Andre Bertel KUMITE
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2023
- I retired from Individual Karate Competition when I was 30 years old. For many years I competed in Individual and Team Kata and Kumite.
I'm in my 48th year, so, these kumite clips are not new!
I had a significant amount of competitive success, however, I never entered merely to win. My objective was always to test/measure my kumite and kata prowess in an unpredictable environment.
Ironically, I was never really serious about competition. Even so, by the end of my competitive career, it was beginning to stagnate my karate development. Interestingly, I really started to improve post 30 years old,
When I retired, I was still holding both New Zealand National Championship titles in both Individual Kata and Individual Kumite. I also had the honor of training many local, national and international champions (in both kata and kumite) and still do to this day.
Nevertheless, in my own training, and teaching others, I always stress that “ONE’S WAZA MUST ALWAYS HAVE KIME”. This is not effective in competition nowadays, especially in the Kumite, as the focus now is merely to accumulate points. To win now, making kimewaza is highly disadvantageous, as it risks ‘losing points’ as one’s maai must be close enough to have the potential finish the opponent.
In contrast, the maai of contemporary kumite matches is to ‘tag the opponent’ from as far away as possible’ then avoid being caught. It is, therefore, literally a form of ‘karate tag’.
Consequently, as Nakayama Masatoshi Sensei warned us decades ago: “There is a danger of competition negatively altering the fundamentals-the kihon-of Karatedo”. I believe that this happened. In IKS (International Karate Shotokan) we train everything with KIME, the correct MAAI; thus, “KIHON, KATA AND KUMITE ARE NOT SEPARATE, BUT ALWAYS HARMONIOUS”.
In 2015 I had a brief comeback. Nakamura Masamitsu Shihan had me compete for his dojo., which was a real honor at nearly 40 years of age at the time.
I could no longer do well in Kumite… My style was still old-school JKA; that is, if I did not control my waza or made a misjudgment, I would be disqualified-as “my karate waza were all real.” Of course, my opponents merely tagged and ran, with no potential to cause me any damage with their respective ‘waza’. To me, this is no longer karate, it is just a strange form of sport that ‘somewhat resembles karate but has no real power’. I was happy to ‘lose’ against such meaningless movements.
However, Kata was different. I managed to win the premier division of the Men’s Individual Kata at the Kumamoto Prefecture Karatedo Championships. That win, here in Japan, truly ended my karate competition career: once and for all.
Anyway, this compilation of competition kumite clips, from 1990s up to 2005, shows some of my favorite waza and renzokuwaza. Moreover, my constant use of deaiwaza and tai-sabaki. One thing that I often used was a very subtle body shift, in response to my opponents movement or attack, then immediately snatch the ippon. In this way, I could undetectably (for them) neutralize their attacking maai and then seamlessly deliver my waza. Needless to say, this old style of kumite was strongly influenced by my late teacher, Master Asai Tetsuhiko, also other karate seniors.
Lastly, I’d like to apologize for the visual quality of the video clips. OSU! -- AB 
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I’m so thankful for all the kind comments on this, and all my videos.
Insofar as the trolls are concerned, I give myself a single point for any negative or nasty comments (trolling)… And two points for such comments from ghost accounts.
Ironically, all comments contribute to the spreading of my channel.
It is like kumite, allow the opponent to use their energy, then to use that against them.
Osu and best wishes from Oita City, Japan.
Andre Bertel
Fascinating to watch! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for all the likes and feedback. It motivates us to add content to the channel. ARIGATOU GOZAIMASU!!!
ARIGATOU GOZAIMASU Sensei Shihan Bertal. Very great to be subscribed to all of your content. Cantwait for your seminar in February! Osu
For all of you out there who want 'retro content' in addition to the new stuff - please subscribe to this: my official RUclips channel. If the interest is there, more content will come! OSU -- AB
I have already, sensei.. Thanks for the sharing, Osh..!!!
Sensei Andre keep em coming mate 1000 Oss
do you mean you have a 2nd channel? if so plz link it!
@@tenyoum OSU! Sorry, just this one! Kindest regards and best wishes from Japan. -- AB
please post more competition content. would be great to hear you commentate fights or kata.
Very good !!!
Oss... Too much ♥️♥️♥️
I totally understand your stand about kumite competition. I guess what you discovered is one of the reason why there is no sparring competition in Chinese traditional martial arts.
Amazing Shihan my respects.
Osu, thank you very much! 2025 onwards will see some really high-level seminars. Outside Japan, this year (2024) in Halle and Freital will be different from each other. They will lay the base for 2025.
I was asked if Terry Hill (Goju Ryu) was the referee in some of those videos. Yes, that is correct.
Ma tu fai shotokan non goju Ryu ?
🙌🙏Ooss Sensei !
押忍 (Osu) and greetings from Japan
👏👏👏💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
🥋🥋🥋
For me is Goju Ryu Karate the best of all Karate styles. Greetings from the Netherlands 🥋 OSU 🥋
Ma lui fa shotokan.
I have deep respect for all traditional Kaiha and Ryuha. including our dear Goju friends. Osu and greetings from Oita City, Japan.
@@andrebertel pensavo shotokan, i kata sono eian di questo stile.
@@andrebertel Del kyokushin Cosa ne pensi?
@@ananku1057 I respect all styles of karate. Osu
Oss
This is Savate
これは松濤館空手道です！
lot of wild haymakers goin on there
No wild haymakers, just good use of traditional waza: yumi-zuki, kagi-zuki etcetera... Masahiko Tanaka Sensei encouraged us to use these waza in competition -- to deviate from the base kihon -- with the deviation being based on the basic form as a reference. Osu and best wishes from Japan.
All staged
Wow…. Staged…. I would need to pay various, Goju, Wado, Shito groups, not to mention all the Shotokan groups, JKA, JKS etcetera…. Also, all the officials, spectators, etcetera…. Various places in New Zealand, and here in Japan.
Have a nice Mr. troll with the empty account.
Fascinating to watch! Thanks for sharing.