It should be holding one of the opponent’s arms. I’m not thrilled by this application. It’s better than a lot of Kata applications you’ll see but could use some improvement in my opinion
It's call Meotode and was heavily used by old Okinawan fighters such as Motobu Choki. You can find a nice read up on it here; www.karatebyjesse.com/reviving-meotode-the-ancient-okinawan-karate-concept-of-kicking-ass/
Last wednesday me and my sensei talked about this. I thought the second one is better and he said the first one. I did not wanted to argue with him so I am here to find out If I was right
Awesome bunkai i love that your channel focus is Bunkai as i feel and have been taught that bunkai is the heart and soul of all kata@@ThatBunkaiBlokeShawnDonaldson
Are you not concerned that providing so many options to a single attack may diminish unconconscious competence and reponse time Shawn? I know so many reponses to certain situations, but I really want to distill it down to as few as possible.
Mat-san - That's actually a really good question. Hick's Law states that response time has a direct correlation with how many choices there are. Your training method should be dictated by your intended outcome. In this case and in the case of my channel, my aim is to share as much information as possible, from which people can pick and choose and in the philosophy of Bruce Lee: take what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically their own. To me, while Martial Arts is an important form of self-defence, it's also a wonderful recreation and the learning and experimenting part for me are the bits that are fun and good for my mind and body. From a purely self-defence mindset though I agree with you. If this was my sole aim, I'd seek out about a dozen techniques, 3 or 4 entries into each of those and then just repeat them over and over.
Hi Al-San, Perhaps I'm missing something, did I mention planning ahead in the video? (it was recorded some time ago). In any case, you can prepare, I'm not sure you can plan per-se. Effective preparation includes your training as well as studying pre-fight interviews etc. It's useful to consider certain attack scenarios in your head and construct responses that you rehearse. This limits the effects of "hicks law" under stress. However, of course violence is brutal and unpredictable in nature.
@@amokbel Ah OK, I see what I was talking about now. I'm describing the concept of pre-determine response. What this means is that certain human reactions are predictable and we can use this to our advantage. In this instance, I know that grabbing the skin or testicles is likely to elicit a grabbing response. If I secure one hand before doing it, I can further predict that it's the other hand that he'll use to grab my hand or wrist to remove it. Knowing these things, I can essentially set up him to do what I want, and this is what I meant by having a plan. It's not so much having a plan, but knowing to a fair degree of certainty in advance what the other person is going to do.
Nothing works unless you practice techniques correctly and train it against a resisting opponent. Knowing and planning won’t work when you get attacked in a real street fight unless you’re training self defense for years.
Hi Shan-san, according to whom should it be a spear strike? That's a very closed-minded way of looking at it. I recommend you apply the 'Duck Test' to it. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and swims like a duck... then it's a duck!. Same goes, if it looks like the kata, addresses a Habitual Act of Phyiscal Violence and works under aggressive resistance... it's correct.
I am and like simple. Two smacks to a sensitive place is simple and efficient. Just don't ever do this to a bouncer or you will have som hefty fines to pay on top of the legal fees (I.E. why you were "escorted" out/in in the 1st place). Good oyo my friend!
Have you considered joining a BJJ gym to learn the fundamentals of ground fighting? This video covers a few of the errors you made, hope you find it useful. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Re4OlLn2mXQ.html
ok so the guard break isn't 100% horrible, but it's pretty bad - nothing really stopping them from just pulling you down. the guard pass is begging for a triangle - one arm in one arm out is a good way to get yourself caught in a triangle, especially when your posting hand reaches towards their face like you showed at 2:58 or so. That was also the sloppiest ashi garami position for a leg lock I've ever seen. Like I don't want to be entirely negative here, but a 6-month white belt BJJ would be able to overcome all of this and as BJJ/MMA keeps growing in popularity, you are setting people up for failure.
Hi Stonecutter. Thank you for the contribution. Please have a read of the reply above... to Martin (to save me typing this out again). I believe context and intention are key here. Setting people for failure I think is a bit unreasonable, but I agree with your overall point and if people want to become strongly proficient in groundwork against another grappler, they should invest time in a BJJ school or some other specialist that can offer them that. I'm not that and I don't pretend to be. What I do offer is a base level of understanding that meets our particular need.
If someone has you in guard, normally that is an indication they might know some ne waza. You break the guard as you show (which will not be that easy) and your hands will be pulled back into guard. It would be more useful to show pressure tested techniques, your sequence will only work with a non resisting opponent
Hi Martin-san. I thought the groundwork might get a few comments haha, all good. I mostly agree with you. There's a couple of key points. I'd first like to be clear that I don't profess to be a great groundwork teacher. I've had many people in BJJ show me up and I'm OK with that. It's not my key focus. The key thing to remember here is that the purpose of what I'm doing and the audience I'm teaching is not the same as those in a BJJ gym. Specifically, I'm interested in old-school karate practices and exploring these practices as found in traditional kata. Karate of the time was said to be designed specifically for "One on one, empty handed, civil self-defence, against an untrained attacker". I agree that pressure testing is key (we call it testing under aggressive resistance) and I believe that every technique has flaws, some more than others. While I know this wouldn't stand up to a good grappler, that's not my key aim and I'm comfortable that the karate people that come to these presentations, usually with little to no ground experience, are leaving with some value they didn't have when they came, and if not, I believe in the wise words of Bruce Lee... take what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically you're own. Cheers :)
Please continue putting out this excellent content. Not everyone is fortunate to get this type of insight. Keep up the good work! Do you think you can do a series on Gojushiho?
Azzuri-san, Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad these are of value. While I will do a series on Gojushiho, I plan on doing a few kata before that. I'll first do Empi, then Kanku Dai then Tekki then Heian Shodan, Sandan and Godan. I have already recorded the material for most of these. I release one technique every 2 weeks, so I suspect it will be quite a while before I get to Gojushiho. However, if there's a particular sequence or movement you'd like to know about it, reply here and I'm happy to just cover it. You can use this as a simple reference; www.karatedo.asia/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/gojushiho-sho-723x1024.gif
G-Funakuchi won't be using a cross block against a kick, cause it just not a good technique. But the cross block shown here is an excellent example of how a Cross block was intended to be use. The cross down block is a misleading title. It is really a joint and break lock for the attacking arm from the opponent. 🥋🥋🥋
