Great sparring! I love the humility and openness to learn. As for low kicks, you can do two things. Number one is to "check" the kick, which is where you lift your leg to block the kick with your shin, however in order to execute it properly you have to square up and point the leg outward. Checking is usually for when you're already in the pocket. A karateka like yourself or a taekwondoin (like myself) might also opt to avoid the kick by shuffling backwards when on the outside, as we generally have the advantage in explosive in and out footwork.
As a karate guy, i really think we need to work more on combos. You see so many times a good front fist landing but it rarely get followed up because how how we act in kumite
I love the matching of styles of martial arts. Sparing using different styles forces one to adapt rather than sticking with one style. This makes for a better fighter because it avoids stagnation. You did very well, sensei.
I think we lost this with mma. Appreciating different styles. Most mma's are not good at anything. Dont get me wrong they can kick ass, but missing the perfections of the different arts. Just for explanation... A guy learning boxing for mma, will never be able to learn the power behind the blows. Not saying they cannot hit hard, just saying he would have learned to hit harder. Same with muay thai. They get the basics in mma, but would this guy have the resillience of real muay thai people who trained it all there life, or just be able to use their moves.
There was a big Egyptian dude who won gold multiple times at the Wushu World Championships. He was so strong, he could throw the other fighters off the platform easily (it's legal, and you win the round if you do it 2 times).
I noticed that you used kizami quite successfully a few times. I sparred a few times against Chinese Sanda fighters in China. I have a Shoto-kan and TKD background. They were tough guys, but I recall I used the kizami tsuki very efficiently against them. They even praised my speed with the kizami; it seems the boxing jab they use has a different purpose and they didn't expect kizami tsuki to come so straight and fast. From TKD the jumping ushiro geri surprised them a few times when they came in with a round-house kick, and the stepping ura mawashi with the front foot would cause them trouble when they approached as they were not used to it. Then again, when it came to boxing they totally destroyed me in the short-range, and the leg kicks were constant trouble for me.
The last part about chambering the same way for a kick and changing is a think that Taekwondo people do or chambering back and throwing another kick. Like roundhouse into a sidekick.
When throwing slow mae geri in lite sparing just pull back faster. Just like it's taught in the kata/kihon :) Same for mawashi geri which is also easy to catch when thrown slower, or even when thrown with more force but the opponent chooses to eat it.
I love that I thought it was awesome and I haven't done any sparring since I was I don't know maybe a teenager but it looked good you guys were movie really well and fluent
It's refreshing to see a Shotokan practitioner putting himself out there and sparring people from different backgrounds. I wish this were the norm. I left shotokan karate when I was 14, and quickly moved to sanda. Only after 10 years did I realize that there was, indeed, a serious fighting art in karate. Took me a lot of dojo-hopping to find a place where tradition meets realistic scenarios, but I'm happy to be a karate-ka again!
I really enjoy these friendly exchange clips and it's nice to see Chinese martial arts being well represented (no offense to the wushu guy you trained with some time back but he wasn't super good). Love the channel.
In friendly, slow sparring We solve the issue with slower kicks being caught simply by ”give and take”. We catch some and let some slip. Some We catch But let go.
Thanks for the video. When we do a light spar, we throw kicks fast but light to avoid sweeps - they still come a close to normal speed but control the impact.
I trained with Sabir Bagautdinov a graduate from the famous "Shaolin of the Caucasus", very skilled fighters come from that school e.g. Muslim Salikov, Zabit Magomedsharipov
For low kicks, it is a good idea to not throw the kick by itself. A low kick with no other attack leaves you standing on one leg and in range for a counter. You can either set up the low kick with punches first (punch->kick) or kick into a punch combination (kick->punch). Also, low kicks do more damage if you use the shin instead of instep when you make contact, and you should kick downwards instead of horizontally. You want to sink your weight into the kick and the trajectory should be at a 45 degree angle downwards.
Great sweeps! I love to do some sweeps (or body throws when my sensei allows) when praticing jyu kumite, my past as judoka helps me in. I love how karate controls distance, but when i close distance, i believe that throws are more effective. Great video, I aways love to watch people getting out of their confort zone to try something new!
I once got in trouble in a gradeing using a sweap as I was grading to brown belt I was allowed to sweap on higher grades as in black belt and above so I sweaped one of the instructors and he went down like a sack of potatoes with a bang the whole grading came to a halt while he was helped up and taken away to seek help for a concusion .
