what's up with chanting/yelling OUS!!

[teamventure09]

my gym just recently started doing it. does yelling OUS in unison come from brazil or something?
where does it come from?

 

[lechien]

Do you mean Ous?

 

[anaconda]

Ossssss!

 

[bjjaz]

I'm confused. Please post a video of you doing this.

 

[teamventure09]

Do you mean Ous?

yes.

 

[Vector_X]

are you referring to when the crowd yells Oyy after a good kick or strike lands? It's a Muay Thai thing. If not, I've got nothing I've never seen that done or heard of it before.

 

[teamventure09]

are you referring to when the crowd yells Oyy after a good kick or strike lands? It's a Muay Thai thing. If not, I've got nothing I've never seen that done or heard of it before.

no like when a blackbelt gets on the mat or when you circle up at the end of practice everyone yells OUC! not Oyy!

 

[Vector_X]

no like when a blackbelt gets on the mat or when you circle up at the end of practice everyone yells OUC! not Oyy!

Never heard that one before, I have no clue in the slightest. Sounds like chant to end a class to me, but I have no idea where that would have originated from.

 

[NovaUniaoWesty]

It's an old carry over from Japan, I think (we used to do it in karate, now we do it occasionally in BJJ)

I have absolutely no idea what it means but near as I can tell it's like saying yes sir/war cry/ready/giving respect all in one strange word. :redface:

 

[YeahBee]

isn't it just goodbye/thank you in japanese?

I guess some people use it just like strikers who breath out when throwing a punch so their lungs won't be full when they get hit, you don't want to land and get your air knocked out of you

 

[YeahBee]

Ouzo is a killer to, sneaky drunk

 

[Auspex]

I was told it's a way to "recognize" someone, or to say you understand

More than likely it's being used incorrectly in most places. Often I see players saying it when they bow to each other.

 

[Knuckles69]

I'm seeing this more and more.

A lot of the BJJ guys I see on Facebook (Xande Ribeiro, people commenting on Andre Galvao's wall, and a lot of other places) are ending their comments with OSS or osssssssss or ossu.

I looked it up and it seems to be something derived from Japan that's technically being used incorrectly but can be used to end class or show respect.

 

[lechien]

yes.

It is from Karate.

Every time they meet each other they greet by saying Ous.
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every time the sensei says something, then the student replie by Ous.

Lot of Carlson Gracie students uses the Ous!

some people even conclude their post in the forum with a Ous.

 

[Upperhook]

Regarding the Origin of "Osu!" two theories are prevailing.

The first one comes from Dr. Mizutani Osamu, a linguistics professor at the University of Nagoya and his work

 

[Rod1]

Its from Karate and it has no literal meaning, its something of a slogan packed into one word.

Osu: The Meaning Of "Osu" In Karate

goodbye is sayonara, and thank you is arigato.

 

[Smokey McPot]

haha! Ossss! The Atos team says it a lot, especially the mendes bros. Check their fan page

 

[Irenaeus]

As above. It's "Osu", not "ous". The "u" at the end of a word is often nearly completely dropped in Japanese.

Edit: I had no idea any BJJ guys were doing this. For me, it's one of the more obnoxious parts of e.g. Kyokushin.

 

[SuperSuperRambo]

I was told it's a way to "recognize" someone, or to say you understand

More than likely it's being used incorrectly in most places. Often I see players saying it when they bow to each other.

Osu!

 

[An end for]

It's a word that means anything, mostly in a SIR YES SIR SIR NO SIR way. I know that from my King of Fighters days