Ahh yes, it's easy to be skeptical about what's posted here, but I've seen this guy in person many times and can verify that he is the real deal, probably one of the toughest men on the planet.
2x2 on the toe kick...ouch. By the by, kotekitae (body pounding exercises) work! Even after I stopped formal training in Uechi Ryu years ago, I still do some pounding exercises every so often. True story, was working a small heavy bag a week ago and when I attempted a forearm strike I overreached and smashed my fist into the metal support beam behind the bag. hand should be broken. Nope. Only a stinging sensation and a bruised knuckle...totally fine the next day. strong mind, strong body.
Yes, not many are as hard core as the Shinjo brothers, but try to keep up a basic level at least. I've seen non-conditioned guys go down in fights with Uechi practiioners, when they go to sweep the conditioned legs and break their own shin bones to splinters - it's not pretty! So if you are going to fight - best to have really well conditioned arms, legs and know how to hold your breathing down to withstand those shots to the belly.
i always question the use of boards in breaking demos because i know for a fact some are baked to break easy. now when a baseballl bat come into play i perk up a bit. and when the Gentleman does not get it in the first attempt but goes again i like it even more!
That last move with the wrist "fish tail strike" is a strike, a block..whatever it needs to be. One major mistake new students to traditional martial arts make is trying to associate each move with a specific attack. Many attacks can be used for a specific purpose but as my sensei also reiterates. Each move you limitless applications. I believe Master Funakoshi said something to the effect from each move you must learn 10000 things.
I disagree, Gad. In a real fight you do what you need to. You may need to incapacitate someone, meaning put them in enough pain so they can't get up. Which could mean biting, gouging or anything else. There can be a situation where you need to eliminate a threat and give aid. If you just restrain someone, they are still a danger as soon as you let them go.
Traditional karate is a killing art. It's not a ring sport like muay thai and boxing. As such, there are additional techniques that can be used to seriously injure or kill your opponent. For example, the boshi-ken (the thumb strike) is primarily a technique aimed at the collar bone. And you can see how much damage that can cause. There are techniques like this in addition to all the punches, kicks, chops, blocks, etc. etc. that can be used to attack your opponent.
You are exactly right! In UFC you cannot bite, or kick a downed opponent, or perform small-joint manipulation, but in a street fight ANYTHING GOES! Real Martial Arts WERE made for self-defense. I practice ITF style taekwondo, and when we go over self-defense we go over all aspects of what the other person could do, like biting, or scratching, or whatever, we teach a lot of stuff like eye-gouging, and sidkicking to the knees and so on.
There are alot of joint locks in mma what are you talking about. The ones you see there are the most effective and don’t need to rely on a compliant partner. Also Japanese mma allows you to kick a downed opponent and I’ve seen guys recover as well as get knocked out from ground kicks. So there’s that, also if someone bites you they are putting themselves in a vulnerable position as you can eye gouge, grab/choke them, or kick them in the groin. Biting is the least effective thing a person can do in a street fight. If you “train for the streets” you likely won’t know what you’re doing because unless you actively look for fights, you aren’t gonna get much experience fighting, so your technique will fail under pressure. Just an fyi no hate, Im actually really interested in this style, Im just tired of hearing “mma is a sport so it won’t work” even though it’s the closest thing you can have to a real fight compared to other arts.
@@IcejjfishTbone belts are meaningless, I have seen muay thai fighters conditioned to the bone in 6 months and they could easily break wooden objects. All the techniques are refined to simple moves with devastating efficiency, which are taught to everyone on day 1.
@Zejex15 An unfortunate side effect of training your finger-tips to become like a spear tip (or "nukite" as they call it...a move that to my understanding is only taught in Uechi-Ryu). Just like training with a makiwara...your hands will eventually become like a rough hune stone hammers...and look like one too.
Grappling and joints manipulation are always among the best techniques; the human body has 206 bones and between them are just gaps. The strongest fist in the world cant do much when the arm it's attached to is snapped in half. Not to mention there are parts of the body you cant ever condition, such as your eyes. Of course, no amount of training will stop a blade or a bullet. :p
I think that the first thing student to learn or to train in karate is how to punch and kick in karate coupled with hand and foot conditioning. the hand must be conditioned to withstand impact on hard object like the head; and also the muscled part of the body. the fingers could be trained to strike the body like using a dowel. the extended knuckles can be conditioned to resemble an iron knuckle, etc.
@Torchwoods This is true.....Some teach that your body is your last line of defense but in a suprise attack it may become your first line of defense and if you can't come back from that first blow you may not effectively defend yourself.
I have done stuff like breaking things, ripping apples in half, phone books, punching my fingers through a watermelon, broke chains with my chest, punched nails into things, bending iron. with my god damn teeth or with my body. Strong man feats. I credit Goju-Ryu. It is all the same stuff when you get down to the mind set of pushing the body. It really isn't that hard, it's hard to stick with it. It is easy to be crazy, tough to be regular. But that leg break was god damn amazing. Holy shit. That man is a beast.
@vmi02raven Shotokan, Tae Kwon Do(Shotokan with a lower body emphasis truely), and Kyokushin Karate have it as advanced technique options that students can pursue, but usally most opp for refocusing on the basics and semi-advanced moves, so it veries.