I think you can work up top or mid to set up something low and vice versa. I know Shotokan loves to wait and set up for the perfect shot, but it can be hard to always do that against kickboxing styles like Sanda, Muay Thai, etc.
I totally get where you may be coming from, too. I came from a traditional Okinawan Shorin Ryu background for about four years til I moved to Chicago and interacted with lots of other styles including two summers of Shotokan (we were kinda broke, so I continued my martial training by research, studying fights, and training with friends, family, and whoever was affordable). Everytime I interacted with a new practitioner from a new style, I kinda had to use the Bruce Lee mindset of being open and adjusting when experiencing something new - and I'm still learning xD
Stylistically, these guys don’t really look much like sanda fighters. For kickboxers that allow leg kicks, they usually stand out for having great side kicks (yoko geri). Also, none of them have any clue how to box. I think they understand the rules for sanda, but I don’t think they were classically trained.
Have you ever done a reaction video to IP Man? Its a movie about Grand Master IP from China. Theres a few versions out there but the one I’m talking about stars Donnie Yen where he has a final fight with the Japanese General who knows karate. Its a world war 2 based movie so I wouldn’t recommend watching all of it, just the fight scenes which I think are amazing especially when IP Man fights 10 men at the same time.
13:38 if your kick gets caught, you have to twist your hip out and basically front kick off their hip or abdomen to get out. Also use your closest arm to the opponent and put the forearm in their face to offset balance. If an opponent constantly keeps catching your kick, start feinting and use the kick to set up other attacks
15:46 was your best counter yet. You keep playing the range game, you will score even more, you'll be a lot effective outside than you are inside. Side thrust kick is even more effective because it plays with the range of deception. When you switch it up, from high to low or include feints, your opponent will be at odds of finding his range when your the one controlling his. But, overall good display if skill, your judo skills came in handy as well when it came to grappling situations, your defense against low kicks? Muay Thai (and Kyokushin) fighter's use a technique called the leg shield, keep your guard and bring your lead (lead knee bent) to your head, and drop your weight down in unison, it will help you against the low kicks. Overall!!! Nice performance.....
Low kicks can be used to put the feets in stances able to to thrown your better kicks tricking your opponent in moving in vulnerable stances , technically are changing of stances disguised as kicks.
For Low Kicks for Kickboxing you generally will want to check them (try cross training at a Kyokushin based Kickboxing Gym), move out of the way of them, catch them, or eat them and counter back. For that last one though you should be squaring your stance up a bit more and with you hands up when in the pocket. When out of range it's fine to be bladed where you can more easily react to the low kicks. The lead leg side kick to the leg is a great tool for using your own low kicks from range. Also try to work on your combinations a bit more after the gyaku tsuki, use a kagi tsuki or mawashi tsuki (but pivot on the ball of your foot like a boxer with it) this will get you sideways for a yoko geri. After doing the yoko geri shuffle step (tsugi ashi) backwards to regain distance. Also since you like the rear leg front kick learning how to hip faint or using it to set up a question mark kick would also be good adjustments to make.
Very good training! You went reasonably easy on each other and still managed to keep the skill to high level. May I suggest you another format for your videos? Recently you uploaded "Ranking Cobra Kai characters" and I thought that you could do a similar thing with actual karate competitors. Not necessarily "who's better than who" type of video, but rather "what makes ○○ ○○ so good" type of content. What do you think?
As is typical with gendai karate, the hands were low, which you caught on to yourself. It's super common to lower the hands after a joudan mawashi to add power to it, but I would suggest let's say from a migi joudan mawashi geri to: cover your right chin with your left hand, palm outward. This is to cover the face in case a punch comes flying. Another option to this is to reach out with the right arm as if you're grapping your opponent's right shoulder. Now both your right shoulder and your left hand will cover your face. Nak muay do this especially when they sweep, since the outstretched right hand would then help with pushing the body backwards as the kick buckles their legs forward. The downside is that it will take you spinning full circle, since it's hard to return to neutral after that. As for low kicks eh... Make sure you kick with the narrow part of the tibia and not the side. There are several videos on YT of people half-arsing their gedan mawashis and getting their tibias broken from a check. This goes for chuudan mawashis towards the thigh as well. If you mean how to defend against them, one option is chamber your knee as if you're about to do a mae geri and angle the narrow part of your tibia to meet their kick. If it's a gedan it will whiff and you can now counter with a kick, or if it's a chuudan you will check it. Those are my two cents. Cheers.
