How Different Martial Arts Do BAREKNUCKLE Impact Training

[@hard2hurt]

I'm mad I missed you two in your gis and sneakers at the park lol

[@KARATEbyJesse]

Just two Karate Nerds deforesting the planet, one tree at a time 😂

[@zachariaravenheart]

@@KARATEbyJesse That's how I must explain what I'm doing when I punch a tree now XD

[@Dan_Hill43]

I thought only Tae Kwon Do, was allowed to wear their uniforms out in public🤣

[@leofriclac]

@@Dan_Hill43 To be honest, I don't generally wear my Dobok out in public because I don't want my ass kicked :D

[@dirgniflesuoh7950]

I miss the makiwara at my old dojo. Makiwara was the standard "cooldown" after class before stretching ...

[@KARATEbyJesse]

THAT TREE NEVER STOOD A CHANCE!! 🌳👊💥 Thanks for having me Seth-san, can’t wait for people to see our upcoming sparring video!! 😎

[@shaheed1798]

Your doing a sparring video?

[@nicolasrohr5430]

I can't wait to see that you both are 🐐

[@hiramcastillo9049]

😱 the hype got real

[@kbanghart]

I'm a real karateka, I graduated long ago from trees to simply punching my fist straight into buckets of gravel. It works great.

[@214warzone]

Great Video. I use the thinnest gloves possible (just for blister prevention). Do knuckle pushups on a marble bench. Punch a heavy bag and a Basketball with very thin gloves also..

[@Aj9Livess]

10:00 what a crew. You learn so much about them from their stances alone. The pro fighters, cool and confident in their skill. The humble, knowledgeable practitioner of traditional martial arts The upbeat, charasmatic instructor The Angry gnome 😂😂 Much love to all of you for this Collab, this is what martial arts KZbin needed, but didn't deserve 💪💪🤘

[@SirEmrik]

angry gnome stance is way more scary

[@andrewhudson3723]

I would totally train with that crew!

[@TheLithp]

I would be most afraid of fighting Mike because I think he might bite me & give me some strange infection.

[@camiloiribarren1450]

Jesse and Oliver have been traditionally trained and then gone to more modern ways. I’m loving this great crossover to cross train and understand different ways to do the same technique. Different condition ways and I love this!

[@KARATEbyJesse]

Makes me so happy to hear! 🙏

[@dirgniflesuoh7950]

And what pushups or wheelbarrow walk on the knuckles are good for, you really learn how to balance on your wrists.

[@camiloiribarren1450]

@Where's Walshy agreed. Makiwara is GREAT for conditioning punching, elbow and shuto techniques

[@KarateTVtraditional]

Coming up with a conclusion in the end ... with a topic like this...these different approaches... just shows how open minded and experienced these people are 🎉👍 Awesome Video

[@jituch1288]

Are karate TV vale bhaiya 😄❤

[@ananddarnal6702]

😮

[@nephiilim]

Capoeirista here. Maaaaaan I wish I had a comunity like you guys do. I would love to hang out with different martial artists where I live. Its cool to see you guys hang out.

[@KARATEbyJesse]

Martial arts brings people together!! 🙌

[@robinmobin]

Me too 😔 I feel like I’d be so much better

[@herrschniedler4207]

bruh just stop capoeira

[@herrschniedler4207]

@Zyan Pearsall i enjoy watching a good fight, no matter the sport. But capoeira is not really fighting or a martial art, its like a dance with martial art inspired movement.

[@makaiev]

Yo, where are you from mate? Sorry for the question, but usually Capoeira practitioner walk in packs around my city...

[@DaleMallows]

So glad the Karate Avengers content is finally dropping!

[@SenseiSeth]

😂😂😂

[@wayoftheforesthand]

Look at you, the Gracies, the Machida's, and and now the greatest of all the martial arts family's the Enkamp's. You sir have arrived!!!!

[@KARATEbyJesse]

You forgot the Paul’s! 🥊😜🙌

[@blockmasterscott]

What a collaboration! Seriously, you guys made my day. As far as bare knuckle training goes, I’ve been doing it for over 30 years, and I have no arthritis is my hands. Like any physical activity, you just have to know how to do it right.

