Mawashi geri, by Kagawa sensei, 8th dan, JKS world technical director. I found this video on the internet. If posting it on RUclips is in violation with a copyright, tell me and I'll remove this video.
I am age 66. I used to be able to do this 25 years ago. I am determined to get it back. The secret is to kick a bag - not thin air. If I die I will let you know. Oss
You can't get it back. Sad, but true. My legs used to be like whips. I could put them anywhere like lightning just by thinking about it. But, your body changes. Joints change. Muscle elasticity goes. Even HE can't do this anymore. Don't feel bad that you don't get it back.
@@mistadreadman Maybe this is how they were taught in that era? I hadn't seen the knee up to the side technique before watching this either but then I found another one showing Matsui, a Kyokushin Sensei who would be roughly the same age demonstrating Maewashi Geri in the same way. They are both very good kickers so there might be something to it...
This man appears to have no first clue how difficult it is to do the things he makes look easy. His static active flexibility (holding his leg steady at height) while calmly holding conversation is awesome. DC
he's so casual about it like "ya I've got my leg bent in fifteen diferent directions moving at speeds that could exceed a military aircraft at takeoff but still powerful enough to break every bone in your body even if i choose not to its no big deal"so awesome i love martial arts.
Kagawa is AWESOME!!! I had the chance to train with him in 2011 and it's just amazing what he does, he makes everything looks so easy and he isn't even arrogant about his skills and really tries to tell you how it works!
It looks probably less powerful on video than when you got it on your head. I saw Kagawa sensei knock someone with a jodan mawashi geri. He's maybe 172 cm, and the other guy was 190 cm. So, thrust me, it's powerful.
@@rafalongo7 yes. And they aren't the same⚰️that's why one says PIERCING power and one just says power 😂 it's specified for a reason. Do you throw a well balanced knife for throwing as hard as you can for it to stick? No you throw with a little bit of POWER and that's enough FORCE, for it to pierce it's target.
Kagawa Sensei is Shotokan, of the JKS, a Shotokan group that formed following the breakup of the JKA, which happened after the death of Nakayama Sensei, who had been Chief Instructor of the JKA since its founding. The kick is mawashi-geri, or roundhouse kick, performed with incredible control and flexibility.
Bill Wallace has nothing on this guy. Amazing control and flexibility. it would come as a total shock to me to be kicked with that fro. such a close distance
En este mundo que sobrevivimos la mayoria , tan convulsionado , el karate , para quien lo práctica y su alrededor es una bocanada de esperanza , de orden y respeto x la vida y bueno para compartir yo , que lo practique en Bs As añoro las practicas y el compañerismo( un poco de nostalgia) que generosos estos maestros Gracias!
even how Kagawa sensei is standing looks like a fearful techniques. and about Mawashi-geri....missing the words to describe....every detail simply perfect: hip, front leg, timing, position of feet at impact....Oss sensei!
This guy's belt looks like my teacher's. You have white for the beginner, coloured belts for those working their way up, and then the black belt. But then you get the super experienced ones, whose black belt is so faded and worn, it kind of looks like a white belt.
Great video. I have been taking Aiki Budokai Ju Jutsu for several years and these are the strikes that we use but do not practice them very often. Very helpful. Thank you.
very interesting way of kicking The way he turns and places his knee toward his oponent is interesting . he needs very little space for his round kicks. you need too be flexible in your hips too do this. Excelent technique
That is how a high kick should be executed... in ufc I dont know if there are more than 10-12 fighters that have the ability to execute high kicks with such technique... Crocop,barbosa, pat bary and only a few more come to mind... am I right?
FesteringCorpse it takes precession that's why, I guess simply for better accuracy hit with the shin or in step. But if you hit with the ball you can sneak through a guard. Being able to use it and knowing when to use it is probably the better option.
