I met him 4 years ago during a 5 day training camp in Okinawa. He really was beating concrete with his bare hands, which were a dark colour and his feet. But he was very kind and courteous, I think that kindness comes naturally with this kind of strength
Sensei Morio Higaonna, the legendary Goju Ryu Karate master, was described over 30 years ago as “The Most Dangerous Man in Japan in a Real Fight" by another legend, Donn Draeger. We think today at 84 years old, Morio Higaonna is still very dangerous! What do you think?
I watch alot of the older grand masters and believe the more they age, the more dangerous they become as they streamline alot of their techniques to eliminate threats in a more efficient way. What he lacks due to aging (and he looks amazing) he has shifted to developing on the other side with power and conditioning.
If he would hit his opponent one time they would drop and that would end the conflict. However at his level of skill it is more likely he would use a joint lock to save the opponent injury.
@@pzykotikal BINGO!!! All the movement/motions the Black Belts/advanced students and instructors do, are all just sophisticated basics, with sophisticated timing, targeting, speed, power. Due to years of learning, practice, training, and teaching others. Nothing more.
People don’t realise how hard these old school karate guys are, they’re literally rock hard. These men came up when you actually had to be strong as f-k to even make it beyond yellow belt not like today how they hand out black belts like candy after 18 months - 2years. That’s what’s given the traditional martial arts a bad name these days.!
Du sagst es. Es ist wie du schon sagst die vielleicht unterschätzteste Kampfkunst. In der heutigen Zeit wo jeder Muay-Thay, und MMA, Cage Fight. Von den ganzen Kommerz Kämpfern hätte keiner eine Chance gegen diese alten stolzen Karateka!!🙏🙏
Fortunately, my sabonim in taekwondo itf is one of the strict ones, and don't let me participate in a exam unless he sees me prepared for it. I've been practicing the art for at least 10 years and still im red belt. Maybe i could have been black belt right now, but due to lack of conditioning or practice i couldn't, and it's ok.
Yeh i really don't understand how some places can give out black belts that fast. I'm a blue belt under Chinzo Machida and have been training there for 3 years and feel like I'm barely scratching the surface
Karate is not always about punches, kicks, elbow strikes, chopping, or grappling. It's also about how well build your body is, specially if you have a strong fist to crush things. And it's not an easy task. It takes hard and wise work of training.
I love how Tekken has good reputation when portraying the realism of martial arts, despite their fantasy elements. Of course not all the characters are realistic, but still it remains there.
Don Draeger, of immense knowledge, skill and strength, died about 40 years ago, after being poisond in Indonesia. I am quite sure he never said it about Higaona, as good as Higaona was. I had been living in Japan at the time and I met Higaona sensei too, who tried to open a dojo in Tokyo but closed after a short while because it was not profitable.
@@BeesBugsJapan Ask a Northern Ireland man with a British passport if he is English and he will probably punch you in the face LOL. [or you might want to have a look at Europe where they all live in different counties but all use the same European passport] 👍🙂
I can feel this man's enthusiasm. While throwing punches in the horse stance and he gets excited and has to motivate his class. Or the scene where he grabs under the man's armpit; he smiles with a loving viciousness. As if to say, "I must do this. I love you as my fellow human, but I must show you how strong I am." "Faadsta" "JoieeeAah!"
They don’t accept because it’s garbage 😂. Ancient warfare are fought with spears and arrows, not bare fist. Modern improved combat style are way more superior than this choreographed shit
@@vishnuvishnu7929 Boxing, Dutch Kickboxing, BJJ, Muay Thai, Wrestling, Combat Sambo, Combat Sanda, Lethwei etc. Essentially anything that offers full contact and have a competitive scene. These styles have learnt from each other and evolved over the years as practicers have learnt what really worked and not through generations of competitions. The main problem with Karate is the purists. Your 1800s steam car isn’t gonna outdrive a Porsche 911. It might be cultural and elegant for sure but in practically, it just can’t catch up.
Been looking for the UFC comment😂 normally get some cock chops saying something. This guy is a legend, I was taught by a man like this who is sadly no longer with us. Respect Sensei.
@@mikerussell2590 bud, tell all your friends to wear T-Shirt with " I am with stupid" written on it when they go out with you. It is written "a Real Fight" in the descripition of this video, if you didn´t notice. All I am asking is "where is it"? Not " who wants to fight this man?". Gosh, the Internet is getting dumber by the day...