[@AK_UK_]

Which knuckles do you focus on?

[@Markuzsosa]

@@AK_UK_ all ten on ur dome

[@Markuzsosa]

@@AK_UK_ jkkkk

[@LaughingSeraphim]

This short dude who works near a store I service has calluses that are like two pennies stacked on his knuckles. I don't know how to think or feel about this... www.backinthegi.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/knuckl.jpg

[@dhalav]

Old-school boxers did not strike with their wrist bones, they knew how to strike. The main technique was straight vertical punch landing with the bottom three knuckles, because it follows the principles of what Jack Dempsey later named the Power Line. It means that there is a perfect alignement between your fist (you aim with the part between the middle and ring fingers), your elbow and your whole shoulder. Some of the best of those bareknuckle boxers foughts hundred times, if they did not knew how box with their bare-hands they would have had very short careers. Early days of gloved boxing have of lot of techniques from this era.

[@ironmikehallowween]

That’s how I was taught by my father who fought in the late 30s and early 40s before the draft. I have no problems hitting people to this day. But, we were taught to hit proper targets and proper techniques. Light gloves are used most times on bags, but chins, jaws, and stomachs are not a problem bare knuckled in the least. I just don’t hit people in the top of their head, or hit them in their elbows and such.

[@NDOhioan]

Was going to comment the same thing, good thing somebody else caught that.

[@Toxica_Intoxicada]

They did in victorian era, probably was talking of the victorian era

[@NDOhioan]

​@@Toxica_Intoxicada Except the Victorian era is the latter part of exactly the boxing era we're talking about. The idea that bareknuckle boxers used their palms instead of their fists is circulated by some palm-strike aficionados, but there's no actual evidence to back that up. If you read any of the actual manuals about boxing from the bareknuckle period, they tell you exactly what Augusto Dalha described: straight vertical punches with the knuckles.

[@dhalav]

@@Toxica_Intoxicada any source about this? Palm strikes exister for sure, but not the way he showed, which is particularly ineffective. I don't think hé was refering to the victorian era, it just a cliché that is hard to kill. FightTips even made à popular vidéo about this myth, he made a second one after being corrected by Oz from English Martial Arts but it was less popular than the first one.

[@lingoistj1956]

I love how true martial artists, regardless of our backgrounds, come together

[@Protagonaut]

Boxing main here. Agree with the first sentiment, if you have any legit power you should limit how often you throw with minimal protection. Personally trained bare knuckle quite alot on the bag (only ever try leather, if you have a fabric bag please please save your knuckle skin the trouble and dont bother) Imo it's important to do similar to what encamp said on a tree vs a heavy bag bare knuckle, and even intentionally tap your hand at awkward angles to strain hte little muscles holding your wrist together so that in the moment of impact those small muscles that otherwise never get any isolation work will be able to sustain the force of impact. As stated in the video, alignment helps alot but I believe in working out the muscles that keep everything aligned more than anything else when it comes to wrist health specifically.

[@Han-nk3io]

Punching frabic bag doesnt make me pain but its scrape my fist alot. So that that is a no.leather bag however makes my leg sore as hell after kicking.Punching not so much.

[@TGPDrunknHick]

@@Han-nk3io out of curiosity would that not help prevent cutting? constantling scraped skin hardens and callouses. would that not mean hitting a sharper angle would be less likely to cut your knuckles open. even say on a tooth?

[@Han-nk3io]

@@TGPDrunknHick No if you want fist conditioning might as well doung knucles push ups and wrap your hands punching bags.Because in real contact your skin will be scraped anyway,it doesnt hurt but i dont want a bloody fist after working out and side not punching bare knucle is very dangerous when your wrist is fatique i notice that my wrist easily get misalightment when punching after weight lift session.

[@Docinaplane]

This is interesting to me because back in the day when I started, we never wore any hand protection at all. I would hit stuff. We had the makiwara, but I hit lots of things. My first two knuckles are still quite prominent.

