Name: Learn English the MMA way!
Uploaded: 2020-01-27T10:16:46.000Z
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The imperative

Past simple

When you've had it with someone, it means that's enough, I'm not going to take this

So, today's lesson is going to be MMA the English way, or English the MMA way, and you're

One of the biggest proponents or guys who talks about it is Joe Rogan, he's got the

That podcast is similar to - it's actually on YouTube like we are, and they talk about

different things, and he's a commentator for the MMA, and when I was watching his podcast

one day, I noticed a lot of the words he was using, people are using on a regular basis

in regular conversation, so mixed martial arts, the martial arts of fighting have now

come down to the street and people are using it to communicate.

Now, when people usually use MMA language, it's to communicate the difficulty in a situation

So, I'm going to go to the board and start giving you a lesson on how you can use English

the MMA way to improve your cultural understanding of what we're saying and how to express yourself,

So, first of all, this lesson is for Ray Scott and Josh Stewart, two great teachers I used

I used to love Ray because one of his favorite songs was "Nobody speak, nobody get choked"

Okay, so quote of the day is "Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the mouth."

Now, you won't use that in your language.

If you walk into your boss and go "Yeah boss, you got a plan but it ain't gonna work when

you get punched in the mouth!", you're probably getting fired, don't do that.

But I will teach you how to move through a conversation and how certain phrases are used

about combat or mixed martial arts that tell you when you're at the beginning of the situation,

you're in the middle of a situation, and when it's the end of a situation.

What it means when someone says it to you, or what it means when you say it to other

Okay, so let's talk about throwing one's hat in the ring.

The ring - when you're boxing or wrestling, it's a square place - so this makes no sense,

but it's considered or called a ring - and when you throw your hat in the ring, it means

to accept a challenge or become a part of a challenge.

A lot of times now, politicians use this when they say, you know, Obama's throwing his hat

in the ring, or Joe Biden is throwing his hat in the ring.

George Bush is throwing his hat in the ring.

That means they want to be part of the political race to be president or some position, so

they throw their hat in the ring, saying "I'm part of this contest, too."

So, when someone says, you know, "I challenge a guy, I challenge Ezekiel man, I'm going

to go at him!", it's like he's throwing his hat in the ring to fight Ezekiel.

So, when you throw it in, the fight has not started but you're saying hey, I want to be

Running for a political office or a challenge of some sort, you say you want to be part

So, you can think of spoiling for a fight is somebody really wants to fight and their

attitude is getting bad, like they're going from "Yeah" to "YEAH, let's go for it!".

They're spoiling, so they're spoiling, ing, moving, they want something to happen.

It doesn't have to be physical fight, it can be an argument, but it means they are in the

mindset that they want to get engaged in a fight or an argument.

So, if you say they're spoiling for a takeover - no, they're spoiling for a fight, they want

to have a competition for you if this is in business.

So maybe Adidas and Nike are spoiling - Nike's spoiling for a fight, they want to complete

So please don't think everything I say is about fighting, but understand that these

ideas come from fighting and we use them in regular conversation to tell you something

is happening, usually some kind of combat, argument, competition, alright?

When you come to blows, it means it's gone from the situation of talking from moving

So, they've tried a negotiation and it didn't work and it goes "Now, it's fight time!".

Remember what I said, this is Round 1, this is before the fight starts, or you're actually

Right, so when countries come to blows, it was like "Okay, okay, let's go, now we're

The first three - okay - we're talking about getting ready for the competition, looking

for a fight, starting a fight, when the gloves are off, like Mr. E?

Okay, we're fighting with gloves, you hit me in the "ding ding", the place I don't like,

I take off the glove and go "No more Mr. Nice Guy.

No fair fight, we're going - I'm doing everything."

So, when the gloves come off, it means the rules don't count.

So, when the gloves are off, it means the fight has started and the rules don't count,

So even if two people are fighting and then somebody does something really bad and they

kick their "ugh" area, you might see the other person go "Nah!" and then they go crazy and

If you're Mike Tyson, it means biting an ear.

"Ah, I got your ear, Evander Holyfield", anyway, just joking Mike, because you know I respect

So, we talked about round one, before the fight and initiating the fight.

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