Karate tournament from the 80s
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- Опубліковано 27 січ 2022
- Enshin Karate tournament from the late 80's (early 90's)
The tournament is open to advanced competitors of any style.
The rules including use of grabs (one handed), sweeps and throws, in addition to kicks, punches, knees and other strikes. It is full contact karate with no gloves. Only striking to the head is restricted, but full power kicks to the head, neck and face are allowed.
In the late 80s (early 90s) it was a very popular tournament.
Is it just me or does it seem karate went a hell of a lot 'harder' back in the day?
It did, I would say there were tournaments up to like 2010 that were softer than this but harder than what it is today. I did TKD back in 98-99 and I do like TKD but they went softer than Karate did. Karate really didn't get super weak till 2011ish plus.
In Japan, and Brazil they still do it hard. Doubt you'll find many places in America or Europe that goes that hard though, maybe the Netherlands/Dutch. Since they love Kickboxing. Mikes Gym, go hard will doing Kickboxing Training.
Kyokushin still goes hard I believe
@@OtakuKota in the Netherlands there are hardly any karate fights, and TKD is kata tournaments only. But yea, Kickboxing and MMA are hot here. If you ask people if the know Canelo or Mayweather, they won’t know what you are talking about. The only known names of boxers here are Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson.
Kyokushin always go hard
Kyokushin still like this tho.. If you search full contact karate you'll see pretty much same..
Chopping planks of wood, blokes getting knocked out cold and magnificent mullets, all to the tune of synth rock on grainy VHS. This video is utterly glorious! My compliments to the editor.
Back when the world was good, before I was born
Yeah the music just makes it all the more epic and drives home that 80s vibe
Im high af and just vibing
When men were men
Don't forget the epic mustaches
Brain and spine trauma combined with 80’s techno metal, glorious.
More retrowave actually.
This completely rocks
Fucking hell man, there will never be a more awesome decade than the 80's
The 90's was the high point of western civilization.
@@ObeyNoLies 100%.
Brutal and efficient. Damn, the damage these dudes took. Way more cool to watch than modern Olympics snore fest
Totally agree
This is kyokushin. They still have tournaments like this
Tho is an offshoot of Kyokushin.
By this point Kyokushin Knockdown tournaments didn’t allow any kind of grabs in general - makes for an odd situation where two fighters literally lean on each other as they fight in close quarters.
Not unlike two thugs fighting chest to chest to prove they’re all hard and everything but not quite the same either.
Make bruce lee scary
Snore fest is to you because it is a game of timing, speed and moment... Not everyone can get intelligent and tactical sports like WKF karate. Maybe if you read the rules and the criteria for a point, you'll get it... MAYBE.
Ofc it has its downsides - light contact to the head, a lot of sneaking, the game is too dependent on the judges. But full contact to the head will make almost every fight finish early because of the criteria for acquiring a point.
“it’s karate. old school karate.”
-johnny lawrence
I was scrolling through for a Cobra Kai reference. This video plays into that mantra of 1980's being a time of more manly prowress and people getting softer nowadays.
This is exactly what he meant. I wish there was a sensei like him in real life, I would become his student in a hearbeat
Old school Karate, before mcdojos ruined it for everyone.
@@dylanplumley280there are
I felt that line so much when he said it. We might be getting a bit older and slower, but we learned real Karate and not whatever the McDojo's teach these days.
Atleast Karate Combat is slowly bringing back the glory of Karate
have you not seen the new karate shit? they straight up just hold hands and dance
Everything was better in the 80's including the music!
Which is this music ❤
Regan took away mental health institutes and made many homeless people.
Back when traditional martial arts were actually badass. Most of these guys are just kyokushin fighters.
In fact, these are enshin karatekas, enshin is a school derived from kiokushinkai, that studies extensively the evasive and counterattack footwork, like the ashihara school.
@@Lasombrosidad interesting
@@Lasombrosidad but even ROUNDER (footwork). Also Ashihara, from the schools I've visited, LOVES elbows. Enshin also tends to have less ukeru but that might just be all of kyokushin these days
Back when men were men and women were glad of it. Today...we are worried about peoples personal pronouns...we are raising a generation of sissies. God help us if there is another world war
This! It's unfortunate everyone is all in on the whole UFC thing, but most of those guys are not martial artists. Fighters? Sure, but their technique is nothing like what's on display here. Closest we get is Wonderboy.