@pound4pound92 the technique being show is Mawashi Geri Chusoku which is with the ball of the foot, the standard one with the instep is Mawashi Geri Haisoku, it is used for getting the kick round the guard where the instep or shin would just land on the guard. It is the most advanced form of the kick. OSU
Damn, he's so good it's almost comical... and inspirational for sure. I'd be interested to see a biography of him if there is one somewhere. I'm also curious how old he is, or was at the time of the video. DC
It's all in the mechanic of the kick. If you emphasize the snapping motion of the knee over the twisting motion of the hip, you can't put enough body weight into the kick and that means your kick doesn't have the power it's supposed to have.
This is good for kickboxers too :D I was in a short kickboxing -beginner's class and it was very similar to karate (2 years of YuiShinKai-style, it's a pretty rare style).
For everyone here, the kick is a goju ryu mawashi geri. You kick with the pad of the foot. For anyone that says this is not powerful, first of all sensei Kagawa didnt move his hips wich means he didnt try to kick hard but instead accurate. If this kick hits you, the power goes into a small area of the head and done properly is fatal. A normal turningkick is not as powerful because of the bigger area impacted and will probally "only" knock your opponent out. //mmacriitic
@jetset808: he says in the video that you can also use the shin. Obviously it's up to the practitioner to decide, which one is more comfortable for them. When the ball of the foot is used then the roundhouse kick has a bit more a 'thrust' flavour in the end, while the shin is the typically circular motion.
I lived in Okinawa for 3 yrs and i have heard so many names for styles and forms can someone tell me the differences in names and techniques. I didn't study Karated b/c I was deployed too much. My biggest regret in being there is to not have learned any martial arts. It is a beautiful thing to learn to master one's body with such precision. More importanly one must master the mind. But that is what I have seen from a few senseis I had the fortune to meet there.
Never had the flexibility to kick my mawashi higher then the shoulder. That is awesome! Not everyone his flexible like that even with years of training. You do want you can with the body you have.
remember he is just showing the one singular technique, not the real time application of it. this dropping forward is a great opening for the kicker to keep going with a jab then a gyakuzuki, or jab then sweep and hook. its quicker doing that than taking the time to retract the leg, also if you focus too much on bringing it back in actual aplication, your kick power may suffer because you think too much about bringing it back
he quite clearly, pulls back his toes at the start and shows the point of the foot he wants to kick with in basics, whilst saying quite clearly 'koshi' (ball of the foot). As he performed quite alot of kicks and didn't hurt his toes once, I think its safe to say he wasn't kicking with his toes. Good training
Hai, Masutatsu Oyama developed his own style after learning Shotokan and Goju Ryu styles. Kyokushinkai Kan is likewise a good foundation to build ones own path nothing more and certainly not the best. There is no 'best' in Martial Arts.
I'm far to be sure at 100% of what I'm saying, but mawashi geri is a circular kick. So, if you point the knee forward, you decrease the angular velocity of the kick, and he become less powerful. Like only the rotational motion will do impact (because of where the target is), adding translation motion will be wasted energy. But this is a demonstration kick, I don't think at 100% he would perfectly raise is knee on the side like this, because it increase the moment of inertia (so it's more slow).
Kicking w/ shin is more of a power kick - easier to pull off and prone to less injury, but that doesn't necessarily mean better (or worse), just different. Just like there are several ways to do the front and side kick, there are several ways to do a roundhouse. This method is old school, more accurate and focused, hence more advanced. Old school masters worked on hardening the toes so that they could withstand impact like fists. Hence, beginners wouldn't learn this right away.
@torro454 of Tokunaga's mawashi is against boxers (brawlers more specifically) and street fighters. They tend to angle their arms outwards and hold it close to their face. This leaves their midsection wide open from an angle with the left leg (or right leg if the opponent is south paw) Tokunaga mawashi. If executed with speed and precision, it will often be enough to bring someone down if it hits right on the sternum. Power isn't as important here.
thanks for the tip! I'll try doing that. Actually, I kind of enjoy "slapping" the target with the top of my foot but yeah, my mawashi geri still needs a lot of work. not to mention my yoko geri, maya geri, etc. lol
very nice. I am an orangebelt (9th kyu) karateka and have recently learned how to do a mawashigeri, although I'm pretty crap at it. I cant wait to be a blackbelt.
