The thought of hard sparring is over glorified. Especially for those that do it frequently. I've hard sparred lots when I was young, and you generally have to if preparing for certain fights, but when i realized the damage that could have been done, changed my mind from thinking it's no big deal as long as everyone involved knew to keep emotions and ego in check, to saying it's not worth it. It only took one accidental head injury to change my mind. For context it was serious enough to leave my speech messed up (persists to this day, but much better than it was), I needed to relearn coordination so anything I wrote would be legible and even remotely understandable, and let's not forget memory loss as well. Bad thing is, I don't know if it was from just one terrible injury or the repetitive damage over time, and it just took one more to be bad enough to show symptoms...bc it could have honestly been either one or even both. For anyone that may not know, you want to keep what brain cells you have and preserve how good your body feels when you get older. You will be able to train much longer and have more years of enjoyment. It also takes waay too long to make comments on videos due to needing to constantly proofread thinking I might have typed random letters thinking it was a real word
I feel for your injury Ramsey - you’re a strong man to be so honest about it - not just your injury but combat in general. It’s something that most people just don’t like to contemplate & unfortunately the ego prevents most of us from even thinking of the worst case scenario. Great answer & I love your work mate .
I knew you had memory issues, but I didn't know they affected your frequent memory as well as your long term (just about the ultimate self defense challenge) that is scary stuff, also the last issue of Rokas' challenge.....the poop covevered man, and when the other guy would start cutting himself, I live on the downtown Eastside of Vancouver Canada, I see stuff like that daily........I was once helping an elderly man who fell from heat stroke, and 911 took 5 mins to pick up because of how busy they are, the elderly man was severely bleeding in the middle of a busy street also, help arrived 20 mins later.
I love combat sports but have never wanted to hard spar, so I mostly spar with women because all the dudes at all the gyms I've been in always want to go hard for some reason. I'm not afraid to say that I'm actually really scared of going hard because I'm a teacher so I like my brain to remain intact. Just hearing to talk about your injury is so terrifying. I hope you are ok. Best of luck! Love your channel.
Why train if you’re never going to actually push yourself? I understand you might want to stay fit but to be able to defend yourself you need to know what getting hit is like and every able bodied man has a duty to be able to protect our loved ones. I respect your honesty a lot but you’re missing out on the biggest benefits of training which is to learn more about yourself (which you only learn when facing real adversity)
@@BlacksmithBets I train because i like it and i push myself in light sparring. I do get hit, but not hard enough to knock me out. I get into many fights because of my location and i've survived because i've sparred many many times throughout my 15 plus years of martial arts journey.
@@BlacksmithBets To get to the top fifty percent of fighters don’t come for free, and it’s a huge toll, for most it’s not worth it unless you plan on fighting Tyson Fury
@@TaoistSwordsman Totally agree. Some people need to understand that not everybody wants to be a tryhard to be cool. Sometimes people just do things because they are fun.
@@The_JamesV Or because doing less than you theoretically could already does the job for you. Just as with physical exercise in general, sometimes people get caught up in some idealism about what you should be doing or wanting to do, and lose sight of what matters, whether what you are putting in/giving up is worth the result. This doesn't just mean different lifestyles but often actually sets you back or keep you from progressing as you don't actually pursue your goals.
If you’re asking such basic questions you shouldn’t be even thinking about sparring hard, simple has that, in fact someone asking on UA-cam “how hard can I hit someone” probably shouldn’t be sparring in the first place, get some basic experience first.
I am pretty sure most people think sparring is all-out fighting until you tell them it isn't. In my experience, anyways, people are usually looking for a deathmatch without saying it or even realizing it, and I have to decline about 99% of the time if I want to get through the day without a headache.
I trained at a school that ONLY did hard sparring after every training session. That school is closed now. It turns out that MOST people dont want to keep paying to go somewhere to get hurt on a weekly basis just so a few already athletic people can become hardcore badasses. Not good for training and not good for business either.
