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>>195013I know it's fiction, But Kyokushin guys can move this fluidly instead of just pushing forward with punches?>https://youtu.be/l1UhDBURW-s?si=8640xShZ7N6Fu3e0
>>195032>Kyokushin guys can move this fluidly instead of just pushing forward with punches?No. (but Max Dedik in one interview said rules of IKO1 changed recently and fights became more maneuverable, but IDK)
met this guy personally at a state championship while he was taking a MASSIVE shit in the full-contact fighters bathroom
>>195304Lol, you talking about Eddie Emin or Max Dedik?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13349401/Karate-expert-fights-bear-kicking-face-attack-predator-runs-away-mountains-Japan.html
>>195401based as fuck
>>195401Based. I remember how I travelled to Japan and got lost in forest at night on my way to the inn, found some road and met the bell with sign "In case of bear attack ring the bell". Damn that was scary. It was like 10 km from the inn and I walked this road, cheked mail (because previously I emailed inn owner that I will be very late because I'm walking along a path through the forest) and inn owner mailed me back something like "Be careful because there are bears in the forests" and it scared me again. Finally I found bigger highway and a car stopped and some kind woman offered to give me a ride to the nearest city. I used some mix of japanese and english and said something like "kuma no mori, scary!" and she laughed and started nodding. It was near Nagiso
>>195447>kuma no mori, scary!https://youtu.be/ZAbPaQuvjIE?si=2HHHWtLM5IeMldBQOn that day mankind received a grim reminderhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankebetsu_brown_bear_incident
Karate peaked in the K-1 years when kyokushin tried it's best to be kickboxing
Does anyone else compete, or want to compete? I train at the dojo three times a week, but my Shihan says to get truly in fighting shape, I need to train much more often, I already do weights and bodyweight exercises at lunch time in my work gym, but he says I need to find some more time on the heavy bag, even if it means training until late at night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJCjyYB2I9cI was at this tournament last year, but in a different category, here are some highlights.>>195032It depends on the ruleset, the problem is with the timelimit, the size of tournaments, and the nature of tournaments themselves. People like Valeri win tournaments because they favour very economical movements that minimise effort, are extremely efficient, and highly effective. Valeri is boring as hell to watch but he's a scientist of Kyokushin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2aeVb_J2Wsthis fight is probably the most fluid kyokushin fight I can think of, but there are others. The last IKO tournament had some more springy fighters, but with the big tournaments very few early fights will go beyond the first round, so you have to get in there and go as hard and as fast as you can so the judges choose you. Perhaps one day there should be a more drawn out kyokushin tournament, no round limits, over a few days instead of just two.
>>195401Based Jap man
>>195454Kyokushin did that in the 1970s when Oyama opened up a Kickboxing gym that Terutomo Yamazaki (1st winner of the All Japan Kyokushin championship). When K-1 debuted, it was already built on Ishii's Seidokaikan challenge matches against other styles. He envisioned K-1 as a promotion to bridge all the fighting disciplines (regardless of whatever organization they were champions in) to compete under rules that they could successively utilize their techniques. Early K-1 allowed more knees to the clinch/neck-wrestling so long as it was continuous attack and not jockeying around for several seconds to gain decisive leverage and angles like Muay Thai does. This got dropped later on.
>>195454There's still hundreds of Japanese kickboxers who come from kyokushin karate backgrounds even today.
So you can attack the spleen by kicking someone's calfSo THIS is the power of karate!https://youtu.be/Q4jbXAA_nrs?si=jG9Fitw-lZpNPTBD
>>195401What's the best karate style to fight a bear?
Redpill me on hand conditioningWaste of time or important?
>>197481Mostly a waste of time. Firstly the time you need to contition them you could have been training techniques or endurance. Secondly if you really go down the conditioning route full force you will have an enlarged hand that got so hard its not able to do fine motorskills anymore. Additionally you get athritis. There is something to sometimes punching a sandbag to get a feeling for the correct bare nuckle technique, but more than that is just useless.
https://youtu.be/b-bFCXTCCMg?si=Tfs1d7orDfo_raYyKyokushin got canonised by Pride
Any kyokushin/kyokushin related live uchi-deshi/live-in student programs? Just quit my job and have a lot saved up.
>>197481It's real but not worth it for >99% of people, because how often do you actually have to hit something with an uncovered fist in your daily life? Even sports like kyokushin don't allow strikes to the head so it would only be worht it if you made a living doing something like lethwei or bare knuckle boxing. Even then those sports allow wrist wraps so... The consequence of going far enough in hand conditioning to be able to hit hard shit without any damage is having fucked up hands lol.https://youtu.be/qQzAYTOPeQM?si=rNi2Ky5SwK1XTrPBVhttps://youtu.be/65UY_8LuMKk?si=E2ZznbuMucAHCkK0
Kyokushin fighters and full contact enjoyers, what are your gym workouts?Is 3x5 a meme?
What's the difference between Shotokan and Shotokai?
>>198280That Chink dude's hands are all fucked, fucking insanity. Morio Higaonna uses some Chinese liniment to be able to do the hand conditioning he does until now.
>>198490iirc shotokai was founded by people who believed that they had deviated from Funakoshi's teachings, and thus they formed their own splinter organisation.
>>198490Shotokai is more spiritual/philosophical approach and Shotokan is a more sporty approach to Funakoshi's karate.Basically Shotokai is more like Funakoshi's karate trying to be in his early teachings and Shotokan is was his son Gigo and Nakayama teached in the late days of the old master.
>>197481Small amounts are good like doing knuckle pushups and hitting the bag barehanded but the whole iron sand esque stuff where you try to turn it into a brick where it's useless for anything but punches is just stupid.
>>198687I remember my Chinese shifu telling me to slap and backhand a tree a few times everyday alongside finger push ups to strengthen the fingers and for you to be able to use open hand techniques. None of that iron sand hand or finger fucking a jar of pebbles. I opted for slapping my punching bag instead. Supposedly this is a gradual process that takes years.
>>198049>instructor says he knows a few guys in Japan who could host me and that I should definitely do itWe're so back
>>198049Are you black belt? What dan? What's your competitional achievemnts? Just curious
What it's more valuable?A dozen of kyokushin fighters being successful in kickboxing (K-1) or one shotokan fighter (Machida) being successful in modern MMA?
>>198742>What's more valuable? Amerigoys or Japoids?
>>197481>>197515>>198280>>198687Pretty much. I got this out of a book on Okinawan Goju that one of my senseis gave me. Imagine walking around with that shit and having to explain it to everyone without looking like a dork.
>>199571To think that a average boxer still hits harder than someone with knuckles like this
I started about a month ago.Does the Sanchin stance actually see use in sparring?
>>200014lmao
>>200014Everything you learn in kihon and kata except obvious punches and kicks is not suitable for sparring
>>200020>Everything you learn in kihon and kata is not suitable for sparringyikes
>>200014It's extremely powerful to keep your base when passing the guard and your opponent is attempting to pull you downRemember, karate is fundamentally a grappling art that has lost its way, and many of the techniques are now vestigial because people don't understand their usagehttps://youtu.be/f9y2rpbxfhI?si=qNtG9wopyUbsht5G
>>200223>https://youtu.be/f9y2rpbxfhI?si=qNtG9wopyUbsht5G [Embed]God damn holy cringe these are situations that happen a lot in high competitive high rivalry sports like wrestling or grappling and non of these sports uses these cringe shit. That really tells you the value of these """techniques""". IF this techniques WORKED high competitive high RIVALRY sports WOULD ALREADY BE USING THEM.Also LMAO at every time when someone reinvents what kata """really""" means.
>>200223Also LMAO at this whole situation>Look, this fancy techniques really work!>Now let me demonstrate them on underweight manlet asians that don't know how wrestle
>>199984Afaik, the whole knuckle thing is not a goal but a byproduct of training meant to "harden" the hand structuraly. Exagerated calluses become a liability because they can easily tear off, so at that point I would much rather clip them myself.
>>199984The other part I don't understand is that a different emphasis is placed on punches in Okinawan Karate, too. You're not going for insane knockout power most of the time because you'd just break your hand, anyway. Conditioning your hands to that point seems kind of... well, pointless.
Why does that guy who hates karate and has never done it show up in every thread? Has he really got nothing better to do?
>>200301I've done two years of shotokan, two years of kyokushin in both IKO1 and IFK and some minor training in goju ryu to see how they train kata. I have competed under WKF and kyokushin rules, also competed twice in kata competitions. I owned all Nakayama's books on kata and prayed on them when I trained shotokan. Then i had big break of training and got interest in grappling arts and did some freestyle wrestling and grappling with minor success, just as amateur, but at least I saw how grappling works.Your post is just a cry of a bitch and really means>p-please stop saying true and unpleasant things, it makes me uncomfortable, l-let me stay in my delusionsAlso I don't hate karate, WKF and knockdown karate are really cool and useful and responsible for all real public successes of karatekas.Now, what's your experience?
>>200309Admittedly it's not as much as yours, not by a long way. I'd come from stuff like kickboxing when I was much younger, and boxing more recently with a couple of things in between, but nothing to write home about.The thing of it is, I've been watching/hearing people shit on karate for nearly my whole life. I'm not saying they're right or wrong. But rather than just taking their word for it, I wanted to see for myself. I'm only about six months in to Okinawan Goju Ryu. So yeah, I know I'm probably about to get a torrent of abuse from you. But that's all I have to go on right now. But I'm not coming at this from a place of superiority, either.>stutter typingNo, I'm just trying to find out why you do this.>I don't hate karateThis is the part I'm stuck on. If you don't hate it, then why are you always in here bitching about it and shitting on it? For someone who doesn't hate it, you have a strange way of showing it.
