André Bertel | Budo Karate | More effective and better punching

André Bertel Sensei provides tips for improving your Karate punches (Zuki).
00:00 Partner speed exercise in Kiba Dachi
00:23 Correct fist, shoulder, and elbow posture
01:08 360 degree-exercise for improved balance
01:33 Wrist turn versus forearm turn
02:17 Turning fist and forearm later
02:56 Participants punch on command
03:26 Same-time Gyaku Zuki and step-change exercise (intro)
04:25 Changing feet on the place (Kiri Kaeshi / Hiki komi)
04:50 Changing feet demo with students
05:30 Some words about Sanchin and finding the zone
05:58 Kumite Gyaku Zuki (center vs off-center hit)
07:17 Hit before the foot lands
Actually, many more details and points about this subject were covered during this seminar (in July 2016). This video is intended to give only a small taste of it. If it raised your interest, we highly recommend that you attend one of André Bertel's seminars (once Covid 19 is over, of course). Alternatively, book a one-on-one private session with Bertel in Japan.
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[@nightrider5109]

That was incredible! Never tire of this man His students are excellent

[@frolic63]

absolut

[@joseluispiel5124]

@@frolic63 b.

[@AcidoCaustico]

Andre Sensei's techniques are so clear, he's roll model !

[@gabrielmesk6305]

Thanks man,such a privilege to see his seminar even if it's on KZbin and not real life

[@agungwedyarso7770]

Ppooui uji mk om

[@Prof.EugenioLoGullo]

Ad ogni lezione per tirare un pugno si fa un'ora di teoria. Blà blà blà. Una volta il Karate si faceva in silenzio. OSS!!!

[@copynin_will]

Such precision, speed and technique all executed perfectly

[@arepitagrande8797]

Thank you for uploading this video, Oliver I have watched several videos of Andre Bertel and admire his accuracy and speed. Here he gives us important information and hints in order to improve our tsuki.

[@milesey01]

Superb teacher and technician....a new discovery for me....inspiring.

[@MAGITRESORLAREUSSITE]

Bonjour Maître Moi c'est Maître DAviD taekwondo

[@isechico]

Always great to see Asai Shotokan Karate.

[@mesutkilci7043]

Very good sensei...not only show! Respect !

[@sergiorivas7]

Thank you so much Oliver! Great video!! As always, Bertel Sensei is awesome and clear. Real power! Osu

[@olliwaa]

Thank you, Sergio. Hope to see you again at the next seminar - when this pandemic is finally over!

[@rogeancelibio5905]

Greatly appreciate uploading and sharing this video Oliver..Ossu..

[@williephimister1942]

Some very good points made . Broken down to show you a clear explanation of the technique. Excellent instruction

[@theresiazils6816]

Thanks OLLIWAA for this great video!

[@honigdachs.]

I like the points about bringing the shoulder just a bit forward to engage the latissimus dorsi and the turning of the forearm as opposed to turning the wrist. I made these adjustments a while ago and feel that they improved my punches a lot.

[@johnbulcaster7464]

The Latissmus dorsi has nothing to do with throwing a punch. It is for pulling not punching....Hey I still like Bertel he's just wrong on this one

[@honigdachs.]

@@johnbulcaster7464 The lat does have a lot to do with punches. The thing with most modern karate styles is that they have no real idea of punching because they never hit bags and never try to drop anyone. Shotokan is particularly guilty of this. The lat stabilizes the punch for the drive-through when you hit the target and gives the punch a lot of its strength especially when you don't have the space to stand in a super-long, wide stance, which karate people comically assume is always the case. I realized this when I switched from Shotokan to an okinawa Goju Style where sparring is full contact and they don't subscribe to the idea of learning how to punch by hitting the air exclusively. This is something the modernized styles definitely need to work on.

[@crisalcantara7671]

It gives your whole arm more stability actually but your right not power , just like the base of a crane functioning as a strong base for the cran arm \ bull doxer/ excavator etc.

[@mairena2000]

@@honigdachs.I disagree with you grasshopper, the last have absolutely nothing to do with the power of the punch. Legs, hips, and shoulders do. Lats are good for judo or Jiu Jitsu however. OSS!!

[@shaneroberg309]

Andre Bertel is a great bloke and no one too be messed with Osu

[@gyulabueki9412]

Good job. Simple and clean.😄👍

[@shepardforce]

Great power and lucid principles. These Oi-zuki/ gyaku-zuki have been proven effective in MMA.

