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Anonymous09/10/24, 12:55No.210553Ultimate Self-Defense Championship Season 2
First episode is out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCsR-zxwN1Y
>What is the Ultimate Self-Defense Championship?
A bit over a year ago, former Aikidoka YouTuber Rokas Leo set up a tournament with a self-defense "academy" to have himself and five other martial arts YouTubers compete to see who is best at self-defense. It was a hilarious shitshow that nearly crippled one of the contestants, Ramsey Dewey who would later get into an internet spat with the guy behind the academy (Jeff Phillips) and described the entire event as "piss poor" due to poor management, an incoherent and arbitrary scoring system, running on a very limited schedule, and timing events terribly (like having a zombie apocalypse-themed event that didn't influence score in the middle of the entire thing instead of at the end or something) and doing comically dangerous shit like making people fight on a narrow bridge a good 30ft above the ground.
Somehow, he kickstarted a second one, which features even less martial arts YouTubers.
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Anon09/10/24, 12:57No.210554
The contestants this time around include:
>Natan Levy
Israeli lightweight in UFC, last year had some popularity due to getting into a sparring match with a groyper who hated Jews.
>Jeff "MMAShredded" Chan
Winner of the previous USDC, pretty much the only contestant who was an active fighter in an MMA promotion instead of a 40-50+ coach/trainer or schlubby dilettante YouTuber.
>Jesse "The Karate Nerd" Enkamp
Owner of the KarateByJesse blog and now YouTuber, Jesse is a high-ranking Swedish Karateka, bullshido believer, and Karate historian. Probably the second most autistic man in this show next to Rokas himself.
>Jordan "Jordan Teaches Jiu-Jitsu" Preisinger
Smaller name YouTuber focused on BJJ-related content. Of the YouTubers listed, is the least popular, but is also a completely normal guy.
>Ranton
French-German video game reviewer. Is only on the show because there's not a lot of popular martial arts YouTubers who humored Rokas and because he studied at Shaolin Temple in his early 20s and does some kung fu drills at home. Claims to be Chinese, barely speaks the language lmao.
>Craig Hunter
Literally just a guy. He's a filler because a basketball player Instagram influencer who was gonna be at the event flaked, and Rokas needed someone so he just picked a regular dude to work as a "controL" compared to the guys with martial arts backgrounds. His background is the occasional bit of weightlifting and typical bogan barfighting.Rokas "Martial Arts Journey" Leo will not be participating as a contestant this season and instead serves as a commentator/referee/committee
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Anon09/10/24, 13:21No.210555
>*wins 10/10 encounters*
gun ku do is the ultimate martial art
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Anon09/10/24, 15:04No.210562
>Israel
>War with Hamas
>The only reason I can think of is because I'm a jewThis is shit
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Anon09/10/24, 18:30No.210587
I am a little disappointed, you would think he would have redesigned some stuff after ruining Ramsey's knee. I am curious now, maybe his 1 year wait was not due to long covid but simply because he was sued for another injury and did not want to release it as long as someone could use the material in court?
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Anon09/11/24, 00:49No.210609
DUDE SELF DEFENSE PEN LMAO
way to just pollute this entire "experiement" with that shit
dude, you need to improvise weapons!!! except in america I carry my own so they can fuck off with that shitalso we know jordans knee gets fucked up early on and he's basically out of the comp, he talked about it on his podcast
secondly jeff didn't "bleed out" from getting poked in the back like that, there was no organ near that wound that would've killed him
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Anon09/11/24, 01:00No.210612
Next season: Jon Jones joins the USDC (guess who wins :O)
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Anon09/13/24, 07:35No.210787
I feel like these people hate each other irl.
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Anon09/13/24, 14:30No.210800
All the padding + the implicit agreement that they're not trying to knock each other the fuck out for a YouTube video kind makes this useless as an actual display of martial ability.because everything devolves into half-assed grappling. Season 1 had the same issue.
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Anon09/14/24, 20:50No.210931
>jesse
lol what?If they picked him as bait... is working bc I am actually intrigued.
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Anon09/14/24, 21:07No.210932
How am I supposed to know which one is jewish?
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Anon09/15/24, 11:47No.211016
The strategies they employed in the first challenge seem so poorly planned, I wouldn't be surprised if they were told what to do just to show why those choices wouldn't work. The fact that the professional fighter decided to square up against 5 armed attackers by himself and the bjj fighter specifically decided to run while wearing shitty footwear and Jesse going out of his way to use the sponsored Self Defense Pen, it all seems artificial.