1:20 Tbh I really dislike the notion of "sparring hard, having a real fight FOR FUN". As well as that Ancient Rome Circus viewer mentality of wanting to see a fighter basically destroyed. A real fight is not fun, and is not for fun. Especially unexperienced fighters might have way more ability to hit hard in the wrong spot, then they have abilities to dodge or guess what is coming. And things might escalate quickly when one is punched hard and ego comes in. Your viewer should watch the "Chris Eubank vs. Michael Watson" story, which was an epic boxing tale, until it was ending badly, mostly because of poor refereeing imho. I liked both fighters, and the rivalry was on Muhammad Ali levels, but that is not what you want to have in sparring with a friend "for fun". You think, you can easier punch hard with a friend, because he might not become vengeful and punch you back as hard as a stranger would? Better watch out! Look up the video "Incident that changed boxing forever!!! | Tribute" on _Your Boxing Guide_ for example. Only two exactly targeted punches sent both to the ground within a minute, while both were already exhausted late in the fight. It is not fun.
Otustanding advice, as always. It's questions I would ask as well. Like, it sounds less like he wants to spar and more like he just wants to have an actual match with his friend, which means there should be some sort of standard ruleset and a coach or referee for safety. If someone wants to limit test so they know how to handle a match, we just grab some pads and run some live drills so both the target and him are safe, but otherwise it just doesn't sound like his aim in this sparring is improving. Especially when the goal is "just for fun". A match is fun. There are rules. It's "fairly" safe by comparison of not having rules and a ref. It's gonna be less fun with no prior sparring experience, though.
3 thing begginers need to quit doing. Intentionality cauliflowering their ears. Assuming they only need grappling defense, but not offense. Sparring too hard. Anyone that came from a gym that did that too often knows the problem with this.
Ramsey, you are so awesome! Wonderful video keep up putting the good information! I completely agree about Jeff Chan... his videos that are a hard spar are definitely the ones that people watch. Sad that people don't respect the technical light sparring, because thats the stuff thats hard to do!
Thanks for sharing your experience so others can learn. I had no idea you were dealing with that serious of injuries. As much as I enjoy martial arts I have no desire to spar hard.
This was so funny. You might have the touch of death or might be a weakling lmaooo00 😂🤣😆 Tell them to send us a video tape of this 🤣🙏 please ha ha ha lmaooo00
Anyone wanting to go 100% for fun, has never gone 100%. I grew up fighting with my brother. When we were pissed at each other we would go pretty hard. I'm talking one fight he bit me and I knocked a dresser over with his head for it. It prepared me for the rare times that I had to go 100% for self defense or defense of others, but it sucked for both of us. I would much rather talk a situation down than end up in a 100% situation.
If someone has an injury can they still do bjj ? Like can you say to the training partner ' my left knee is no go, or my right shoulder is shot so please go easy on it' or is that just wasting everyones time ?
if they never train and never do light sparring before.. i think is very hard to do some heavy sparring..i mean is very difficult to land a clean strong punch or kick without previous sparring experience and even harder receiving them
I had my 1st amateur fight the other day and it hurt much less than light sparring, is this normal? Like, it wasn't even close, the only strike I remember hurting a lot was a knee (accidental, they weren't legal strikes) Edit: it was also so much more fun, hard sparring is so lame and boring 90% of the time, but fighting was fun.
No, that's not normal. Either the guy you were fighting wasn't going as hard as he needs to be for an actual fight or the guys in your gym are going a lot harder than they should be for light sparring.
Bruh the more i learn about martial art the more i realise i've only been trained in bad dojos. At the end of a year training once a week, we got a surprise hard sparring session (in boxing) with no other referee than other beginners... It was in the school programme so i had to do it to have a good note...
@@RamseyDewey thanks, i wasnt sure if it was a necklace or like an object for massage or something. Like something you would put on the ground and roll your back over
how do all? great ethos for beginners, coach ramsey. people employed in light manual work should pay particular attention as just the difference between light/heavy production work with muscle mass would increase biomass from 69kg's to 78 personally. i never went looking for fights though often challenged at a different venue and wonder if , [ middleweight ], size the cause. would you have interest in conducting survey with the clan? taztez.
I did hard sparring before and all I can say it is dangerous. I realized that I am not a prizefighter who do it for a living. 😊I'm just a practitioner so what's the point of having a hard sparring. Right now I just spar lightly.
I dont know the actual name, so im just going to call them AKUMA BEADS! Very cool haha great video. I stopped sparring with my friends after watching one of your videos. It definitely wasnt worth the risk.
