As someone who trains in Muay thai I have a lot of respect for the punishment kyokishin fighters can both dish out and take. There's an interesting story about when the creator of Kyokishin sent 3 fighters to fight Muay thai fighters in the 60's, 2 out of the 3 won which was very impressive.
Some of these jokers bashing these martial artists, should step up and try and fight one. Speaking as someone who trained with kyokushin fighters, they hit harder than almost any other style in the world. And without any padding at all. These guys are tough as hell, and would knock you the fuck out
People are stupid.They thinl those punches are soft when the thing is that fighters are trained to resist punche .Their bodies are hard .Give a kick or a punch like this to one of those igorant complainera and they would be K.O in a sec.
I have been training kyokushin for my entire life. And I know that their kicks are probably the most powerful thing we humans can do! And I have seen alot of people commenting shit about this, but when you are really experienced in this or any martial art that is similar, you do not just fight with the body, but also with the spirit!
You dodge to avoid any damage, because you never know how strong your opponent may be, but they are probably the most solid people you can come across!
Agree man, but it shame that it seem the tournament rule have limited them down too much so it now just a sport. I wish we can see them fight full contact
My grandfather has done kyokushin karate for 50 years plus, there bodys are up there with the most conditioned fighters and even harder in Japan, it's the grace and style that puts people off
omegaweaponredux agreed. People don't know what it's like until you do it. Watching 2 equally matched fighters makes it look like they don't have any power.
Plus 2 minute rounds can fell like a decade when you are in a whirlwind of kicks, knees and punches, colliding in clinches and ref darting in and out. It's brutal if you aren't conditioned for it properly.
I've done this (not this school, but karate) for years and the more I watch these videos after I've grown up, the more I think karate sparring tournaments are more dangerous than entertaining.
Great words. I want add some: the physical condition doesn't come from your art, but from your focus. You can train Judo or Taekwondo and have the resistance of a dancer, if your objective is the olimpic fight. But real marcial artists from those arts are not necessarily inferior. Physical training is not standart by a art. Everything depends of your personal training, whatever be your(s) art(s). :)
there used to be punches to the face in Kyokushin but it was removed some time ago to add more challenge to the tournaments. and to avoid serious injuries since there is no protection whatsoever in kyokushin. A point system is extremely rare in kyokushin, it's mostly knockdown/out or judges decision at the end of a round. and the system of kyokushin is based on taking the hits everywhere on your body to toughen up. or at least it was like that during my training. hope that helps a bit...
The nice thing about Kyokushin is that it teaches you what it feels like to take bare-knuckle strikes to the body. Boxing teaches you what it's like to take a punch (albeit a padded one) to the head/face, but the punches you get to the body from boxing are not like those you get in Kyokushin competition (unless practicing boxing bare-knuckle).
As a muay thai fighter i went to a lesson of kyokushinkai karate. And i didn't experience a pain like that before. My first lesson I had to spar with a black belt and the body shots were taking the air out of my lungs. I find this more painful then a KO that you don't know what hit you. Those punches break you down slowly, not only physical but also mentally. I'm definitely going back and train with those guys. Don't stick to one style of martial art, a wise man told me that once.
This is more entertaining to watch the MMA. All MMA fights turn into grappling matches. Seeing two guys hugging each other on the ground starts to get boring to look at.
Alvin Elmore Look into K-1, it is basically MMA but without grappling. They where gloves however, so unlike with Kyokushin, there are punches to the head.
Alvin Elmore That's because you're uneducated in the intricacies of grappling and don't know what you'r looking at. And considering that the largest portion of fights end up on the ground, it's foolish to neglect your ground game. “You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.” -Miyamoto Musashi
kane robertson I said it was more entertaining to watch not that grappling was inferior as a technique. I understand grappling takes an extreme amount of skill, but at the end of the day the matches still just end up looking like two guys on the ground hugging each other. That gets boring after awhile. Here they are more up right and you get more strikes Again, my argument is not that grappling does not take skill, my argument is that its boring to look at. Golf is an extremely skilled sport but it is also boring to look at. At lest for me.
Alvin Elmore what you don't like homoerotic sports? lool I did muay thai type kickboxing and the instructor told me to take bjj i did one class and had enough it was a little too gay for me, but the chick in the class started dry humping me lolll
Wow - this is an exciting martial art to watch, some of those hits had incredible power behind them... Does Kyokushin train differently from other forms of Karate?
i love this with all those hammering and unpredictable execution of kicks that can be on the anywhere that you dont know when is coming.i love the man in 7:20 execute that kicks infront of the opponent.i think i know this man he looks very familiar.i love this guy.....