>>200309Navy seal tier post
>>200317Maybe it will surprise you, but I'm also OP of last three or four threads. Forgot to say.>If you don't hate it, then why are you always in here bitching about it and shitting on it?I don't like kata and don' see any value in them. I would be glad if someone will convince me. I'm not as close minded as you may think. For example, I was thinking my whole life that freezing after punches with straighten hand is stupid, but recently I watched Max Dedik's interview and he said that when he trained punching power he used methodic of boxing coach Husyainov Zofer (a Verhoshanski student himself!) and one of his exercise was to freeze in the end of punch. So it convinced me that may be there is some wisdom in freezing after punching.But I never ever saw any good explanation of why katas are good, or why techniques they contain are the techniques which this particular instructor decifers, or what are the benefits of kata in training coordination etc and etc.I really like kyokushin and thinking to return to it, but when I'm thinking of all this useless hours I would spend on katas it makes feel sick. And I don't like it either lot of stuff that comprises from using kata as method of training, for example stances, particular stances with exactly this width and length and angles, and it should be low stances because some old fart back then concluded that this is how you LMAO train leg strength.>>200321>no one can train karate for four yearsYeah, you got me, I'm a liar. So what are benefits of kata again?
>>200325Well I'm not going to sit here and try to extol the virtues of kata to you. Partly because of my own lack of experience, and partly because I believe your mind is already made up. At this stage, the main explanation I've been given is basically so you can practice certain aspects of karate when you're by yourself. That's it. But I'm going to go out on not much of a limb here and guess that you've probably already been told that shitloads of times before, and it's failed to convince you. Fair enough, dude.So far I've enjoyed practicing kata. But the place I train at quickly follows it up with two man drills where you practice the techniques with a person who does the opposite side of the same kata with you. Basically akin to using mit and pad drills like you'd see in a gym before they let you into a ring to spar.One thing I have learned so far is that it seems that the type and quality of karate tuition that students receive from school-to-school is vastly different. Even at the place I go to now, there are lots of people, from beginner students, right up to the guys running the place, who have done other styles of karate in the past and found it in stark contrast to where they are now. I'm either quite fortunate, or I'm still blind to what's in front of me. Either way, I have to keep going to find that out for myself.Oh, also: Sorry for kind of being a dick before. When I saw you trashing karate so much, I made assumptions that frankly I shouldn't have. I still don't entirely understand your stance on this, but it was still rash of me to do that. My intention is not to be combative with you about this. I'm just trying to understand what you're doing.
>>200328>Oh, also: Sorry for kind of being a dick before. When I saw you trashing karate so much, I made assumptions that frankly I shouldn't have. I still don't entirely understand your stance on this, but it was still rash of me to do that. My intention is not to be combative with you about this. I'm just trying to understand what you're doing.It's OK, man, let me explain my view on kata. Sorry for lot of words and bad english.1) Kata often compared to shadow boxing. But in boxing you learn punches and other movements first (or you have view on how to do them if you are very beginner), and then you sum up everything you learnt and HOW you learnt in your shadow boxing. In karate it's other way around - you learn very strange unnatural sequence of movements you have no idea how to use, and then maybe depending on your school and coach's interpretations you will be told what all that means.2) But what all that means? What techniques are encoded in kata? How do we know? I already wrote that I met shit ton of interpretations of age uke - from just basic blocking technique to crazy things like it is a choke. The guy here https://youtu.be/f9y2rpbxfhI?si=qNtG9wopyUbsht5G mentions he heared age uke is a punch to the chin when you ducked under and gives his own interpretation. Karatekas often make wild guesses when they interpret stuff, like if I move slightly like this well maybe it could look like this grappling technique and if I move like that oh wow not it can be used like this technique. Often when you interpret something you need to change it drastically to make it work (you will see it further). There is shit ton of different interpretations and some karatekas make a rediculous claim that it is good when we have multiple interpretation of one thing because every time we train age uke to the air we somehow train all this techniques at once. I think it is wrong in many ways. Why? Because3) technique is not sequence of body parts movements.
>>2003513) technique is not sequence of body parts movements. Technique is the best (most effective) way to apply force to something. First, I will give example from olympic weightlifting how it was given by Sergey Bondarenko. You can't learn technique of snatch and clean&jerk by using PVC pipe. What can you really learn with PVC pipe is sequence of body parts movements in snatch and clean&jerk. You can learn technique only if you have certain load on the barbell, because technique is about how you apply force, how you overcome knock over force of barbell, how you move under load etc. And when you add more weight on the barbell your technique should be corrected.This is important in stand up grappling. Imaging such simple technique like arm drag. The sequnce of movements in the arm drag is really simple - you lower one of your hands and pull to yourself other hand. But to learn technique you must train it with opponent under various conditions - when your opponent relaxed and does not resist, when your opponent slightly resists, when opponent half resists, when your opponent fully resists, when your opponent resists with full force and tries to counter.In kata you drill the sequence of movements, not the actual techniques. Training kata to me is same thing as performing arm drag sequence of movements to the air - it is bad way to learn technique. Rephrasing - sequent of movements appears from technique and its understanding, not other way around (it relates to point 1).
>>200354Without all that you'll never know are you even doing correct sequence of movements or not. You can see how drastically the sequence of movements in kata differ from what is performed with opponent in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PtYD_6W7BY&ab_channel=JesseEnkamp Look for example at 2:31 where Pinan Godan is showed. In kata everything is done with absolutley upright torso, but when he moves with opponent he constatnly bends to load his opponent and then he throws him, which can be done only with applying force at right angle to the body, and nothing from this important stuff happens in kata. Look at how judokas solo drill their similar throws - of course they bend in particular way, and often use rubber band TO APPLY FORCE (because this is really what technique is about). So this kata technique interpretations are either fantasies or the way they are trained in kata are absolutley useless. Also you can really imagine how you can interpret arm drag as block somehow. But can you really train it both as block and as grappling technique awhen you train it to the air?
>>2003554) What does it mean to learn technique? I think it's when you feel you can perform it on resisting opponent at certain conditions (say you bent him, loaded him, off balanced, fake hit in the face so he makes needed reaction etc) and the technique will work. You can't learn technique if you can't test it on resisting opponent. Resisting opponent often provided via competitions and competition preparations. Karate rulesets don't have conditions to train techniques they have in kata. Also lot of this techniques are allowed at say grappling rulesets but they are so ineffective that they can't be performed on resisting opponent and only can be performed in aikido like conditions (I'm talking about different standing elbow locks).Jesse Encamp in his video from above showed karate has lot of supposed grappling techniques, IIRC he even showed arm drag. But does karate has any ruleset to use arm drag? Who would learn arm drag more effectively - freestyle wrestler who trains it on resisting opponents and performs it on competitions or karateka who does it to the air several times per week during kata (and you should remember, at every long kata run he would do this technique only once or twice!) and once a week on non resisting opponent during bunkai?
>>2003575) Sanchin. I never saw any good explanation why you should make efforts in that particular way and how is it usefull for fighting and I saw thousands of Bogdan Kurilko videos on this kata and he is big expert in goju ryu. He always says this kata somehow programs you to move in certain way, but when I see his students sparring they move just like very bad kyokushin guys. When I see how 5th dan gray-haired masters spar it's always look like fight of two rednecks that never trained.But let's say sanchin has something useful in it, say this buttwink and core hardening with slow exagarated hand strengthening really provide benefits and for example makes us punch harder. Why can't we isolate this particular movement and drill it to death and perform it again and again to have even more benefits? Why no one does this if it is that usfull?6) Every karate successor comes from sport karate and uses techniques that were developed for sport and not derived from kata. We have various WKF style fighters that move like in boxing pendulum, are good at managing disctance and use throws and trips that don't exist in kata. And we have various knockdown style fighters that also don't have any kata influence on them. 7) Does kata train some abstract coordination? Maybe. But running, skiing, lifting weights, doing gymnastics also trains coordination. Why weightlifters don't train coordination by doing gymnastics? Because it is not specific to them. Kata so drastically differs from what you will perform in the fight that it not gives you that specific coordination.
>>2003588) Does kata train proper footwork? No way. WKF guys do their drills for competitions, again, they move similar to boxing pendulum style. Kyokushin guys use their own style. Both karate styles (if we call WKF karate style) use same katas and have drastically different footwork. You can say kata teaches proper footwork for da streets, but how do you think that would work? Like you have your sport style footwork and when you have street fight you suddenly switch to proper kata footwork?
>>200355>Without all that you'll never know are you even doing correct sequence of movements or not. You can see how drastically the sequence of movements in kata differ from what is performed with opponent in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PtYD_6W7BY&ab_channel=JesseEnkamp [Embed] Look for example at 2:31 where Pinan Godan is showed. In kata everything is done with absolutley upright torso, but when he moves with opponent he constatnly bends to load his opponent and then he throws him, which can be done only with applying force at right angle to the body, and nothing from this important stuff happens in kata. I want to add here. Lot of people say kata has idealized form of techniques. I just dont understand how idealized form of a throw where you must bend to succeed can have zero bend
>>200301Karate gets beaten in every single inter-style fight>https://youtu.be/iSHq-t3unjA?si=BB2iSCMBhPDkkN57
>>200374*blocks your path*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol7uAQ22Wn8
>>200376No elbows and clinch allowed
>>200377cope
>>200379To think that Royce could just simply take this guy down and broke his "legend" status
>>200380A karate guy famously beat Helio Gracie so bad that they've been mad about it for 70 years.
