The blonde guy throwing the rolling thunder kicks is Gary Oneill, he was my sparring partner for a while in the 90s. He ended up becoming world open weight champion at 5'6" and about 60kg
@@DeathscytheBleh a lot of times we don't actually practice a rolling thunder, just reps on the spinning head kicks. And when it comes to rolling thunder we just throw that as a hail Mary. Sometimes we do practice it specifically on the pads but that isn't as common because it is a hail mary technique. in practice we usually go hard to the body and light contact to the head. but to the body 8 times out of 10 the body and legs is full contact
Kyo guys don't tend to protect their heads because spinning knock outs are rare. This video makes them seem more common but that's the risk of watching highlights. I could put an MMA highlight together to make it look like spinning elbows are the best technique ever.
Bas Rutten has a kyokushin background hence the liver shots.😅 GSP also has a kyokushin background , Uriah Hall , Tenshin Nakusawa started with kyokushin and is still using the rolling thunder kick to this day. Oh and the founder of kudo was a kyokushin black belt before founding his own style adding judo and other arts. Have you heard of musangwe though? It's an insane bare knuckle boxing art indigenous to South Africa , you'd seriously enjoy breaking it down its brutal.
@@prvtthd401 yep There's countless Japanese karate styles that came from kyokushin ever since the founder Sosai Mas Oyama Passed on , it's factions on factions. Ashihara didn't really add much besides emphasising on Tai sabaki (rotation) and a few improvements there and there but Enshin on the other hand added judo throws which made it a bit more exhilarating to watch.
@@reba1636 actually, ashihara karate as well as kudo, budokaikan a.r.f (john bluming) and kickboxing (Kenji Kurosaki) developed during the period of Mas Oyama. There was alot of internal fighting. Ashihara also added semi clinch fighting (grips on one side only) and throws besides tai sabaki.
I would highly recommend reacting to Hajime Kazumi specifically. He was considered the strongest man in Kyokushin and has won against both Glaube Feitosa and Francisco Filho. He’s also one of the few who completed the 100 man kumite. A good chunk of it can be viewed on RUclips (about an hour of it. The total event lasted 3-4 hours) in fact! His speciality was his low kick which he could seemingly throw at any moment without retaliation. Also as far as this video goes, whoever made it considers big and flashy to be "highlights". Please don't let it skew your idea of the style as a whole. More often than not, body blows are what lead to knockouts. As well, you asked who in MMA uses Kyokushin. The 2 most popular examples are GSP and Bas Rutten.
An interesting style of Kyokushin to look up would be from this Kickboxer named Toshio Fujiwara. He was the first non-thai stadium champion and was trained by Kenji Kurosaki, a Kyokushin Karateka and one of Mas Oyama’s original instructors when he was first starting his dojo. There’s a lot more to their story but I think it’d be more interesting to look up for yourself
Did kyokushun karate as a kid and really loved this breakdown. We wore protective gear on feet/shins, chest, fists, and head so it was really cool to see how much of our sparring differed from pros doing it with no pads at all. Boy do I miss axe kicking someone to the dome xD
I had an instructor that was like the guy @7:00 mins. he would constantly do that shit at tournaments where he leads the opponent forward, takes a sharp angle and just blasts them in the face with a kick as they're basically "falling" or running onto it. He taught me a lot on how to use the opponents momentum against them. He said if you're not born with KO power that your best bet is to use the opponents momentum against them if you want to knock someone out.
I've just started my Kyokushin journey this year. It's so awesome seeing someone as credible as yourself giving me some solid feedback. One thing I feel is SUPER underrated with Kyokushin is the respect, humility, and letting go of the ego - type practices they/we employ. It's such a beautiful practice to bow to our teachers, practice simple blocks and strikes hundreds of times per class. Thankyou for this breakdown. OSU.
