there are other good karate channels but this channel does it for me , always teaching us how to correct are techniques , that is a huge part of being a sensei , making others better , osu .
@@jkgardiner sensei i have a question , in shotokan they call it mostly kizame tsuki and in kykushin the style i train oi tsuki , stepping punch but why the different names ? and also mawashi tsuki or mawashi uchi ? shouldn't it be uchi mawashi tsuki : inside round/circular punch/strike ?
@@crisalcantara7671 kizami-zuki is more like a jab, punching with the leading hand. Oi-zuki as you mentioned is a stepping punch, the same in both styles. In regards to Mawashi-zuki or uchi, I’m not really sure, I use the term mawashi-zuki. It’s probably just a style difference.
Thank you such great content. You really explain the finer details so well, details that I have not had revealed to me in many years of study. Best karate YT sub so far. OSS!
Great breakdown on the technical side of this technique from a Shotokan and “modern” sport karate point of view as a solo exercise for kata and kihon. I do want to add that I’m fairly confident that this technique was originally a takedown and not intended as a “punch.” I think the modern explanation of bringing one’s knees together during the C-step is an ad hock explanation that was added later when karate was adapted by the Japanese to be a competitive sport. Closing off the groin to attack is a reasonable thing to do, but as I said earlier, I’m confident the original reason behind the step is that you’re stepping around your opponent’s legs to position your hips and @$$ against their backside to assist with the hand motions that appear to be a “punch” when done in isolation solo but are actually intended to be one hand, the pulling hand, holding the opponent’s wrist and the “punching” hand either acting as a “clothesline” against the opponent’s chest and upper body or, even better, the “punching” hand being a closed fist that is gripping the opponent’s collar, hair, or something else up as high as possible to assist with the takedown. I’m fairly confident you probably know this since I’ve seen you do other takedowns from the kata in your other videos. Hopefully that made sense. Again, thanks for the video.
Mental images can help. Picture the front knee at the start of the technique as positioned on the top of a wheel, say at 1 o'clock when viewed from the side and the opponent located to the right. Initiate the technique by allowing the wheel to roll forward freely, as though a stone or other impediment had been holding it in place until your mind releases it to roll downhill toward the opponent at the instant the opening to attack is sensed. As the wheel rolls, the front knee drops as it moves forward with the hips. The feeling is effortless, similar to what boxers call a falling step in initiating a jab. The pulling of the inner thighs to close the knees together, as cited by Master Funakoshi in Kyohan and demonstrated here, ideally happens simultaneously with this effortless rolling motion, resulting in a single motion burst of energy in which the *whole* body becomes a spear of energy, a straight vector from rear heel through fist. Note that the end posture of penetrating oizuki is hanmi, not square like gyakuzuki. To confirm, have a partner pressure test your final oizuki position in both hanmi and square positions. The force vector from fist to rear heel cannot take two right angle turns on the way to the ground, one where the line from the fist meets the lead shoulder, the second where the shoulder line turns back toward the rear foot. Ideal oizuki is a vector. Form itself is strength. Other useful oizuki images can be that of a mortar firing from the ground; or that one has become four-legged and low to the ground, like a tiger or dog leaping at its prey in a single horizontal thrust from ground to target. These images are fundamentally different than a mechanical model of oizuki as a punching piston riding atop and independent from a moving cart. The goal of an effective oizuki is a one motion attack without false preliminary movement.
Thanks Mr Gardiner , for this detailed reminder...very good for the beginners (to get rid off bad habits) and for us black belts (as reminder on "how to" review the right and correct motion in its inner mechanism..). Very good job
Dear Mr Gardiner, I am 12 years old and I’ve got a grading on 24th of may, I’m grading from purple belt to purple and one white stripe but I just want some extra practice at home and there isn’t many videos of the whole grading so could you do a video of the whole grading from syllabus to grading? Many Thanks
I’m a 30 year old Guy, i trained when i was 10 to 16 years old Kyokushin Kai Karate. Now i’m taking Shotokan trial classes. Its a lot difference about Shotokan and Kyokushin Kai. Stands are a bit different.
Love these wee refreshers, and great stuff John. Though it's funny how contradictory shotokan is. For example, moving forward in stance bringing knees together to protect the groin, but if kicking Mawashi-geri the first thing you do in the traditional kick is lift your knee to the side exposing your groin. Another weird contradiction is, when performing the basic oi zuki we snap our back leg shut straight when punching, but then in advanced kata like Sochin, you don't. Still love my karate even with those weird idiosyncrasies.
Yes I prefer to bring my knee more straight through with mawashi geri. Sochin is unusual isn't it as it doesn't seem to follow the kihon of the others in that way.
Pay attention he is giving gold Here. You won't get this in mcdojos. The twist of the bsck foot and hip. The power he has coming from this stance is immense. He's pulling it up not pushing until he has both legs together then pushing it forward as many teach. Very important. He's giving up secrets this time. Then the band resistance, this is why Nats a killer, look who is teaching him. Fk me very good !
@@jkgardiner yes i mean a video the short is nice but isn't informative as a real video plus that short got many views if you will post a video on that it will be good for your channel
Question: I have learnt long ago that never lock (fully extend) your arm when punching or it will eventually destroy your elbow (humerus bone) and it may never heal since the joint is broken (synovial fluid breaks and never comes back causing a lot of pain to shoulder). I told this to one pretty famous karate black belt here in youtube and he didnt know this which I found really strange and sad if he keeps on teaching people to lock their elbow in a strike. Whats your opinion of this? Anyone can tell their opinion of this issue. My sensei also tells never ever lock your elbow in a punch.
Yes the elbow shouldn't be hyper extended, this is partly the reason for the tension at the end of the punch, the arm is stopped just short of full extension by a hard contraction of the muscles in the arm.
@@jkgardiner Thanks, this is exactly what I mean not to fully extend (lock). I you lock the punch (fully extended) the forearm bone/s ulnaris/radius will hit to the humerus bone and repeating this in time will break the humerus and as far as I understand it cant be fixed when destroyed.
@@bogsesame principle applies to the knees. Never lock your knees out on a mae geri or even in a stance. And always, always, track your toes with your knee. Osu!
This sensei explination is all wrong and is misleading from the real Okinawan Toudi Kute Ryukyu Kempo point of view! Spreading this mechanics for non kwnoledge people! Is had been told
Far, far greater karateka than you have taught me this way. If you are brave enough to try to discredit me here be brave enough to show yours. I'm looking forward to seeing your superior demonstration...