>>200386A Judo fighter probably beat Mas Oyama but there is no information about it
>>200387>probably
>>200283>IF this techniques WORKED high competitive high RIVALRY sports WOULD ALREADY BE USING THEMI don't fault you too much for watching a half hour video but explicitly he shows the application in collegiate wrestling >>200325>So what are benefits of kata again?practicing them as a big group as a critical part of your training? none worth mentioningas a way to remember techniques? must be pretty effective since every martial art under the sun engages in the same practice, and you're only singling out karate because they have a word for itkarate was always traditionally taught 1 on 1 or in small groups with individualized attention, doing kata as a big group punching the air is something the japanese took from europeans because that's how the west taught the military and it's an effective way to scale things up to being commercially viablekarate without kata = a niche passion projectkarate with kata = a business you can make money doingthat's why the shitty kata based training karate is also the most widespread. Because nobody teaching it the right way has enough students to make a living off of it
>>200390>I don't fault you too much for watching a half hour video but explicitly he shows the application in collegiate wrestlingHe can show whatever applications he wants, no one uses this shit. What wrestlers of what level did he train?>practicing them as a big group as a critical part of your training?It's not critical part of training>as a way to remember techniques?As I showed above kata is not a way to work on technique>must be pretty effective since every martial art under the sun engages in the same practiceI already showed above that other martial arts 1) don't need interpretaion of their techniques (they don't need bunkai) 2) learn technique first and then derive from them sequence of movement while in karate it is done other way around. This leads to cringe situation where you walk like a pillar and imagine you do a hip throw>that's how the west taught the militaryI'm not military and don't want to be teached like them. Civic ways of learning >>> military ways of learning.>picContradicts nothing from what I said. I answered million times already why kata has nothing to do with shadow boxing and what's the difference between doing technique like karate guys and bjj guys from bottom row
>>200393being that I'm both an expert in karate and bjj I can tell you all the silly shit you think is exclusive karate is just as present in bjj>As I showed above kata is not a way to work on techniqueand there's the rubimagine putting yourself back 100 years ago when most people in your community were completely illiterate so they can't keep note books, there were no videos that could be referenced, so how do you codify the information you want them to know? you make a kata. A physical act they can keep with them and reference during their practice
>>200390And again. Even if techniques he uses are correct. How does it relates to kata? Kata also has punches, which are 100% usable and what? I'm saying 1) katas are bad way for practicing anything, especially grappling technques 2) even if katas has good technues you still doesn't have competitional rule set to test them and use them.
>>200389The grappler always wins
>>200394>imagine putting yourself back 100 yearsYeah cool, but now imagine we are not 100 years back and live in present
>>200394>all the silly shit you think is exclusive karate is just as present in bjjLike what?
>>200398so watch a videowhich you're going to practice in the air by yourself a few times, then compliantly with a partner before you ever try it livesame exact shit>>200399it's exactly the same reallythe typical bjj class follows the same format as a typical karate class
>>200404Oh sure bud BJJ and karate are the same, this is a hip throw according to karate in pic by the way. Katas are awesome!
>>200404Look! Wrestlers will say it wrestling, but I know it is karate
>>200408its easy if you have an untrained eye to not be able to put it togetherhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kv8HkGWo2Q
>>200415I take BJJ, Sambo or wrestling over this
>>200379Also it takes a super elite karate guy to just stand a minimal chance against a average nak muay
>>200446Everyone always talks about how good at fighting muay thai is and yet here we are with them existing in their little cockfighting bubble destroying their bodies for pennies instead of on the world stage making actual moneyMust not be that good outside of its safe space
>>200451Just in time>https://youtu.be/Mw6UbxKNjJQ?si=UzzAvTWDAHCpIktF
>>200451>existing in their little cockfighting bubble destroying their bodiesthat's real fighting, something that karate will never be part of
>>200446>>200451Everyone talks about how proven muay thai is, but there's actually been very, very few high level nak muay in MMA. There's been multiple UFC champions with karate backgrounds. How many UFC champs have bonafide muay thai credentials? Practically none. Best you'll get is Brazilians who did "muay thai" while competing in vale tudo or some random alphabet regional belt nobody's ever heard of. How many MT stadium champs have a UFC belt? Zero.
>>200461Aside of the few karate guys, every striking in UFC it's muay thai
>>200460>>200465Kickboxing is karate based, there's no escaping itThe K1 style, the basis of kickboxing in the west is karateWhen something reaches the level of necessity that it loses its identity because everyone has to do it. It has just been absorbed into the culture
>>200465>every striking in UFC it's muay thaiBraindead statement. There's only a handful of mma guys that fight in a style that's recognizably thai. Most strikers in MMA are doing shitty boxing or kickboxing with low kicks and the occasional elbow, which does not a nak muay make. Just likes someone being able to do a shitty single leg or double leg doesn't make them a wrestler.
>>200404>it's exactly the same reallySo how many times you performed rear naked choke to the air and thought it was a block?
>>200415>he trained his eye so well he sees suplex throw in pic>"yeah bro, wrestling is just the same!"My regards
>>200488Just opened reddit to see what they think about kata and exactly this cringe "it's a block a punch and a throw AT THE SAME TIME" popped up. Yeah, it's precisely what happenes in other martial arts!
>this style vs that styleWhy do you guys always do this pissing contest? You're not going to be defending yourself against another trained fighter unless you fight competitively. It's going to be some goon who doesn't know much and has probably either full of alcohol, or himself.I swear, every martial arts discussion always devolves into a cheesy 1980s martial arts movie plot.
>>200488>>200489>>200498you seem to be under the illusion that any of this is about you and convincing you to change your opinion matters to meyou asked a question, you received your answeryou can do with that information what you will, improve yourself or live with your dunning kruger bias
>>200556>yeah karate is totally like bjj>how? um... i-it's not about y-you, p-please stop asking, something something duning krugerIf you not ready to answer you could not play your "I'm such a cool guy you will not understand" card and just pass by. You never said anything interesting or reasonable anyway, keep imagining anything about yourself
>>200565take a look at every bjj class you've ever been to and how you spend the beginning shrimping up and down the mat and spinning on the wallsoh wow such practicality
>>200568This is how I know didn't read my posts. I already answered this in point 1 "Why kata is not shadow boxing". Also1) shrimping is done only for warm up (and penetrations step too!)2) you have competitional ruleset to utilize shrimping3) you don't have multiple interpretations for shrimping; shrimping can't be a block, a punch and a throw at the same time4) you do shrimps how you will use them with opponent, they don't turn into something that doesn't look like shrimps unlike supposed throws here >>200408 >>2004895) you don't spend half an hour for shriming unlike in karate where you can spend whole workout for kata6) finally, shrimps aren't encoded in kata in a way that you should decifer and think is it shrimp or not. In BJJ if you know you need a shrimp in actual practice (sparrings), you have a shrimp. In karate you don't know do you need age uke as a block, or as a punch, or as a grip break
>>200508Blame the Gracies
>>200569here is the flaw and where you're mistakenshrimping done at the beginning of every class is completely different from the real application your goal in the exercise is to move yourself vertically across the mat, the goal in application is to move horizontallyso the supposed fundamental move isn't even being practiced correctly for its applicationthe entire house is built on a foundation of lies. This is just one examplenow you can dislike the way karate is taught, as we've already covered karate traditionally has been 1 on 1 and small personal group classes and the big rooms full of people dancing around and punching the air is something they copied from the frenchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oll8rn32Ns4this takes place 13 years before karate ever arrived in japan and adopted kata
>>200573but* the point is you might dislike the way the information is relayed, but that doesn't mean the information is bad
>>200572I'd say they're more a symptom than a root cause. This shit was going on before them, and now that they're not as relevant as they used to be, it's still continuing, anyway. It's just gay.
>>200600I think it's funny the way they continuously pissed into the wind>make challenges to great fighters of the era>lose every time>lower sights to beating up on randoms on the street>look how great and powerful our martial arts are!!
>>200607>challenges to great fighters of the era>loseActually, this part I wouldn't fault them for. Win or lose, they took a chance and I'll always respect that kind of thing. However>lower sights to beating up randoms on the streetIs a different story. You can take the ape out of Brazil, but you can't take Brazil out of the ape.
>>200573>shrimping done at the beginning of every class is completely different from the real applicationNo. In warm ups after you shrimped (bridged and turned) you straighten your body in a way you can do another shrimp and move your body across the mat. In application with opponent you simply don't do last part. Also you missed all my other points, also not all BJJ gyms and certainly not all grappling gyms do shrimps in warm ups.>This is just one exampleAnd what are other examples?>dancing around and punching the air is something they copied from the frenchWhy should I care? There is multiple evidences that old Okinawan karate didn't have kumite. Should we also ditch kumite because 100 years ago karate didn't have it?https://medium.com/motobu-ryu-blog/the-decline-of-okinawan-kumite-372aaac83ec8
>>200627100 or more years ago there was no protective gear and medicine was complete shit, people still believed in miasma and humors, more relevant in Asia it was about accupoints and shitThe point being at that time kumite wasn't some kind of trivial practice to be taken lightly. Minor injuries by today's standards were life changing for people back then
>>200630Well, I agree with that
>>200014You can use the internal body mechanics from Sanchin in sparring, controlling your breathing, generating tension in your lat muscles, but you should just stand there in sanchin unless you want to get hit. Sanchin as a kata and a stance is mainly for conditioning, when we do Sanchin kata or any moves in Sanchin it’s quite normal for our instructor to give everyone a whack to make sure they’re in a strong position with their muscles under tension
>>200635You shouldn’t just stand there*
>upward blocks don't work-ACK
>>200719>Gets bonked by a motorcycle helmet>Proceeds to beat up niggerAsian dude practices with the makiwara using headbutts. Regularly smacks his head with bundles of bamboo rods.
>>200719>>200867Just discovered there was a longer video. Turns out pajeet had already tried twice and gotten beaten for his troubles before trying the old helmet trick.>karate defense is so unrealistic; nobody does a lunging punch in real lifeAPOLOGIZEtwitter.com/NaratifRakyat/status/1798437076033302838
>>200873>HikiteHe should've grabbed his arm tho.
Fuck, guys. I think I'm at a bit of a crossroads here.>done stuff like kickboxing/muay thai and boxing in the past>loved all that shit>loved that most things aren't that complicated and you can spend a lot of time mastering fundamental skills>love that everything is taught to you in the context of someone else trying to hurt you>loved that while they don't force you to spar, if you've trained for a little bit, show you're not a maniac and you just ask them, they'll usually let you start sparring fairly early on>great for practicing how to actually deal with a person trying to hurt you>have seen a hell of a lot of hate for karate over the years>rather than just taking people's word on it, i decide to go to see and experience for myself>find a local dojo that teaches a fairly strict, traditional, non-tournament form of karate>love that there's a myriad of techniques and tactics to use to defend yourself>a lot of techniques and strategies also seem needlessly complex, too>too reliant on, "you do this, then this, then this," without really acknowledging that the person you'd actually be doing this stuff to would be struggling against you in some way and would probably stop it, or at least make it much more difficult to do to them>they do spar, but only among more senior students who've been doing it for quite a while>all this while telling you it's supposed to teach you to defend yourselfI thought comparing combat sports and traditional martial arts would help me out. In some ways it has, but in others it's kind of muddied the waters for me more, as well. I don't know which way to go on this. Can both sides be reconciled? Can I do both and learn a way that I can make one compliment the other? Or am I crazy for even thinking that?I don't care how ignorant or abusive your answers are, just give them to me. I'm trying to get input from all kinds of people on this. So I'll be making the same post in the MMA General, too.
