this may offend some of you but this one leg jump thing is pretty easy to do not very impressive, anyone with low body fat and some decent lower body strength could do this
Hands down, you train the exercise YOU need for the style YOU do. This guy has great strength, and watching his other videos, great health. MMA, whatever, you train what you need. Pressure points work, choke holds work, punches to the face work. If you know this, then you have used these before, If you need to argue that they work, you were not taught well, or you never used them. Steve Cotter is inspiration!
No one does bulgarian split squats in sports, either, but they're still beneficial.
REGULAR squats don't resemble sprinting all that much, but they build faster sprinters. Any and all explosive motions build power, and power is always functional.
I've had MMA guys argue the practicality of pressure points with me, too, until they actualy see and feel the technique aplied, then all of a sudden JJJ isn't so worthless anymore
@979roadrunner you cant build optimal power/strength with compromised balance so 1 leg jumps to full rom arent going to have good transfer to any sport.Split squats dont compromise balance much so they work better and are easy to teach and do unlike these jumps(which are just for show).SAme for ordinary squats.Pressure points work in that they hurt but wont be effective in a match with adrenaline flowing,in self defense there even less useful due to clothing.
@979roadrunner its called specific adaptation,hes getting more cordinated and stronger in that particular movement through practice,which isnt going to transfer well to any sport.For example I had a hard time doing a single pistol squat even though I could front squat 170 kg and only weigh 82kg,the issue was purely balance,when i could do 20 pistols easily I hadnt gotten any stronger,just more cordinated and balanced at that movement
@billysue2 Right, and bicep curls don't help a movement either, except they do help every movement that involves pulling with the arms. I get the argument about specificity, and I agree it won't transfer as a movement, but the idea that strength isn't strength unless it's specific is overemphasized.
Leg curls aren't a movement you do in sports, but they strengthen hamstrings, which help in Deadlifts. Tell an experienced powerlifter they don't he'll likely laugh at you (I know Wendler would)
@979roadrunner im not arguing bringing up weak points by training specific muscles, thats valid.Im saying a 1 leg plyo pistol is a demo and not a useful training method
@billysue2 That depends what you're training for. Maybe he wants to be sure if he loses a leg in a fight he'll still be able to do jump kicks :D
Steve uses so many different training methodologies He probably does the exercises you suggested, then does jumping pistols, too. I've yet to meet anyone who likes Turkish Getups, either, but they're a great exercise
@billysue2 You don't know much about pressure points. Adrenaline makes you no more immune to PP attacks than it wouls to a kick to the groin or an eye guage, both of which are gross PP attacks, BTW, and if regular clothing were a defense, you couldn't apply them through a GI, besides which there are a numbr of good ones in the hand, neck and head area, typicaly uncovered. I can tell you from experience they do work in a fight if you know what you're doing
@979roadrunner pressure points are fine motor control which degenerates badly under pressure,its research proven.Also they are pain dependant so cant be relied upon for effectiveness,blunt forcehead trauma and chokes work independant of pain tolerance.Pressure points were always allowed in vale tudo and early mma,they never worked.
@billysue2 There is nothing all that fine about jamming a thumb into the carotid process, and how much fine motor control degenerates has a lot to do with how you handle pressure, and because a few people can't apply a technique properly doesn't mean it doesn't work, it means those users aren't getting it right, likely because they're too rattled. Theoretical knowledge never trumps practical experience. Trigger control is a fine motor skill and I shoot good under pressure, too.
@979roadrunner theres no such location as the carotid process ,you mean the carotid sinus or the jugular notch id guess if youre sticking a thumb in there.
@billysue2 the jugular notch on one side, carotid on the other, just like the jugular vein and corotid artery. So I guess you'd call it the carotid notch. It's a nerve cluster, so I call it a proccess, to the inside of the large muscle in the side of the neck. The lymph nodes behind the jaw are another easily locatable one that works well. then of course the philtrum, though that one isn't as intense. any place where nerves are close to the surface.