Ahh, that's only if you go about it the wrong way - trying to condition overnight. It takes many many years to get to the level of conditioning that you see in this video.
Every time I see that video I'm laugthing to his face at 1:00 xD His face is like saying "Listen kid if you don't hold that bat correctly next time that's your head !" xD
My First sensei ( alan dollar ) Sensei was Seiyu Shinjo ( this guys father ) I am a shodan ( first degree black belt ) I have yet to meet Kyohide but I will what sucks is Kanei Uechi died the year I was born. . .
Last time I check the martial art wasn’t taught for years because of an accidental death within a fight. Which is why these people train to high levels before doing dangerous things like in the video. Most people don’t even reach a black belt
I trained in Uechi Ryu at a dojo that specialized in also teaching disabled people (our class was about an equal mix of disabled and non-disabled). We didn't do strengthening anywhere near this tough, but we did do it each classtime. Its a very good martial art. I've actually had to use it outside of the dojo to protect myself from a real life attack and I was amazed, my mind and body knew just what to do, the guy went down (just when we practiced in the dojo), and I got the heck out of there.
wow uechi ryu my respect for it has gone throught the roof has he must have been hitting makiwaras for a long time one thing thats still gets me is the baseball bat serious respect these are true budo masters
That's that iron fist training. You make your body hard and invulnerable to attacks, but that last break he did was a block. So if you try to punch him and he blocks like that, you're in a world of pain. Question: Is that the Uechi family?
Hard to match the impressiveness of the Shinjo brothers demos. FEw people today train hard enough to achieve this sort of conditioning level, but the Uechi dojos in Okinawa have bats on hand, for daily use, to bang their shins with, and concrete rollers to roll up and down the shins as well. Hard core! lol
@modernmarvel I encountered this style from a history professor in college who trained. I remember well how he tapped my shin with the tip of his big toe and knew right then that this style is hardcore!
I do Conditioning like that, Well not as hardcore but I used to I did for a while before my Shodan test and after I got my Shodan I got a lil less focused on conditioning and more on Fighting.
Understand, yes there are some long-term affects from this level of achievement, but not like an un-trained person would think. You must remember that YEARS of conditioning and training lead to this: a "regular" human would be broken and crippled immediately if this were attempted. Shinjo Sensei is the Ultimate Example of Superior Conditioning and Destructive Abilities.
In a real fight... you're not suppose to over do it. You learn karate to have the upper hand, and you should use minimal force. Enough to incapacitate. Why the hell would you bite someone when you don't need to. And why the hell would you do anything to someone's eyes or balls. Those are serious freaking injuries, and a martial artist SHOULD be able to eliminate a threat without having to resort to that extreme.
Yup Ive trained and done all that. See Though it does wear and tear on your body and I started at a Young age so now its getting to me an im not even 21 yet so it sucks. I have a good conditioned body, probably not as much as before but Id hold my own in a fight.
A lot of these people talk as if that would be their first resort though, and thats where my problem with it lies. especially gouging, which is very damaging. Also, there's nothing wrong with getting the hell out of there after you've given yourself the opportunity and can get out safely.
I agree in most of point of view. Proving a style is better or not in UFC is totally bullshit. I dare to say the only way to prove your martial art is effective is a life or death situation or in a war.
@GadGades Thats assuming you can ever be good enough to have such an upper hand that you completely dominate an opponent. Very few individuals ever get that good. the average joe may need to resort to extreme techniques. Plus you also have military contexts and the contexts of ppl who live in extreme danger all the time.
maybe not I take Uechi Ryu and my friend and I were comparing our hands and realized we both have my Sensei's broken pinky, He broke it when he was young, and we learned from as children. neither of us has broken any bones at all, but our hand position our pinkies stick out, so it might be learned thing with his hand. we don't train by bashing our hands into concrete, it takes years of training with the maki wari
this guy is really strong. i took lessons from him for 5 years, but i broke my leg from skateboarding and quit after that. im telling you, this guy is no joke. once, him and my dad kept fingering each other in the chest, and my dad gave up. this guy has some great endurance.
Watch the first bash closely. You would realize that the stick was already broken and the timing of the breaking noise was off, AND it never even touched the guys leg. I believe that people can achieve something like this, but the first break at least is NOT legit.
It should be mentioned that conditioning techniques are not the martial art itself, rather options that depend on the teacher and the student. You can have great conditioning and bad technique or vice-versa in the martial art world....or just have bad conditioning AND technique like Wing Chun :D
While I mainly trained in WTF Taekwondo, where I trained also had a Uechi Ryu instructor that taught it separately. I, myself, did not train in it's but several people I know did. Some of them filtered over to TKD at some point and they were a blast to spar. Hitting them was like striking a statue, their defense was ridiculous. I found a chink in their armor that was fun to exploit, however. Much of their defense involves specific body and muscle positioning, so I found that baiting them to attack and forcing them to overextend actually removed a good portion of their overall toughness, and was able to land hits they could actually feel. Of course, I trained for 20 years starting in 1989 (stopped when I tore my ACL and broke my neck), and the way TKD was in the 80's and 90's was way different that it eventually became. The Uechi Ryu practitioners liked sparring me because I could brawl up close too, which surprised them.
