HOW TO USE KATA IN A FIGHT (OKINAWAN SECRET) - Jesse Enkamp
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Jesse Enkamp ('The Karate Nerd') explains how to use kata bunkai, traditional Karate forms, in practical self-defense with the Okinawan concept of "hindi" (変手). Visit www.karatebyjes... to learn more!
Next up! 🔥 Watch this practical ”fighting KATA” for MMA fighters: ua-cam.com/video/eDjhOyiRs34/v-deo.html
kata is an advanced form of shadowboxing
This video reminds me of: "Don't walk in the footsteps of the masters. Search for what they were searching for." ;-)
Seek what they sought. 😉
kata is one of the most important things,i love that my sensei teaches the applications,it could be applied in a fight
I love these types of videos as it not only helps the students but those of us who are just starting out in our instructor phase of Karate but before we become actual Sensei's. Love it keep doing these!!
Great videos. So much information. I have returned to shotokan after 30 years and loving it. You have been a great help. Keep the videos coming
While sparring someone from a different style he said he liked the way that I backed up when he was attacking. Instead of turning my back and running I was backing up switching which foot was forward and I was always ready to counter that way. When I thought about it I mused that I developed this habit while learning kata such as seiuchin or any kata for that manner. Practicing shifting weight and being able to deliver a powerful strike from multiple angles. Practicing the kata found in Shotokan with the deep stances is like when you see baseball players swinging the bat with weights on them. The same movement is so much easier when you take the weights off.
Will you ever be able to pull off the technique exactly? No. But you learn options if you find yourself in that position. If you find yourself in the clinch with your arms wrapped around one arm the application of shifting your weight and executing the “reinforced block” is handy to have in muscle memory.
Jesse im going back to Karate training tonight after a long absence, im bringing my young son with me for the first time. I wont you to know that your videos have inspired my passion for the Art once again 👍❤
Amazing 🙏 Enjoy! 🌟
you still training sir?
Oss!
I have heard this from Okinawan masters in conversations about karate more than once. Right on the bullseye Jesse!
My friend you are a instructors-instructor . 👍🏻. I make people I'm working with watch your clips . Even people like me that use 70 per cent ground techniques. Can learn so much here .
Interesting. I wish one my teachers back in my Karate days had understood that.
We actually teach the same idea in To Shin Do. The form of the kata can change as long as the foundational principals and ideas stay. I saw this when visiting different To Shin Do schools for seminars. Same kata but done slightly differently. As well as when teaching a child student of mine. Just because of his age and size at the time, we had to modify the kata to make it work for him.
This video was extra entertaining as an Indian 🤣🤣🤣
Really love what you're doing for the Karate art form Jesse - Thank you!
Thank you for your insight. This video should be viewed by all karateka.
Kata is the basis of everything, it gives us all of our techniques whether standing or on the ground
When I was actively teaching, to help students learn adapablity we would do our forms on uneven ground, up (or down) stairs , steep hills and even deep snow ,it was a lot of fun!!
The "tradition" part was just perfect
Katas are expressions of principles that form techniques, not the technique itself.
I love your channel because of the philosophy and the practical knowledge you share. I have a question for you. What would you change in the modern karate we know today if you can get the chance? I mean what would you like to improve in this ancient art? I'll be waiting for your reply in some form.
I wish you could do a seminar in Morocco 🇲🇦💪🙇❤ I learning a lot from you Jesse. Thank you!
Some day maybe! 😄👊
very nice explanation!! greetings from Brazil!
Perfectly right... a kata is changing way. Bruce Lee say: be like water, always change.
Thank YOU! THANK YOU! THANK you! Domo arigato gozaimashite!
Saia Enzo at least Ave understood what Sensei says after training thank you
Excelente vídeo, no sabía acerca del Hindi, deberías hacer un vídeo con algunos ejemplos y cómo podrías aplicarlo a una pelea real.
Saludos
This has been explained beautifully
Awesome video Jesse I am 18th to like it.
Brilliant video
I practise okinawa goju ryu Karate since 7 years and i have to say that i use the kata in a normal fight without thinking about it. So yes it is possible of course😍
Nice, Jesse your a clever boy. I hope we get to meet someday and discuss martial art theory.
