It's been a while since I've witnessed flawless technique demonstration. As a traumatologist, I treat both MMA fighters and Thaiboxers. While most of them kick powerfully, I can see that they have fractured vertebrae in their lower backs.
We do the same in taekwondo, rotate the support foot, move the hip etc.. in the end we have 2 legs and arms. So same goals may end to same paths. Great video.
just a few comments here..i've practiced karate since 1967 and i was taught roundhouse kick as chambered which relies on SPEED for power..which is correct..his chambering from the same position which has been taught by bill wallace since early 70's is correct also because it "camouflages"the kick(the opponent doesn't know whether it's round,side.reverse hook.etc.)but it''s still in essence a snap kick which is uncommitted..whereas the muay thai round kick is so much more powerful because it's 100% committed but also slower and apparent in its attack...synopsis: if you want POWER use muay thai...IF you're a fast kicker and want to use combination/multiple kicks use karate.
My kick is a bit of a blend of the muay thai kick and the front chamber, depending on situation. The ones I do on the bag in this video are more like muay thai and the ones towards the end of the video are the other version.
It is amazing that I can still learn something "new" (to me!) about a kick I was taught years ago and have seen many VHS/DVDs on the subject. Thank you, *JG.*
To me, one if not the best mawashi geri tutorial on UA-cam with excellent copious details from hip movement to connecting with the target plus personal self-training. Will subscribe. Thank you for taking the time to do this video. Respect!!
@@jkgardiner john when you are going for a low kick to the leg do you rotate your standing foot full 180 like when you are going for the ribs ? @jkgardiner ??
Doing Karate since 20 years for now, loved Mawashi Geri since the beginning and I'm pretty good at this. Even for me this helped me improved it a little more. Thanks to you!
@@jkgardiner john when you are going for a low kick to the leg do you rotate your standing foot full 180 like when you are going for the ribs ? @jkgardiner
Been doing karate for many years. Had to come up with correct techniques through thorough investigation and trial and errors. This guy is very good. I like it. Beautiful form and function!
Thank you, your process of coming up with correct technique is the same as mine, trying things, changing bits and working out the most efficient way for me 👍
Brilliant, thank you. This advice will be invaluable in my training 👌🏻(48, just graded yellow in Wado-Ryu) My Sensei recommended you, fantastic channel 👍🏻🥋
Great exercise, and a good idea to break down complex movements into smaller parts. I have trained Karate, Taekwon-Do, Kickboxing and Muay Thai, and while kicks were executed differently in each sport, all beginners did the same mistake of trying to kick flat-footed.
John, really made a great change to see a Black Belt master demonstrating Shotokan technique as well as you can. My style was Tae Kwon Do which I studied for five years in the RAF back in the 1970s by a South Korean Major who fought in Vietnam with the Americans. I cannot recall since watching UA-cam when it started, in seeing anyone on here demonstrating a round-house kick with your power, speed, technique (a word my master drilled into me) and conviction as my master Rhee Ki-ha taught me and my RAF pals. I truly hope the many so-called Black Belts that we now have running martial art clubs and who put their selves on here, with the belief they are good enough to teach, get to watch you, because they need to know what true martial arts mastery actually is.
Thank you 🙏 There is a lot of poor martial arts on here, not saying mine is better than anyone else's of course but I'm just trying to show what I believe is good technique from my experience 🥋
WOW !! That was quick and a “Thank You”. as well 🙂 Later in life after the RAF and Civil Engineering I became a Maths Teacher in some very tough schools, I never taught TKD even though asked, but Master Rhee at the end of a session would talk about many aspects of life such as humility, respect, politeness and maturity which I did the same to my pupils when I could. I also in life came across other martial art exponents and generally the better they were, the more they had of such worthy traits. Your reply shows that is the same for you. @@jkgardiner
Hi John, just wanted to let you know that I was at your seminar in barrow, for barrow budakan. Just off the one training session by yourself has in my opinion made my kicks way more powerful and effective. I've been told your coming back to us early next year, I cannot wait and it's a privilege to have you train us. Your video on landing the mae geri front kick was great and I landed it in my last grading. I use to land it all the time but my sparring partners got use to it. I used you advice and it landed first time. Obviously not hard I'm respectful of my sparring partners, anyway just wanted to say thanks your videos have really helped me.
Hi, I’m glad to hear that you got a lot from the seminar and yes I’m looking forward to seeing you all again up there. Also pleased to hear that the video on mae geri helped, well done on applying it 👍🏼 and thanks for the support.
