Hajime Kazumi demonstrates the power of gedan mawashi geri

Hajime Kazumi shows the power and versatility of gedan mawashi geri
In two beautifully edited kumites Hajime Kazumi shows the endless possibilities of kyokushin's gedan mawashi geri (outer and inner thigh kick). First against a opponent with better mobility and great kicking technique (Gary O'Neill), as a way to put pressure and corner the opponent in combinations with tsukis and counters. Later, against a bigger opponent who overpowers him and have a great reach advantage (a young Glaube Feitosa) as a way to keep distance and take advantage of his superior speed and stamina.
Maybe not as flashy as a jodan mawashi KO but equally technical and effective.
Hajime Kazumi demuestra la potencia y versatilidad de gedan mawashi geri
En dos kumites de elegante edición Hajime Kazumi demuestra las vastas posibilidades estratégicas que ofrece gedan mawashi geri (patada a la parte externa e interna del muslo). Primero contra un contrincante de mobilidad superior y excelente técnica de piernas consigue neutralizarlo mediante la presión constante de combinaciones de puño y patadas bajas hasta conseguir el ippon. Bonus: arbitra Shihan Isobe! Luego y contra un contrincante de muy superior tamaño, potencia y alcance (conecta dos o tres hiza geri a jodan sin tener que tomar carrera!) utiliza la gedan mawashi para mantener distancia e ir desgastándolo. Finalmente y cuando la superioridad de su acondicionamiento físico lo pone en ventaja utiliza la gedan mawashi para castigar la lentitud y el agotamiento de Feitosa.
Inspirador la verdad. Oss!

[@hongvankhangtruong9629]

This clip proved that you don't need to kick high to knock somebody out. You still can weaken your rival by kicking his legs over and over again, make him slow down and make his attack less useful (weaker and no balance), and then easily knock him out. Thanks for the clip.

[@blazeforever]

just like muay thai low kick...

[@psychedashell]

blazeforever Exactly like Muay Thai low kick. Kyokushin Karate is like a mongrel dog, bitsa this and bitsof that, we have no pedigree to be concerned about when we see effective moves. We love our stolen kick. Oyama saw Thai practitioners doing it, loved it and took it. Traditional Karate roundhouse kicks are done with the top or ball of the foot, makes for good surgical strikes to the head and body but the fact that the foot is a bag of tiny bones means strikes have to be surgical, using the shin as the weapon the way Muay Thai practitioners do allows so much more potential for breaking things that get in the way of bashing the head and body, annoying things like defending arms and legs.

[@caloy1206]

Hồng Vân Khang Trương My Sensei thought me on this, chopping it like a tree. So tall guy can be imagine as a tree and his mawashi geri is like an axe strike. TIMBER !!!!

[@cd9aevo]

Youre so right !

[@GokuInfintysaiyan]

+psychedashell and our Kyokushin roundhouse travels knee first then kick, it is best used at a close maii and is more accurate but slower. Muay Thai is faster and will hit harder, but are less accurate and don't hit with a very small area of the body so the damage is more spread out.

[@DBCipo]

Hajime Kazumi is a BEAST!!! Respect from Brazil, OSS!!!

[@MUEEN007]

Garry O'Neill - Kyokushin karateka from Australia and a legend in his own right like Hajime Kazumi.

[@strictnessofdeath2822]

He may not be the strongest man out there but he is one of the greatest masters

[@shaw-shawee]

I don't know why people spend so much time arguing who should have won and what was used or this and that , All i care about is two great fighters fighting their heart out and i get to watch and enjoy .

[@orangeiceice12]

The short inside thigh kick... never thought of that before. Nice. Nice performance against Feitosa as well.

[@user-rh2wy1dv2n]

In full-contact karate rules, you can punch bareknuckle anywhere below the neck but kicks and knee strikes can connect anywhere

[@yacoseguridad8505]

Maravilloso!! Máster!!

[@mariapahlewisuryani5910]

Love Hajime!

[@Vekren]

I wish I had kicks with half his power.

[@garrysmalls7586]

incredible. so happy for you.

[@Bassai]

Hajime Kazumi is one the best technical fighters Kyokushin-Kaikan has ever produced. You can't just muscle it out with him or you'll lose your legs.

[@luizengrazia5169]

o cara é muito bom..campeao mundial por direito

[@mycal64]

I`ve also lived in Japan for 8 years and Kyokushin is well respected as a tough fighting art. In fact, many MMA fighters have good things to say about their Kyokushin background (GSP, Bas Rutten, Semmy Schilt, Andy Hug etc). It`s not a complete fighting style and never was developed to be such.

