I've trained shotokan karate for a long time and I love this art, but I had to change and today I train boxing for a few years now, but when I see this guy Andre Bertel I see the essence of true karate, this master is scary the way he mastered the technique !
This is a real karateka who has spent years learning and perfecting his techniques. I was expecting to see loads of the normal comments about "let's see him against mma", but the only one was, "Looks good against targets that don't move". One of the best videos I've seen!!
I did my 1st Kyu exam about 18 years ago and haven’t really trained in karate since. I’m watching your vids as I love the technique, and I’m wishing I had someho continued. My psychology to obsess into a financial career led me to sacrifice my karate training, as I put all my energy into the career. No time left. Now I’ve gone from 64kg old fighting weight to 84kg .. and it seems like such a long road back to get to my old karate shape and abilities. I suppose one just has to start slowly. Though right now my work is so brutal it’s all I can do to survive from it. Ok. I’ve solved it: working hard in karate for me will ‘look’ like not much.. but I’ll be working hard just to do a little. (Just to do a few movements while in a state of exhaustion). And that will progress me. Step by step.
He certainly is a grandmaster of Karate.His speed and movements are amazing.Not only does it take many years to reach his level.His spirit.Is perfectly suited for karate.
Thank you so much for your kind words, however, I am just training aiming to be 'more masterful'. I'll never be a master nor more than that, but I still thank you for your compliments. OSU
Myself and my daughter just watched some of your seminar videos, and one of your older interviews. I’m a purple belt, my daughters (11). a full green belt, in Hyung Chi Do on the Goldcoast in Aus. You are just outstanding, and your a Kiwi. Even better. Your such an inspiration and totally dedicated, very much respect to you Sensei.
One can sense the effortless, instant "Intent" in the way sensei Bertel delivers every technic. Being in the moment. This is what I'm taking on board from watching him, most recently, today. Osu! from the UK.
If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend it. I was lucky enough to train with André from 1993 until 2007, & it has been essentially impossible to find a comparable teacher since
@@DenniWintyr You're right Denni. As I mentioned a few days ago, Andre's stationary karate is excellent. Shame that unlike most of the truly great instructors he never was a great competitor either in New Zealand (he's only really competed in those small scale WUKO, KANZ joke like local Shotokan events in NZ; the one time he did participate in a tournament where the cream of NZ competitors competed he got cleaned up by C. W.) or indeed internationally, other than his Kumamoto (population 1.7 million) kata competition title. It doesn't diminish his stationary ability but it adds nuance and perspective to his grandiose claims :-). Those who know Andre know humility was never his strength.
Osu sensei Bertel please keep up the fantastic work you are doing I hope one day in the future I am able to visit you in Oita city to train and talk. Kind regards.
Uh I just love watching you do Karate! I hope I get lucky enough to personally train with you one day. There's so much I wanna ask! Best of luck and safety to you and your family.
I'm not a Karate guy and don't particularly like Karate technique but it's good to see the importance of torque and lateral power generation being emphasised so much. The ability to generate high levels of impact in enclosed spaces is very important.
