For neophytes like me, your instructions are invaluable; Thank you very much, Sensei! For reference, I have posted the beginning time of each section Age Uke/Rising Block 0:30 Meaning of the word "Block"/"Uke" 1:40 Age Uke slow: from 3:27 Soto Uke/Outer Block 4:44 Uchi Uke/Inside Block 5:37 Gedan Barai/Downward Block 6:33
Thank you very much for all the effort you put in these videos. I just started karate 2 weeks ago at my 44 bday, and your videos make it easy to understand the technical movements. Thanks
Thank you Obi-Won. Wonderful breakdown of how to "receive" and "redirect"- and I am learning how to use my hips correctly as well and twist the wrist at the right time
I used to train in shotokan karate when I was 11 I stopped because my big brother left due to shoulder problems, but I have been meaning to re-learn everything again, these videos are very helpful because I only remember a few blocks, punches and sequences from karate as I only trained up to blue belt before I left and to be fair it was 5/6 years ago. Thank you for your demonstration in this branch of martial arts
Taekwondos roots are primarily from Tang Soo Do, Martail Arts are amazing to be a part of no matter what style enjoy your training place all your effort and become the best you possible through your training.
Shotokan Sensei Sir Thank you for sharing this video with us. 下段払い(げだんばらい) or Gedan Barai is a downward sweep. The 漢字 or kanji 下段(げだん)GEDAN:means downward and 払い(ばらい)BARAI:means to sweep. Osu
Wow job well done Sensei Sir actually found a Shotokan Karate club not too far from were i stay and iam very fascinated as well as intrigued to study this discipline really soon great video!!!
este es el mas perfecto arte de blokear al enemigo y salvarte de un golpe. por eso gracias maestro por este video y las personas apredan a defenderse y lo usen para bien. gracias
Hello, Shotukan Sensei. *Bows* :) My name is Brittany, and I have SEVERAL REASONS why I wish to learn Martials Arts. Particularly, Karate and Filipino Martial Arts (FMA). I have been wanting to learn Martial Arts for a long time. My father is a 5th Degree Black Belt in Karate and earned Certificate of Fierce Tiger, along with First Place in a FMA Tournament. But he is not alone. There are some other relatives who knows Martial Arts as well. :) This video is helpful. Thank you, sensei. *Bows* :)
i realised that most traditional karate like goju ryu uses a lot of circular movements while japanese karate uses linear movements . in goju , we performed our gedan barai using a circular method . also , when we move from stance to stance , we also uses circular movements .
Well, I come from a different (but related) style, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video! I am keen to learn more about Shotokan Karate, because I see it as a parent style (perhaps an Honoured Uncle) to my own, & the quality of demonstration and explanation here was amazing. Thank you! I hope you take this as the compliment it is intended, but I would put this video on par with Shihan John Richards...it's THAT good!
Your roots will be taught by your Instructor listen well! Remember all styles have their place, yet Martial Arts are meant to be taught so do not listen to bashing of systems cause the response makes you sound arrogant and if you dedicate yourself, you should be able to become a better human being as well as more successful and abundant. Have fun Keep up your training and dont count the cost stick with your Sensei and believe in your Sensei he will lead you in the right direction
I agree, "blocking" concepts are the only thing stopping me wanting to try Karate. In saying that I think Karate is highly under rated and the clarification here as to how the block is meant to be interpreted helps.
Excellent blocking.when blocking larger force two ways to deflect with less force is for block to travel up arm absorbing force of blow instead indexing power directly. another way is to let block recede and rotate with force. in all indexing is not bad if desired for arm strikes if properly conditioned yet it may not always be desired. Also keeping elbows close to centerline increases reaction time as well as power as elbow and body reinforces and drives power along centerline.
I was taught that the fist/hand position at the end of all of these blocks (except shuto uke) is to be as it would if you were punching; first two knuckles in line with the forearm bones, and top of the "back" of the fist in line with the top of the forearm.
