Kuzushi simplified. How to unbalance your opponent 

Playing around with concepts on your own is so underrated. There should be a point in every serious martial artist’s development where they question EVERYTHING they’ve been taught. A great example is keeping one hand glued to the cheek as you punch. It can be good practice. In certain situations I’d highly recommend it. It can also stifle your strike and significantly limit your hand-speed and power. Go watch some good punchers and see how often the opposite hand is glued to the other cheek. It’s pretty damn rare. No matter what training situation you find yourself in, I assure you there are gaps in the available knowledge in the room. Don’t be afraid to question, be afraid to stop developing yourself. And at some point it’s not your coach’s responsibility, it’s your own.

Yup!!! ;) @@g8trg8tr30

Well executed striking will unbalance the opponent, either physically or neurologically, or both!

Especially us old guys.

Yeah

I remember when I was a kid and practicing Judo, the leg grab was allowed and I took a liking to kata guruma especially! Does that mean I'm old at 33? :O

@@NakThai I am older than you. I liked kouchi and ouchi with leg grab, and of course kata guruma and te guruma. Morote gari (double leg) was taught as a follow up to ippon seoi. There was a Sambo guy at our dojo who was great at single leg.

@@edwhlam It's too bad they got banned, all solid techniques!

Also done in other arts

Consider subscribing so you can see what you want instead of relying on the RU-vid homepage/robot overlord brainwashing to tell you what to watch.

@@RamseyDewey I subscribed over a year ago! (I think in the winter, maybe longer).

I was rooting for you during the self defense championships. Your one of my favorite martial arts channels.

Goodluck. Don't forget to stand your hair up like Paul pheonix. The judges will love you.

I was going to mention sumo in my comment. I don't do sumo, but habe a great interest in it. For a while I had a knuckle on my left hand that healed terribly and thoightninwas going to have life long nerve damage. Took about half a year to heal, but for a while there I could only palm strike. I originally come put if a sambo gym, so I was thinking about giving sumo a go, even if I had to drive a few hours once or twice a month to get a good session in a d otherwise just trian in distance somehow. Wish sumo would spread across Canada. Such an interesting art.

@@Xzontyr there is some Sumo in Canada! I’m aware of two clubs, one in Vancouver and the other somewhere in French Canada

@raincitysumo on Google maps it just shows one in Ontario. Google Terrible for martial arts clubs however. Thanks for the heads up. I'm a good distance away from either. Stuck in thr middle of the country.

@@Xzontyr that’s okay, start your own club!

@raincitysumo Theres alot of underground private clubs in my city that atleast have a blue or purple belt in bjj running the show, or someone that's had a decade of sambo experience, and I give those sort of gyms credit, bit the problem with them is that they all hit a platea, and are primarily for hobbiests that don't want to spend alltnof money or have the time. I respect them because atleast it's still somewhat qualified instruction. However, there has been some very imaginative gyms open up for a while and be a fad, with very suspicious instructors with questionable qualifications. I would never want to be one of those guys lol. I think id jabe to get some pro training g First in respect of the art before I tried to open a club and try teach it. I don't want to end up on one of Robs episodes of Mcdojo life, because I hosted the strangest sumo dojo known to man lol. I love the idea of it though. Beyond myself, iv been told by some credible combat sports athletes, that they think alot of sumo techniques are underrated and would do great in mma. It'd be curious to see it done someday.

Do you watch a lot of barefoot iceskating videos?

​@@RamseyDeweyNo. It looked very novel to me. I just saw this in suggestions, very small pic, and the posture reminded me of icescating. Maybe subconsciously because winter has arrived in Germany. Then I saw you were barefoot and I thought "Wow, how alpha is that!"😂

Yep. I’ll be releasing a video about a recent boxing match he had. Look forward to that.

Thanks 🙂@@RamseyDewey

Healing? Nope. My knee is still screwed up dude.

Nobody got slammed to the mat in this video.

@@RamseyDewey fair point. I should have been more specific. I should have said, tripped and made to fall. Love your content btw. Thanks for all great tips!