One of the things I love about karate is how these questions unpack like Russian dolls. Sure, Jesse gives us one explanation here, but as you study karate, you'll find more reasons and applications to the techniques. For example, I also teach it as ushiro enpi - a reverse elbow strike - in the application of chokuzuki as an escape from being grappled from behind. But I'm sure Jesse could teach us many more! ;)
What amazes me is why these reasons are not told or well explained in the dojos right from the beginning, n it requires some genius to unfurl the reasons at a later stage of his career... Without real knowledge of these combat applications, it will remain like a fancy movement or dance form, with no functionality... The training methodology of Karate is seriously flawed as compared to other Martial Arts... 😐😎😶🙏🌼
Thanks Jesse. I have that question often presented to me. People who have been exposed to boxing particularly will say that karateka don't know how to punch. I emphasise with my students hikite from day 1. Of course the doubters change their minds once they are exposed to the realities of a Hikite/strike combo. Glad you are raising the community's awareness of these things.
Good stuff as always man. We also consider that its an elbow...you never know whats coming from behind. I've been attacked from front/back at the same time, that instinctive hikite/elbow caught the guy coming in behind with a bear hug right in the solar plexus. He dropped pretty hard not able to breathe so his friend just stopped attacking me and went to help him. I pretended to be all like "Yeah, thats right! Totally meant to do that!", but I didn't really know what had happened until a friend of mine who explained it to me after. If I'd stepped back into a boxing stance when the first guy swung on me, I'd probably have ended up being under hooked from behind and promptly throttled. Never did find out why they attacked me, but yeah, isn't there some saying about where luck and training meet? If not, there should be. Heh.
The pulling hand is just that. You grab pull the opponents arm into your own technique. You have to get belly to belly close to not get cut by a Samurai! Thanks for letting me watch your video.Your technique is great.😎🤔💪👊👏🙏❤
Here is my question: why does every move have the pulling hand it (seems like)? I mean, I can see how it's a good technique, but I'd imagine that there are plenty of times you either don't want to use it or are not in a position to use it.
@@waaagh3203 I believe if your motor skills are accustom to pulling back each time, it is going to be a mindless maneuver type effort, and it will work in your favor during an unexpected stressful situation. If you need it its there. Not having to do any thinking makes a fighter fluent and a decided winner in most cases.
That's why I love Karate.... I am a simple man Block and strike..... or block twist and strike. All done with spirit.. thank you Jesse loving the journey.
Punching thin area at full speed and power for prolonged periods of time will make you prone to lower back injuries (pain or strain)...unless you use hikite. Using a heavy bag, pads, sparring partner or a makiwara changes the system dynamics so that you may keep the passive hand where you like it to be. Hikite is of paramount importance if you want to train alone, without using any equipment. This is something I found out practicing shadow boxing with Bas Rutten's audio tapes. Nowadays, I still do the same workout but in a modified way. I use Karate techniques in place of the corresponding Thai boxing techniques and also avoid doing all the circular movements (hooks). No back pain doing the same workout any more. I do understand that everyone is different so it might be something that works only for me but I hope that other people will find this connection of hikite with body dynamics control and balance of some importance. Nice blog Jesse. Reignited my interest in traditional Karate. Thanks.
Hi Jesse! I'm a fellow karateka and I have some questions for you: 1-What is your source on the hikite topic? I always see masters trowing the punch with the hikite, without pulling anything backwards? Why? 2-I've never seen a master having his guard up in old books. They always keep their hands low. Why? Did karate implement the guard only in modern times? 3-How much influence has boxing had on karate in the matter of torso dodging, guard and footwork? 4-I'm not provoking, I just want to know how much is original in my art and how much has been borrowed by other systems. Thank you!