A good number of the scenes from this video are from the early to mid 1990's, and not just from the 1980's. There are a couple of clips featuring the great kickboxer Patrick Smith, who didn't start fighting in major tournaments until 1990-1991.
Pat Smith won one of these tournaments also fought in the ufc and k1.
Pat participated in the tournament in 1989
you mean pat smith the child molester?
@@joshuabrant3487 Sabaki challenge.
Kickboxing is really not a single fighting style. You can be a Muay Thai fighter and participate in a kickboxing match.
Now this is what real martial arts looks like. Either do it right or not at all. Nothing but full commitment and passion in sight.
I dunno if a flying knee to the face is needed. Crazy stuff.
@@justinhogue9861 Then don't do it. That's what I'm saying. You're singing yourself up for martial arts, so either properly learn how to put someone six feet under, or do something else. But dumbing it down is just disrecpectful to the tradition in my eyes.
Hate to disappoint you, but no tradition until really recent includes full-contact sparrings. Or any sparrings for that matter. “True” old martial arts were all about conditioning of your limbs and katas. All training. Putting somebody six feet under is more or of a boxing/MMA thing.
@@user-zj4zz4un5z Uh, wrong actually. But I don't feel like disproving people on the internet today. Just make some research yourself. Cleary, you're just uneducated and want to disagree with a fact, because it doesn't align with your believes. But whatever. Don't care.
You miss the point hard.
This is like the intro of a karate series I'd love to watch, with all those cool characters shown briefly and you only get to know them as the series progresses. Big respect to all the athletes!
Heck yeah! The 1980s went hard with the awesomeness.
Karate minoru
like WMAC Masters
Fun fact, these types of tournaments still exist today. This is Enshin karate, which derives from the more popular Kyokushin karate, as does Ashihara karate which is similar also. These are knockdown rule karate fights, punches to the body, kicks to the body, legs and head, knees to the head body and legs as well. They do not punch or elbow to the face, and it's hard to find a universally recognized reason for that, but the general consensus i've seen is that people say punching and elbowing to the face would make it too brutal. Personally I'd love if Kyokushin/Enshin/Ashihara karate would go ahead and put gloves on and start doing punches to the head. That said, I have the utmost respect for Kyokushi/Enshin/Ashihara karatekas, they're tough son of a bitches, i've done some fights with these rules and they're very intense and the body shots are potent as hell, I have a heavy background in Isshinryu Karate and loved training with the Kyokushin guys. If you want to see karate fights with more modern type rules, check out Karate Combat on youtube. Also worth checking out the style "Kudo Daido Juku", which from my understanding, is a more modern japanese MMA style heavily consisting of karate kickboxing and judo.
Enshin ryu is my jam.
@@christopherjones7023 there's an enshin place here where I live at the community center. If I didn't already spend my time doing MMA I'd consider doing it! Love my mma class and the family I got there, but definitely miss traditional karate after studying it for 12 years.
I do both ashihara and kyokushin karate, and basically while you don't have gloves on it would be very "violent" to have such tournament rules as permissible punches to the face. It would be almost real street fight :D But there are some categories in big tournaments they call them "full contact", allowing face punches but with gloves and helmet on as in Kudo.
@@PapaBeastyy yeah I hear ya. The one place in my town that used to teach it is gone now and has been for years sadly. I think I officially trained for something like 4 years in Enshin-ryu and since then trained at home off and on for like 20+. But man do I miss it. Godspeed and OSU!
@@PapaBeastyy Check out Kyokushin Shinken Shobu. It's Kyokushin with gloves and punches to the head. I don't like the Karate Combat ruleset. They don't allow lowkicks and hooks even thogh those are legitimate Karate techniques.
1:44 axe kick to flying kneee wow the speed
He is a Taekwondo black belt.
Tiger kick Sagat
@@Kzany42 no he is also karate lmao.Karate has also axe kick.
That’s some street fighter move you press red then yellow + ↩️
@Abinanta Maheswara Taekwondo has knee strikes
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Holy shit, this looks EXACTLY like the martial arts movies from the 80s and 90s!
