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This will get you killed in the street. Karate training is often useless for real fighting. They are weak punchers- 1/4 to 1/2 the power of a boxer, weak kickers and their defenses/blocking are idiotic. Any normal kid with 1 year of boxing, Muay Thai, judo or Brazilian Ju Jitsu can beat karate black belts in a real streetfight and I mean crush them easily.
Hey thanks for checking out the video. I really do appreciate that. I agree that karate is not the best for fighting. I would totally advocate for someone that wants to fight train in a fighting art. Boxing, Muay Thai, Wrestling, Judo every other art that allows practitioners to match with a resisting opponent is tailored for fighting. Karate, excluding fighting/knockdown styles of karate like Kyokushin or Kudo, are not made for fighting. They are made for self-defense. Though there is a lot of overlap the focus is very different. The goal of fighting is to win. The goal of self-defense is to never have to use it. What you see in the video is us going over principles, concepts, a philosophy if you will. Ms. Wing is learning how to apply the kata she is practicing, a few parts of it at least, when she is given forward pressure. Listen to the commentary, "Don't meet force with force." "Bridge with your opponent and maintain that stickiness." "Yield to the force by turning and come in from the side." What you are watching is a 10 minute mash-up of a single class going over a single piece of material. What you don't see is where either of them were coming from or the progress they have made. What part of the journey are they on? Watch some of our other videos where we are clinching and you can see them working on applying some of the techniques. They are getting better at their clinching and hand-fighting. Thier balance is improving, they are getting more aggressive, their conditioning is increasing, and they are almost beginning to blend. It is a long road, but I am sure they will get there. Again, thanks for checking it out! Also post some of your stuff. I would love to check it out. I will subscribe to your channel.
Guys, i won't suggar coat it: You don't look impressive, at all. HOWEVER i stood for the content. Which is excellent. You have some really good technique applications and your talk makes sense. Keep going!
Hey thanks for watching. We really appreciate it. Sincerely, you took time out of your life that you will never get back to leave us this comment. We don't take that lightly and again we appreciate it.
@@Basreiter I checked out your channel but all I could find was playlists. Do you have any of your work posted? I'd like to check it out. I may learn from it.
Did you read the notes?😉 Chugoku no Chikara Himitsu done with tonfa.😁 The empty handed kata is actually a derivative of a kata called "Wankan" from the Shorin Ryu style.
@@toranotsumedojooh okay I see the notes now, I was wondering cause I could’ve sworn I know that kata. I honestly like it a lot more than others, do you know wonduwon? I’m not sure how to spell it exactly.
@@Kungfubum I have forgotten Wanduan and Wannubi and Chinpe and Chinshu. I'm going to be honest, there are a few lists of kata that I have forgotten. 😂😂
Awesome 👍. Thanks for watching. I appreciate you taking time out of your day to tell me that. Also, was the form not a form you liked or was it my performance of the form not to your liking? Oh, and what did you think of the music and camera work? I'm experimenting with my camera work.
@@toranotsumedojo Your skills were very good…. I just think that you pick a simpler form…. It would be awesome if you choose another form with more twirling…. The music and camera angle are very well done….
Sensei, Nice Naihanchin Shodan. It's good to see Karate-Do being moved away from the Sport with focus placed Kihon Waza. I have to admit however, while interesting, I've never seen the opening hands from Kushanku applied to Naihanchin Shodan, Nidan or Sandan..as Naihanchin Kata represents fighting in a narrowing passage ways or as some say aboard a ship that is bobbing up and down. Great Stuff - keep it happening and may you have many students and many long years of travelling the Path together.
That is a something style specific, sort of. I originally learned Naihanchi from a Tangsoodo instructor. The opening hand movements in the salutation are a bit different. They do not use the opening to Kanku dai, but I like the opening in Kanku dai for its application as a fence. It fit well into the way we apply the techniques of Naihanchi so i added it. Thanks for watching, and for the well-wishes.
Thanks a lot brother. When am I going to get to see your stuff on here. You have to share some of that real-world EXP you have amassed over the last decade.
Im currently training in American Kenpo Karate and working on my green belt. But hopefully next month I'm able to also join a Toyama Ryu dojo close by, just want to get my uniform, bokan and hopefully my iaito first. Im pretty dedicated and want to come correct with with my gear right out the gate.
I get it. The gear is part of the experience, but remember that in Toyama it is about happogiri, swinging the sword. The style is very basic in what it does and that is where it's power is. The actual cutting skill developed is second to none. Train hard. Good luck. And thanks for watching.
I had a falling out with my instructor some time back and out of respect for him I will not say his name or school, but he did study Goshin and taught this form as part of his family martial arts style.
It's a Japanese term, a contraction of "katachi". It means form. In karate there are solo patterns called kata that are used for learning the techniques of the style.
Indeed. I always tell my students that and it's one of those things I still struggle with, especially when my mind is somewhere else. Thanks a lot, for the critique and for watching.
Brilliant. And quite motivating for an aikido practitioner. Before now, I couldn't realize that one could do all that alone, including sutemi-waza and koshi-nage variations. Could recognise the waza for most techniques, except for the one which looks like an ushiro-geri at approximately 0.10 seconds into the video.
Actually yes. I take my guys outside from time to time just as a reminder and to give a bit of perspective. True enough, concrete, pavement, gravel, they all suck horribly, but they are better than the alternative. Trying to catch yourself with an arm or taking a fall on the shoulder or worse yet, the head, can be fight enders. They can sometimes be life enders sadly enough. My teacher fell from a ladder while cleaning the gutters on his house when he was in his early seventies. He was a little scratched and had a bruise or two, but he still made it to training that very night. In my job I see people his age fall just from a standing position and end up in the hospital and then in rehab for weeks. Sacrifice the limb to save the body.