This is great,The good thing you are teaching here is lifting the knee vertical similar to what bill wallace used to do this way you do not know what kick is coming mawashi yoko or ura mawashi done in the traditional way it is easily telegraphed.Look forward to seeing more.
I find many students get the power easily if you tell them to concentrate on pointing the heel towards your target. Greatly simplifies the explanation and much less for them to concentrate on. Everything else tends to just fall into place
That was revealing a profound secret. Sensei Gardiner's deadly kicks have incredible speed which does not compromise the quality. This demonstrates how deeply exact his technique is. I enjoy watching it over and over again without getting bored. My question is about the equivalent for a punch? What does equalize the force of a heel-first kick in a punch, still thinking for decades about the greatest and most efficient answer?
Excellent explanation. As someone who trains in Muay Thai, I was interested to see how you generate power. Great to see the similarity in the importance of throwing that hip into the mix and going through the pad.
Thank you. The further you go into martial arts the more they become similar. I like to watch things from all different places and take the ideas I like.
This came in at the right time,I have just practiced this kick and the fall its still hurts 😅Thank you Sensei Gardiner for the video! I will try to put this in practice.
Great tutorial, thanks! Audio may be a bit hard to follow because of all the reverberation. A headset Mike would have lifted that bit a lot. Or some room treatment. Very useful tips and exercises though, I was looking for the faster mw.geri version demonstrated near the end. Thanks again 🙏
I would love to train karate as well as Muay Thai but all the dojos near me are mcdojos. Love your videos. It's great having a wider range of kicks in my arsenal.
Very good , it would be great to see , inside mawashi to groin , and chin , or stomach , using feint of normal mawashi , then turn into inside mawashi , geri to groin etc , then use combination of even backfist combo , twisting techniques ,
I’ve taught this method of roundhouse for 4 decades. Advanced people can make their kick drop slightly at the end of the arc for more power. The question mark kick will is easier to learn and sneaky, but it’s best to learn how to set up and land the bigger kick first. I always emphasize keeping the hands up for this. Ie, starting w hands at face level and pulling the rear hand past the hip for power, as this guy does, but also keeping the front hand up for defense, particularly against a counter wheel kick. This doesn’t sacrifice any power and also allows you to shoot your rear hand cross to the face from your chin. Ie, less telegraph.
Superb training. Absolutely what I needed because I'm working on my sidekicks I practice Tang Soo do. This was a great training. I will implement these. Thank you so much brother
Nice video and interestingly I see a few points or differences between sport and traditional karate. From a sport perspective, I have no issues. In traditional karate, we only use the ball of the foot for this kick. The foot that stays on the ground does not turn all the way like shown here (I was taught the same in sport version of Wado Ryu style), but rather stops halfway there, so at the moment of the kick the back and front foot are facing the same direction, which ensures the maximum (ground-body-leg) connection and power. In Wado we also learned to bring the leg up (like with mae geri) and then twist and kick. In the traditional version, we don't lift the leg at the back and then do the turn, but rather lift straight from the side at a 45-degree angle, then continue until the knee points straight at the target at which point you release the foot, without losing the momentum. The point is you stay connected to the ground lightly while twisting the back foot and lifting the front leg, kicking with the whole body, and at the moment of impact your back foot is firmly on the ground (not on the side, or the edge, or the ball or the toes). Thank you for clarifying a doubt I had for years after switching from sport karate to traditional, why I remembered a slightly different body position towards the opponent when I used to kick with a flat foot (not a ball of the foot). It makes sense as the impact comes more from the leg swing than a kick!
great video and helps me a lot during practice. Would love to see a video like this for the back kick or spinning back kick. Also low kick tutorial would be helpful. Osu!
押忍🥋日本人よりわかりやすい解説ありがとうございます😊
thank you
The most complete tutorial on Mawhasi Geri on UA-cam. The idea of the fake jab followed by the kick is very useful for kumite. Thank you so much.
LMPROVE YOUR ROUNDHOUSE KICK (MAWASHI GERI)
It's been a while since I've witnessed flawless technique demonstration. As a traumatologist, I treat both MMA fighters and Thaiboxers. While most of them kick powerfully, I can see that they have fractured vertebrae in their lower backs.
This karateka is the real deal, people should truly learn from him!!! Great work
We do the same in taekwondo, rotate the support foot, move the hip etc.. in the end we have 2 legs and arms. So same goals may end to same paths. Great video.
