Hi Jesse I really appreciate your work!! You are balanced in your approach and have done your homework in preparing your videos!! I really loved the Bill Wallace's videos !! I have a black belt in Okinawan karate and a brown belt in Japanese karate as well as studying escrima and judo .You know your stuff thanks !!!!
Abernathy is so good at explaining Karate Bunkai, that I bought several of his DVDs, and I practice Kung Fu. This video contains basics that even most Black Belt's don't know.
I like how Mr. Abernathy put it: "The information is there if those who want to find it." The Chinese proverbs says it similarly: "When the student is ready to learn, the teacher appears."
ohh this makes a lot of sense now. It really explain the questions I have about traditional martial art view as "static" and stiff looking. Abernethy sensei is so good at explaining that even someone who never practice Karate like me can understand what kata is meant for.
I say thank you. Although I teach TCMA or traditional Chinese martial arts, I like to watch and learn from your Bunkai videos (and shhh, sometimes share them with my students). They bring the old school mental and physical methods for more advanced martial study to the world of today in a way many of us would love to be able to emulate in our own teaching. Keep doing what you’re doing. Thank you!
I practiced shotokan at Spain for years, and after watching these videos I realized how important and rare were those bunkai mixed with self defence applications of the kata that my master (3rd Dan) used to teach us. I've forgotten the katas after some years, but never the moves and the knowledge about how my body behaves itself in those kind of situations. Thank you so much for rekindle those memories with your content, master Jesse.
I have been avoiding abernethy’s videos for a while because I struggle with his pace of speech and he seems panicked. However this mans knowledge of bunkai is mind blowing and from this one video has opened my mind to the Kata I have practiced for years. I will be subscribing to his channel immediately 👍🏻
I've been practicing Tekki Shodan since 1970. Thanks to this video, FOR THE FIRST TIME it has dawned on me that my front and side opponent could both be ONE SINGLE opponent. Thank you.
As a silat practitioner where our Katas are called Jurus, this is an excellent video which explains the purpose and breakdown of the moves brilliantly. Well done guys!!!
What he says at 6:20 about angles is still one of the most elegant explanations I’ve ever heard about a subject that many teachers tend to make needlessly complicated
I do ITF Taekwondo and the number of times you actually realise in live sparring you are using stance shifts out of patterns/kata is surprising, I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise as I'm sure that's what they were designed for in reality😊. I suspect something got lost in translation along the way in a lot of modern interpretation so I really like these videos and Iain Abernathy is great my instructors Ian and Zoey Fendt have attended one of his seminars and they rate him highly also. I love Jesse Enkamp no ego at all wants to learn all the time, how all martial artists should aspire to be.
AMAZING VIDEO. Thanks to share it, in the name of all of us, Koryu practitioners, that want to understand, the true meanings of Katas, and want the world to comprehend!!
I have been fortunate. I started my Karate and Jiu Jitsu studies together 42 years ago . My style of Karate is Goshindo Kempo , and Hakko Ryu ( Samurai) Jiu Jitsu . So there are no Kata . However having come continued my studies. And competition. Karate 85-86 East Coast US Champion Along with Kickboxing and Judo ( East Coast Champion 95-96 , World Masters Champion 1999 Bronze 2005 . Renzo Gracie BJJ Open Champion 2008 . When I began to learn the Shotokan Kata . I always interpreted it the same way . I’m 5’10” 215 lbs and so Im was always an inside Fighter anyway. ( Boxing peekaboo style and cross arm) . So it always seemed very Natural to me . Excellent Video. I would also add that because it was Professor Kano who Championed Okinawan Karate. That it was recognized by the Kodokan as the best Striking ( Atemi) System that complimented the inside Judokas position. It’s also why the Sweeps and throws are interchangeable between the two systems. It’s Kodokan and Shotokan for a reason my friends .
@@petermcnallt12pm yeah I've seen the bunkai challenge one they did. But this was more a collaboration video, which has been well worth the wait. Myself and my instructor are looking to go to a seminar at the end of this year 🥋👍
These two guys are removing the blind folds of almost decades of traditionalist misconceptions around Karate and the purpose of Kata. Understanding what they are showing you about traditional Karate should blow your mind.