[@baptistchrisjohn]

Thank you, for such an impressive teaching of how to deliver a proper very fast forward and reverse punch. I have been practicing karate for more than 30yrs this is very good

[@donoberloh]

Only 30? What till it’s past 50 years of training. Then you’ll wish it had not taken as many hard falls when you were younger and invincible. Lol

[@henryod65]

Superb. A lot of the technicalities he points out would have been ones that Kanazawa Shihan always emphasised. A great example of this is the wrist twist in gyaku tzuki. Very impressive.

[@divafever9754]

You know a lot of Japanese word. Will they protect you from the Great Replacement?

[@beingtoughmmafitnesschanel5372]

If u learn from the real masters like him it will make big difference💪

[@joeforsheriff6]

Thank you for the video and the knowledge in it Master Osu

[@bigsidable]

Love that hard front foot and strike at the same time.

[@janwallenberg8692]

Subtexts is appreciated. It's not always easy to understand mr Bertel if you're not from an english speaking country.

[@olliwaa]

There are German and English subtitles.

[@gilmardiascoelho1360]

Legal mestre gosto muito de suas aulas

[@tanjudermanl9111]

Very good video, respect to Sensei Bertel. Shotokan Karate's classical chudan level straight punches are a little bit too difficult to master IMO. One sugggestion, taking some boxing lessons with a good Boxing Coach would help to develop more power and speed for Karate punches. At least it worked for me. Thank you again for this awesome video. Ossss.

[@MrJESUSISGREATEST]

Those moves are on point!

[@machembalume6085]

Very good,, nmekuwa mwanafunzi wako kupitia mtandaoni, tupo pamoja

[@illgreco1679]

Tolles Verständnis des menschlichen Körpers. Wirkt flüssig und natürlich

[@pkjdm]

Amazing technique

[@prabowoojan9417]

Oss, the detail explanation make me more understand about tsuki technique to create more power

[@kara-fit]

He does good Karate and there are somme good drills in this video!

[@frolic63]

Hes the king off Shotokan

[@mindfitkaratescienceoumarf1494]

Very instructive

[@888dandoon]

Amazing marital artist and a fantastic instructor. Very impressive.

[@moehoward8691]

But, does he wear a toupee?

[@antetutic3600]

respekt...super tehnik fole teyming.alles besttes.danke für wideo

[@marcoslopez4180]

Ossss Shihan Bretel. Thank You very much

[@panosab]

Thank you

[@Novajukka29]

Amazing 💪🏻😎🔥

[@dominiksurdej1212]

Podobały mi się wszystkie filmiki o sztukach walki

[@akucintadia578]

Good practice i like so much

[@muhammadkhalid7234]

Hai. Thank you

[@dominiksurdej1212]

Podoba mi się filmik

[@durendal3073]

Perfect.

[@chiefslief1886]

Wow.. Beautiful.🌹

[@yamatokankaratedoshotokaid7258]

Very beautiful technics, speed and precision! My worries is just about articulation in the time, because of hit on the ground with feet?

[@23tima21]

Great.

[@gabriellaporro6183]

I am happy to see the JKA Logo again on The Sensei Dogi!!

[@olliwaa]

Please note that this is an older video from 2016. Bertel sensei does not wear this logo anymore.

[@AcidoCaustico]

When you get that good in karate politics cannot stop you ! A logo does not own you you don't belong you transcent ! 😎

[@hiranom20]

@@olliwaa He isn't with the JKA anymore?

[@tc47101]

good 😃

[@luismateus4419]

Gostei da abilidade de socos

[@kbeldenkb]

Wow!

[@lucianolacerda205]

Excelente Mestre.

[@casimiroloverde2181]

Italiano

[@salvatoreshotokan]

Finally in italian subtitle :)))

[@randysmith2866]

Real karate!

[@raulbaroni6177]

Buenas tardes Andrés, es muy interesante Tu Técnicas, hay posibilidad de una traducción al español ?

[@muzffarali2228]

I like this.your are the champion. I want learn this so can you give me some tips.becoz your parformens so good. Thank you sir . but one cundtion .. I am 50yers old. And I am broun belt in shiyorin subukan. Thank you sir.

[@jacekbaszczynski5858]

Maybe somebody knows when sensei will be in Europe in this year

[@matthews1082]

I am surprised so many black belts need to learn these basics from him!