@979roadrunner its called a sinus not a notch,a notch would be a depression.Its not a process since a process would be like a knob eg mastoid process.If you cant grapple those things arent worth a fiddlers fuck and would be shaken off easily unless you could pin the person.The only people who go on about pressure points are clowns who cant fight in the first place and are looking for an easy way out of hard training like that dipstick dillman and rick clarke.
@billysue2 To 'shake it off' you have to get away from the person doing it, which alters your balance. Knowing pressure points actualy adds dimension to your grappling skills. As far as clowns who can't fight, Dillman and Clarke may fit that description, but there are plenty of good fighters who know and use pressure points, just not in the crowd you mentioned, who consider it a fgailure of technique if something doesn't work for them, rather than a failure of the person failing to use it right
@billysue2 People claiming a technique doesn't work usualy suck at it, due to lack of proper instruction or just not being willing to do the hard training necessary to master the technique. Teach ten people a choke and if it doesn't work for one three will decide it's a uselss technique so they won't feel bad for not being able to do it.
so they 'streamline' their art by removing the technique, then get a rude surprise when they meet up with someone who didn't.
@billysue2 Chokes and blunt force truama are easier to learn and apply, though, so those unwilling to do the work to properly learn techniques tend to favour them. Pain is very reliable, I guarantee if I gauge your eyes you will respond very predictably. The same with joint locks, which are largly pain compliance. I'm not saying I can drop you to the floor with these techniques like some Hong Kong Phooey cartoon, but I CAN get you off of me, even fron the mount, and gain an advantage
This isn't something you just decide to do one day - if you look at Steve's background, he's been training every conceivable movement for decades, and he's built up a degree of strength and resiliency you can't even imagine. He's an expert and one that I've personally trained under, and I figure if he was going to pop his knees, he'd have done it the first two dozen times he performed this stunt.
you are gonna pop your knees man, unreal stress on the patella tendon -- fucking stupidity if you ask me. I am rehabilitating a patella tendonosis and this video makes me angry that someone with strong knees would risk them
@hellomynameis151 by far the most stress is on the knees in a pistol,even a normal version.This is something youd take years to work up to and has no benefit to any activity anyway,its for show.
@billysue2 no benefit to any activity? it strengthens the muscle's by unreal amounts. fair enough, the exact movement isnt portrayed in any sport, but the movement can benefit just about any sport as it improves core muscles and helps balance also.
@RoryEastwayMMA many other exercises strengthen the miuscles in a more functional way and do a better job on the core.Balance isnt a general ability its specific to any given activity.Trying to achieve this would be a complete waste of time.
@billysue2 it may seem like a waste of time to you, but some people have wierd goals and aspirations, doesnt make them a waste of time. Thats like saying people in the guinness book of world records are a waste of time, theyre pointless goals, true, but theyre still challenges that other people can try and beat. Also, ask yourself this, whats more of a waste of time, criticising people from your computer or achieving something only 1 in a billion people can do?
@billysue2 Will you just take a minute to think about what you're saying... one legged squats aren't benificial to any activity?!!?!#JO'3kmn'fpnf['oun ARE YOU DUMB?!! Basketball an activity where one legged squats would be benifical, so suck on my cram billysue
@DubStepBangers no,all jumping in sport is either done off 2 legs or 1 leg with a run up and very brief ground contact times.The pistol squat is largely a balance exercise and features far too great a ROM and no stretch shortening cycle,its very unlike anything in basketball.Useful for injury prevention though but with less depth.
@kirlinks possibly,ive trained tkd and kickboxing for 26 yrs,wrestling 5,bjj 8 and a few yrs muay thai.Right now im training with an mma school for about 2 yrs but cant compete due to chronic injury.Whats your point,that pistol squats jumps are useful for mma?Id say they are a waste of time versus several other methods like multidirectional lunges,power cleans and front squats which have direct transfer to wrestling motions
@billysue2 Just because other methods are better (in your opinion at least), doesn't mean this one isn't useful. People are different. But i hear you, those methods that you mentioned are very good. I just meant it's not all black and white. Peace
@kirlinks athletes have a limited time for strength and conditioning,they cant waste time with stuff thats less effective but might be fun to put up on youtube.Its research and experience proven,not my opinion.
wow an inspiration. I saw a video of you doing those at an RKC cert and I have been working on them with the 4'' plyo boxes. its hard enough on those. .wow
Brutal.