I have lived in the inner-city most of my life I’ve been in quite a few flights and I strongly believe that I could use moves from kata in a real fight
" a real fight is like surfing ,not skateboarding" This is can be more easily grasped from the weapon katas that are very similar to body katas but with more precise timing and distance
Congratulations on your UA-cam channel. Your videos are very interesting and I do not miss any of them. I only have one problem ... My English is very basic and I can not understand all the content of what you explain. Is it possible to put subtitles in Spanish? Thanks Jesse
Looks like a very interesting video💪🏼💪🏼✌🏼
Thanks🙏🏻🥋
Great! Cheers :)
I was learning something like that, it was from a manga of karate
extending to the older styles of martial arts, its regretful that many arts forgot their core principles... like chinese martial arts going barehanded when their styles were tailored to weapon handling. "Taichi" couldnt be more detached from Wudang Sword School, or WingChun maintaining "traditional" style and forgetting it's a Staff/Long Spear Art, and they arrogantly challenge boxing and karate, martial arts that grew with the ban on carrying weapons.
Hi Sensei!. I liked this video ! Be ok!
That remember me the world wide war about pinan and heian 😊. Nice job!
It is verry good shotokan karate .l also know something karate my style is called .karate do yisin mun is desecendant of tradiocional shotokan karate in katas and techniques.but the katas already modify tem a little differently and they shot him some other moothings of shotokan by changing tem by other movements and they took some shotokan techniques.and my style is created in costarrican and if it has like 9 new original katas of only yisin mun .karate international .my teacher luis torres says that other karate styles always verry good .and his teacher wothinks yisin mun is a japonese ."we allwant progreess,but if you 'are on the wro road , progress means donig an about turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive "
so i have no question about that! Sensei! You can Use your Random Kata in Real Street Fight! Not the 1 by 1 After the Kata and Bunkai! But 100 Percent is also can use the Kata in real Fight using all Random can make it :)!! ^_^
THE street fight is Practical and Physically can hurt who's opponent to hurting you and also Bully! Defense yourself and can Offense it!
it can take a seconds or 30 seconds finish the enemy to control! ^_^
TAKE A POWER PUNCH ^_^ don't use the high kick in street fight!
Just Relax!
THE BEST WEAPON IS ALSO ,,,, PRAY ^_^!!
Kata with a sword !!! Japanese ruled the world at one point !! Ty for showing us the Japanese style no wonder they are so good in ufc
facts =/= truth, mind = blown
I love karate . Do somthing to all world say that no one beat karate as a martial art world
En ik mag wedstrijden doen ❤😊
So would it make sense to create our own kata? Have you done that?
Sounds kind of awesome :)
As long as it makes sense to you 😄
That intro was the best
Alam bawah sadar akan keluar secara reflek sesuai gerakan yang rutin kita lakukan,sehingga kadang gerakan bertahan atau menyerang tidak perlu kita ingat,karena secara reflek tubuh kita akan bisa menangkis atau menyerang sesuai kebiasaan yg rutin kita lakukan.maka jangan heran jika para sabuk hitam masih melatih gerakan gerakan dasar untuk membiasakan tubuh.
Yes
Question : couldn't the bunkai of kata be drilled in karate training ?
Majdi Kamal Exactly right.
1. Prepare your punch.
2. Say the word "MUDA".
3. Repeat the word 10-50 times.
Daniel LaRusso pulled it off in the 1986 All Valley Tournament
*1985* All Valley Tournament :D The third film takes place only one year after the first :D
my okinawan master said, findi.. not hindi.. changing hand.. but findi doesnt found in japanese words.. so I think it become hindi
Amazing video.
'Hindi' is the national language of our country india
I think that you have to traine a lot to use the kata in a fight
I AGREE
I have spent many a moon pondering on stylisation (excuse the spelling haha) what I have come to think and only my pesonal opinion feel free to critique ha ha stylisation only boils down to aplication of technique , someone once told me no matter what art/style we practice we all achieve the same I quote we all climb the same mountain we just take different pathes we all reach the same peak if we put the effort in !