I think that there is no purpose to hard sparring other than conditioning (which is better done not in sparring) or as a radical way of psychological training. So, in a way, it may serve as a substitute to competition. And that's it. In conclusion, better not do that. The risks make it not worthwhile.
I got a cracked sternum and two ribs with light sparring. The black belt former competitive fighter was a little to rough. Not the end of the world but that’s light sparring sometimes.
Hey Ramsay, during sparring I stepped into a hook which landed clean on my jaw and i lost vision for a split second, I saw a silvery flash, was this on the way to a knock out?
It's hard to gauge context unless you get down to it over and over until you find out what works. I find that a lot of the time when people ask questions like these they don't have the right guidance. I used to be one of them. Till I started studying and training on my own and trusting myself. The people that doubt without confronting me are seriously bigots and hypocrites. I welcome any challenge. Probably no one will reply.
I assume the guy asking the question is talking about "homie boxing" or the mma version, where you can fight a friend with gloves on without hating each other after. I'd like to share 2 things that happened to me in high school that made me stop doing such things: 1 I got knocked out at one point and then I didn't know what was going on for like 3 days, I didn't know who I was and all my complex memories were gone for that time period. I would slowly start remembering things over a couple hours but then I'd be in the middle of something like pouring a bowl of cereal or getting the mail or walking the pupor and BAM it would reset and I wouldn't know who or where I was. (going outside was pretty dumb as who knows how long I could've gotten lost, but 16 year old me was an idiot) And then 2 was a couple years later, I think I was 19. We were doing homie MMA and my friend got me in a ground and pound scenario and because it wasn't a submission I couldn't tap really, but after a bit I said uncle because there was no way out of it and I didn't want to actually die or something. I went to bed that night and slept for like 18 hours (I no call no showed at work) and only woke up because the people who lived above me dropped something big and it was super loud, otherwise I would have gone into a coma and who knows how long until someone would've found me 😬 Afterwards I had about a month long headache and I was super sensitive to light for like 3 months and had to be that guy wearing sunglasses indoors 🙄 thank god I worked graveyard shift at the time or it would have been way worse for me. Also I had 20/20 vision before that incident and I'm back to that now but I had like a year where I could barely even read traffic signs. P.S. I also never went to the doctor for any of this, because fing I had a concussion when I was like 14 and went to the doctor and all they did was give me an MRI and said "yep you have a concussion" 🤣
Yeah... When you get hit hard enough to develop retrograde amnesia, you definitely had a very severe concussion. The second incident you described was almost certainly a concussion as well. Glad you survived it all though. That first situation very easily could have ended up being fatal.
I would love a necklace like that, only made of stainless steel ball bearings. That would be cool lol. Also, what is the etiquette for how much power to put behind a strike, when sparring? Maybe 30% or so?
You are absolutely KILLING that look. I want that look, but my baldness hasn't quite gotten there yet. I can manage shaved head but then I look like a convict.
I see the same mentality in boxing gyms I go to. They think that light sparring is less “fun” than hard sparring, or that they HAVE TO hard spar every time. And those people who will never be pro fighters ALWAYS find themselves asking, “when can we go hard?” I’m not here to disparage them in any way, but I think this is highlighting a lack of education that we have in our society. Towards what fighting is and isn’t.
it feels like i questioned this a few years ago, Everybody wants to know, if your hard work pays off ;) Well i recommend your first harder sparrng whith an good and skilled coach, who can dosage it better. At least one person should know what he is doing, and is able to care for himself and you. It is no garantee, but it should end with few injuries. Dont make an egotrip while sparring hard, there is always a risk for both of you. Ask yourself, are you able to spar light whithout loosing vision to your opponent, balance and denfence. Are you able to protect your head in light sparring all time? Are you in really good shape, so that your neck muscles, are able to hold a hard punch ore even a kick? If you make hard sparring without being prepared properly, you could not only hurt your body, you can end in bad habits, or even a PTBS, and it took plenty of time and money to erase this.
This reminds me of when my brother and I, in a moment of testosterone fuelled stupidity, decided to spar blindfolded. Back then we also sparred bare knuckle. It was stupid, dangerous, and we never tried it again. But at least we were Sparring light.