He was at one of the invited instuctorers by sensei Kanazawa at one of the annual Seminars and he invited me over to train the following year. One of the best experiences i have ever had. Legend is an understatement.
These masters mean business. If you trained in the late 80s early 90s you prob had a SENSEI like this. My Sheehan was a Puerto Rican man, about 5”4 7th degree in USA GOJU / GOLDEN GLOVES / JUDO BLACK BELT. At one point in my childhood I thought he was immortal. Never seen anyone move or fight the way he did. OSS Sheehan E. Torres
The most dangerous thing about him: His 8-10 dan belts didn't come from Goju-Ryu because he's shunned by Jundokan. He got Jundokan to change several techniques in Goju-Ryu katas just to distance the dojo from him. The guy's ego sent shockwaves through Goju-Ryu that is still present today. My sensei hated his guts. 😁
Awesome to see those who perfected the art before it was recognized as an "art". Think it should be taught in schools, but coupled with a philosophy of contempt and penalty for all that abuse it, rather than see it as necessity in society.
Человек прозанимался всю жизнь, а так и не понял, что камни всё равно твёрже человеческого тела, и камень только шлифуется от ударов, становится красивее, а руки уродливее. проблемы с суставами тоже никто не отменял.
A living legend, no question, but given that Draeger has been dead for over 40 years, I expect that most Okinawans are happy that this man is still among them. My favourite Draeger story was the Indian thug who ate a hideous mixture of onions, chilli and other substances designed to give him the ability to knock people out with his breath. I fear that I may have met his apprentice ;) .
Outstanding! He even stomps the groin, Master Ken would be proud. But really, looks legit, ears, wrist, eyes... that's what I imagine a real fight is like...😅
Found the combat sports comment. Also UFC is not a real fight. That eye gouging sensei did is not allowed. Nor would pulling the ears. Combat sports is a simulation, its not representative of an actual confrontation.
@@adandyguyinspace5783 you ever see Jon Jones eye pokes? I don't think it takes a lot of training to put bony mandibles into squishy eyeballs. The second someone would green light these techniques against a trained wrestler or BJJ practitioner they'd rip their face off.
@@masterj4777 I will. He fights according to rules. So if he has an exhibition match with someone who's allowed to fight with no rules he will likely lose against a skilled martial artist because of these (and others) techniques. Secondly, fighting someone who's fought professionally for years against someone who has not proves nothing. Not everyone does martial arts to be a cage fighter, some of us just want to protect ourselves from the average person (who's bad at fighting typically), shocker, I know. Combat sports is not the determining factor of efficacy for a mile-long list of reasons.
I was in many seminars under sensei Higaoona leadership a true master of Karate... Once "he held my elbow"... it took 3 month to heal... I did not forget that .. That was a real working pressure points. (Not everyone can do what he did ).
Likely one of the strongest and most combat capable 80+ year olds in our world
Tbf that's not a very competitive age group 😂
He's elite in that respect and not just 80 a lot younger too
この東恩納先生の若い頃の映像を見たが野外で多人数にいっぺんに掛からせて一乗寺下り松の武蔵のように一人ひとりバタバタと一瞬で倒していったw
Steve Morris turned 80 last month he'd give him a run for his money !
@@ianstanley7520 got any videos of him?
I met him 4 years ago during a 5 day training camp in Okinawa. He really was beating concrete with his bare hands, which were a dark colour and his feet. But he was very kind and courteous, I think that kindness comes naturally with this kind of strength
Это большая удача! Побывать на уроках Сенсея Морио Хигаоны. Он настоящая сокровищница Окинавского каратэ-до .
😱 wow
For real!🤔
Расскажи пожалуйста что он еще делал
I wish i could train with him
Sensei Morio Higaonna, the legendary Goju Ryu Karate master, was described over 30 years ago as “The Most Dangerous Man in Japan in a Real Fight" by another legend, Donn Draeger. We think today at 84 years old, Morio Higaonna is still very dangerous! What do you think?
I watch alot of the older grand masters and believe the more they age, the more dangerous they become as they streamline alot of their techniques to eliminate threats in a more efficient way. What he lacks due to aging (and he looks amazing) he has shifted to developing on the other side with power and conditioning.
If he would hit his opponent one time they would drop and that would end the conflict. However at his level of skill it is more likely he would use a joint lock to save the opponent injury.
I personally wouldn't like to try and find out.
Wanderley Silva ?
I would not like to fight him , enough said .
Basics, Basics, Basics. Learning the basic base of a system cannot be overstated.