[@GokuInfintysaiyan]

Actually it was way back when It had grappling (Okinawan wrestling from Goju-Ryu, kodokan judo, and some jujutsu from shotokan) and face punches/elbows/etc were allowed. The rules changed over time So it was complete at one point, and a few schools still teach it the way it was meant to be taught

[@user-gx2te1xc2w]

Хорошая подготовка у спортсменов, надо такие бои посмотреть моим друзьям.

[@AngryBenny]

i agree about almost everything you said except the legs being our weakest element, which are not, in fac,t kazumi demosntrates just how powerful the damage that the legs do

[@SuperDUDERIKI]

Fuck,the timing of the low kicks in the first fight is perfect.

[@Stre3tboyz]

I guess this is how he manage to complete the 100 kumite! AWESOME!

[@MrKarate_11]

What an awesome Hiza Geri has Feitosa !

[@skifhania]

great fighters...

[@AlexKatzenstein]

Awesome fight !

[@neokimchi]

the feitosa fight makes me want to cry how beautiful it is

[@MrKarate_11]

Hablas español y yo intentando hablar en ingles ! jajaja Increible lo de Sensei Kazumi. Poder ganar un campeonato a base de Gedan Mawashi Geri. Por otra parte, menudo Hiza Geri tiene Feitosa, otro monstruo. OSU !

[@josemeruvia7442]

Un gran combate de dos guerreros, ossu

[@rallyivan1234]

Garry O'Neyll is a great fighter. He fought against Francisco Filho, Hajime Kazumi and Kenji Yamaki at different times, the next to Francisco Filho and Nicholas Pettas were the best generation of fighters deos Kyokyshin 90's. Its only drawback is its weight and size. Oss!

[@dwightmichaelperalta8045]

That kick!!!!!!!!!

[@AntoineVick]

kazumi demostrates that a great competitor don´t need to fight with only fierce and advanced techniques, he used basic techinques that broke with the agresivity of the oder fighter. I was not lucky, he was smart and well trained.

[@AngryBenny]

how the hell do you fight against someone who simply destroys your legs...

[@trollgag5221]

By punching the face. (Muay thai)

[@AngryBenny]

@@trollgag5221 punching the face isn't allowed in this style of fighting

[@trollgag5221]

@@AngryBenny yes I am aware of this, I practuce kyokushin.

[@mitchjames9350]

By blocking or lifting your legs.

[@neo-chinidone]

数見さん、最高です😊

[@Xellos357]

for real. he literally couldn't walk at the end!

[@higherpurpose1212]

Terry Silver: A man can't stand, he can't fight

[@sajithomas6199]

👍👌Super, Oss

[@saporob]

Thanks to kyokushinkai for the discovering of the low kick....

[@feeencing]

Nice video! I wonder if you know the name of the music starting from 0:35, thanks a lot!

[@adlerauge5073]

Can you please tell me the name of the song? It sounds very familiar to me, but shazam can´t find it.

[@konstantinkrystallis8484]

Any luck?

[@evo3bro]

anyone know where i can find the background music used in this video?

[@MrBlondeVega]

@maoridude04 You raise a good point my friend. I do believe also that kyokushin is about the best man in the long run/after the grind. I don't claim any authority on my opinion but I think most kumites w/out clear dominance of one of the competitors will go to an extension, especially if there's a big physical difference and/or is the final 32 competitors; if the smaller fighter keeps up all the extensions decisions tend to go for the little guy.

[@64Rosso]

Iron legs by Kazumi, but most of all a heart of steel!

[@TheDivoture]

One of those, and I'm down. Impressive how his opponent could take so many. Osu.

[@suhasbanik6961]

With proper conditioning and training u can take kicks

[@xxCablexx]

no gloves, no head gear, no mouthpiece, I like it

[@ChPetru]

OSU! from Romania!

[@LtTrog]

Epic, if a little biased toward Hajime Kazumi

[@rsengenji]

gedan mawashi geri power...

[@iberoamericankyokushin8012]

Congratulations OSSÚ

[@RafaelAntizz]

tears

[@eueumesmo1709]

Vai Glauber, vai Glauber !!! Glauber, Glauber, Glauber... Vai Glauber, vai Glauber pro vestiário colocar gelo nessas pernas Glauber !!! KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

[@MrBlondeVega]

@feeencing Sorry but I don't know, I think I've heard it in other IKO 1 instructionals though. Being a little instrumental piece w/ lots of synths my guess is it's a score for this video and/or all the videos published by IKO 1 around the time this came out.Osu!