@@andrebertel للأسف أنا لا أتكلم الانجليزية متأسف جدا جدا ....حلم عمري أن أذهب الي اليابان .....انت وصلت إلي مرتبة كبيرة وعالمية في الكاراتيه ....انت المعلم ((أساي)) التاني... عندك سرعة رهيبة وجنونية....oss
Osu! Yes, great point. Asai Sensei is regarded as a 'karate genius' here in Japan, but indeed genius also implies eccentricity. Osaka Sensei told me "no one can do Asai Sensei's karate". Nakamura Masamitsu Sensei calls him "one in a million karateka" meaning, he was a 'one off' in his time. Both were referring to the extreme flexibility and seemingly endless variations. In my case, I am a standard Shotokan guy, but Asai Sensei personally helped me to expand on that, which I'm deeply grateful for. Fortunately, Asai Sensei stressed others not to copy him, but rather, find their own unique way. However, whichever way this is, that one must perfect softness and use natural energy, if one's upper limits (speed and impact power) are to be surpassed; furthermore, if one's skill is to keep advancing after they pass their physical prime. I have met some senior instructors here in Japan who don't like Asai Sensei's karate and only like lots of repetition and hardness.... However, as they have aged their karate always diminishes quickly. In Asai Sensei's own words, "the post WW2 karate was hard, to build back strong spirit". Asai Sensei wanted to return to karate to its bujutsu form. What stunned me about Asai Sensei is that until the last few months of his life his karate was just getting better and better. That, to me, will always be inspirational. Kindest regards and best wishes from Oita City! Osu, Andre Bertel
I have some questions regarding the techniques. At 0:23, are the whipping motions used shotu-uchi wasa or some variation? If so, how effective is a strike to the body with them? As they are some kind of "slapping" I am not sure a chudan strike with this kind of technique would be very effective. On a similar note, there are lots of spins involved in the style, are they a trainingmethod to learn to go with the Momentum and coordinate in space? (E.g. at 2:27 going with the Momentum of the tsuki, ) Or is the spinning actually meant to be applied in fighting? (As in my experience, spinning is very hard to pull of to be not dangerous) ありがとう
Osu, yes the rear targets are not the body, that is to protect. The impression of slaps is wrong. But I thought the same thing until I learned from Asai Sensei. Spinning is less often effective than it is an excellent training method. So your analysis is correct in that regard. In sum, these videos do not suffice! If you come to train here in Japan as a renshusei at my dojo and/or attend a seminar - everything is clear. Kindest regards from Japan. I hope that helped clarify a few things for you!! Osu, AB
@@andrebertel Osu. Yes, I plan to learn more from you one day, if I get the chance. Thank you very much for claryfying Sensei. I dont want to be annoying, but could you specify what you mean by 'protect'? To protect the partner? How would you describe these techniques instead? Kindest regards from Germany. Osu, JP
ありがとうございます！ I have many friends in the other ryuha/kaiha, including 糸東流 (Shito Ryu); however, I only practice 松濤館流 (Shotokan Ryu). Nevertheless, my teacher was 浅井哲彦先生 (Asai Tetsuhiko Sensei) so the style of Shotokan I practice and teach more strongly links to Okinawa and China. Kindest regards regards and best wishes from 大分市！！ 押忍、アンドレ
@@objectiveinc.5961 Damn dude, you have quite the hard on for this guy. You know you don't have to watch his videos, right? Ignore him if you don't like him! Let's get back to training! What are you working on today? Let me know, cause I want to switch it up!
Perhaps the truest karate out there everything in in the US is a cheap watered-down franchise, I wish he had a school on New York. He seem like a real 20 th century Bruce.
I sopport Andri bertel candidate to proove karete is better than other martial art, like in the movie karate always defeated kungfu like movie ip man 4, i am not sure in real life, silat ext, they alway said karate useless and think they better than karate, may be they are not yet meet skill karateka like andre bertel. Power full and quick.
Sorry, alles für die Kamera, ein echter Vollkontaktkampf mit dynamischen Angriffen ist eine völlig andere Liga Sorry, all for the camera, real full contact combat with dynamic attacks is a whole different league
Nice and pretty but Tyson used to say everyone has a plan until they get hit. I’m not saying that this guy doesn’t have any skills as you can see that he does, but still he’s doing techniques that are staged in a control environment with No resistance or a opposition. So I’ll reserve my optimism on how good he might be in a real fight against a trained fighter.Martial arts is based on Theory. so I would really like to see the practicality of the techniques that he’s performing in a real life fight and situation. until I see some real footage of him actually fighting. I will remain skeptical. But I did enjoy the video.