Karate in the 80’s were truly badass 🥋🔥
Did they get exposed by the UFC in the 90s?
what u call badass is the normality of 80 . I bet some say too much rules or control. anyway nerfing promoted wimps and karens.
@@KeyserSoze23 A lot of styles have their strength and weakness, it all depends on the fighter, to me the most effective karate style Kyokushin.
@@KeyserSoze23 By that logic boxing also got exposed at ufc 1
@@KeyserSoze23
Lots of UFC fighters have Karate background, like GSP, and Anderson Silva
In 1978 I fought in a Mas Oyama tournament similar 2 this. I think the emphasis on “kicks only” 2 the head was an effort 2 keep the competition from turning in2 kick boxing matches.
Osu!
Makes sense
Mas Oyama was forced to make this stupid rule, i do Kyokushin with true full contact, we've been champions in more than 15 open tournaments with true full contact rules in 20 years (the only rules were no groin hits, only MMA gloves were allowed and only 18+ purple to black belts were allowed)
@Spectre Owl He did want to used gloves and at the time MMA gloves were not available. Bare knuckles to face cause bleeding, skinning of the knuckles… which is messy, potential infectious etc. Thus, bare knuckles and no face shot it is.
@@user-sq3oy4gk8b Didn’t even know Kyokushin have purple belt. What IKO are you under?
This is just pure epicness, truly marveling.
The technique and brutality, this is full on fights, everyone is so brave, risking everything in seconds, warriors.
I wonder what the winner got at the end just a trophy?
@@chriswiggins4842 for real man, trophy's don't pay any bills...
These guys can rotate their hips around their giant balls pretty effortlessly and I'm impressed.
warriors???? warriors are people who fight for a good cause to defend their ideals or country or family.
Punching and wacking eachother in the head is pretty cool to watchbut no bravery there or anything noble or valuable.
@@JustMe-vz3wd I'm afraid you don't understand the heart of martial arts.
Your name is fkn hilariousn 😂😂
I have been in martial arts since 1973. Honestly, we were not all fighting full contact with no safety gear. I have seen so many martial artists come and go, largely due to injuries. You really cannot take a full force shin kick to the head and not have it affect you for a long time or forever. Even a few broken ribs will put you out of commission for six months to a year and most folks don't return for more abuse and injury. From all the serious damage I have seen even from controlled fights, I don't condone heavy contact fighting with or without safety gear. It just is not worth the long term damage it does. Badass isn't really very cool if you can't ride the rides at Six-Flags with your son because of a concussion you received "back in the day"
What kind of "martial arts" ?? There's real martial arts and there's McDojo specials full of pansies
@@NJ-fi8or dawg what
Cool
In today’s era very unlikely to get into fist fights on the streets. I realized I rather just learn the art.
Right on
My taekwondo teacher always taught me the kind of karate/martial arts tourneys they had back in the 80s were practically UFC without grappling and faceshots. These videos are always so fascinating.
They dont a sportsman, they are a true warriors
*I* was the one who did a sportsman
They don't what?
😂
He don't a English
@@MicBain81 because he is busy killing chi. ldren
He don't have time to study..
Wow!! so very impressive.old school karate at its finest OSU!!!!
Do you think those guys are tougher than the little sissy boys in their 20's and 30's today?
@@joereidy5732 actually ur probably a sissy saying that xD
throws, knees, takedowns, one kick knock outs - god damn
Feels like a different world, a different era, a different time.
Damn... everything was better in the 80's/early 90's... music, film, sport... even toys!
Yes I liked the Gameboy too
@@moonsdonut5188 modern hardware and software are obviously better than gameboys, but honestly the games were a lot more divers and creative than modernage crap. all the AAA titles look and play the same
Now this is what we call proper fighting. Full power striking. This would have trained fighters to actually be tough and ready to actually defend themselves in a street fight instead of the crap they have now.
theres even an mma offshoot from this: ua-cam.com/video/M5AvCcLwaJQ/v-deo.html
You haven't seen Premier full contact Karate? Search for it. They are starting to have full contact combat because of UFC. Lot of people are badmouthing karate these days simply they haven't seen the real karate. Imagine if you can kick your opponent's groin. Muay Thai becomes a joke. LOL
Yeah, the expeditious efficiency of striking is lost to these new overly grappling oriented arts and competitions.