Thanks for your interest in the books! I’ve no plans to print more copies at the movement as I wish to use the funds for other projects … however, other new books are planed :-)
I love Iain and his practical kata principles. I discovered him over 15 years ago when trying to gain a better and deeper understanding of karate because at the time I was living and training in Finland a sport version of WadoRyu and they did not offer much explanation and historical context to what we were learning. Iain's approach helped me not only understand the meaning and purpose of kata in karate but also gain a deeper appreciation for martial arts in general. He's one of the greatest living western karate senseis for sure.
The true science of Karate is practicing it in such as a way that it is useful at any time and anywhere. And to teach it in such a way that it is usefull in all things.
In a part explaining pulling a person on to a punch the elbow goes back past the body, however in a kung-fu post the elbow only goes to the line of the body. A bit of both together makes sense pulling the opponent only to where the elbow is level to the body would make for shorter faster punches, and a position of both hands in front of the body to defend. In all jui jitsui there is Kata, it's never a stop start but flowing and often not even noticed by the practitioner because it's a standard of movement and the Kata is only practiced for a grading and not normally for regular training.
Great learnings of traditional karate. That is why karateka of traditional karate in ancient times used to practice each kata for many years! Time to give up black belt and wear white belt until it is really practiced like ancient times.
Pure awesome-sauce! So many people never learn the bunkai of any given kata, and assume the forms are useless, but you two make it obvious they're extremely practical. This video will help me develop my own self-defenses and kata bunkai for my sandan test!
My biggest respect to both of you sensei. It's been an amazing eye opening experience for me to watch, learn and practice what you have taught us throughout the videos. I can say that most of the black belts which I know don't ever get around the part of practicing the bunkai. It hurts my soul to see some sensei applying such a superficial knowledge of the kata and try to pass it on to their students. I hope I'll one day get to learn as much as you two and possibly share these experiences with my colleagues karatekas. Thank you for your hard work and for helping the karate community. Oss
It is my greatest loss that the internet came so late in my life. I have done martial arts since I was thirteen. Messing about, copying what I saw, joining various schools, learning kata and forms with little explanations to what everything was for. Kata for belts, and nothing more. It wasn't until my youth was gone that I got some deeper instruction here and there, and then to find the practical guys on youtube. This stuff needs to be shouted from the rooftops. It needs to be ground into every new white belt standing there with awkward feet and flailing arms. Preferably long before they have wasted 30 years thinking Kata was just kept for tradition with no use or purpose.
Awesome as usual. Understanding the purpose and application of Kata is essential to appreciating Karate and other TMA. Now I will go freeze frame a bunch of MMA video to find my favorite stances, haha.
Conceptually brilliant; the thinking mans karate. Super delivery; felt like it all soaked in. Made me want to research "PROPRIOCEPTION" and Anko Itosu. Any time you learn about why to do something in life it's powerful. Anytime you realize you have an extra sense; you've just become more than you were a minute ago.
Omg I've been a martial arts nerd since I was little, my first BJJ class saved my life in my opinion from being detrimentally overweight and weak. But it also jaded me to martial arts because all the stuff I looked up to as a kid was being demonized and accused of being fake and a waste of time. It's amazing to me to see people like this breathing new life and a sense of intelegent application to old school karate like this. Makes me want to restart my whole martial arts journey. Jesse where is your Dojo??!
Oh man do I love being a karate teacher. I always feel like a white belt looking for knowledge and when it comes to explaining bunkai or how to work them, i feel like I'm not giving good advice. But now i have to go through all my stuff again because i have a clear way of work! Amazing!!!
I was listening to a podcast on negative body images in the context of men and found myself wondering what the perfect fighters physique would look like. I was wondering what your opinion would be. If we don’t allow the current beauty standards, as presented in the meadia, for men too dictate how we eat and train what would the modern fighting fit man look like. Not just pro-athletes but the street tuff, school bully, dad and young adult (20-30) aswell. I’ve been doing tkd for 4 years now and I’ve been concerned about my image for about a year. I always trained in such a way so that my body can look aesthetically pleasing and not necessarily functional. After listening to this podcast however, I feel like my entire view on fitness has been shook. I’m not entirely sure what to work towards now, as my previous goal suddenly seems trivial and kind of silly.
It would look exactly like they look today. The person doing it purely functional would always outperform everyone else so there is a strong incentive to do it. That stuff about body image is nonsense in this context.
I would really love to see more videos of Sensei Abernethy with you explaining the stances and and bunkai. In my dojo we dont have those explanations so this is a great help and it is really interesting because thing make sense when taught like that! Keep up the great work, Jesse sensei!