I agree with you. One cannot ascertain ones fighting skills via the observation of basic training. Working in security for more than a decade, I had my fair share of fights. Early on I learned that winning competitions and real fights were different beasts, and I adapted accordingly. Definitely the basics are critical, but not the full package either; moreover, as you said, it cannot establish one's effectiveness (by mere observation of one's movements) in jiyu kumite, nor, indeed the street. Kind regards and thanks for the post! More martial arts practitioners need to be conscious of this point. So I appreciate your comment! Osu
Lennox Neils cause they refuse to mix their knowledge and skills with other skills like wrestling or Bjj. A lot of top experts are also purists (this is where their dedication comes from) and so the same thing that makes them expects also keeps them back.
@@WhitecatProject alot of top karate practitioners of old were also well adverse in other martial arts like judo, this is well documented. The argument is the same, why does a tennis player not mix and play badminton as well....because his tennis game would weaken. They tended to steer towards karate usually because they preferred it or it suited their stature as a pose to judo or wrestling.
Parce que le MMA et l'UFC a beaucoup trop de règles qui interdisent les coups du karaté. C'est comme de dire pourquoi on ne voit pas de karatéka en boxe anglaise.
@@ruitrindade1319 se la pensi diversamente dato che facevo incontri di kyokushinkai, di cui sono istruttore ho anche fatto diversi tornei di Sanda per ko, facciamo così provi ad applicare quello che viene fatto nel video in una sessione di sparring non collaborativo se ti escono queste tecniche ti darò ragione altrimenti sappiamo già cosa significa ... Vuoi provare ?! Le persone non le atterri con una tecnica come in questi video in un contesto realistico!
C'est juste parce que tu n'as pas la capacité de les réaliser. Ce n'est pas parce que tu es mauvais que c'est pour tout le monde pareil. Regarde un match de boxe thaï tu verras que les techniques qu'il fait sont les mêmes.
I've trained shotokan karate for a long time and I love this art, but I had to change and today I train boxing for a few years now, but when I see this guy Andre Bertel I see the essence of true karate, this master is scary the way he mastered the technique !
Boxing better punches shotokan more complete for self defense
This is a real karateka who has spent years learning and perfecting his techniques. I was expecting to see loads of the normal comments about "let's see him against mma", but the only one was, "Looks good against targets that don't move". One of the best videos I've seen!!
i so love watching this reel. makes me want to try out karate. keepem coming brother
you sir are really amazing karateka
I did my 1st Kyu exam about 18 years ago and haven’t really trained in karate since.
I’m watching your vids as I love the technique, and I’m wishing I had someho continued.
My psychology to obsess into a financial career led me to sacrifice my karate training, as I put all my energy into the career. No time left.
Now I’ve gone from 64kg old fighting weight to 84kg .. and it seems like such a long road back to get to my old karate shape and abilities.
I suppose one just has to start slowly.
Though right now my work is so brutal it’s all I can do to survive from it.
Ok. I’ve solved it: working hard in karate for me will ‘look’ like not much.. but I’ll be working hard just to do a little. (Just to do a few movements while in a state of exhaustion).
And that will progress me.
Step by step.
Take it slow, and don't compare with your past or others. Step by step you will achieve your goals. All the very best from Japan.
L efficacité du KARATÉ c est André BERTEL.
Superbe karatéka !
Osu, thank you very much. Greetings from Japan
Excellent sensei, we will expect your seminar in Paris ,,oss
He certainly is a grandmaster of Karate.His speed and movements are amazing.Not only does it take many years to reach his level.His spirit.Is perfectly suited for karate.
Thank you so much for your kind words, however, I am just training aiming to be 'more masterful'. I'll never be a master nor more than that, but I still thank you for your compliments. OSU
That is real Karate! That is the way it is intended to be!
Myself and my daughter just watched some of your seminar videos, and one of your older interviews. I’m a purple belt, my daughters (11). a full green belt, in Hyung Chi Do on the Goldcoast in Aus. You are just outstanding, and your a Kiwi. Even better. Your such an inspiration and totally dedicated, very much respect to you Sensei.