This comment making is addictive hahahha
As my Sensei told me "Kata are the books of karate". Great video Jesse keep up the great work.
Jesse, you might very well be one of the most likable people on this planet.
treismac he sure seems like a great guy to hang out with and have a cup of coffee with....can't forget to add a slice of carrot cake😎.
I trained in a “traditional” Okinawa karate dojo under Master Iha. We learned katas and adaptations for sparring. Katas are definitely applicable in real fights.
I've always thought kata helps to develop muscle memory. You'll see someone throwing a punch and before you know it you did a high block, punch, punch, front kick. Maybe you won't use the entire move list in a kata just chunks or maybe you will but in a different order.
That’s what I thought too after watching a documentary about Uechi-Ryu, as it looked like they used this circular block motion (called wauke I think, correct me if I’m wrong) from a specific Kata, as well as the follow ups afterwards, hard to explain, but I’ll look for the clips later.
Funny you mention Uechi Ryu. Forty years ago I was a young Shodan in Uechi Ryu and someone quite bigger than me threw 2 sucker punches at my head. High block, high block kick to the thigh and the fight was over before I even knew what I had done. Just that he was backing off crying he didn't want to fight me.
The kata is the move building of Karate and the muscle building of those muscles which you need for the movement. Also the kata can you help you to find some ideas for self defence.. Only ideas.. The most important is the move building.. If you learn good Kata, you re going to fix all the moves you need
In traditional Okinawan karate, kata is the method by which you train and unify mind, body and spirit.
Yes, I agree with you - muscle memory. And the more kata practiced the more to use in a fight the more variations or techniques can be apply.
So Ra's al Ghul was right on Batman Begins always watch your surroundings! xD :)
Great as always.
Many say that kata are useless in combat and they make fun of me when they see me performing pinan yondan or naihanchi shodan.
For them there are only combat sports and the rest is rubbish.
Thank's for your teaching and sorry for my english 😅
That's fine if people making fun of you trying something which is a different approach in martial arts in the modern age, what matters is the benefit of kata doing for you helps you to become a better person and a fighter.
Good point. There's so many ways of doing kata/taolu.
“It is a greater success to defeat one man with words than a thousand with fists!”
-Gichin Funakoshi
Depends on the context. Travel back in time and tell that to your ancestors on D-Day
He said that after the fight with Motobu Choki
.(prolly)
Though I learned a Chinese martial art, my teacher stressed form, but also demonstrated the flexibility of these forms to use in real combat. The few times I had to defend myself, I used techniques which were derived from a form, and they worked. The main thing is to be committed to the move and understand the many variations that one move in a form can have in reality.
Awesome!! I am glad you are saying what I've understood since I was a small boy. My grandfather came to the US from the Philippines and brought his Karate with him. He always said what you emphasized, you have to make it work for you!! Great video and great instruction.
Hindi is "no" in my second language (Tagalog) lmao xd
Correct me if I'm wrong as I don't practice any sports but do find them interesting. The way I interpret the video is that kata is in some way the equivalent of shadow boxing but for karatekas
gladiumcaeli
Mitt work not shadowboxing.
Predetermined movements done repeatedly till it's second nature (or that's the intention)
After 12 years of doing the same Kata Chung Do Kwan/Shotokan/Tang soo do. A particular movement come from out of nowhere, it surprised me as much as my attacker. Especially when I didn't really see the use for it during practice. The key to its success was that I always practice full power on all front stance techniques and softer on open hand retracting techniques. Must have done that form at least 24 times a week since I learned it. The double lower & upper simultaneous strike from Pelsek or Bassadai was applied as a high lock double punch 😳 Muscle motor memory at work my friend. Thanks for your video.
Jesse looks like a young Christoph Waltz
Kris 19 I can't look at him anymore now without thinking about this🤣 Somehow this is right. And Waltz is one of our best actors, I think. So it's a compliment🤣👍 Greetings from Germany🇩🇪
He kind of sounds like him too
Kris 19 but Jesse is from Sweden and waltz is from austral. (Don’t know how to spell it)
Your videos are getting much more informative and interesting everyday. Keep up the good work Sensei. 👍😁
Exelent like always!! I teach my students the same way and many teachers saw me strange. But now Im sure... I was right... thnx for the open mind you have... keep the great job to open our minds!!!