>>201252Oh, I forgot to add:When you reply, please state what martial arts/combat sports/whatever you've done in the past. Included as many details as you can. If you just train, if you also spar, if you've fought competitively, if you've used your skills to defend yourself at some point in your daily life. All that shit. I don't want to hear from people who just watch and read shit on the internet but have never even set foot inside a gym or a dojo or whatever relevant training facility.
>>201253>>201252Wew lad. I could write a friggin' monograph on this. The relationship between traditional martial arts and combat sports is a subject near and dear to my heart. But I assure you, you don't want to put up with my wall-of-text autistic rambling. I'll try to keep this short.I recommend the Jigoro Kano approach. Kano was an absolutely god-gifted superlative genuis, IMHO.When Kano was organizing, codifying, and modernizing old jiujitsu techniques to develop his curriculum, he separated techniques into two categories: those safe enough for daily randori practice, and those that were too risky. The risky techniques were NOT discarded, they were just practiced in katas and drills instead of free sparring, for the sake of safety. Tragically, these days a lot of judo schools only focus on the sporty parts and disregard the kata and banned techniques. (Please some better-versed martial arts historian correct me if I got that wrong)I think it's worth learning old traditional/historical arts. Learn all the funky exotic techniques and esoteric theories from old arts. Frankly it's worth preserving just as an intangible cultural artifact if nothing else.But then participate, train, and compete in a modern combat sport to develop the athleticism and sense of range and timing to actually fight. You'll probably have a much smaller catalog of techniques, but you'll get the opportunity to apply those techniques against resistance.For example: study very old koryu kenjitsu. Reproduce those historical techniques. Try to understand them in the context of their time. Try to empathize with the people of that time and place, and the reasons why they did what they did, and how they did it... and also, practice kendo and compete at the highest level against the best competition you can find. Similar examples will occur to you: fencing and HEMA, boxing and classical pugilism, muay Thai and muay boran, karate and kickboxing, koryu jiujitsu and judo/bjj, etc
>>201261>I'll try to keep this short.Mission: failed.Hopefully this autistic screeching is at least semi-coherent. My background: long story. Short version: train from child, still training. Karate, muay thai, jiujitsu. Swear to God I train at actual gyms with actual coaches.
>>201261>I think it's worth learning old traditional/historical arts. Learn all the funky exotic techniques and esoteric theories from old arts. Frankly it's worth preserving just as an intangible cultural artifact if nothing else.>But then participate, train, and compete in a modern combat sport to develop the athleticism and sense of range and timing to actually fight. You'll probably have a much smaller catalog of techniques, but you'll get the opportunity to apply those techniques against resistance.This is more or less what I was already thinking.And yes, you were quite coherent.And thank you. At least I feel a little less crazy now.
>>201252I ain't readin and I'm just assuming your questionHere's the fact, if you wanna get good at something you have to do the thingThat's why combat sports makes better fighters and some retard hoodrat with a room temp iq and 9 months of mma training would beat the fuck out of a lifelong karate practitioner with a masters degreeAnd while he's getting beat up he'll groan but I read primary source manuals ack!All the theoretical mumbo-jumbo isn't worth anything without the application And I always find it Cringe to see these middle-aged guys standing around in a circle discussing theoretically what the application of this Movement might be instead of just Going Out and trying it and see what it doesAnother reason karate makes shit fighters is they often just try to do a kata against a person with big exaggerated KIIIYAAAAHHH and hikite with strong rooted stances Just do the moves, stop trying to make it "look" like karate
>>201252Not all TMA is the same. Image is bait but it gets the idea across.
>>201345>Not all TMA is the sameI've realised that. I've been lucky with the place I've found, as they do seem quite different to sport/point karate dojos. But even then I still have doubts and I can't be sure if they're genuine, or just the residual effects of so many people telling me karate is shit.
good gloves for kyokushin sparring? i've been using some cheapo nobrand MMA gloves for a while but they're a bit crap.
>>200719>that smile when he turnsfear the man who is thrilled by your aggression
>>200719>man rightfully defends himself>someone else hinders himI really hate that shit.
>>201630It’s not exactly self defense when you’re at the point of kicking an incapacitated man in the head. That guy was trying to keep him out of prison.
>>201645He came back and attacked him from behind though, that's why walking away is riskyI've seen it happen before where people fight, someone loses and says uncle and then attacks the winner from behind with a strangle hold as he walks away
Are there any older traditions, still alive today, than Gojo Ryu? TI maybe? I saw one short documentary\ friendly youtube chapter about a TI dojo, very neat and interesting. they even train toe-tips and have Kobudo weapons (?) at least vintage home-made nunchucks.Also Im not saying older=better. Im just genuinely interested in the oldest living ancestor.
>>201662The different Shorin-ryu styles? Do Shotokan but train it like as if it's Shorin-ryu. It basically is Jap Shorin-ryu anyway.
>>201508I thought Kyokushin dudes never spar with gloves?
>>200867how to head makiwara without brain damage?I know chin conditioning is BS and coaches who pummel trainee's face are bullshitters or sadistic.this one is from korea (maybe TKD? Not sure), they do a clean headbutt to break concrete, among other "tricks". EVEN IF the molten lead is a parlo trick, is the rest of the demo. legit?>https://www.military.com/video/specialties-and-personnel/martial-arts/extreme-martial-arts-eating-molten-lead/664064453001(Supposedly the molten lead trick is about cold spoon + have cold water in mouth. the lead is real tho, so massive balls to do it. one slip and it burns for real)
>>201669>Lead poisoningDamn, Gooks are insane. Also I don't there is any "head conditioning". Not even in Uechi-ryu and Goju-ryu who preserved most of it's kung fu conditioning and techniques don't have anything about head conditioning. Hell, just wear a hat if you really need to protect your head inconspicuously. Like one of these brimless caps and try to modify it to have a harder dome (hard leather, etc.) and band (aluminum).
>>201664I have a buddy that does Kyokushin. They drill with gloves and headgear when training because it's retarded not to defend yourself against head shots via hands. People mistake Kyokushin's no face punches solely on tournament footage. Even the 50's and 60's footage of Oyama's dojo show his students putting on boxing gloves and duking it out. That being said, karate is stupid. There are some applications that I think have merit like how they think of parrying and countering as well as footwork, body posturing, and some nifty techniques like toe kicks and close-quarters grappling. But the rest of it is junk. Somebody should apply bare-knuckle boxing with karate to help people gain a better idea of open-hand fighting.
>>201713>>201669The kung fu method requires you to start from very young. It's passive pressure via headstands. You can find pictures of the impressions skulls made over years near the same spots they did finger conditioning at Shaolin. There's probably some better ways you could implement it now, but it's absolutely going to have to be passive still if you want your walnut to stay crispy.
>>201664We do bag work and sparring with gloves. People block with their elbows, getting your hand obliterated by an elbow block is not fun. >>201669Only real way to toughen your head is to do lots of neck exercises, like neck bridges. Tough neck, less head movement when struck, brain less likely to bounce around. Be careful, some stuff can cause Norwood
>>201730>Do headstands for yearsSounds like too much work compared to >>201811 suggestion or wearing a discreet hachigane disguised as a hat.
h-haiyaa!https://youtu.be/jrTFqR_G9ws?si=Pmk9Rj40fPo9ShIq
>go to karate class>stand around talking about how to avoid fighting instead of practicing fighting>spend 100x as much time theoretically discussing leverage points and manipulations than you do practicing the movehttps://youtu.be/GKF9hEHlv0s?si=4q9nSw5AfkAOSYgN
https://youtu.be/NetbRjEAbRk?si=kOP8ZnUQdVP5D0AwIt's funny how such a sadomasochistic style still looks so average in the ring, he did more that most karate masters anyway.
>>201992WKF point karate has a more valuable transfer of skills in a real fight than kyokushin and nobody is able to prove me wrong>muh contacthow about muh defensive skills and range managementit'll be way easier to teach a shotofag some combinations than it would be to teach a kyokutard correct footwork from the ground upand hell, they'll need to throw their hand combinations out the window too since it leaves their head wide open
>>201993Doing either in this day and age is completely pointless if you are concerned about real fighting, but then again being concerned about real fighing is also completely pointless in this day and age.Think with point Karate style is Machida and Horiguchi are great success stories but then you see karate combat and it is all complete trash. Seriously the high level wkf athletes have never reached the level of those guys and maybe never can the jka old style of point sparring was actually unironically harder style than the modern wkf.Obviously if you consider kickboxing as a legitimate metric there is no comparison that could be drawn where point sparring looks better than kyokushin because all the talented kyokushin kids are fed into the kickboxing circuit in Japan.
