuffle and the style included knee attacks with the movement dam near Impenetrable

  • @kaenjin
    @kaenjin 13 років тому +5

    BJJ, Boxing, Karate, and so on 52 may be a system useful to MMA competitors. Any real martial artist would see this. I would not discredit 52, while I'm sure its not the perfect martial art. Still I can admit it may give a martial artist a new dimension. After all the point is to evolve as a martial artist much like Mas Oyama, or even more so and later on, Bruce Lee.

  • @insightdeluxe2
    @insightdeluxe2 14 років тому +5

    look what rashad did to silva the 1st 2 rounds! he couldn'tfind rashad! fighting in a phone booth! i see ou getting tagged by these catz!

  • @Stagefire420
    @Stagefire420 14 років тому +5

    Close Quarters fighting I love it!!! Peace.

  • @j0hnwrath
    @j0hnwrath 14 років тому +3

    i'm a catchwrestler/lutra libre esporta guy and I will tell you this if you want to be a great fighter you have to adapt. i am sure there are a few things you can learn from 52.

  • @FarisiDaniel
    @FarisiDaniel 15 років тому +2

    peace that would be an ugly sparring session, seeing that both styles attack the body. As for 52 vs JH, there are a few differences 52 plays more in the street, where JH is for being in close no room. thus the tatics are changed the way you fight in range, as for rock n roll no comment, not sure if that is a real style since the inventor had issues with the group he claimed he got from. 52 is native to the US and Caribbean.

  • @professorkhashon7
    @professorkhashon7 15 років тому +2

    this is for qjdaboss, if your interested i live in north carolina and teach the original 52 building blocks you can contack me and we can build from there.
    peace

  • @rbSteelers86
    @rbSteelers86 15 років тому +5

    ny times keeps it real love it

  • @rex2074
    @rex2074 15 років тому +4

    Awesome -
    Id love to see anything youve got.
    I was exposed to a style of what i believe is 52, though the practitioner referred to it as Comstock - he was from chicago .. He wsnt about teaching it, but I would spar him, and learn each time.
    Id be down to practice with anyone who comes to portland Oregon hit me up.

    • @isowmedia2879
      @isowmedia2879 3 роки тому +1

      That is the same thing! In Chicago it’s called jailhouse rock in NY it’s 52 blocks in Jersey it’s 52 ConStyle (convict) etc.....

  • @marcbergeron1750
    @marcbergeron1750 4 місяці тому +1

    First time I and the public at large saw jailhouse rock was in the movie Lethal Weapon. It was one of the styles used by Mel Gibson character Martin Riggs . I was told in the early nineties that 52 was a form of jailhouse. There was also Comstock, Bumrush, Clic clac..I was told back then that jailhouse was to hands what capoeira is to feet . It certainly deserves more serious attention as a contemporary fighting form.

  • @tanguman2
    @tanguman2 2 роки тому +2

    Highly doubt will be recognized given alot of low blows, it's more a straight up street fighting style then an actual martial art that can be used in a ring since most of the techniques look more like street boxing/illegal boxing moves and moves not allowed in martial arts tournaments

  • @rbc13183
    @rbc13183 2 роки тому +6

    Bruce Lee would have absolutely loved seeing this style in action, and would have likely integrated parts of it into his ever evolving Jeet Kune Do. It seems to have some similarities with Wing Chun.

  • @airpegasus5167
    @airpegasus5167 4 роки тому +3

    52 Blocks Martial Arts Was On The Walls Of Certain Pyramids

  • @robsmall5155
    @robsmall5155 10 місяців тому +1

    Look like the hood rediscovered wing chun - nice

  • @insightdeluxe2
    @insightdeluxe2 14 років тому +2

    have you seen rashad evans? pernell whitaker? joe frazier? jack johnson? study boxing! footwork, head movement and blocks are par and parcel of boxing!

  • @FarisiDaniel
    @FarisiDaniel 14 років тому +2

    wow thanks

  • @TheHassan718
    @TheHassan718 14 років тому +1

    whats up with glassman, eric tweedy, mother dear those are names that rang bells in the 70s

  • @CEE662
    @CEE662 Рік тому +1

    Zab

  • @skylerarroniz7513
    @skylerarroniz7513 Рік тому +1

    52 is like mauy Thai, kali and boxings long lost cousin 😢

  • @arikat1
    @arikat1 13 років тому +1

    @kaenjin I agree. Making it a sport in such an early stage would take away much of it's effectiveness.

  • @h2obadiah
    @h2obadiah 15 років тому +2

    Awesome! Hey world, recognize and realize...

  • @zaikapasaica
    @zaikapasaica 15 років тому +2

    1:10- Word! Dead up!- XD

  • @IMmr52
    @IMmr52 15 років тому +1

    How can they give up what they know not....

  • @sever427
    @sever427 7 років тому +2

    52 me wan learn 52 Style

  • @Kigonja
    @Kigonja 14 років тому +1

    @NAKMEEZY And your Insecure .LOL.

