Bullies and Belts: Our Martial Arts Journey So Far (and future!)

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This time we decided to make a video introducing ourselves personally, who we are, how we became friends and about our martial arts journey so far. We also talk a bit about what's next for us, including stepping into to Shidokan Karate.
Hope you will continue to watch and support us in any way you can as we continue forward in our journey!
OSU
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Bullying & Childhood
05:50 Getting into Taekwondo
06:37 Living in South Korea
07:48 Starting Kyokushin
09:20 Trying different martial arts
11:30 Moving into Shidokan Karate
12:45 The future

[@starbohal8775]

You are amazing! Please keep doing what you do!

[@SaikouKarate]

Thank you for your kind words!! 😊

[@mattiadebonis6190]

I've started practicing karate this year to feel stronger facing tough times. Your journey in martial arts and the way you've supported each other is motivating. I really enjoy your contents. Thank you for sharing!

[@SaikouKarate]

Thanks for your nice comment and great to hear you're getting into Karate! 🥋 Hope to have you here watching us going forward as well 🙏 osu

[@VitorHugoFighter]

Woah! Is that Shidokan Style symbol? Now I understand why I love your way of doing kyokushin so much

[@SaikouKarate]

A lot happened in the last 3 months 😄 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWPMmmSMd6iCqNU Osu🙏🥋

[@zewelin]

Fin video och presentation. Ska bli så kul att följa er! Keep rocking😎👊 /Rasmus

[@SaikouKarate]

Vad snällt sagt! Tack så mycket 🙏🥋

[@grayanderson1222]

It takes a lot to put yourself out there. Well done lads! 頑張ってください

[@SaikouKarate]

Thank you, it was about time for us haha. 頑張りまーす🫡

[@williamwilson2624]

It's great to get to know you guys. I have really been enjoying your content over the last couple of years.

[@SaikouKarate]

Awesome! 😊 Thank you for sticking with us and hoping to have you on board going forward too! Osu🥋

[@KyokushinKarateka]

I learned a lot from you. Thank you

[@SaikouKarate]

Great to hear that, thanks for your comment 🙏

[@yaidk2458]

This is great guys, thanks for talking about some tough subjects!!🙏

[@SaikouKarate]

Thanks to you for watching and listening 🙏

[@zachparade2791]

Deni and Tim, this was a really great video to get to know you both a bit better! What really came through in the video, that many of us have experienced, is how special martial arts friendships can be. 🥋💛🥋

[@SaikouKarate]

Really glad to hear you say that! 😁 And I totally agree with what you said about martial arts friendships🥋💛🥋

[@eyalgrinberg]

Osu!! Keep up with the great content that is getting better and better every time. I practice kyokushin ( iko1) and I love your channel. 💪❤🥋

[@SaikouKarate]

Happy to hear you say that!💪 Thanks a lot for your kind comment, OSU🥋

[@ikerobx]

Its great to have a partner to embark on the Budo journey with; keep the spirit no matter where and what you do! Thank you for the inspirational message.

[@SaikouKarate]

Thank you! We will certainly do that😀 Osu

[@DrCeran]

very nice to get to know you guys finally! Looking forward to the new content!! Keep up the great work!

[@SaikouKarate]

Thanks a lot for your kind words🙏 More to come!🎥

[@SaikouKarate]

Thanks a lot for your kind words🙏 More to come!🎥

[@froglet4936]

Been watching you since the beginning, happy to get to know you guys 😃

[@SaikouKarate]

Awesome, appreciate that! Thank you!😃

[@Emcron]

osu! look forward to more vids! 💪💪💪

[@SaikouKarate]

OSU thank you 💪

[@dogetothemoon.9061]

Loved your vids.

[@SaikouKarate]

Very happy to hear that 🙏

[@JN-hg5wn]

Hello guys! Thank you so much for this. Loved to hear about your journey and all 🙏 You know me and my ramblings about Karate and so on. I just done a Boxing session and earlier the 3 months Shotokan, and was absolutely crazy happy, to start Kyokushin when I moved back to my town 🙂 Sadly things came between and I havent been there any more! Maybe will try it when things aline tho! Allways dreamed about Judo also..even tried some BJJ in the other town! Thing is, I would really love to train in a complete Karate system - as once Kyokushin was back in the day, when they did Judo and so on! So when I hear, what you want going forward. Sign me up guys. Damn it makes me so happy to hear. I will move town, to train with you guys. Karate as it was meant to be - Selfdefense, ala oldschool thats the way it should be IMHO! Keep at it and im ready 🙂🙏 OSU!!

[@SaikouKarate]

Thanks as always for your comment 🙏 Great that you are dabbling in different styles! We are getting started slowly but surely. Eventually when the time is right and we can invest time and energy consistently and properly we will start to be able to welcome more people to join in! Hope to see you then! OSU

[@JN-hg5wn]

@@SaikouKarate Thanks a lot guys, and I really wish you all the best 🙂🙏 I guess you are in the big City - Stockholm right? Really looking forward to the future!! Be safe and OSU 🙏

[@SaikouKarate]

@@JN-hg5wn Yes that's right! Thank you! Osu 🙌

[@penguin2hasdogs469]