There are more similarities between the arts than there are differences 👍
just a few comments here..i've practiced karate since 1967 and i was taught roundhouse kick as chambered which relies on SPEED for power..which is correct..his chambering from the same position which has been taught by bill wallace since early 70's is correct also because it "camouflages"the kick(the opponent doesn't know whether it's round,side.reverse hook.etc.)but it''s still in essence a snap kick which is uncommitted..whereas the muay thai round kick is so much more powerful because it's 100% committed but also slower and apparent in its attack...synopsis: if you want POWER use muay thai...IF you're a fast kicker and want to use combination/multiple kicks use karate.
My kick is a bit of a blend of the muay thai kick and the front chamber, depending on situation. The ones I do on the bag in this video are more like muay thai and the ones towards the end of the video are the other version.
Brilliant technical knowledge and execution, great coaching!
Very real staff !!!!!!!!
This guy is very very good !
First time i see him !
The best tutorial on Mawashi Geri i've seen! Approaching the kick from different angles. Thank you!
Waka Sensei’s contribution to His father’s Karate. A true Japanese Keri Waza void of any Ryukuan influence.
It is amazing that I can still learn something "new" (to me!) about a kick I was taught years ago and have seen many VHS/DVDs on the subject.
Thank you, *JG.*
same , we know these techniques but don't pratice using the different angle variations
Excellent tutorial on mawashi. Thank you for sharing 🙏
Sweet kicks, great explanation of training and strategy for use. Class as always!
Thank you 🙏
Shay checking in from dublin Ireland thank you ❤
Exercise #2 is terrific. Probably the one and only exists on UA-cam. 👍👍
I love your channel. Especially the exercise drills
Very good explanation and demonstration. Thank you!
Excellent tutorial, Sensei Gardiner! Very grateful to you for your work. Osu!
To me, one if not the best mawashi geri tutorial on UA-cam with excellent copious details from hip movement to connecting with the target plus personal self-training. Will subscribe. Thank you for taking the time to do this video. Respect!!
Thank you 🙏
john when you are going for a low kick to the leg do you rotate your standing foot full 180 like when you are going for the ribs ?@@jkgardiner
@@jkgardiner john when you are going for a low kick to the leg do you rotate your standing foot full 180 like when you are going for the ribs ? @jkgardiner
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Doing Karate since 20 years for now, loved Mawashi Geri since the beginning and I'm pretty good at this. Even for me this helped me improved it a little more. Thanks to you!
Excellent, that's good to hear 👍
@@jkgardiner john when you are going for a low kick to the leg do you rotate your standing foot full 180 like when you are going for the ribs ? @jkgardiner
Been doing karate for many years. Had to come up with correct techniques through thorough investigation and trial and errors. This guy is very good. I like it. Beautiful form and function!
Thank you, your process of coming up with correct technique is the same as mine, trying things, changing bits and working out the most efficient way for me 👍
Your form is impeccable. The instructions are fantastic.
Thank you 🙏
Brilliant, thank you. This advice will be invaluable in my training 👌🏻(48, just graded yellow in Wado-Ryu) My Sensei recommended you, fantastic channel 👍🏻🥋
Thank you and pass my thanks on to your sensei. 🙏
Great exercise, and a good idea to break down complex movements into smaller parts. I have trained Karate, Taekwon-Do, Kickboxing and Muay Thai, and while kicks were executed differently in each sport, all beginners did the same mistake of trying to kick flat-footed.
John, really made a great change to see a Black Belt master demonstrating Shotokan technique as well as you can.
My style was Tae Kwon Do which I studied for five years in the RAF back in the 1970s by a South Korean Major who fought in Vietnam with the Americans. I cannot recall since watching UA-cam when it started, in seeing anyone on here demonstrating a round-house kick with your power, speed, technique (a word my master drilled into me) and conviction as my master Rhee Ki-ha taught me and my RAF pals.
I truly hope the many so-called Black Belts that we now have running martial art clubs and who put their selves on here, with the belief they are good enough to teach, get to watch you, because they need to know what true martial arts mastery actually is.
Thank you 🙏 There is a lot of poor martial arts on here, not saying mine is better than anyone else's of course but I'm just trying to show what I believe is good technique from my experience 🥋
WOW !! That was quick and a “Thank You”. as well 🙂
Later in life after the RAF and Civil Engineering I became a Maths Teacher in some very tough schools, I never taught TKD even though asked, but Master Rhee at the end of a session would talk about many aspects of life such as humility, respect, politeness and maturity which I did the same to my pupils when I could.