You should go in there and compete against them and throw at their head and see how it goes kid. You know nothing . That’s just tournament karate, these guys know how to protect there head and don’t shell up like the rest of these bums. They use movement , timing and set ups . Just like Andrew top G tate said you don’t want to just put your hands up and shell up .
used to practice this for a short time and i remember that i was feeling more tired after the warm up than what i am feeling now after 6 bjj rounds of 6 min( it is quite big in Europe)
Hi, DJ, it is very interesting to listen to your analysis of Kyokushin karate, from the world best MMA fighter. These videos are just showing the knockout scenes from kicking techniques. My point is that kyokushin is just more than what these videos show. Kyokushin fighters are very tough, fast, powerful with tremendous stamina, with amazing punches, kicks and techniques. And they adjust to kick boxing and MMA, and they all do well (GSP, Bas Rutten,etc). I am lucky enough to have an all Japan kyokushin champion as my first teacher (joko ninomoya) and to have a chance to spar with Gary Oneil when he came to the US. Spirit of kyokushin style karate is always with us, no matter other fighting styles we switch to.
The roots of Dutch kickboxing, the man who brought this style to the Netherlands (Jon Bluming) was Oyama's best student and the reason this style is being taught all over this small country. Did this stuff for 16 years, it's hard on the body but a lot of fun! Osu
I feel like axe kicks open me up to getting taken down so much easier as there's so much time on one leg, if you can set it up it could be neat but once someone figures out they can just shoot under and take it on the back it's over.
Taio Asahisa is a kickboxer and former K-1 champion with a Kyokushin background. He’s super fun to watch and consistently lands front kicks to the head which I think is pretty cool.
Hiroshi Akimoto is one of the acceptable Kyokushin-based kickboxers and the current bantamweight champion in ONE Championship won against Muay Thai fighters.
@@mmainvesting7013stfu, One punch is all it take to defeat a kyokushin fighter, every kyokushin fighter have glass chin. They will never be on the level of Muay thai or kickboxing they are closer to taekwondo hahahhaahhaah
@@craulvb5048 and what? Anderson Silva is a taekwondo black belt, that doesn't mean that those bullshit martial art work, Karate kyokushin is very unrealistic, if you try to get in the punching range of a real striker with your hands down, without any worry and zero head movement you will end up KOed. Also Getting so close without worrying about grappling or clinching again very unrealistic. And people say that this is the strongest karate?? That's sad
Great video, first half I was also like wtf please defend your head guys but at the end I can see that fuck those spinning back kicks come pretty fast to figure out to where to keep your hands.
Kyokushin's weakness is punches to the face but it's really helped me growing up I'm so fast and durable I can kick you in the head before you know it but I had to add boxing course I was often taking straight punches to my face which was terribly eventionally I added judo, Jujitsu I fell inlove with peekaboo style because of my kyokushin style cutting angles and footwork now with head movement I became a machine
If you pay attention the highlights are organized by categories of KO. That's why you had the impression it was systematically the same combos. It was, but once again in purpose. Anyway. The big dude around the end of the video is Francisco Filho. Fought in K1GP.
without detracting from any martial discipline, with guards this low any kick to the head will connect without any difficulty, and a possible KO will result...personally with these fighting habits you will always be an easy target.
I've been training MT and K1 style kickboxing for a long while and those Kyokushin turning back kicks STILL scare me. If I ever fight one of those dudes, my chin isn't going above my shoulder. They can KO me with the body shot instead, idgaf, I am NOT taking one of those to the face. Fuck that lmao.
arent the forms in karate based arts centered on increasing striking force through levering the arms low? i saw a martial artist youtuber mentioning adjusting the forms to pull back into a standard boxing guard for applicability in mma
Kyokushin karate fighters would destroy all of MMA fighters other than the grapplers. That’s the reason everytime a fighter has a strong karate base in mma they dominate. It’s cause they’re unique and don’t have the same style of everyone else who does the same thing and combos. Half the mma fighters look like they walked into some kickboxing gym and been training the same basic combos for 6 months, no movement , feints , timing or deception. That’s why guys like machida , Gsp, wonderboy , Ryan jimmo (RIP), krylov, cejudo and many more dominated , especially in the standup. Cejudo completely credits karate with the improvement in his game that’s the reason he became triple C wrestling and karate is the strongest combination
Hey Mighty, you should check out Tenshin Nasukawa(kyokushin- kickboxer, he beat rodtang in k1 i think) a really great fighter, accep that Mayweather fight... we dont talk about that hahaha...Also you should checkout the video named Kyokushin Legends great little vid about some kyokushin legends like Andy Hug, Francisco Filho, Nicholas pettas, Glaube feitosa...sam grecko
Because of no punches to the face they fight close ... this develops hard body and legs because of constantly taking punches to the body and kickcs to legs ... and you have flexiable legs because you need to be able to do a head kick from close distance ... draw back is that your guard is to low and if you fight against different stiles you are not use to deffend your head from punches ... kyokushin hard trainind and etics develop good fighting conditioning ans discipline ... OSU
This must be just about the ultimate collection of head finishes in Kyukushin knock down. This is not what usually happens in these fights. It goes to extension and then to the refs most often. DJ sure got the wrong impression based on this video :-)
Sir, pls check out my second oldest video (title: Full Contact Karate in Early MMA) if you want to do another reaction video on Karate stuff. There are more practical derivatives of Kyokushin Karate which retain throws, gloved sparring with head punches and etc (e.g. Shidokan Karate and Seidokaikan Karate). Unfortunately, people don't know these and they've been battle tested in freestyle matches like prototype UFC.