@@barriolimbas Not really. Striking and kicking dominate grappling in almost all women divisions in UFC. Judo which is more about throwing than grappling dominates BJJ. Just look at Shevchenko. She is all striking, kicking and throwing. You haven't seen many Russians in UFC that why you believe grappling dominates the MMA sport. Watch some Russian MMA. They are not scared of BJJ at all.
@@trumplostlol3007Look at how these strike and at how they strike mostly at MMA. Bottom line is striking had lost emphasis in favor of grappling, though recently even in MMA one can see the better strikers getting an upper hand easier.
Love that 80s Synthwave music. I began TKD in the 90s and we were no protective gear - but keeping hands up and blocking kicks to the head is rather important :)
I realize I always loved the hard styles and abilities of kicking. Minimal telegraph low kicks, dexterity for close range high kicks, kicking both sides of both legs, spinning kicks with ease.
We need this back so fucking bad
It wouldn't compete with karate combat and kyokushin tournaments.
@@IlyuuJrry34 U definitely smoking sum if you think this does not compete with what you're saying.
Nowadays not many would go through the vigorous training it demands.
@@IlyuuJrry34 karate combat does not have the look and feel and spirit of what you saw in this clip its waterd down
This is a derived style from kyokushin. Stop hard drugs!@@IlyuuJrry34
I love the flying knee the guy pulls out at 1:45 after a big miss with his axe kick. I have a feeling you’d be hard-pressed to find this kind of karate footage now but there must be some people still competing like this.
Me too. I noticed it, i tried to use it. Now i have the guide
Straplocked - Lasers and bombs
You're welcome! Train hard!
Thank you brother !!!
Now that Blood Sport theme song is playing in my head.
Вот это было каратэ!!!! Я в восторге и музыка супер!!! Спасибо. 👍
The head instructor at our gym competed in this era. We don’t play patty cake and the belt tests are BRUTAL. Full contact sparring with head kicks allowed.
There is no “this era”, Kyokushin Karate was and still the same from its creation.
That's incredibly stupid.
This is real Karate. The contact, the throws, the complete disregard for self preservation. I love it!
I wish I could relive the 80s and 90s. Obviously the best consecutive decades in history.
Pretty much. Everyone was rich and the music was awesome
@@kevinnorris6157 It heavily depends on the location, actually) My apologies for the long comment in response to one phrase, but we have such an interesting contrast of memories.... For example, the 90s in my Russia - the famous time of hunger, poverty, mass drug addiction and lawlessness.
The bosses did not pay wages for six months, sneering at the workers that they would not find another job anyway. Instead of money, people dragged self-made furniture from factories to barter things for food with their neighbors.
Dozens of narcomaniacs and alcoholics were lying everywhere right in snowdrifts and in front of house entrances, dying in back alleys and attacking passers-by in the streets.
The police (then still "the militia") could simply kidnap a man at the behest of local crooks and beat him in the basement. Entire departments were blackmailed or bribed by criminals - or turned into armed gangs of their own. In the general chaos, police officers also went months without being paid. Guns were sometimes not taken away from those dismissed, orders contradicted each other and got lost along the way.
And the oligarchs who were able to rise on the back of this horror - they could simply drive into a restaurant in a limousine and shoot the customers for fun. The next day, TV was already praising them as new parliamentarians, and their accusers disappeared.
"Nineties" is a swear word here, politicians remind about them in contrast, to show that now we live quite well) And you remember that everyone was rich....
But there are small reasons for nostalgia. Free-thinking, no one controlled daring musicians and comedians... So music was awesome, too) And drunken orgies everywhere. People reveled in sex after the end of decades of mandatory ideology and strict morality. Everyone tried to emulate the famous American nightlife and European hedonism from movies and racy travel stories... Especially universities were a horny mess. But other than that - no, no more 90s, please)
for usa history only. For Europe the best time was the 19th century, of course at that time usa was still an ex convict frontier land without civilized manners except in major cities.
fuck ya...movies...shows...cartoons ..music .man we had it alllll
@@ericastier1646 you watch too many movies.