  • @xxfranknittyxx2270
    @xxfranknittyxx2270 3 роки тому

    I'm.from far rockaway

  • @griver007able
    @griver007able 7 місяців тому

    I don't know but it seems it has no difference to Keysi fighting systems

  • @bettynewkirk8915
    @bettynewkirk8915 2 роки тому

    313 Chester Campbell brought me here

  • @eddiecruz9683
    @eddiecruz9683 2 роки тому

    There are a set of rules in boxing. His statement made no sense

  • @Kigonja
    @Kigonja 14 років тому

    If someone says they this or that is it so? MMA has unhealthy beer belly flabby fighters. The ones that win most of the time has Afrikan roots to connect all their styles together as an organic whole. All others are mechanical. All people has flaws so let the ego withdraw please.

  • @Kigonja
    @Kigonja 14 років тому

    no offense but isnt the cultural history connects the art as what place it has in history. The best style is the most basic one...first things first for the first people on earth.

  • @michaelbhamilton5931
    @michaelbhamilton5931 2 роки тому

    🏆🏆🏆🏆 🌹🌹🌹🌹 ✌️🕊️ and blessing ©®™✓

  • @trab5933
    @trab5933 3 роки тому +1

    Down South we got that in the early 90's training school. As yall say B.C

  • @danieladdison2481
    @danieladdison2481 6 місяців тому

    🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @lucasbr5658
    @lucasbr5658 Рік тому

    Tipo Chutambo

  • @thamsanqahadebe5778
    @thamsanqahadebe5778 3 роки тому +2

    Black people invented all martial arts as we've seen the ancients depicted on the pyramid walls. So we're always inventive and nobody got more styles than black people. 52 blocks is boxing in vivid color!

  • @troypowers9578
    @troypowers9578 3 роки тому +2

    The 52 is the black man art

  • @jtmsl
    @jtmsl 13 років тому

    @opticannon you're mind is in the past buddy, come talk when you're done watching hidden dragon crouching tiger.. Because you're Obviously still stuck in the past....nuff said

  • @cormano64
    @cormano64 15 років тому

    Very interesting. Quite misleading movements there, you'd have to keep your attention up against someone mastering that technique.

  • @jtmsl
    @jtmsl 13 років тому

    @opticannon why do you think mma is evolving? the fighters of today are way better then the fighters of the past.. nuff said

  • @machadofacas
    @machadofacas 2 роки тому

    Im training Fcs Kali and Panantukan and these cover guards are almost the same. Regards

  • @rasaroots6309
    @rasaroots6309 5 років тому +3

    I'd say it has come a long way....and btw the origins of 52 are found in Angola/Kongo

    • @nkosistrainbullies5806
      @nkosistrainbullies5806 4 роки тому +1

      Everything doesn't have an origin in Africa. 52 was was some can say groomed in prison period. The aryan brotherhood has a certain way they use their version of hand combat and a knife.

  • @ruach2283
    @ruach2283 13 років тому

    @jtmsl So long as Bruce Lee is in the past I take great issue with that statement.

  • @muitobem100
    @muitobem100 13 років тому

    @KINGTERO8700 Why don't you go down there and tell them exactly that!

  • @Banksofamerikkka
    @Banksofamerikkka 3 роки тому

    prison fighting techniques

  • @KINGTERO8700
    @KINGTERO8700 13 років тому

    @MrTidx90 your mom doesn't stand a chance against me

  • @brutalityhonest96
    @brutalityhonest96 4 роки тому +2

    Thats the problem we show too many ppl things we create instead of keeping it in house!!

  • @roninnovastar1321
    @roninnovastar1321 3 роки тому

    From Rap rhyme lyrics converted to hand hysterics.

  • @doriangrey1764
    @doriangrey1764 2 роки тому

    That is the stupidest fighting system I’ve ever seen in my life

  • @clarencebrowniii4750
    @clarencebrowniii4750 4 роки тому +3

    The 5% nation is where 52 blocks comes from.

    • @livefromdablokchain
      @livefromdablokchain 4 роки тому +1

      Ummmm no its actually on the pyramids

    • @livefromdablokchain
      @livefromdablokchain 4 роки тому +1

      Its called research try it sometime

    • @livefromdablokchain
      @livefromdablokchain 4 роки тому +1

      @Righteous Shadows Dojo i seen an interview with mr 52 blocks he spoke on it and after i researched it myself i have go thru the archives to find out exactly where

  • @mendozaconsultation
    @mendozaconsultation 10 місяців тому

    Brings me back.

  • @plostyle2554
    @plostyle2554 4 роки тому

    lol

  • @anthonyrobinson6752
    @anthonyrobinson6752 2 роки тому

    Are there any kicks in 52 blocks??? If so I'd love to see 😁😁😁

    • @Westside_Hippie
      @Westside_Hippie 2 роки тому

      You can probably use 52 blocks as a set up to incorporate low/mid kicks to create space for a bigger variety of strikes