Training kata can be good for your mental faculties as you age. If you can train all the katas in a system and remember them, then do them physically and correctly, there is both mental and physical health value, a bit like Tai Chi. Also, they can be trained for much greater exertion. My current training partner, a two-time national champion in a major Shotokan organization kills me: Kata (pick one, based on attendance), 25 bupees, 25 pushups, 25 situps, wind sprints - begin kata again. After a few rounds, just remembering which katas can be challenging... GREAT STUFF as always! Knighthoods for you both, CBE! Go by the palace on your way home and pick'm up!
I like to consider that when the other guy grabs me, Now I've got him. :) The stuff you teach is great! I read Dillman's work years ago, and incorporating his interpretation of bunkai which include nerve strikes, along with the grabbing and angular aspects that you illustrate, fills in a lot of blanks. When I started I was taught the post WWII bunkai which was Bee Ess. Your mastery of historical literature is so worthwhile. Most high level teachers do not seem to have such an operational love of the old masters' works. Thank you for being deeply informative without bloviating. 😃
Oh boy.. thanks to your video things become clear to me after more than 25 years of martial arts. I started with a quite Karate Style TKD " Chongs aka Kata" with a lot of " slow motion stance stops. Now I praktise a kind of Temple KungFu , and my Master try hard to overcome my"stop motion stances" to become a" movie" so a flowing movement. Guy's that's so hard 😔😔😔 Thanks to YOUR video I now understand the things he try to bring in my head and movements. Thank you
Hey Jesse, love your channel!! Wondering if you had any advice for me.... I did martial arts through out my youth, and am thinking about getting back into Karate... BUT, every Karate Dojo near me seems pretty mediocre....and i don't have the money to travel the world haha, any advice for this problem? THanks :)
Good job. Every comment made is correct. In the end it is all Aiki (do) flowing as he explained. Example. Practice the kote gaeshi (outward wrist twist) in Shotokan using Hiki Te flowing then you got Aiki (do) Use Atemi waza in Aiki (do) you got Shotokan strikes. Use close range hip throw Ogoshi then you got Judo. Add nage waza then you got Aiki jutsu thus Aiki flowing from one to the other in doing so more circular movement is used i.e principle of sphericity.
Very good guidance and practical info. Have you seen "High Kick Girl"? It is a great Karate movie which ends up displaying a huge fight where the good guy beats up a gang using kata... One of those enlightening of the student type lessons. Here is a clip of the final fight. Her moment of realization is at 12:11 where she utters, He is using kata. th-cam.com/video/XKQsZ6MMTQc/w-d-xo.html Cool movie.
"kata will never work in a real fight"... "blah blah blah will never work in a real fight"... just because some people don't understand what is martial arts 🤣 doesn't mean it won't work
I know this video is a year old, AND I know people all make fun of Koryu style (like Bujinkan, or "Ninjutsu") , BUT: Sensei Jesse, you should check out kata in Ninjutsu styles, I recommend AKBAN, it is all practical application style kata but they do have forms similar to karate styles so they can practice solo at home. I know a small handful of these would be happy to recommend a few. They definitely do it the old style of -close quarters, practical application, and take into consideration distance, timing , body position and angles. Just a thought , martial arts are fun and go deep! And I'm glad people like you take it to that level, instead of "monkey see monkey do" 😎
🥋 Thanks for your awesome comments! 🌟 Check out my website to learn more about Karate: www.karatebyjesse.com 😄👍
Hi Jesse I really appreciate your work!! You are balanced in your approach and have done your homework in preparing your videos!! I really loved the Bill Wallace's videos !! I have a black belt in Okinawan karate and a brown belt in Japanese karate as well as studying escrima and judo .You know your stuff thanks !!!!
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Abernathy is so good at explaining Karate Bunkai, that I bought several of his DVDs, and I practice Kung Fu. This video contains basics that even most Black Belt's don't know.
I practice Kajukenbo, and Mr. Abernathy definitely give me new insights into our kata😅
Always interesting to hear Sensei Abernathy and Sensei Jessie put their heads together, this sort of deep cut into bunkai is super eye opening.
Fantastic to hear! That’s what happens when 2 Karate Nerds meet 😄👍
alloutofbubblegum Why is Sensei Ian Abernathy you refer to him as “sensei Abernathy” (his last name) but you use Jessie’s first name “Sensei Jessie”?