[@vicentegonzalez5070]

Hi Shihan When you come to Mexico to give a seminar

[@davidotuoma1865]

This is the problem with most shotokan school they focus too much on perfer form.. This is just dry land swimming the technic needs to be put into kumite the way the kyokushin practitioners do full contact sparring. In shotokan the sensei is always stressing this point and that point about a particular technic.. to much explaining and looking good. Most black belts holders don't know how to fight with all those explanations in most dojos.they need to get in the water and swim and stop been too theoritical. Another thing is many schools always want to follow the japanese senseis about this and that.. There many westerners who are good in shotokan than the japanese themsevles...

[@sassuki]

Technically, I don't know anybody better than the Japanese in Shotokan.

[@davidotuoma1865]

Sensei Richard Amos from England he lived and trained in japan. He is a briliant sensei technically with vast knowledge about the Art.

[@sassuki]

@@davidotuoma1865 his technique is still inferior to the Japanese.

[@ruiamaral9118]

I'm a shotokan yondan from São Paulo and I agree with you. Technique is only as correct as it works in fighting, with contact. Martial arts tend to fall into the mistake of "overthinking", losing themselves in thechnical mazes, specially when they lack the simple habit of free sparring with contact.

[@moegsienismail3389]

In Kyukhushin we hit hard and we still have less injuries than any other sports because we conditions our students body’s to take the punch 🤛 then only can you give it osu

[@Trump-all-the-way]

When thinking going in think going out!

[@javedakhtar5215]

Hello sir I want to learn warm-up and technics plz help any videos for beginners

[@samir_karate3185]

Ossu sensei thanks for the pointing out the wrist turning movement

[@peteranthonyofthefamilybir18]

NOT "WRIST" ..FOREARM..!!!

[@KuzAaX]

I would like to like more about the forearm turning, is the elbow point to side or point down as the same?

[@salimraj2133]

;

[@junkerjorg2157]

Passion

[@bigsidable]

Homeboy got some Snap. Nice hip action. Remember your reverse punch must drive through your opponents rib cage and grab his heart.

[@vicentegonzalez5070]

Hi Does anyone know what kind of karategui Shihan Bertel uses?

[@khaderalikhan3029]

Thank God this time there are no negetive comments

[@leiferikson2072]

Ich buch Trainingsstunden bei Ogawa Sensei 😜

[@bigsidable]

The fiber points of Ozuki.

[@aronshorthouse3790]

its not about the technical aspect its how the person is motivate by himself its al about the person

[@KenyulChannel]

Karate Indonesia osh...

[@ricardoguedes1293]

oss

[@Trump-all-the-way]

Remain square and no gaps!

[@universitylink]

How I can join his class

[@itisyourdestiny8793]

Zanshin rather than sanchin in the contents at 05:30? (Talking about usual transliteration here as I know this can vary; the discussion is about awareness (zanshin) rather than the stance/kata (sanchin)).

[@olliwaa]

Yes, you are absolutely right! Thank you very much, just corrected it :-)

[@alfredog.2889]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🥋👊🏽❤️

[@universitylink]

If you one to know the best teacher just look on how he or she emphasising on basics principles and heep twisting

[@frolic63]

one off a kind thruely respeckt from a kyokushin guy

[@moegsienismail3389]

Join us in Kyukhushin Sensei prove to them all this techniques work in full contact osu

[@marioschreck3790]

👍✌️

[@user-le9tx7uq4c]

👍

[@dinardoworldwide]

Yes

[@TobyBloom]

As I always I love watching you you, but how is it but how is it you have this class now with the pandemic?

[@olliwaa]

This is actually an older video, recorded in 2016. If we can't film any new videos these days we have to use the existing material ;-)

[@anizaranizar73]

OSS.

[@parthadey2536]

OSU 🙏

[@onkiszolgaloetteremfahaz406]

Oss Pethő László

[@mookemaster222]

The movement is solid, but there only a straight line fighting being taught, without angles we can't defend as well and our potential can't be reached.

[@karatekid3233]

Who does'nt turn their forearm, who would turn the wrist?

[@sassuki]

Nobody turns their forearm, because nobody keeps the fist turned down until the very last moment

[@karatekid3233]

@@sassukiok, so what?