In tournaments, they can't punch or elbow to the head, so they develop the best body shots in the business. In-dojo they do have sparring with face punches and elbows, and it's simply expected that you pull the punch and don't throw them full force since you still practice bare knuckle. The ORIGINAL rules allowed any strike or any grapple (minus striking the back of the head, the lower back, or directly to the spine. Nut shots were allowed in most full-contact styles for a long time though), with the grappling having mostly judo rules (but Kyokushin originally also had Tegumi aka Okinawan wrestling, due to its Goju-Ryu roots). A lot of Kyokushin offshoots use gloves to strike the face and allow some grabs. But there is a whole history as to how each of these things got phased out (mostly on accident). The closest things today to the original Kyokushin are SOME old-school dojos, some full contact-oriented Nippon Kenpo Schools, and the style of Kudo (which even involves headbutts which Mas Oyama taught but it is debated if he included them in kumite or not. Knowing him, he probably allowed it in-house).
Why are you complaining about always being high kicks when you searched up "Kyokushin Karate ko back spin & other kicks" you watched a highlight of head kicks witch are rare😂 Watch Hajime Kazumi who wins on low kicks there at almost no high kicks
"I haven't been wrong yet. Always a high kick".... Um.. ya you are literally watching a high kick KO compilation vid. Thats like watching a Mike Tyson KO compilation and predicting at the beginning of every clip that Mike Tyson is going to knock the guy out.
In very old traditional karate there was alot of grappling and standing grapples practiced, but it's been phased out as karate has become more westernized and kind of diluted
Easy said then done guy! How many spars have you actually do ? I have had more than a thousand spars in 15 years training . It is not easy as sitting there to analyze .
Shut up kid. Why don’t you go try to rip head shots against these guys then? You’ll be taken out on a stretcher. This is just tournament karate and part of the sport
Karate kyokushin is very unrealistic, if you try to get in the punching range of a real striker with your hands down, without any worry and zero head movement you will end up KOed. Also Getting so close without worrying about grappling or clinching again very unrealistic. This is the strongest karate?? That's sad
One punch is all it take to defeat a kyokushin fighter, every kyokushin fighter have glass chin. They will never be on the level of Muay thai or kickboxing they are closer to taekwondo hahahhaahh
@@user-cn7wy7xx5k I will hurt you, pull up to systems in Hawthorne if you want the smoke. I’m the buff guy with a karate style. We spar on Friday nights , more than welcome to join
Karate kyokushin is very unrealistic because doesn't allow punches to the face, and they never train it so everyone can knock out a kyokushin fighter (even untrained people) because they don't know how defend punches, they don't know how to block or dodge because they never train that and his punching technique and precision is really bad because they never train to aim to small moving targets like the jaw .
Woah cool, someone who knows literally nothing about Kyokushin. It is rare to see that on a martial arts channel helmed by an actual competitive fighter. RUclips comments never cease to provide!
@@GokuInfintysaiyan Karate kyokushin is very unrealistic, if you try to get in the punching range of a real striker with your hands down, without any worry and zero head movement you will end up KOed. Also Getting so close without worrying about grappling or clinching again very unrealistic. This is the strongest karate?? That's sad
One punch is all it take to defeat a kyokushin fighter, every kyokushin fighter have glass chin. They will never be on the level of Muay thai or kickboxing they are closer to taekwondo hahahhaahh
Search a video called "Bushiken Karate instructor Randall Ephraim stops criminal in Charlotte" for context. Then watch a video called "Kyokushin History Part 3" from the "Art of One Dojo" that shows the dojo came from Kyokushon as an offshoot.