3. karate's origin is partly or entirely from white crane/crying crane boxing. So that would explain a lot I guess. As for Wado Ryu Suzuki Lineage, Suzuki was a great fan of Mohammed Ali, and for sure it has had some extra influence. But I'm not sure how that is with other styles. 1. In kata al movements you do have a purpose, indeed the hikite in kata is not pulling anything, but it's purpose is to prepare you for pulling a Bo, or arm. Imagine the first 6 moves of Pinan Shodan is soly Grappling, except the tetsui
When I lived in Korea, many Tae Kwon Do practitioners would jump at the chance to learn western boxing. Years later, when doing Isshin Ryu, I learned that Tatsuo Shimabuku had incorporated western boxing, learned from an American friend of his, into his style, though these principles seem lost on virtually every Isshin ryu school I've seen since then. This is seen in the stance, the main blocking (more of a soft, boxing type deflection), and a heavy reliance on vertical punch not issued with "kime", but a sort of retracting snap called "atifa" (punch is called ta te), uppercuts, roundhouse and a jab(backfist)/cross combination.
1) His source is Okinawan Karate masters who teach the nearly original Te instead of Funakoshi's Shotokan. 2) You likely read an American book on Karate, or a book on Shotokan or other Japan versions of Karate. Karate was watered down as they wanted to be compulsory in schools like Judo, but had to make themselves different from Judo for the Dai Nippon to view them as different. Hence why they removed all throws, grabs, pulls, and felling techniques. Karate was also simplified to make teaching multiple people easier. That's why the stances became deeper and wider, punches made fully horizontal for simplicity, and the movements exaggerated and canonized to a single standard. Then, to have a form of striking to compete against popular Western arts like Judo, the Kendo mindset and footwork was applied, along with the strike-point system was created to give us modern Karate as we see in Mainland Japan now. 3) Only as much as has been found useful in sports Karate settings. Kendo footwork has had more of an influence. Though, many Karateka move on the balls of their feet instead of being flatfooted, which is something boxing and kickboxing attributed to. 4) Less borrowing, more-so changed. Changed mostly for political reasons and nationalistic pride.
Karate was developed for fighting Samurai. You stick your hands out there and they will get cut off. Reaxamine your kata and use your imagination and visualization to find the true applications of the techniques in your Karate.😉🙏❤
I have to log on just to say thank you :D By the way, I think Hikite could also be used as an elbow to the back. From a Vietnamese martial art's student.
I'd add to this : People who cite MMA or other MA and use examples of not pulling their hand back to point to karate technique and say it's bad... A couple of things.. A) Your average athletic person can punch pretty fast from this chambered position, and an experienced Karate-ka extremely fast. The problem isn't in the chambering, it is in the persons fundamental understanding of Karate's maai (use of distance and timming) to include Karate's approach to blocking (i.e. there is no blocks in karate) to include Go no sen, Sen no sen or Sen sen no sen. From the chambered position the shoulder and hips (if you know what your doing) can be a feint to cause a defense form, in which the chambered fist, now seeing the defense knows where to strike. If your getting hit while your fist is chambered, ready to launch a gyaku zuki either your too close, or you lost the initiative etc. In close one should be using waza like Ura Zuke, Kage Zuke Empi uchi anyways...
When you pull your hand backwards with explosive force (while punching with your other hand), even if you are not grabbing your opponent, your will punch harder, because the strength of the hand going backwards is transferred through your core and chest to the hand going forward. Of course in sparring you won’t do it in the same way (hand on hip), but the idea (i believe) is to learn the principle to then adapted to your sparring or self defense.. I’m a Taekwon-do ITF practitioner I dan, and I when I took some boxing lessons I found it really easy to learn the jab and cross because the principle was similar (“L” stance direct punch follow by a walking stance cross punch)
I think your video help a lot the karate world by using short explanation like you do. It shows that everything in karate has a purpose! Thank you very much and please.....don't stop!!!
This sounds very logical from a western perspective. I read in a to-de book that there is something called "implosive tsuki" and the fist does not rest in the hip (like shotokan) but to side of the chest near the arm pit (like ken-shin-kan), and it said that this movement aims to destroy our ego. Greetings,
In training the Hikite can also be used for punching speed training. Naturally while trying to speed up your punches people focus on pushing the punch out. If you instead focus on the speed of your extended hand being pulled back to your hip it will help you with speed. Each time your punch is extended, focus on bringing that back rather than pushing out your next punch. Cheers.