[@sassuki]

@@karatekid3233 see my comment in the main thread

[@karatekid3233]

@@sassuki My point was that I have never heard of turning the wrist. That aside… there are some clear differences in that technique beside his turning of the forearm. And he is turning his forearm too, not his wrist, and he is doing so at the last 1/3 of his cross the same as it if taught un Karate. Of course you dont need to wait till the last Second. But you do not turn the wrist, you turn the forearm, thats the main point, Andre wanted to make, at least I think si.

[@sassuki]

@@karatekid3233 he means the turning at the very end. But the problem is, the whole subject is pointless, as you can see that the boxer generates a lot of power, and yet turns the wrist very early so that it builds a unit with the forearm anyway. So I think the whole concept that he is preaching here as the holy grail of the Japanese masters is pointless. Just turn your fist early (naturally actually!!), and then you don't have to think about the forearm at all. It will just follow.

[@Trump-all-the-way]

Circles!!!

[@jofreygalus6606]

Oss

[@shyamsundarpandit7158]

made you new strenth type video

[@hugorodrigohenriquezvillal2809]

Porque este instructor le pega a los alumnos cuando hace demostraciones ??????

[@fxx1]

Debe tener algún problema no resuelto sobre su ego, puede ser en el fondo alguien inseguro y quiere demostrar poder sobre otros, la verdad yo estoy sorprendido de ver esto y es algo repetitivo en varios seminarios, aparte como jalonea los estudiantes en las demostraciones.

[@edwardneale8775]

ALLWAYS turn the wrist just befor the strike not halfe way out thats how I was taught by Sensi Peter Spanton 50 years ago not just by the japanese its the right way to strike

[@Andrei-gt7pw]

Looks like he means business

[@user-fm1qd4rv9l]

Танцы ... Идите в зал бокса и будет вам счастье !

[@quickstep2408]

okinawans have already been doing this for decades. lol

[@tobias6464]

How old is André Bertel?

[@andrebertel]

In my 46th year.

[@tobias6464]

@@andrebertel Wow, looking 10 years younger, you're a great martial arts inspiration. I maybe come to visit you in Seehausen, Bavaria this year. What a coincidence, I started Judo at the age of 8 in this village.🙏

[@shaneroberg309]

When you wake up in the mornings early before sunrise lace up your running shoes do your stretches calf's quodrachep muscles and hamstrings drink 2 tall glasses of spring water and leave the house and go running watch the sunrise each day a good time to start is 4 am be up before the birds each day and start each day with a good run on your own but best in groups two file and remember the next activity is the most important meal of the day Breakfast then hit the swimming pool or do karate training all day sunrise never miss it shotokan brothers and sisters osu

[@markwalker4142]

Never sure about the 360 degree spin unless it’s for balance control and control of the core on punch delivery or just technical flowering . Maybe one day I’ll get the chance to ask Andre . Also it’s interesting how he presents Asia’s methodology in karate application . I’ve trained - not to the one to one he has - with Sensei Asai . I’ve also trained with Sensei Kase and you can see how their physiological differences determined their karate and preferences on generation of Kime . I always thought of Asai like a spitfire fighter aircraft and Kase like a hurricane fighter aircraft . Both effective but different delivery and a visual analogy. Comments ???

[@andrebertel]

The spin helps refine the standard technique. It really bolsters skill. You are so right between the differences between different experts. I have huge respect for Kase Sensei's karate also. Application of karate and technique certainly changes based on physique and individual strengths and weaknesses. This is at the core of IKS. Osu

[@markwalker4142]

@@andrebertel Thanks for the clarity Andre . Hope you are keeping safe and well in the terrible pandemic . I didn’t intend to sound critical or patronising in anyway and forgive me if it did . I agree the spin tests other skill areas and certainly challenging . It would be good to train under your instruction when this lockdown and virus is under control . I’m in Nottingham UK and willing to travel as always . I certainly recall watching Sensei Asai back in 1990 on a course in York UK with Sensei Kato . Extremely impressive . I wasn’t experienced enough to appreciate what he was doing , but his relaxed and dynamic movements were so indicative of his build and agility . I do have to say Kase was never that level of movement , but did his Karate in a very different way . The beauty of karate for me is it has a basic framework but affords the innovative journey of remarkable personalities to lead us down an amazing life experience . Osu 🙏🥋

[@andrebertel]

​@@markwalker4142 Not at all. It was a good question and I'm sure others wanted to ask it. Best regards, - AB