Hello and God bless. Sorry to bother and ask, but I think it would be interesting to react to grand master He Ill Cho. He is and was one of Taekwondo’s greatest instructors. Again sorry, and thank you 🙏
Reverse roundhouse kick you want to swing leg a lot more to get the reverse round house to connect almost like Tricking not knowing where it coming from
I know this is a year old but from where I stand, the maegiri should be thrown LOW in most sparring outside of karate environment. High kicks will get you caught because kickboxers with clinch/standup wrestling are hyper aware for it. Unless you're using it with force and great speed (which generally doesnt happen in light sparring) the best way is to throw it as a kind of 'cut kick' (american name for a taekwondo style move) which will force the opponent backwards or if they choose to take the blow, disable their forward moving leg, allowing you to move transverse/diagonal and re-arrange stance to be aligned with their center-line.
Big fan. When I come to Tokyo we gotta get some work in
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I started my martial art life in Shotokan Karate. Now I practice Choy Lay Fut Kung-Fu and Sanda. There is an advantage for karate for getting closer with a kizame zuki. After that, start a strike sequence as in Sanda.
would you please visit a kyokushin/ashihara/ etc dojo? you mentioned a planned ashihara dojo visit a while ago but i assume it never happened because of covid, I'd love to see your style compared to knockdown karate
Great sparring! I think you should learn hooks, low-kicks, and get skills in full-contact movements. Afther that you will became a very skilled fighter in all styles. The karate basic (footwork, headkicks, timing) always confuses different fighters if you have experiences in their fighting style.
excellent sparring Sensei ALSO Sensei I noticed you give the same great advice as Super Foot Bill Wallace , he would say to chamber all kicks the same so enemy doesn't know which kick is coming
Your low kick looked fine. Much of the fundamentals of kicks apply to their respective low kick. Distance is important. If you're using one while moving in or out, move at an angle. Be ready to move after it lands or misses. Look for openings while your opponont is moving back. Maintain your guard, and move your head off center, but don't be so predictable that they counter to your head with a hook punch or round kick into the way you're leaning. Use faints, or even the "Thai march" every so often to keep them guessing. I find the Thai style roundhouse is easier to do after punching with the opposite hand, while the more linear kicks, and Shotokan style roundhouse kick, are easy for me when punching with either hand, and help to mix it up. You'd be better helped by someone who competes using a lot of low kicks. Well done with your sparring.
The first attempt to sweep at 11:45 minute mark cos your center was far and you didn't break his balance. I noticed that Judokas are still relentless like what you did so when an attempt fails, you just have a follow up which worked as well. When using Judo techniques like sweeps and throws, always break the balance first. Apply kuzushi in different angles until you feel where the weak spot is. I'm just a green belter in Shotokan Karate and also a green belter in Judo. I'm both members of WKF and IJF. I also visit MMA gyms from time to time to expand my knowledge. :)
PS: Another option I noticed in that position is that you can easily transition to a double or single leg takedown because you already caught his leg and lifted it a bit.
I think it's time to step up the game. Sparring session against Naka-sensei. The knowledge he possesses and the scary speed he still has for someone in late 50s in amazing. That would be a treat there. Or kata with JKA champions Ayano Nakamura or Miki Nakamachi.
First round your elbows were too far from your body but you fixed it in later rounds. As for your grappling, you made a good adjustment to get the throw. Set up your mae geri with punches to the face to distract them first. Nice sparring!
"Any advice on the lowkicks?": You use very often a wide deep sideward stance, which is common for Pointfighting, like it is often used in Shotokan. That is okay, especially in long range, but it gives you problems to use both legs and hands in the close range (like lowkicks) faster. Most Kickboxers who change from pointfighting rulesets to something like K1 or Sanda have the same problem. You can get better if you learn to use higher square frontal stances like in Muay Thai, K1-Kickboxing, Kyokushin or even Sanda (since you are allready training with Sanda-fighters let them explain a little of their footwork and stances. It is not like "abandoning your Shotokan", the Shotokan "Competition Footwork" is also just a invention for use in the specific ruleset, not a "traditional Karate thing".)