That's what my sensei always repeated. Don't focus on the striking hand. Focus on the pulling hand and proper technique and your striking hand will land by itself. He said imagine snooker. Proper technique sends the ball where it has to go.
Hi, I know I am quite late here, but I just want to tell my theory: Beside elbow strike or pulling, Hikite also help you to have better balance. I mean if you try to punch gyaku zuki at full range in kumite without hikite, you will probably fall over...
Doesn’t make too much sense to me. You shouldn’t need another hand pulling back to keep your balance. The pulling hand needs to grab your opponent, if not, that hand should protect your own face rather than pulling back and leave your whole body open.
My respect Sensei , The hikite is more and more if you practice and find the real use for that exercise and technique , is dangerous and powerful. Thanks for your post......Haii
引手 which means (catch)is only one reason why the hand is chamber to the ribs, not the waist/hip, which is considered bad technique. Its also a reverse elbow strike, it gives a stronger hip movement for your strikes for more power, it protects your ribs as well as helps conceal your next strike. Great video, it created a constructive dialogue. Thank you.
The pulling hand is also a joint lock as the hand retracts in a circular motion palm up. When done with mean intension it can dislocate the shoulder. The adversary’s elbow is also exposed toward the ceiling. A downward smash using the elbow of your free hand creates enough force possibly break it.
without due respect. I always like whatever u talk about karate history and other styles, But here you are talking about karate technique. I can give u my opinion and its my experience. HIKITE is the reaction . doesn't have to pull anything it push the power to the other hand. ACTION & REACTION. Thanks for the effort u always do. OSS
I use it as a training tool for beginning students. Kinda like when you teach your teenage kid how to drive. "ok, both hands on the wheel. Look left, and now right. Now place your foot on the accelerator".
I thought it was also for inertia being send to the striking hand?... I love youre videos! The dojo is awesome and the HD cameras make them special and a pleasure to watch..
As far as I know Sometimes inertia will cause the non striking hand to move towards the hip (you'll see this in mma and boxing) however deliberately pulling it empty to the hip will not increase power. As Jesse says, the main reason is grappling, you grab and pull :)
That is one reason for hikite well explained jesse, another reason is that the pulling hand power is transferred through the torso to the striking/blocking hand increasing the overall power thus fewer strikes are required to end a conflict. Try punching from the rib without hikite it is surprisingly slow and weak when compared to a punch utilising hikite. An effective hikite should be performed as if striking ura empi to an opponent from the rear equal and opposite forces help to keep balance also.
Hmm, I'd like to see you test this idea with Oliver. Because I don't think it will work in practice. Has anybody ever seen somebody do that? What does work is that it seems to help with the momentum the body needs for a strong punch, and there are more things like balance that are done with the offhand - it serves as a counterweight. So I'll have to stick with what my sensei says for now.
We do same thing in Kung Fu. Like your videos. You know your stuff. Wish I had taken martial arts classes when I was younger. Started a bit late. But like seeing what other martial arts teach.
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En karate se dice que la mano pegada al cuerpo, significa agarrar al contrario... In karate say that hands join your body mean to catch your enemy...
Good video, right now I’m opposed with this punching move, very classic and good also I’m a Kung Fu guy but in Kung Fu there’s also something like this.
In Goju Ryu we hold the pulling hand higher, at the level of the nipple (for men). By pulling the free hand, the strike with the other hand will be stronger too...
Thanks for your job, it's interresting, all is présent in karaté, we are not ridiculous behind other martial art. Thanks jesse and i hope to train with you one day. If you go in France you have one dojo open in Albi :)
Hi Jesse Do you have any videos teaching how to improve the power of a punch? My right arm is okay, but my left arm punch is, lets say poor. Would love to improve it :)
Hi Jesse. good video like always and great analogy but Please think a bout the motion when you lift or pull weights or tug of war you use the chest and can utilise much more strength from the armpit/chest position then if you where to go to/from the hip.