This is a concern of mine, I’m a BJJ purple belt with about 7 years experience, I’ve always been aware that striking is a massive hole in my skill sets however, I have a condition called Hemiplegic Migraine which is worsened by head trauma, it’s pretty debilitating but over years I’ve adjusted my diet and lifestyle to the point where I have episodes only once a year or so, is there a striking art where I can become proficient without taking hits to the head? Kyokushin or something?
Full contact kicks to the head are still legal in kyuokushin, taekwondo, and many other styles like that. You might want to look into some different amateur MMA or pankration organizations. Some (not all)only allow strikes to the body and legs, and disallow strikes to the head completely.
Hey Ramsey, I really respect all your work, advice, and time you put in. I have a question though. Going through hard combat sports, such as getting in the cage, isn't normal per say. It seems that those who are somewhat troubled dive into that place. Maybe that's just my perception of it. So, why did you do cage fighting, what got you into it? I apologize if thats a personal question, thank you for your time.
My rule is: I will go in at 50%, working on my timing, range, combinations, breathing and accuracy and defence. The other guy though, usually when taking liberties, he bangs me with a cheap hard shot, I will turn it up a notch or two. Very quickly, they realise, oooops. Then I will be respectful and go back to sparring level when they calm down. I’m a pressure fighter, so I understand mentally for the other guy, it is going to be a “hard” round, but I’m not smashing in power shots, or trying to blast them out. I’m physically just ever present, slipping and moving and popping in shots, hunting and exposing those gaps and holes in their defence. Mentally, for them, it’s gruelling as they don’t get that break or breathing room and are having to work. It’s still not a “hard” spar as I’m not gunning for them, I’m not hurting them with spiteful strikes, I’m just touching and tapping in shots into their guards and open areas. It’s just a “hard” round as they are having to work with no breaks. I can separate the two. They realise the difference too, as they don’t come out busted up with a migraines, bust nose and lips with black eyes and sore mid-section- they are only breathing hard and feeling drained. We can do multiple rounds like that if they feel game for it, only thing that puts them off is their own fitness and mental fatigue. So they learn to train against a different pace and style and can walk away and work on their conditioning.
Ramsey is Akuma confirmed. Im amazed at your ability to control the Satsui no Hado.
Hahaha! Because Satsui no Hado is fo’ da streetz!
@@RamseyDewey 😂😂😂🙌
The thought of hard sparring is over glorified. Especially for those that do it frequently. I've hard sparred lots when I was young, and you generally have to if preparing for certain fights, but when i realized the damage that could have been done, changed my mind from thinking it's no big deal as long as everyone involved knew to keep emotions and ego in check, to saying it's not worth it. It only took one accidental head injury to change my mind. For context it was serious enough to leave my speech messed up (persists to this day, but much better than it was), I needed to relearn coordination so anything I wrote would be legible and even remotely understandable, and let's not forget memory loss as well. Bad thing is, I don't know if it was from just one terrible injury or the repetitive damage over time, and it just took one more to be bad enough to show symptoms...bc it could have honestly been either one or even both. For anyone that may not know, you want to keep what brain cells you have and preserve how good your body feels when you get older. You will be able to train much longer and have more years of enjoyment. It also takes waay too long to make comments on videos due to needing to constantly proofread thinking I might have typed random letters thinking it was a real word
I appreciate your comment!
I feel for your injury Ramsey - you’re a strong man to be so honest about it - not just your injury but combat in general. It’s something that most people just don’t like to contemplate & unfortunately the ego prevents most of us from even thinking of the worst case scenario. Great answer & I love your work mate .
I knew you had memory issues, but I didn't know they affected your frequent memory as well as your long term (just about the ultimate self defense challenge) that is scary stuff, also the last issue of Rokas' challenge.....the poop covevered man, and when the other guy would start cutting himself, I live on the downtown Eastside of Vancouver Canada, I see stuff like that daily........I was once helping an elderly man who fell from heat stroke, and 911 took 5 mins to pick up because of how busy they are, the elderly man was severely bleeding in the middle of a busy street also, help arrived 20 mins later.
This is the first time I have any evidence of a memory lapse of something recent.