Why people are trashing this vid? Obviously this is a tournament which means they have rules, it is not a real fight. To those who are saying the KOs are weak, keep in mind they are not wearing any kind of protection, a hard kick or punch to the liver will make your legs buckle and on the face even a 50% kick can take you out. For those who praise MMA like UFC and so forth, that is also not a real fight. It might seem similar but a real fight you can end it in 1 second with a hard kick to the groin, you're not allowed to do that in MMA sports.
As a two-year practitioner of this art, but a life long martial student i agree with you. To all the critics, i will say this: Do not misconstrue functionality for flippancy. KSK wasn't made to be pretty; it was made to be brutally affective; a power style that is devastating in its simplicity and looks far more like brawling than other more dynamic arts. Shihan Oyama refined this art by fighting bulls & facing 100 opponents for kumite. Against odds like that, there is no time to be "pretty"
I dig this, I'm more of a JKD and WC man myself though I REALLY love fencing and boxing. Dolph Lundgren has made me want to take another foray into Karate (haven't since I was 10, though I did TKD until I was 19 and then moved onto amateur boxing and kickboxing) There are some pretty epic fighters in this style of MA. No denying it. I think my style of Wing Chung and a mixture of Willie Pep, Archie Moore and James Toney stylistic impersonations (inasmuch as I can, I mean, I'm NO Willie Pep! But if I could be 1/10th as good, y'know? 1/20th, even!)
covering their faces from striking, because there are two options in boxing, hit the body, hit the head, if you have your hands at your chest / hips, it's a lot further of a distance to cover a headshot than keeping your hands up, elbows in, back hand on your face. With those fundamentals anyone can succeed in a "fight" "match" whatever you want to call it. Boxing is an artform used in Mixed Martial Arts, there are people who have base in judo, bjj, japanese jj, muay thai, boxing, karate, kungfu
People say that Kyokushin is useless in a street fight because it doesn't have head shots. Then boxing should also be useless in a street fight because its practitioner can't defend themselves when they get slammed on a concrete block, or a wrestler is weak because they don't know how to kick and punch. This mindset is what happened for people who only think partially. People like GSP and Bas Rutten any many others who think comprehensively will know how to incorporate those arsenals into one deadly fighting method.
This is Kyokushin, man. Iron body conditioning doesn't exclude the knuckles; they don't need gloves to protect the hand. The reason they don't allow head strikes is, indeed, to preserve the sport.
What is the purpose of the move the fighter makes after knocking out the opponent. It looks like a gedan barai with open hand but a little higher? Thanks. Do you have to do all the time after KO? What is the name of the move?
There's traditional karate and sport karate, traditional karate - use strikes, pressure points and take-downs to finish the attacker as quickly as possible, sport karate - this video. Most clubs do both :)
Well, Kyokushin Kai is a karate kind specialized in ultra hard strikes even if you thought it soft strikes. One hit given within protection means an organ severely damaged or a broken bone.
KK is a strong "manly" martial art.... People do not want their pretty face getting beat up.... Yes, people who train KK does it to look good, rather being good. Thanks for pointing that out. :)
This is a very hard style - these guys are very tough - however no punches to the face as a rule cannot be good for ones ability to defends ones head. I am interested to hear from a fighter from this noble art on how he/ she justifies no punches to the head, and the effect of this in practical self defense terms. Thanks
u answered it.. knee is not a muscle , so it is a bone , and bone can be harden... when u hit it against wood... small bone fragments breck and then repair again with calcuim... this repaired bone is twice as hard then before...welcome to "Fight science'
I cannot speak for other martial arts, but in Kyokushin the conditioning of the body is very important. It is very common practice to use your partner as a punching and kicking bag. But in a real competition, not everyone acts the same. No matter how well someone train their body, if the brain doesn't keep up, they will be mediocre fighters. A well placed punch to the solar plexus while your opponent is inhaling air will put him on his back. I know guys that had their ribs cracked by a punch.
Kyokushin is my absolute favorite karate style, but I dislike seeing the newer fighter's gaming the system with sacrifice/fall-down kicks. Powerful, dangerous attacks that depend on the referee to protect you after you're on the ground and very vulnerable. Never used to see this in the older videos.
I kinda like the no-head-strikes rule. At least it lets people compete without risking inevitable brain damage. If you take a kick to the head, sure, but if all those punches were hitting you in the face the whole time you'd be certain to end up with cognitive problems down the line.
There are no rungs. Wing Chun, Kyokushin, MMA, TKD and others can all beat each other and lose to each other. It depends on the skill of the fighter, and don't confuse what you see here with Kyokushin for self defense. This is sport.
the person below me is right. it pisses me of when i talk to boxers and i tell them i do karate, and they give me a big talk to why it will never be as good as boxing. i think each art has its good points. kyokushin has alot of them too
Controlling distance is basic principal of fighting. What rings out to me watching is that they are just too close to each other. The feet didn't evolve to kick.Through over 200 million years of evolution they evolved for locomotion.Move out of the way and don't let enemy hit U.