@maofas I was only stating out of my experience (14 years of it working on my own) not statistics. I have been training in Martial Arts now for 25 years and still compete in Kyokushin Knockdown tournaments. I do not dispute learning ground work is a good idea, i teach it as a compliment to my Kickboxing and self defence classes, all i said was you don't want to go to ground in a street fight (i should have added 'through choice'). OSU
This video is excellent. I don't care what your view is on kicking with the shin or the instep or the ball of the foot, fact is this guy uses the ball of his foot and it works for him well. I like to try different approaches to techniques and this is a real eye opener. thanks
@torro454 Tokunaga's mawashi is the one coming at a 45 degree angle to the floor which is the one you will see used in tournaments most often. Full mawashi comes parallel to the floor or slightly downwards to generate as little gravitational resistance as possible. I've seen people use Tokunaga's mawashi as an initiator to follow up with a full (midair) mawashi by using the opponent's belt as a standing point. Very effective but very risky move. But I think the most effective application
his toes must be made of steel! I'll break my toes in no time if I try to connect with my toes like that but I definitely want the control of his mawashi geri at that height!
@maofas Not really. What I'm am referring to is the use of Jiu Jutsu as it was practiced by the samurai on the battlefield. Whenever a samurai lost his sword in battle then he would use jiu jutsu to throw his enemy down and even sometimes pull them down from a horse, stab them with their short sword (tanto), take the enemy's sword and fight on. A modern day soldier would pretty much do the same thing if they were in dire straights. That's what jiu jutsu was designed for! Not a competition.
I wish I could kick like him :D amazing. standing chest to chest and kicking him in the head with MAWASHI GERI and with superb control.. it's just amazing :)
VERY GOOD ROUNDHOUSE KICK THAT BREAKS RIBS. That was how it was taught in Gensei-Ryu Karate from Japan and in all Asia. Simply a very good kick. TKD evolved from karate and taekyon and modern sicience.
Retraction of the leg allows the kicker to end up back in the strong position he was in before kicking, stable and all. Landing forward makes you prone to punches, for you literally "fall" right into them. Since you'd be off balance as well, the enemy could possibly take you down, experienced or not. That is if he's still standing from the kick... Retraction has been proven more applicable to fighting. Simple.
I'm not criticizing the sensei's techniques. Actually, his kick looks very elegant. My point is to compare the mechanism and the power of the techniques between these two systems of Karate. So, guys! Try finding some Kyokushin clips and watch them first before bashing my comments.
I agree 100% with your comments.Many Karateka will be done on the ground.Except like some of the Masters in Japan who has done Judo until the level of Nidan or more.
He doesn't use his toes. He kicks with the ball of the foot. More hard and more small than the instep of foot, so the force by surface (I'm not sure how to say that in english) is more high.
@Scott111188 it all depends.the ball of the foot and shin do a lot more damage than the instep. if I am sparring with someone I will kick them with my instep so I don't hurt them. but if I want to break something or I want to damage the person (for ex.Self defense situation) then I will use the ball of the foot or shin. the ball of the foot requires more technical training to be used properly. but also the instep can get injured easier than the ball of the foot or shin.
That brief moment when you think that the bag is levitating.
I am age 66. I used to be able to do this 25 years ago. I am determined to get it back. The secret is to kick a bag - not thin air. If I die I will let you know. Oss
Good luck, oss
ooS hit?!
Are you still around
Well, RIP.
You can't get it back. Sad, but true. My legs used to be like whips. I could put them anywhere like lightning just by thinking about it. But, your body changes. Joints change. Muscle elasticity goes. Even HE can't do this anymore. Don't feel bad that you don't get it back.
THIS is the stuff the MASTERS KNOW. just by adjusting your angle a little bit makes all the difference. THIS is why it's called a martial ART.
0:47 magic
tadaaa jajaaaaaaa
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Haha yes
opening the hip and bringing the knee high instantly gives you better kicking potential
Yes. But in Shotokan they don't open the hips. Taekwondo relies heavily on opening the hips, not Shotokan.