so i know that there are like four different major styles in karate, whats their differences and for a beginner what should i choose? and how many days per week dose attend class regularly mean? and if attends class regularly, how long it usually takes for a person to went from white belt to black belt? i know its a lot of questions but i really want to know more since im a total newbie
I love these videos. I appreciate clear and detailed explanations and analyses, and I hope I am this clear with my own students. I do find the comments sections fascinating though, on an anthropological level. Many of the positive comments are coming from new students (white through yellow belts) and from seasoned karateka (shodan and higher). In both cases, the commenters seem to appreciate the breakdown and the detailed discussions of the shapes of the techniques and the physics behind them. However, the most derisive comments seem to come from those who are well passed the stage where they are learning the shape of the form but have not yet earned their black belts or are coming from people who themselves admit to having little to no experience with Japanese or even Asian martial arts. To the blue through brown belts I ask, do you not remember how much difficulty came with learning the various different kinds of coordination, muscle memory, and breakdowns when you first started? To those with no practical experience with Japanese martial arts, such as the boxers or the wrestlers and the like, when you were first learning to fight, did your teachers break down how to punch, how to step, how to defend yourselves and then take those breakdowns and help you put them together to form a solid technique? Or did they just throw you into the ring with no training, precaution, or care for your safety? And how upset would you be if someone with no practical experience of your fighting system came up and told you there was no substance to your style? I am reminded of the definition of sophomore. Literally, wise fool. It refers to those who think they know everything, who don't know how to admit when they are wrong, and know just enough to be dangerous but not nearly enough to have control. Everyone does this at some point in their lives (hence the naming of the second year of high school and college), but no one need stay in a sophomoric state. We are all still learning, and no matter how advanced, we all need to go back and reexamine the basics. So please, don't be that person.
Very well put Chris, these videos are mean't to be merely an introduction to the most fundamental aspects of Karate, nothing more. Unfortunately there are those who cannot/ will not see that...
I have never done Shotokan karate, but I am considering starting it since I often move between countries and need to do a system that is a little bigger than the one I have been doing so far (Shuri-ryu for 10+ years). I was noticing something about the blocks that is very different from what we have always done in Shuri-ryu. There doesn't seem to be any parrying motion with the hand that is already stretched out with any of the blocks. Like in the gedan-barai, it seems to me, that the entire block is the hand that ends up being stretched in the end, meaning that the hand that is already out does nothing. In Shuri-ryu, every block (more or less) has a "parrying hand" which is the one that is already out, meaning that you first parry the attacker with the hand that is closest and then kinda "block him out" with the other hand, rather than having to rely on you being fast enough to be able to first see the attack coming, then bring your hand up to your ear, and then bring it all the way down again to block an incoming kick, before it hits you. The reason this is done in Shuri-ryu is of course too long and complicated to go through in a comment, but the main idea is just to enforce the idea of the blocks being not just blocks, and of basically training two different ways of blocking at the same time. How is this in Shotokan? Is it just because a very basic version with a very basic understanding is being shown, or does Shotokan just not have any parrys in its blocks?
Is karate a very efficient martial art? Does it waste any motion and how does it compare in speed to other martial arts? For self defense situations, especially those where one must defend oneself against multiple opponents, how does it compare to something like Wing Chun? And is there one basic idea behind karate, e.g. strike your opponent right after you have blocked his strike or something? Thanks.
You may be referring to harai uke, which is more circular than gedan barai (harai uke is the 3rd and 6th moves in the geki sai kata). Goju does also have gedan barai, but it's no more circular than this.
any form of martial arts teachers the body the mind to be peace with yourself. it lets you focus release anger and become a better person. in a real life situation no martial arts perfect as your first line of defence should be able to run rather than engage. is your opponent in fight in a street has many ways of surprising you best to learn ways defending yourself and this instructor is showing great technique how to defend
This video is awesome. I just wonder if it is possible to learn karate without a teacher (that is just by using these videos and some books like Dynamic Karate) or if I should get myself some decent teacher.
To answer your question more thoroughly, the various styles of Karate originated on the islands of Okinawa off the coast of Japan. Later, when Japan annexed the islands, the Okinawans taught them karate. Then after WWII it spread to the US ... The number 10,000 is arbitrary. What Iakshen47 is describing is muscle memory; the point at which techniques become natural reflexes & no longer require thinking ... this is the goal in all martial arts.
Would be nice to see the techniques in action in kumite. I've just started training karate and have problems receiving the attacks rather than blocking it.
For neophytes like me, your instructions are invaluable; Thank you very much, Sensei!
For reference, I have posted the beginning time of each section
Age Uke/Rising Block 0:30
Meaning of the word "Block"/"Uke" 1:40
Age Uke slow: from 3:27
Soto Uke/Outer Block 4:44
Uchi Uke/Inside Block 5:37
Gedan Barai/Downward Block 6:33
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thx
Thank you very much for your kind comment. All the best to you!
This guy is real Master. I am astonished at the way he teaches.
Jesus Christ loves you amen
@@JuanSoto-ws5ch Wrong video buddy, this is karate not Christianity 101.