Kyokushin low kicks are very weak because they don't turn the hips and they don't try to go through the target, those roundhouse kicks are basically full contact chambered kicks, like taekwondo kicks, too weak compared to the full power roundhouse kicks of Muay thai. That's why they don't check a lot, their low kicks are too weak.
And they’re way faster and actually land. You have no clue kid. You don’t need to turn your hip and throw full power to do damage. Speed and not telegraphing is way more important , karate kicks land way more effectively and faster. A well placed shot you don’t see coming is way more impactful than some winded up kick
buddy, this is trolling at this point. Kyokushin low kicks are some of the hardest low kicks around. I doubt you would be able to tank a low kick from someone like Judd Reid for example. Also, The dutch style low kick and the Kyokushin low kick are basically the same.
That’s just sport karate. Real karate is karate combat. You’d be taken out on a stretcher by any Kyokushin black belt. Don’t open your mouth about things you don’t know about kid
That's a bit exaggerated imo. Most Kyokushin styles do train head movement when sparring just not included in knockdown tournaments and they transition well into kickboxing. Soon, that no head punches rule will probably be removed.
@@mattwoo556 funny that arguably the best kickboxer right now is a kyokushin karate fighter . Akimoto in one fc absolute monster, smoking thai fighters with 400+ Muay Thai fights
The blonde guy throwing the rolling thunder kicks is Gary Oneill, he was my sparring partner for a while in the 90s. He ended up becoming world open weight champion at 5'6" and about 60kg
How do you practice those in sparring lol? Kyokushin is legit
thats pretty dope
@@Mighty15x you’re pretty dope man
@@DeathscytheBleh a lot of times we don't actually practice a rolling thunder, just reps on the spinning head kicks. And when it comes to rolling thunder we just throw that as a hail Mary. Sometimes we do practice it specifically on the pads but that isn't as common because it is a hail mary technique. in practice we usually go hard to the body and light contact to the head. but to the body 8 times out of 10 the body and legs is full contact
Do you guys just not know how to block or ? Because my Thai gym can teach you how to keep your hands up 😂
Kyo guys don't tend to protect their heads because spinning knock outs are rare. This video makes them seem more common but that's the risk of watching highlights. I could put an MMA highlight together to make it look like spinning elbows are the best technique ever.
trus , thats just compilation vidio
Bas Rutten has a kyokushin background hence the liver shots.😅 GSP also has a kyokushin background , Uriah Hall , Tenshin Nakusawa started with kyokushin and is still using the rolling thunder kick to this day. Oh and the founder of kudo was a kyokushin black belt before founding his own style adding judo and other arts. Have you heard of musangwe though? It's an insane bare knuckle boxing art indigenous to South Africa , you'd seriously enjoy breaking it down its brutal.
Founder of Ashihara karate
Founder of Enshin karate
Giga Chikadze, Alexander Volkov, etc.
@@prvtthd401 yep There's countless Japanese karate styles that came from kyokushin ever since the founder Sosai Mas Oyama Passed on , it's factions on factions. Ashihara didn't really add much besides emphasising on Tai sabaki (rotation) and a few improvements there and there but Enshin on the other hand added judo throws which made it a bit more exhilarating to watch.
@@AroundElvesWatchUrselves96 the list is endless
@@reba1636 actually, ashihara karate as well as kudo, budokaikan a.r.f (john bluming) and kickboxing (Kenji Kurosaki) developed during the period of Mas Oyama. There was alot of internal fighting.
Ashihara also added semi clinch fighting (grips on one side only) and throws besides tai sabaki.
I would highly recommend reacting to Hajime Kazumi specifically. He was considered the strongest man in Kyokushin and has won against both Glaube Feitosa and Francisco Filho.
He’s also one of the few who completed the 100 man kumite. A good chunk of it can be viewed on RUclips (about an hour of it. The total event lasted 3-4 hours) in fact! His speciality was his low kick which he could seemingly throw at any moment without retaliation.
Also as far as this video goes, whoever made it considers big and flashy to be "highlights". Please don't let it skew your idea of the style as a whole. More often than not, body blows are what lead to knockouts.
As well, you asked who in MMA uses Kyokushin. The 2 most popular examples are GSP and Bas Rutten.