ZeProfezional 6 months ago
i bet his kicks are devastating!!!!!
JGSH13 7 months ago
this may offend some of you but this one leg jump thing is pretty easy to do not very impressive, anyone with low body fat and some decent lower body strength could do this
EnochMcDonald 8 months ago
@EnochMcDonald Show me a video of you doing this please
quietstorm1977 6 months ago
This guy has real power,thumbs up!
maiL1984 8 months ago
Hands down, you train the exercise YOU need for the style YOU do. This guy has great strength, and watching his other videos, great health. MMA, whatever, you train what you need. Pressure points work, choke holds work, punches to the face work. If you know this, then you have used these before, If you need to argue that they work, you were not taught well, or you never used them. Steve Cotter is inspiration!
parena9090 10 months ago
WHAAAAAAT!!!! his power level is over 9000!!!
DextrosJ 10 months ago
No one does bulgarian split squats in sports, either, but they're still beneficial.
REGULAR squats don't resemble sprinting all that much, but they build faster sprinters. Any and all explosive motions build power, and power is always functional.
I've had MMA guys argue the practicality of pressure points with me, too, until they actualy see and feel the technique aplied, then all of a sudden JJJ isn't so worthless anymore
979roadrunner 11 months ago
@979roadrunner you cant build optimal power/strength with compromised balance so 1 leg jumps to full rom arent going to have good transfer to any sport.Split squats dont compromise balance much so they work better and are easy to teach and do unlike these jumps(which are just for show).SAme for ordinary squats.Pressure points work in that they hurt but wont be effective in a match with adrenaline flowing,in self defense there even less useful due to clothing.
billysue2 11 months ago
@billysue2 While you have a point about pistols not being an optimal power builder, obviously you can build power with them or he couldn't do them.
979roadrunner 11 months ago
@979roadrunner its called specific adaptation,hes getting more cordinated and stronger in that particular movement through practice,which isnt going to transfer well to any sport.For example I had a hard time doing a single pistol squat even though I could front squat 170 kg and only weigh 82kg,the issue was purely balance,when i could do 20 pistols easily I hadnt gotten any stronger,just more cordinated and balanced at that movement
billysue2 11 months ago
@billysue2 Right, and bicep curls don't help a movement either, except they do help every movement that involves pulling with the arms. I get the argument about specificity, and I agree it won't transfer as a movement, but the idea that strength isn't strength unless it's specific is overemphasized.
Leg curls aren't a movement you do in sports, but they strengthen hamstrings, which help in Deadlifts. Tell an experienced powerlifter they don't he'll likely laugh at you (I know Wendler would)
979roadrunner 11 months ago
@979roadrunner im not arguing bringing up weak points by training specific muscles, thats valid.Im saying a 1 leg plyo pistol is a demo and not a useful training method
billysue2 11 months ago
@billysue2 That depends what you're training for. Maybe he wants to be sure if he loses a leg in a fight he'll still be able to do jump kicks :D
Steve uses so many different training methodologies He probably does the exercises you suggested, then does jumping pistols, too. I've yet to meet anyone who likes Turkish Getups, either, but they're a great exercise
979roadrunner 11 months ago
@billysue2 You don't know much about pressure points. Adrenaline makes you no more immune to PP attacks than it wouls to a kick to the groin or an eye guage, both of which are gross PP attacks, BTW, and if regular clothing were a defense, you couldn't apply them through a GI, besides which there are a numbr of good ones in the hand, neck and head area, typicaly uncovered. I can tell you from experience they do work in a fight if you know what you're doing
979roadrunner 11 months ago
@979roadrunner pressure points are fine motor control which degenerates badly under pressure,its research proven.Also they are pain dependant so cant be relied upon for effectiveness,blunt forcehead trauma and chokes work independant of pain tolerance.Pressure points were always allowed in vale tudo and early mma,they never worked.
billysue2 11 months ago
@billysue2 There is nothing all that fine about jamming a thumb into the carotid process, and how much fine motor control degenerates has a lot to do with how you handle pressure, and because a few people can't apply a technique properly doesn't mean it doesn't work, it means those users aren't getting it right, likely because they're too rattled. Theoretical knowledge never trumps practical experience. Trigger control is a fine motor skill and I shoot good under pressure, too.