You are on the right path! 👊💥👍
Another superb lesson. It is amazing that Jesse has become what he is at such a young age.
My late father taught it that way. He would teach different variations of the kata. Kata was taught by my father like shadow boxing, but a bit more structured. My father also taught / coached boxing to those engaging in golden gloves boxing tournaments. There is so much buried in kata it is like a textbook but with motion.
Wisdom comes in many bottles, old and new. Great job Jesse San as always. Thank you for your continued passion for discovery and willingness to share.
"We like to standardized" *cough* *cough* SAT
Basic Uechi-Ryu is truly the most sound. Learn the forms and then forget them. Mushin arises when needed ( the mind of no mind) and as an agent I was able to respond. Funny thing is, each time I reacted with a defense, the parry or block all that was needed to destroy my attacker.
Karate Kata is like the Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana part of Patanjali's yoga. It's for people who cannot sit still and meditate. There was Kalari for weapons combat, Malla Yudha for combat sports, Kushti etc. Kalari was mainly weapons training for armies and didn't need a heavy built. There are some Kata like movements in Kalari. Goal of meditation is to still the mind as much as possible. Taking hallucinations herbs and drugs will agitate the mind more.
The most practical Kata, would be to freestyle the kata with the movements that suit your body.
If indeed they are truly designed to suit your needs.
Much like shadow boxing.
Kata is to teach principles buried in the movement. You can vary what you are doing based on the situation and still apply the principle. Once a student shows an understanding of the principle, I then customize oyo for their personality and body type. When they are further along in their understanding, we cover varying it fluidly as the situation changes. There is much more to this, these are just a couple of bullet points.
I practice Kyokushin and Sambo. Kata teaches the body to find new moves and abilities. I've found my self doing kata moves in wrestling and it was 100% effective
Bruuh how do you use taikyoku in wrestling explain to me please
jackillmandril yeah I always understood it as putting the moves into a scenario, how you flow from one move to another.
Plaaiz o Well Taikyioku does offer take downs; its purpose is to offer basic drills to get you out.
However Bassai Dai does offer more complex moves. Just look for bunkai. Those "funny" moves would be what to look for.
Be mindful that a lot of the bunkais offered are made out of rudimentary strikes and blocks. There was a great loss of information due to the devastating effects WW2 had on the grandmaster roster so much was lost. Additionally, would you give 12 year olds complex and often potentially dangerous hand to hand combat techniques that may be unleashed during a tantrum? Also what purpose do these have in point based sparring competitions?
Anyway it is there, look for practical bunkais ... There are some people who have researched and mostly reconstructed them
I am on Kurunfura it’s a goju kata you might not know I have this kata then superempi
I think that the reason for disdain for “traditional” martial arts is lack of understanding of its purpose.
Kata is no different than learning to walk or write.
As with any learned skill there are step by step instructions to perform it.
If,for instance, you’re learning how to execute a boxing jab or triangle choke there is a process to learn that particular skill. No different than kata.
One step at a time. Just my opinion 😉
jsdduke agreed my sensei has said multiple times when teaching us situational techniques you will find what works beat for u and adapt them. Same goes for anything in life
Couldn’t disagree more. The reason a lot of martial arts get bad reputation is because they lack reality check in their practice. They long evolved into some philosophical art. What makes the difference is pressure testing. Can you do say a triangle choke as you point out and have a person go out as that person is fighting back. The answer is absolutely. Even here instead of a practical proof we are listening to some analogies and theoretical arguments supposedly empowered by some knowledge.
I think the subconscious mind take over and use whatever we have to defend ourselves !!!
Hi jesse...Can you make a video on how the old karateka's train to kumite. Or maybe they don't really train kumite like the way sports karate do
"chains of tradition" ....well said !
In my personal experience, I've never spent too much time dissecting and interpreting the moves (bunkai), and thought of them more as a combat based conditioning and have been more focused on my stances and transitions between stances than thinking about the moves(blocks, strikes, etc.), and lastly, have been intensely mental.