Ótimo karatê
..estilo todo esecial...oss.👍
This is the real deal he is a karate Master I've trained 25years but this guy is great
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One can sense the effortless, instant "Intent" in the way sensei Bertel delivers every technic. Being in the moment. This is what I'm taking on board from watching him, most recently, today. Osu! from the UK.
かっこいい！！
Wish I could learn from him.... 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👌🏻From India 🇮🇳
Same :D
If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend it. I was lucky enough to train with André from 1993 until 2007, & it has been essentially impossible to find a comparable teacher since
@@DenniWintyr You're right Denni. As I mentioned a few days ago, Andre's stationary karate is excellent. Shame that unlike most of the truly great instructors he never was a great competitor either in New Zealand (he's only really competed in those small scale WUKO, KANZ joke like local Shotokan events in NZ; the one time he did participate in a tournament where the cream of NZ competitors competed he got cleaned up by C. W.) or indeed internationally, other than his Kumamoto (population 1.7 million) kata competition title. It doesn't diminish his stationary ability but it adds nuance and perspective to his grandiose claims :-). Those who know Andre know humility was never his strength.
Beautiful and effectieve karate
Osu sensei Bertel please keep up the fantastic work you are doing I hope one day in the future I am able to visit you in Oita city to train and talk.
Kind regards.
Uh I just love watching you do Karate! I hope I get lucky enough to personally train with you one day. There's so much I wanna ask! Best of luck and safety to you and your family.
I'm not a Karate guy and don't particularly like Karate technique but it's good to see the importance of torque and lateral power generation being emphasised so much.
The ability to generate high levels of impact in enclosed spaces is very important.
すべての偉大なコメントとメッセージをありがとう！！
押忍、アンドレ
ANDRÉ BERTELانت انسان رائع هده هيا الكاراتيه الحقيقية انت أسطورة .....أتمنى إذهب الي اليابان مثلك .....تحية إليك من ليبيا
@@mohammedaburgega7088 Thank you very greetings from Japan and all the best in your training. Osu!
@@andrebertel للأسف أنا لا أتكلم الانجليزية متأسف جدا جدا ....حلم عمري أن أذهب الي اليابان .....انت وصلت إلي مرتبة كبيرة وعالمية في الكاراتيه ....انت المعلم ((أساي)) التاني... عندك سرعة رهيبة وجنونية....oss
@@mohammedaburgega7088 Osu, I am sorry I can't speak your language also! However, we speak the same language of karate!!
Kindest regards from Japan.
Grate fan of you Sensei
He is a excelent athlete
There are people who do karate and there are people who are born to do karate!
Este karateka es la evidencia de que el sothokan entrenado en la debida forma es eficaz.
Sensei Oss! Respect from India 🇮🇳.
Nice to see the video and we are also interested in conducting a training camp
I would love for him to come to Trinidad so i can learn from him osu
Sensi you are incredible
i had my 3th dan 20 years ago, i m not a fun of karate but his techniques are perfect!!!
it takes lots of hrs every day for many years of practice to reach at that level, you need to hv the spirit and the intelligence as well!!
Brazil 🇧🇷 Ossu !! 👍👍👍
This is Budo-Karate, oss
EXCELENTE GRACIAS
I'm surprised to see that much creativity in karate which tends to be very conservative. How was Master Asai's karate received in Japan by his peers?
Osu! Yes, great point. Asai Sensei is regarded as a 'karate genius' here in Japan, but indeed genius also implies eccentricity. Osaka Sensei told me "no one can do Asai Sensei's karate".
Nakamura Masamitsu Sensei calls him "one in a million karateka" meaning, he was a 'one off' in his time.
Both were referring to the extreme flexibility and seemingly endless variations.
