It is amazing that I can still learn something "new" (to me!) about a kick I was taught years ago and have seen many VHS/DVDs on the subject. Thank you, *JG.*
To me, one if not the best mawashi geri tutorial on RU-vid with excellent copious details from hip movement to connecting with the target plus personal self-training. Will subscribe. Thank you for taking the time to do this video. Respect!!
@@jkgardiner john when you are going for a low kick to the leg do you rotate your standing foot full 180 like when you are going for the ribs ? @jkgardiner ??
Brilliant, thank you. This advice will be invaluable in my training 👌🏻(48, just graded yellow in Wado-Ryu) My Sensei recommended you, fantastic channel 👍🏻🥋
This came in at the right time,I have just practiced this kick and the fall its still hurts 😅Thank you Sensei Gardiner for the video! I will try to put this in practice.
We do the same in taekwondo, rotate the support foot, move the hip etc.. in the end we have 2 legs and arms. So same goals may end to same paths. Great video.
Superb training. Absolutely what I needed because I'm working on my sidekicks I practice Tang Soo do. This was a great training. I will implement these. Thank you so much brother
Great exercise, and a good idea to break down complex movements into smaller parts. I have trained Karate, Taekwon-Do, Kickboxing and Muay Thai, and while kicks were executed differently in each sport, all beginners did the same mistake of trying to kick flat-footed.
Doing Karate since 20 years for now, loved Mawashi Geri since the beginning and I'm pretty good at this. Even for me this helped me improved it a little more. Thanks to you!
@@jkgardiner john when you are going for a low kick to the leg do you rotate your standing foot full 180 like when you are going for the ribs ? @jkgardiner
great video and helps me a lot during practice. Would love to see a video like this for the back kick or spinning back kick. Also low kick tutorial would be helpful. Osu!
Been doing karate for many years. Had to come up with correct techniques through thorough investigation and trial and errors. This guy is very good. I like it. Beautiful form and function!
Thank you, your process of coming up with correct technique is the same as mine, trying things, changing bits and working out the most efficient way for me 👍
Excellent explanation. As someone who trains in Muay Thai, I was interested to see how you generate power. Great to see the similarity in the importance of throwing that hip into the mix and going through the pad.
Thank you. The further you go into martial arts the more they become similar. I like to watch things from all different places and take the ideas I like.
John, really made a great change to see a Black Belt master demonstrating Shotokan technique as well as you can. My style was Tae Kwon Do which I studied for five years in the RAF back in the 1970s by a South Korean Major who fought in Vietnam with the Americans. I cannot recall since watching RU-vid when it started, in seeing anyone on here demonstrating a round-house kick with your power, speed, technique (a word my master drilled into me) and conviction as my master Rhee Ki-ha taught me and my RAF pals. I truly hope the many so-called Black Belts that we now have running martial art clubs and who put their selves on here, with the belief they are good enough to teach, get to watch you, because they need to know what true martial arts mastery actually is.
Thank you 🙏 There is a lot of poor martial arts on here, not saying mine is better than anyone else's of course but I'm just trying to show what I believe is good technique from my experience 🥋
WOW !! That was quick and a “Thank You”. as well 🙂 Later in life after the RAF and Civil Engineering I became a Maths Teacher in some very tough schools, I never taught TKD even though asked, but Master Rhee at the end of a session would talk about many aspects of life such as humility, respect, politeness and maturity which I did the same to my pupils when I could. I also in life came across other martial art exponents and generally the better they were, the more they had of such worthy traits. Your reply shows that is the same for you. @@jkgardiner
This is great,The good thing you are teaching here is lifting the knee vertical similar to what bill wallace used to do this way you do not know what kick is coming mawashi yoko or ura mawashi done in the traditional way it is easily telegraphed.Look forward to seeing more.
Excellent video! Absolutely loved the detailed explanation which I am absolutely certain would benefit anybody learning karate. I personally felt a bit sad for this wonderful video brought back memories of yester years when I used to practice Ashihara and I am so much off the mark now with the kicks which I used to practice so much. 🙁🙁 Nevertheless, Liked it and subscribed to your channel.
I’ve taught this method of roundhouse for 4 decades. Advanced people can make their kick drop slightly at the end of the arc for more power. The question mark kick will is easier to learn and sneaky, but it’s best to learn how to set up and land the bigger kick first. I always emphasize keeping the hands up for this. Ie, starting w hands at face level and pulling the rear hand past the hip for power, as this guy does, but also keeping the front hand up for defense, particularly against a counter wheel kick. This doesn’t sacrifice any power and also allows you to shoot your rear hand cross to the face from your chin. Ie, less telegraph.
@@jkgardiner me to ;) my clubs part of the jkawf so Kawasoe Sensei is our chief instructor amazing how he can do the splits and full pancake u will most likely have seen him do it ;)
I find many students get the power easily if you tell them to concentrate on pointing the heel towards your target. Greatly simplifies the explanation and much less for them to concentrate on. Everything else tends to just fall into place
That was revealing a profound secret. Sensei Gardiner's deadly kicks have incredible speed which does not compromise the quality. This demonstrates how deeply exact his technique is. I enjoy watching it over and over again without getting bored. My question is about the equivalent for a punch? What does equalize the force of a heel-first kick in a punch, still thinking for decades about the greatest and most efficient answer?
Very good , it would be great to see , inside mawashi to groin , and chin , or stomach , using feint of normal mawashi , then turn into inside mawashi , geri to groin etc , then use combination of even backfist combo , twisting techniques ,