...they all have longer and more successful careers than their wild counterparts who depend mostly on brute strength. My point is. The more overall injuries you sustain in a martial over the span of time, the more it will wear and tear on your will and stamina. In that sense, KK and similarly riskier martial arts like an inboxer or a brawler boxer would absorb more punishment through time thus they either their will or they body gives up.
Any one have an idea how they score these matches? LIke boxing? Do kicks to the legs count? I reserve judgement until I find out more info...Long time ago, when I was a tournament fighter, kicks to legs and joints, groin, weren't counted; full contact to body with kicks, fists, non contact to the head..though you could hit there...Sweeps and throws were allowed. Elbows and knees were allowed, but it was rare to land them or score a point...It was a game of tag, same as this playing, but it did help develop timing, and assertiveness in fights..
Well... Ok, I guess you're right. Avoiding puches doesn't work. I mean look at Anderson Silva... His dodges are after all not legendary. :S Yes, because avoid = run away.... What can I say. You got me. Great job chief. ;)
The reasons so many of these guys get beaten in MMA is that they let their hands drop. I know from decades of practicing TKD that handwork is not a strong suit of karate or TKD. In the early 1990s I had to start taking kung fu learn how to box and keep my hands up.
Let me tell you, kyokushin is only for tanker. Oh yeah, its might be not the fastest attack but once you punch or kick on kyokushin, you put a lot of pressure on it.
atlewis 1 You don't know this style. Full contact except punches to the face. Open ribs are a big welcome sign. Had em and gave em and when all is done RESPECT for your adversary.
I've been reading some of the comments and I was amazed as to how many " experts " there are out there. I'm a retired Shotokan instructor and know that all of the Karate punches can be quite devastating...if they are properly executed. I also agree with malikboy44.
blockmasterscott I don't even practice martial arts but being around so many people in my life who do kung fu, I'm aware of how a seemingly innocent kick given with the right channeling of energy can deliver a lethal blow. This stuff above is dangerous.
blockmasterscott Are you kidding me? I dare anyone who call those punches and kicks weak to get hit by one of them. These dudes are fighting without any gloves or any body armor.
blockmasterscott No one realizes how hard it is to not break feet and hands when striking bare, you literally can not go full power without risking broken bones.
i see a lot of punches and no real 'kung fu' technique. not the westernized "kung fu" shit, real kung fu from China. if you want to go "hard", you're not going to be harder than Shaolin Monks (just an example). or, power of punches, it won't be harder than Shaolin Monks. how about accuracy, is that too much for you fucking amateurs?
@@MikhailKalashnikovMiG u need to get off ur lazy ass and start to hone your debate skills. go to China and train in one of the legit shaolin schools for locals (not the watered down version for your kind so u dont cry and shit).
@@samsun01 here is an answer from china. I hope you can pay a visit to chinese internet world and let us tell you how kungfu is. In china, whether traditional martial arts have great practical use has been debated for some years. Traditional chinese marial arts is somewhat useful, but it also contains many ineffective or wasteful skills because they don't evolve and some martial artists are liers or too tubborn. However, kyokushin karate is a parragon of evolving and its skils are widely appreciated in our country. As to the Shaolin monks you talk about....well maybe you watch too many kungfu movies. Many shows they present are fake. Also, the real modern shaolin fighters might prefer to practice sanda but not traditional martial arts.
the kicks and punches may look weak (which does!) but it actually hurts like shit! my hands go numb trying to block one. and when i kick and get blocked, i'm the one who ends up getting hurt!
I'm a practinor of taekwondo and kickboxing and am also an avid fan of MMA. However, as cool and exciting as TKD, Kickboxing, and MMA are, they are nothing near to the brutality, the discipline, the strength, and power behind these kyokushin fighters. This is fighting to a totally new level and for those who say they have no defense, try hitting them, they're actually pretty hard to catch off guard. Slow kicks? I agree, but they don't hit lightly either. Only face punches? If you haven't noticed, they're not wearing gloves, so until humans evolve to have stone-hard faces with teeth made of steel, none of us would withstand a round in that type of situation.
I agree !!! I started training in a kyokushin karate dojo in tokyo, and I went to the fighting class last week, big mistake. I never got my ass whooped like that in my life. The other dudes were so brutal, It`s been 6 days and I just recovered now.
I'm a Taekwondo ( ITF ) trainer as well and i can tell that it depends on your attitude. It's not about what martial art you're doing but it's about what do you give in your training.
I just train 5 days a week after work, and been doing that for years. I'm no push over and am in good shape, but I'm under no illusion. Any of these guys can kill me.
