How Wonderboy Makes KARATE KICKS Work in the UFC | Fight Talk Ep. 7: Stephen WONDERBOY Thompson
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- FIGHT TALK: Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson, FaZe Sensei and I all talk about how Wonderboys Kicks are Karate based but have changed slightly to make it more suitable for his ICONIC UFC Career! The #5 ranked welterweight and I talk about sparring, fighting, side kicks, roundhouse kicks and hook kicks and how you should throw them in Kumite!
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My version of the Chubby Surprise is the "Crouching Tiger Hidden Mexican"
"CHUBBY SURPRISE!!!" - I'm going to be singing that all night. The missus is going to be worred :-P Fantastic video again sensei!
Hahaha poor missus 😂😂 thank you friend!
Soo unexpectedly hilarious😂
I've slammed many a sidekick into ribs in tournaments. Especially the jump away variety but it must've been a dream because SIDEKICKS DONT WORK.....
TRUTH 😂😂
Side kicks work. I think the issue is they tend to be slower so you need work that out.
So wonderboy, is just saying a head high sidekick. K then
Side kicks are INFURIATING against someone who does them well. They always feel like the wrong thing at the wrong time and screw with my mojo as much as anything. I'm getting into Karate partly because of how often it's you guys who frustrate me!
I hope to eventually learn advanced techniques like the "Chubby Surprise"
They sure are!! I have a whole tutorial full course + 1 on 1 video chat bundle on side kicks dropping this weekend. I’ll post about it 👍
@@SenseiSeth I've sparred some people who were very effective with side kicks. I think the issue is they are slower but if you can speed them up they work.
"LEG MUSCLE" all day everyday
All day! Lol
I've comment in every video that said it but it's spelled 'lieg mwuascel'
Precisely lol
@@dramaticreaper 😂
Leg mussell*
Karate podcast needed with these 3
IMAGINE, we have one more video coming up!
I’m not Karate but as an ITF TaekwonDo guy I really relate to the love of the side kick.
ITF is my preferred style of TKD for sure lol
Sensei Seth I been practicing itf taekowndo at the school I train at they definitely drill that side kick as well as punching combinations and on occasions we’ll do some grappling
@@terrencesykes184 We do grappling too, but very occasionally. What I find so interesting is that as MMA has matured, a lot traditional Karate has come back (the stance, side kick, etc). Karate was born out of a proto-MMA world, and those who go back to what it was, find that it is still applicable if you train it. Very interesting.
Same bro
Ctf is my preferred style
I mean I like this video well enough by itself, seeing you guys nerding out of your one true love is fantastic, but the double crossover where you got Icy Mike's video where he gets the video with Sergio just killed me, that's a level of meta joking that I absolutely appreciate. I'm glad so much content came out of your trip to Wonderboy, you three really mesh well together and it's been a blast to watch it all!
Hahaha I’m glad you enjoyed it! We still have one more video left!
Kyokushin, ITF and Sanda have demonstrated well how traditional MA can be effective when applied to full contact fighting
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GSP
Really enjoyed this one Sensei! Really insightful for a Karate practitioner like myself stepping into professional MMA.
Thank you! He’s a smart dude
When you're Kyokushin guy but feel left out 🤣
So much fun thanks guys. I love WB's sneaky none chambered kicks. They were forbidden in TKD but I find it more natural and applicable to the street where you don't want to be on the ground.
His kicks are awesome 👏👏
This is awesome next collab has to be with Kyoji Horiguchi at ATT lol
Oooh, noted lol
When he said chubby surprise I was dying lmaoooooo I can relate to that
😂😂😂 glad its not just me!
Chubby surprise When u finally meet the girl from tinder
With only face pics
This is cool. I'm a TKD Martial artist myself but just listening to the conversation about sparring and different ways of using sidekicks, hook kicks and everything else is amazing. I wish I could spar around with y'all.
We had a blast!! 🙏
This is so wholesome, and really insightful. Awesome stuff
Thank you my friend 🙏
I’m a 3rd degree black belt in tkd and I still really wanna train with all of y’all! Tricking, sparring, forms
Nice!! I can’t do tricking as well as they can!
Do karate kicks work in UFC? Wonderboy vs Jake let the whole world know it works.
I've got sooo much respect for Wonderboy such a genuine roll model.
Sensi Seth, Sensi Faze thank you for this crossover and all your content over the years, this is a big movement.
Its great to see people connect like this.
Thank YOU for watching
It's funny..he was dissing karate before the fight..then got roasted by a fancy spinning shit
There have been multiple successful fighters who heavily incorporated karate and TKD style kicking OR were straight up Karate/TKD stylists .