@@mistadreadman not true
@@mistadreadman Maybe this is how they were taught in that era? I hadn't seen the knee up to the side technique before watching this either but then I found another one showing Matsui, a Kyokushin Sensei who would be roughly the same age demonstrating Maewashi Geri in the same way. They are both very good kickers so there might be something to it...
@@mistadreadman That's Sensei Kagawa of the Japan Karate Association, Shotokan.
This man appears to have no first clue how difficult it is to do the things he makes look easy. His static active flexibility (holding his leg steady at height) while calmly holding conversation is awesome. DC
hi
he's so casual about it like "ya I've got my leg bent in fifteen diferent directions moving at speeds that could exceed a military aircraft at takeoff but still powerful enough to break every bone in your body even if i choose not to its no big deal"so awesome i love martial arts.
I find it impressive how he can strech his legs,open that angle,so much and so fast,so he can pull off a kick like that in such a short space and time
Kagawa is AWESOME!!! I had the chance to train with him in 2011 and it's just amazing what he does, he makes everything looks so easy and he isn't even arrogant about his skills and really tries to tell you how it works!
i like the way the sensei needs virtually no space to deliver a perfect kick...
i had the oppertunity to attain a siminar from him.
He's in his mid 60's now but he is still able to stretch his legs vertically next to him!
It looks probably less powerful on video than when you got it on your head. I saw Kagawa sensei knock someone with a jodan mawashi geri. He's maybe 172 cm, and the other guy was 190 cm. So, thrust me, it's powerful.
It's more about the piercing power and impact than actual force and strength put into it so yes you are correct
@@GinGouki When did he speak of force and strength?
@@rafalongo7 "looks less powerful on video" power meaning strength, which when directed = force. I agreed with what he said regardless, in my own way.
@@GinGouki "piercing power" like "powerful" also implies strength and force
@@rafalongo7 yes. And they aren't the same⚰️that's why one says PIERCING power and one just says power 😂 it's specified for a reason. Do you throw a well balanced knife for throwing as hard as you can for it to stick? No you throw with a little bit of POWER and that's enough FORCE, for it to pierce it's target.
Kagawa Sensei is Shotokan, of the JKS, a Shotokan group that formed following the breakup of the JKA, which happened after the death of Nakayama Sensei, who had been Chief Instructor of the JKA since its founding. The kick is mawashi-geri, or roundhouse kick, performed with incredible control and flexibility.
I got to learn under sensei Nishiyama. So many legends from that Era!
Bill Wallace has nothing on this guy. Amazing control and flexibility. it would come as a total shock to me to be kicked with that fro. such a close distance
En este mundo que sobrevivimos la mayoria , tan convulsionado , el karate , para quien lo práctica y su alrededor es una bocanada de esperanza , de orden y respeto x la vida y bueno para compartir yo , que lo practique en Bs As añoro las practicas y el compañerismo( un poco de nostalgia) que generosos estos maestros Gracias!
even at close rang i never knew that kick could be dont like that AWSOME!!!!!
AWESOME! Thank you for allowing us to watch this segment of the DVD. It sure makes me want to go out and buy it.
This guy is incredible.
@MrAtteTanskanen It isn't just his flexibility, it is his leg control and balance which are really impressive. That guy is a master.
tengo 50 años y lo practico desde los 15 todo un modo de vida oss.
oss sensei
even how Kagawa sensei is standing looks like a fearful techniques. and about Mawashi-geri....missing the words to describe....every detail simply perfect: hip, front leg, timing, position of feet at impact....Oss sensei!
Great technique. The classic mawashi geri something I struggled with all my life.
When you thought you mastered the basic thennyou see this and realized you havent even reached the begining
Just reminds me how inflexible I am. That's why I find this kick so tough.
You're right, Kagawa sensei knows his stuff more than 99,99% of the people on youtube.
Very nice, Kagawa Sensei has amazing technique and power...
