How I Won My Karate Combat Debut | Success, Mistakes & Strategies
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2025
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Let me do some appreciation for Bruno. The guy has been point fighting all his life and had only 5 full contact fights in Karate Combat and yet he did so good against someone like you Gabriel. You have more belts than he has fights. So he is worthy to be applaused👏.
Absolutely! He's a strong fighter and has done well with the transition.
@@GabrielVargaOfficial yooo it's good to see you in karate combat, I'm excited to see how the karate guys adapt to your more "modern" stlye.
6 actually, before fighting the legend Gabriel. Now 7, after losing to Gabriel Varga. 5 - 2 in KC.
Agree - Bruno is one tough fighter, showing great warrior spirit when facing Gabriel. Respect for both combatants! Osu!
@@GabrielVargaOfficial Can a kickboxer enter Karate Combat?
So, Gabriel has a ton of amazing skills and accolades... but omg that ad read was well done lol. Is there anything you are not good at?
There is quite literally no one else in the world providing content like this.
I'm glad it's unique. I wanted to provide something different.
@@GabrielVargaOfficial no active fighter shares like you. They all keep their secrets very tight.
@@youtuberschannel12 i mean Stephen Thompson shares a lot of his stuff in his channel, but yeah Gabriel is awesome
Have to admit, I was intrigued by the promotion, but never felt interested enough to watch it like I did other promotions. Seeing you now fighting for them, I decided to watch the event you were on and instantly became a fan. They made a smart move signing you. Congrats on your win!
Karate Combat has evolved so much since its beginnings. The fighters have adjusted their game and are a lot better now. Gonna be cool to see where it goes from here on
Gabe, it’s special to be a fan of yours and to see you succeed in this new promotion is heat. Keep up the good work Champ
Thank you! Will do!
Congratulations Champ!! When will see you fight next?
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You did great Gabe. Very proud of you.
Gabe we value all you do for your videos.
I think your reaction time can slow down but I don't think there is ring rust. What it actually is is muscle memory. For instance I do plumbing done it all my life. And even if I don't remember how to do something, my hands always remember it.
I would love to see you box. You would do really well
I'm very excited to hear about how Rachel's knowledge with body hacks help you
Oh man that breakdown was just so good. You are the best combat sports UA-camr no doubt, those details you give everything is so clear.
Gabriel Varga, you are a true martial artist. Going through many disciplines and still come out on top, that's really fucking impressive. True winner, you are. I salute you.
I mentioned your kick control drills to my coach Sitthongchai Sitsongpenong and he said he used to fight on some cards with you and used to know you and your coach!
Congrats, great content as usual. Super unique to have an active fighter breaking down his fights before he's even fully healed up. Looking forward to the next one
Golden knowledge with live resistance on a very high level.great channel!
Much appreciated!
The difference in skills between you and Bruno was apparent. I think you're going to be Karate Combat Champion. While the other fighters I've seen there are formidable, I don't think they can bring the same things to the table.
Lets go, Gabe.
Varga vs. Edgar Skrivers no. 1 contender bout should be next. I'm calling it.
Great breakdown vid!!
These awesome informative ones is certainly helping me prep for my first kickboxing amateur fight in 2 weeks!!
Best of luck in your first fight!
Good luck for ya fight
Yea man. Win your loss do your best to learn and come back even better
@@GabrielVargaOfficial hey Gab, I got the W!
I’m officially 1-0 in amateur kickboxing ! The fight was pretty scrappy and both of us gassed out during the 3rd round.
Thank you for all your content , I’m hoping to learn more from you for my next fight !
@@AlexOsborne10 3rd Round? I would have gassed before the 1st round even ended lol. WELL DONE!
It was a great fight. Looking forward to the next!
Fantastic! I really enjoy watching ... well, everything you put on youtube! Congratulations for this victory!
Thank you so much 😀
The experience level difference was very apparent in this fight, but definitely glad to see you back in action. Are you going to bring in a grappling partner for future fights?
Bruuuuuhhhh this karate combat 4th season is FYAAAA 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thank you Gabriel appreciated
Congratulations Gabriel! Love these breakdowns!!! Thank you
Try and train with Judo or Sambo practitioners because they'll utilize similar throws and trips. Also get freestyle wrestling training for the no GI clinch.
congrats man!!😊
Gabe you're going to be champ soon!
Thanks for the breakdown Gabriel, awesome!
Gabriel it was such an honor to meet you and see your fight in person!
Can't wait to see the next one!
I trained with bruno here in brazil and I can tell you he's a great dude
Taking into account that it was your 1st fight in Karate Combat, it was a great performance 🔥🔥 Your stricking is very crisp and you made Bruno look like an amateur compared with you, despite the fact he is one of the best guys in this weightclass... I also appreciate the fact that you didn't even mention the 2 (3?) kicks above the knee he threw, good sportsmanship. Anyway I wouldn't like to be your next opponent, I don't see anybody able to stop you from winning that belt 🏆
I think the idea of fighting in a pit is really cool. It's a lowkey test to see how well the fighters are doing. It can be quite the effort to climb back up when you've just had a hard round
Great job Champ you looked dangerous out there. That was one scary opponent. can’t wait to see you get back in there.