This, basics are everything. No matter your skill-level
@@pzykotikal BINGO!!! All the movement/motions the Black Belts/advanced students and instructors do, are all just sophisticated basics, with sophisticated timing, targeting, speed, power. Due to years of learning, practice, training, and teaching others. Nothing more.
Basics are like the foundation of a house if they are not correct nothing else will be as strong as it would be with a strong foundation.
Yes! What was it that Bruce Lee supposedly said about not fearing the man who knows 10000 ways of kicking but one man who has done 1 kick 10000 times?
Every thing comes from the Basics
People don’t realise how hard these old school karate guys are, they’re literally rock hard. These men came up when you actually had to be strong as f-k to even make it beyond yellow belt not like today how they hand out black belts like candy after 18 months - 2years. That’s what’s given the traditional martial arts a bad name these days.!
Du sagst es. Es ist wie du schon sagst die vielleicht unterschätzteste Kampfkunst. In der heutigen Zeit wo jeder Muay-Thay, und MMA, Cage Fight. Von den ganzen Kommerz Kämpfern hätte keiner eine Chance gegen diese alten stolzen Karateka!!🙏🙏
@@danielkrahwinkel7191I love the old masters don't get me wrong, but I wouldn't want them fighting a monstrous anomaly like John Jones
@@RK-um2bj oblique kicks and Eye poke to the masters
Fortunately, my sabonim in taekwondo itf is one of the strict ones, and don't let me participate in a exam unless he sees me prepared for it. I've been practicing the art for at least 10 years and still im red belt. Maybe i could have been black belt right now, but due to lack of conditioning or practice i couldn't, and it's ok.
Yeh i really don't understand how some places can give out black belts that fast. I'm a blue belt under Chinzo Machida and have been training there for 3 years and feel like I'm barely scratching the surface
every martial art is beyond what pop culture has popularized, it's always about conditioning your body and mind, it's about discipline and readiness.
Karate is not always about punches, kicks, elbow strikes, chopping, or grappling. It's also about how well build your body is, specially if you have a strong fist to crush things. And it's not an easy task. It takes hard and wise work of training.
The original Heihachi inspiration, u can tell this dude is the real deal
I love how Tekken has good reputation when portraying the realism of martial arts, despite their fantasy elements. Of course not all the characters are realistic, but still it remains there.
I thought it was mas oyama
84, wow, still in phenomenal shape
He's in my grandma's age but instead being weak, he keep up the work and the art of Gyudo. Hope he have a prosperous life to the fullest!
@@nuravidazalki3491 years of Karate training does to you, it increases your health!
This is a real Sensei ! 👍👍👍
always re-stomp that groin
Master Ken, glad you could make it
@@michaelthompson3284 Master AMERI-Ken
EUSSSSSS!
Lololol😂😂😂
Big respect for Karate. One of the hardest fighters 💪
is this another addition to theose mcdojo videos????
Learning the basics CANNOT be overstated
Don Draeger, of immense knowledge, skill and strength, died about 40 years ago, after being poisond in Indonesia. I am quite sure he never said it about Higaona, as good as Higaona was. I had been living in Japan at the time and I met Higaona sensei too, who tried to open a dojo in Tokyo but closed after a short while because it was not profitable.
Don Draeger died of cancer in 1982.
Yesss! People like to create legends. It is easier when there is no proof!
Doesn't mean he's a bad martial artist. Maybe he needed better advertising.
Japan ?, I think you mean Okinawa
People in Okinawa have Japanese passports, do you want them to have American or Chinese ones?
@@BeesBugsJapan
Ask a Northern Ireland man with a British passport if he is English and he will probably punch you in the face LOL.
[or you might want to have a look at Europe where they all live in different counties but all use the same European passport]
👍🙂
Id like to see him in s slapping contest
Hia hands look like clubs. I bet they are like bricks.
Hes the greatest Goju ryu master alive Brutal but kind. He has lived karate all his life How Great
These are the moves I use to ward off my inlaws.
The karate that I love.
I can feel this man's enthusiasm. While throwing punches in the horse stance and he gets excited and has to motivate his class. Or the scene where he grabs under the man's armpit; he smiles with a loving viciousness. As if to say, "I must do this. I love you as my fellow human, but I must show you how strong I am." "Faadsta" "JoieeeAah!"
Now we know who taught Master Ken to always re-stomp the groin!
So eye gouge, wrist lock and joint manipulation lol. That’s deadly???
That's my favorite before karate the art of empty hand fighting.