I also in life came across other martial art exponents and generally the better they were, the more they had of such worthy traits. Your reply shows that is the same for you. @@jkgardiner
Hi Sir, great technique I have learnt from your video. Thank you.
Your kick is the real deal. So fast! Thank you for throwing tutorial - brown red belt
You have gained a subscriber sir. Good day from the USA
Такой удар точно поставленный и очень тяжёлый
Физическая форма атлета замечательно гармонирует с техникой
Удар отработан идеально
These longer form videos have been great Sensei! REALLY helpful, thank you! 🙏🏽
I was always looking on a video that teach me how to use the mawashi geri with the ball of the foot and I found it . Good job sensei Gardiner.
I know that mawashi-geri is called foutté (whip) in Savate. Great video.
Hi John, just wanted to let you know that I was at your seminar in barrow, for barrow budakan. Just off the one training session by yourself has in my opinion made my kicks way more powerful and effective. I've been told your coming back to us early next year, I cannot wait and it's a privilege to have you train us. Your video on landing the mae geri front kick was great and I landed it in my last grading. I use to land it all the time but my sparring partners got use to it. I used you advice and it landed first time. Obviously not hard I'm respectful of my sparring partners, anyway just wanted to say thanks your videos have really helped me.
Hi, I’m glad to hear that you got a lot from the seminar and yes I’m looking forward to seeing you all again up there.
Also pleased to hear that the video on mae geri helped, well done on applying it 👍🏼 and thanks for the support.
Good lesson Sensei. I am learning Ninpo and am finding these kickts difficult to master. This will help a great deal. Arigato.
Excellent advice for anyone studying karate 🥋
Excellent Shotokan Mawashi tutorial 5 stars 🌟
I was really struggling in hip rotation, now i understand. thanx 😊
Good job. I'm glad to see you're open to adaptive techniques. Keep up the good work.
thank you sensei johyn for one of the best tutorials ive seen on this kick
Excellent tutorial! Outstanding technique thank you sir .
This is great stuff John. It's really good to see an Englishman carrying on Karate in the UK. Thank you and I've just subbed. Namaste x
Thank you 🙏🏼
Very good tutorial and covers all the mistakes that I commonly see. I like the chair exercise.
It's practical. Thank you for sharing. ❤
Excellent instruction
This is great,The good thing you are teaching here is lifting the knee vertical similar to what bill wallace used to do this way you do not know what kick is coming mawashi yoko or ura mawashi done in the traditional way it is easily telegraphed.Look forward to seeing more.
Thanks Sensei Gardiner. Very clear and precise.
Thank so so very much Sensei !!! Brilliant!!!!!
Nice turorial! Please, make a video about ura-mawashi geri because many people stuggle with problems doing this kick. Thanks.
I will do next 👍
@@jkgardiner Thanks! Oss!
Beautiful. Great explanation and technique.
Similar to (until the end) but even more detailed than Narushima sensei. Thank you.
Very knowledgeable man.
I find many students get the power easily if you tell them to concentrate on pointing the heel towards your target.
Greatly simplifies the explanation and much less for them to concentrate on. Everything else tends to just fall into place
That is the most important part in my opinion. As you say the rest almost happens automatically if the support foot works properly.
That was revealing a profound secret. Sensei Gardiner's deadly kicks have incredible speed which does not compromise the quality. This demonstrates how deeply exact his technique is. I enjoy watching it over and over again without getting bored. My question is about the equivalent for a punch? What does equalize the force of a heel-first kick in a punch, still thinking for decades about the greatest and most efficient answer?
Excellent explanation. As someone who trains in Muay Thai, I was interested to see how you generate power. Great to see the similarity in the importance of throwing that hip into the mix and going through the pad.
Thank you. The further you go into martial arts the more they become similar. I like to watch things from all different places and take the ideas I like.
Amazing skills, speed and power!
Wow what a perfection!!!!!!
only one who masters something can break it down like this, thank you!
It’s all in the details 👍
Great level and control. Excelent tips. Oss !!!
You became my Virtual Master sir. Oss to you Master
Very nice ❤❤
Thank you very much for your explanations, Sensei !
Very, very accurate. Spote on!
That’s a mad Mawashi Geri (Round House kick. Great explanation, demonstration, control & power.