I feel you bro. When I started doing martial arts and my friends and almost everybody that knows about it including my classmates and family with the exception of my father started making fun of me. I guess they thought that I'd be like a jocky type of guy and maybe doing something that isn't common to them is just weird for them? My classmates might have thought I was some sort of a nerd for martial arts and I'm kind of smart in school so I guess they would think that way. Ever since my teacher asked me if can demonstrate my sport which is Kickboxing my classmates used to make fun of it but that was in junior high. Things kind of changed now and I'm not just smart in school I have grades in lines if 9 and my classmates now are very open minded because senior high is like semi college here in Ph. It's kind of like a glow up because my charisma kind of increased since they knew I'm also a guitarist but I never told them I do martial arts like Yawyan and Muay Thai and I'm also pretty popular in our campus. Back in junior high when you're good in English you're viewed as somewhat weak or something like that in the eyes of people that think they're better than you in terms of just strength and local popularity. Now that people are mixed in SH I see people that are like them but they're struggling to fit in because they're very close minded. In my school now there are some like them but they are forced to change their ways. I'm also planning to move to south Korea maybe in or before college it's one of my biggest dreams because of the safe environment and gaming. The opportunities are limitless. I'm just 16 and I'm still trynna find ways to make money so I can make my parents proud and prepare for the future.

[@SaikouKarate]

It was nice to read your story! Good to hear about your glow up 🙏 Hope you get the opportunity to go to SK, it was a transformative year in many ways for me living over there. I’m sure you can do it! Keep it up 👊🏼

[@NoobCtrl1]

OSU!!

[@SaikouKarate]

Osu 🙏

[@scw1980]

Nice to formally meet you both. Especially since you're videos have helped in practicing my techniques(kicks mainly). One question, what made you choose Shidokan over Kudo/Daido Juku?

[@SaikouKarate]

Thank you 🙏 Kudo has a very cool sparring rules (and we do something similar quite often) but the removal of kata is in my opinion not a good thing. There is a lot to get out of properly trained kata and bunkai training, especially for those who are interested in the self-defence aspect rather than only pure kumite. Shidokan has, in my opinion, a fantastic blend between these traditional karate aspects, modern training methods and kumite and they all complement each other.

[@JN-hg5wn]

@@SaikouKarate Awesome to hear and it sounds more like Okinawan was back in the day - Oldschool selfdefense Karate and who also was Kyokushin from the beginning - atleast what I heard. And Mas was about to bring it all once again! Well atleast that whats he said in the link I linked here earlier etc...! Karate without Kata, doesn't sound like Karate to me IMHO, as it's one big component IMHO - again. Both from an inner (philosophical) perspective - meditation and growth and so on, besides the selfdefense aspect, you mention 🙂 Karate is so much more vs Kickboxing /Boxing. If one not like Kata, then theres just that - Box and wrestle and just that Alone doesn't speak well, at all to me - besides hell of a good workout I guess, but I have the regular Gym, just for that, if I want to 😉

[@SaikouKarate]

@@JN-hg5wn Yes, kata is the core of karate, everything else just builds on top of it 🙏

[@JN-hg5wn]

@@SaikouKarate Wonderful to hear these words! Karate is Budo all the way so Kata is the ground upon, what all else stands proud 😉🙌 OSU!!

[@prvtthd401]

You guys are right, there is a gap to be filled on youtube. You guys are like the Jesse Enkamp of full contact karate. I just happened to graduate with an engineering degree and am working currently so I understand the struggle of training and studying multiple martial arts. I'm actually surprised you guys could find the time to train so much and gain so much experience at such a young age (I assume you guys are around my age). I had to quit Judo and Kyokushin, but hopefully I will resume those activities because I made alot of progress. Currently I am focusing on Aikido due to injuries. I used to game too so that is yet another thing we have in common hahaha.

[@SaikouKarate]

That’s nice of you to say 🙏 For sure it’s not easy time-wise, but training from such a young age it has become the normal and not training for an extended amount of time feels very bad, so finding motivation isn’t too hard! That’s cool, hope your injuries get better soon and you can incorporate your Aikido training into whatever you do next! 🥋 Gaming for life 🤓🎮

[@Sakurajima616]

Hi. Did you take a look at daido juku kudo Karate. Or another quastion why did you stick to Karate and didn't just move to MMA or Combat Sambo?

[@renaidabraun8887]

⭐⭐

[@SaikouKarate]

🤩

[@RichardTrammell]

OSU! Where are you guys located?

[@SaikouKarate]

Osu! Stockholm, Sweden! ❄

[@abdul-wahhaababrahams6719]

Until which rank did you do kyokushin till

[@SaikouKarate]

Actually cancelled the shodan grading in Kyokushin in favor of the Shidokan one!

[@abdul-wahhaababrahams6719]

@@SaikouKarate 1) does shidokan allow punches to face? 2) did your kyokushin brown belt have your name written in japanese on it?

[@SaikouKarate]

@@abdul-wahhaababrahams6719 Shidokan does a variety of rulesets and sparring methods, both with and without hand strikes to the face. You will definitely train both in a Shidokan dojo. Yes, but only my first name. My Shidokan black belt has both first and last names.

[@abdul-wahhaababrahams6719]

@@SaikouKarate is shidokan abit more softer than kyokushin ? Which are the softest karate styles in japan ?

[@SaikouKarate]

@@abdul-wahhaababrahams6719 Nah it’s not any softer than Kyokushin in terms of body conditioning and such. I think the styles working exclusively on kata, or point sparring are generally the softest. Not sure which would be the softest of them all.

[@abdul-wahhaababrahams6719]

Which rank is tim ?

[@SaikouKarate]

4 Kyu :)

[@abdul-wahhaababrahams6719]

What is your thoughts on okinawan goju ryu ?

[@SaikouKarate]

@@abdul-wahhaababrahams6719 Technically great. I learn a lot by taking inspiration from it. If they integrated and standardised some modern Jissen kumite method it would be even better.