Luta histórica, primeiro lutador do ocidente a ganhar um final, e não foi qualquer final, foi uma final contra o lendário Hajime Kazumi, um dos lutadores mais consagrados da história do Kyokushin.
it’s incredible he did the entire tournament while feeling incredibly constipated the entire time he said the later interview he was constipated for almost a week it was unbearable but he still one he’s a true legend oss!!
For some people their pucnhes and kicks looks nothing on the surface, but they dont see how well built their bones and muscles has become. This is a match between Iron Battering Rams.
To me it seems strange none of them used their flexibility. I am really not well informed but I would like to know the rules. Aside from that I do understand that the training is really exhaustive when it is about strengthening bones and muscles, yet I dont like it because they are really not using all of the techniques they could. I understand it is to avoid killing someone or hurting badly each other for life or even worst, this is why I really dont like competitions decided by points nor those were the fighter gets to many injuries, I consider there is big bias, and I think there will always be, because a match by points is different than a life threatening situation. Still, I do think this is way better than ufc, where there is an incredible lack of care and quality in the excution most of the time and people cares more about seeing blood (which is disgusting and I would like to know their interest in seeing their own blood instead of others blood). At least they seem to have a really good martial sense of honor.
@@q.269 I assume you mean why are they not going for more head kicks ? The simple reason is that both fighters are so proficient at blocking those high kicks and countering them . If you don't land the high kick you are very much open to having your other leg kicked out from under you which would result in a 1/2 point ( waza ari) 2 x waza ari and you win . 1 full point ( ippon) also wins and this is a knockout, or unable to continue due to mostly leg kicks or body blows . You do see lots of high kicks in the earlier rounds where the opponents are less experienced and less likely to hurt you on the counter .
@Michael Terrell II Not a technique. Its just a training method that makes micro fractures and heals to make it stronger. Not only Chinese. Muay Thai practices more shin conditioning.
Why everytime I see a Kyokushin fight on RU-vid they all seem to trade punches without much techniques or timing ? I love this video! This is so refreshing and so technical. Is it consider old school kyokushin? Has the fighting style of Kyokushin evolved over the year and is more messy and less technical these days? Maybe it's a weight category thing? Could anyone explain? Thanks! Osu!
In my back years training Karate, I learned to have explosion on my punches through correct breathing techniques. I'm not sure why, but I don't see such thing on mostly of the black belts in professional tournaments, mainly on MMA events. I would like to understand why. My sensei had an explosion on his strokes that his kimono seems it was going to explode. For the power he demonstrated, one single punch perfect raised would be enough to end a fight.
Yep, depends who is teaching, to be complete u must train Kihon, Kata's and Kumite, Kihon well performaced train ur spirit, doing always in each class a looots of seiken's and mawashi's, like 100 for example of the mae gueri's and mawashi gueri's and 30 punchs of the rest and 30 kicks of the rest as well, Kihon is when u start do show ur spirit and u reflect that in the Kumite and in the Katas. (:
A perceptive comment,it was also the culmination of a long tournament lasting several days both of them fighting numerous matches and presumably sustaining a fair amount of damage in the process these factors go a long way to explaining the fighters tactics,if you want to see knockouts the 1st day is always the one to attend the 2nd and 3rd days become more of a mental and physical grind compeling but certainly less spectacular than the 1st .
Totally epic skills and sportsmanship . Would anybody in Japan believe that I studied this style in Ireland when I was 11yrs old ?? I'll be 50 in January . Indomitable Spirit !!
Ive trained mostly in the UK but ive trained in Japan and the Netherlands as well,the proportion of time spent on each of the three K's(Kumite,Kihon and Kata)varied from dojo to dojo rather than country to country,i depends on the character of the teacher and the make up of the dojo in question .
Kyokushin tournaments are weird to watch. Because it's like 90% body punches and low kicks, with the occasional head kick KO. But most of the time it's just 2 guys pummeling the crap out of each other's bodies. The fights are not the most exciting. However, you do start to get an appreciation of how many hits these guys can endure. Remember that it's BARE KNUCKLE fists hitting the ribs. Knuckles they have been hardened after years of training smashing into your body. And they just take it.