I think that you explained a nice application, but I feel it's there to start training students to use both hands. when you start karate your instructor is tell ING to block with one hand and pull the other one back and it starts to train our minds to operate both sides together.
I believed it also had to do with the momentum of the punch. The force you exert over the collisioning body will also depend on the amount of mass that is moving. Therefore, hiki adds momentum. Yet reading on the topic, it seems its more about the grappling. Im a bit confused.
Excellent theory ty for illuminating us!! Although i'm curious, most people if you go to hold their arm would pull away.. maybe better to use their shoulder, what are your thoughts?
The Heavyweight Champion, Larry Holmes fought with one hand held back and the other pushing in front. Evey punch and knockout Larry Holmes goes back into Hikite position. It's an advanced "Post" in my opinion.
i know you most likey wont see this but the slight chance you do, i have a question do you do the hikite always when you punch or do you guard your face? or is it situational
luca piazza Incorrect, my friend. Hikite in kata is also an introduction to grappling, throws, trapping, joint manipulation, locks, cranks, clearing limbs for counterattack, etc. It has enormous benefits for the beginner and the advanced practitioner.
Martin Jutras I don't exactly think so. As Jesse mentioned, there are all these other striking arts where you keep your guard up. I do boxing and I can confirm that a punch can be thrown from a guard up position, so keeping your fist at the hip isn't necessarily a "ready" position.
One of the things I love about karate is how these questions unpack like Russian dolls. Sure, Jesse gives us one explanation here, but as you study karate, you'll find more reasons and applications to the techniques. For example, I also teach it as ushiro enpi - a reverse elbow strike - in the application of chokuzuki as an escape from being grappled from behind. But I'm sure Jesse could teach us many more! ;)
What amazes me is why these reasons are not told or well explained in the dojos right from the beginning, n it requires some genius to unfurl the reasons at a later stage of his career... Without real knowledge of these combat applications, it will remain like a fancy movement or dance form, with no functionality... The training methodology of Karate is seriously flawed as compared to other Martial Arts... 😐😎😶🙏🌼
You should never give up Karate. Your a great teacher.
Thanks Jesse. I have that question often presented to me. People who have been exposed to boxing particularly will say that karateka don't know how to punch. I emphasise with my students hikite from day 1. Of course the doubters change their minds once they are exposed to the realities of a Hikite/strike combo. Glad you are raising the community's awareness of these things.
Good stuff as always man. We also consider that its an elbow...you never know whats coming from behind. I've been attacked from front/back at the same time, that instinctive hikite/elbow caught the guy coming in behind with a bear hug right in the solar plexus. He dropped pretty hard not able to breathe so his friend just stopped attacking me and went to help him. I pretended to be all like "Yeah, thats right! Totally meant to do that!", but I didn't really know what had happened until a friend of mine who explained it to me after. If I'd stepped back into a boxing stance when the first guy swung on me, I'd probably have ended up being under hooked from behind and promptly throttled. Never did find out why they attacked me, but yeah, isn't there some saying about where luck and training meet? If not, there should be. Heh.
WOW I just had a breakthrough... we have this in Taekwondo too. Thanks for that valuable piece of insight!
Been doing karate for about 4 years now and I feel pretty embarassed for not knowing things like this. Keep these vids coming, man. Its really helpful
Thank you, keep learning & training! 😊
The pulling hand is just that. You grab pull the opponents arm into your own technique. You have to get belly to belly close to not get cut by a Samurai! Thanks for letting me watch your video.Your technique is great.😎🤔💪👊👏🙏❤
Here is my question: why does every move have the pulling hand it (seems like)? I mean, I can see how it's a good technique, but I'd imagine that there are plenty of times you either don't want to use it or are not in a position to use it.
@@waaagh3203 I believe if your motor skills are accustom to pulling back each time, it is going to be a mindless maneuver type effort, and it will work in your favor during an unexpected stressful situation. If you need it its there. Not having to do any thinking makes a fighter fluent and a decided winner in most cases.