I love combat sports but have never wanted to hard spar, so I mostly spar with women because all the dudes at all the gyms I've been in always want to go hard for some reason. I'm not afraid to say that I'm actually really scared of going hard because I'm a teacher so I like my brain to remain intact. Just hearing to talk about your injury is so terrifying. I hope you are ok. Best of luck! Love your channel.
Why train if you’re never going to actually push yourself? I understand you might want to stay fit but to be able to defend yourself you need to know what getting hit is like and every able bodied man has a duty to be able to protect our loved ones.
I respect your honesty a lot but you’re missing out on the biggest benefits of training which is to learn more about yourself (which you only learn when facing real adversity)
@@BlacksmithBets I train because i like it and i push myself in light sparring. I do get hit, but not hard enough to knock me out. I get into many fights because of my location and i've survived because i've sparred many many times throughout my 15 plus years of martial arts journey.
@@BlacksmithBets To get to the top fifty percent of fighters don’t come for free, and it’s a huge toll, for most it’s not worth it unless you plan on fighting Tyson Fury
@@TaoistSwordsman Totally agree. Some people need to understand that not everybody wants to be a tryhard to be cool. Sometimes people just do things because they are fun.
@@The_JamesV Or because doing less than you theoretically could already does the job for you.
Just as with physical exercise in general, sometimes people get caught up in some idealism about what you should be doing or wanting to do, and lose sight of what matters, whether what you are putting in/giving up is worth the result.
This doesn't just mean different lifestyles but often actually sets you back or keep you from progressing as you don't actually pursue your goals.
If you’re asking such basic questions you shouldn’t be even thinking about sparring hard, simple has that, in fact someone asking on UA-cam “how hard can I hit someone” probably shouldn’t be sparring in the first place, get some basic experience first.
I am pretty sure most people think sparring is all-out fighting until you tell them it isn't. In my experience, anyways, people are usually looking for a deathmatch without saying it or even realizing it, and I have to decline about 99% of the time if I want to get through the day without a headache.
I trained at a school that ONLY did hard sparring after every training session. That school is closed now. It turns out that MOST people dont want to keep paying to go somewhere to get hurt on a weekly basis just so a few already athletic people can become hardcore badasses.
Not good for training and not good for business either.
I want to do my first tightrope walk between the Petronas Towers- can I do this without inury???
I want to floor the accelerator on my car for the first time and do my fastest time driving to London- can i do this without injury???
1:20 Tbh I really dislike the notion of "sparring hard, having a real fight FOR FUN". As well as that Ancient Rome Circus viewer mentality of wanting to see a fighter basically destroyed. A real fight is not fun, and is not for fun. Especially unexperienced fighters might have way more ability to hit hard in the wrong spot, then they have abilities to dodge or guess what is coming.
And things might escalate quickly when one is punched hard and ego comes in.
Your viewer should watch the "Chris Eubank vs. Michael Watson" story, which was an epic boxing tale, until it was ending badly, mostly because of poor refereeing imho.
I liked both fighters, and the rivalry was on Muhammad Ali levels, but that is not what you want to have in sparring with a friend "for fun". You think, you can easier punch hard with a friend, because he might not become vengeful and punch you back as hard as a stranger would? Better watch out!
Look up the video "Incident that changed boxing forever!!! | Tribute" on _Your Boxing Guide_ for example. Only two exactly targeted punches sent both to the ground within a minute, while both were already exhausted late in the fight. It is not fun.
4:35 i am very dissapointed that you didn't use "Ramseyfications".
Your Dadjoke game needs an upgrade. You have a Daughter man! Think of her!
I am deeply ashamed, but also honored that you have given me such a gem of a dad joke to use for future reference!
This is so much wisdom, thanks Sensei 🙏
Otustanding advice, as always. It's questions I would ask as well. Like, it sounds less like he wants to spar and more like he just wants to have an actual match with his friend, which means there should be some sort of standard ruleset and a coach or referee for safety. If someone wants to limit test so they know how to handle a match, we just grab some pads and run some live drills so both the target and him are safe, but otherwise it just doesn't sound like his aim in this sparring is improving. Especially when the goal is "just for fun". A match is fun. There are rules. It's "fairly" safe by comparison of not having rules and a ref. It's gonna be less fun with no prior sparring experience, though.