If I recall correctly, fighting on ships played a huge role on how Karate was formed in its early days. Hence the reason why stance and kicks of Karate plays big role on stabilization (over moving surface). But over time, just like many other Martial Arts, it evolved and brought forth variations of Karate. Also, a practitioner who take daily dosage of strikes to their body ( and also dealing them) will have much better tolerance to pain etc than someone who spar with pads.
+Saint Barthélemy We got to consider also that the old rule of the "Loyal japanese Spirit" instruct that you need to be loyal to your discipline and to be "the best at" by using that discipline. People in asia weren't looking to mix sumo, greek wrestling, Karate, kung fu, jiu jitsu to become a fighter that will suceed in any kind of combat situation. One of the first fighters to do that was Bruce Lee. MMA gave a venue for fighters to "excel at total fighting" while the other arts keep providing the tradition of the style.
+Grecks Hanma -- Bruce Lee was nowhere near the first to combine martial arts. Kajukenbo was developed in the late 1940's before Bruce Lee started training in martial arts. Kajukenbo included karate, judo/jujitsu, Kenpo and Chinese style boxing although other forms of martial arts are said to be included. one of the key founders, Adriano Emperado, a student of Wm. K. S. Chow in Hawaii, went with the mantra of whatever works. I am sure there are many others. Most of the Chinese martial arts developed in a similar fashion. If he does this and I do that, I win. Followed by the next guy and so on. My complaint with Kyokushin is they act like it is full contact and have zero control. This is sport karate and excessive strikes used to get you disqualified. I wonder how these Kyokushin fighters would fare in a full contact MMA tournament.
As someone who trains in Muay thai I have a lot of respect for the punishment kyokishin fighters can both dish out and take. There's an interesting story about when the creator of Kyokishin sent 3 fighters to fight Muay thai fighters in the 60's, 2 out of the 3 won which was very impressive.
Thank you brother. Muay Thai is just as hardcore and badass and both disciplines can benefit each other. Osu
were both allowed to fight fully in their own style with no restrictions?
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Some of these jokers bashing these martial artists, should step up and try and fight one. Speaking as someone who trained with kyokushin fighters, they hit harder than almost any other style in the world. And without any padding at all. These guys are tough as hell, and would knock you the fuck out
people forget that all forms of karate revolve around combat AND ENDURANCE. Give em your best shot they wont even feel it.
People are stupid.They thinl those punches are soft when the thing is that fighters are trained to resist punche .Their bodies are hard .Give a kick or a punch like this to one of those igorant complainera and they would be K.O in a sec.
+Gandalf the Grey you are right. There was a blackbelt in our school and his body was muscular solely by doing karate he wouldn't feel my punches
Ahmed Saif exactly
Osu!
I have been training kyokushin for my entire life. And I know that their kicks are probably the most powerful thing we humans can do!
And I have seen alot of people commenting shit about this, but when you are really experienced in this or any martial art that is similar, you do not just fight with the body, but also with the spirit!
i'd like to train with them.. those solid bodies make less necessary to dodge. why dodge if you feel nothing when hit?
You dodge to avoid any damage, because you never know how strong your opponent may be, but they are probably the most solid people you can come across!
Agree man, but it shame that it seem the tournament rule have limited them down too much so it now just a sport. I wish we can see them fight full contact
they comment shit bec they dont know nothing about it...like chicken always quackin.peaceeeee!
No actually fighting in the ring is same as fighting an army of 10,000 it is at least 90% mental. Read the " Art of War"
My grandfather has done kyokushin karate for 50 years plus, there bodys are up there with the most conditioned fighters and even harder in Japan, it's the grace and style that puts people off
did full contact kyokushin at a tournament one time. got winded by my second match. didnt even know what hit me. video just doesn't do it justice.
omegaweaponredux agreed. People don't know what it's like until you do it. Watching 2 equally matched fighters makes it look like they don't have any power.
Stephen Ganade still, this looks too painful actually. Imagine bare, hardened fists hitting your ribs, ouchhh. And those middle kicks too.
Stephen Ganade true that
omegaweaponredux ye
Plus 2 minute rounds can fell like a decade when you are in a whirlwind of kicks, knees and punches, colliding in clinches and ref darting in and out. It's brutal if you aren't conditioned for it properly.
I agree Omar, these fighters are amazing and they seem to have great control of their kicks.
I've done this (not this school, but karate) for years and the more I watch these videos after I've grown up, the more I think karate sparring tournaments are more dangerous than entertaining.
Great words. I want add some: the physical condition doesn't come from your art, but from your focus. You can train Judo or Taekwondo and have the resistance of a dancer, if your objective is the olimpic fight. But real marcial artists from those arts are not necessarily inferior. Physical training is not standart by a art. Everything depends of your personal training, whatever be your(s) art(s). :)
there used to be punches to the face in Kyokushin but it was removed some time ago to add more challenge to the tournaments. and to avoid serious injuries since there is no protection whatsoever in kyokushin. A point system is extremely rare in kyokushin, it's mostly knockdown/out or judges decision at the end of a round. and the system of kyokushin is based on taking the hits everywhere on your body to toughen up. or at least it was like that during my training. hope that helps a bit...
