Full Contact Kyokushin Karate - Melbourne Australia Japan's current champions take on Australia's best. Brought to you by Judd Reid and Chikara Dojo Australia
Japanese fighters much lighter on their feet, more opportunistic and with much less wasted energy... feel like I've had 10,000 karate lessons just watching them. Osu!
I'm a martial artist (jujitsu and boxing) and I have huge respect for these Kyokushin guys. Bodyshots hurt. A lot. But the fighters seem to stand toe to toe and trade them again and again and again. Tremendous fighting spirit on display here.
How much do they actually hurt? I've been in sparring competitions but it's never been full contact. Am I right in saying that the average person would only be able to take a few bodyshots before they're finished?
@@ninjaman7123 do u know muai thai the martial art You know their leg or body kicks they are deadly right I have seen a kyokushin black belt take 20 of those and kept approaching him
@@ninjaman7123 I'm natural 185. I've been kicked about 75% from a natural 235 fighter (2nd Dan) and that hurt. I could kick another 185 pound fighter a few times and if they don't block or evade they're pretty well screwed.
The Japanese fighters were so relaxed like they were taking a stroll through the park. My hats off to all competitors, they showed tremendous heart. By allowing competition from other countries, it makes your karate much more effective.
@@obriang904 wow, this was actually awesome they are black belts but fight like white belts. They just swinging wild and don't understand managing distance or defending intelligently they just focusing on point scoring and a lot of the fights here weren't clean they just turn into a dog fight and a wild mess. No offence because karate can be a great martial art as i've seen wonderboy, lloyoto machida, sage northcut, etc..do
Full contact huh respect to those who get an opportunity but how are there rules I thought anything goes. It's not like street fighting I may be a little extreme
As a fellow Aussie kyokushin, proud of the Aussie team!!! The Japanese team was amazing, shows through their tremendous control of the fight flow. OSU!
Thanks for the Upload. Normally Kyokushin is not my style, but especially the last one of the Australian fighters is really good. Very good defense and good movement.
The heart and spirit presented by all was amazing!! Thank you for sharing this Love how humble Mr Reid has been all these years! Super Classy and a great role model
much nervousness, stress, stiffness from the Aussie side ... Big up to them to have the audacity to take on a side with higher technical quality and physical endurance. They have in front of them what they can aspire to be: endurant, calm and deadly technical Japanese fighters. God bless, and keep up... Next time you'll be better.
Judd , love this, great to see and experience other styles, great spirit shown, the Aussies fought really well, the Japanese team were brutally effective. Excellent. Thanks for posting!
Brilliant display of toughness. Bodies and minds of iron. I'd love to try this one day. I fear that once I achieve black belts in judo and BJJ (currently brown and purple respectively), I'll be too old and broken to start (ie. 50+). Much respect.
Its never too old to learn a martial art U can be 50 or 60 and start karate If i had to put a limitation tho id say 74 but karate can be learned at any age almost
Kyokushin (極真) is a style of stand-up fighting. It is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement, discipline and hard training. Kyokushin training consists of three main elements: technique, forms, and sparring. These are sometimes referred to as the three "K's" after the Japanese words for them: kihon (basics), kata (Imaginary forms of Fight), and kumite (sparring). In most Kyokushin organizations, hand and elbow strikes to the head or neck are prohibited. However, kicks to the head, knee strikes, punches to the upper body, and kicks to the inner and outer leg are permitted. Speed and control are instrumental in sparring and in a training environment it is not the intention of either practitioner to injure his opponent as much as it is to successfully execute the proper strike. Tournament fighting under knockdown karate rules is significantly different as the objective is to down an opponent. Full-contact sparring in Kyokushin is considered the ultimate test of strength, endurance, techniques and spirit. Also known as Goshin Jitsu, the specific self-defense techniques of the style draw much of their techniques and tactics from Mas Oyama's study of Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu under Yoshida Kotaro Kickboxing has been seen as a natural progression for kyokushin competitors[citation needed] and many of Japan's top kickboxers[who?] have started in knockdown karate. The influence of Kyokushin can be seen in the K-1 kickboxing tournament that originated out of the Seidokaikan karate organization, which is an offshoot from Kyokushin.[citation needed] Kyokushin is the basis of glove karate, a knockdown karate format wearing boxing gloves and allowing punches to the head. Glove karate rules are used in Kyokushin Karate Iran. Aliveness, also referred to as alive training[1] describes martial arts training methods that are spontaneous, non-scripted, and dynamic. Alive training is performed with the intent to win, rather than for mastery or demonstration purposes as in regular sparring, where victory is not an option. Aliveness has also been defined in relation to martial arts techniques as an evaluation of combat effectiveness. Many believe that incorporating Aliveness into training regimens is important, if not a requisite for producing an effective martial artist. Because Alive training involves resisting opponents, sparring sessions produce situations of continuous, un-choreographed attack, an effect which cannot be replicated through the practice of rehearsed routines. Students also learn to deal with the physical pain and stresses involved in combat situations requiring high levels of exertion.[8] Alive training imparts a sense of fluidity and spontaneity; Alive drills do not follow set patterns, and are designed to seamlessly transition from one drill to the next. Sparring and competitions in Kyokushin Karate and Sanshou in Chinese martial arts are examples of alive practice. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyokushin
34:02 I've been training kyokushin for alomst 1 year and didn't know that kick was exist. Osu senpai, today I learned a very crucial and brutal tactical kick from you.