Does it work? Ask Machida, Bas Rutten, GSP.
I mean Lyoto machida already made shotokan karate of all styles work in the UFC so I think karate works.
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Welcome to the machida era.😂
@@owenarmit4521 What he was a great fighter.
I love the fact that you all are still so chill and easy, yet deadly. They all seem. And you gays are cool. Take it easy.
LOLOL my leg muscle! osu thank you sensei for this
I’m glad you enjoyed it, friend!
I absolutely adore this. FaZe Sensei, Wonderboy, Sensei Seth, and Icy Mike memes. My life is complete
Hahaha perfect!
You three remind me of an old video where Bill Wallace, Benny Urquidez, and Pat Johnson were talking fighting :-)
Whaaaat?? I have to find that
Also WHAT AN HONOR 🙏🙏
@@SenseiSeth This one maybe? th-cam.com/video/bh2pzZhCfBk/w-d-xo.html
Bill “superfoot” wallace
The fight talk series is awesome! It's really cool to just hear you guys chat about this stuff
Thanks! We’ve got one more coming out soon!
I'm karate based from back in the day. I was lucky to have been influenced by very good fighters for their time from the west coast, like Joe Lewis. They brought me from poor to mediocre. Perhaps the best thing they taught me was to learn techniques from as many styles and systems as possible to evolve what we do. I've found that karate works fine, but there are other ways that work better, and these can blend with karate quite well.
Of course! We should all be influenced by people better than us haha I’m heavily influenced by WB!
The side kicks are awesome. You can feint pretty easily with any kick and then throw your side kick and it will go through (most of the times).
we need part 2!
GABRIEL GAMA coming up Monday!
This is such a sweet vid so much knowledge in that guy's head
Tons
I love how Wonderboy censored himself for Motherf***Ker 😂
Wonderboy is pure undistilled wholesomeness.
“Chubby Surprise” Gave me a real good chuckle , so unexpected, Thankyou for that
American Hound lol glad you enjoyed that!
Love it. Awesome content. Stay safe, brother. Thank you.
You too friend!! Thank you 🙏
I was watching a Don The Dragon Wilson highlight reel yesterday. Wonderboy’s looks very similar.
I actually am not familiar with that name.. hmm!
I love these collab videos with Stephen Thompson. I always learn and laugh throughout. Good content.
3:12 you can see the exact moment when seth heart skips a beat
LOL I thought that too. What a compliment for him.
Should we start broadcasting a signature petition asking Japan to remove/delete the word "yoko-geri" from the dictionary and from all Dojos' curriculum -since SIDE KiCKS DON'T WORK?
brio last 😂😂😂 sounds like a good idea
Chubby surprise lol I love it when you say that. You, Ramsey Dewey, karate dojo waku, and Tony Jeffery’s best channels on TH-cam in my opinion right now.
I don't practice karate recently as there is only "watered-down" karate schools in my town but I would if I found an 'old school' karate school. I still practice what I learned in sparring too and karate techniques work fine 🙂. Specially kicks. I love the contents you put out as it motivates me to keep practicing. Thank you.
Stephen is such a pro. Love this guy. Inside and outside the ring or Octagon. Great video, Sensei 👍🕺🤸♀️🤸♂️🕺
Cung Le a sanda fighter used them really well in the day.
Great discussion by you three, I look forward to more.
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My fighting weight was 145 and used to use front leg push kicks and front leg side kicks to control distance, set up other techniques, and weaken limbs. Can not think of fighting without them.
chubby surprise is why i'm subscribed to sensei seth
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Brilliant video
Thank you Jack!! I appreciate it
Wonderboy is awesome such a polite guy but an amazing fighting style when I saw him against Masvidal who couldn't hit him he was such a puzzle with darting in and out
Was a fun fight to watch!
I got my ribs bruised badly with a side kick. They work but speed is an issue. I think you need a side fighting stance to make them work.
Yes and no. A side kick by essence is a thrust kick you do sideways. So yeah... But there are times that a square stance works just fine like if your opponent makes an angle and you're just fast enough to kick but you're footwork isn't good enough to make the turn to follow you're enemy. It depends
@@brushzaid2484 you can also alternate your stance to set up for a side kick.
I love the "SWEET CHIN MUSIC" ✌️😅
😂😂😂
You are really such a master. Idk if you're ever gonna get the belt, but you are a legend!
the belt?
@@SenseiSeth sorry, I was talking to Stephen 😬🙂🙃
Stephanie M ah
Awesome collaboration.