>>202014>Think with point Karate style is Machida and Horiguchi are great success storiesAlso Robert Whittaker>the high level wkf athletes have never reached the level of those guysI'm sure Rafael Aghayev can kick asses>the jka old style of point sparring was actually unironically harder style than the modern wkfI'm tired of hearing about le based jka and le cringe wkf. They teach same skills for kumite basically, their sparrings look slightly different because of slightly different scoring rules
>>201993Agree with you. Went to boxing couple of times after some years in kyokushin. I had no any disctance management at all, literally can't move. Can't do anything with opponent who moves in boxing pendullum. Also some retards say it can be fixed easily if you just do some sparrings with head punches in kyokushin, like once per week. This is nonsense. If you allow punch heads with no prior drills you will just get a fighter who is afraid of getting punches in head, under stress he might turn his head from opponent, lean back, close eyes and etc. There is a reason why boxers spend so much time trying to achieve even such simple thing like having their eyes opened if they are in danger of being hit in the face. You can't have this just doing some sparrings with head punches here and there
>>201993You hit a WKF guy at 40% and he freezes in fear, also they aren't used to hit full force so his strikes don't cause shit.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udDEOfdRjUYVideo is 14 years old but..Serious question: is the bald guy's training method legit, or sadistic\retarded bullshit? Is it legit with the caveat of "only for already tough people"? He makes guys resist a double-pull thread in the neck while caning them, makes them fight each other with hard sticks until one's jaw breaks, beats them up bloody ,etc. The baldie is a special forces soldier it seems, so I assume all his students are army members. He even cuts himself a large wound just to stitch himself up with a surgery kit. >also, if two people are pulling from OPPOSITE sides: doesn't that nullify the push-pull force and thus the choking- resistance feat is just showmanship? Wouldn't resisting a single guy doing a hangman-noose pull be much more awesome to resist against?
>>202014>>202020can you (plural you) sum up the differences between Shotokan and K. karate sparring? I keep hearing mas oyama created the "hardest sparring" karate style, but it seems Shotokan and even Gojo-ryu is historically considered tougher and more painful\ "bloodthirsty" ? >retarded question also: If K. guys can REALLY break ice blocks with kicks or break concrete bricks with punch, how come sparring doesn't end in dozens of broken bones per match?
>>202048Ok, I'll try, hope some others can add to what I write. Shotokan karate is a synthesis of Okinawan styles, created by Funakoshi Gishin before the second world war. It has devolved in more point-like competitions, real shtokan sparring is still done but not so wide spread. It has a longer range than Kyokushin.Kyokushin was created after the war by Mas Oyama. It has a lot of emphasis on physical power and close range fight. Competition rules also drove the practice that wat, since they are full contact with no punches to the head. Why does every sparring not end in injuries?Even if guys are powerful, you oponent will block, move, evade you blows, landing a good blow is not easy. In most places you will not spar 100% power unless it's with people at your level and/or you prepare for competition. I hope I answered your question anon, remember that training is always the best way to acquire knowledge on fighting sports or martial arts, you have to sweat the skill to be able to use it.
>>202046>Video is 14 years old but..Serious question: is the bald guy's training method legit, or sadistic\retarded bullshit? Is it legit with the caveat of "only for already tough people"?No, he is full of shit. I also was mentioning him on some previous threads. He is Andrey Kochergin, author Koi no Tokinobori ryu style. Was a famous person some time ago though, known because he cutted his leg and sewed up on camera. He also was beaten by a regular kyokushin guy Andrey Kurtiy (friend of Max Dedik) on the street when he tried to play tough guy and threaten him. He tried to train some kyokushin and muay thai or kickboxing competitors and they failed hard. >The baldie is a special forces soldierIn Russia this is 100% mark of bullshit but Kochergin never was in special forces. May be you confused him with another bullshit russian martial artist - the notorious Sergey Badzyuk aka The Master of Sports of All Sports, who actually was in special forces
>>202020>I'm tired of hearing about le based jka and le cringe wkfJKA is still point sparring, but you don't get automatically disqualified if you heem somebody. WKF in the Olympics set karate's already poor reputation back even farther.>Here's your gold medalist bro. No, it's not that guy on the right.
>>202048Shotokan sparring is soft contact and point sparring. In modern wkf point competitions, you are disqualified if you knock the person unconsious. The older point sparring competitions were also ostensibly soft contact but the refs usually just let people get away with hitting someone hard because muh budo as long as it looked "karate" enough. The point aspect means they start and stop every time someone lands a strike and then assign a point to the person they think landed first. Punches to the head and body are legal as are kicks to the body and head as well as limited foot sweeps and sometimes even limited hip throws etc. The positive thing about it is it can teach really good timing and how to jump in and out quickly which when paired with more conventional mma striking styles like muay thai or boxing can be a neat extra skill the bad side of it is everything else lol.Kyokushin karate is full contact and continuous so you will not be disqualified for knocking someone unconscious you will just win. In kyokushin punches to the face are illegal, punches to the body, kicks to the head, kicks to the body, knees to the head, knees to the body, and kicks to the legs are all legal, as are limited sweeps. The positive side of kyokushin is physical toughness and extreme kicking dexterity at a high level like unironically better than modern tae kwon do which is just pure trash at this point. The downside is they will have very poor head defense and terrible footwork. A lot fo kyokushin guys who make it big on the tournament scene eventually transfer into kickboxing and have had successful careers but obviously they had to learn western boxing skills to make up for their defficiency.
>>202071>>Here's your gold medalist bro. No, it's not that guy on the right.Somewhat agree somewhat disagree. In judo fight stops several seconds after someone thrown on stomach and the one who was thrown don't loose the fight, don't loose any points, the one who threw don't gain any points, is that also fair? This is just rules. Sport can be useful for fight not because it looks like fight but because it develops certain skills useful for fight. WKF guys have mad distance control, it's almost fencing.
>>202048As I wrote in previous thred:>kyokushin: limited distance control, close distances, heavy on exchanging blows in these close distances>shotokan: LOT of distance control (much closer to fencing in that regard), therefore boxing style pendulum, threfore more drills related to moving on your legs, almost 0 blows exchanging in close distancesHere is in pic also good answer from previous thread.And here is some WKF guy fights with various fighters, it's from russian channel but sparrings are understandablevs Muay Thaihttps://youtu.be/as1rL8h9Pf0?feature=sharedvs Boxing/Combat Sambohttps://youtu.be/PF8GIBtgPV0?feature=sharedvs Taekwondohttps://youtu.be/Aj8hwuenBC0?feature=shared
>>202046shit that looks cool on TV-ryu
>>202022>I had no any disctance management at all, literally can't moveyou must've had a shit sensei lmao
>>202048>how come sparring doesn't end in dozens of broken bones per match?because it's sparring retard, people break legs and knuckles all the time in MMA and Kickboxing fights, but they don't when sparring in the fight gym..... what a mystery
Point karate is like an exercise you might do in a wrestling class where the game is to try and touch the other person's leg and not let him touch yoursThen they decided to make competitions out of it and whoever is the best at touching someone else's leg is the greatest wrestlerIt's a joke
>>202122That's a misunderstanding of judo rules.No scores happen because even though one guy got thrown, he wasn't put in a disadvantaged enough position and could just stand up. There's also partial scoring for throws that sort of landed but not optimally. It's an abstraction of combat. A guy who gets thrown and lands flat on his back is going to have a much harder time getting back on his feet than a guy who's thrown and lands on all fours.Points karate is supposed to be an abstraction of the ikken hisatsu philosophy of combat. What better way to demonstrate "one strike one kill" than knocking someone out? Why penalize that? >muh control is just cope. Surely there must be a way to have a points ruleset that gives you those fencing-style benefits while allowing more force (without going full knockdown karate).
>>202175>point karate is an exerciseSo basically it's just an exercise of how precise you can be with your techniques and not an actual simulation of combat? That makes sense.
>>195550>I already do weights and bodyweight exercisesTell me what you do, and what your team mates do? What are strength levels of strongest fighters in your gym?
>>202155>you must've had a shit se-ACK
>>202250I wouldn't use this as the example because he is getting hit in the face in a format where they agreed not to already. But with the same fighter Andy Hug you can see in his first Patrick Smith fight all the problems is going from kyokushin to kickboxing.
redpill me on wadō-ryū
>>202250>world famous kickboxer with a kyokushin background who was famous for using spinning heel kicks to control distancewhat did he mean by this?
Why Kyokushin have a lot bigger "presence" than any other Karate style?They got recorded since day one (that 60s fight against Muay Thai), their first World Tournament (in the 70s) was "bigger" than any other Karate tournament and it was recorded from beginning to end.Most Karate styles have like just one documentary and are portrayed as a Eastern curiosity, meanwhile Kyokushin have like a dozen of documentaries, even one for every famous master.Every fictional form of karate it's based on them.It seems like the JKA started to get content just in the 2010s in comparison.
>>202344>you should use spinning heel kicks to control distance in a boxing practice>if your sensei didn't teach you this he was shitLMAO
>>202349I guess it's because Oyama was good at promotion. He understood which way the wind was blowing and according to Jon Bluming Oyama was interested in every european or american who visited his gym and saw in each of them a future head of brunch in their homeland
>>202353Lotta mileage outta that fucking bull story
redpill me on JKS, is it a good federation?
>>202349In the 20 years I've been practicing martial arts I have seen zero kyokushin schools in any of my travels and have met exactly 1 person that ever did it and it was some nearly senior citizen Chinese guy with arthritis in his hands
>>202353Exactly.He knew there was a demand, in the 70s MA were already sports for children. He supplied us with a HARD style.>>202366Exactly my opposite. I'm surrounded with hard/ full contact styles. I've found a wadō-ryū club like 1:30 hours by car from my home. That's why I asked about them few post above.
>>202352Are you retarded?
>>202349Mas Oyama was a media sensation before he even started a karate organisation, he made a big thing out of challenging every post-war martial artist he could find as many post-war martial artists sold a lot of bullshit nonsense techniques in the post-war chaos and because the American's banned many traditional martial arts (like Kendo) or had strict control over what the pre-war artists could and couldn't do. So when Mas Oyama started finally taking students it was a very big deal. People came from all over Japan to learn "real" karate from him, and Mas Oyama knew many celebrities from his time as a dojo hunter, and whilst he was humble, he wasn't afraid of publicity.
>>202408No. Are you? Can you read? Can you follow thread? Do you understand how this ">>" sign works?
>>202411You're definitely retarded.
>>202413>fart
>>202409>he made a big thing out of challenging every post-war martial artistNever happened
>>202364Train kickboxing instead
>>202338You got aikido-like grappling and a different way to punch
>>202432>Says the faggot who doesn't train anything
>>202499Karate doesn't worth it
>>202521>doesn't worth itLook at this ESL nigger faggot. You are clearly some disgusting pajeet born out of incest. Dumb as fuck, doesn't train anything, weebing out for MMA without understanding anything. You should stick to gang raping tourists, Rajesh.