Yes. Taking in mind the japanese way of thinking uke web can be more efective in our karate performance.
I've satrted karate this year. The way you teach is remarkable. Thank you very much!!! Oss!
I'm taking karate classes but when i want to practice at home i forget the moves ...
Your videos helped me so THANK YOU Sensi 💖
Neen ss I Hope since it’s been a year now your techniques have improved greatly and you are still continuing the art of Karate.
Same
Same, what belt did u get to
Me also
Same
Thats a clear , concise description very well presented, you can see the focus and passion for the art, very impressive thanks Mark from South Africa
Thank you very much for all the effort you put in these videos. I just started karate 2 weeks ago at my 44 bday, and your videos make it easy to understand the technical movements. Thanks
Thank you Obi-Won. Wonderful breakdown of how to "receive" and "redirect"- and I am learning how to use my hips correctly as well and twist the wrist at the right time
Karate is pure intelligence and so are you, Master! Thanks.You've changed my mind.
Its sensei
Knife king lol ok kobra Kai ass
@@bobstar6717 i guess it is but karate kid better
I used to train in shotokan karate when I was 11 I stopped because my big brother left due to shoulder problems, but I have been meaning to re-learn everything again, these videos are very helpful because I only remember a few blocks, punches and sequences from karate as I only trained up to blue belt before I left and to be fair it was 5/6 years ago. Thank you for your demonstration in this branch of martial arts
You're the best karate instructor on TH-cam. Thank you :)
Lynsey Rotherham you are so right
for every person studying shotokan this is a must
they are the best karate instructors in the whole world
I dont think so
@@juvenciojaimes4384 🙄, do i smell hate?
I've often referred to your videos - very helpful
This Instructor is actually quite good. His movements are crisp and he explains well. Nice job!
Thank you for such a great explanation, and for making this available to all who wants to learn.
He's a very good teacher I like his videos I can respect his videos
Thanks a lot for shaing all these videos! As a beginner I would despair without it :)
Thank you for being the best instructor on karate
Shotokan Sensei you are great
Shotokan Karate, one of the best martial arts in the world!
Thank you sir, this was very helpful!
Very pedagogic sensei, you can learn so much by studying others. Thank you! //Taekwondo student.
Thank you Sensei. You have explained so nicely.
My Regards
Master, you really explain very well. Thank you for your hard and important work!
So superb you cannot know how helpful this is. Best wishes Sense
Taekwondos roots are primarily from Tang Soo Do, Martail Arts are amazing to be a part of no matter what style enjoy your training place all your effort and become the best you possible through your training.
Great job , loads of people in my dojo are watching your videos, very professional, OSU Sensei
I liked this video 📸📸
Best karate sir
Wonderful videos training on blocking techniques......easy to understand and applicable demonstrating expertise of the sensei!
I found part one and part two very well done. Thank you!
Thank you Sensei am starting to do karate in a few days but start training early before I go if that makes any sense
This boy is real master....😐😐😐 l am astonished at the way he teaches Very very good super master
Very good instruction in basic blocks, good point about receiving and deflecting as opposed to 'dead blocking'
Thank you sensei I study ur teachings now I teach my son and daughter at least 11 years
I love your videos! Theyre so helpful, even if slightly different from the style I learn. Thanks!
I just started , and your videis are anazing and you are a true master thank you
I am surprised in your explanation way in easy to understand.
Thank you so much and keep going
shotokan sense I've learned a lot because of you! thank you for the lessons!
Shotokan Sensei Sir
Thank you for sharing this video with us. 下段払い(げだんばらい) or Gedan Barai is a downward sweep. The 漢字 or kanji 下段(げだん)GEDAN:means downward and 払い(ばらい)BARAI:means to sweep. Osu
Wow job well done Sensei Sir actually found a Shotokan Karate club not too far from were i stay and iam very fascinated as well as intrigued to study this discipline really soon great video!!!
Before mastering martial arts it is so important to have good basics. Great video !
este es el mas perfecto arte de blokear al enemigo y salvarte de un golpe. por eso gracias maestro por este video y las personas apredan a defenderse y lo usen para bien. gracias
Hello, Shotukan Sensei. *Bows* :)
My name is Brittany, and I have SEVERAL REASONS why I wish to learn Martials Arts. Particularly, Karate and Filipino Martial Arts (FMA). I have been wanting to learn Martial Arts for a long time.