🤜🤛
Awesome Video Sensei, thank you.
Good instructor
Right on! Huge fan of your UA-cam and Insta channel John! I'm a 34 white belt in Shorin Ryu! Can't wait to impress everyone at the dojo. Ossu!
Very nice tutorial sir
Thank you
This came in at the right time,I have just practiced this kick and the fall its still hurts 😅Thank you Sensei Gardiner for the video! I will try to put this in practice.
Beatiful
Exercise 2 looks interesting, never heard of this. This might help me. So thanks
Super demo, I’m going for Brown belt in Wado Ryu next month and this has been really helpful, thanks for posting!
Exactly how I teach ❤
Clearing powerful kick
That first kick is incredible
Great tutorial, thanks! Audio may be a bit hard to follow because of all the reverberation. A headset Mike would have lifted that bit a lot. Or some room treatment. Very useful tips and exercises though, I was looking for the faster mw.geri version demonstrated near the end. Thanks again 🙏
Thank you, this is one of my older videos (a few months) I’ve got a microphone now so the sound quality is a bit better in more recent videos .
I would love to train karate as well as Muay Thai but all the dojos near me are mcdojos. Love your videos. It's great having a wider range of kicks in my arsenal.
Ensinamento com bastantes detalhes! Grato por isso Sensei.
Thank you...great tips ❤❤❤
Hello from Brazil>
Excellent video, very good job.
Great Tutorial! Will surely use it.
Very good , it would be great to see , inside mawashi to groin , and chin , or stomach , using feint of normal mawashi , then turn into inside mawashi , geri to groin etc , then use combination of even backfist combo , twisting techniques ,
🙏Thank you Sensei
Instep kicking is o.k. for tournaments, but if you need to break bones the ball of the foot is the best point of contact.
Super useful, there's a lot to work on here.
Excellent thank you wish I was showen those years ago ❤❤
I’ve taught this method of roundhouse for 4 decades. Advanced people can make their kick drop slightly at the end of the arc for more power. The question mark kick will is easier to learn and sneaky, but it’s best to learn how to set up and land the bigger kick first. I always emphasize keeping the hands up for this. Ie, starting w hands at face level and pulling the rear hand past the hip for power, as this guy does, but also keeping the front hand up for defense, particularly against a counter wheel kick. This doesn’t sacrifice any power and also allows you to shoot your rear hand cross to the face from your chin. Ie, less telegraph.
I have a brown belt I still struggle with round house kick this video was helpful
Superb training. Absolutely what I needed because I'm working on my sidekicks I practice Tang Soo do. This was a great training. I will implement these. Thank you so much brother
Thank you Sensei!
Nice video and interestingly I see a few points or differences between sport and traditional karate. From a sport perspective, I have no issues. In traditional karate, we only use the ball of the foot for this kick. The foot that stays on the ground does not turn all the way like shown here (I was taught the same in sport version of Wado Ryu style), but rather stops halfway there, so at the moment of the kick the back and front foot are facing the same direction, which ensures the maximum (ground-body-leg) connection and power. In Wado we also learned to bring the leg up (like with mae geri) and then twist and kick. In the traditional version, we don't lift the leg at the back and then do the turn, but rather lift straight from the side at a 45-degree angle, then continue until the knee points straight at the target at which point you release the foot, without losing the momentum. The point is you stay connected to the ground lightly while twisting the back foot and lifting the front leg, kicking with the whole body, and at the moment of impact your back foot is firmly on the ground (not on the side, or the edge, or the ball or the toes).
Thank you for clarifying a doubt I had for years after switching from sport karate to traditional, why I remembered a slightly different body position towards the opponent when I used to kick with a flat foot (not a ball of the foot). It makes sense as the impact comes more from the leg swing than a kick!
Great video, good tecnics.
Man, that kick looks heavy, and dangerous, too!
Form, balance, power and speed? Check ✅
Fantastic 👍👀
great vid!
any tutorials on things to help with point sparring would be amazing!
Thank you so much sir (guru ji) JAI SHREE RAM 🎉❤
Excellent
Great tutorial. We‘ll do this in the dojo next week.
Nice tutorial. I commend this
great video and helps me a lot during practice. Would love to see a video like this for the back kick or spinning back kick. Also low kick tutorial would be helpful. Osu!
Thank you, I have a video on the back kick here on this channel 👍
Thanks for the foot information ☺️
Love this tutorial