Ichiren Bozu like the Master Gouken 🙂
Looking great, The-Danger Sen'Sei
GG = Good game. EZ = Easy to beat.
3 thing begginers need to quit doing.
Intentionality cauliflowering their ears.
Assuming they only need grappling defense, but not offense.
Sparring too hard. Anyone that came from a gym that did that too often knows the problem with this.
Ramsey, you are so awesome! Wonderful video keep up putting the good information! I completely agree about Jeff Chan... his videos that are a hard spar are definitely the ones that people watch. Sad that people don't respect the technical light sparring, because thats the stuff thats hard to do!
And Jeff is so good at light technical sparring. I would trust him to spar with my children, and that’s saying a lot.
do an audiobook
Interesting perspective, but I am slightly disappointed at the lack of explosions.
Ramsaysattva giving us his wisdom again
You still have these memory lapses, years after the injury?
That's tough.
Jeff Chan v Ramsey ASMR sparring match ;)
No way bro made a video from my comment cd. Thanks
Thanks for sharing your experience so others can learn. I had no idea you were dealing with that serious of injuries. As much as I enjoy martial arts I have no desire to spar hard.
This was so funny. You might have the touch of death or might be a weakling lmaooo00 😂🤣😆
Tell them to send us a video tape of this 🤣🙏 please ha ha ha lmaooo00
Anyone wanting to go 100% for fun, has never gone 100%. I grew up fighting with my brother. When we were pissed at each other we would go pretty hard. I'm talking one fight he bit me and I knocked a dresser over with his head for it. It prepared me for the rare times that I had to go 100% for self defense or defense of others, but it sucked for both of us. I would much rather talk a situation down than end up in a 100% situation.
If someone has an injury can they still do bjj ? Like can you say to the training partner ' my left knee is no go, or my right shoulder is shot so please go easy on it' or is that just wasting everyones time ?
That happens all the time!
You most certainly can, most ppl will respect it. As things get interesting ppl can forget so just be ready to tap early.
if they never train and never do light sparring before.. i think is very hard to do some heavy sparring..i mean is very difficult to land a clean strong punch or kick without previous sparring experience and even harder receiving them
I had my 1st amateur fight the other day and it hurt much less than light sparring, is this normal?
Like, it wasn't even close, the only strike I remember hurting a lot was a knee (accidental, they weren't legal strikes)
Edit: it was also so much more fun, hard sparring is so lame and boring 90% of the time, but fighting was fun.
No, that's not normal. Either the guy you were fighting wasn't going as hard as he needs to be for an actual fight or the guys in your gym are going a lot harder than they should be for light sparring.
Probaly the adrenaline rush that made it seem like it didn’t hurt
@@connorperrett9559 I was talking about hard sparring, we do light sparring too.
@@connorperrett9559 maybe the guy had no power then
That is actually very normal. The adrenaline dump from a fight masks pain pretty well.
Coach Dewey, can you please tell me about those large beads? Is that a Buddhist necklace? What is its cultural significance? Thank you.
Bruh the more i learn about martial art the more i realise i've only been trained in bad dojos. At the end of a year training once a week, we got a surprise hard sparring session (in boxing) with no other referee than other beginners... It was in the school programme so i had to do it to have a good note...
As long as you leave it safely and uninjured, you're winning!
Like the Japanese T-shirt! That's an awesome proverb. 😏
One of the best! Fall down seven times, stand up eight.
This might sound stupid, but what is that object around your neck ?
佛珠 fozhu . Buddha pearls, as they’re called in Chinese. It’s a necklace made of wooden beads.
@@RamseyDewey thanks, i wasnt sure if it was a necklace or like an object for massage or something. Like something you would put on the ground and roll your back over
VLNOW the testicles of fallen opponents
how do all? great ethos for beginners, coach ramsey. people employed in light manual work should pay particular attention as just the difference between light/heavy production work with muscle mass would increase biomass from 69kg's to 78 personally.
i never went looking for fights though often challenged at a different venue and wonder if , [ middleweight ], size the cause. would you have interest in conducting survey with the clan? taztez.
I did hard sparring before and all I can say it is dangerous. I realized that I am not a prizefighter who do it for a living. 😊I'm just a practitioner so what's the point of having a hard sparring. Right now I just spar lightly.