Osu! Amazing fights, thank you for uploading. The Australians fought hard and well but this shows what training endurance and stamina really looks like. The Japanese didnt waver, had amazing technique and timing. I don't think they even sat down in between rounds! Someone said something in the earlier comments. "These are the results of eat, sleep and breathing karate five or more times a week. Rather than heading to the dojo after work two or three times a week." Of course this is not always the case or even the case here but it makes you look at things a bit different.
Interesting to see How australian try to be agressive and at contrary japanese are methodic and use power just at the right time.The level of the 2 teams are just not comparable.... this vidéo makes me Love kyukoshin...i start courses next week
Im Wearing...yes even more unrealistic. Have you ever been in a real fight in your life? Have you ever actually watched a real fight? The punching is almost always to the face and the kicking is almost always to the body. So Kyokushin has it totally backwards!
The basis of not punching to face in the tournament is traditional bare knuckle fighting - the fights wouldnt last long if bare knuckle hits to the head were allowed, and there would be too many critical injuries.
Knock Out instant win Knock Down is usually a single point - First to three points wins the match. Everything else is minor for solving a draw. Unless they do breaking to decide a winner, two exhausted guys or girls breaking ice to see who has more left in the tank.
In kyokushin karate there is no punching to the head because the founder Oyama wanted long lasting fights. To test your persistence. And as in kickboxing MMA you can see sometimes there is a knockout in like 5 seconds or so. Also its not so very hard for trained fighters to get to the head. A kick is more challenging. Of course if you want to know if the kyokushin can punch to the head you can always ask on the street. Or Just Challenge Them and find out yourself😜 This fighting style is more about persistance. No lucky unfortunate punches to the face which cause knockouts
To all the keyboard warriors saying there's no technique, I would love to see a video of you attempting the front kick switch to inner roundhouse to head height seen at 34:00 on a focus mitt, let alone knock down a resisting opponent in a tournament. You are aware that the MMA world collectively lost their minds when Anderson Silva pulled off a just a normal front kick KO on Vitor Belfort's head right?
There is plenty of technique it's just misplaced. Punching only to the body and kicking only to the face is the exact opposite of real combat. Yeah these guys are tough and very good at what they do. But ...the system sucks
@@zebbanister2348 Kyokushin is about developing an iron body. The headshots are forgone in hard sparring because they go 100 percent and could actually kill each other. If they jump into kickboxing or MMA, then nothing really stops them from attacking the head. Look at Andy Hug, Bas Rutten, and GSP.
Zeb Banister I would challenge any MMA fighter to do a full on 10 man Fight, (which is required for Shodan - black belt) let alone the 100 man fight that Judd Reid did to get his 5th Dan
@@zebbanister2348 I agree, it seems a bit filtered or regulated per se but they might have done so because it was being recorded as a showcase or something. So, they wanted as raw as possible without blood, you know what I mean?
I love this karate! But god. I didn't know they had alive training which as a whitebelt i see my problem 🤣🤣 i am focus on the prediction than the unexpected.
I’m not an expert so don’t take my word to seriously but I think they aren’t trying to hit pressure points but they’re straight up jabs around the chest. I think..
just curious - in first female fight - which was great by the way. why does the japanese fighter have leg protection and the australian fighter appears to have none. I could be wrong.
I have a question, do you have to use karate techniques in this? I mean what if she blocked kicks with muay thai blocks or wing chun blocks? Would she get disqualified?
@@AndresDX1 yeah I get what your saying but it's matter on the competition not on the style different tournaments have different rules it's not something I can answer although some don't care and other only count it if the form is right which would be based off of karate form
So, I guess it's ok to take tons of punches to the cheast area...according to this video. Seems like the heart could take one bad shot and send someone to the hospital. Can someone answer this for me in the martial arts field please?