[@MUEEN007]

Glaube Feitosa

[@5kyf1re]

Типок вообще крут, почему я о нем никогда не слышал? оО

[@erickrodriguez7140]

Este si es karate

[@daboodeef179]

you guys need to read about kazumi and ushiro and the real way of budo.

[@AndersonDiasxD]

Glaube Feitosa foi foda =D

[@emilioespinosa6310]

name the music is?

[@user-rh2wy1dv2n]

It's Kyokushin Karate..the rules do not permit face punching but you can kick or knee to the head. it was made that way because you get easily injured with bare knuckle punches to the head

[@franksoto2003]

The big guy wasn't getting anything. The little guy landed all the clean blows. You can even see him walking with pain

[@ksungjin10]

are the allowed to check kicksm

[@yiyuwazza]

WOW, this sport is all about balls.

[@GokuInfintysaiyan]

And how well you can mitigate damage The amount of ukeru is fucking crazy

[@muratcnar8181]

Music please

[@feeencing]

@MrBlondeVega Thanks all the same! Osu!

[@Eurokumite]

Best Regards Dragon. Osu

[@mo_fanthe_magic_god7954]

what is the music

[@mycal64]

.. wooden boards, ice-blocks and roof tiles etc. Getting up onto the mat to fight someone who is attempting to knock you out with any one of these techniques is a pretty scary prospect to put yourself in, believe me. Again, milling is only employed once by the Paras (P Company), but in Kyokushin you can expect to face it numerous times per week varying in intensity depending on gradings/competions etc. Anyone who believes a Kyokushin practioner can`t fight does so at their own peril.

[@rynes.rai7er993]

2:45 I was starting to wonder if KyoKuKai had stopped throwing punches as part of their repetoire of techniques for competition. I was LITERALLY 2 seconds from swiping right bc I thought KyoKuKai had gone full contact TaeKD.

[@SuperDUDERIKI]

Feitosa broke Kazumi's ribs with all those punches,that's certainly not "not getting anything".

[@nathanaugusto4663]

Um saio sem as costelas e o outro sem a perna

[@lemesster]

Porra Glauber

[@garrysmalls7586]

REALLY.

[@MUEEN007]

oh yeah and another thing, the single most common thing a punch - is thrown very differently when your not wearing gloves as well as general defense, kyokushin guys have strong wrists and knuckles, punching is dangerous bareknuckle because you can break your hand/wrist that's why karate has open hand attacks - yes and I'm a kyokushin karateka and a judoka in the UK.

[@StefanoVitolo2012]

Osu!!

[@mohammadrezazolfaqari9813]

دمت گرم

[@NazarPolishchuk-ji5rd]

Music in the background?

[@konstantinkrystallis8484]

Any luck?

[@Draconic]

what is the music played in this vid?

[@muratcnar8181]

yong Un Mao music

[@baldieman64]

Of course it needs teaching. The biggest weapon anyone has as a martial artist is their mind. You train the mind to target the groin, eyes, throat and knees by continual repetition and those options will immediately present themselves when your conscious minds stops working due to a dump of adrenalin. Boxers get into streetfights where they can kick, wrestle and gouge. Do they? No, they box, because it's all they train for. Train everything, including the nasty stuff -but respect your partner.

[@TheDjomed]

who was the first combattant against kazumi ? the one with impressive leg kicks !

[@brianjaymaramba4804]

Gary O' Neil

[@TheDjomed]

yes he is great, thanks I found more videos using his name thanks again

[@brianjaymaramba4804]

nahh, its ok ;) ur welcome hahaha :D

[@othmanalinizi8584]

feitosa attacked a lot in the first round and he lend some good knees to the face and punches he had the chance to beat kazumi but he didn't effect in kazumi !!! however kazumi hurt him with the low kicks from the first round and that's was obvious !!! that's how he won the fight

[@user-lx2yy7kw4x]

who is the first opponent?

[@santerisalminen4235]

What is the name of the music?

[@konstantinkrystallis8484]

Any luck?

[@baldieman64]

I can agree with some of that. What I see when I look at Kyokushin is basically "milling" with kicks. Nothing wrong with that, it builds mental and physical toughness and it's a very fine exercise. Trouble is that there are a lot of people who think that it's the same as fighting and it just isn't.

[@st.junius]

Anyone who knows the name of the music 0:37, 5:47?

[@baldieman64]

What i mean is that by training in MMA or just by cross training effectively you develop a complete fighting skill set. MMA (Which is fast becoming a martial art in it's own right) is actually quite limited for the street unless practitioners recognise that it's optimised for the ring and add back the gouging, ripping headbutting and other mayhem but it sure as hell teaches people to fight with heart I've seen a few of those KK vids. They'd be more credible if they didn't insist on KK rules.