[@bencebuda4599]

Right? I never use any gloves while doing bagwork or hitting (well, more lightly, of course) the wall and other hard stuff. No problems so far, big first two knuckles and obviously no one likes if I hit them 😂 It also makes me having a better hand position than some guys using Seiken-protectors ALL the time.

[@Docinaplane]

@@bencebuda4599 Absolutely! Maybe it's been luck, but I've hit a lot of hard targets, including people and haven't hurt my hands yet. Well, not counting the time I punched a cement wall by mistake (it had a thin sheet over it). Yeah, my hand was a balloon lol for a week, but I didn't break anything.

[@cahallo5964]

@@Docinaplane it's not luck, I've been hitting hard stuff since forever and I've only ever hurt my hand playing football

[@RoyalFizzbin]

We would leave blood on the makiwara (only the rope covered one) in my dojo. The leather one never made us bloody.

[@Markperna1]

Man, another great video. You keep pumping them out. I’m 100% for this. I’ve been training since 1977 and the most I use when hitting pads or a bag are those old school leather bag gloves and then only so I don’t scrape my knuckles up. You are forced to hit with proper alignment. I’m also a professional jazz bassist and I’ve never had hand or wrist problems so I must be doing something right.

[@robsobi]

I'm really enjoying these, for lack of a better word, crossover videos. Let everyone know if you all decide to do a seminar together. It would be really cool to meet all of you.

[@Bassoid]

I gotta say it, I love these crossovers. I really think that it elevates the content of everyone that´s participating to another level, it doesn´t feel like "advertising" at all. Mad respect.

[@NIRUPAM112]

We karatekas when ever hear the word Okinawa . Immidiately it pop up in our mind = birth place of Karate . This is what unites us all karatekas around the world . Oss 🥋

[@jacobharris954]

Jesse is like that guy in mortal combat who pops up randomly

[@AztecUnshaven]

You can train the entire hand (backfist, palms, knife and ridge of hand) like this for a well rounded approach. Wonderboy's dad still trains his palms to this day and he still has full hand dexterity. Very old school Okinawan and Kungfu styles have "Dit Da Jow", to heal and recover faster as well. 2 great examples of this training is Jiang Yu Shan and the late, great Pan Qingfu. Master Pan was called the "Gangbuster of China" and took down several Triad leaders back in the 60s, killing some of them and brutally concussing others with his Iron Fist (look up his crazy knuckle training here on youtube).

[@irontusk5691]

Jesse is awesome. Glad he's getting to make some crossover content with you guys. 👍👍

[@davidriddell5573]

In a way I feel they're both essential, but the alignment you learn from Makiwara training is more fundamental, in my opinion. For example, my left hand has an extra long middle metacarpal. So my middle knuckle sticks out, and takes the full force of my punch, alone, if I punch perfectly straight. Makiwara training forced to me correct for that weird asymmetry. It makes you pay attention to what's unique in your own body and learn to make technique your own.

[@Leo.23232]

well, that is also the strongest knuckle and you are focussing all the force on a smaller point if you do hit with just that, so it also can make you do more damage

[@davidriddell5573]

@@Leo.23232 depending on the surface you are striking, yes. If you're hitting soft tissue that's fine. If you're hitting bone, there is the potential to drive that knuckle back into your hand and break your metacarpal. I speak from 1st hand experience on this subject.

[@Leo.23232]

@@davidriddell5573 it also depends on how hard you are hitting, i disagree with it being better for soft tissue, it wont really make much difference either way, only thing i can think of it doing more damage to is like muscles but i dont think thats a very good target for a punch normally, if you hit the body its more about how far your whole fist is digging in than a knuckle is. although i could be wrong on this thats just my intuition, havnt seen this tested i think its better for hitting the face which is a hard target, just dont hit full power, you will be doing a lot of cutting damage with much less effort, and you wont break your knuckles that way when it comes to bare knuckle fighting, you can do a lot of damage without needing to use all your power

[@GBlues1]