Now these were the REAL Karate/Martial Arts Tournaments I remember as dangerous as it was! Not more or less this BS we're seeing today!
ua-cam.com/video/M5AvCcLwaJQ/v-deo.html this was an mma karate style back in the 80s
it all seems fun and games until someone loses an eye
@@ltmandarYou sound like an overprotective mum.
@@Tokmurok thats a first :)
@@ltmandar So what? Did those fighters need your sympathy? Don't think so high of yourself, they knew what they get them into and your opinion means nothing.
love this clip and music is so perfect
Music
Straplocked "Laser or bomb"
Fighting in karate tournaments back in the day was the real deal. Nothing like what they do now. Even groin strikes were legal in some I fought in. What great memories!
This is like an entire different martial art compared to Olympic karate nowadays
Enshin karate is, in my opinion, the most entertaining karate style to watch
It's cool, but I think Kudo is more entertaining and complete...
Kudo are independent now, they are no longer karate branch
Those were some gorgeous kick knockouts in the video! Beautiful technique!
Раньше каратэ был жеще.
Хорошое время было.)
Вот ЭТО Я ПОНИМАЮ....ЖЕСТКО И БЕЗКОМПРОМИСНО.
ВЕЛИКОЕ УВАЖЕНИЕ ВЕЛИКОМ БОЙЦАМ 80-Х
как же без комментария олд скулл комбат как всегда рулит!!карате ММА кикбоксинг борьба много много ещё по этой теме!!лучший канал на Ютубе!больше хайкик лайков и никакого партер дизлайков(которых уже нет правда)
These guys are the best around, nothing's gonna ever keep them down!
They bring themselves down with heavy injuries and lasting repercussions. Are they more handicapped before or after the fight?
They're the best!!!!
AROOUND!!!
@@panorama4526 😏
So brutal the quality of this video, amazing movements and music and well edited. Godamn, this video inspire me to practise
Karate tournaments these days are basically 3 minutes of hopping around, some feints and occasional attempts to score.
Sounds like an episode of Beavis & Butthead
Wow. I love your videos, about old school fighters. Here other great one, you made. Thank you for your time and love for old school fighters. Keep up the good work.
"That's why they call this thing bloodsport, kid"
Exactly, many real good comments, it was tough, crawl home after a work out, bruised but not without it also being fun... nothing but good memories. A lot of great people.
...back in the days when people actually hit each other in Karate!
2:20 "Boards don't hit back..." - Bruce Lee
LMAO, Newton would say that Bruce Lee tricked us all.
Spinning side kicks and mullets….glorious
Вот это КАРАТЕ! А на современное, без слез смотреть невозможно. Поэтому ММА и Муай-тай "задавили" каратэ по зрелищности и популярности.
Каратеки сами убили карате, выдавая пояса всем подряд.
Now THIS is Karate worth watching. Not the olimpic shit they do nowadays.
I miss the 80’s and 90’s💯
Dang these guys took home concussions as consolation prizes
And props to the guy bringing his home colors to the fight 0:46
I agree that many of these fighters may have developed chronic traumatic encephalopathy due to lifelong concussions. I understand the desire to push your body to the limit and turn your fists into weapons, but I always ask myself: “Is it worth it”? Honestly, in modern times I think it's nonsense, currently there are more effective means when it comes to self-defense, and if the intention is competitions, what's the point of subjecting yourself to a future fucked up old age with neurological and bone diseases such as arthritis and osteoarthritis without ANY financial return from this?? It's stupid to submit yourself to the risk of becoming an outcast in old age, a dead weight for your children and your wife. Nonsense!
The sweet music is really what makes these sweet karate moves hit for me!
Man what a great vibe i feel watchin this video) I was born in 90's, but I miss 80's)
❤ these old school fights
What do you love about them?
@@joereidy5732 They are actually fighting duh. Kinda a stupid question if u ask me.
@@lanky6429 But, I didn't ask you did I Sparky? NOPE!
@@joereidy5732 Did I ask you to make that comment? NOPE!!!! Not that hard to make that comment LMAO.