That's why I love Karate.... I am a simple man Block and strike..... or block twist and strike. All done with spirit.. thank you Jesse loving the journey.
Punching thin area at full speed and power for prolonged periods of time will make you prone to lower back injuries (pain or strain)...unless you use hikite. Using a heavy bag, pads, sparring partner or a makiwara changes the system dynamics so that you may keep the passive hand where you like it to be. Hikite is of paramount importance if you want to train alone, without using any equipment.
This is something I found out practicing shadow boxing with Bas Rutten's audio tapes. Nowadays, I still do the same workout but in a modified way. I use Karate techniques in place of the corresponding Thai boxing techniques and also avoid doing all the circular movements (hooks). No back pain doing the same workout any more.
I do understand that everyone is different so it might be something that works only for me but I hope that other people will find this connection of hikite with body dynamics control and balance of some importance.
Nice blog Jesse. Reignited my interest in traditional Karate. Thanks.
Hi Jesse! I'm a fellow karateka and I have some questions for you:
1-What is your source on the hikite topic? I always see masters trowing the punch with the hikite, without pulling anything backwards? Why?
2-I've never seen a master having his guard up in old books. They always keep their hands low. Why? Did karate implement the guard only in modern times?
3-How much influence has boxing had on karate in the matter of torso dodging, guard and footwork?
4-I'm not provoking, I just want to know how much is original in my art and how much has been borrowed by other systems.
Thank you!
3. karate's origin is partly or entirely from white crane/crying crane boxing. So that would explain a lot I guess. As for Wado Ryu Suzuki Lineage, Suzuki was a great fan of Mohammed Ali, and for sure it has had some extra influence. But I'm not sure how that is with other styles.
1. In kata al movements you do have a purpose, indeed the hikite in kata is not pulling anything, but it's purpose is to prepare you for pulling a Bo, or arm. Imagine the first 6 moves of Pinan Shodan is soly Grappling, except the tetsui
When I lived in Korea, many Tae Kwon Do practitioners would jump at the chance to learn western boxing. Years later, when doing Isshin Ryu, I learned that Tatsuo Shimabuku had incorporated western boxing, learned from an American friend of his, into his style, though these principles seem lost on virtually every Isshin ryu school I've seen since then. This is seen in the stance, the main blocking (more of a soft, boxing type deflection), and a heavy reliance on vertical punch not issued with "kime", but a sort of retracting snap called "atifa" (punch is called ta te), uppercuts, roundhouse and a jab(backfist)/cross combination.
1) His source is Okinawan Karate masters who teach the nearly original Te instead of Funakoshi's Shotokan.
2) You likely read an American book on Karate, or a book on Shotokan or other Japan versions of Karate. Karate was watered down as they wanted to be compulsory in schools like Judo, but had to make themselves different from Judo for the Dai Nippon to view them as different. Hence why they removed all throws, grabs, pulls, and felling techniques. Karate was also simplified to make teaching multiple people easier. That's why the stances became deeper and wider, punches made fully horizontal for simplicity, and the movements exaggerated and canonized to a single standard.
Then, to have a form of striking to compete against popular Western arts like Judo, the Kendo mindset and footwork was applied, along with the strike-point system was created to give us modern Karate as we see in Mainland Japan now.
3) Only as much as has been found useful in sports Karate settings. Kendo footwork has had more of an influence. Though, many Karateka move on the balls of their feet instead of being flatfooted, which is something boxing and kickboxing attributed to.
4) Less borrowing, more-so changed. Changed mostly for political reasons and nationalistic pride.
Karate was developed for fighting Samurai. You stick your hands out there and they will get cut off. Reaxamine your kata and use your imagination and visualization to find the true applications of the techniques in your Karate.😉🙏❤
VelcrOhm yeah I saw. Pulling back the hand was apperently introduced in 1910 in karate for some reason. Before that they didn’t pull back to the hip
Resubscribed, I took a 5 year break form Karate after reaching 1st Dan, I am getting back into it again, thank you for your awesome channel!