An interesting style of Kyokushin to look up would be from this Kickboxer named Toshio Fujiwara. He was the first non-thai stadium champion and was trained by Kenji Kurosaki, a Kyokushin Karateka and one of Mas Oyama’s original instructors when he was first starting his dojo. There’s a lot more to their story but I think it’d be more interesting to look up for yourself
Did kyokushun karate as a kid and really loved this breakdown. We wore protective gear on feet/shins, chest, fists, and head so it was really cool to see how much of our sparring differed from pros doing it with no pads at all. Boy do I miss axe kicking someone to the dome xD
I had an instructor that was like the guy @7:00 mins. he would constantly do that shit at tournaments where he leads the opponent forward, takes a sharp angle and just blasts them in the face with a kick as they're basically "falling" or running onto it. He taught me a lot on how to use the opponents momentum against them. He said if you're not born with KO power that your best bet is to use the opponents momentum against them if you want to knock someone out.
I love how you got stuck doing these. I usually get stuck in a fights algo every other day, I'm glad there's commentary now.
Would love an analysis of Andy Hug one of the best Kyokushin in k-1/kickboxing.
I love kyokushin though it's hard to find a place to learn. Thanks for covering it!
I've just started my Kyokushin journey this year.
It's so awesome seeing someone as credible as yourself giving me some solid feedback.
One thing I feel is SUPER underrated with Kyokushin is the respect, humility, and letting go of the ego - type practices they/we employ.
It's such a beautiful practice to bow to our teachers, practice simple blocks and strikes hundreds of times per class.
Thankyou for this breakdown.
OSU.
Обожаю этот вид каратэ. Я им занимаюсь уже 9-ый год.
This rule set definitely sets up some serious knockouts. I'd keep my hands up ALL DAY.
Pretty much my shit would be glued to my face!
You better work on your abs though! XD
You should go in there and compete against them and throw at their head and see how it goes kid. You know nothing . That’s just tournament karate, these guys know how to protect there head and don’t shell up like the rest of these bums. They use movement , timing and set ups . Just like Andrew top G tate said you don’t want to just put your hands up and shell up .
you'll be dropping them when they start attacking you to the body
Look up Andy Hug highlights! He was the man at this shit plus straight kickboxing. Legend with the axe kick.
used to practice this for a short time and i remember that i was feeling more tired after the warm up than what i am feeling now after 6 bjj rounds of 6 min( it is quite big in Europe)
I really enjoy the gaming streams but honestly love hearing your breakdowns. Hi IQ breakdowns. Thanks DJ
Hi, DJ, it is very interesting to listen to your analysis of Kyokushin karate, from the world best MMA fighter. These videos are just showing the knockout scenes from kicking techniques. My point is that kyokushin is just more than what these videos show. Kyokushin fighters are very tough, fast, powerful with tremendous stamina, with amazing punches, kicks and techniques. And they adjust to kick boxing and MMA, and they all do well (GSP, Bas Rutten,etc). I am lucky enough to have an all Japan kyokushin champion as my first teacher (joko ninomoya) and to have a chance to spar with Gary Oneil when he came to the US. Spirit of kyokushin style karate is always with us, no matter other fighting styles we switch to.
I think GSP trained Kyokushin karate before mma.
Duh why do you think he’s the best mma fighter of all time. Not a better combo than karate and wrestling
You the man dj!!!
The roots of Dutch kickboxing, the man who brought this style to the Netherlands (Jon Bluming) was Oyama's best student and the reason this style is being taught all over this small country. Did this stuff for 16 years, it's hard on the body but a lot of fun! Osu
I feel like axe kicks open me up to getting taken down so much easier as there's so much time on one leg, if you can set it up it could be neat but once someone figures out they can just shoot under and take it on the back it's over.
Taio Asahisa is a kickboxer and former K-1 champion with a Kyokushin background. He’s super fun to watch and consistently lands front kicks to the head which I think is pretty cool.
Hiroshi Akimoto is one of the acceptable Kyokushin-based kickboxers and the current bantamweight champion in ONE Championship won against Muay Thai fighters.