Old worn black belts look the best
felicitaciones,estos videos de sensei kagawa deberian estar en todos los dojos de shotokan del mundo,saludos desde argentina,ooosss
damn every karate video on youtube is full of elite super saiyan fighters who know everything about hand to hand combat
Parabenizo o mestre Kagawa por esta grande ajuda que nos dá para aperfeiçoarmos nossas técnicas.
Kagawa Sensei in all videos is technically one, if not the best i've ever seen.
he is simplyyyy great
nada mejor que un oriental enseñando un arte marcial!
This guy's belt looks like my teacher's. You have white for the beginner, coloured belts for those working their way up, and then the black belt. But then you get the super experienced ones, whose black belt is so faded and worn, it kind of looks like a white belt.
The perfect Mawashi geri!
Thanks for sharing.
Wow . His Flexability is truly amazing
The proper karate kick.....that's how it's done correctly......
i can get a maximum of about an inch over my head this guy is amazing!
Great video. I have been taking Aiki Budokai Ju Jutsu for several years and these are the strikes that we use but do not practice them very often. Very helpful. Thank you.
very interesting technique of traditional mawashi geri.
Also showing short distance variations.
Excellent!
Thanks for uploading
very interesting way of kicking The way he turns and places his knee toward his oponent is interesting . he needs very little space for his round kicks. you need too be flexible in your hips too do this. Excelent technique
That is how a high kick should be executed... in ufc I dont know if there are more than 10-12 fighters that have the ability to execute high kicks with such technique... Crocop,barbosa, pat bary and only a few more come to mind... am I right?
Georgia especially the pure mma guys they most don't specialize in 1 area
never seen delivered with balls of feet either, guess shins and foot is more practical
FesteringCorpse it takes precession that's why, I guess simply for better accuracy hit with the shin or in step. But if you hit with the ball you can sneak through a guard. Being able to use it and knowing when to use it is probably the better option.
Majority of the UFC use the Muay Thai kicks.
@pound4pound92 the technique being show is Mawashi Geri Chusoku which is with the ball of the foot, the standard one with the instep is Mawashi Geri Haisoku, it is used for getting the kick round the guard where the instep or shin would just land on the guard. It is the most advanced form of the kick. OSU
thanks for this great posting, what fantastic control,,,awesome osu
The perfect kick of samurai
Damn, he's so good it's almost comical... and inspirational for sure. I'd be interested to see a biography of him if there is one somewhere. I'm also curious how old he is, or was at the time of the video. DC
13 years later
Hey
@@rodgod2624 is he alive now
@@money4024 idk
@@rodgod2624 lol ok
oh for the love of God, what a sweet rounhouse....and dead on target.....beautiful
It's all in the mechanic of the kick. If you emphasize the snapping motion of the knee over the twisting motion of the hip, you can't put enough body weight into the kick and that means your kick doesn't have the power it's supposed to have.
This is good for kickboxers too :D I was in a short kickboxing -beginner's class and it was very similar to karate (2 years of YuiShinKai-style, it's a pretty rare style).
Kick boxing=Karate+Muai Tai+ Box 👍
For everyone here, the kick is a goju ryu mawashi geri. You kick with the pad of the foot.
For anyone that says this is not powerful, first of all sensei Kagawa didnt move his hips wich means he didnt try to kick hard but instead accurate.
If this kick hits you, the power goes into a small area of the head and done properly is fatal. A normal turningkick is not as powerful because of the bigger area impacted and will probally "only" knock your opponent out.
//mmacriitic
@jetset808: he says in the video that you can also use the shin. Obviously it's up to the practitioner to decide, which one is more comfortable for them. When the ball of the foot is used then the roundhouse kick has a bit more a 'thrust' flavour in the end, while the shin is the typically circular motion.
I lived in Okinawa for 3 yrs and i have heard so many names for styles and forms can someone tell me the differences in names and techniques. I didn't study Karated b/c I was deployed too much. My biggest regret in being there is to not have learned any martial arts. It is a beautiful thing to learn to master one's body with such precision. More importanly one must master the mind. But that is what I have seen from a few senseis I had the fortune to meet there.