[@psychedashell]

Gerard Gordeau did wonderful work in early MMA competition of proving that if you can’t win fair then breaking the rules probably isn’t going to help your situation. Four matches, two clean wins and two losses that he tried to gouge and bite his way out of that he still lost and not via disqualification, he tapped out both times because his biting and gouging failed to convince both opponents to let go of dominant positions.

[@niennordeild4389]

@@psychedashell You mean gouging your opponent's eye out?

[@psychedashell]

@@niennordeild4389 Yuki Nakai chose to continue fighting for the win over keeping his eye. He also chose to compete in two more matches that night rather than seeking medical attention that may have saved his vision in that eye, on top of that he covered it up for years to protect the sport. For all the damage it did for the rest of Yuki Nakai's life gouging simply didn't cause enough pain to prevent Yuki from thinking coherently or have any way to force him to let go. A truly successful pain compliance technique overrides coherent thoughts like choices leaving only fear and pain. A truly successful leverage technique offers threats through pain but at the end of the day those threats are due to the leverage being literally capable of breaking the user free by breaking joints. Truly successful chokes and strangles work by denying blood or oxygen and like true leverage the user will be able to break free regardless of the sufferer's choices in the matter - the sufferer will pass out and lose all holds or the attacked limb will cease to function and lose all holds. Gouging causes very real, very lasting damage but it is not a successful pain compliance technique, it is not a successful leverage technique and it is not a successful choke or strangle technique. People think moves that are banned from MMA must be banned because they are powerful but this simply isn't true, banned techniques cause lasting damage but often escalate fights rather than ending them or even truly shifting dominance, that guy you gouged but didn't manage to break free of doesn't just want your wallet anymore, he now wants your wallet and revenge for whatever your gouging efforts did.

[@bakrwolf3498]

gedan mawashi geri is rarely used because you rarely find a fighter who is tough enough to master it

[@Liquidcadmus]

+bakr wolf you realize gedan mawashi geri is a low turning kick right? its the kick most used by all fighters. or maybe you meant ushiro gedan mawashi geri, which is a low reverse turning kick

[@bakrwolf3498]

Liquidcadmus no i meant gedan mawashi geri but i meant few fighters can actually use it effectively..i know that everybody throws gedan mawashi geri but it's more like a way of distracting your opponent nobody uses it to crush the opponent like hajime kazumi

[@agentk1930]

woah you make it sound interesting to learn well im a kyokushin student (brown)

[@laysensei]

+bakr wolf LOOOOOL thats the most used kick in martial arts hahahah

[@kacperpopek681]

+lay nadji u know that u can fuck everything up in this kick more than in chudan or jodan mawashi . cause when u r kicking chudan mawashi it is rare to block it with a knee or shin and blocking with leg on jodan is impossible . so in the end gedan mawashi is one of the toughest techniques to learn to use it in a fight

[@24RECproductionsWildARTchannel]

It was logical. All tree so it breaks. Strikes in the same place.

[@forzacavaliere]

Hi can someone experienced in Kyokushin answer my question please? Why is it that in this style they allow themselves to get hit so many times. It does alright in the tournaments because there's no punches to the head, but is there head protection involved in this style or they just allow themselves to tank hits in a real self defense situation?

[@AngryBenny]

its like this, there is no head protection, the reason they can endure so many blows is because we train to endure those blows, simple as that... regarding the real self defense situation the fighting style you see here is very different that it would be on the streets, its important to keep your distance and when you do make a move, you end it with one, because there is no fooling around in the streets. i hope i clarified you

[@forzacavaliere]

Firelement3 Thanks for the reply. I understand it a lot more now.

[@AngryBenny]

you are welcome man

[@GokuInfintysaiyan]

It’s not just “tanking” You can train that to a high extent but the top dogs always learn high levels of Ukeru Ukeru is to receive and it’s learning to subtly shift your body (weight, muscle, posture, height, etc) in order to be able to minimize damage without giving up a limb to block or stepping off balance. Kyokushin is more about cutting angles rather than “advanced” footwork (back peddling, diamond stepping, etc)

[@SuperDUDERIKI]

YEA,REALLY.

[@baldieman64]

Mr Dilman was very much the real deal before he went funny in the head and started thinking he is a Jedi.

[@MrBlondeVega]

@MrBlondeVega This of course is highly subjective and makes for questionable decisions. Feitosa showed initiative in the first part but few of that many tsukis did any damage; the various hiza geri did (to an extent). In the extension Kazumi was clearly superior and got the ippon. All that being said I know of and can think of many examples of japanese favoritism for their own men in the decisions. My humble opinion. OSS!