If you learned some traditional boxing to sharpen your punches your style would be even better you already move great and light on your feet with awesome kicks
If I used a front kick in sparing I would make sure I would return the leg faster than the kick so I was ready to counter or reply to an attack or change from one kick to another as most don't expect two kicks from one attack.
Hi Yusuke! Nice videos especially your reactions to different disciplines. I hope that you would consider reacting on Yaw Yan. Someday, I plan to train in that style.
When I spar Against people who catch kicks I usually kick faster and throw more faints and punches to hide the kicks I seldom start with Mawashi geri as it is a big move and obvious.
Can I buy that kind of Clear Guard Headgear somehwere from Europe or can I order one from Japan? I´ve been trying to find a headgear like that but only found them for kids with full clear face guard. Thank you.
awesome to see you facing other styles and learning things from them!. . i hope to see some clinch work soon and knees. to avoid the low kick .. raise ur knee up like muaythai ?spelling? ,does or switch front leg * the one they attack with that fast low kicks* to back leg. ?
Sensei, you should really reach out to Steven Thompson and Michelle Waterson for their karate applications in MMA and full contact sparring. I’m sure they will collaborate well with you. Both are great fighters in the UFC.
There is a girl karateka Akaya Tadano and she tests her kumite skills against other styles and that girl is 10 times better than this dude, even though opponents take it easy with her. For one thing she has a fantastic footwork
You got very good timing, but they didn't do much boxing techniques. The thing is that the boxing is the most applicable in real fight and in light sparing. I know cause I switched from karate (after 20 years of training) to kickboxing which I am doing for 12 years. So you need boxing, the legs are very good. I think you would love the head movement and the boxing techniques. Karate is based on center line, but boxing is quite the opposite, so that would make you much harder to hit. You should try to spar with someone who has good kickboxing skills I think you'll love it, and you'll see what I mean. 🥋🥊💪😁
I absolutely love karate! However karate alone does not have enough wrestling and throwing tactics to compete against wushu Sanda! Wushu Sanda has too many advantages over karate ! However the Japanese art of kudo which is essentially a combination of kyokushin oyama karate and kodokan Judo! Kudo would have more than enough to compete against wushu Sanda!
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Hi Yusuke when I go to Japan I will visit your dojo for some sparring! Great video on Sanda!
guy is not sanda, and your level of sparring is so bad it s cringy to.thibk that s antthing worth sharing. all u have is arrogance really
It would be really interesting and cool to see you train/spar with the Machidas in Machida Karate.
Pressure testing is where form transforms to function. Kudos to you for stepping in and up.
Great sparring! I love the humility and openness to learn. As for low kicks, you can do two things. Number one is to "check" the kick, which is where you lift your leg to block the kick with your shin, however in order to execute it properly you have to square up and point the leg outward. Checking is usually for when you're already in the pocket. A karateka like yourself or a taekwondoin (like myself) might also opt to avoid the kick by shuffling backwards when on the outside, as we generally have the advantage in explosive in and out footwork.
As a karate guy, i really think we need to work more on combos. You see so many times a good front fist landing but it rarely get followed up because how how we act in kumite
Great to see you sparring Minh again and his students, and with takedowns this time!
I love the matching of styles of martial arts. Sparing using different styles forces one to adapt rather than sticking with one style. This makes for a better fighter because it avoids stagnation.
You did very well, sensei.
I think we lost this with mma. Appreciating different styles. Most mma's are not good at anything. Dont get me wrong they can kick ass, but missing the perfections of the different arts. Just for explanation...
A guy learning boxing for mma, will never be able to learn the power behind the blows. Not saying they cannot hit hard, just saying he would have learned to hit harder. Same with muay thai. They get the basics in mma, but would this guy have the resillience of real muay thai people who trained it all there life, or just be able to use their moves.
There was a big Egyptian dude who won gold multiple times at the Wushu World Championships. He was so strong, he could throw the other fighters off the platform easily (it's legal, and you win the round if you do it 2 times).
12:00 mark I like the way that kouchi gari worked out.
Haha amazing video! I was very impressed when you were doing the sweeps.