Great video!
I practice goju ryu myself and this concept makes a lot of sense
I have one question though, if you could say what senseis teach you different things it would be great.
Thank you from Denmark!
Makes so much sense. Thank you Enkamp-san. I remember my sensei along with someone he had trained with,going over the differences between the various versions of kata that they practiced.
That was awesome. I’m in a school with many black belts they all think tradition is the way to go and I had a hard time explaining to them what you just explained thank you very much. Love your videos keep up the good work!
Master and Michael Mannino
The correct interpretation of a kata is the one that works for your mind and your body for the situation in which you find yourself. If your kata is not evolving, even from one session to the next, you are stagnating. Good stuff, Jesse. Variations, i have found, are a fantastic peek into the psychology and philosophy of the practitioner, and the style. Cheers!
Thanks for this video. Now I know why i have these reflex. My reaction time is amazing. Because of performing kata. And also exercise the muscles to give strong blocks and punches .
I'd look funny . Because im thin xD but can give a fatal punch :) . That ive learned from your 1 video. Towel and stick
Bravo Sensei Jesse!! Great explanation and teaching about katas🥋👍🙏
Kata builds proper form, movement and balance. Kata IS fighting.
Would like to hear your opinion on;
Combat Karate league.
How Karate will be affected by its entrance into the Olympics.
How to use hip placement and footwork to counter a takedown.
Thanks for the great content!
Thanks for the ideas! 😄 PS. Olympic Karate video already exists, search for ”The Truth About Olympic Karate” 👍
Jesse Enkamp cool I will check it out.
Nice question
JUST AWESOME! if i would show this 4 masters 3 would say you dont understand anything and the 4th would thank you. i mean this is nothing new but not many people would say this. and this is something a teacher is permanent confronted. "no this would not work in a real fight!" and the 3 who disagreed with you would say "than train harder to make it work" and the fourth would say "so change it that it can work!" i love those kind of videos. and as always. thx and best regards from germany
You got it 👍 Thanks for watching and chiming in! 😄
Thanks for the video. I would like to add to what you said by calling your attention to two of my videos.
The 1st is called “Hung Gar vs Everyone else.” This shows how katas or fiend can be used in fights.
The 2nd is called “where is TMA in MMA” and shows how to adapt forms to fighting.
Thank you.
This makes sense, why my body has been adjusting it for years when I shadow anticipate the bunkai combat kata; namely: the hybridized free flow katas. If the user continues exploring kata with combat mentally combined with budo mindset. It becomes like this @Jesse Enkamp.
You literally gave the entire secret away. It's deeper than that, it also reflects your mental state as the adaption depends on one more element beyond Hindi. However, I won't mention it on UA-cam. That full reverse engineering can be enlightening yet a deep burden too; namely: it has no limit but to the limit of the user reverse engineering techniques so the source you reach combined with different martial arts, internal qi tapping, and truly awakened "seiza" unlock the recessive elements not physically visible to most within karate. It's not an easy burden, so I now understand why they limit the sharing of certain knowledge, and no sensei told me what to do this. Mentally and spiritually it makes you in balance with nature. Huge burden though, there is literally no limit to this and it is dangerous knowledge in the wrong hands to share too openly. So I took to the wild and have never shared this. I train in plain sight and its all hidden within my freeflow kata purposely.
Who is indian and searching for comment saying hindi is my mother tongue
It's also important to note that karate expects you to master a kata. From this mastery, you can piece meal the kata in a real fight. You can flow from kata to kata depending on the need.
In India Hindi is our national language and in Japan it totally changed .
Btw thanks for this knowledge
Osu! I had something to ask...
Our Sensei teaches everyone in one style...but when our seniors teach us, they sometimes teach a step differently while keeping other steps alright...
Is it something I should avoid or should I learn from everyone like this as a part of "adapting"?
Btw our seniors are black belts, I'm a magenta and we practice shotokan! My Respect as always!
You should follow your sensei’s way as closely as possible :-)
Jesse Enkamp OK 😀
A boxing 1 2 3 could be called a kata
2:38 . I call 'hindi 'my language.
2:33 you know I am an Indian and Hindi is my mother tongue