Some claim that karate is impractical they have to learn that ancient karate is a battle field art and have to meet real masters like him
You´re right. In Okinawa, advanced practitionners never accept a fight. They said
it´s too dangerous.
I’d ragdoll that old ass man 😂
They don’t accept because it’s garbage 😂. Ancient warfare are fought with spears and arrows, not bare fist. Modern improved combat style are way more superior than this choreographed shit
@@rubickr can you name some advanced modern fighting styles?
@@vishnuvishnu7929 Boxing, Dutch Kickboxing, BJJ, Muay Thai, Wrestling, Combat Sambo, Combat Sanda, Lethwei etc. Essentially anything that offers full contact and have a competitive scene.
These styles have learnt from each other and evolved over the years as practicers have learnt what really worked and not through generations of competitions.
The main problem with Karate is the purists. Your 1800s steam car isn’t gonna outdrive a Porsche 911. It might be cultural and elegant for sure but in practically, it just can’t catch up.
When grappler thinks - i can get this man down easy , they don't think what happens if he pinches you with those hands
Been looking for the UFC comment😂 normally get some cock chops saying something. This guy is a legend, I was taught by a man like this who is sadly no longer with us. Respect Sensei.
👊👊🔥
@@dakentaijutsu2010 well, if the master wants to challenge me on tatami I'll accept
@@dakentaijutsu2010 if the master wants to challenge me on tatami I'll accept
@@dakentaijutsu2010 I said that if he wants to challenge me on tatami I'll accept
@@valeriocolombo595 Why? Because you're a joke, that's why, I can't take your comments seriously! 🤣
So where is the real fight?
you first, unless you're superman you have zero chance. 1 punch it's over.
@@mikerussell2590 bud, tell all your friends to wear T-Shirt with " I am with stupid" written on it when they go out with you.
It is written "a Real Fight" in the descripition of this video, if you didn´t notice. All I am asking is "where is it"? Not " who wants to fight this man?". Gosh, the Internet is getting dumber by the day...
@@Aidar77 Ну так то тупой здесь ты, Айдарчик😂
The Clutch of the Vice ❤❤❤😊🇨🇦 Mad Respect
He was at one of the invited instuctorers by sensei Kanazawa at one of the annual
Seminars and he invited me over to train the following year. One of the best experiences i have ever had. Legend is an understatement.
He just did all my favorite techniques
A living weapon, years of dedication.
Something in the world: 🤷🏻♂️🙄😐
Something in Japan:😍😫🥳🤯
This man is over 80 years old, and he's still training, what an inspiration! 🥋👊
Wahres karate
He reminds me of Professor Mirzaee the founder of Kung Fu who could do incredible feats!
I know him he also known as not only master but man of Gojoryu... oosu
The kindness comes from the green Cross. If you guys didn’t notice he’s on that medicinal marijuana. LOL
These masters mean business. If you trained in the late 80s early 90s you prob had a SENSEI like this. My Sheehan was a Puerto Rican man, about 5”4 7th degree in USA GOJU / GOLDEN GLOVES / JUDO BLACK BELT. At one point in my childhood I thought he was immortal. Never seen anyone move or fight the way he did. OSS Sheehan E. Torres
Dying breed 😢
He uses aikido wrist locks
Oosh sir 🙏
Great respect to the Master
The most dangerous thing about him:
His 8-10 dan belts didn't come from Goju-Ryu because he's shunned by Jundokan.
He got Jundokan to change several techniques in Goju-Ryu katas just to distance the dojo from him.
The guy's ego sent shockwaves through Goju-Ryu that is still present today.
My sensei hated his guts. 😁
Sir you are a great wonderful
Imagine Higaonna sensei digging out your eyes with those brick hands.
The Cat of modern times.. Yogan Yamagushi ...
man makes stevie segaliiiii look like a newbie
This makes me miss my childhood days..
Imaging trying to grapple with this guy and the next thing you know you can’t see 👀
Grip strength correlates with biological age. He seems very sturdy for an 80 something year old
My second favorite Karate man after my own teacher. He is a great inspiration to millions. Thanks for sharing.
Laoshr #60
Ching Yi Kung Fu Association
I'm Kyokushin practioner n I know the power of gojoryu
*Goju*
The Iron Man Of Karate😊
Well dne pops shows no age in keeping mentally physically fit brilliant dangrr 😂❤😂
Good karate style
He restomped the groin! Master Ken would be proud 😁
True karate And Good Dragon 🐉 Warrior of a Sensei ❤👊🏻🫡
This is how we trained back in the early 80s... I miss it dearly!!