I noticed that you used kizami quite successfully a few times. I sparred a few times against Chinese Sanda fighters in China. I have a Shoto-kan and TKD background. They were tough guys, but I recall I used the kizami tsuki very efficiently against them. They even praised my speed with the kizami; it seems the boxing jab they use has a different purpose and they didn't expect kizami tsuki to come so straight and fast. From TKD the jumping ushiro geri surprised them a few times when they came in with a round-house kick, and the stepping ura mawashi with the front foot would cause them trouble when they approached as they were not used to it. Then again, when it came to boxing they totally destroyed me in the short-range, and the leg kicks were constant trouble for me.
Ps. It's funny that the audience of your sparring is a bunch of colorful animals and a huge teddy bear.
The last part about chambering the same way for a kick and changing is a think that Taekwondo people do or chambering back and throwing another kick. Like roundhouse into a sidekick.
When throwing slow mae geri in lite sparing just pull back faster. Just like it's taught in the kata/kihon :) Same for mawashi geri which is also easy to catch when thrown slower, or even when thrown with more force but the opponent chooses to eat it.
I love that I thought it was awesome and I haven't done any sparring since I was I don't know maybe a teenager but it looked good you guys were movie really well and fluent
It's refreshing to see a Shotokan practitioner putting himself out there and sparring people from different backgrounds. I wish this were the norm. I left shotokan karate when I was 14, and quickly moved to sanda. Only after 10 years did I realize that there was, indeed, a serious fighting art in karate. Took me a lot of dojo-hopping to find a place where tradition meets realistic scenarios, but I'm happy to be a karate-ka again!
I really enjoy these friendly exchange clips and it's nice to see Chinese martial arts being well represented (no offense to the wushu guy you trained with some time back but he wasn't super good). Love the channel.
It's the same person 0:13
Besides he is good imo and sparring controlled.
Nowdays Wushu and Sanda are taught by the same teacher in the same school, so it's up to you what you wanna do, there's really no offense to anyone
In friendly, slow sparring We solve the issue with slower kicks being caught simply by ”give and take”. We catch some and let some slip. Some We catch But let go.
Thanks for the video. When we do a light spar, we throw kicks fast but light to avoid sweeps - they still come a close to normal speed but control the impact.
I trained with Sabir Bagautdinov a graduate from the famous "Shaolin of the Caucasus", very skilled fighters come from that school e.g. Muslim Salikov, Zabit Magomedsharipov
Facing different styles is always great!!
I don't make any difference and I don't search which one is more powerful than the other. I love both Sanda/Sanshou and Karate. Thanks for sharing.
Great fight, its nice to try new fighting styles with karate to improve our fighting skills
For low kicks, it is a good idea to not throw the kick by itself. A low kick with no other attack leaves you standing on one leg and in range for a counter. You can either set up the low kick with punches first (punch->kick) or kick into a punch combination (kick->punch).
Also, low kicks do more damage if you use the shin instead of instep when you make contact, and you should kick downwards instead of horizontally. You want to sink your weight into the kick and the trajectory should be at a 45 degree angle downwards.
You fought really well, sensei. I enjoy this content much more than "reaction" videos.
Great sweeps! I love to do some sweeps (or body throws when my sensei allows) when praticing jyu kumite, my past as judoka helps me in. I love how karate controls distance, but when i close distance, i believe that throws are more effective. Great video, I aways love to watch people getting out of their confort zone to try something new!
I once got in trouble in a gradeing using a sweap as I was grading to brown belt I was allowed to sweap on higher grades as in black belt and above so I sweaped one of the instructors and he went down like a sack of potatoes with a bang the whole grading came to a halt while he was helped up and taken away to seek help for a concusion .
@@paulyarlett1238 Do they not teach you guys how to do a break-fall?
@@thejapanarchocommunist yes they do but I don't think he was expecting to be sweaped by a lower grade.
I think you can work up top or mid to set up something low and vice versa. I know Shotokan loves to wait and set up for the perfect shot, but it can be hard to always do that against kickboxing styles like Sanda, Muay Thai, etc.
I totally get where you may be coming from, too. I came from a traditional Okinawan Shorin Ryu background for about four years til I moved to Chicago and interacted with lots of other styles including two summers of Shotokan (we were kinda broke, so I continued my martial training by research, studying fights, and training with friends, family, and whoever was affordable). Everytime I interacted with a new practitioner from a new style, I kinda had to use the Bruce Lee mindset of being open and adjusting when experiencing something new - and I'm still learning xD
Nice to see a respectful and exploratory spaying session.