One of ? Lol there’s multiple successful karate fighters in mma and kickboxing. You know nothing kid
@@mmainvesting7013stfu, One punch is all it take to defeat a kyokushin fighter, every kyokushin fighter have glass chin. They will never be on the level of Muay thai or kickboxing they are closer to taekwondo hahahhaahhaah
@@user-cn7wy7xx5k Tenshin Nasukawa is the best p4p kickboxer in the world and he has a black belt in Kyokushin Karate
@@craulvb5048 and what? Anderson Silva is a taekwondo black belt, that doesn't mean that those bullshit martial art work, Karate kyokushin is very unrealistic, if you try to get in the punching range of a real striker with your hands down, without any worry and zero head movement you will end up KOed. Also Getting so close without worrying about grappling or clinching again very unrealistic.
And people say that this is the strongest karate?? That's sad
I see you Eugene
Great video, first half I was also like wtf please defend your head guys but at the end I can see that fuck those spinning back kicks come pretty fast to figure out to where to keep your hands.
Aye mighty, doubt you’ll see this. But your the reason I started MMA. 5-0 in the Ammys. 175.
Hi DJ... greetings from Paraguay. You should check jka karate tournament fights, the more traditional japanese karate style
Kyokushin's weakness is punches to the face but it's really helped me growing up I'm so fast and durable I can kick you in the head before you know it but I had to add boxing course I was often taking straight punches to my face which was terribly eventionally I added judo, Jujitsu I fell inlove with peekaboo style because of my kyokushin style cutting angles and footwork now with head movement I became a machine
This is somehow more brutal than MMA, I'd keep my hands up all day baby
It would be nice to hear about the different angles they are getting on their kicks and how and why they can throw high at all ranges
Killer ax kicks, Andy Hug style!
i could watch you break kyokushin down all day long
I think alot of the initial K1 guys came from kyokushin. Andy Hug, Sam Greco, Glaube braziliankick Feitosa, etc
You’re 100% correct. Smart man
some of the knockouts are hilarious
Reminder. No shin guards 😎
Do a breakdown on Manson Gibson he has over 100 kickboxing fights and is very unorthodox!!
love ya dj
Lets see Mightymouse in a karatetournament! Lets go!
I’d say that one of the better examples of a kyokushin fighter in mixed martial arts is GSP
If you pay attention the highlights are organized by categories of KO.
That's why you had the impression it was systematically the same combos. It was, but once again in purpose.
Anyway. The big dude around the end of the video is Francisco Filho. Fought in K1GP.
Love your vids, please keep in mind though that all these guys are amateur. There are no professional Kyokushin rule set competitions.
without detracting from any martial discipline, with guards this low any kick to the head will connect without any difficulty, and a possible KO will result...personally with these fighting habits you will always be an easy target.
I've been training MT and K1 style kickboxing for a long while and those Kyokushin turning back kicks STILL scare me. If I ever fight one of those dudes, my chin isn't going above my shoulder. They can KO me with the body shot instead, idgaf, I am NOT taking one of those to the face. Fuck that lmao.
Lmao love that commitment
Kyoji is sport karate, super bladed a lot of in and out.... this stance does well mixed with boxing.
That one dude was like "now that you're done tickling me, its my turn" and one shots him with an axe kick.
dude clicks on a spinning back kick compilation and discovers spinning back kicks
arent the forms in karate based arts centered on increasing striking force through levering the arms low? i saw a martial artist youtuber mentioning adjusting the forms to pull back into a standard boxing guard for applicability in mma
Today I learned that kyokushin knock out compilations are not fun to watch
I'd rather watch them just tank body shots for 2 minutes straight
Kyokushin karate fighters would destroy all of MMA fighters other than the grapplers. That’s the reason everytime a fighter has a strong karate base in mma they dominate. It’s cause they’re unique and don’t have the same style of everyone else who does the same thing and combos. Half the mma fighters look like they walked into some kickboxing gym and been training the same basic combos for 6 months, no movement , feints , timing or deception. That’s why guys like machida , Gsp, wonderboy , Ryan jimmo (RIP), krylov, cejudo and many more dominated , especially in the standup. Cejudo completely credits karate with the improvement in his game that’s the reason he became triple C wrestling and karate is the strongest combination
No 2 is a nice feint, thought he would go high
having done kyokushin for abit i found it was really lacking in the head punch game and was super easy to take them down with even a basic body lock
Hey Mighty, you should check out Tenshin Nasukawa(kyokushin- kickboxer, he beat rodtang in k1 i think) a really great fighter, accep that Mayweather fight... we dont talk about that hahaha...Also you should checkout the video named Kyokushin Legends great little vid about some kyokushin legends like Andy Hug, Francisco Filho, Nicholas pettas, Glaube feitosa...sam grecko
You should check out the Shinken Shobu ruleset of kyokushin.
