I'm a boxing practitioner myself but I love Karate, this is one of the most beautiful yet direct and functional martial arts there is when is properly taught and practiced. Karate doesn't work for real life?, ask the guy with the gi covered in blood if he didn't feel the strike. I wouldn't ever dare to mess with any of these guys, they are for real!. Love Karate for ever!.
I started training in 1975, at the age of 14. Back then, we had no pads on hands or feet and full contact to body, light (yea right! lol) contact to the head. This is now the only karate I can tolerate.
This is point Karate. A point is scored when a punch is delivered to the chest. Then, the referee breaks it up, and there’s no punching to the face. This is why Karate doesn’t work in real life.
I'm rewatching this, and both of these guys have been trained very well. They both use open hand guards because open hands are faster than closed hands and easier to block and punch from. This is probably the best 6 point system fight I've ever seen.
actually 4 point (half point - wazari) or two full point (ippon) only in final match. Previous match are shobu ippon: 2 wazari (half point) or one ippon (full point).
I am only a 1st Kyu in Isshinryu karate, but I WOULD be a third Dan if i didn't keep failing the kata portion of the test. I used to easily beat the 2nd Dan black belts at full contact fighting. Guy probably broke his nose right there, but he stayed in the fight. That punch was legit, and it didn't help that he misjudged it and stepped into it.
Es muy grato ver este Kumite al estilo de la vieja escuela. Si protección en las manos, ni en los pies y pecho. Técnica depurada y muy buena , velocidad. Exelente. Estoy feliz de ver a estos dos combatientes. Arigato.
Proper kumite, a joy to watch. You have to remember that these are holding back, striking with control. However there was still a bit of blood spilled. In a self defence situation, one full power strike would finish the opponent . Ippon. That is what they train for. It was often said that our blackbelts didn't like training with the brown belts because they hadn't developed proper control yet and were likely to get hit.
In competition I always hated those forever moments waiting to fight….in the 70’s and 80’s black belt was controlled strong contact, 2 points for head kick, one point punch, . Controlled medium contact for colored belts. We wore protective gear.
This is very good ol´karate tournaments like the ones where you had Yahara sensei, Abe and all the other guys that practised under Nakayama sensei (I still have a few of his books). Why was 7:05 an Ippon? I clearly see a clean tsuki but not more than that.
@@LilaKaiTV ohhh ok he counted the previous waza ari I did not know that they counted like that, back ikr n my competition times the judge would only count the actual points but would be "doing the math" in his head, so to speak. It confused me because I thought he did something that I couldn't see. Thank you.
2 quality Shotokan Karateka at their best. I thought this type of competition was long gone however thankfully I am wrong. Shame there were so many empty seats - I'd have gven my left nut to have been there in person...to watch, definitely not to compete! It's quite a few years since I stopped training and I have no idea who these 2 competitors are so more detail would be nice.
Kendo is actually one of the influencers for JKA kumite. Just one of those, but maybe more significant than is often known. Gigo Funakoshi, son of Gishin Funakoshi was practising also kendo and laido. That effected the cautious approach, relatively long stances, long distances and techniques to cover that long distance quickly.
When you're training to score a point by just touching your opponent, you're effectively taking the combat out of the combat sport. These bad habits ultimately erode the real world effectiveness of the practitioner. What's the goal here? Shouldn't a Black Belt be a representation of ones battle readiness? As these guys lunge for their points they frequently find themselves awkwardly out of position and vulnerable. Unfortunately, there are never any consequences for such sloppiness because the action is generally stopped at that point. The rules and practices of this sport serve only to ingrain terrible habits within the practitioner that will sabotage their ability to deal with a real world empty hand contest.
The name of the game is speed, control and distancing. The opponent is not your enemy, respect is important in this regard. If you think you are that good try JKA so that you will know.
@@rubendumdum5265 I know what I can do, guys like you generally don’t. Also, I’m familiar with all of your talking points and they don’t hold water. The fact remains that people who prepare for these tournaments are developing bad habits because of the rules. I’m not shitting on Karate, i just think it should look like Bas Rutten’s, Combat Karate concept. None of these point-karate black belts could hang with those guys in a real fight.
@@victorribeiro2431 Probably the best answer here. LOL. I did sports karate in first league in my country 30 years ago and it was absoulutely no problem to stick a real enemy the fist into the throat in the same controlled manner as for stopping it 1 cm in front of the chin for a sports companion.
Kyokushin is really nice, but funnily enought pretty much all those punches which these 2 gentlemen did would be banned in Kyokushin, as they were targeted on head. I found it interesting that in this particular match they didn't try to kick, or really throw the opponent. While punching is much more common than kicking and throwing in JKA, all of these are perfectly legal.