The nice thing about Kyokushin is that it teaches you what it feels like to take bare-knuckle strikes to the body. Boxing teaches you what it's like to take a punch (albeit a padded one) to the head/face, but the punches you get to the body from boxing are not like those you get in Kyokushin competition (unless practicing boxing bare-knuckle).
As a muay thai fighter i went to a lesson of kyokushinkai karate. And i didn't experience a pain like that before. My first lesson I had to spar with a black belt and the body shots were taking the air out of my lungs. I find this more painful then a KO that you don't know what hit you. Those punches break you down slowly, not only physical but also mentally. I'm definitely going back and train with those guys. Don't stick to one style of martial art, a wise man told me that once.
This is more entertaining to watch the MMA. All MMA fights turn into grappling matches. Seeing two guys hugging each other on the ground starts to get boring to look at.
Alvin Elmore Look into K-1, it is basically MMA but without grappling. They where gloves however, so unlike with Kyokushin, there are punches to the head.
Alvin Elmore That's because you're uneducated in the intricacies of grappling and don't know what you'r looking at. And considering that the largest portion of fights end up on the ground, it's foolish to neglect your ground game. “You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.” -Miyamoto Musashi
kane robertson
I said it was more entertaining to watch not that grappling was inferior as a technique. I understand grappling takes an extreme amount of skill, but at the end of the day the matches still just end up looking like two guys on the ground hugging each other. That gets boring after awhile.
Here they are more up right and you get more strikes
Again, my argument is not that grappling does not take skill, my argument is that its boring to look at. Golf is an extremely skilled sport but it is also boring to look at. At lest for me.
Alvin Elmore what you don't like homoerotic sports? lool I did muay thai type kickboxing and the instructor told me to take bjj i did one class and had enough it was a little too gay for me, but the chick in the class started dry humping me lolll
Hey I've seen mma fights turn into boxing matches, and GSP vs Condit was entertaining and it was "a ground fight", lots of elbows man.
Wow - this is an exciting martial art to watch, some of those hits had incredible power behind them... Does Kyokushin train differently from other forms of Karate?
yes
i love this with all those hammering and unpredictable execution of kicks that can be on the anywhere that you dont know when is coming.i love the man in 7:20 execute that kicks infront of the opponent.i think i know this man he looks very familiar.i love this guy.....
Why people are trashing this vid? Obviously this is a tournament which means they have rules, it is not a real fight. To those who are saying the KOs are weak, keep in mind they are not wearing any kind of protection, a hard kick or punch to the liver will make your legs buckle and on the face even a 50% kick can take you out. For those who praise MMA like UFC and so forth, that is also not a real fight. It might seem similar but a real fight you can end it in 1 second with a hard kick to the groin, you're not allowed to do that in MMA sports.
Wow Bellator has really gone down the toilet!
Kyukushin is the only other striking style that can hold a candle to Muay Thai. Much respect. Oss..
It's against the rules to punch to the face, I think it's disrespectful or something.
As a two-year practitioner of this art, but a life long martial student i agree with you. To all the critics, i will say this:
Do not misconstrue functionality for flippancy. KSK wasn't made to be pretty; it was made to be brutally affective; a power style that is devastating in its simplicity and looks far more like brawling than other more dynamic arts. Shihan Oyama refined this art by fighting bulls & facing 100 opponents for kumite. Against odds like that, there is no time to be "pretty"
I dig this, I'm more of a JKD and WC man myself though I REALLY love fencing and boxing. Dolph Lundgren has made me want to take another foray into Karate (haven't since I was 10, though I did TKD until I was 19 and then moved onto amateur boxing and kickboxing)
There are some pretty epic fighters in this style of MA. No denying it. I think my style of Wing Chung and a mixture of Willie Pep, Archie Moore and James Toney stylistic impersonations (inasmuch as I can, I mean, I'm NO Willie Pep! But if I could be 1/10th as good, y'know? 1/20th, even!)
kyokushinkaikan spirits lives in me like the curses of our grandfather's!!
covering their faces from striking, because there are two options in boxing, hit the body, hit the head, if you have your hands at your chest / hips, it's a lot further of a distance to cover a headshot than keeping your hands up, elbows in, back hand on your face. With those fundamentals anyone can succeed in a "fight" "match" whatever you want to call it. Boxing is an artform used in Mixed Martial Arts, there are people who have base in judo, bjj, japanese jj, muay thai, boxing, karate, kungfu
You can still knock out a person using the Taekwondo moves and rules!!