Because of no punches to the face they fight close ... this develops hard body and legs because of constantly taking punches to the body and kickcs to legs ... and you have flexiable legs because you need to be able to do a head kick from close distance ... draw back is that your guard is to low and if you fight against different stiles you are not use to deffend your head from punches ... kyokushin hard trainind and etics develop good fighting conditioning ans discipline ... OSU
One of your favourites is from kyokushin. Hiroki akimoto
DJ you need to revisit lethwei but with a David Leduc montage. He is the king of Lethwei, and he’s a white dude lol.
Even with your hands up doesn’t guarantee a spinning back kick won’t still hit your head.
This is all about baiting a big back kick to the skull😂
Seems like it with the combos.
gsp and uriah hall used to do kyokushin
Wushu Sanda next?
This must be just about the ultimate collection of head finishes in Kyukushin knock down. This is not what usually happens in these fights. It goes to extension and then to the refs most often. DJ sure got the wrong impression based on this video :-)
Dj future kyuku world champion
The reason is you watch highlights of KO Kick, that's why you only see head kicks :)
This was such a beautiful break down. You can see exactly how skilled you are by how you broke this down
GSP, Chuck Liddell, Robert Whittaker, Manon all kyokushin
GSP has a Kyokushin background
Also, the most common injury in Kyokushin is a broken sternum. Lol 😅
Sir, pls check out my second oldest video (title: Full Contact Karate in Early MMA) if you want to do another reaction video on Karate stuff. There are more practical derivatives of Kyokushin Karate which retain throws, gloved sparring with head punches and etc (e.g. Shidokan Karate and Seidokaikan Karate). Unfortunately, people don't know these and they've been battle tested in freestyle matches like prototype UFC.
day 3 of asking for a reaction to solo's streetbeef fights
I mean, it's a highlight video. So all this "every time" commentary is funny 😅
Look up Andy Hug highlights
are there any kyokushin fighters in mma? I remember only Glaube Feitosa, but he was in K-1...
Uriah Hall was
bro karate guys can throw up close range head kicks so fast.
This is a video that highlights spinning back kick KO's, of course that is what you'll see
i train muay thai and love the kicks! but i think the defensive skills aren't very impressive imo
Looks like they are not allowed to punch to the face. I maybe wrong though.
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This video is a little misleading because its a back spin kick knockout video. They have ko videos from roundhouses, knees etc
What am I looking attttt? Lol if yall caught that part lol
so like, they dont put there hands up because they dont punch in the head.. only kicks to the head?
In tournaments, they can't punch or elbow to the head, so they develop the best body shots in the business.
In-dojo they do have sparring with face punches and elbows, and it's simply expected that you pull the punch and don't throw them full force since you still practice bare knuckle.
The ORIGINAL rules allowed any strike or any grapple (minus striking the back of the head, the lower back, or directly to the spine. Nut shots were allowed in most full-contact styles for a long time though), with the grappling having mostly judo rules (but Kyokushin originally also had Tegumi aka Okinawan wrestling, due to its Goju-Ryu roots).
A lot of Kyokushin offshoots use gloves to strike the face and allow some grabs. But there is a whole history as to how each of these things got phased out (mostly on accident).
The closest things today to the original Kyokushin are SOME old-school dojos, some full contact-oriented Nippon Kenpo Schools, and the style of Kudo (which even involves headbutts which Mas Oyama taught but it is debated if he included them in kumite or not. Knowing him, he probably allowed it in-house).
Why are you complaining about always being high kicks when you searched up "Kyokushin Karate ko back spin & other kicks" you watched a highlight of head kicks witch are rare😂 Watch Hajime Kazumi who wins on low kicks there at almost no high kicks
"I haven't been wrong yet. Always a high kick".... Um.. ya you are literally watching a high kick KO compilation vid. Thats like watching a Mike Tyson KO compilation and predicting at the beginning of every clip that Mike Tyson is going to knock the guy out.