I dont know the actual name, so im just going to call them AKUMA BEADS! Very cool haha great video. I stopped sparring with my friends after watching one of your videos. It definitely wasnt worth the risk.
I think that there is no purpose to hard sparring other than conditioning (which is better done not in sparring) or as a radical way of psychological training. So, in a way, it may serve as a substitute to competition. And that's it. In conclusion, better not do that. The risks make it not worthwhile.
I got a cracked sternum and two ribs with light sparring. The black belt former competitive fighter was a little to rough. Not the end of the world but that’s light sparring sometimes.
Hey Ramsay, during sparring I stepped into a hook which landed clean on my jaw and i lost vision for a split second, I saw a silvery flash, was this on the way to a knock out?
It's hard to gauge context unless you get down to it over and over until you find out what works. I find that a lot of the time when people ask questions like these they don't have the right guidance. I used to be one of them. Till I started studying and training on my own and trusting myself. The people that doubt without confronting me are seriously bigots and hypocrites. I welcome any challenge. Probably no one will reply.
RD droppin wisdom here that he is known for! I'm concerned about that memory lapse... I'll be prayin about that!
He should just do kyokushin and fight full contact, that way there is no punches to the head
excellent sound advice, exactly why I'm subbed. Hope you have a great day.
I assume the guy asking the question is talking about "homie boxing" or the mma version, where you can fight a friend with gloves on without hating each other after. I'd like to share 2 things that happened to me in high school that made me stop doing such things:
1 I got knocked out at one point and then I didn't know what was going on for like 3 days, I didn't know who I was and all my complex memories were gone for that time period. I would slowly start remembering things over a couple hours but then I'd be in the middle of something like pouring a bowl of cereal or getting the mail or walking the pupor and BAM it would reset and I wouldn't know who or where I was. (going outside was pretty dumb as who knows how long I could've gotten lost, but 16 year old me was an idiot)
And then 2 was a couple years later, I think I was 19. We were doing homie MMA and my friend got me in a ground and pound scenario and because it wasn't a submission I couldn't tap really, but after a bit I said uncle because there was no way out of it and I didn't want to actually die or something. I went to bed that night and slept for like 18 hours (I no call no showed at work) and only woke up because the people who lived above me dropped something big and it was super loud, otherwise I would have gone into a coma and who knows how long until someone would've found me 😬 Afterwards I had about a month long headache and I was super sensitive to light for like 3 months and had to be that guy wearing sunglasses indoors 🙄 thank god I worked graveyard shift at the time or it would have been way worse for me. Also I had 20/20 vision before that incident and I'm back to that now but I had like a year where I could barely even read traffic signs.
P.S. I also never went to the doctor for any of this, because fing I had a concussion when I was like 14 and went to the doctor and all they did was give me an MRI and said "yep you have a concussion" 🤣
Yeah... When you get hit hard enough to develop retrograde amnesia, you definitely had a very severe concussion. The second incident you described was almost certainly a concussion as well. Glad you survived it all though. That first situation very easily could have ended up being fatal.
@@jatbatman thank you sir ♥️ and yeah I definitely could have died
Gracie University should have Rener on a phone line for these types inquires. Lol
I want to be friends with this guy and his friend, I'm also 18 and 130 lbs
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Leg kicks are safe? Tell that to Anderson Silva’s shin 🤷
Dang, I really like the sharp image.
Why did poop guy stab blood guy? 😁
I would love a necklace like that, only made of stainless steel ball bearings. That would be cool lol. Also, what is the etiquette for how much power to put behind a strike, when sparring? Maybe 30% or so?
Zero power. If you start putting power behind strikes, you’re fighting, not sparring.
I'm sorry but I just imagine this person looking at this video and be like: "Well.. I clearly punch like the touch of death😌"
Indeed I do
The necklace suits you good.
You are absolutely KILLING that look. I want that look, but my baldness hasn't quite gotten there yet. I can manage shaved head but then I look like a convict.
I see the same mentality in boxing gyms I go to. They think that light sparring is less “fun” than hard sparring, or that they HAVE TO hard spar every time. And those people who will never be pro fighters ALWAYS find themselves asking, “when can we go hard?”