@@miscsilliness that's out of respect and it is good manners.
I like how Mr. Abernathy put it: "The information is there if those who want to find it." The Chinese proverbs says it similarly: "When the student is ready to learn, the teacher appears."
Two of my favorite knowledge banks when it comes to karate in a single video. Can't get any better. Awesome
Had the privilege of training with Ian last year. Blew away what I thought I knew of kata and I have been obsessed with bunkai ever since. 👊
ohh this makes a lot of sense now. It really explain the questions I have about traditional martial art view as "static" and stiff looking. Abernethy sensei is so good at explaining that even someone who never practice Karate like me can understand what kata is meant for.
Avengers: Endgame is the most ambitious crossover
Jesse Enkamp: Hold my beer
Underrated comment
Whitepromethium hold my bo staff*
Brilliant! :-)
Brilliant...uh oh, jinx Iain!
@@simonbreaofficial its just bo
Two great instructors with an open-minded approach. Karate needs more leaders like these two!
Yes! ❤
I am a Matsubayashi - Shorin Ryu Karate-ka. Priceless information for kata study. This is a great video for all Karate kids world wide!!! 😎🥋
I say thank you. Although I teach TCMA or traditional Chinese martial arts, I like to watch and learn from your Bunkai videos (and shhh, sometimes share them with my students). They bring the old school mental and physical methods for more advanced martial study to the world of today in a way many of us would love to be able to emulate in our own teaching. Keep doing what you’re doing. Thank you!
Two VERY good communicators. Just hearing certain words pulled a lot together for me. Thank you!!!
Our pleasure!
Love seeing you gentlemen together! 👊🏼💥👍🏼
Join next time! 😄👍
@@KARATEbyJesse Working on it! :D
It was fun!
Why don't you be the third gentleman!
@@Ronin-101 Thanks for the support! :)
Wow! 🤯🤯🤯 the explanation of the passive hand application to hit better, more accurately and faster is just mind blowing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Spectacular video!!! Thanks for sharing.
I practiced shotokan at Spain for years, and after watching these videos I realized how important and rare were those bunkai mixed with self defence applications of the kata that my master (3rd Dan) used to teach us. I've forgotten the katas after some years, but never the moves and the knowledge about how my body behaves itself in those kind of situations. Thank you so much for rekindle those memories with your content, master Jesse.
The way I use hikite (sp) pull them into the punch. Thank you sensei Abernathy 🙏
I have been avoiding abernethy’s videos for a while because I struggle with his pace of speech and he seems panicked. However this mans knowledge of bunkai is mind blowing and from this one video has opened my mind to the Kata I have practiced for years. I will be subscribing to his channel immediately 👍🏻
Kata is very important.
It's the living textbook of the art.
I've been practicing Tekki Shodan since 1970. Thanks to this video, FOR THE FIRST TIME it has dawned on me that my front and side opponent could both be ONE SINGLE opponent. Thank you.
As a silat practitioner where our Katas are called Jurus, this is an excellent video which explains the purpose and breakdown of the moves brilliantly. Well done guys!!!
Iain is great - so enthusiastic and knowledgable!
A true Karate Nerd!
Best karate youtuber
Thank you! 🌟
My god, this is one of the most valuable educational video for Karatekas on the world, this happens when you get 2 geniuses together!!
What he says at 6:20 about angles is still one of the most elegant explanations I’ve ever heard about a subject that many teachers tend to make needlessly complicated
VERY INTERESTING! THANK YOU BOTH
This is very inciteful. Thank you for this.
I do ITF Taekwondo and the number of times you actually realise in live sparring you are using stance shifts out of patterns/kata is surprising, I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise as I'm sure that's what they were designed for in reality😊. I suspect something got lost in translation along the way in a lot of modern interpretation so I really like these videos and Iain Abernathy is great my instructors Ian and Zoey Fendt have attended one of his seminars and they rate him highly also.
I love Jesse Enkamp no ego at all wants to learn all the time, how all martial artists should aspire to be.
AMAZING VIDEO. Thanks to share it, in the name of all of us, Koryu practitioners, that want to understand, the true meanings of Katas, and want the world to comprehend!!
Nice video!!! I learn a lot about kata bunkai through these illustration. Goes well with my other martial art studies.
I have been fortunate. I started my Karate and Jiu Jitsu studies together 42 years ago . My style of Karate is Goshindo Kempo , and Hakko Ryu ( Samurai) Jiu Jitsu .