It depends on why you’re training. If you’re training for sport, then wrapping yourself wrists and hand is good. If you’re training for self-defense, it’s not good, you won’t have that protection if you ever need to use what you’ve learned. Wraps keep everything aligned. Wrist, hand all tight. In the real world outside of the dojo, or a sport, you have to take 27 bones, and the wrist and make it as stiff as you can. If you haven’t practiced without wraps, good chance your wrist will buckle. The wraps are like many things in life. They give a false sense of doing it correctly. It’s a good training aid to help you know what it’s supposed to feel like but, without doing it without the wraps you aren’t strengthening the muscles and tendons needed to do it without them. That’s my .02 cents. What’s your end goal, and then train for that.

[@SenseiSeth]

Yes, you did do a good job of saying what we said at the end of the video 😂🙏

[@GBlues1]

@@SenseiSeth and in less than 20 minutes no less….🤷‍♂️😂

[@Toxica_Intoxicada]

Facts

[@Mike.Paroah]

It's like watching the avengers of martial arts, looking forward to see more collabs with all of you

[@lsdustyrhodes]

I've been training for twenty-seven years, and teaching for over two decades. I'm 71. I do makiwara regularly. Gloves and wraps are good for boxing, because you're hitting someone's skull hundreds of times in the course of a match. You will break bones in your hand without that protection. They're pointless if you're training for self-defense, and you'd better have prepared your hands for that eventuality. Bare-knuckle training on heavy bags, makiwara, and other firm targets is essential. Listen to @Jesse Enkamp at 3:40, for he sums it up well. You not only need to develop the proper mechanics - kinesthetics - but also, through repetition literally over years, to develop hand conditioning. Bones and connective tissues will toughen over time with repeated application. Makiwara gives you both: feedback (proper hand and joint alignment) and firm resistance. Over time, you can execute dozens, even hundreds, of strikes during a training session. It can be a form of active meditation. And, yes, I strike 100% (but I wouldn't do it on a tree... traditional makiwara still gives a bit). Sorry, @hard2hurt, but I disagree. If you start gradually, and develop proper form, you can train without injury.

[@simonyu8838]

"It depends" is the answer to almost every question in martial arts and fighting

[@thiagocastro1129]

Its so cool to see Icy Mike and Jesse as friends now! Jesse understands the importance of adaptation, and Mike is now giving value to the karate things! As an karate fighter who trains for full contact, and loves to train muay thai too, its awsome really

[@IronBodyMartialArts]

Looks like you guys had fun. Good bunch of guys . It would be great to be there with you all..

[@jorel80]

Kung fu nerd here! We do this in Wing chun as well, with a tightly packed sand bag mounted to a wall, called a "Sau Bau". Some WC mook jong (wooden training dummies) are wrapped with rope and used the same way. Same idea as makiwara basically, conditioning hand/knuckle resistance and your body structure to absorb the returning force. It's meant to be a fine tuning, technical excercise, not full power, but increasing power incrementally so you can hit harder bareknuckle and have less chance of injuring yourself. I especially like what Jesse said about bone stacking and joint alignment. Great stuff guys!

[@Dan_Hill43]

I thought I saw the tree striking seen in Best of the Best 😂. Really love all you guys got me training again. Another great video.

[@themartialartsmermaid]

This was fantastic! So much talent and wisdom in one place! You're spoiling us.

[@inigomartinez8243]

I dont think I have learned anything or gotten any conclusion but I felt somehow attached to the conversation and ended up watching the whole video. I dont mind this lecture videos once in a while,

[@BurridgeMartialArts604]

Absolutely loving these collabs lately!

[@G3RON1M0BR0]

I absolutely love these crossovers, when all the homies get together and educate, entertain, and make us laugh. Like a bunch of Marvel characters getting down to business and i'm not even that big of a nerd. Keep it up guys, much love!

[@mattstuw]

Love love love the collaboration videos! I'm so glad you all could get together.