Beautiful performance, that uppercut was perfect
Neat observation about the snap kick trajectory.
This was a great fight Gabriel V, I watched it live amazing fight.
By the way your channel has also educated me very much as a student of martial arts especially in the nuances
Bruno is a tough kid he did really well against a wily veteran like you. He can hold his head up high. That being said congratulations. It was a great fight.
love waking up to some Gabriel breakdown. let's gooooooo
lovely breakdown. Learned lots from this
Hey Gabe, could you cover, ww super athlete and boxer jaron ennis, he's the second coming of floyd mayweather or roy jones in my opinion
Congratulations!
Congratulation. Very hard
Thank you so much for the open and honest analysis and reflection. I see your style as a rock solid foundation for many martial arts / combat sports ruleset. Glad to watch your first win in this new format - congratulations!
That was just wonderful, Gabriel! All of us have learned a lot, with you. Congratulations, and I´m waiting the next karate fight!
Love all ur content man. So much knowledge pouring out. Thanx, homie
Great job Sensei !!
Tks again for all that information. You convinced me about the magnesium, what a pity yiu can only order it from a limited number of countries that do not include France
Was great to see you back in action, adapting to different conditions/codes.
Really excellent performance :)
Tough fight and a good matchup. Glad to see you got the best of him
thanks for the breakdown. you always have alot of useful information for us in these that we can use in our own competitions.
What a very scientific breakdown and analysis of the fight and elements like the ring. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Congratulations on a great fight! And best wishes for the future.
Awesome fight ! Very exciting!!
Great stuff As always. Nice fight!
I just went and watched your fight, well done and the way you conduct yourself as a fighter and martial artists is Inspiring plus your fight IQ is off the charts 👌you a truly an example of how an elite level martial artist should be .
Many thanks Gabriel and Thanks for answering the hook to body I am one of the guys who asked about it :)
As always - great video.
That fight was really good, it was great debut
I was very excited and nervous for this fight!!! Really enjoyed it and also this video! Congratulations!! Wanna se u as a champ in karate combat!! Are u going to build a pit???
Hello Gabriel can I recommend you train with a Judo player I had good success against a MMA Bjj player because I had developed good stability and defence
Congrats on the win and thanks for this breakdown -- very interesting. I'm really looking forward to seeing the degree to which you're able to adapt to the new environment and all of the different variables you've mentioned in this video and how far your style and techniques will have progressed in the context of Karate Combat by the next fight. Knowing how you train and approach these things I bet it's really gonna be something!!!
Wait til you see the Lei Tai, it’s just a platform 1-2 meters high, and in some Sanda promotions if you push someone off the platform twice, you win the round.
It sounds easy but it’s really tough, and with the circular footwork and the grappling Sanda has, it’s a challenge.
Congratulations!! 👍 I didn’t know you were into karate. Awesome video!
Nice combos throughout the fight. Well done.
Good analysis, good watch. Thanks Gabriel, like the detail and all
Great job on your flight man, Karate Combat is an entertaining promotion. Maybe you can start making t-shirts or gloves so we can support your fight camps!
I noticed you almost had a KO with the front snap kick and remembered your video about starting to use it. Congrats on the fight.
It's very interesting content but I was really hoping for the full fight footage with your commentary/breakdown running along side it in real time
That was a very interesting breakdown. Watching the fight during the event, my feeling was that you were outboxing bruno, with your uppercut and body shots finding the mark easily, and that the fight ended up going to the more technical fighter in the end. Good to see your own breakdown agrees with what I felt as the fight progressed.
Awesome fight
Great review Champ. Thanks for all you share and good look in the future. Expecting you to get the Gold Belt. OSU!!
Awesome breakdown. Yeah, I've too noticed thai style front kicks aren't as popular in karate combat as I thought they would be
When you tryna get back in there by
You said in one of your videos that you’re getting older and want to be very consistent
Thanks for your breakdown, it is very interesting, if you do more it's excellent 👍.
God I love these breakdowns - keep em coming champ!
Congratulations on a stellar performance Mr. Varga;!! Ive been following your career for a while now and ive watched most of your fights (amateur and pro) several times now; I have to say, I think this fight was oneof your most impressive performances.your hands looked phenomenal and YOUR BOXING WAS ON POINT!!! Not just in terms of punching power (although that was certainly impressive as well)..but what i thought really stood out in this fight was how smooth and fluid your combinations were... how you mixed in feints and fakes; and also how you were able alter the tempo on your punches (something that i my self need to work on)..i believed this (changing the tempo of your punches ) was something that made it extremely difficult for Bruno'to time you for counters....lastly , your conditional was very impressive...i feel that you actually got stronger as yhe fight went on while your opponent started to fatigue and slowed down in the latter portion of the fight...no. disrespect to Bruno; he is phenomenal fighter for sure which simply makes ur victory that much morec impressive!! Congrats again Champ;im really looking forward to your next fight !! ...(also I am predicting that you will be the champion of this organization within the next 12-18 months (so long as they give you an opportunity to fight for the title...and if you continue to put on performances like this one. I don't think they will have a choice!!!lol)...Congrats again brother; that was a stellar performance and a very entertaining fight!! Can't wait until the next one!