My father is a 5th Degree Black Belt in Karate and earned Certificate of Fierce Tiger, along with First Place in a FMA Tournament. But he is not alone. There are some other relatives who knows Martial Arts as well. :)
This video is helpful. Thank you, sensei. *Bows* :)
Great Explaining Sensei I'm still up to date with your videos in 2019
Thank you very much for this video. Has been very useful!
The best class i have ever seen💯
you are best instructor sir.Thanks.
Thank you very much Sensei.I do forget some of my moves while practicing at home but your videos really helped me in understanding the techniques.
You are really awesome and you teaches really very well and the best karate teacher ever seen in my life ❤❤❤❣
Sensai
Thank you very much for your videos. They are very instructive and helpful. Also thanks for your passion to teach others martial arts
Juan
Solo un campeón mundial puede explicar de una forma tan detallada los conceptos del karate como lo hace Sensei Milon en sus videos.
Excellent video, this does justice to many areas.
Oss
Great sensei
Excellent concise, clear information. Thank you.
I did those blocks in the dojo for over 8 years .that was 40 years ago .They are part of me now .Embedded in my brain.lol
i realised that most traditional karate like goju ryu uses a lot of circular movements while japanese karate uses linear movements . in goju , we performed our gedan barai using a circular method . also , when we move from stance to stance , we also uses circular movements .
この非常に明確に説明していただきありがとうございます
Finally! Someone with some answers! Excellent vid
So generous and professional . Thanks.
Well, I come from a different (but related) style, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching this video! I am keen to learn more about Shotokan Karate, because I see it as a parent style (perhaps an Honoured Uncle) to my own, & the quality of demonstration and explanation here was amazing. Thank you! I hope you take this as the compliment it is intended, but I would put this video on par with Shihan John Richards...it's THAT good!
Thank you sir ❤
Your roots will be taught by your Instructor listen well! Remember all styles have their place, yet Martial Arts are meant to be taught so do not listen to bashing of systems cause the response makes you sound arrogant and if you dedicate yourself, you should be able to become a better human being as well as more successful and abundant. Have fun Keep up your training and dont count the cost stick with your Sensei and believe in your Sensei he will lead you in the right direction
Karate is scientific, clear techniques. Thanks master
thank you for these clear and helpful videos. I'm doing some self-study in preparation for starting karate in 2 months.
Osu!
parabens por ter esse carinho e compromisso com todos nós que pratica karate.
Thank you very much. This is nice and clear and very explanatory
I agree, "blocking" concepts are the only thing stopping me wanting to try Karate. In saying that I think Karate is highly under rated and the clarification here as to how the block is meant to be interpreted helps.
Excellent blocking.when blocking larger force two ways to deflect with less force is for block to travel up arm absorbing force of blow instead indexing power directly. another way is to let block recede and rotate with force. in all indexing is not bad if desired for arm strikes if properly conditioned yet it may not always be desired. Also keeping elbows close to centerline increases reaction time as well as power as elbow and body reinforces and drives power along centerline.
now thats what i call 'Master Legend Sensei'
thanks for teaching about the rising block and more . i will learn all i need to know about martcal arts thanks again .
Dude its awesome how u share our karate to other people :) Keep being awesome :)
Excellent instructor! Thank you for the tutorial.
Thank you sir i understand blocks very nicely and i am allready free style karate player thanks you again
Thank you so much I really appreciate it I can finally defend my self more! I really appreciate it you deserve a subscribe
I was taught that the fist/hand position at the end of all of these blocks (except shuto uke) is to be as it would if you were punching; first two knuckles in line with the forearm bones, and top of the "back" of the fist in line with the top of the forearm.
Real master , taking karate at my university for pe creds , this helps
Very nicely.... Concept Explained
Keep it up
Thanks for your vids man. Especially the cool explanation of uke.
Great educational video, very good explanations, thank you ! Sensei!
Just started Shotokan recently. Great video. 🥋🙏😊
Thankyou very much karate instructor
so i know that there are like four different major styles in karate, whats their differences and for a beginner what should i choose? and how many days per week dose attend class regularly mean? and if attends class regularly, how long it usually takes for a person to went from white belt to black belt? i know its a lot of questions but i really want to know more since im a total newbie
I love these videos. I appreciate clear and detailed explanations and analyses, and I hope I am this clear with my own students.