979roadrunner 11 months ago
@979roadrunner theres no such location as the carotid process ,you mean the carotid sinus or the jugular notch id guess if youre sticking a thumb in there.
billysue2 11 months ago
@billysue2 the jugular notch on one side, carotid on the other, just like the jugular vein and corotid artery. So I guess you'd call it the carotid notch. It's a nerve cluster, so I call it a proccess, to the inside of the large muscle in the side of the neck. The lymph nodes behind the jaw are another easily locatable one that works well. then of course the philtrum, though that one isn't as intense. any place where nerves are close to the surface.
979roadrunner 11 months ago
@979roadrunner its called a sinus not a notch,a notch would be a depression.Its not a process since a process would be like a knob eg mastoid process.If you cant grapple those things arent worth a fiddlers fuck and would be shaken off easily unless you could pin the person.The only people who go on about pressure points are clowns who cant fight in the first place and are looking for an easy way out of hard training like that dipstick dillman and rick clarke.
billysue2 11 months ago
@billysue2 To 'shake it off' you have to get away from the person doing it, which alters your balance. Knowing pressure points actualy adds dimension to your grappling skills. As far as clowns who can't fight, Dillman and Clarke may fit that description, but there are plenty of good fighters who know and use pressure points, just not in the crowd you mentioned, who consider it a fgailure of technique if something doesn't work for them, rather than a failure of the person failing to use it right
979roadrunner 11 months ago
@billysue2 People claiming a technique doesn't work usualy suck at it, due to lack of proper instruction or just not being willing to do the hard training necessary to master the technique. Teach ten people a choke and if it doesn't work for one three will decide it's a uselss technique so they won't feel bad for not being able to do it.
so they 'streamline' their art by removing the technique, then get a rude surprise when they meet up with someone who didn't.
979roadrunner 11 months ago
@billysue2 Chokes and blunt force truama are easier to learn and apply, though, so those unwilling to do the work to properly learn techniques tend to favour them. Pain is very reliable, I guarantee if I gauge your eyes you will respond very predictably. The same with joint locks, which are largly pain compliance. I'm not saying I can drop you to the floor with these techniques like some Hong Kong Phooey cartoon, but I CAN get you off of me, even fron the mount, and gain an advantage
979roadrunner 11 months ago
What's your vertical?
JamisonProject 11 months ago
If you cant do it.....SHUT UP!! Plain and simple.
cknicodemus 1 year ago
this is insane. very impressive
elchewo1 1 year ago
that is actually pretty hardcore!!
zignationer 1 year ago
trying to even slightly jump out of a pistol is hard enough, but steve is truly a beast
HotRod6 1 year ago
whoooo smooth! 5*****
walking1way 1 year ago
This isn't something you just decide to do one day - if you look at Steve's background, he's been training every conceivable movement for decades, and he's built up a degree of strength and resiliency you can't even imagine. He's an expert and one that I've personally trained under, and I figure if he was going to pop his knees, he'd have done it the first two dozen times he performed this stunt.
truthbelongstoeveryb 1 year ago
you are gonna pop your knees man, unreal stress on the patella tendon -- fucking stupidity if you ask me. I am rehabilitating a patella tendonosis and this video makes me angry that someone with strong knees would risk them
timscarfe 1 year ago
cant imagine how much it hurts the knee
thelostworld 1 year ago
this seriously makes me want to give up exercise in general
animalgloves 1 year ago
that is about 2 feet higher than i can jump off two legs, i hate steve cotter
jalidav1 1 year ago
DAYUMMMM haha thats great man. gotta be hard on the knees though?
huntrayisabeast16 1 year ago
lol, if you could do that do you really think if you would need to care about your knees? There are so many more joints moving than just the knees.
