These Kuro obi videos are always extremely instructive and enjoyable. The people featured have such an open and friendly method of getting their point across. Its a refreshing contrast from older, harsher methods of instruction.
This is an excellent video. My sensei always stressed that “there are no blocks in karate”, he said “you’re attacking their attack”. This video shows that very concept.
agreed. this is another example of why martial art masters says that all martial arts ends up the same at it's zenith.. I remember Miyahira Tamotsu sensei also says that in chinese kung fu, there's no difference between blocking and attacking.
@@dapidminiAiki Okinawan karate, especially gojo ryu comes mainly from wing Chun and white crane kung Fu. Those are the arts and concepts miyagi based it on.
WOW! The way he blocks is exactly how I saw and use it. It works like a charm. You actually flick the arm away. Not just push. It unbalances the person and opens him for attack. I incorporated it in a kumite competition with devestating effect. Was waiting for my opponent to attack with his leading hand. Just hanged back. As soon as he attacked, I stepped sideways into kiba dachi and used ude uke with the flick. With the same movement then went into uraken for the face. His hand flew the otherway and my uraken went clear into his face. ... of course... since my time karate has changed and nowadays you are not allowed to hit in the face. The thing is... the block with flick works amazing.
I miss Okinawa. This is legitimate technique, going unrecognized in the modern MMA world. I was Shorin Ryu, but the Goju Ryu karateka were always excellent opponents ( and thus teachers). Thank you for this.
The use of the wrist to block is very similar to Hung Kuen's kyu sao or bridge hand and the way we use the tiger claw as a block in my Choy Lee Fut school. Also we have the same forearm conditioning excercise in my school.
Karate has White Crane, Whooping Crane, Half Hillock Half Crane, Half Hard Half South (Pagainoon) which is a huzunquan/zulangquan derivative, Southern Monk, Taizuquan, Long Fist, and Black Tiger in it's antecedents. The Iron wire form in Hung gar has White Crane Sanchin as half of it.
I love to learn as much as I can about different ways to defend yourself and I find your techniques so easy to do and really appreciate them would love to learn more. Thank you so much for sharing...
that block is incredibly popular in "self defense" teaching. In fact our instructor tell us "attack the attack" and "block like you are trying to break your oponent arm"
Anyone who has practiced Okinawan karate is now cringing in front of their computers as they watch this. Terrible memories of learning "bone blocks". But, if you do such a block to an untrained person it immediately gives you openings for more strikes against them as they flinch and move away.
Akihito Yagi hace los movimientos de su estilo tal cual ha mostrado en el personaje de Giryu. Por fin se entiende el por qué Giryu se había enfocado mayormente en la defensa, a diferencia de Taikan. Su estilo daba mucho para relucir profundamente ese concepto en Karate. 👍
I like these! I've been practicing a similar technique as I try to apply American Football technique called the "Swim Move" to combat sports. Hitting and chopping opponents arm from the outside to gain access to strike or grapple from his side or back.
In Indonesia pencak silat we train our hand Bone with sugar crane until black and blue after healing we continue that training.so when hitting or Block make other filing the pain from their Bone hand👍 u can see in RU-vid."silat Cimande train hand Bone"maybe can use in America football.but that training very painfull😂
The Northern 7 Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu form "14 Roads" has this technique. It is the 2nd move in the form. I have never heard this Praying Mantis technique explained with such clarity, nor seen it displayed with such effectiveness, as Sensei Thomas Chin has just demonstrated for us in this video.
Cool do you practise 7 star Praying Mantis?I am a Hung Gar practitioner and these kinda blocks/counterattacks Im pretty used to.The mostly used strike for this is called the Heel of the Palm but other bones are well used too.
@@hemispace641 Thats cool I havent trained the style by itself before but we have some forms with alot of mantis in them.Have u heard about Hung Jong Kuen before?
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In Kali this is a basic block... its called limb destruction, we also use elbows to destroy knuckles and high kicks... this is informative Ill use this kata in training...
I think this is a crucial point that is lacking in modern sports fight like MMA. I really hope someone will adapt it to these kind of fight someday. However this is not going to be an easy task as the trajectory of punches in these fights are less normalized than in karate, more random and exotic. Furthermore one of the major challenge to overcome is that punches' speed is far greater than those blocks speed, so against a fury of punches you won't be able to block everyone. To consistently be able to blocks fighting sport and MMA punches under high stress and pressure will certainly be super difficult...
It's always been my objective to pretty much do as this guy does, I'm not looking to just deflect the punch, I want to hit the bone and cause pain. Waaaaayyy back at the start of my martial arts (Don't ask!) my first instructor drilled that into us. If you hit that arm with force a few times, the guy doesn't want to throw it anymore because it hurts so much. Just like that one guy said in this video - he didn't want to punch again because it hurt so much.
the hard block of Okinawan Karate incorporate strikes to the attackers limbs! The Karateka has to have heavily conditioned hands and arms to make these techniques effective! The old Okinawan masters have heavily conditioned hands, arms, legs and feet. They can break planks with their finger tips and toes! They are extremely strong although old.