Mawashi geri é um tipo de chute da arte marcial karatê(karatedõ)o chute é muito bem usado nos katas e kirrons.
A most excellent video. Thank you for posting this gem.
Never had the flexibility to kick my mawashi higher then the shoulder. That is awesome! Not everyone his flexible like that even with years of training. You do want you can with the body you have.
remember he is just showing the one singular technique, not the real time application of it. this dropping forward is a great opening for the kicker to keep going with a jab then a gyakuzuki, or jab then sweep and hook. its quicker doing that than taking the time to retract the leg, also if you focus too much on bringing it back in actual aplication, your kick power may suffer because you think too much about bringing it back
In a practical situation, I'm generally wearing shoes... hahah.
he quite clearly, pulls back his toes at the start and shows the point of the foot he wants to kick with in basics, whilst saying quite clearly 'koshi' (ball of the foot).
As he performed quite alot of kicks and didn't hurt his toes once, I think its safe to say he wasn't kicking with his toes.
Good training
Perfect technique! One can see how solid are those kicks.
Hai, Masutatsu Oyama developed his own style after learning Shotokan and Goju Ryu styles. Kyokushinkai Kan is likewise a good foundation to build ones own path nothing more and certainly not the best. There is no 'best' in Martial Arts.
I'm far to be sure at 100% of what I'm saying, but mawashi geri is a circular kick. So, if you point the knee forward, you decrease the angular velocity of the kick, and he become less powerful. Like only the rotational motion will do impact (because of where the target is), adding translation motion will be wasted energy. But this is a demonstration kick, I don't think at 100% he would perfectly raise is knee on the side like this, because it increase the moment of inertia (so it's more slow).
Kicking w/ shin is more of a power kick - easier to pull off and prone to less injury, but that doesn't necessarily mean better (or worse), just different. Just like there are several ways to do the front and side kick, there are several ways to do a roundhouse. This method is old school, more accurate and focused, hence more advanced. Old school masters worked on hardening the toes so that they could withstand impact like fists. Hence, beginners wouldn't learn this right away.
Awesome kick, nicely done!
Sensei Kagawa is great. I trained with him last oktober and Will train with him again this summer.
Asombrosa la faciidad y elasticidad para ese mawasi, sobre todo a la distancia en que lo ejecuta. OS
Unique skills .Kagawa sensei shows that he is worthy of his title!!! Ossssu!!!!
Ouss! KAGAWA Shihan. O namae wa kanegane ukagatte imasita. O shihan gokufukuo oinori itashimasu !
@torro454 of Tokunaga's mawashi is against boxers (brawlers more specifically) and street fighters. They tend to angle their arms outwards and hold it close to their face. This leaves their midsection wide open from an angle with the left leg (or right leg if the opponent is south paw) Tokunaga mawashi. If executed with speed and precision, it will often be enough to bring someone down if it hits right on the sternum. Power isn't as important here.
thanks for the tip! I'll try doing that. Actually, I kind of enjoy "slapping" the target with the top of my foot but yeah, my mawashi geri still needs a lot of work. not to mention my yoko geri, maya geri, etc. lol
very nice. I am an orangebelt (9th kyu) karateka and have recently learned how to do a mawashigeri, although I'm pretty crap at it.
I cant wait to be a blackbelt.
@maofas I was only stating out of my experience (14 years of it working on my own) not statistics. I have been training in Martial Arts now for 25 years and still compete in Kyokushin Knockdown tournaments. I do not dispute learning ground work is a good idea, i teach it as a compliment to my Kickboxing and self defence classes, all i said was you don't want to go to ground in a street fight (i should have added 'through choice'). OSU
I need to know how to train for those types of kicks... do i have train my hamstrings for it?