I do find the comments sections fascinating though, on an anthropological level. Many of the positive comments are coming from new students (white through yellow belts) and from seasoned karateka (shodan and higher). In both cases, the commenters seem to appreciate the breakdown and the detailed discussions of the shapes of the techniques and the physics behind them. However, the most derisive comments seem to come from those who are well passed the stage where they are learning the shape of the form but have not yet earned their black belts or are coming from people who themselves admit to having little to no experience with Japanese or even Asian martial arts. To the blue through brown belts I ask, do you not remember how much difficulty came with learning the various different kinds of coordination, muscle memory, and breakdowns when you first started? To those with no practical experience with Japanese martial arts, such as the boxers or the wrestlers and the like, when you were first learning to fight, did your teachers break down how to punch, how to step, how to defend yourselves and then take those breakdowns and help you put them together to form a solid technique? Or did they just throw you into the ring with no training, precaution, or care for your safety? And how upset would you be if someone with no practical experience of your fighting system came up and told you there was no substance to your style?
I am reminded of the definition of sophomore. Literally, wise fool. It refers to those who think they know everything, who don't know how to admit when they are wrong, and know just enough to be dangerous but not nearly enough to have control. Everyone does this at some point in their lives (hence the naming of the second year of high school and college), but no one need stay in a sophomoric state. We are all still learning, and no matter how advanced, we all need to go back and reexamine the basics. So please, don't be that person.
Very well put Chris, these videos are mean't to be merely an introduction to the most fundamental aspects of Karate, nothing more. Unfortunately there are those who cannot/ will not see that...
This takes me back 😀
I have never done Shotokan karate, but I am considering starting it since I often move between countries and need to do a system that is a little bigger than the one I have been doing so far (Shuri-ryu for 10+ years).
I was noticing something about the blocks that is very different from what we have always done in Shuri-ryu. There doesn't seem to be any parrying motion with the hand that is already stretched out with any of the blocks.
Like in the gedan-barai, it seems to me, that the entire block is the hand that ends up being stretched in the end, meaning that the hand that is already out does nothing.
In Shuri-ryu, every block (more or less) has a "parrying hand" which is the one that is already out, meaning that you first parry the attacker with the hand that is closest and then kinda "block him out" with the other hand, rather than having to rely on you being fast enough to be able to first see the attack coming, then bring your hand up to your ear, and then bring it all the way down again to block an incoming kick, before it hits you.
The reason this is done in Shuri-ryu is of course too long and complicated to go through in a comment, but the main idea is just to enforce the idea of the blocks being not just blocks, and of basically training two different ways of blocking at the same time.
How is this in Shotokan?
Is it just because a very basic version with a very basic understanding is being shown, or does Shotokan just not have any parrys in its blocks?
A Former Karate Guy and Highschool Diploma graduate Master Snoop Menuce
Super video
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Is karate a very efficient martial art? Does it waste any motion and how does it compare in speed to other martial arts? For self defense situations, especially those where one must defend oneself against multiple opponents, how does it compare to something like Wing Chun? And is there one basic idea behind karate, e.g. strike your opponent right after you have blocked his strike or something? Thanks.
thank you for these videos, so helpful . feel dumb trying to learn this while training in my area's martial art school. sometime I just want to cry
thanks for the posting,
I'm retired on limited income.
I have time on my hand always wanted to learn this,
If not anything but for the exercise,
Very good explanation.
You may be referring to harai uke, which is more circular than gedan barai (harai uke is the 3rd and 6th moves in the geki sai kata). Goju does also have gedan barai, but it's no more circular than this.
any form of martial arts teachers the body the mind to be peace with yourself. it lets you focus release anger and become a better person.
in a real life situation no martial arts perfect as your first line of defence should be able to run rather than engage.
is your opponent in fight in a street has many ways of surprising you best to learn ways defending yourself and this instructor is showing great technique how to defend
I take karate classes. thank you for teaching the movements
I like the styles how can I learn them. best instructor
Hi, I am just learning and interesting. You are really good Sensei. Thank you very much.🙏❤
This video is awesome. I just wonder if it is possible to learn karate without a teacher (that is just by using these videos and some books like Dynamic Karate) or if I should get myself some decent teacher.
very good, but one question, please: with age uke do I have to bend my back leg slightly as with other blocks as well?
Thanks for your education
To answer your question more thoroughly, the various styles of Karate originated on the islands of Okinawa off the coast of Japan. Later, when Japan annexed the islands, the Okinawans taught them karate. Then after WWII it spread to the US ... The number 10,000 is arbitrary. What Iakshen47 is describing is muscle memory; the point at which techniques become natural reflexes & no longer require thinking ... this is the goal in all martial arts.
You are amazing and very cool
Thank you very much Sensei
i love your videos
Would be nice to see the techniques in action in kumite. I've just started training karate and have problems receiving the attacks rather than blocking it.