Nice, I´m training shotokan and tried Kyokushin. It was really hard! Every karate-ka should try another style.
Nice Clip Keep posting vids like thesethis
Never seen this this before, it’s AMAZING!!!
Karate is the best martial art.
People say that Kyokushin is useless in a street fight because it doesn't have head shots. Then boxing should also be useless in a street fight because its practitioner can't defend themselves when they get slammed on a concrete block, or a wrestler is weak because they don't know how to kick and punch.
This mindset is what happened for people who only think partially.
People like GSP and Bas Rutten any many others who think comprehensively will know how to incorporate those arsenals into one deadly fighting method.
This is Kyokushin, man. Iron body conditioning doesn't exclude the knuckles; they don't need gloves to protect the hand. The reason they don't allow head strikes is, indeed, to preserve the sport.
What is the purpose of the move the fighter makes after knocking out the opponent. It looks like a gedan barai with open hand but a little higher? Thanks. Do you have to do all the time after KO? What is the name of the move?
There's traditional karate and sport karate, traditional karate - use strikes, pressure points and take-downs to finish the attacker as quickly as possible, sport karate - this video. Most clubs do both :)
I thought this would be more like Jackie Chan's movies
0:53 you lose, just drift off to sleep...
yes they would and in my experience they have
Great video
Si ponen 5 Segundos mas de cada combate, en la mayoría se vería el ganador. Por lo de más fantástico recopilatorio
Well, Kyokushin Kai is a karate kind specialized in ultra hard strikes even if you thought it soft strikes. One hit given within protection means an organ severely damaged or a broken bone.
KK is a strong "manly" martial art.... People do not want their pretty face getting beat up....
Yes, people who train KK does it to look good, rather being good. Thanks for pointing that out. :)
Can anyone tell me what kick they are doing when they spin and drop to the ground executing a heel kick to the head? What's that called?
Dayum those liver shots and kidney shots
This is a very hard style - these guys are very tough - however no punches to the face as a rule cannot be good for ones ability to defends ones head.
I am interested to hear from a fighter from this noble art on how he/ she justifies no punches to the head, and the effect of this in practical self defense terms.
Thanks
Do knockdown tournaments still exist?
u answered it.. knee is not a muscle , so it is a bone , and bone can be harden... when u hit it against wood... small bone fragments breck and then repair again with calcuim... this repaired bone is twice as hard then before...welcome to "Fight science'
Do they lose if they throw a kick, miss, and end up on the ground?
great to see kyu grades giving it to the dans.This stuff is what most karate styles have lost
6:09 not going to lie that was kinda bad ass
I cannot speak for other martial arts, but in Kyokushin the conditioning of the body is very important. It is very common practice to use your partner as a punching and kicking bag. But in a real competition, not everyone acts the same. No matter how well someone train their body, if the brain doesn't keep up, they will be mediocre fighters. A well placed punch to the solar plexus while your opponent is inhaling air will put him on his back. I know guys that had their ribs cracked by a punch.
This is real fighting not Bs submission
Kyokushin is my absolute favorite karate style, but I dislike seeing the newer fighter's gaming the system with sacrifice/fall-down kicks. Powerful, dangerous attacks that depend on the referee to protect you after you're on the ground and very vulnerable. Never used to see this in the older videos.
I kinda like the no-head-strikes rule. At least it lets people compete without risking inevitable brain damage. If you take a kick to the head, sure, but if all those punches were hitting you in the face the whole time you'd be certain to end up with cognitive problems down the line.
There are no rungs. Wing Chun, Kyokushin, MMA, TKD and others can all beat each other and lose to each other. It depends on the skill of the fighter, and don't confuse what you see here with Kyokushin for self defense. This is sport.
Why are kicks to the head allowed but not punches?
Do rules not allow them to strike at face? Or are body shots just more effective in these type of competitions?
Punches aren't allowed to the face.
181 was nice, picked his spots well, alot of them were jus throwin combos with no regard as to what was coming at them, no attempts to block
are they not allowed to check kicks?
From a naive point of view, I wonder if their stiff body-composure is more effictive than the more fluid, hectic dodge movements of most mma fighters.
What's the name and where could I find instructions for the kick in 3:46 ?
That green belt was kicking all those blackbelt asses all day long.....
They won't punch the head but they'll kick it. Interesting!
Cobra kai never dies!!
the person below me is right. it pisses me of when i talk to boxers and i tell them i do karate, and they give me a big talk to why it will never be as good as boxing. i think each art has its good points. kyokushin has alot of them too
Brutal
Controlling distance is basic principal of fighting. What rings out to me watching is that they are just too close to each other. The feet didn't evolve to kick.Through over 200 million years of evolution they evolved for locomotion.Move out of the way and don't let enemy hit U.