You mean Sparring not spaying but thanks
We wanna see you with sensei seth and icy mike ❤️❤️☺️
Stylistically, these guys don’t really look much like sanda fighters. For kickboxers that allow leg kicks, they usually stand out for having great side kicks (yoko geri). Also, none of them have any clue how to box. I think they understand the rules for sanda, but I don’t think they were classically trained.
Have you ever done a reaction video to IP Man? Its a movie about Grand Master IP from China. Theres a few versions out there but the one I’m talking about stars Donnie Yen where he has a final fight with the Japanese General who knows karate.
Its a world war 2 based movie so I wouldn’t recommend watching all of it, just the fight scenes which I think are amazing especially when IP Man fights 10 men at the same time.
13:38 if your kick gets caught, you have to twist your hip out and basically front kick off their hip or abdomen to get out. Also use your closest arm to the opponent and put the forearm in their face to offset balance. If an opponent constantly keeps catching your kick, start feinting and use the kick to set up other attacks
light and clean sparring i love it!
15:46 was your best counter yet. You keep playing the range game, you will score even more, you'll be a lot effective outside than you are inside. Side thrust kick is even more effective because it plays with the range of deception. When you switch it up, from high to low or include feints, your opponent will be at odds of finding his range when your the one controlling his. But, overall good display if skill, your judo skills came in handy as well when it came to grappling situations, your defense against low kicks? Muay Thai (and Kyokushin) fighter's use a technique called the leg shield, keep your guard and bring your lead (lead knee bent) to your head, and drop your weight down in unison, it will help you against the low kicks. Overall!!! Nice performance.....
Your kizami zuki was smooth! Like a Gsp jab!
Next I would like to see you sparring against a Kyokushin practioner
Os estilo são bom karaté Shotokan e o Sanda boxe chinesa
You looked great. Your take down were nice
2:29 the reverse punch to trick, is an innovation of the kick boxing, at least as far as I know .
He’s mostly a traditional Shaolin guy that cross trains in Sanda. A real Sanda guy would’ve probably thrown you a lot lol
When you explain your successful kicks you sound like Bill "Superfoot" Wallace ;-)
I think if this is a tournament so you will get more points. You are fighting nicely 👌. Amazing video.
Low kicks can be used to put the feets in stances able to to thrown your better kicks tricking your opponent in moving in vulnerable stances , technically are changing of stances disguised as kicks.
Really nice kicks, I have learned a lot of things for Kumite watching this video. Thanks!
Bruh, can you make sparring video with Muay Thai fighter
For Low Kicks for Kickboxing you generally will want to check them (try cross training at a Kyokushin based Kickboxing Gym), move out of the way of them, catch them, or eat them and counter back. For that last one though you should be squaring your stance up a bit more and with you hands up when in the pocket. When out of range it's fine to be bladed where you can more easily react to the low kicks. The lead leg side kick to the leg is a great tool for using your own low kicks from range. Also try to work on your combinations a bit more after the gyaku tsuki, use a kagi tsuki or mawashi tsuki (but pivot on the ball of your foot like a boxer with it) this will get you sideways for a yoko geri. After doing the yoko geri shuffle step (tsugi ashi) backwards to regain distance. Also since you like the rear leg front kick learning how to hip faint or using it to set up a question mark kick would also be good adjustments to make.
This was great sparring great job 🙏🏾
Very good training! You went reasonably easy on each other and still managed to keep the skill to high level.
May I suggest you another format for your videos?
Recently you uploaded "Ranking Cobra Kai characters" and I thought that you could do a similar thing with actual karate competitors. Not necessarily "who's better than who" type of video, but rather "what makes ○○ ○○ so good" type of content.
What do you think?
in light sparring you can throw the kick slow but the retraction can still be fast so it's harder to catch your kicks.
That's a very cute dojo with those creatures in there.