Thank you my friend!
IF YOU KEEP IT SIMPLE AND DIRECT.. IT CAN WORK... HIGH KICKS CAN BE A LITTLE BIT A PROBLEM.. BUT ITS ALL ABOUT FORCE SPEED AND TIMING🙏🙏🙏
Dang! Huge collaboration
Ayee! 👏👏
Proud karateka here:) more power to you all especially you sensei faze:) New to you tube:) started Karate 1994, now I still teach it along with kickboxing in our gym:)
Awesome content.
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Yo, legit shit, Wonderboy would actually be bomb at chess. If you think about everything he said about feints and controlling distance and aggression with the lifted foot? That is the pawns and the knights. Position control and aggression. The light moves spiced with hard shots. That is material trades followed by sudden positioning from the Queen. Then the unorthodox combo? That is checkmate.
I am terrible at chess and fighting myself, but I see the concepts. Lol.
I used to think sidekicks didn't work until somebody accidentally threw a little too much power into one during sparring and knocked me right out, ever since then I've been using side kicks to pretty good success. Back leg side kicks don't work though, always front leg.
This was awesome
Thank you for watching!
I always look at traditional arts and the techniques found in them as advanced (however fundamental). For a beginner to survive in a hard sparring situation, it might be best to use side kicks sparingly because if you don't have good setups a muay thai approach to basic sparring might be smarter. Make no mistake, a good karate fighter is a sniper, with an arsenal of strikes! I think lots of schools, got watered down but the techniques are all in the katas self defenses and drills.
Since that sidekick frontkick debate with icy mike I started to do more sidekicks because of the defense and the surprise impact hook kick. I see why people wouldnt use that as a first resource sometimes, but if you know how to, it's as good as any.
another great video ^^
Thank you so much 🙏🙏
Would like to have seen them demonstrate some of what they are talking about.
Watch any of his fights 👍
Watch him fight in the ufc man. He fucks people up
Great video Sensei Seth!!
Think karate makes you more fluid ..kicks are drilled high level .itt saved my life in the 80s was having trouble with a gang outside my parents shop ..guy hiit me with snooker cue across my back caught me twice by surprise the third one he was swinging for head I blocked it it snap on my arm and swept his ankle so hard broke his ankle is was pure reaction he hobble of .his mates froze and one had an axe I went back and tand fell he
ried he swiped from distance caught my leg very light I was up and out of there bed quickly this is a 100% true so I never knock karate
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There is another one who can confirm that karate can work in mma at ufc level. A guy named George St. Pierre😁. Of course it works if you adapt your karate to full contact fighting with mma rules
Karate has all the same techniques as Muay Thai and much more but is more traditional focused on self defense. For MMA you still need to add something like BJJ for the ground but so does Muay Thai.
I've been in many sparing and amateur fights and my side kicks work every time
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Dude this vid was fantastic! Lots of great insight and 3 down to earth guys talkin away, love it!
Glad you enjoyed it!!
oh lol so that is the actual first video together with Hard2Hurt
xD
HOLY CRAP I rewatched him throw that hook kick like three times and then slowed it to .25 speed and still could barely follow the path his foot took. Wonderboy is fucking scary.
I can watch Wonderboy all day long..his fight style is mesmerizing! Also he's the best so theres that as well!
#wonderboybewhereitsat
#wonderboyfan4eva
#wonderboythebestthebaddest
What alot of ppl that dont do karate dont get either is the follow up. We're trained to follow up after everything. Everything is a combination. In mma today u see alot of ppl just throwing out single techniques. Some dont necessarily understand set ups.
Hm, idk if I agree with that entirely, may just be your style!
Id say the follow up is a huge disadvantage of karate lol, regular karate is all about one shot and then you reset and go again
@@Jaydenwybenga thats sport karate. Never gonna work in a real fight
I've done karate and mma and it was a big thing for me tbh, a lot of the drills in karate tend to be like dodge a punch and then throw a single reverse punch or something with no real thought on what happens if the guy doesn't go down
@@Jaydenwybenga that would be the follow up. Ive been studying traditional karate for over 30 years. My Sensei is a 9th dan. What you are explaining is sport karate. U are trying to score a point, first one there wins. Wont work ina real fight. In a tournament you are essentially just trying to score a goal it doesnt need to be effective to score. Also in a real foght if u get hit once the fight isnt over. Thats part of the problem with the misconception of karate. They see that and go oh that sucks.
The BUDO way in MMA.
Never give up.
Regards from Montréal.