His son's an MMA fighter
You can tell that his lightest block will hurt you
Amazing Master!
My Friend...
Shoosh, Meassat'su!!!
Okinawan karate is powerful.
ALL karate comes from Okinawa. Funakoshi only took 10% of Karate knowledge with him to Japan.
Awesome to see those who perfected the art before it was recognized as an "art". Think it should be taught in schools, but coupled with a philosophy of contempt and penalty for all that abuse it, rather than see it as necessity in society.
He is the real deal
my sensei always taught us this stuff
People forget, these things exist.. ..yet many today train mma like a reff will be roaming streets.
Человек прозанимался всю жизнь, а так и не понял, что камни всё равно твёрже человеческого тела, и камень только шлифуется от ударов, становится красивее, а руки уродливее. проблемы с суставами тоже никто не отменял.
How old is this footage? I've seen recent films & images and he looks a lot older in them.
Сенсей Хигаона !!! ОС !!!
Them hands look incredibly strong....I dont even wanna spar with him😂
Mike tyson 🥊🗿🗿
Karate is as respectable as Muay Thai because of how hard their conditioning is.
I wouldn't wanna piss him off 😅😅😅
Wonder what his Rheumatoid Factor, CRP and Bone Profile look like.
Higinona Sensei
Goju Ryu 💯❤️ Respect
Domo arigato gozaimasu
Walter san ... Rei
ShorinRyu 🥋
Love this guy, literally 🌹
Very Good
Bis du bis drei gezählt hast, reißt er dir deine Ohren ab, und holt dir deine Augen raus
Imagine fighting him as a pro boxer, in his.....
PRIME🏆
Would beat the shit out of him
A living legend, no question, but given that Draeger has been dead for over 40 years, I expect that most Okinawans are happy that this man is still among them. My favourite Draeger story was the Indian thug who ate a hideous mixture of onions, chilli and other substances designed to give him the ability to knock people out with his breath. I fear that I may have met his apprentice ;) .
Outstanding!
He even stomps the groin, Master Ken would be proud.
But really, looks legit, ears, wrist, eyes... that's what I imagine a real fight is like...😅
Call dana white and give him a UFC contract To fight John Jones
Found the combat sports comment. Also UFC is not a real fight. That eye gouging sensei did is not allowed. Nor would pulling the ears. Combat sports is a simulation, its not representative of an actual confrontation.
@@adandyguyinspace5783 Tell this same sentence to chuck Lidell and let me know the outcome
Good day 👋
@@masterj4777 so he can fight against a longsword, rapier, messer, greatsword, etc. ok let’s test MMA vs HEMA
@@adandyguyinspace5783 you ever see Jon Jones eye pokes? I don't think it takes a lot of training to put bony mandibles into squishy eyeballs. The second someone would green light these techniques against a trained wrestler or BJJ practitioner they'd rip their face off.
@@masterj4777 I will. He fights according to rules. So if he has an exhibition match with someone who's allowed to fight with no rules he will likely lose against a skilled martial artist because of these (and others) techniques. Secondly, fighting someone who's fought professionally for years against someone who has not proves nothing. Not everyone does martial arts to be a cage fighter, some of us just want to protect ourselves from the average person (who's bad at fighting typically), shocker, I know. Combat sports is not the determining factor of efficacy for a mile-long list of reasons.
Amazing trained all his life and has never been in a real fight.
Hi is not dangerous! But he can defend him self like no other, thats a big difference!
No? 😂
He even restomped the groin 😮
You don't fuck with him
Guess they have no fighting experience
I had the pleassure to meat him 4 days while i was in japan and he is a great, humoristic man with also yonosato and kuramoto sensai
I need him to give me a deep tissue massage, my shoulder sore asf
THIS SENSAI is the real DEAL
Hands of stone for real imagine how his punches feel like
I was in many seminars under sensei Higaoona leadership a true master of Karate... Once "he held my elbow"... it took 3 month to heal... I did not forget that .. That was a real working pressure points. (Not everyone can do what he did ).
Most dangerous man was Taika Oyata.
Look his hands and forearms… he’s really strong.
Yeah, I'm showing him respect. Please don't literally tear me apart.
In ACTUAL kyokushin karate, i got a yellow belt after 4 years. Imagine this dude in japan. Im in an arab country.
Wow, my sensei taught me alot of these same moves