As is typical with gendai karate, the hands were low, which you caught on to yourself. It's super common to lower the hands after a joudan mawashi to add power to it, but I would suggest let's say from a migi joudan mawashi geri to: cover your right chin with your left hand, palm outward. This is to cover the face in case a punch comes flying. Another option to this is to reach out with the right arm as if you're grapping your opponent's right shoulder. Now both your right shoulder and your left hand will cover your face. Nak muay do this especially when they sweep, since the outstretched right hand would then help with pushing the body backwards as the kick buckles their legs forward. The downside is that it will take you spinning full circle, since it's hard to return to neutral after that.
As for low kicks eh... Make sure you kick with the narrow part of the tibia and not the side. There are several videos on YT of people half-arsing their gedan mawashis and getting their tibias broken from a check. This goes for chuudan mawashis towards the thigh as well. If you mean how to defend against them, one option is chamber your knee as if you're about to do a mae geri and angle the narrow part of your tibia to meet their kick. If it's a gedan it will whiff and you can now counter with a kick, or if it's a chuudan you will check it.
Those are my two cents. Cheers.
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Hello and God bless. Sorry to bother and ask, but I think it would be interesting to react to grand master He Ill Cho. He is and was one of Taekwondo’s greatest instructors. Again sorry, and thank you 🙏
I think that taking a boxing class, or Muay Thai would be very beneficial to your karate.
You're improvisation was impressive. I think you could benefit by circling out followed by a kick.
Reverse roundhouse kick you want to swing leg a lot more to get the reverse round house to connect almost like Tricking not knowing where it coming from
I know this is a year old but from where I stand, the maegiri should be thrown LOW in most sparring outside of karate environment. High kicks will get you caught because kickboxers with clinch/standup wrestling are hyper aware for it. Unless you're using it with force and great speed (which generally doesnt happen in light sparring) the best way is to throw it as a kind of 'cut kick' (american name for a taekwondo style move) which will force the opponent backwards or if they choose to take the blow, disable their forward moving leg, allowing you to move transverse/diagonal and re-arrange stance to be aligned with their center-line.
more like this Maui Thai, Boxing etc
Very good.
Big fan. When I come to Tokyo we gotta get some work in
I started my martial art life in Shotokan Karate. Now I practice Choy Lay Fut Kung-Fu and Sanda. There is an advantage for karate for getting closer with a kizame zuki. After that, start a strike sequence as in Sanda.
would you please visit a kyokushin/ashihara/ etc dojo? you mentioned a planned ashihara dojo visit a while ago but i assume it never happened because of covid, I'd love to see your style compared to knockdown karate
I am 47 and train Sanda 2 x a week!
Great sparring! I think you should learn hooks, low-kicks, and get skills in full-contact movements. Afther that you will became a very skilled fighter in all styles. The karate basic (footwork, headkicks, timing) always confuses different fighters if you have experiences in their fighting style.
excellent sparring Sensei ALSO Sensei I noticed you give the same great advice as Super Foot Bill Wallace , he would say to chamber all kicks the same so enemy doesn't know which kick is coming
There are not katas or anything like that in sanda right? The training is like kickboxing or Muay Thai?
Your low kick looked fine. Much of the fundamentals of kicks apply to their respective low kick. Distance is important. If you're using one while moving in or out, move at an angle. Be ready to move after it lands or misses. Look for openings while your opponont is moving back. Maintain your guard, and move your head off center, but don't be so predictable that they counter to your head with a hook punch or round kick into the way you're leaning. Use faints, or even the "Thai march" every so often to keep them guessing. I find the Thai style roundhouse is easier to do after punching with the opposite hand, while the more linear kicks, and Shotokan style roundhouse kick, are easy for me when punching with either hand, and help to mix it up. You'd be better helped by someone who competes using a lot of low kicks. Well done with your sparring.
I would suggest trying some boxing, for the closer range
You can use those fascinating training dummies in the background to train low kicks.
For light sparring it's unsportsmanlike to catch kicks for a takedown.
In sanda/chinese boxing, can i take all wrestling takedowns?
Have you ever seen Stephen Wonderboy Thompson fight in the UFC? I think you would like his style.
The first attempt to sweep at 11:45 minute mark cos your center was far and you didn't break his balance. I noticed that Judokas are still relentless like what you did so when an attempt fails, you just have a follow up which worked as well.
When using Judo techniques like sweeps and throws, always break the balance first. Apply kuzushi in different angles until you feel where the weak spot is.
