The Best & Worst part of the “Ultimate Self Defense Championship” ep 5 review

The Ultimate Self Defense Championship was an event hosted by Rokas Leonavicius of the Martial Arts Journey channel and Jeff Phillips of Western Combatives, a self defense school in Sydney Australia.

Martial arts YouTubers including myself, Rokas, Sensei Seth, Icy Mike from Hard2Hurt, Matt from Reality Check Self Defence, and Jeff Chan from MMAshredded spent a week competing in a variety of self defense-themed challenges.

Episode 5 “The Scenarios” was, in my opinion, demonstrative of the best thing Jeff Phillips offers at his self-defense school, however, in the context of what preceded this event, there was a problem I will refer to as “The Pavlovian Dog Dilemma”.

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Ramsey Dewey is a retired pro fighter, combat sports coach, referee, and fight commentator… and occasional musician based in Shanghai, China.

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I fought professionally in Mixed Martial arts, Sanda, Muay Thai, K1 and American kickboxing from 2004-2011 when I was forced to retire due to a broken skull and being blinded in one eye. I hold a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Black belts in multiple traditional martial arts, including Taekwondo and kyokushin karate. I also train in catch wrestling, sambo, taijiquan, judo, and boxing.

I currently coach at the Animal MMA gym, the Extreme Fight Lab, and the Mordor Fight Club, all in Shanghai, China.