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I heard there is wrestling in karate as well but idk
In very old traditional karate there was alot of grappling and standing grapples practiced, but it's been phased out as karate has become more westernized and kind of diluted
Judo
@@AroundElvesWatchUrselves96 no wrestling actually judo also had wrestling if I am not mistaken
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Easy said then done guy! How many spars have you actually do ? I have had more than a thousand spars in 15 years training . It is not easy as sitting there to analyze .
I’ve probably had a shit ton been fighting for 18 years 😜
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Hey my guy you do know that DJ is one of the best fighters in the world right? Don’t make a clown of yourself.
Kyo keep your hands up
Shut up kid. Why don’t you go try to rip head shots against these guys then? You’ll be taken out on a stretcher. This is just tournament karate and part of the sport
Who gave these guys black belts 🙄
They dont protect their heads because then you couldn't kick to the head. Yes, karate is that stupid.
they don't keep their hands up because body and leg attacks are more often here. So naturally, your guard would really drop because of it
Karate kyokushin is very unrealistic, if you try to get in the punching range of a real striker with your hands down, without any worry and zero head movement you will end up KOed. Also Getting so close without worrying about grappling or clinching again very unrealistic.
This is the strongest karate?? That's sad
At the end of the day is true what people say, this is taekwondo but full contact
Don’t ever compare BS taekwondo to this mastery
One punch is all it take to defeat a kyokushin fighter, every kyokushin fighter have glass chin. They will never be on the level of Muay thai or kickboxing they are closer to taekwondo hahahhaahh
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Karate kyokushin is very unrealistic because doesn't allow punches to the face, and they never train it so everyone can knock out a kyokushin fighter (even untrained people) because they don't know how defend punches, they don't know how to block or dodge because they never train that and his punching technique and precision is really bad because they never train to aim to small moving targets like the jaw .
Woah cool, someone who knows literally nothing about Kyokushin. It is rare to see that on a martial arts channel helmed by an actual competitive fighter. RUclips comments never cease to provide!
@@GokuInfintysaiyan Karate kyokushin is very unrealistic, if you try to get in the punching range of a real striker with your hands down, without any worry and zero head movement you will end up KOed. Also Getting so close without worrying about grappling or clinching again very unrealistic.
This is the strongest karate?? That's sad
One punch is all it take to defeat a kyokushin fighter, every kyokushin fighter have glass chin. They will never be on the level of Muay thai or kickboxing they are closer to taekwondo hahahhaahh
Search a video called "Bushiken Karate instructor Randall Ephraim stops criminal in Charlotte" for context. Then watch a video called "Kyokushin History Part 3" from the "Art of One Dojo" that shows the dojo came from Kyokushon as an offshoot.
Kyokushin low kicks are very weak because they don't turn the hips and they don't try to go through the target, those roundhouse kicks are basically full contact chambered kicks, like taekwondo kicks, too weak compared to the full power roundhouse kicks of Muay thai. That's why they don't check a lot, their low kicks are too weak.
And they’re way faster and actually land. You have no clue kid. You don’t need to turn your hip and throw full power to do damage. Speed and not telegraphing is way more important , karate kicks land way more effectively and faster. A well placed shot you don’t see coming is way more impactful than some winded up kick
You should take some of my low kicks then and see how you hold up. I’m a karate blackbelt
@@mmainvesting7013 At the end of the day is true what people say, this is taekwondo but full contact
buddy, this is trolling at this point. Kyokushin low kicks are some of the hardest low kicks around. I doubt you would be able to tank a low kick from someone like Judd Reid for example. Also, The dutch style low kick and the Kyokushin low kick are basically the same.
there's such thing as "enough power" my guy. Not all strikes need to be at 100% power
They all have trash defensive skill, head movement is obsolete to them lmao
That’s just sport karate. Real karate is karate combat. You’d be taken out on a stretcher by any Kyokushin black belt. Don’t open your mouth about things you don’t know about kid
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That's a bit exaggerated imo. Most Kyokushin styles do train head movement when sparring just not included in knockdown tournaments and they transition well into kickboxing. Soon, that no head punches rule will probably be removed.
@@mattwoo556 funny that arguably the best kickboxer right now is a kyokushin karate fighter . Akimoto in one fc absolute monster, smoking thai fighters with 400+ Muay Thai fights
@@mmainvesting7013 Akimoto just got smoked, he lost his belt a few days ago
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