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About getting the position to use the technique, I learnt something very interesting from chess. You never look to get the position to apply the special technique. You just use some unbalances advantages or counterplays and tries to improve your position to be better and better, and your opponent whorst and whorst, until an opportunity cames to you. And when it cames, most of the time, the good move is quite simple, and using a special move or just following to improve your advantages leads to win anyways. And that's why a lot of begginers or intermediate players are very frustrated to be technically/tactically skilled but never have the opportunity to use it and been beaten by some basics/easy ways. It seems to be the same with martial arts and combat sports.

Sanda is missing despite being relatively popular. Another core base system. What about "Ju-jutsu fighting system" and "ju-jitsu contact" (like this : th-cam.com/video/Ji9y8LG9tu0/w-d-xo.html) ? What do you think of Muay Boran, Letwei, Bokator and other muay thai derivates ?

I would have picked Andreas Quast over Hokama Tetsuhiro, personally

This was a pretty fair breakdown. I just started karate, Tang soo Do style the side kick was spot on, and in boxing The back fist is our flicker jab, and it does help firing it from a cross guard or philly shell especially with speed, it can setup combos or blind the opponent to angle out and get distance from your opponent.

Thank you for having us Leonard!

Start to dabble in Dki and ryu te. Best advice. Your road is Nobel but a wide 8 lane highway. Look also into dog fist and white crane

Bajiquan should be upgraded to core/base systems, it has proven to be very effective for self-defense and I think it would be effective in combat sports, particularly in Muay Thai rules because of how they specialize in shoulder and elbow attacks. My favorite martial arts is Savate, boxing, Sambo, and Uechi-Ryū karate.

You kept saying a non-resistant. You either meant non compliant or resistant

Karate loses a lot of its more effective techniques because the majority of schools don't condition the outer surfaces of the hand, the fingers, and yes, the toes. we lose that grip strength and that ability to dig into the soft tissue of an opponents body. The most dangerous strikes in Karate and Kung Fu are delivered with an open hand, not a closed fist.

Kyokushin Guys train their Body to a extreme level it's a Karate made For Real Man, If you play their games kick the legs or punch the body will be a hard fight Kyokushin are tough.

Great breakdown. I like what they have done, but is very much from a sport-fighting lens. Its amazing how our background influences our interpretations. I'm glad that I found your video. Your observations mirror my thoughts I had when I saw this video for the first time. Thank you.

Good sanchin.

@StrykeTeamOfficial Could you do a video on any breathing exercises you suggest for iron body training, especially in relation to Uechi Ryu San Chin kata?

you use any kind of linament?

Hey have you thought about doing a video on Okinawan karate 's Hojo Undo methods?

Ahh...that babushi up there in the corner😁😁

Cool video, I think one of the big reasons. Kyokushin does so well in the low kick championships is because of the way they lean into low kicks to take some of the power away. Muytie and MMA guys usually lift up their front leg which they are not allowed to do. In that competition, you have to keep your feet on the ground. So, kayokushin guys have a clear advantage because of n the way they check low kicks.

It's a scam. I doubt you find a good Karate master these days. And forget about Kung Fu that just died out. You won't find a legit master. If you wanna fight go kickboxing. You will sure find enough legit masters. There are so many scam clubs in Kung Fu and similar martial arts these days. And I actually met these people who trust them fully. They trust sharlatans. This world is such a mess.

What was the name of the kata you were doing on stage ?

Iron Palm is not Iron Fist, because finger-tip strikes can cause disabling sinus pain without breaking the nose or knocking out teeth.

haha I thought I was the only one hitting my arms while watching TV 😂😂😂

Gabriel varga, a 4th degree shotokan black belt, multiple world kickboxing champion... sorry but I'm gonna take his word over yours, nothing personal. This just seems like you're salty about someone criticising your favourite martial art, which I'm guessing is probably your first serious martial art, so anchoring bias is going to play a factor. You said that Gabriel claimed the side kick should be dropped, he didn't say this, he said that particular way of doing the side kick should be dropped and modified to use the heel as a kicking surface, not the blade of the foot. It doesn't matter if it's a combat sports context or self defence context, physics is physics, if you kick with an angled foot, it's more likely to bend and become injured than if you kick with the heel. Low kick or not, the heel is still going to be better than the side. At about 4:00 you try saying you have to twist your body for a side kick with the heel, but you don't even have to twist your body for a side kick with the heel, literally just angle your foot. The angle change is entirely centered around the ankle, not the body. You've made up a problem to counter a criticism. That single instance of a ridge hand working looks like a hook to me. Even if it wasn't, a single instance of something isn't a statistic. It needs to be repeatable. There are thousands of instances of hooks working, vs a single instance of a ridge hand. This isn't a strong argument. The classic "I know someone who [goes against the common wisdom or scientific practice] and they're totally fine" I hear this a lot when dealing with anti science conspiracy theorists. You hear it with smokers "my grandma smoked 8,000 cigarettes and hour and she lived to be 973". Anecdotal evidence is not evidence and can be safely dismissed.