In my case, I am a standard Shotokan guy, but Asai Sensei personally helped me to expand on that, which I'm deeply grateful for.
Fortunately, Asai Sensei stressed others not to copy him, but rather, find their own unique way. However, whichever way this is, that one must perfect softness and use natural energy, if one's upper limits (speed and impact power) are to be surpassed; furthermore, if one's skill is to keep advancing after they pass their physical prime.
I have met some senior instructors here in Japan who don't like Asai Sensei's karate and only like lots of repetition and hardness.... However, as they have aged their karate always diminishes quickly. In Asai Sensei's own words, "the post WW2 karate was hard, to build back strong spirit". Asai Sensei wanted to return to karate to its bujutsu form.
What stunned me about Asai Sensei is that until the last few months of his life his karate was just getting better and better. That, to me, will always be inspirational.
Kindest regards and best wishes from Oita City!
Osu, Andre Bertel
Gran maestro desde Uruguay oss
Andre Bertel the best!! :D
Isto é o Karaté q eu AMOOOO!!!
What a beast...
Excellent
he really is a great master of karate, everyone who is saying something else, is just stupid. liebe grüße aus berlin :)
Oss!! Sensei
なんだこの人....ヤバすぎるだろ
今までポコポコ腹たたきダンスこと極真のせいで空手は弱いと誤解してましたごめんなさい
In the flow of the Dao...
Cant you teach me
Sensacional 🐲🐲🐲
He reminds me of Tom Cruise's character in the movie The Collateral.
I have some questions regarding the techniques.
At 0:23, are the whipping motions used shotu-uchi wasa or some variation? If so, how effective is a strike to the body with them? As they are some kind of "slapping" I am not sure a chudan strike with this kind of technique would be very effective.
On a similar note, there are lots of spins involved in the style, are they a trainingmethod to learn to go with the Momentum and coordinate in space? (E.g. at 2:27 going with the Momentum of the tsuki, ) Or is the spinning actually meant to be applied in fighting? (As in my experience, spinning is very hard to pull of to be not dangerous)
ありがとう
Osu, yes the rear targets are not the body, that is to protect.
The impression of slaps is wrong. But I thought the same thing until I learned from Asai Sensei.
Spinning is less often effective than it is an excellent training method. So your analysis is correct in that regard.
In sum, these videos do not suffice! If you come to train here in Japan as a renshusei at my dojo and/or attend a seminar - everything is clear.
Kindest regards from Japan. I hope that helped clarify a few things for you!!
Osu, AB
@@andrebertel
Osu.
Yes, I plan to learn more from you one day, if I get the chance.
Thank you very much for claryfying Sensei.
I dont want to be annoying, but could you specify what you mean by 'protect'? To protect the partner?
How would you describe these techniques instead?
Kindest regards from Germany.
Osu, JP
This is空手道，
He shows real purpose and origin of karate system. Not a sport..... Sport is kind of pathology based on compromise
Awesome. Oss
Osu. saludos desde Perú.
afileted mely ga sir
Genial kami Basami.
松濤館の他に糸東流もやってんのか。
ありがとうございます！ I have many friends in the other ryuha/kaiha, including 糸東流 (Shito Ryu); however, I only practice 松濤館流 (Shotokan Ryu). Nevertheless, my teacher was 浅井哲彦先生 (Asai Tetsuhiko Sensei) so the style of Shotokan I practice and teach more strongly links to Okinawa and China.
Kindest regards regards and best wishes from 大分市！！ 押忍、アンドレ
台拳的！
What organization did you receive your 7th Dan from?
@@objectiveinc.5961 This is not true. Rokudan was accepted by the JKA some years ago and the 7. Dan was a technical exam with by a committee in Japan.
@@objectiveinc.5961 Ranking started in the 1940's, therefore they're all made up and fraudulent.
@@objectiveinc.5961 I've met green belts that have known more than black belts. Belt means nothing, it's about the Karateka! :)
@@objectiveinc.5961 Damn dude, you have quite the hard on for this guy. You know you don't have to watch his videos, right?
