Lots of great ideas, gentlemen! You rock!

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

thank you sensei ando!

@AndoMierzwa

7 жыл бұрын

'Sup, PJ? :)

Down 'block' makes more sense as a single leg takedown!. You are revolutionizing karate for the better. Keep up this awesome work bros 💪💪💪❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

Thanks, I never actually thought about those blocks that way. That was great enlightenment. OSU!!

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

sweet! glad you liked it!

Those moves are very effective. They just have to be applied effectively.

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

thank you, completely agreed!

this channel is so underrated wtf

inspiring as always to think creatively about my practice! thanks senseis, God bless.

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

thank you for the kind words!

you guys are awesome!

Love this stuff! Just this video alone gives you many drills to work on. Thanks so much!

I love this! I've been pondering this for a while. Thank you for sharing.

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

glad you enjoyed!

Very Good!!! Actual and Practical your all explanation i know and understand! How to Protect and and attack too? Keep Explanation! Guys!!! !!

Thank you so much fellas! I am learning a lot.

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

thank you for the kind words!

A whole new world just opened up after seeing this

Awesome guys! Thanks for the insights.

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

thanks for the comment!

all Videos upload here! i wait your all Techniques for Kata :) Nice and very good explanation!! I want to get that!

This is good street fighting methods.

hey guys there are limitations of applying lower block on upper part of the body if a person delivers wing chun chain punch then you'll end up exposing your upper part may be to counter that you may add jodan uche (upper block) in the next consecutive step just a thought and continue both the blocks in a chain manner to counter mma or wing chun chain punch

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

thanks! we'll look into it, thank you for the advice

@stephena1196

5 жыл бұрын

You won't expose your upper body so much if you turn your waist. Yes chain punches are fast, but they tend to continue in the same line, so move off line. As you twist block with one arm and punch with the other, shifting your weight to the punching side leg as you do. As far as I know (and I admit I don't know much) this is similar to how Wing Chun deals with their chain punches.

The block could also be used as a striking arm break, by using the wrist/mid-forearm, to strike the elbow joint.

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

100% agreed

I notice a makiwara post in closet. Would you consider more info on that? Such as how many times do you practice per week, and was the makiwara portable unit? And construction tips. Thank you.

Very good! Thumbs Up! YOU 2 Guys! For More Explanation and explained to use and how to improve it! POWER Attack Defense in KARATE! i am Maestro Arnold Lopez 2nd Dan Black Belt in LAO-LAN International Doce Generales Arnis Karate! Osu!

@karateculture

6 жыл бұрын

thank you for the positive comments!

@theeastblendedvoices5201

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks again :) !!! more explanation Please :) i watching you :) here!

Great Sensei! Uss

Hey guys! you guys might like to checkout gkc goju's bunkai playlist they have in-depth bunkai as well you might find it interesting they were taught by taira masaji.

I miss your videos

How exactly do you perform a punch? I mean a normal tsuki. What is the most effective way of it? Yoko or tate ken? When do you turn your hand? What part of seiken gets in contact with the opponent? Just the knuckles or the whole rectangle which is made by your first two fingers if you make a fist? In my opinion the tsuki of seibukan shorin ryu is very strong. But I still try to find new ways of doing a good tsuki. What do you think? 🤔☺️

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

Short answer: it depends. train them all and use what's available. But if you want to dig into the opponent, you'll want a punch that completes its twist after making contact and also one that is driven forward by your body weight and torque. Anatomically speaking, using the top two knuckles to dig into a punch works better with the body's alignment and maintaining that forward force without any weaknesses in your structure is necessary

@patrickleister5917

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the answer. Very helpful. Like Sensei Ando said "you rock" ^^

good video. make video about stretching,please!

@kedam22

7 жыл бұрын

Especially for the legs (for the higher kicks)

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

will do!

Do you have one for a high block?

More ideas!!! ^_^

Love your videos. They are my favorite karate videos online. Where are you guys located? What style of karate do you practice.

@karateculture

6 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks, glad you like them. Specifically we study shorin ryu but represent old school karate. We are located in San Antonio, Texas.

@IsaacLausell

6 жыл бұрын

Too bad I am nowhere near you guys. I am in Illinois. Me and one of my Shotokan teachers follow your videos. We always learn a lot from them. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Thanks!