So there are no Kata .
However having come continued my studies. And competition.
Karate 85-86 East Coast US Champion
Along with Kickboxing and Judo ( East Coast Champion 95-96 , World Masters Champion 1999 Bronze 2005 .
Renzo Gracie BJJ Open Champion 2008 .
When I began to learn the Shotokan Kata . I always interpreted it the same way .
I’m 5’10” 215 lbs and so Im was always an inside Fighter anyway. ( Boxing peekaboo style and cross arm) .
So it always seemed very Natural to me .
Excellent Video.
I would also add that because it was Professor Kano who Championed Okinawan Karate.
That it was recognized by the Kodokan as the best Striking ( Atemi) System that complimented the inside Judokas position.
It’s also why the Sweeps and throws are interchangeable between the two systems.
It’s Kodokan and Shotokan for a reason my friends .
Brilliant video! Is there any chance you could publish a video with this type of analysis of Heian Shodan for instance?
Excellent lesson.
Been waiting for a video from these two amazing martial artists for years 🥋😁
@@petermcnallt12pm yeah I've seen the bunkai challenge one they did. But this was more a collaboration video, which has been well worth the wait. Myself and my instructor are looking to go to a seminar at the end of this year 🥋👍
We are miles away different cultures languages and still we talk about so similar things! Karate is connecting people!
Agreed!
Its a bond like no other, watching learning and practising kata.....
Happy Birthday Jesse Sensei!!!
Excelent explanation of core concepts in traditional martial arts! Thank you
I could sit and listen to these two for hours and hours. Absolutely amazing content
Great Philosophical Discussion! Never thought of Kata past 1 and 2!
Such good content & conversation. Thanks ya two! o/
Very insightful 👊
Kata exemplifies pivot point.
Oss. Excelente video. Soy suscritor de ambos. Maestros. Muchas gracias por compartir este video. Domo arigato. Oss!!
Brilliant!
Nice thinking
Thank you Sensei I learned a lot.
Parabéns Sensei!
Admiro muito o seu trabalho!
Sucesso sempre!
Abraço!
Raphael Hashimoto do 🇧🇷
Obrigado 👍
@@KARATEbyJesse isn't that thank you in Portuguese (Brazil)
great video guys learned a lot today
Karate’s dynamic duo! KNX was surely epic with these two together! Not to mention Oliver and Super-foot Wallace!
You bet! Stay tuned for more goodies 😄👍
Great video.
This video has some serious content. Every other word coming out of Iain's mouth blows my mind.
Food for thought... 👍
Yes indeed
Jesse is the Best TKN☺☺
I am Österreich
I like the prononzig of your gast
These two guys are removing the blind folds of almost decades of traditionalist misconceptions around Karate and the purpose of Kata. Understanding what they are showing you about traditional Karate should blow your mind.
I wish I would have discovered him years ago
Hey, if you have that fellows ear ask Ian to print up some more books and put them on the US Amazon or the very least his own web site..
Thanks for your interest in the books! I’ve no plans to print more copies at the movement as I wish to use the funds for other projects … however, other new books are planed :-)
I love Iain and his practical kata principles. I discovered him over 15 years ago when trying to gain a better and deeper understanding of karate because at the time I was living and training in Finland a sport version of WadoRyu and they did not offer much explanation and historical context to what we were learning. Iain's approach helped me not only understand the meaning and purpose of kata in karate but also gain a deeper appreciation for martial arts in general. He's one of the greatest living western karate senseis for sure.
Turning point in the kata = Sensei couldn‘t afford a bigger dojo point
😂😂😂 I was cracking
Love the video!
The Karate Nerd and Sensei Abernethy together in one tutorial is like having your two favourite bands co-headlining a show. 😀
The true science of Karate is practicing it in such as a way that it is useful at any time and anywhere. And to teach it in such a way that it is usefull in all things.
In a part explaining pulling a person on to a punch the elbow goes back past the body, however in a kung-fu post the elbow only goes to the line of the body. A bit of both together makes sense pulling the opponent only to where the elbow is level to the body would make for shorter faster punches, and a position of both hands in front of the body to defend. In all jui jitsui there is Kata, it's never a stop start but flowing and often not even noticed by the practitioner because it's a standard of movement and the Kata is only practiced for a grading and not normally for regular training.