[@GokuInfintysaiyan]

Kazumi had cracked and broken ribs from this. If I’m not mistaken he lost to Filho after this because of that. Those punches did a shit load of damage. Kazumi is just poker facing the shit out of this

[@Ronolus]

2:56 чего судья прикалупался до соперника? 2:56 why referee told womething to opponent?

[@asakitkepala2661]

Because he is do violation

[@Beyondthelimitspt]

Does anyone know who the second fighter is?

[@GokuInfintysaiyan]

Feitosa

[@niennordeild4389]

The sound those blows put out is something to cringe about. Poor folks who think this is bullshit don't realize it's meant to refine the practitioners and the art. As old Kami-sama said and my master always says again, 'everyone can punch. Now you must train your body'. Talk about training!! This brick wall of a fellow took well in the excess of 20 blows to the same spot before buckling. The other fighter landed that many blows right in the same exact spot, technical, precise and very heavy (you can hear it some times). How many of those do you think you could take? Or perhaps you think you can dodge? From what I can tell, a single hit like that would completely take away the fighting spirit of mostly anyone, from the pain alone. Just my take...

[@cesarmaximiano3550]

This video proves that you just have to have a very good basic fight and be japanese to win against a brazilian. Feitosa literally spanked Kazumi on first round. Shame on those judges!

[@elianozarate3719]

Yes japoneses are currapted in fight bussiness. E verdade mano os japanes Sao tan corruptos. Cara brasilero ganava .

[@mycal64]

My point being that what you find boring others may find exciting (I don`t really believe MMA to be gay at all). I`m ex-infantry, so I know about fighting. I`m also an ex-boxer and still practicing karateka. I`ve also never taken a beating in a steet/bar fight - what I know from boxing, the army and karate has served me well. But the one difference with Kyokushin is that it`s never been about winning a `real` fight. It`s much more about character development due to its Budo influence.

[@leonfdawson]

Second dude looks like Badr Hari.

[@lvdjn]

this's why I left Kyokushin.I mean,one of the reasons is the japanese favouritism.It seems that unless you literally breaks the japanese fights leg,or k.o him,hardly we can win.This is why Feitosa has to do double.... I ve seen this many times.I respect the art,I respect good fighters and understand that even because you are japanese,you are not unbeatable:so if you lose,accept it with honour.It's not samurai time anymore,no one will lose the honour for losing a single fight.grow stronger!oss!

[@GokuInfintysaiyan]

And yet in a close fight they gave Filho the fight even though almost everyone agreed kazumi won

[@CostaReall]

why no face punches???

[@baldieman64]

Wrestling and Ju-Jitsu are very much the support system. As one of my some time instructors (Geoff Thompson) put it "When you're rolling around on the floor getting the shit kicked out of you, it's a really bad time to start thinking about learning some grappling". You WILL get taken down outside, you want to break stuff and get back up. Obviously you want to put the guy away quick and be gone and you don't do that without training to punch him in the head - and of course the nasty stuff helps.

[@Payfwd]

who are the fighters? anyone know?

[@kacperpopek681]

what do u mean by that ? u want names of fighters ?

[@felipebrasil5]

Glaube Feitosa vs Hajime Kazumi

[@baldieman64]

By having been on the receiving end. I've never used the eye gouges on the street but I know those who have had to. I have been on the receiving end a few times and I know first hand that they work - in one instance where I accidentally got caught full force, I ended up with a detached and holed retina and had to undergo a vitrectomy and surgical repair. Trust me, eye gouges work but then we all know they work, just like we all know that a kick in the balls will put someone down.

[@MUEEN007]

IMO feitosa lost this, kazumi could have gone all out himself, but he used his intelligence, weathered the storm and paced himself, knowing that he'd take out feitosa when he tired, since when is kyokushin about who's stronger, it's about who's still standing and Feitosa wasn't. Another reason why feitosa never reached the heights of Kazumi in knockdown - both Filho & Kazumi were very smart fighters. Not every fight can be won by strength, that's what this proved.

[@SuperDUDERIKI]

I think the big guy(Feitosa) quit since he took too many low kicks...

[@-HotPepper-]

@voffsing1...you should try it!

[@BenBen2351]

Could someone explain the rules here ? I don't get the last fight. The big guy was hitting the japanese non stop with its fists, even making him fall down, yet there seem to have been a draw. Then in the additional round the japanese gets a good low kick, and that made him won...

[@jno8039]

It's almost a TKO