Lyoto Machida was a light heavyweight. Bas Rutten became a heavyweight champion and one of the styles he trained in was kyokushin karate. Rutten also only weighed 205 pounds when he won the title so he was essentially a light heavyweight competing as a heavyweight.
I used to go to this karate school that taught this style. My teacher was taught by a student of the third guy, Higaonna. I remember going to a some tournament that he was at, and we all got to shake his hand. I remember his hand being so callused that it felt like a rock.
Also the belt system is for Americans you all start with a white belt and you never wash it that's how you earn your black belt. YEARS OF TRAINING so to the guy how can u do anything if you can manipulate his body and he is 40 times stronger then you. I could go on and on. But if you do study use this as you're base style. Add boxing to build up hand speed strike wood until you can hit it at full steam then move to concrete then steel.. I think you get the point.
The whole "if you never wash your belt" thing is a complete myth. The Belt System was created by the Dai Nippon Butoku, from the Judo system - it's not American, it's Japanese. If you actually owned a belt you would know it turns white/grey with age.
David Brierley I agree, The Okinawans and Japanese are very clean and fastidious people. e.g. no shoes in house, public baths or ofuro in their homes, now modern showers, etc. But historically, they complained openly about the smelly barbarians or 'gaijin'. Now, if one never washed their obi the Okinawan or Japanese Sensei would throw you and your smelly belt out. ;)) +Sean Wells Now as to your advice re: adding boxing. Find a senior teacher that can teach you the same from kihon. Don't strike, wood, concrete or steel. Foolish advice you will only hurt yourself. Get a makiwara and have a traditional sensei that is learned in the use teach you properly.
When I was young I trained in Oechi-ryu in Canada. It was very much a full contact 'hard' style and training was extreme to say the least. Nothing flowery about it. Kata is not intended to communicate real fight potential and anyone in martial arts knows this. It is merely a small portion of practice like muscle memory practicing guitar. We learn the most from the elders, specially in this instance with authentic Practitioners of 8-10th Dan. I appreciated this video very much, tks. The Okinawan styles are quite renowned.
The originating master of Oechi-Ryu (Kanbun) spent years in the Fukian Province in China and studied Pwang Guy Noon if I recall my lessons many years ago.
That's the idea. At a truly high level all martial arts look the same. The closer you are to the top of the mountain, the less it matters which side you started on
The first sensei with the strickes and direct kicks can be shuri-te, the second sensei can be naha-te, the third sensei can be tomari-te a combination of the before-mentioned
maybe who don t know what does kata mean will say this is a shit! but his is moving slowly dess't mean it is not strong he can push and even kill with that fist but the kata is a imagination of a fight and. we make changes on the moves to make it beatiful ^^ hope u undertand that
Trafalgar I agree that MMA is great.. But Karate is not useless. My life was saved so many times and I owe it to Karate and Jujutsu. However, MMA does have the advantage of covering the weakness of Karate.. but a good Karate master can easily defeat a great MMA fighter. Try watching live Open Freestyle Tournaments, you'll see what I mean :)
this is very much like Shao Lin art and movement. very beautiful display of movement and peace. it also looks like the Chinese martial art Hawk style movement. i love this art Kata peaceful and beautiful.
Well the form that I'm studying (shorin ryu) apparently if you put the characters together and translate them into Chinese it becomes shaolin (For the record shorin-ryu means little Forest way)
You guys don't understand something people do karate not for really killing or injuring people in championships but to learn self defence and be healthy karate means one attack and one man stays on the floor MMA might be good but u cant say that kata is more show off than a man bleeding in MMA
- Единственный зафиксированный случай соприкосновения русских казаков и японского ниндзя. "Третьего дня сотня стояла во второй линии охранения,отчего было дозволено готовить пищу и разводить костры. В девятом часу пополудни из кустов на огни костров к охранению вышел странный японец. Весь в чёрном, дёргался и шипел. Есаулом Петровым оный японец был ударен в ухо,отчего в скорости помер". Рапорт о происшествии в расположении сотни казачьего сотника Переслегина
I've noticed one thing while reading youtube comments: there are quite an abundance of black belts in brazilian Jiu-jitsu AND PH.Ds in quantum theory and neuroscience who take previous time out of their busy lives of fight training and scientific studies to constantly make comments on youtube videos about subjects they wouldn't or shouldn't be interested in.
The videos of karate masters remind me Reikichi Oya and Gichin Funakoshi of Okinawa. Karate do Nymohn was read by E. J. Harrison and he was inspired to make the Britishers familiar with Karate do. Do means way in Japanese. Harrison was a great spirited man with the black belt in judo four Dan. There were no videos and mobile phones in sixties. Only printed pictures were available to learn katas like pinan Katas, pinan shodan, pinan nidan and so on.
Thank you for the very mature comment. It is so tiresome to read so much nonsense from people who a) do not train or have trained for less than six months and b) disrespect the proven arts of others through their ignorance.
Putting aside their disrespect, some people aren't aware of the true purpose of forms and patterns. They see these beautiful movements and wonder how they are effective in a fight, never realizing that the secret to the form was never in the movement itself, but the habits and purpose the movements trained into the student.
With training, you can move faster than you can see, or think, or feel. If you can move faster than you can see you can move faster than your opponent can see. Fast movements of light parts carry more momentum than slow movements of heavy parts; contrary to intuition. A light punch at 100mph will transfer more energy than a forceful punch moving much slower. You find yourself dazed and on the ground before you even feel pain. Karate.
Different strokes for different folks. No need to insult our precious kata. Understand it is the foundation of our Art, its not like we are dissing JKD even done it is a incomplete system it a source rack of a art, its not like us karate kind are doing that. Unfortunately the same B.S will continue from people who believe there Martial Art is superior than the next. I love karate and that is what it is "Karate is my life and my life is my love", nut I still respect other system. Maybe you could learn something from that, Samo, Jamo whatever your name is,lol. Just joking.
John Turner Yeah I saw the kungfu quest Doc. That was very interesting. I had just never really observed Karate before. I've always studied the Chinese arts.
John Turner only Goju ryu and toon ryu and partially shito ryu are crane based. Most shuri or shorin styles are southern Lohan or monk boxing based. While uechi ryu is almost straight up Yongtai tiger/crane boxing.
I love the comments they say karate is useless but some of the Champions are from that background same thing they say about judo some of the greatest use and are black belts thats why they call it mma mixed martial arts
Tracker Buckmann There is an art to breathing when doing kata, whilst training with certain groups I've realised not many people use there breathing as they should. When doing a kata, your breathing should tense and un-tense you (as well as you tensing your muscles). Try this do the Suparinpe Kate, whilst just breathing normally, tense up your stomach and legs. In the stance of Sanchin Dachi (Pigeon Toe Stance). Now do it again, whilst going into the stand and blocking with your forearms as shown, breath in just before, and out as you are moving into said stance. You're body/muscles with be a lot more tense.