Some reference from Shaolin Kungfu and other Chinese Kungfu from Chineses nothing relate to Karate for example 2:14, 4:49 or 7:12. You should more carefully when make Clip. The concepts which they use to train body are also different.

Adjusting which techniques you train vs. which ones you omit is a really interesting one. Overall there is such a tendency to follow what seems to work in MMA and BJJ that people just focus on the staples, and this conversely opens up a lot of potential for using techniques outside that scope. It's clear when you watch for example Jesse Enkamp fight some people - he puts in often techniques that no one really trains, and for that reason they have no defence for it and he catches them off guard. Of course you should primarily focus on the important main techniques, but it's interesting conversation to have - at what point have you taken out too much from your arsenal that it no longer benefits you?

Shaolin Iron clothing. Also Daoist can cut themselves with blades and draw no blood. Although it's not from technique or physical training it's much more. I'm not willing to delve into tha realm. I know a Daoist personally, he has been studying it for about 8 yrs but was already a seasoned gung fu practiser, from WSL lineage.

That sanchin was intense! I'm impressed and thank you for a super informative and interesting video.

I have an iron shirt, it never needs ironing. I never wear it because it is too heavy.

Just discovered your channel by accident. Loved the video 🙂

Osu!

Thank you Leonard san :-) Most gracious of you 🙇

10:50 I learned that sweep in judo but you can find a similar sweep at the end pinan sono San.

Respect for including a good variety of Kung Fu styles.

Estuvo bueno el de Kyokushin vs Peleador de Bellator. :)

Reacciona a todos los Episodios. Nuevo Suscriptor por acá. Osu!!

I’m glad I’m training in JKD and last weekend I got my level 1 ranking in the martial art! Be water, my friend!

Step through the middle. Eyes and head turn first.

Lol idk bro "stay in his lane" - he is a black belt in karate and has won multiple world kickboxing championships. Everything he said made sense. The ridge hand is absolutely retarded. Yes, you found a clip of it working, but that is 1 clip out of about 9 million fights where it has actually worked.

Very nice kata.

All kenpo descended from James Mitosie are in truth is Chinese wusu. Capoeira is descended from African martial arts that are base in grappling. Kyokushin was the first karate style to strip-mine capoeira for fighting techniques. Capoeira practitioners are among the best conditioned fighters around.

20:37 agree . It works. But rarely will someone react like that. « Street » fight is the real world .

19:02 double attacks in Pinans (katas) etc do exist and works . It’s not for week end sport kid. It’s for Fight. But never saw it applied by any « Japanese masters » or others . Too much of a high skill phenomena.

I despise sport karate .

9:42 back fist : full works but mainly street efficient .

5:35 agree with you . Been training for more than 35 years . And switched to full muy Thai / Let Wei. Your points are excellent . He doesn’t know the history . That said : in full combat , the way Karate is taught now is 90% ridiculous. Like kata with no Bunkai…

experience in full contact karate?

He's definitely wrong about the backfist. There's a lot of utility to that technique. Anybody who uses a flick jab should also look into the backfist. Especially in MMA with small gloves it can be an effective technique - especially when thrown while angling off (tai sabaki) or to come around the guard. The usual argument of "if you don't see it in MMA, it doesn't work" is moot because the MMA meta is traditionally limited and sometimes a bit slow to catch up. That's why every few years you see a "new" (most of the time actually traditional) technique pop up in MMA and then all of a sudden people start training and using it. Everybody thought front kicks are nonsense until Lyoto Machida and Anderson Silva knocked people out with it. Same thing with fumikomi (oblique kick), calf kicks ... Right now some people have started discovering the uchi mawashi geri (inverted snap kick). Also obviously wrong about the ridge hand - that has been working forever. The thing that you need to know is that a lot of times, you're not actually connecting with the hand, but with the hard bone above the wrist joint or the forearm. Works like a charm. Same thing with "knife hand" - you don't actually connect with the fingers of your hand, but with the hard bone close to wrist joint.

Damn, that dude in the red hoodie is hella sexy 😏

Most those techniques you have learned works against people who know nothing but when it comes to people who practice martial arts then most those techniques are useless. Karate combat exposed how lots of karate moves were useless. Karate combat changed the rules because Karate combatants had no clue how to fight once it hit the mat

At first I thought this was going to be some bullshido rant. I’m glad I stayed. You make some fair points. I also did TKD for around 12 years, moved onto full contact. I’m glad that you made it abundantly clear in the beginning that you’re not saying that you know better than Gabriel in terms of full combat. Glad to see that traditional martial arts are still going strong.

You should make a video on Sanchin, the purpose, structure and application or benefits of training Sanchin. There are many different ideas around it, I'd love to hear yours.