Amazing video
My 2 favorite thinkers! That was great.
Great learnings of traditional karate.
That is why karateka of traditional karate in ancient times used to practice each kata for many years!
Time to give up black belt and wear white belt until it is really practiced like ancient times.
"The influences of every Karate style."
We all have the roots of Karate in common 😄
The problem is - Funakosi was not a fighter he could only do kata and did not know how to fight
No. The turn, all turns are either a throw or a taisabaki.
Never mind the embusrn and all the line motion rules.
I am a big fan
I do shukokai kobudokai karate
Awesome! Keep training 💪
Pure awesome-sauce! So many people never learn the bunkai of any given kata, and assume the forms are useless, but you two make it obvious they're extremely practical. This video will help me develop my own self-defenses and kata bunkai for my sandan test!
My biggest respect to both of you sensei. It's been an amazing eye opening experience for me to watch, learn and practice what you have taught us throughout the videos. I can say that most of the black belts which I know don't ever get around the part of practicing the bunkai. It hurts my soul to see some sensei applying such a superficial knowledge of the kata and try to pass it on to their students. I hope I'll one day get to learn as much as you two and possibly share these experiences with my colleagues karatekas. Thank you for your hard work and for helping the karate community. Oss
Iain and Jesse's great minds representing true traditional karate. Very impressive and informative. :^)
It is my greatest loss that the internet came so late in my life. I have done martial arts since I was thirteen. Messing about, copying what I saw, joining various schools, learning kata and forms with little explanations to what everything was for. Kata for belts, and nothing more. It wasn't until my youth was gone that I got some deeper instruction here and there, and then to find the practical guys on youtube. This stuff needs to be shouted from the rooftops. It needs to be ground into every new white belt standing there with awkward feet and flailing arms. Preferably long before they have wasted 30 years thinking Kata was just kept for tradition with no use or purpose.
Thanks sensei very interesting 🥋
Awesome as usual. Understanding the purpose and application of Kata is essential to appreciating Karate and other TMA.
Now I will go freeze frame a bunch of MMA video to find my favorite stances, haha.
Enjoy!! 😄👍
Brother Iain. Always the best explanations! You promised to come visit Okinawa. It's now 7 years. Get on the plane :)
Still having kids that need dad at home :-) We can justify traveling to teach, but traveling to play is on hold. One day.
@@practicalkatabunkai And play we will... on my 50 foot yacht... don't ask :)
Oh consensual and non consensual.. Tell Joe Rogan!
Conceptually brilliant; the thinking mans karate. Super delivery; felt like it all soaked in. Made me want to research "PROPRIOCEPTION" and Anko Itosu. Any time you learn about why to do something in life it's powerful. Anytime you realize you have an extra sense; you've just become more than you were a minute ago.
I'm glad you liked it Michael!
Bunkai like this is what puts the art in martial art
Fantastic lesson. Thank you for posting.
So great to see you both in one video. I'm going to watch this video again and again, just like practice of kata. Thank you, Iain and Jesse!
Thank you Sensei Jesse and Sensei Ian for all the passion and knowledge that you are sharing with us.
Omg I've been a martial arts nerd since I was little, my first BJJ class saved my life in my opinion from being detrimentally overweight and weak. But it also jaded me to martial arts because all the stuff I looked up to as a kid was being demonized and accused of being fake and a waste of time. It's amazing to me to see people like this breathing new life and a sense of intelegent application to old school karate like this. Makes me want to restart my whole martial arts journey. Jesse where is your Dojo??!
9'23 : distance - angle - arm positions
bouclier - lance/épée
Love the analogy to mathematics
Oh man do I love being a karate teacher. I always feel like a white belt looking for knowledge and when it comes to explaining bunkai or how to work them, i feel like I'm not giving good advice. But now i have to go through all my stuff again because i have a clear way of work! Amazing!!!
I was listening to a podcast on negative body images in the context of men and found myself wondering what the perfect fighters physique would look like. I was wondering what your opinion would be. If we don’t allow the current beauty standards, as presented in the meadia, for men too dictate how we eat and train what would the modern fighting fit man look like. Not just pro-athletes but the street tuff, school bully, dad and young adult (20-30) aswell. I’ve been doing tkd for 4 years now and I’ve been concerned about my image for about a year. I always trained in such a way so that my body can look aesthetically pleasing and not necessarily functional. After listening to this podcast however, I feel like my entire view on fitness has been shook. I’m not entirely sure what to work towards now, as my previous goal suddenly seems trivial and kind of silly.