[@hunggarguy]

Dit da jow, it helps a lot. I think it’s definitely a progressive time consuming process. I did the whole knuckle push-ups thing in high school lol. 😂. I use to hit the bag and the wooden dummy with wraps. After years of hitting the palm bag ✋ I like to do it all 100% bare knuckles but that doesn’t mean ever so often it doesn’t hurt. If you’re conditioning everyday you have to listen to your body. If you get an injury you need medicine and time to heal. Being an athlete is a process of damage repair damage repair and it’s no different with a martial artist.🥋 Great videos 📹😂 Sensei Seth.

[@jacobharris954]

Yep iron palm is the truth

[@GypsyLad]

i used to do knuckle conditioning by hitting walls not full on but enough to bruise it because there was an old thing people used to believe in where you bruise or fracture the bone and it grows back harder or gets harder and it would be good control for the back lash from hitting something solid (like if you hit a skull)

[@broman23]

Same

[@bushcraftmyway]

nice vid! as a martial artist (not a fighter), I do train exclusively bareknuckle - and I advise my students (also not fighters) to do the same. however, there is a crucial aspect of this: progression. it takes a long time to go from non-contact to full power. not doing it gradually leads to accidents - and maybe that's a big part of bareknuckle punching being regarded as a "no-no" by many.

[@INDAMOMENTFilms]

Oh boiii the courageous icy Mike is back! Looking forward to see mike joking/messing around with sensei Seth like always 😂😂❤️ the bromance

[@Soontobesensei]

My favorite video by far! All of the best martial arts youtubers on the internet all joined together in one video! I love this!

[@Shambley1]

Awesome. I love a icy Mike and Seth combo. One day I'm going to get off my lazy ass and drive the 15 min to Raleigh and have Seth teach me how to fancy kick.

[@ryanbarclay7939]

Seth is in Raleigh?! Well now I should probably go, might help me lose the 50 lbs lol

[@SenseiSeth]

15 minutes?!

[@kawliga9890]

Seriously man agreed. I'm about 2 hours from him and sadly couldn't signup for the seminar due to work.

[@jillurmalik1]

Damn someone gotta protect Oliver

[@SenseiSeth]

He’s staying with us now, away from the bad karate man

[@sunte91]

@@SenseiSeth the poor guy 😢

[@sirseigan]

"Stack our bones and align our joints" - so beautifully put! 🙂

[@adeeliyanage9617]

when these three get together, its always fun to watch

[@MZH47]

7:44 This energy, the intensity, and what was said. That was icing on top of this video for me 👌 Idk why I resonated so strongly to that part 😂

[@jayve4433]

Aw man, this is an awesome video, seeing you there with Mike, Jesse, and his brother at the same time, imagine if you also had there together with y’all Ramsey, Rokas, Wonderboy, Mr. Dan, Endo,

[@sumboy6183]

Loved the editing bro n the acting from Mike ofc. Keep improving playa

[@nightshade7240]

When I was more heavily into martial arts we would practice alignment on hessian filled with steel ball bearings. It was hard enough to condition, soft enough to protect and had enough movement in the structure of the ball bearings that you were not hitting a completely solid object because people are not completely solid. Most places you can hit on the body have give to impact. Even when you hit the head there is give, either from movement or structure.

[@tanjudermanl9111]

Very good video guys...I love it...!!! The importance of conditioning without injuring yourself is very important as mentioned in the video. Conditioning of course is not only for our knuckles as Sensei Set said; that rule applies for all the parts in the body. For example in our old Ottoman tradition for oil wrestlers we use slapping trees, woodpieces and at the end (for advanced wrestlers) a flat piece of marble with our bare hands, that's the reason why Turkish oil wrestlers can knockout their opponents with a couple of slaps to the neck and head (Called: "Osmanlı Tokadı"). Unfortunately this kind of conditioning is getting more and more lost in these days. I think also it is very similar with the "Iron Hand" training in most Karate and Kung Fu styles. Can you please do more videos for conditioning different body types?