Ignore him if you don't like him! Let's get back to training! What are you working on today? Let me know, cause I want to switch it up!
@@objectiveinc.5961 Why must they be mercilessly exposed?
HI SENSEI
OSSU
Perhaps the truest karate out there everything in in the US is a cheap watered-down franchise, I wish he had a school on New York. He seem like a real 20 th century Bruce.
⛩
Boa! Show! Oss
I sopport Andri bertel candidate to proove karete is better than other martial art, like in the movie karate always defeated kungfu like movie ip man 4, i am not sure in real life, silat ext, they alway said karate useless and think they better than karate, may be they are not yet meet skill karateka like andre bertel. Power full and quick.
It is not important which martial art is better. The purpose for training is to improve yourself. You seem to have a childish thought process.
At 0.54 that guy is hitting the floor quite hard with his head.
Sorry, alles für die Kamera, ein echter Vollkontaktkampf mit dynamischen Angriffen ist eine völlig andere Liga
Sorry, all for the camera, real full contact combat with dynamic attacks is a whole different league
Ryu street fighter kkk
Nice and pretty but Tyson used to say everyone has a plan until they get hit. I’m not saying that this guy doesn’t have any skills as you can see that he does, but still he’s doing techniques that are staged in a control environment with No resistance or a opposition. So I’ll reserve my optimism on how good he might be in a real fight against a trained fighter.Martial arts is based on Theory. so I would really like to see the practicality of the techniques that he’s performing in a real life fight and situation. until I see some real footage of him actually fighting. I will remain skeptical. But I did enjoy the video.
I agree with you. One cannot ascertain ones fighting skills via the observation of basic training.
Working in security for more than a decade, I had my fair share of fights. Early on I learned that winning competitions and real fights were different beasts, and I adapted accordingly.
Definitely the basics are critical, but not the full package either; moreover, as you said, it cannot establish one's effectiveness (by mere observation of one's movements) in jiyu kumite, nor, indeed the street.
Kind regards and thanks for the post! More martial arts practitioners need to be conscious of this point. So I appreciate your comment! Osu
Why we see more of these guy in the MMA or UFC
Lennox Neils cause they refuse to mix their knowledge and skills with other skills like wrestling or Bjj. A lot of top experts are also purists (this is where their dedication comes from) and so the same thing that makes them expects also keeps them back.
@@WhitecatProject alot of top karate practitioners of old were also well adverse in other martial arts like judo, this is well documented. The argument is the same, why does a tennis player not mix and play badminton as well....because his tennis game would weaken. They tended to steer towards karate usually because they preferred it or it suited their stature as a pose to judo or wrestling.
Parce que le MMA et l'UFC a beaucoup trop de règles qui interdisent les coups du karaté.
C'est comme de dire pourquoi on ne voit pas de karatéka en boxe anglaise.
Its OK but he is a bit slow don't you think. :}
Ossu
Oz
Tecniche poco realistiche applicate a persone collaborative e ho detto tutto!
Lol
@@ruitrindade1319 se la pensi diversamente dato che facevo incontri di kyokushinkai, di cui sono istruttore ho anche fatto diversi tornei di Sanda per ko, facciamo così provi ad applicare quello che viene fatto nel video in una sessione di sparring non collaborativo se ti escono queste tecniche ti darò ragione altrimenti sappiamo già cosa significa ... Vuoi provare ?! Le persone non le atterri con una tecnica come in questi video in un contesto realistico!
@@Simo6911 i want to see.
C'est juste parce que tu n'as pas la capacité de les réaliser. Ce n'est pas parce que tu es mauvais que c'est pour tout le monde pareil.
Regarde un match de boxe thaï tu verras que les techniques qu'il fait sont les mêmes.
good mae garis , but the rest it is too scripted with little flow