>>202364Looked them up in my country, they compete in WKF. Someone on reddit says they are some WKF sub organization. Seems like the formal reason why they exist separately is they study several katas more than JKA. Seems like they believe they study kata in "orginal" way, whatever that means. Current head of organization Kagawa Masao (ex JKA competitor) criticizes WKF for being too soft. But how that affects kumite practice in a specific gym - most likely not at all. I saw lot of old JKA competitors and regular "old" shotokan practitioners that started their organzation because they believed modern karate is bad in some way, but that usually resulted in some differences in bunkai or slightly another set of kata, think of Pemba Tamang's NSKF and Ilya Yorga's Fudokan come to mind first. Their affiliated gyms are still competing in WKF. So it more talk than real deal and basically politics - everyone wants to be a head of his own organization.Here is two articles about style in russian, use google translation. First one is actually trasnlated from english article of sensey Scott Langley "New-Fangled Kata", but the link to original article doesn't workhttps://budo.community/blog/1/entry-153-jks-dlya-chego-nuzhny-novye-kata/Second one is interview with Masao Kagawahttps://superkarate.ru/news/karate/15632-masao-kagava-karatje-dolzhno-vernutsja-k-cennostjam-funakosi.htmlSo you should look up the specific gym you are interested in to see do they compete using WKF ruleset, JKA ruleset or do something else.
>>202665karate has this really gay retarded thing where everyone needs to be the founder grand master official lineage real deal, gotta keep making up new styles and federations so you can be the big man in charge and have everyone wash your balls and bow to youand none of them can fight
This "olympian" - and olympics in general, is there any sort of 'that's not real karate' feeling from the major schools like ISKF and JKA? I've participated in tournaments. something feels off.
>>202677hit the dirt! hes charging up his energy beam!!
>>202677No, it's just kata competitions are extremely gay and retarded
>>202646Even untrained thugs can have it easy with karate
>1000人を素手でKOした男天才空手家 村井義治の実証済、瞬殺テクニック(フルコム)ルール無用ならカラテが地上最強となる!「素手・素面で何でもあり!喧嘩はルール無しのカキダメシだ!相手が複数でも武器を持っていても空手の技術を駆使すれば一瞬でKOできる。天才といわれた伝説の空手家・村井義治が実証済の最強の空手技術を全公開!」Lovely.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfEWOpy-Ifk
Anyone here ever been to Japan?
>>202804OSS!
>>202808I've been, I'm this guy >>195447
>>202434>aikido likeIs that bad?...Anyway I'm going to start wado in a month. I'm intrigued.So far my Kyokushin training seems to me to be a super strong, super demanding, and super dynamic style. But also super unintelligent.It seems to me that it's all about creating the strongest, most resilient body you can have and then hitting the guy in front of you as hard as you can. The problem is that you don't have the tools to beat a guy with better physical conditions than you.I don't know I was looking for something that was more subtle where the martial skill can overcome the physical conditions.
>>202808yes, and I love it there and want to go back
>>202739
>>202936That was nice of him to realize his kick was about to go straight up the pipe and hit him in the face so he stopped and did a rib kick instead
>>202935>>202812Did you train in Japan? I'm going to train with Shihan Ryu Narushima this month, do you have any advice/suggestions or things to do besides train?>>202931>I don't know I was looking for something that was more subtle where the martial skill can overcome the physical conditionsPhysical condition + Martial skill is Kyokushin.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46fw9AJ38t8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlFwy3F9WmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpwweFx87z0People like Ryu Narushima arerenowned for economy of movement, very careful deflects and angles. Now there are many people in Kyokushin who just barrel forwards, but there are also many who may look like they are barrelling forwards, but are moving their body around in precise and efficient ways to minimise damage, and maximise power output. What you have to realise is a lot of kyokushin training is designed to win tournaments, so you're training for 3 or more fights over a period of several hours, not one all or nothing battle.
>>202963I spent most of my time having sex with strangers
>>202967you can do that anywhere why did you do that in Japan?
>>202963Ryu Narushima is what Kyokushin should emulate more. Or Hitoshi Kiyama. At some point, you WILL be hit and know how to take damage and roll with the hits, but it's better to be evasive, cut angles, and be very tactical. I really dislike the stand-in-front and just punch/kick/knee the shit out of brawls that Kyokushin has. Yeah they're tough motherfuckers but there's no point in doing that unless you have no choice.
>>202972Well first and foremost asian girls are cute! But more importantly I'm white so it was easyIt only took 15 minutes on tinder to have a date set up, I'd meet 2-3 every day
>>202963>Did you train in Japan? I'm going to train with Shihan Ryu Narushima this month, do you have any advice/suggestions or things to do besides train?For me it was just tourist trip. Also that time I was interest in grappling more and visited Miburo dojo in Kyoto and Tri-Force Ikebukuro in Tokyo. Also wanted to train in Masakazu Imanari gym but I probably messed something up on his website and he didn't answer me on email.What's your belt? Are you going to Japan just to train?
>>202936You always got beaten
>>202992
>>203029https://youtu.be/rNxaNAm_fWQ?si=RStn9wdrzWHvPoPZYou always got beaten
>>203042https://youtu.be/XAjZ8oWOxRA
>>203029what the fuck did he think was going to happen?acting all surprised after he smashes a guys face and he hits his head on the bricks
>>203047https://youtu.be/Pzi8UFEWRxI?si=resqmQOLitbA1mYd
>>203121https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5vZs1cGs9Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkK8iYwSZK4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaPy-WC77qs
>>203138https://youtu.be/mlleDPgmDVM?si=UzWk15D8_YPf3paehttps://youtu.be/JaGDEC1Yb2k?si=2O6uvUcGyZLfmTwlhttps://youtu.be/c_tWZaVugz8?si=e1VOspuV6f-oyRkNhttps://youtu.be/JGcJSzp-Utk?si=huapYcwfieAU3Fnq
>>203197fake
>>203197Fake as fuck. Gay as shit. Keep worshipping le better fighters and not training at all. End up like this fag in the video >>203029. Truly the best way to learn how fight, Rajesh.
>>203197>three fighters from karate backgrounds who've reached the pinnacle of full contact kickboxing in the modern era>oh yeah here's some random fucking nobodies from the 90scope & seethe
>>203258all roads lead to goju
>>203258>>203265I now train in Shotokan, but seeing various fighters of old combining Shotokan and Goju-ryu is arousing my interest. What's the benefit for a Shotokan practitioner in training in Goju-ryu? Is this where it really leads to since Funakoshi himself did some Shorei-ryu, a Naha-te style?
>>203258The same result will happen
>>203288Funakoshi sold out, he tailored shotokan towards japanese tastes instead of just letting it be what it is take it or leave itThe result is the MCU of martial arts, widely appealing but shallow
>>202982Yes I'm going for the 14 day course with Ryu Narushima, I'm 4th Kyu currently.
>>203042weird video, the karate guy is barely touching him, and the boxer is smacking him. It's like the karate guy is just practicing and the boxer is fighting to win.
>>203197>>203042These videos are always odd because the karate guys genuinely look so completely unprepared for a "real fight", they don't take fighting stances, their strikes are super light, and they give up super quickly, and even the grapplers have better striking/kickboxing technique than the supposed strikers. It really feels like the karate practitioners in these videos just aren't actually aware of the rules and objectives of these matches.
>>203446when you have a soviet general looking down at you that's all you need to know that it's a fixed demonstration
>>203444Karate sucks
>>203450Not according to this guyhttps://youtu.be/poioxmAL0OA?si=LJRRU9fUPmW_D3wB
>>203450>>203301No.
>>203288>What's the benefit for a Shotokan practitioner in training in Goju-ryu?No benefits at all, goju ryu is a meme pushed by some schizo here and has no fighting style. Most goju ryu schools compete in WKF (for example in my country IOKGF competes in WKF). If it's irigumi without head punches it looks like bad kyokushin. If it's irigumi with head punches it looks like bad kickboxing. If you want to strengthen wrists just do armwrestling
>>203446>both JKA and WKF don't teach exchanging blows at any range of contact>"These videos are odd!"kek>>203447This video filmed in city Serov in 1992-1993. Boxing coach wanted to put his boxers into kickboxing competitions and invited kratekas to train. Rumors go that at some point of training boxers started to punch harder that it was agreed upon. All boxers lost in that comptitions in their first fights. Another funny thing is there is guy in gi with taekwon-do label on it
>>203456Literally who
>>203456Additional LMAO>Levan Rogava does a low kick>"Look guys! This is karate! That's a flavor of movement you only find in traditional martial arts!">Levan Rogava, WKO kickboxing champion of 1998, became karate instructor in 2011 because didn't have a job and place of karate coach was vacant
>>203491I know people who do TKD and shotokan etc, and they have also done kickboxing and hard sparring, they understand the rules and adapt accordingly, sometimes it takes them a little while not to do touch contact, but they adapt to full contact pretty quickly. The kids in this video seem to be under the impression that they are doing point fighting rather than boxing/kickboxing, and even after getting punched a bit they don't up their game.
>>203486Again, it takes a super elite karate guy to beat just a average thai
>>203537Different perspectives of martial arts. Karate is mostly a health activity now (kids getting active, older people keeping fit, ...) while muay thai is a pure contact sport (competition).The pool of recreationl karate practitioners is way bigger than the one for recreational muay thai practitioners.Karate practitioners can just turn the gear up and get 20 years old into really hard, meat grinding training and fighting and they would be as good as any muay guy (and as broken at 40). Kyokushin did just that and won 2 out of 3 matches in the 60s.
>>203537Tenshin beat Rodtang who's a ONE Muay Thai champ/Rajadamnern title challenger and Suakim who was a multiple time Lumpinee champion. That's pretty much the peak of muay thai skill-wise.
>>203557if you think Yoza's karate was a "health activity" you need to get your head checked, he has been knocking people out since he was allowed on the tatami.
>>203575You should learn to read.