Welcome back!
I have to log on just to say thank you :D By the way, I think Hikite could also be used as an elbow to the back. From a Vietnamese martial art's student.
I'd add to this : People who cite MMA or other MA and use examples of not pulling their hand back to point to karate technique and say it's bad... A couple of things.. A) Your average athletic person can punch pretty fast from this chambered position, and an experienced Karate-ka extremely fast. The problem isn't in the chambering, it is in the persons fundamental understanding of Karate's maai (use of distance and timming) to include Karate's approach to blocking (i.e. there is no blocks in karate) to include Go no sen, Sen no sen or Sen sen no sen. From the chambered position the shoulder and hips (if you know what your doing) can be a feint to cause a defense form, in which the chambered fist, now seeing the defense knows where to strike. If your getting hit while your fist is chambered, ready to launch a gyaku zuki either your too close, or you lost the initiative etc. In close one should be using waza like Ura Zuke, Kage Zuke Empi uchi anyways...
Short and simple. Exactly what I searched for, because I couldn't understand it. Thank you!
im a black belt in Shotokan', we never learn this stuff, just "the old karatekas did it" without real explanation', good we have Jesse
When you pull your hand backwards with explosive force (while punching with your other hand), even if you are not grabbing your opponent, your will punch harder, because the strength of the hand going backwards is transferred through your core and chest to the hand going forward. Of course in sparring you won’t do it in the same way (hand on hip), but the idea (i believe) is to learn the principle to then adapted to your sparring or self defense.. I’m a Taekwon-do ITF practitioner I dan, and I when I took some boxing lessons I found it really easy to learn the jab and cross because the principle was similar (“L” stance direct punch follow by a walking stance cross punch)
I think your video help a lot the karate world by using short explanation like you do. It shows that everything in karate has a purpose! Thank you very much and please.....don't stop!!!
This sounds very logical from a western perspective. I read in a to-de book that there is something called "implosive tsuki" and the fist does not rest in the hip (like shotokan) but to side of the chest near the arm pit (like ken-shin-kan), and it said that this movement aims to destroy our ego. Greetings,
In training the Hikite can also be used for punching speed training. Naturally while trying to speed up your punches people focus on pushing the punch out. If you instead focus on the speed of your extended hand being pulled back to your hip it will help you with speed. Each time your punch is extended, focus on bringing that back rather than pushing out your next punch. Cheers.
That's what my sensei always repeated. Don't focus on the striking hand. Focus on the pulling hand and proper technique and your striking hand will land by itself. He said imagine snooker. Proper technique sends the ball where it has to go.
Hi, I know I am quite late here, but I just want to tell my theory:
Beside elbow strike or pulling, Hikite also help you to have better balance. I mean if you try to punch gyaku zuki at full range in kumite without hikite, you will probably fall over...
Doesn’t make too much sense to me. You shouldn’t need another hand pulling back to keep your balance. The pulling hand needs to grab your opponent, if not, that hand should protect your own face rather than pulling back and leave your whole body open.
This is great stuff, very instructive. My daughter is 7 (orange belt, in karate for more than 2 years) and I'm showing her your videos. Many thanks.
I have been learning karate since 19 y.o. in 1989, and for me, your video is still useful.
Excellent! Makes me glad to hear :-)
As the Motobu family says; in the old karate there was no hikite, they used the "meotode" or "mītudī" (夫婦手)
Although I know this, I still watch it because Jesse is awesome!
Thanks man! 💪
Thank you Sensei Jesse for the Explenation about Hikite. Now i can punch my way. Fistbump from Malaysia!.
My respect Sensei ,
The hikite is more and more if you practice and find the real use for that exercise and technique , is dangerous and powerful.
Thanks for your post......Haii
Also, the hikite helps mostly in using hip rotation in techniques...