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Anon09/15/24, 16:11No.211045
Ranton letting his half-German side show through when talking to Natan, what a gamer
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Anon09/15/24, 19:46No.211070
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0UAhR_P-n4
New ep link
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Anon09/15/24, 20:28No.211077
Current score. The MMA champs are being punked by a Regular Guy. Jeff is probably rigged so he doesn't win twice in a row but Natan has no fucking excuse, he's IDF and UFC. All this proves to me is that Australians are the strongest life-forms.
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Anon09/16/24, 10:42No.211115
meh, i liked the first season because of the fact that all of the contenders knew each other and had done a lot of collaboration before, so there was great chemistry
not feeling it for this season
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Anon09/17/24, 06:11No.211181
>JEFF CHAN HEROICALLY FOUGHT AN ARMY OF 72625141894863 MEN
>HE KILLED EVERY SINGLE ONE WITH HIS BARE HANDS
>HOWEVER HE TOOK A SUPERFICIAL BLOW ON HIS FINGER AND FAILED TO FURTHER ADVERTIZE OUR SPONSORED SELF DEFENSE DILDO
>-999171983736891 points
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Anon09/17/24, 11:47No.211186
>Ultimate Self-Defense Championship
>Jeff becomes the aggressor
>loses points
>chaners cryWhy?
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Anon09/17/24, 19:30No.211212
I wish that instead of mostly having people who all have trained MMA they would actually have specialists and some more common martial arts too. Have a pure boxer vs pure wrestler vs pure judoka vs MMA etc.
It would give this more of a fun ufc1 what is the best martial art vibe.
Also, this season seems like it will have the same problem where they aren't all in the same weight class, so the bigger guys have a massive advantage.
Also the Craig guy is obviously not just some random untrained dude.
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Anon09/18/24, 00:07No.211226
I can't believe this FUCKER Rokas is releasing this weekly after delaying it for so fucking long.Jeff Chan isn't even trying, so it's obviously going to be Natan who wins (unless the "totally average guy" who's done all these drills before wins on points). All there is to look forward to is Ranton getting his ass kicked.
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Anon09/18/24, 07:44No.211248
>bjj guy
>decides to not use striking and grapple against two guys at once
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Anon09/20/24, 16:07No.211377
Watching episode 1 now, Jeff and Jesse surprised me, took 4 guys down rather easily
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Anon09/20/24, 16:18No.211380
Jeff is sabotaging himself come on
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Anon09/20/24, 16:36No.211382
>the normal guy was the best one in the bar fight
Mental, no overthinking just normal stuff
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Anon09/20/24, 16:41No.211383
>what did you do?
>i attacked back... in self-defense
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Anon09/22/24, 14:21No.211471
Why did they do so much better in the shank tank this time? Are last years contestants just frauds?
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Anon09/22/24, 14:30No.211473
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipf1mROm6rg
Ranton's boxing is pretty okay for an inexperienced kung fu flippy boy who's never hit someone before.
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Anon09/22/24, 14:32No.211475
>Jeff chan kicks somebody in the head that's running straight at him with his chin exposed
>nothing
>Ranton gives a guy a sloppy hook
>"yeah, that's a knockout stop the fight"
Judging has got to be rigged right?
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Anon09/22/24, 17:30No.211502
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHh3kaR24IM
Ranton did a reaction of the first two eps with Rokas.
Only reason I'm posting it is because Craig "Regular Guy" Hunter was, as confirmed by Ranton and Rokas here, a fucking bare knuckle fighter in prison. They straight up lied, they found Kimbogan Slice!
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Anon09/22/24, 22:18No.211540
Fuck this show, I just want Based Craig to win
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Anon09/26/24, 19:51No.211952
Angry Manlet "Icy" Mike "Hard2Hurt" "Pedo Puncher" Pesesko did his own little react vid on the Shank Tank. Had similar commentary as to these threads, up to and including not giving a fuck about Jordan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_5VRlQPHF0
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Anon09/28/24, 11:21No.212153
Shout out to Rokas, my man got taken to snap city by some autist throwing kani basami during sparringI do have some respect for guys like him and Chadi who were aikidokas, realised it doesn't work, uploaded their experiments with it and then switched to more practical grappling styles. Imagine the number of aikidoka who realise it doesn't work but aren't brave enough to admit it because their friends think they can handle themselves in a fight
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Anon09/28/24, 23:26No.212205
In 'Hide And Go Stab', was there a rule about needing to exit the building through a specific door? Because it seems way easier to slip out a different door or window and circle the building on the outside rather than outmaneuver 5 people in a hallway.
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Anon09/28/24, 23:29No.212206
I'm a bit surprised that everyone's plan for round 3 of the Shank Tank was to throw the bag at the attacker.