The king has returned with another bangerhttps://youtu.be/nLpcGvyiyyM?si=VHBLDro_gLKvZDi5
>>203443I would really like to read some blogposts about your trip and training. Can I hope that you will post some report here? Pleeease anon
Overmotivated kyokushin rookie in the dojo.Are there tournaments for people over 40 years old?Are IKO, shinkyokushin and other tournaments open to people from other federations?
>>203893IKO1 probably not (but I'm not sure). Take a look at KWU, it accepts people from other organizations for tournaments
>>203560I haven't watched that, I only watch this "low level" gym fights, and muay thai always wins in that case
>>203916Street beefs is the ultimate format for amateurs of low skill level but are down to party
What do you think of Ashihara karate?
>>204001Train kickboxing or muay thai instead
>>204001Sounds based, never saw a single ashihara gym though. They probably have shit talent pool
>>204125There are multiple gyms in my area (Eastern Europe). I think i will try it, might also post my experiences.
>>204131Try to look for a Kudo gym
>>204001They don't have faggy katas so it's a step forward
>>204001As their founder was a magnificient fighter and the sabaki theory sounds good they always intrigued me. Pic is really a good book, one of my favs from my martial library. It explains how you should move, how and when you should attack, exercises, strategy.... all the sabaki theory. And its very grounded, nothing magical or unpractical. I recommend the reading to everyone interested in full contact karate.>>204148Apparently they have kata, not the classical ones, but drills and routines so your body can learn the sabaki displacement and attacks.dodge and attack, dodge and attack...
>>204247Any idea if there are any real diferences between Ashihara and Enshin karate?
>>204247>Apparently they have kata, not the classical onesPrecisely what I wrote - they don't have faggy katas
>>195013>WKF karate is usel-ACK
>>204300>gets hit at 30%>gives up>yells while punching and stops>opponent doesn't feel shit and starts to beat him
>>204131I've just got home. I've been humbled, but I loved it.
>>204300no wonder a "man" the size of a middle schooler is enjoying a sport made for them
We are so backhttps://youtu.be/wixhD0j4vUE?si=JDvxQe36kzNHorDB
>>204300>>204416Somehow le forgotten secrete karate techniques work only if you are an already trained wrestler. It's like in aikido actually, everyone knows aikido is total rubbish but then someone posts some 120 kg aikido coach who absolutely smashes his 70 kg students and it happens this coach was some greco roman wrestler.Also.>picrelJesse is retard, this shit can be absolutely used in WKF, I posted WKF guy from russian youtube channel above and this guy spams this sweep all the time. You can easily find same thing in youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpORlWgkGqo&ab_channel=SportsForEverhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w62VUzb4cys&ab_channel=TobiGeri-TrondErikOoops, seems like sport WKF guys win again and this is cringe traditional goju or whatever guys who don't know shit about throws and sweeps
>>204416>kata so cool!>*gets KOd by a boxer*pottery
>>204458WKF will never win anything except the award for most embarrassing sport to ever immediately get cut from the Olympics
>>204470What will win kyokushin or LMAO goju ryu?
>>204530In an actual fight? Goju obviously, kyokushin is just a simplified version. It's less complete with more restrictions, it lacks all of the grappling techniques goju employs
>>204531Oh yeah, famous grappling techniques goju employs that are too dangerous to use them in competitions
>>204272Obviously not a clue.My only guess is the book explains some common ground of both schools.
>>204458Jesse likes the wkf so it is mostly just meant as clickbait I guess. It is funny that le secret ancient karate technique is something people did in the jka all the time and Lyoto literally used it in MMA though lol.
Bros, when is /ourturn/?I can't find it. :(
>>2056092020 games only
>>205609It was such an embarrassment that the gold medal was won by being knocked out that it's now banned forever for being gay
>>205623I kinda feel bad for calling olympic karate gay, now with the French turning the whole event satanic and gay.
>>200325Kata is what it is, it's not that practical for standard fighting/ sparring, you could say kata time is best spent on anything else. But the more you do it you come to see that it contains stuff that probably was useful when it was more like an old mma. I think it's there for older people, the higher ranks like it as they have done their time fighting and are not as fresh as they once were so they can get autistic about it and not have to give karate up. You don't fight like kata but there's a technical aspect contained within them that doesn't make them a complete waste of time if you think about it and not just going through the motions
>>200358You can put your self in a basic boxing guard and sanchin up. You don't have to walk around throwing moves with it. It's defensive tension, the breathing imo is when you get hit because originally are meant to get wacked in sanchin is so you don't get winded
>>205670think about it, karate is so gay and lame that even the olympics don't want it
>>200359Kata footwork generally makes more sense with a sword or weapon. You can't be bouncing around on a battlefield or riot
>>200389Oyama trained in judo as a younger so i'm not surprised if he got his arse handed to him by someone more proficient but as judo wasn't his mains, it wouldn't of been seen as a massive loss to his rep
>tfw possible upcoming career change may force me to quit training at my current dojo>there's nothing else quite like it in my local area>so even if i did leave, i won't find anything really comparable>it's a great place with great people>really don't want to leave>also really don't want to pass up career change even if it means sacrificing martial arts>extremely hard to decide which to do hereWhat do, bros?
>>206512Get new job. Build home dojo. Take weekend trips back to current dojo.
>>206514Unfortunately they don't do karate on weekends as far as I'm aware. They hold other classes on those days. There's about half a dozen different martial arts groups that all train out of the same hall from what I can tell.
>>198687>hitting the bag barehandedWraps and mma gloves will allow you to get more even conditioning, train for longer and not have to take breaks from conditioning because a specific part of your hand got fucked up and you need to wait for it to heal first.
>>197481Rice buckets and a punching bag (with light protection) is all you really need.
>>198284Anything gym related works if you're training to failure within the 5ish to 20ish rep range. Training heavy loads to failure is much harder and dangerous than lighter loads, while really high rep ranges (15+ reps) can become menrally exhausting. Just do 8 to 12 like everyone else.
>>200014Treat sanchin as meditation if your goal is becoming better at kumite. No, that doesn't mean you can just neglect it, meditation is important.
>>200386>posts a judoka
>>206658
>>206765>also trained in Karate, believing that Karate would strengthen his handsNigger, he's still a Judoka, and beat Helio with his Judo.
Did Mas ever actually fight? I often read he gave Funakoshi a lot of shit for not wanting hard sparring anywhere near his Karate and apparently never having fought once in his life. But did Oyama? I can't seem to find a single piece of evidence towards him fighting someone else, either footage or independent accounts.
>>200409Why is he punching above the other's head?
>>200409I thought this move was supposed to be for shaking off wrist grabs?
>>203874Sorry anon I didn't have any internet and the hotel wifi banned 4chan, I had a great time, it was really fun but really hard, lost maybe 5-8 kg from sweating in the Japanese sun alone. Shihan Narushima is a great guy, he took me to Mount Mitsumine to the shrine dedicated to Sosai Mas Oyama, and explained some of the more esoteric aspects of karate, he also helped me really focus on timing, endurance, and combinations for fighting. >>203893Most organisations have a veterans category, aka a category for people over 40 years old, some have rules such as no national champions or international fighters. But it varies from place to place, Navarro for example is almost 50 and he fights anyone in the open weight category.
Had my first Kyo class just now. It was pretty cool; tough, but not unreasonable. The dojo seemed like a good place to grow as a martial artist, the senpais were attentive and bothered correcting others, even of minute details they thought mattered.They said this class was a bit emptier than average and that might've played into why I felt it was as good as it was, but I'm willing to give it a shot.
Fantastic tournament in my opinion.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3MrtbvKCM0
>>208491Are there any rule proposals that could turn Kyo matches more dynamic? I get why it looks like this nowadays, but even high level matches end up looking like pointless flailing and if the fighters don't incorporate a lot of high kicks you can be basically sure the match will be decided points. I honestly can't think of a style that has a larger gap between what athletes are capable of doing and what they can actually get to use in competition. I like Kyo, but Kudo rules just seems better in every conceivable way except being inaccessible and having a shit talent pool outside Japan and parts of Eastern Europe.
>>208552My complaints is the judges and competitors have gave up to the idea of winning a match by points, a real waza, a real ippon.By "regulation" the last 30 seconds have become an exercise in beating like crazy against a wall. Don't get me wrong, it takes spirit and willpower after a tough fight but it's just a way to win over the judges when you can't win any other way.Kudo rules? I'm not sure but grabbing opponent's jacket with the aim of hit the opponent should be legal and not a penalty.
>>208654Enshin and ashihara are the logical evolution of Kyokushin because the close range in tournaments is completely impractical for actual fighting if you don't know clinch work. It also just looks much better than two guys leaning forward punching each other in the chest. Course kudo takes it further but I don't see the point of making it flow blown MMA in a gi just do actual MMA then. Good thing about knockdown karate rules is less blows to the head. No reason to become punch drunk over a sport without a pro league.
>>208672>I don't see the point of making it flow blown MMA in a gi just do actual MMA then.Helmets protect you from cuts, bruises, blungeons and the bulk of brain damage you're subject to. Also, MMA striking is practiced with boxing gloves and you can't grapple with those.
>>208673>bulk of brain damage you're subject toI don't believe that. How can it prevent your brain from moving in your skull. If anything it makes your head heavier so it can increase impulse. Also because it prevents cuts or broken bones people are going to be more reckless about putting their head in the line of fire than if they had no head gear.
>>208674>How can it prevent your brain from moving in your skullBecause the helmet isn't snug and has a some give to absorb the force before your head starts moving from an impact. Making the head heavier also increases the amount of energy required to even get the whole system moving. Even if (and it really is an IF) people get more reckless they will learn how to watch out for headstrikes as they can still count for match points even if they won't likely mess you up. And in the event that people do get hit more often than not with helmets the severity of thoaw impacts will be lessened to thw point the overall damage will be inferior to them going at it without protection. Anything short of 8oz boxing gloves (with wraps!) is worthless to reliably prevent breaking your hands punching someone in the head, and 12oz are the minimum you'll need to avoid cuts. If you dislike hhead gear but want punches to the head you'll just end up with Muay Thai in a dogi. If you want to rwtain thw grappling elements of Karate you cannot use boxing gloves, in which case the only "safe" to incorporate head punches and elbows is to use significant headgear. I personally believe reincorporating grappling into Kyokushin is more interesting than reinventing kickboxing with white uniforms. MMA doesn't mix strikes and grappling like old school Karate supposedly did, but a guy in a dogimdoing the punchy-kicky stuff with boxing gloves will actually look like basically every other punchy-kicky style.