Personally I train for function (power generation, speed, strength etc). Any aesthetic bonuses are byproducts. Find what works for you 😄
Jesse Enkamp the major problem is that you’re going to have a hell of a time finding info on strength training compared to bodybuilding.
It would look exactly like they look today. The person doing it purely functional would always outperform everyone else so there is a strong incentive to do it. That stuff about body image is nonsense in this context.
I would really love to see more videos of Sensei Abernethy with you explaining the stances and and bunkai.
In my dojo we dont have those explanations so this is a great help and it is really interesting because thing make sense when taught like that!
Keep up the great work, Jesse sensei!
I have learned so much from this vdo.. it is really great and appreciate your work.. great explanation.. thank you for sharing the knowledge.
Very interesting Concepts about kata in real fight. I will put in Practice... Thanks Jesse. Excelent vídeo. 👍
Cool
I love this video two knowledgeable practioners talking practical sense and explaining techniques & application that's methodical.
Training kata can be good for your mental faculties as you age. If you can train all the katas in a system and remember them, then do them physically and correctly, there is both mental and physical health value, a bit like Tai Chi. Also, they can be trained for much greater exertion. My current training partner, a two-time national champion in a major Shotokan organization kills me: Kata (pick one, based on attendance), 25 bupees, 25 pushups, 25 situps, wind sprints - begin kata again. After a few rounds, just remembering which katas can be challenging... GREAT STUFF as always! Knighthoods for you both, CBE! Go by the palace on your way home and pick'm up!
I like to consider that when the other guy grabs me, Now I've got him. :) The stuff you teach is great! I read Dillman's work years ago, and incorporating his interpretation of bunkai which include nerve strikes, along with the grabbing and angular aspects that you illustrate, fills in a lot of blanks. When I started I was taught the post WWII bunkai which was Bee Ess.
Your mastery of historical literature is so worthwhile. Most high level teachers do not seem to have such an operational love of the old masters' works. Thank you for being deeply informative without bloviating. 😃
Oh boy.. thanks to your video things become clear to me after more than 25 years of martial arts. I started with a quite Karate Style TKD " Chongs aka Kata" with a lot of " slow motion stance stops.
Now I praktise a kind of Temple KungFu , and my Master try hard to overcome my"stop motion stances" to become a" movie" so a flowing movement.
Guy's that's so hard 😔😔😔
Thanks to YOUR video I now understand the things he try to bring in my head and movements.
Thank you
Hey Jesse, love your channel!! Wondering if you had any advice for me.... I did martial arts through out my youth, and am thinking about getting back into Karate... BUT, every Karate Dojo near me seems pretty mediocre....and i don't have the money to travel the world haha, any advice for this problem? THanks :)
Good job. Every comment made is correct. In the end it is all Aiki (do) flowing as he explained. Example. Practice the kote gaeshi (outward wrist twist) in Shotokan using Hiki Te flowing then you got Aiki (do) Use Atemi waza in Aiki (do) you got Shotokan strikes. Use close range hip throw Ogoshi then you got Judo. Add nage waza then you got Aiki jutsu thus Aiki flowing from one to the other in doing so more circular movement is used i.e principle of sphericity.
Very good guidance and practical info. Have you seen "High Kick Girl"? It is a great Karate movie which ends up displaying a huge fight where the good guy beats up a gang using kata... One of those enlightening of the student type lessons. Here is a clip of the final fight. Her moment of realization is at 12:11 where she utters, He is using kata. th-cam.com/video/XKQsZ6MMTQc/w-d-xo.html Cool movie.
"kata will never work in a real fight"...
"blah blah blah will never work in a real fight"...
just because some people don't understand what is martial arts 🤣
doesn't mean it won't work
I know this video is a year old, AND I know people all make fun of Koryu style (like Bujinkan, or "Ninjutsu") , BUT: Sensei Jesse, you should check out kata in Ninjutsu styles, I recommend AKBAN, it is all practical application style kata but they do have forms similar to karate styles so they can practice solo at home. I know a small handful of these would be happy to recommend a few. They definitely do it the old style of -close quarters, practical application, and take into consideration distance, timing , body position and angles. Just a thought , martial arts are fun and go deep! And I'm glad people like you take it to that level, instead of "monkey see monkey do" 😎