7:50 love that kick
...they all have longer and more successful careers than their wild counterparts who depend mostly on brute strength.
My point is. The more overall injuries you sustain in a martial over the span of time, the more it will wear and tear on your will and stamina. In that sense, KK and similarly riskier martial arts like an inboxer or a brawler boxer would absorb more punishment through time thus they either their will or they body gives up.
Maybe one can answer me - now this is a karate championship. But would you get disqualified because you would use a wing chun like chain punch?
Any punch you like as long as it is to legal targets.
Any one have an idea how they score these matches? LIke boxing? Do kicks to the legs count? I reserve judgement until I find out more info...Long time ago, when I was a tournament fighter, kicks to legs and joints, groin, weren't counted; full contact to body with kicks, fists, non contact to the head..though you could hit there...Sweeps and throws were allowed. Elbows and knees were allowed, but it was rare to land them or score a point...It was a game of tag, same as this playing, but it did help develop timing, and assertiveness in fights..
thanks for agreeing with me man i hate haters
5:54 Jin kazama
Yea the combo tho
This man are taught/teaching how to block but during the fight the don't utilize it.
1:18 nice kick
Don't mind,man. He probably just watched some shows but didn't really participate in any training.
now this is a real fight
Another smart one had spoken
+Kiong Hwa Teo it is real
NO, 2 many rules...no freedom
What about bones condition when an old age hits hard with arthritis. ?
Idk if I can ever compete like this. No punching to the face...
Very good...
Respect to these guys
I've seen too many movie fight scenes, they make these fights look like cuddles
Wish my karate was full contact too then they wouldn't be disqualifying with every move I make 😩
awesome
Ooooo. Looks like someone is trying to go for the peaceful approach huh?
What's the name of number 130?
Well... Ok, I guess you're right. Avoiding puches doesn't work.
I mean look at Anderson Silva... His dodges are after all not legendary. :S
Yes, because avoid = run away....
What can I say. You got me. Great job chief. ;)
The reasons so many of these guys get beaten in MMA is that they let their hands drop. I know from decades of practicing TKD that handwork is not a strong suit of karate or TKD. In the early 1990s I had to start taking kung fu learn how to box and keep my hands up.
Let me tell you, kyokushin is only for tanker.
Oh yeah, its might be not the fastest attack but once you punch or kick on kyokushin, you put a lot of pressure on it.
Watching in 2021. #181 looks like he could be Khabib or Zabit's uncle.
Original kyokushin karate did have a base in judo. Which was phased out over the years.
I just cracked a rib at a tournament two weeks ago.. this is making me cringe at the rib shots lol
Well they're not trying to kill each other, if it's a tournament the the person who cracked your rib should probably learn control
Well most of them look like livershots
atlewis 1
You don't know this style. Full contact except punches to the face. Open ribs are a big welcome sign. Had em and gave em and when all is done RESPECT for your adversary.
@@axarnebuno your are lol you can kick to the head but no punch
@@eliasaquinomijares4072 simply put hitting the head with punches is much easier than landing a clean kick
I'd like to see the keyboard commandos calling those punches and kicks weak take a few to the ribs like these guys are.....
I've been reading some of the comments and I was amazed as to how many " experts " there are out there. I'm a retired Shotokan instructor and know that all of the Karate punches can be quite devastating...if they are properly executed. I also agree with malikboy44.
I'm brown belt in kyokushin and just to go in full contact takes a lot of courage, keyboard warriors would be scared to stand there.
blockmasterscott I don't even practice martial arts but being around so many people in my life who do kung fu, I'm aware of how a seemingly innocent kick given with the right channeling of energy can deliver a lethal blow. This stuff above is dangerous.
blockmasterscott Are you kidding me? I dare anyone who call those punches and kicks weak to get hit by one of them. These dudes are fighting without any gloves or any body armor.
blockmasterscott No one realizes how hard it is to not break feet and hands when striking bare, you literally can not go full power without risking broken bones.
5:35
Holy cow. Luke Skywalker pulled it off. I thought he was screwed for sure.
This is a million times better than the GKR tournament.
I like the fact they fight without pads yet don't kill each other - that takes some doing.
u guys that say they are weak fighters, trust me they would have destroyed u so fast it would make ur head spin
i see a lot of punches and no real 'kung fu' technique. not the westernized "kung fu" shit, real kung fu from China. if you want to go "hard", you're not going to be harder than Shaolin Monks (just an example). or, power of punches, it won't be harder than Shaolin Monks. how about accuracy, is that too much for you fucking amateurs?
heeheemanofHK that’s not kung-fu bro
heeheemanofHK lol. Shao lin monks. Yes those guys are tough, but you’ve clearly been watching too many Hong Kong gun fu movies
@@MikhailKalashnikovMiG u need to get off ur lazy ass and start to hone your debate skills. go to China and train in one of the legit shaolin schools for locals (not the watered down version for your kind so u dont cry and shit).