I’m not here to disparage them in any way, but I think this is highlighting a lack of education that we have in our society. Towards what fighting is and isn’t.
Couldn't you wear protected gear for harder sparring
Headgear protects a giant superficial damage, it does nothing for your brain.
it feels like i questioned this a few years ago, Everybody wants to know, if your hard work pays off ;)
Well i recommend your first harder sparrng whith an good and skilled coach, who can dosage it better.
At least one person should know what he is doing, and is able to care for himself and you.
It is no garantee, but it should end with few injuries.
Dont make an egotrip while sparring hard, there is always a risk for both of you.
Ask yourself, are you able to spar light whithout loosing vision to your opponent, balance and denfence.
Are you able to protect your head in light sparring all time?
Are you in really good shape, so that your neck muscles, are able to hold a hard punch ore even a kick?
If you make hard sparring without being prepared properly, you could not only hurt your body, you can end in bad habits, or even a PTBS, and it took plenty of time and money to erase this.
This reminds me of when my brother and I, in a moment of testosterone fuelled stupidity, decided to spar blindfolded. Back then we also sparred bare knuckle. It was stupid, dangerous, and we never tried it again. But at least we were Sparring light.
I love sparring, but I'd probably want to quit if I seriously hurt someone.
Full contact spar is useful to have once for awhile, assume you train for fight. Otherwise, it is better to do it lightly.
Your career was ended by loaded wraps?????
Yes.
Let me address the elephant in the room: what is that thing on your neck?
It’s a necklace.
@@RamseyDewey 👍
This is a concern of mine, I’m a BJJ purple belt with about 7 years experience, I’ve always been aware that striking is a massive hole in my skill sets however,
I have a condition called Hemiplegic Migraine which is worsened by head trauma, it’s pretty debilitating but over years I’ve adjusted my diet and lifestyle to the point where I have episodes only once a year or so, is there a striking art where I can become proficient without taking hits to the head? Kyokushin or something?
Full contact kicks to the head are still legal in kyuokushin, taekwondo, and many other styles like that. You might want to look into some different amateur MMA or pankration organizations. Some (not all)only allow strikes to the body and legs, and disallow strikes to the head completely.
You should watch some Kyokushin matches! Plenty of head kick knockouts!
Jusy started watchin, coffee ready
Love your jewelry Ramsey.
Hey Ramsey, I really respect all your work, advice, and time you put in. I have a question though. Going through hard combat sports, such as getting in the cage, isn't normal per say. It seems that those who are somewhat troubled dive into that place. Maybe that's just my perception of it. So, why did you do cage fighting, what got you into it? I apologize if thats a personal question, thank you for your time.
I needed an extra paycheck to pay medical bills.
@@RamseyDewey Fair enough
Epic rosary bro
Those are fozhu, not a rosary.
@@RamseyDewey lol i know im just goofin with ya
Great answer man.
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My rule is: I will go in at 50%, working on my timing, range, combinations, breathing and accuracy and defence.
The other guy though, usually when taking liberties, he bangs me with a cheap hard shot, I will turn it up a notch or two.
Very quickly, they realise, oooops.
Then I will be respectful and go back to sparring level when they calm down.
I’m a pressure fighter, so I understand mentally for the other guy, it is going to be a “hard” round, but I’m not smashing in power shots, or trying to blast them out. I’m physically just ever present, slipping and moving and popping in shots, hunting and exposing those gaps and holes in their defence.
Mentally, for them, it’s gruelling as they don’t get that break or breathing room and are having to work.
It’s still not a “hard” spar as I’m not gunning for them, I’m not hurting them with spiteful strikes, I’m just touching and tapping in shots into their guards and open areas.
It’s just a “hard” round as they are having to work with no breaks.
I can separate the two.
They realise the difference too, as they don’t come out busted up with a migraines, bust nose and lips with black eyes and sore mid-section- they are only breathing hard and feeling drained.
We can do multiple rounds like that if they feel game for it, only thing that puts them off is their own fitness and mental fatigue.
So they learn to train against a different pace and style and can walk away and work on their conditioning.
let them do some milling
Would you make a Floyd vdo on future , RD ? Or am I bothering u a bit too much ?
Peace ✌️🙏