@@joereidy5732 Someone might as well point out you're low iq with that stupid question it's only fair 🤷
The music is PERFECT. This video is PERFECT.
0:58 This guy's kick was perfect.
What karate combat is trying to bring back.🥋👊
with no thigh kicks lol (they did exclusively to mess up with full contact karate practicioners, the "differentiate from kickboxing" is just an excuse)
Karate combat sucks its so corny
@@nvanguy6868no.
times when people were actually keeping distance instead of getting glued to each other for the whole fight...
Hahahaha kyokushin guys are going to hate you for this!
The style of the fights are all upto the rules of the game and the scoring..
@@sardalamit hah, I'm training kyokushin myself and I've seen way too many fights that were looking exactly the same. And yeah, the most ''boring'' (in terms of repetition) fights I had a chance to see were coming from kyokushin players who were specifically trained for tournaments, so rules and everything definitely mean something.
@@morpyna7593 hats off to you for Kyokushin.
It's more interesting than an Olympic karate match. 💪
I miss this!! Thank you for sharing!💮
I was an active competitor in world Oyama karate in the 80s. This was how we trained and this was how we fought. OSU!
how would you compare this to muy-thai we have today?
I do BJJ and i see some of the takedowns in this video and they look brutal as fuck.
BJJ is legendary for its shitty takedowns, its basically just a little better than aikido.
"first do this, then do that". If it takes more than 2 or 3 big movements its usually bullshit.
There is a reason many just start on the ground, and its because the takedowns suck
I hate it when my gym teaches these kind of low percentage stuff. They think they have to teach a new takedown or move every fucking week instead on focusing on single leg, double legs, back take or high rate submissions. That's it. Get good at a set of moves that are high percentage rather than 50 that you suck at.
Guts. Pain. Sportsmanship. Bring it all back.
When you finish playing in the Cage and fight for real with precision and calmness.
Top notch. No punching or kicking on the ground just a clean fight.
very nice
Истинный дух принятия победы или поражения, честный бой всегда виден. Ос!
Upload some sedokaikan and ashihara tournment videos. Ashihara sensei was expelled from school by Mas Oyama due to a street fight. His style of karate was very practical and the tournments he arranged were very dangerous.
Street fights? I thought it was the way he trained the students. He was teaching Sabaki .
That 80’s action martial arts music is so bad ass I’m born in the 90’s and I think the 80’s was the coolest era ever I wish I would have been a teenager in the 80’s and a young adult in the 80’s as well
Same here
That times will never ever come back!! Nothing will be like that again!!
"It's Karate. Old school Karate." Johnny Lawrence a.ka King Cobra Kai
"You gotta block that"
if karate was still like this i would do it
The dojo I go to teaches us how to fight like this there are still old style karate dojos out there there just harder to find
@@theman0110 which country
@@epicmetal7462 mine is in amarica but we learn old style okinawan karate so I imagine Okinawa has alot
@@theman0110 ok i go to okinawa
Karate is still like this, but you can’t bother to look.
Great video!! Great music and fight footage.
This goes harder than I thought it would. Impressive.
B....Bu....B....But... You can't knock someone out! That's evil!
- The olympics
Old school was pretty hardcore. Need to bring it back (with better rules).
it's now brought back through olympics Karate
Its still here, so no need to bring it back.
@@wanderer1125 Different style of Karate.
Gänsehaut auf hohem Niveau 😂geiles Video und die Musik ballert miese,! ❤
There is a nice compilation of Rob Kaman on cool 80s music around, thought it was yours too.
Anyway nice video!
Edit: it's by Muay Thai Scholar, check it out yall.
A lot of what I've heard about karate is that it's better than knowing nothing in terms of a combat style, but that it had a number of shortcomings. This clip certainly dispels a lot of that - these guys were definitely badasses. 👍
Well, I did Karate for a couple of years then attended a kickboxing class and sparred with a guy who had been doing it a couple of months and had my ass handed to me. I discovered I knew nothing about timing, distance, recoil and quickly learnt karate blocks don't work. Never went back to Karate.
@@photronsardarkling2064 what style of Karate did you practice? Did your school have Kumite with points or full-contact Karate?