But it will train them to be able to block punches. At our tae-kwon-do gym/school you are not allowed to make contact to the face until it's two black belts sparring. But depending on your belt rank is the distance you stop the punches from. If a black belt is going against a white belt the black belt will stop the punch 6 inches from the face. If a brown is going against black they will both stop a punch half and inch from the face. So by time your black belt you will have the reaction time to block or evade both punches and kicks to the head. That's my opinion. And 4 your clarification no ones head got a hole in it.
Keep you expectations both of yourself and Kyokushinkai realistic,learning will be hard and the benefits of certain aspects of the training may not be immediately self evident and certain techniques will not seem immediately applicable,its at this point that many new guys become frustrated either with themselves or the style its self and quit,as in all things but especially the martial arts patience really is a virtue,but young men often don't have it as they want to 'kick ass' straight away .
The head is not damaged like in other sports, but still, kyokushin fighters have no fist protections so even if you get punch to chest, it hurts 2 times more than with fist protection.
@M4rsu nope, because when you kick, you hit with either the ball or the instep. In both cases, the absorbing surface is relatively big, and, in case of the ball, soft. When you punch, you hit with your knuckles, which means you have an impact on an extremely small (and considering konditioned kyokushin players pretty hard) surface. The risk to break bones or do any other severe damage is therefore much higher.
Still would've liked to see more of the Kyokushin spirit in the first 2 rounds though. Attack attack attack is one more typical of a Kyokushin fighter. I think the core of their philosophy is that a good offence is the best defense.
It's good. I prefer the fights where ths guys are more tactical etc as opposed to just storming in punching non stop. Of course they are well conditioned - no doubt.
Its just a name. any art can join this tournament. watch the 1st world tournament and you'll see. Its just a lot harder now, because you have to win a local tournament before you can get a shot at the world tournament.
I went back and read most of the comments and alot of them are stupid and ignorant which reflects the people who typed them. If you don't like karate that's cool but don't go around bad-mouthing it. I don't like BJJ but I don't go around bad-mouthing it.
Since you can kick towards the head the "fullcontackt" part is true. Whille saying that Fullcontact should mean that you can hit everwhere, it is still in a turnament, and therefore it needs rules. And as I said, protecting against a good kicker is just as hard as protecting from punches, so they learn to protect the head as well. And people still practise Kyokushin in MMA, so I suppose there's the place where you can see them go all out.
In my back years training Karate, I learned to have explosion on my punches through correct breathing techniques. I'm not sure why, but I don't see such thing on mostly of the black belts in professional tournaments, mainly on MMA events. I would like to understand why. My sensei had an explosion on his strokes that his kimono seems it was going to explode. For the power he demonstrated, one single punch perfect raised would be enough to end a fight. Does anyone know why?
I don't know Kyukushin Karate, but I don't need to in order to know not to deal with someone who can give me a whip-shot neck trauma car accident from just a leg kick.
You seem to have a genuine interest in the martial arts and a realistic attitude about them,so my advice would be to compile a short list of dojo's in your area and give one(or more of them)a go,when starting training my only practical advice would be both a matter of common sense and common courtesy and thats as far as possible to keep your ears and eyes open and your mouth shut,if you work hard your actions will speak for you .
kicks to the face are less frequent than punches (obviously), so 1 hit could knock someone out, where it could take many punches to knock someone out, this could end up in them losing their teeth, black eyes, cut faces, (a lot more frequently than kickboxing matches because of the fact we dont wear gloves)
But most KB fighters practice in semi-contact and are thus not used to hitting full force. those that practice full-contact are still limited by the KB rules they are used too
I would have to disagree with one of your points its much harder to defend say a jab than a kick,in my Kyokushin fighting days i could probably count the times ive been caught with by a head kick i was probably caught more times in a single round of Muay Thai,its not necessarily a problem as long as we realise that any set of rules is a trade of between realism and safety and will inevitably cause imperfections i think the Kyokushin way is a good comprimise just as long as we are aware of it .
Tournament fighting is a small part of the Kyokushin system,it includes sweeps,takedowns and a huge variety of strikes to the face it certainly has its faults just the same as any style but as your critique doesnt touch on any of them so its not at all valid.
my dear, that's a sport, with rules and with athletes, that have no intention of getting their face broken for free...nevertheless some of them like Filho, Andy Hug, Feitosa and many others, have gone further to K-1 or MMA professional competitions, which maybe suit better with the type of competitions you and your punk friends like... :D