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Anon09/29/24, 14:35No.212267
DINGDINGDING
NEW EP TONIGHT BOYS
Now they're being bouncers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F350sQbs74g
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Anon09/30/24, 00:18No.212299
So is Ramsey Dewey's beef just with Jeff Phillips or the whole crew from the first edition?
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Anon09/30/24, 00:21No.212301
This whole thing is so retarded. It would be far better to determine a sequence of challenges that are previously known by the people participating in it so they can actually plan to act, which you know, would be the ideal for anyone to do whenever they go to a new place. There should be more scenarios involving using the environment and items around you, and more elaborate non-combat scenarios too.
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Anon10/06/24, 14:19No.212817
DINGDINGDING
NEW EP TONIGHT BOYS
>6 Martial Artists Attacked on a Moving Bus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awW5dHJkBRM
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Anon10/06/24, 14:29No.212820
Ranton and Jeff are just giggling like kids while watching the other guys kek
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Anon10/13/24, 15:20No.213385
>6 Martial Artists Go All Out in Intense 15-Second Fights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ytbmsHpN3AThe meme has began
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Anon10/13/24, 17:40No.213393
Post USFDC dream contestants
I want to see him getting bullied
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Anon10/14/24, 14:06No.213475
Season 3 has been (kinda) confirmed.https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ultimate-self-defense-championship-season-3/#/Seems like Natan and Seth from season 1 will make a return. Also plans for Glory champion Gabriel Varga. Kevin Lee, a kudo guy and a special forces guy. It says however that the 3rd season will only happen if the money goal is reached
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Anon10/14/24, 14:25No.213477
So now that this shit is over, I must ask:What would you do differently?
What would you change about this whole thing?
How would (You)r USDC look like?
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Anon10/16/24, 04:34No.213621
This whole thing frames itself as "which martial art is the best for self defense?", but it gives up on that almost immediately since no one is trying to represent their art.
>kung fu guy admits that he's never fought before and is relying on boxing
>karate guy keeps grappling everyone
>bjj black belt stuck to his guns and achieved the most injuries out of everyone there
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Anon10/16/24, 17:13No.213672
Ranton put up his own vid on the USDC with some behind-the-scenes notes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0ahNgvOS9I
I post it because one thing he goes into is the abusive boyfriend scenario. he points out that Jesse did absolutely nothing for a WHILE but only acted because he realized there wasn't a timer to wait it out - they'd just keep going until the contestants did something and everyone else followed on that realization. So I'd say none of them really "fucked up" when they were forced not to go with the right answer (which lines up with when they made Craig come back in when he left the bar scenario early on).
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Anon10/17/24, 03:33No.213725
How effective is a shoe as an improvised weapon? I mean just holding it in your hand and hitting someone with it.
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Anon10/17/24, 08:11No.213731
Didn't watch. How did Ranton do?
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Anon10/21/24, 17:21No.214100
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWa2LP9jTc4
Rokas breaking down some behind the scenes stuff. Apparently alongside "Long COVID," some jackass broke his shin to the joint (The USDC has claimed a THIRD knee) during a BJJ roll he was doing to get the energy back for editing, and permanently handicapped him for life alongside being temporarily partially paralyzed from suboptimal conditions in the hospital. He shows pics of his foot and it looks like a bloated corpse. Horrifying stuff.
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Anon10/27/24, 17:04No.214590
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVzx-wbBFzs
Not content with letting the event that took Ramsey Dewey's knee last year die, yet another zombie day!
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Anon12/21/24, 01:34No.217962
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCazByhbmztoIg6ZKeI25PGw/community?lb=Ugkx9Km-ScWyPHftFLSU4lWZcaZ-JrvZDs_bNew gimmick for USDC season 3: A bunch of anti-self defense champions like the psycho rangers or some shit who are all kudo practitioners to fill in for the lack of bogan thugs for scenarios.
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Anon05/16/25, 18:49No.230625
The idea of an Australian knowing anything about self defense is still hilarious to me
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Anon06/09/25, 00:23No.233248
They've been filming Season 3, and the only info I've heard is that kickboxer Gabriel Varga is losing in points to Sensei Seth.
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Anon07/06/25, 02:10No.236945
Season 3 is done filming and everyone that participated is putting up videos of them training with the Kudo guys.
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Anon09/07/25, 00:56No.242014
Release date for those not keeping up: Novembe 2nd. A few gopniks in Lithuania can see it early but I doubt anyone going in person will be posting about it here.
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Anon09/07/25, 02:45No.242020
The series is silly because if you're actually a self defense minded person you're carrying