Now that I've been convinced of ecological dynamics I guess there's just no longer any need for karate
>>208673Helmets increase chance of concussion, because it is additionall mass on the head
Sorry, you answered here >>208677t. >>208710 anon
>>208711No problem <3
>>208552Allow palm strikes to the head.
>>199571thats actually just damage it doesnt make you hit harder at all. he'll have crippling arthritis because of this.
>>208710Is there any truth to mouth guards actually protecting you from concussions? I'm pretty new to Karate and we just started doing sparring with face hits with controlled power (I started with only body shots in full power). I heard about mouth guards actually not protecting your teeth but does a better job protecting your brain so bought a cheap one. Sparred twice that day. On the first I wore my mouth guard and didn't even feel dizzy afterwards. The second match I forgot to wear, Did better than the first match, but ran into a punch face first. Was dizzy after that.
>>209293They help you teeth by spreading the impact over a much greater surface area, and they help you brain since biting down on them contracts your jaw and neck muscles, so your head doesn't jolt as much from strikes. Remember, it's your skull that hurst the brain, not the punch. The less the skull moves the less it will damage your nogging.
>>209296Thanks for the tip, Anon.
>>200014You guys know sanchin application is a knee bar right?
>>207235He beat the shit out of American occupational forces in postwar Japan and went on a dojo storm.It's safe to say that he fought.
How can I differentiate a true karate curriculum (irrespective of style) that teaches EVERYTHING vs only teaches basics, Olympic style, and flashy fluff? Are there any recommended places in japan you can recommend? Im assuming the states doesn’t have any
>>210164All traditional karate is contained within the Naihanchi kata. Learn the naihanchi kata and seek to understand it and you get the whole of karate. I would also seek out the karate hacker. Good videos on the art as well.
>>207235Something kyokushin guys don’t want to admit is that oyama wasn’t that good. Sparring footage of him is freely available, and his movement are pitiful. He’s not athletic, or balanced and he has a huge flinch response and a natural tendency to backpedal. He worked out what needed to be done to save karate from the nonsense of men like funakoshi, but he himself was never that impressive. Probably because he didn’t have people who thought the way he did to train with when he was younger, but the point stands.
>>200223Based and Abernethy-pilledThe problem is even worse when you consider TKD, which is derived from Shotokan after the meaning of the techniques was lost/garbled. They then further smashed the kata to bits and reassembled them to have korean nationalist meanings (i.e. not logical fighting sequences)So now you end up with extreme dumb shit like W-block, which may have been a kind of double-shoulder grip as part of a throw or something.Fixing TKD would require something like>kudo contact rules + equipment>bjj-style belts i.e. beginner, competent, proficient, advanced, master. Not the current system where the 9001 belts before 1st dan are just 'beginner'>takedowns + some grappling permitted in sparring>patterns decoded into their original meanings and just taught as resistant drills instead So basically just kudo t. TKD 3rd dan
>>202349Kyo BBs were out competing in K1 an UFC, is the reasonHaving Andy Hug and GSP as representatives of your style sets a pretty good precedent in terms of effectiveness (though obviously they didn't just stick to kyo but still)Your average strip mall karate style just doesn't have that
>>206512Train something else like MT or boxing, for realWhy not use the opportunity to expand your knowledge and pressure-test yourself in other styles
What do krotty people think of Kudo?It seems to have dumped out most of the tradition (katas etc) in favour of just kyokushin striking + judo Their guys don't appear much in UFC or whatever but it seems like what karate is supposed to be (from an outsider perspective)Like you hear people talking about how karate became a shit striking style but was originally striking + grappling. The Daido-juku seem to have reverse engineered that by just borrowing judo's grappling and adding a helmet to solve the kyokushin head punching problem
>>211258>dumping katasbased>kudo is kyokushin striking + judowhere I live it's boxing + freestyle wresling + bjj
>>211262I heard it became more like MMA in a gi over time, i.e.>what works in standup>what works in grapplingWhich is pretty much what you described.Tbf it sounds like OG karate was essentially MMA in a gi too though
>>204355Tell us more
>>211258>>211264>>211262It's MMA in a Gi with headbutts and groin attacks (sometimes) and ground'n'pound is semi contact
>>211270>>211270I've been doing it ever since, 3 times per week. Here are my experiences:-Our Sensei is really young, he is 34. I like that because he isn't delusional and he is informal.-I think that the trainings are well rounded. We do warmups, build muscle, learn combos, we do padwork and some kumite or conditioning at the end of the session.-It is very cheap and I can do 4 trainings per week 2 of them in an other town but the Sensei drives me there for free.-I like that we all do the same exercices reagardless of rank. I feel like it's like sharpening a blade. I was doing some FMA before and there all ranks did something different and I didn't like that cause we didn't train as much as we could have.-I like that we use the Sabaki method not just go full force forward like in Kyokushin.BUT I have also negative experiences-I am the only person in my 20s. Every other karateka is a kid plus his dad or teenagers. So the only person i can socialize with is my Sensei and I feel out of place and lonely sometimes.-Also it's not fun to fight children nor against dads.-It's all about competition so we train really hard but only like 20% of the dojo competes. Also I won't compete, it feels kinda dumb to injure yourself permanently in a noname city's noname competition in a sport noone else cares about.-I wish we did more light sparring and technical stuff for fun.-After 2 months of training my left tigh and knee already hurt really bad because of full force uncontrolled lowkicks from fatmen and stupid training partners.-We didn't do any kata so far, I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing.So those are my experiences so far. One thing is for sure, I've learned that karate is much more than I've thought previuosly and i enjoy doing it.OSU!
>>211378>noname city's noname competition in a sport noone else cares about.welcome to any martial art that's not in the olympics.
>>200446That depends on the training. Muay thai and kyokushin share those hard leg kicks. Muay has the advantage of clinch while i'd urgue that muay thai boxing isn't quite as good on the fast combo side as the dutch kickboxing influence. Kyokushin really gets you used to fighting close so your body gets conditioned fast. Outside training for competition from my experience/ over a decade kyokushin is a mix of muay thai and kickboxing with an advantage of been beaten with fists every now and then. Its as solid as any fighting style but it's more about the time you put in than what's best
>>212428This why i like kyokushin as a base. You can cross train with kick/ boxing or muay thai or go old skool and do some shotokan or goju ryu and it will click on. Then you have the kata which studying jujitsu and maybe judo will explain some bits. MMA might be better but i'm not getting paid to get get fucked up, i'd rather enjoy it
>want to try karate, done some kickboxing with my dad when i was young but nothing serious>do some research on the only gym nearby>no competitive record>10 year olds with black belts>fat instructorsis it over ? is there any way i can self teach the art with some friends who i lift with ? should i just train boxing instead ? i liked the point style structure of karate tournaments (from what i seen) as oppose to learning something full contact (but would be open to it). i just wanna learn something and compete.
>>212428They needed whole fucking Andy Hug with kyuokushin ruleset and huge weight advantage to barely win some muay thai fighter. Kyokushin is rubbish and I say it as someone who did it for 2 years.
>>212570What's wrong with Kyokushin?
>>213380NTA but too many Kyokushin competitors compete under that no strikes to the head with hands or elbows. KK has amazing kicks and they're tough as iron but they have bad habits like not dealing with face punching and continued grabbing/trapping with knees.
>>212487If WAKO hold tournaments near you I think they have a points sparring category that's pretty much identical to what you see in ITF TKD or shotokan point sparring. You could just train in a muay thai gym if you have one of those (or plain kickboxing) and compete there
Redpill me on FSA KenshinkanSeems to be an ultra-brutal form of karate, like Kyokushin but with bare-knuckle head punching and some grappling. Used to organise an event called Chaos Madmax but there's not much info about it.Also strangely seem to be Japanese in origin but mainly practiced in like Iran and Pakistan from what I can tellAnyone know anything about it? Or are there other obscure karate styles like this lurking out there?
>>197681K-1 used to do KK matches as well in the early dayshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyRKO3YICUo
>>213964Or possibly I'm mixing up CMM and kenshinkan as any kenshinkan sparring vids I can find see to have headgear etc
Anyone part of JKA?Currently the Funakoshi Gichin Cup 2024 is ongoing
>>213967>>213964>Chaos MadmaxJust done a quick google, never ever heard of this before so I think you'll have to redpill us. Looks like Lethwei meets Kyokushin as some places say they allow headbutts and some fighters went to Burma to fight. Looks and sounds cool, the CHAOS MADMAX tournament sounds like it should be as well known as the early Sabaki challenges but maybe the footage just isn't out there.
New bread soon?
>>214526http://www.karate.gr.jp/en/chaos/chaos061103.htmlSeems to have been a who's who of full-contact karate styles (though not kudo, I notice). There seem to have been other CHAOS events, I wonder if MADMAX was just their main oneIt sounds completely nuts, I wish there was more evidence of what it actually was, or what happened to it. I feel like karate really needs to bring back this kind of Just Bleed fanaticism
Anyone done Shidokan before? How does it compare to Kyokushin in terms of day-to-day training? I know the competition format is the triathlon thing, pretty cool
Well, after trying karate for about six months or so, I've decided it's not for me. I wanted to stick it out for a while to get a better idea than if I just went to one or two lessons, and frankly it didn't seem like a good place to go if you want to learn to actually defend yourself. Guess it's back to combat sports for me.
>>215162What kind of karate?
>>215162Cool
>>215453Okinawan Goju.
>>215162Good for you for trying it properly at leastWhat will you do instead? Boxing or MT might be better bang for your buck if you want striking for self-defence