I'm just a green belter in Shotokan Karate and also a green belter in Judo. I'm both members of WKF and IJF. I also visit MMA gyms from time to time to expand my knowledge. :)
PS: Another option I noticed in that position is that you can easily transition to a double or single leg takedown because you already caught his leg and lifted it a bit.
I think it's time to step up the game. Sparring session against Naka-sensei. The knowledge he possesses and the scary speed he still has for someone in late 50s in amazing. That would be a treat there. Or kata with JKA champions Ayano Nakamura or Miki Nakamachi.
First round your elbows were too far from your body but you fixed it in later rounds. As for your grappling, you made a good adjustment to get the throw. Set up your mae geri with punches to the face to distract them first. Nice sparring!
My first instinct for the low kicks is to grab them or brush them off with enough rotation that it turns my opponent, giving me their back.
"Any advice on the lowkicks?": You use very often a wide deep sideward stance, which is common for Pointfighting, like it is often used in Shotokan. That is okay, especially in long range, but it gives you problems to use both legs and hands in the close range (like lowkicks) faster. Most Kickboxers who change from pointfighting rulesets to something like K1 or Sanda have the same problem.
You can get better if you learn to use higher square frontal stances like in Muay Thai, K1-Kickboxing, Kyokushin or even Sanda (since you are allready training with Sanda-fighters let them explain a little of their footwork and stances. It is not like "abandoning your Shotokan", the Shotokan "Competition Footwork" is also just a invention for use in the specific ruleset, not a "traditional Karate thing".)
If you learned some traditional boxing to sharpen your punches your style would be even better you already move great and light on your feet with awesome kicks
I would love if you react to pagration is an ancient Greek fighting
is there any Sanda athlete from Japan? I was just wondering
If I used a front kick in sparing I would make sure I would return the leg faster than the kick so I was ready to counter or reply to an attack or change from one kick to another as most don't expect two kicks from one attack.
please make a video how to deal with loose a fight
Hi Yusuke! Nice videos especially your reactions to different disciplines. I hope that you would consider reacting on Yaw Yan. Someday, I plan to train in that style.
When I spar Against people who catch kicks I usually kick faster and throw more faints and punches to hide the kicks I seldom start with Mawashi geri as it is a big move and obvious.
He is not using the throws,takedowns,sweeps of Sanda.
Are there any savate schools in Japan?
Can I buy that kind of Clear Guard Headgear somehwere from Europe or can I order one from Japan? I´ve been trying to find a headgear like that but only found them for kids with full clear face guard. Thank you.
Can you react to 3 Ninjas Kick Back movie?
awesome to see you facing other styles and learning things from them!. . i hope to see some clinch work soon and knees. to avoid the low kick .. raise ur knee up like muaythai ?spelling? ,does or switch front leg * the one they attack with that fast low kicks* to back leg. ?
Sensei, you should really reach out to Steven Thompson and Michelle Waterson for their karate applications in MMA and full contact sparring. I’m sure they will collaborate well with you. Both are great fighters in the UFC.
One of these days you should travel to learn from the machidas
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Hey can u do a tutorial on jion? It’s kinda all of the heian forms put together
There is a girl karateka Akaya Tadano and she tests her kumite skills against other styles and that girl is 10 times better than this dude, even though opponents take it easy with her. For one thing she has a fantastic footwork
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@karate Dojo waKu Have you ever watched or reacted to any of Lyoto Machida fights? Former UFC champ with a Karate foundation?
Hello sir l m from Nepal
You got very good timing, but they didn't do much boxing techniques. The thing is that the boxing is the most applicable in real fight and in light sparing.
I know cause I switched from karate (after 20 years of training) to kickboxing which I am doing for 12 years.
So you need boxing, the legs are very good. I think you would love the head movement and the boxing techniques.
Karate is based on center line, but boxing is quite the opposite, so that would make you much harder to hit.
You should try to spar with someone who has good kickboxing skills I think you'll love it, and you'll see what I mean.
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Yuske... dont move around too much
I absolutely love karate! However karate alone does not have enough wrestling and throwing tactics to compete against wushu Sanda! Wushu Sanda has too many advantages over karate ! However the Japanese art of kudo which is essentially a combination of kyokushin oyama karate and kodokan Judo! Kudo would have more than enough to compete against wushu Sanda!
Bro go to street and kick some bullies and gangsters