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

no problem!

Do u guys's own a gym and teach somewhere? Where do you work? Do you have jobs? How do you have all this time to make videos and make contraptions and practice?

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

We both have full time jobs, but we spend the majority of our free time training and making these videos for the public. We grew up woodworking and doing other outdoorsy stuff so the DIY stuff comes pretty easily. We used to belong to a karate school but our instructor closed it down, and then we started teaching a group privately for a couple of years but now we train privately and are in the process of looking for a place to rent and open an official karate culture school. We're shooting for central texas if you're ever in the area feel free to stop by!

@MaharlikaAWA

7 жыл бұрын

That's cool. It seems an actual dojo would serve you better than just being on youtube. So I take it both of you are not married.

Can you do a video on age uke bunkai?

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

I guess that'll be the next one!

Can you do a video about kansetsu-waza?

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

hope this suffices! kzread.info/dash/bejne/pJqrpJivg7qzpdI.html

Thank you for bringing back the old ways! I would like to know your opinion about this Russian Martial Art called Systema. Their punching technique somehow reminds me of the relaxation and contraction technique in karate. There is this guy called DK YOO who practices it and claims to have effortless explosive power, and actually some of his videos are quite impressive. Do you think this kind of movements are real and effective? It would be great if you comment this in one of your videos! Ossss

@bangermccrusher

7 жыл бұрын

Iñigo Uriarte Ruiz very different than karate, I practiced 5 yrs of shito kai and more than 10 yrs of Systema. What DK does is real, Systema by itself is amazing but when you have a Martial arts background and then you understand systema, they way you perceive and execute your previous knowledge is way more efficient. That's what happened to DK he trained more than 10 different martial arts and he was not famous, once he met Vladimir Vasiliev and understood systema he became this great martial artist and became a sensation

@karateculture

7 жыл бұрын

everything at a higher level gravitates towards the same conclusions, all martial arts aims at maximizing efficiency and dealing the most damage with as little effort as possible. Once you mention individual people then the conversation changes to that person's ability and skill. Ultimately, all martial arts is good and it's up the person training to discover it all

@BobbyJamesMitchell

7 жыл бұрын

I liked the knife technique. One of my teachers taught me how to attack with a knife, and how to defend against a knife attack. DK Yoo very impressive.

I think when you try to make an application, you should imagine actually doing the kata with that new intention, and you'll see 90% of the time it looks nothing like the original, this rules out quite a number of applications

@anftrew3775

7 жыл бұрын

metalema6 do you not think that (and this is a genuine question), the moves in kata are often not meant to be taken literally, but rather develop the muscles and motor control to teach us to move fluidly and naturally while adapting without even thinking?

@metalema6

7 жыл бұрын

What bothers me is that if the move was intended that way the kata could have just done that movement

@anftrew3775

7 жыл бұрын

metalema6 I guess it depends how it is taught/practiced. Some schools teach kata in a very robotic way, with each move being it's own distinct part. I personally don't think that's very beneficial. I think it teaches people to copy rather than to move and improvise. Some schools teach you to flow. In that case, the kata is teaching the transitions and almost autonomous flow. I think if we consider the Chinese term for kata, hyung, meaning 'form', it makes much more sense. The whole kata then is a single form, or a single unit of movement rather than a sequence or pattern. After all, we can practice basic techniques in isolation until we perfect them, but they're utterly useless unless we also learn to move.

Why does all interpretation of kata-type movements have to involve modifications, sometimes serious modifications, to the move actually practiced? Isn't this highly counterproductive? Why practice low block, step and punch if you actually mean to engage and perform a takedown which has very different movement involved? Why water down your practice with unproductive movement? Why not just actually practice the movements you want? If I want to improve my left hook, I dont throw reverse punches then think about how to modify that linear movement into a hook and develop stories about how to do so, I simply practice my left hook. You get better by actually doing something, not flirting with a type of move that could be re-imagined as something else. I like and enjoy what I see from your interpretations, but I so often wonder why people do not just strip away all pretense and just actually practice what works instead of taking a kata apologetics road.

@boomwee9755

5 жыл бұрын

These guys want to prove that kata isn't only for block strike and that kata is more than that, plus it's up to you if you want to learn this moves straightforward.