引手 which means (catch)is only one reason why the hand is chamber to the ribs, not the waist/hip, which is considered bad technique. Its also a reverse elbow strike, it gives a stronger hip movement for your strikes for more power, it protects your ribs as well as helps conceal your next strike. Great video, it created a constructive dialogue. Thank you.
Another good work.. a real passionate guy thi Jesse !🙄
The pulling hand is also a joint lock as the hand retracts in a circular motion palm up.
When done with mean intension it can dislocate the shoulder. The adversary’s elbow is also exposed toward the ceiling. A downward smash using the elbow of your free hand creates enough force possibly break it.
In judo the term hikite is used to grab the sleeve by the elbow, so probably the application was correct when karate also have grappling in old times
🥰Hi Jesse, love this video very much, could you do a video to explan how can we grab apponent's hand in fighting or in the ring?
without due respect. I always like whatever u talk about karate history and other styles, But here you are talking about karate technique. I can give u my opinion and its my experience. HIKITE is the reaction . doesn't have to pull anything it push the power to the other hand. ACTION & REACTION. Thanks for the effort u always do. OSS
Hikite can also be an elbow strike at an opponent behind you. As well as Uke's are not mere blocks, they are also considered strikes.
Elbow strike to opponent behind you as well
Hi jesse! ur video is very informative. Keep posting such kind of videos.
I always thought it was for giving impulse. Like how a baseball player prepares to throw.
Awesome Jesse sensei
Thanks for all your knowlwdge i love to watching all your videos .
Cheers from India
Oos!!
Excelente, muy buena explicación. Congratulations from Uruguay
I use it as a training tool for beginning students. Kinda like when you teach your teenage kid how to drive. "ok, both hands on the wheel. Look left, and now right. Now place your foot on the accelerator".
I thought it was also for inertia being send to the striking hand?... I love youre videos! The dojo is awesome and the HD cameras make them special and a pleasure to watch..
As far as I know Sometimes inertia will cause the non striking hand to move towards the hip (you'll see this in mma and boxing) however deliberately pulling it empty to the hip will not increase power. As Jesse says, the main reason is grappling, you grab and pull :)
Great explanation, it's your videos are very instructive.
That is one reason for hikite well explained jesse, another reason is that the pulling hand power is transferred through the torso to the striking/blocking hand increasing the overall power thus fewer strikes are required to end a conflict. Try punching from the rib without hikite it is surprisingly slow and weak when compared to a punch utilising hikite. An effective hikite should be performed as if striking ura empi to an opponent from the rear equal and opposite forces help to keep balance also.
Wow..great! you are awesome. thats is why..kareteka practice to punch a board or stone.Now, is defenately practical.Karate is awesome.
Hmm, I'd like to see you test this idea with Oliver. Because I don't think it will work in practice. Has anybody ever seen somebody do that?
What does work is that it seems to help with the momentum the body needs for a strong punch, and there are more things like balance that are done with the offhand - it serves as a counterweight. So I'll have to stick with what my sensei says for now.
We do same thing in Kung Fu. Like your videos. You know your stuff. Wish I had taken martial arts classes when I was younger. Started a bit late. But like seeing what other martial arts teach.
En karate se dice que la mano pegada al cuerpo, significa agarrar al contrario...
In karate say that hands join your body mean to catch your enemy...
Good video, right now I’m opposed with this punching move, very classic and good also I’m a Kung Fu guy but in Kung Fu there’s also something like this.
I have seen it used as a knife hand block from over hand strikes
In Goju Ryu we hold the pulling hand higher, at the level of the nipple (for men). By pulling the free hand, the strike with the other hand will be stronger too...
Thanks for your job, it's interresting, all is présent in karaté, we are not ridiculous behind other martial art.
Thanks jesse and i hope to train with you one day.
If you go in France you have one dojo open in Albi :)
True and Excellent! Thanks.
You're welcome!
Wow, thanks for this I never knew that!
In some techniques the hikite hand is open, so this would mean there would be no pulling?
Hi Jesse
Do you have any videos teaching how to improve the power of a punch?
My right arm is okay, but my left arm punch is, lets say poor.
