Very balanced grading......all three of them displayed good form......nice kihon and kata.......especially kumite was well controlled with variation of techniques with good execution & spirit. OSS!
Very good standard from all 3. I particularly liked the first Sochin and the Tekki Shodan by the same gentleman. Tekki is a particular favourite of mine. Excellent kumite also.
Great video , good katas and even better kumite . I like that this JKA branch does kumite like JKA Japan and not the sport way of WKF . Its not that this is better but I love this version of Karate better. Thank you for posting. You have a killer with that tall dark haired gentleman.
The WKF style of fighting is garbage. And the bad part of it is that was the style accepted into the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. The olympics always water down the martial arts to a point of uselessness.
What is the difference between JKA and WKF kumite? I know that in sport karate they try to get points and when you get a point kumite is stopped immediately. But I see these guys are stopped too, but do they still continue more than in WKF (sportskarate)?
My Sandan syllabus in 2000. Big difference in degree of difficultly compared to this grading in my view . Hara Heian oyo Nidan 1 Sanbon zuki, pivot, gedan barai, gyaku zuki, pivot, shuto uke, kizami mae geri, nukite. Repeat x4. Mawatte 2 Oi zuki chudan, step across kiba dachi, yoko empi, move into kokutsu dachi, uraken shoman uchi, step across into zenkutso dachi, gyaku zuki. Repeat x4 Mawatte. 3 Step back in to Kiba dachi, step yoko geri keage, step back into Zenkutso dachi, soto uke, yoko empi, gyaku zuki. Forward mae geri/mawashi geri same leg, tsugi ashi gyaku zuki. Repeat x4. Mawatte. 4 Tsugi ashi gyaku zuki, kizami mawashi geri, gyaku zuki, uraken. Step mawashi geri/ura mawashi geri same leg. Uraken gyaku zuki Repeat x4. Mawatte. 5 Yoko geri keage/kekome same leg x6 (all shiro). 6 Ushiro geri, gyaku zuki, step back kizami zuki, kizami mae geri, ushiro geri, shuto, jodan gyaku taisho, kamae. Repeat x4. 7 Sanbon zuki hente waza, shiro tsugi ashi age uke, tate zuki, gyaku zuki. Tsugi ashi kizami mae geri, gyaku zuki, uraken. Shiro kamae, ushiro geri, uraken, zuki ashi gyaku zuki. Tsugi ashi ura mawashi geri/mawashi geri same leg. Shiro kamae x2. Mawatte and repeat, slow and fast. 8 Shiho waza showing kicking, blocking and hand techniques. Own choice. Choice of Bassai sho, Gankaku, Kanku sho 3 forms of bunkai to be shown both slow and fast (engi) from chosen kata. Plus examiners choice of kata taken from 2nd Dan syllabus Kumite Ju Showing Go No Sen, Sen No Sen & Tai No Sen
Check that your knees are in line with your foot. In beginners it may hurt but just continueing doing it it wont hurt, just a normal process for muscles and nerves to go through and adapt these new moves/stances, kicks etc. Eventually it all extremely good for you, just do it right, slow first.. check the knees are in line with foot, very important.
Their fudodache was wrong, it was a weird front stance instead of being torqued forward. There should be rotation in the ankles and hips to create tension going outward at 45 degree angles. They completely missed the point and use of the stance by doing this.
Master Katana Yes I have seen many JKA dan gradings on youtube and they are quite disappointing even those gradings managed by the likes of Naka Sensei. Poor kihon almost everywhere(check out JKA Auckland eugh). This video is one exception.