@@samsun01 here is an answer from china.
I hope you can pay a visit to chinese internet world and let us tell you how kungfu is. In china, whether traditional martial arts have great practical use has been debated for some years. Traditional chinese marial arts is somewhat useful, but it also contains many ineffective or wasteful skills because they don't evolve and some martial artists are liers or too tubborn. However, kyokushin karate is a parragon of evolving and its skils are widely appreciated in our country. As to the Shaolin monks you talk about....well maybe you watch too many kungfu movies. Many shows they present are fake. Also, the real modern shaolin fighters might prefer to practice sanda but not traditional martial arts.
4.27 was like watching Dragon Ball Z.
4:27
Yeah
the kicks and punches may look weak (which does!) but it actually hurts like shit! my hands go numb trying to block one. and when i kick and get blocked, i'm the one who ends up getting hurt!
They look weak only for idiots.
I'm a practinor of taekwondo and kickboxing and am also an avid fan of MMA. However, as cool and exciting as TKD, Kickboxing, and MMA are, they are nothing near to the brutality, the discipline, the strength, and power behind these kyokushin fighters. This is fighting to a totally new level and for those who say they have no defense, try hitting them, they're actually pretty hard to catch off guard. Slow kicks? I agree, but they don't hit lightly either. Only face punches? If you haven't noticed, they're not wearing gloves, so until humans evolve to have stone-hard faces with teeth made of steel, none of us would withstand a round in that type of situation.
***** they don't. they have several fights in the day. It's 3-7 fights in these tournaments. if they go full speed they cannot possibly win?
I agree !!! I started training in a kyokushin karate dojo in tokyo, and I went to the fighting class last week, big mistake. I never got my ass whooped like that in my life. The other dudes were so brutal, It`s been 6 days and I just recovered now.
Well put!!
This discipline seems really good. I will look for a dojo.
I'm a Taekwondo ( ITF ) trainer as well and i can tell that it depends on your attitude. It's not about what martial art you're doing but it's about what do you give in your training.
I just train 5 days a week after work, and been doing that for years. I'm no push over and am in good shape, but I'm under no illusion. Any of these guys can kill me.
This 9 min video has more power than entire tournament of modern tae kwon do
would orange suits with the 'turtle-house' symbol on the back be allowed in these fights? ^^
I wish you could wear whatever you wanted in any combat sport, oh well...
+Cyborg Rabbit orange suits and handcuffs ...
+Anselmo Basoria a strapon in mma
Yeah the crane school sucks lol
crane fighers are total posers
0:33 So that's where Jin's 4+3 came from....
Probably
A major part of Jin's fighting style is, actually, based on kyokushin!
Karate now seems a bit wierd to look at... It's like a close range kicking and punching endurance tournament.
+Saint Barthélemy Yeah, back in the day this was the shit. But now I can't help seeing the flaws.
+Saint Barthélemy not what it use to be
If I recall correctly, fighting on ships played a huge role on how Karate was formed in its early days. Hence the reason why stance and kicks of Karate plays big role on stabilization (over moving surface). But over time, just like many other Martial Arts, it evolved and brought forth variations of Karate.
Also, a practitioner who take daily dosage of strikes to their body ( and also dealing them) will have much better tolerance to pain etc than someone who spar with pads.
+Saint Barthélemy We got to consider also that the old rule of the "Loyal japanese Spirit" instruct that you need to be loyal to your discipline and to be "the best at" by using that discipline. People in asia weren't looking to mix sumo, greek wrestling, Karate, kung fu, jiu jitsu to become a fighter that will suceed in any kind of combat situation. One of the first fighters to do that was Bruce Lee.
MMA gave a venue for fighters to "excel at total fighting" while the other arts keep providing the tradition of the style.
+Grecks Hanma -- Bruce Lee was nowhere near the first to combine martial arts. Kajukenbo was developed in the late 1940's before Bruce Lee started training in martial arts. Kajukenbo included karate, judo/jujitsu, Kenpo and Chinese style boxing although other forms of martial arts are said to be included. one of the key founders, Adriano Emperado, a student of Wm. K. S. Chow in Hawaii, went with the mantra of whatever works. I am sure there are many others. Most of the Chinese martial arts developed in a similar fashion. If he does this and I do that, I win. Followed by the next guy and so on. My complaint with Kyokushin is they act like it is full contact and have zero control. This is sport karate and excessive strikes used to get you disqualified. I wonder how these Kyokushin fighters would fare in a full contact MMA tournament.
well this is the most leggit kumite I've seen soo far, nothing like MacDojo fake black belts vids.