Would love to improve it :)
Hi Jesse. good video like always and great analogy but Please think a bout the motion when you lift or pull weights or tug of war you use the chest and can utilise much more strength from the armpit/chest position then if you where to go to/from the hip.
If you're pulling, you're not using your chest. Also, I know nothing about Karate.
I think that you explained a nice application, but I feel it's there to start training students to use both hands. when you start karate your instructor is tell ING to block with one hand and pull the other one back and it starts to train our minds to operate both sides together.
I believed it also had to do with the momentum of the punch. The force you exert over the collisioning body will also depend on the amount of mass that is moving. Therefore, hiki adds momentum. Yet reading on the topic, it seems its more about the grappling. Im a bit confused.
Interesting version!
that is one of the things I tell our students often
great explanation
Excellent theory ty for illuminating us!! Although i'm curious, most people if you go to hold their arm would pull away.. maybe better to use their shoulder, what are your thoughts?
The Heavyweight Champion, Larry Holmes fought with one hand held back and the other pushing in front.
Evey punch and knockout Larry Holmes goes back into Hikite position.
It's an advanced "Post" in my opinion.
i know you most likey wont see this but the slight chance you do, i have a question do you do the hikite always when you punch or do you guard your face? or is it situational
I add that hikite is basic tool to help beginner connect all body. Once you are experienced you don't need it anymore.
luca piazza Incorrect, my friend. Hikite in kata is also an introduction to grappling, throws, trapping, joint manipulation, locks, cranks, clearing limbs for counterattack, etc. It has enormous benefits for the beginner and the advanced practitioner.
Jesse I've got another idea on the Hikite I'd be interested to talk to you about.
I’m all ears!
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well done Senpai!
Well actually the hikite enhances the torque of the body (couple of forces) which makes the punch more devastating.
Sensei ,what if we don't get an opportunity to catch the opponents hand or leg , through hikite. Then where should our passive hand be ,at the face.
Punching
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2017 August
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We call it lop sau and Lon sau in wing chun
All martial art forms have the hand on the hip.
This is definitely a pulling hand.
Very interesting!
Thanks a lot! Makes me glad to hear :-)
Jesse Enkamp I was wondering why to I do karate I just started I just got my new stripe for the three sparring techniques
Jesse Enkamp I didn't know why you put your hand there now I know by the way what state do you train in
WOW....U re the best
Idk why but at first I read "WOW...U racist" lol
I have to work more on relaxation in my muscles before i totally destroy my shoulders. 😳
Got it sensei
Hikite clean stand kime full ones opend a lot of back hand changings this is not like sacrelise or critic it out of that
Gracias !!!
To be honest, hikite translates to: (handle, grip). For others translate as a 'pulling hand'.
Also, hikite puts your hand in a "ready" position if another strike needs to be delivered.
Martin Jutras I don't exactly think so. As Jesse mentioned, there are all these other striking arts where you keep your guard up. I do boxing and I can confirm that a punch can be thrown from a guard up position, so keeping your fist at the hip isn't necessarily a "ready" position.
Ehhhh idk about tying up with someone stronger than me, but I like the tech otherwise
good 💙
Witch style of karate do you do? I've been training Goju Ryu for 7 years😃
I don't believe in styles. I practice Karate.
I do Goju Ryu and i've been training it for 7 years
And one question: Witch contery are you from. It sounds like you're from Sweden like me. :D
Goju ryu is an old style.
+Victor Ugalde Yes Sweden
Damm. It would be an honour if he is my sensei.
Damn i felt like Seishin and Shotokan are the same version haha
Hey Jesse, Is Krav Maga more effective than karate self defense??
every Martial arts has it own special and point of view in self defense. it depends on the fighter not the style.
i don't think so. you can't make that in fight. you tried?
I don't think that's a fighting position but you can apply the principle
it seems to be impossible or when the opponent is knockout
It will but in a real life situation, i mean street fighting. Not in a cage
Actually you can and its more simple than waiting for the opponent to hit and then block/cover.
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