This video is excellent. I don't care what your view is on kicking with the shin or the instep or the ball of the foot, fact is this guy uses the ball of his foot and it works for him well. I like to try different approaches to techniques and this is a real eye opener. thanks
@torro454 Tokunaga's mawashi is the one coming at a 45 degree angle to the floor which is the one you will see used in tournaments most often. Full mawashi comes parallel to the floor or slightly downwards to generate as little gravitational resistance as possible. I've seen people use Tokunaga's mawashi as an initiator to follow up with a full (midair) mawashi by using the opponent's belt as a standing point. Very effective but very risky move. But I think the most effective application
the naked truth:
no split, no mawashi geri...
Best technik,old school..
his toes must be made of steel! I'll break my toes in no time if I try to connect with my toes like that but I definitely want the control of his mawashi geri at that height!
Not bad, is he ??
Absolutely fantastic !
I'd give anything to be able to kick like that !
well and the crispy clear sniffing every time he kicks eh, just memorize that breathing technique as well lol
Best Mawashi Geri I ever seen
depends. trainers 'no', boots or shoes 'yes'. but some shoes feel better to kick in than others, also depending on the stretch of the trousers.
my sensei also.and because of this I had long time joint problems.very few sensei are so fit like kagawa!
it would be very nice if so could upload a version with english undertitle!! (:
@maofas Not really. What I'm am referring to is the use of Jiu Jutsu as it was practiced by the samurai on the battlefield. Whenever a samurai lost his sword in battle then he would use jiu jutsu to throw his enemy down and even sometimes pull them down from a horse, stab them with their short sword (tanto), take the enemy's sword and fight on. A modern day soldier would pretty much do the same thing if they were in dire straights. That's what jiu jutsu was designed for! Not a competition.
I wish I could kick like him :D amazing. standing chest to chest and kicking him in the head with MAWASHI GERI and with superb control.. it's just amazing :)
Now that's the perfect Mawashi geri.
Thanks for sharing this exceptional bit of video.
Osu!
Excellent technique, almost every video I've seen with people kicking at this height has people lifting their heels. Definetly a master, osu!
Kyokushin uses low round kick like Muay Thai and Kyokushin's round kick tends to emphasize the twisting motion of the hip
VERY GOOD ROUNDHOUSE KICK THAT BREAKS RIBS. That was how it was taught in Gensei-Ryu Karate from Japan and in all Asia. Simply a very good kick. TKD evolved from karate and taekyon and modern sicience.
This kick is so hard, amazing technique by Kagawa Sensei.
Retraction of the leg allows the kicker to end up back in the strong position he was in before kicking, stable and all. Landing forward makes you prone to punches, for you literally "fall" right into them. Since you'd be off balance as well, the enemy could possibly take you down, experienced or not. That is if he's still standing from the kick...
Retraction has been proven more applicable to fighting. Simple.
I'm not criticizing the sensei's techniques. Actually, his kick looks very elegant. My point is to compare the mechanism and the power of the techniques between these two systems of Karate. So, guys! Try finding some Kyokushin clips and watch them first before bashing my comments.
I agree 100% with your comments.Many Karateka will be done on the ground.Except like some of the Masters in Japan who has done Judo until the level of Nidan or more.
He doesn't use his toes. He kicks with the ball of the foot. More hard and more small than the instep of foot, so the force by surface (I'm not sure how to say that in english) is more high.
Charger, this footage is ripped from his BEST KARATE DVD from CHAMP. I recently bought it, it a very good DVD, audio also in English.
Genial! no hago Karate, pero me gusta desde hace décadas y estos videos son excelentes!!
@ismailalmaleki ok gracias, sin duda el mejor estilo de karate do tanto por su filosofía como su estilo tradicional
Dammit I got this strain from doing a Mawashi with my left leg, now I've had this strain in my right leg, backside of the thigh, for weeks.
@Scott111188 it all depends.the ball of the foot and shin do a lot more damage than the instep. if I am sparring with someone I will kick them with my instep so I don't hurt them. but if I want to break something or I want to damage the person (for ex.Self defense situation) then I will use the ball of the foot or shin. the ball of the foot requires more technical training to be used properly. but also the instep can get injured easier than the ball of the foot or shin.
@Matamune87 im pretty sure hes just showing you the technique and position for the leg and foot. Hes not worry about guard at the moment.