When you say „karate-blocks don’t work“ which blocking techniques do you mean?
If you’re referring to age-uke (jodan-uke) or Soto-uke (chudan-uke), then yes, they don’t work in a real fight, but they’re not really meant to. In a real gibt, nobody throws a single punch and then blocks singularly. The traditional ways of blocking are just there to learn the form. I regular spar with MMA-guys, and my modernised version of Karate somewhat holds up against these guys. But not Kata or Kihon, they are meant for training, not for actual free fighting.
@@a.rheser8181 Shotokan, very traditional and in truth, the sparring gave you a false sense of security but was of little value. Virtually no blocks in karate or any combat sport work because by the time you've seen the move it's already too late. You are far better off from behind good defensive positions where strikes to you land on strategically placed arms legs etc, you see this more in boxing and good kick boxers/Thai fighters but not so much in MMA because they are looking to take you to the canvas. Anyway, this is all academic for me because I'm now in my 60s and don't do combat sports anymore. 😁
@@photronsardarkling2064 im really confused by what you say because I see plenty of boxers and MMA fighters using blocks regularly, especially from high guard and long guard. do you mean the weird dramatic movie karate type blocks that dont cover up anything?
@@photronsardarkling2064 Lyoto Michida. main style-Shotokan. MMA world champion using a lot of Shotokan techniques. Don't forget- fighting also depends on ACTUAL Talent, not just style. Maybe you just weren't very good? Did you even earn Shodan Rank?
Everything in the 80s was on a different level then anything today
Then why'd your generation ruin everything man
@@maryjanehansen7947 what did we ruin ?
@@brianthompson7482 As in why'd your generation implement all the excessive safety rules and procedures that defines the "pussy" generations of the future?
This music track is epic! Couldn't remember where I heard it when it kept repeating in my head. And there we are, hello youtube.
Great choice of music!!!
Why couldn’t this be the Olympic rule set?
What is the Olympic rule set?
Ok i just Googled Olympic rule set and it is total bullshit
Politics
Different Karate style.
There were quite a lot of injuries in those days, the Olympics probably don't want that. I mean that's why you don't see much karate like this anymore in general.
80s/90s were the golden age of humanity.
Damn that was something else... Looks like seeing a classic JCVD but IRL and with the same music
Wow, the karate kid movie wasn’t joking. These tournaments were pretty badass back in the day.
BRAH! This was my jam back in the days. Most “MMA fighters” these days just don’t know
Karate was kind of like mma, it was a combination of everything
Well this is how true karate looks like.
Amazing aesthetic edit, props. Its a shame decades when many many many more people than nowadays used to truly do things with their heart full of hardcore passion are gone. I dont mean only karate, I mean everything....
Wery well made, excellent music choice 👌
Wow. How did this become the sport of who yells and touches the opponent more?
Sabaki Challenge. Thought I saw Pat Smith in some of the highlights. He went on to compete in the early days of the UFC.
Yeah I remember Pat Smith...I didn't see him in the video though
@@joereidy5732 Thought it might be him around 1:20 and 1:43.
@@cheyennew811 Yeah that's him GREAT SPOT MAN
This was Enshin Karate hosted by Joko Niyomiya…an awesome a beautiful style. An offshoot of Kykoshin Karate! I had a VHS of this tourney!
I have so many scars from the 80's, but they all have a good "you had to have been there" story to go with them.
No wonder karate kid was so popular in the 80s
Old School Karate was pure brutality. And people today say Karate isn't good. I am like lets go back in time for a moment. Just a Moment. My Brother in Law taught me this style growing up. It's extremely lethal.
Your sister was a child bride and her husband beat you? Damn. That’s really hard core bro.
@@ch0wned If you are trying to be funny, you failed.
People say karate is no good and doesn't work because of the way it is taught today. Being taught the way it was intended makes it very effective. It is taught now a days so everyone can participate when in actuality it is not for everyone if taught correctly. It's a fighting art not a dance class.
That's not old school karate, it's old school FULL CONTACT KARATE, that's totally different from shotokan styles light contacts.
@@saporob I know they are different. I was just stating something people say. Some people say this is type of Karate is nothing. But I always thought different on all type of Martial arts. Not just this.