That is super human!
hellomynameis151 1 year ago
@hellomynameis151 by far the most stress is on the knees in a pistol,even a normal version.This is something youd take years to work up to and has no benefit to any activity anyway,its for show.
billysue2 1 year ago
@billysue2 no benefit to any activity? it strengthens the muscle's by unreal amounts. fair enough, the exact movement isnt portrayed in any sport, but the movement can benefit just about any sport as it improves core muscles and helps balance also.
RoryEastwayMMA 1 year ago 3
@RoryEastwayMMA many other exercises strengthen the miuscles in a more functional way and do a better job on the core.Balance isnt a general ability its specific to any given activity.Trying to achieve this would be a complete waste of time.
billysue2 1 year ago
@billysue2 it may seem like a waste of time to you, but some people have wierd goals and aspirations, doesnt make them a waste of time. Thats like saying people in the guinness book of world records are a waste of time, theyre pointless goals, true, but theyre still challenges that other people can try and beat. Also, ask yourself this, whats more of a waste of time, criticising people from your computer or achieving something only 1 in a billion people can do?
RoryEastwayMMA 1 year ago 18
@RoryEastwayMMA nicely put lol
minitruckin1988 1 year ago
@minitruckin1988 thanks :D haha
RoryEastwayMMA 1 year ago
@RoryEastwayMMA That was great, mate.
MefresIV 1 year ago
@RoryEastwayMMA i would i could thumbs up 100 times
Astrix321 1 year ago
@Astrix321 Lmao :P someone had to say it :P thanks.
RoryEastwayMMA 1 year ago
@billysue2 Will you just take a minute to think about what you're saying... one legged squats aren't benificial to any activity?!!?!#JO'3kmn'fpnf['oun ARE YOU DUMB?!! Basketball an activity where one legged squats would be benifical, so suck on my cram billysue
DubStepBangers 1 year ago
@DubStepBangers no,all jumping in sport is either done off 2 legs or 1 leg with a run up and very brief ground contact times.The pistol squat is largely a balance exercise and features far too great a ROM and no stretch shortening cycle,its very unlike anything in basketball.Useful for injury prevention though but with less depth.
billysue2 1 year ago
@billysue2 Ever heard of martial arts or mma?
kirlinks 1 year ago
@kirlinks possibly,ive trained tkd and kickboxing for 26 yrs,wrestling 5,bjj 8 and a few yrs muay thai.Right now im training with an mma school for about 2 yrs but cant compete due to chronic injury.Whats your point,that pistol squats jumps are useful for mma?Id say they are a waste of time versus several other methods like multidirectional lunges,power cleans and front squats which have direct transfer to wrestling motions
billysue2 1 year ago
@billysue2 Just because other methods are better (in your opinion at least), doesn't mean this one isn't useful. People are different. But i hear you, those methods that you mentioned are very good. I just meant it's not all black and white. Peace
kirlinks 11 months ago
@kirlinks athletes have a limited time for strength and conditioning,they cant waste time with stuff thats less effective but might be fun to put up on youtube.Its research and experience proven,not my opinion.
billysue2 11 months ago
@billysue2 So according to this logic, since steve cotter does these, it means he's not in excellent shape, because they're just for show.
kirlinks 11 months ago
@kirlinks did i even suggest that?Hes doing them for a demo,not training program.
billysue2 11 months ago
very impressive, jealous!!
monsta2679 2 years ago
wow an inspiration. I saw a video of you doing those at an RKC cert and I have been working on them with the 4'' plyo boxes. its hard enough on those. .wow
iwasbornspecial 2 years ago
Okay, another mind blower Steve.
zenkahuna 2 years ago
DEAR GOD.
XIPM3 2 years ago
motherfucker ?! you my friend are a fucking machine..not just physically but mentally also (Y) great stuff keep training your ass off
FORZAMILANALE 2 years ago