Excellent
How good Gabriel varga Analytical ability in fight? Yes
Great fight..
Very entertaining to watch..
Having point karate background i was impressed how Bruno did.
I do find it strange that point fighters change the way they strike.
I’ve done a lot of hard sparring and decided that point techniques can hit hard enough if you just sit down on them a bit.
They also allow for much faster exit and angle change.
Also minimal telegraph..
Maybe because i spent hours and hours working impact on my front front and reverse punches i never felt the need to change them.
The pit and the different techniques and strategies it enables is easily the coolest thing about KC. I am curious to see how the game develops around it.
Yes. I've got to start getting creative and figure out how to take advantage of the pit
You go champ! Get another belt 🏆
Do you realize that you just beat a title contender right? Thats huge for a debut! Super happy that you won the fight and super excited for your next fight!
Oh didn't realize this was posted, was watching the previous video like 3 hours ago lol
Great fight 👍.
1 thing about the rule set Gabe, 5 seconds don't count on the pit wall... Only on the matt (so if you fall & stay on the wall they can keep pounding since technically you're not down). Also, getting knocked down to the pit wall doesn't count as a knockdown since its not the matt you're not considered down. I think that's what I understood from the rules. Maybe they've changed them since I last checked though.
Are you fighting again before the year ends?
I am definitely planning on it. I'll start speaking with the promotion fairly soon.
Maybe a pit build for training?
Looks like he threw you with a Tai Otoshi, or maybe a Harai Goshi, having a good wrester, Judoka or Sambo partner throw you can help for the next fights. Nice to see how well-rounded some of these Karate Combat guys are getting, incorporating throws, some ground and pound, and striking. I think if this continues it'll be like Kudo. It was a great fight, and I think the ruleset makes for exciting fights, I'm glad they at least allow calf kicks, would love it if they allowed at least some thigh kicks, but it's still a good ruleset. I'd love for this to get bigger, maybe for them to allow other MA who want to compete in on it (I'm not sure if they only allow Karate black belts, or if TKD, Kickboxers with no Karate backgrounds are allowed). Either way, great breakdown.
tkd guys are allowed
I think the thigh kick restriction is more of a marketing thing so they can monopolize a different viewership draw than MMA promotions, same with the restrictions on double legs
Amazing video Mr Varga !! Id love to train and spar with you one day ! If im ever in canada , which gym shall i visit ?
Hate the commercial, this was the last one. Juicy info not here anyway, cheers for the effort.
Great job sir. OOS
Would be interesting to see if you modify you stance more going forward. Maybe the lack of some of the lower shooting takedowns will make you decide but to do this but it would be interesting to see you use that modified stance you've talked about using in mma with the horizontally narrower and vertically longer stance.
Hey Gabe could you do a vídeo on Charles Oliveira striking ?
Looked great man. Sure you will look even looser in your next one now that you shook the cob webs off. The ruleset is fun unique but I hate the leg kick rule. What’s the problem with thigh kicks? Kyokushin karate allows them🤷🏼♂️
Are elbows allowed? Should be, would be a good technique for when you’re on top of the guy against the wall
Are knees and elbows prohibited in this form of mma? I didn't see anyone throw them and there's no takedown either, what are the rules? Only punches and kicks?
Rematch with Bruno after a few more fights maybe?
I do notice kicks land to the leg right at the knee or even above the knee and there is no penalty.
Concerning magnesium do you think that pumpkin seeds or sun flower seeds is a good choice for recovery from a regular work out for a middle aged man (e.g 1 hour per day amature m.a training or calisthenics)?
no, eat animal protein or you'll just make the inflamation worse.
@@cahallo5964 I am talking for the magnesium of seeds not for their protein. In so far as meat every day, no way, for economic reasons. After all we are amatures not pro.
@@charalampos4016 have you tried eating sardines? seafood in general.
Also, there are very cheap animal protein sources like bone broth and milk (if it doesn't make you sick)
Gabriel thanks for these awesome videos, and congrats on your successful debut, but you’re forgetting one thing… “We don’t talk about Bruno” haha
Hey gabe this is a little unrelated but
During a fight or training havr u ever felt ur mind go blank
U start seeing shots coming
U start just knowing where to move when to move and ur shots beccome so precise cause its easy to see where ur gonna land them
And it all happens so naturally
U start even knowing when to throw what shots or fakes and it all feels so instinctive
If u did do u have any advice to try voluntarily getting into that state of mind
I play sports alot myself and it would be helpful if i cud achieve that