OSU
👏👏 thanks bud
Right ? Right !
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Right!
Cool video
Thank you!
Wonderboy said he was gonna tell what he does when Muay Thai guys low kick our karateka sidestance lead leg xd
But I know you have an answer too.
I know, secret sauce 😬🤭
@@SenseiSeth D':
Answer is : HADOKEN
how do all? to effect a strong sidekick turn into a front kick, i.e., when leg up twist body and pull foot back into opponents ribs, [ standing at front of you ]. taztez.
great video mate! i have one question tho, is elbow tucking really needed in mma striking? looking at fighters, none of them really do that, even "great boxers" in MMA.
Elbow tucking? Whatcha mean?
@@SenseiSeth i probably said it wrong lmao, basically when they tuck their elbows in, very, very close to ribs.
@@iliadis655that’s more of a boxing thing hard to have a tight gaurd close to ur face in mma
You're literally the only guy I know who claims "Sidekicks don't work." they're quite effective especially low on knees and ankles.
GREAT VIDEO ! GREETINGS FROM MEXICO.
oNE THING I DID NOT GET IS THAT IF YOUWERE BEING SARCASTIC ABOUT THE YOKO GERI.
Haha yes, very sarcastic
That sidekick must have been traumatic😂 7:46
How could you tell? 😂😂
You should make that a t shirt “side kicks don’t work “lol then some who throws side kicks and ko people lol
Bruce Lee's Shuffle Side kick works but its telegraphed and Bruce hides it with a feint Punch.
Is that Captain America hand wrap I see? 🤩
But of course
the tricky sidekick dropped Masvadal and won Thompson the round, some other guy sais side kicks dont work ... anyway I leaned two different kicks, a side kick and a front leg back kick, we did not call it a variation of a side kick but its own distinct kick
Hey partner great stuff, would really appreciate a comprehensive footwork analysis.
Any video featuring 'leg-muscle' is worth its weight in Purel!
Hahaha that’s expensive!!
Wonder Boy! wow, nice!
Don the dragon Wilson have a great side kick
I’ll check him out!
You got my like specifically for *#freedomunits*
Hahaha happy to hear it!
@@SenseiSeth tbh I was gonna like it anyway. You make good content and the NMF always gets a like from me.
Hahaha fair, he’s very like-worthy 😂
Is your sidekicks kinda like the TKD cut kicks?? If need more information ill be more than willing to explain. Its a common kick in TKD to check how the opponent responds.
a nice comparison we use it like our jabs so if it connects we throw a roundhouse kick or something like a straight if jab connects.
Yes! Not everything, but yes there are Karate techniques that do work!
I was sure that Karate would not work at all in ufc but definitely proven wrong.
Who is Rocky? Who is Colt? Who is TumTum? @senseiseth @fazesensei
@wonderboy
Please invite Machida!! Machida use shotokan karate
Sensei Seth, "Ninja" masks could become appropriate for "Samurai" now, to prevent spreading the virus...👣
That’s the truth lol
@@SenseiSeth T-Rex Costumes, dude.
Will Holz YES! 😂
@@SenseiSeth This would go viral!
Also...OMG the mental images. Do this!
Will Holz hahaha when I can get back into my gym!!
The biggest problem with Karate is point sparring. It's a game of tag and not realistic. Sparring should be MMA style which would allow the great variety of techniques you see in Kata to be better utilized in sparring and self defense. If you don't train those techniques in a resistance setting they won't work when you really need them.
sport designed for scaling and making karate popular
Wait, so are they for or against side kicks?
Sidekicks work if you're Cung Le and Michelle Waterson
I wish i could train with yall
Maybe some day 🙏
His karate is better then everybody else's is because he doesn't only use karate hence why his works
Meh
@@SenseiSeth if he only used karate and only knew karate he would get taken down and layed on like in the 2nd woodley fight if you stand with him if your not as good you will get slept but if your a great wrestler the wrestler usually wins if he didnt stuff take downs and have wrestling and bjj experience lmao
He totally wrestles and has BJJ, BUT nobody only trains in one thing, like wrestling, or BJJ. It’s a silly argument
@@SenseiSeth Tons of people only train in one thing and that's my exact argument that the reason his karate works is because he dosent train in only one thing people like khabib only really use one thing but wonder boy cant do that because its ufc and takedowns are a thing I have no clue what your on about my guy lol
You think Khabib only trains in one thing? 😂
Who is the baby crying at the beginning? 😂 Just a curiosity!!!
Me, probably lol
Karate Kombat after UfC???