[@M-gb6np]

I like your Max power American Kenpo for like breaking chest plate in American streets🏁🇲🇽

[@TheWillToFight]

I’ve got a MAKIWARA at my MMA gym and people always ask me what the hell it is lol

[@nyhyl]

I LOVED this video! :D Hilariously great vibe and at the same time the uncertainty of its conclusion is the smartest conclusion that was possible: it depends on what you want to do.

[@Berengier817]

Ramsey Dewey, Icy Mike, Jesse, sensei Seth and Stephen Thompson need to do a video seminar together.

[@healthypostnatalbody]

These guys clearly had a blast filming all day. Great fun to watch and loads of knowledge

[@rickmcdaniel6784]

Cool to Jesse demonstrate makiwara training. I'm an old Kyokushinkai. We had a makiwara board at the dojo. it was made by using 3 pcs. of 2 x 6. They were cemented into the ground like a fence post. The one in the back only stuck up about 18", the middle one about 36" and the one in the front was about 72" tall. This allowed it to flex a little as you hit or kicked it. The stiking pad was made with rope. We puched and kicked it to condition our hands and feet. Jesse explained it perfectly.

[@rjwrightrw30]

Very good. I never used gloves for bag work. I figured it would cover bad habits & technique. And the part of doing twice as much on your no dominant side...YES! Absolutely! Developing power is important, but proper technique should be first.

[@rpesik]

Actually there is a reason why in karate kata, there is almost (if there is any) no punch to the head (jodan tsuki) 😊

[@YoukaiSlayer12]

That was fun. Well since Jesse mentioned Gichin Funakoshi I might as well include a Niju kun precept that fits. 一、力の強弱体の伸縮技の緩急を忘るな (Hitotsu, chikara no kyōjaku, karada no shinshuku, waza no kankyū o wasuruna)/Do not forget the employment of withdrawal of power, the extension or contraction of the body, the swift or leisurely application of technique.

[@fabriziocolucci3041]

Loving these collaborations!

[@jpdragon1141]

Awesome collaboration!!

[@vernshein5430]

As a young teenager in the 70's we did a little hand conditioning in kyokushin but our instructors who had been young men in the 50's mostly had strongly conditioned hands and YEARS of daily makiwara training. When they hit us their blows had a much greater effect on us than those of our peers. Much of that was their technique and conditioned hands, wrists, elbows etc. Their alignment and focus, honed by the makiwara training was clearly different to ours. Some of them could even break boards with spearhand (nukite) strikes. Something that none of my peer group would even think to attempt. There was a price to this as many of them were developing or already had arthritis in the hands and wrists.

[@nov199128]

Jesus Jesse lol. When he hit the tree. 😬 No hesitation, no wincing in pain, just full on sent it. Damn. 😂

[@pilystation]

Great video, I just found you guys last week and I'm loving it, Mike is so funny and Jesse (when not on his channel) reminds me of my martial arts teachers (sensei or coach whatever you wanna call them)

[@Jumanji1st]

I really like all that colaborations of you guys. Not only is it great fun to watch, but it is also very informative. keep it up guys :D

[@MetalSnake6199]

I've been knuckle conditioning for a little more than 3 years. My advice is to not strike at full power because it will take longer for bones to be usable (there are osteoblast vs osteoclast; one adds & one takes bone density) Strike 45% at most til your hands almost feel sore, as to not damage the blood vessels in your hand. And give them a day to rest.

[@rrteppo]

I also think that 100% power you should be able to fracture your hand. I can see getting up to 80% power and not breaking something, but my full strength punch could break someone else's bone, so it should be doing similar damage to my own. The force isn't in the same direction so it's a little different, but still.

[@jarrodpelrine7229]

I begin bag workouts slow and easy barnacles every time and increase the intensity slowly until my hands feel like that's enough then put on gloves I've never regretted that strategy it's super effective regarding the conditioning of the surface of my knuckles and all the little things that make up the interior of my hands as well

[@EvolveNowYoga]

Those crossover videos are really cool! Keep them coming💪

[@webherring]

Wing chun wallbag.. . I hang a bag of rice on the wall and use gel hand wraps without the wrist support. You can practice structural alignment AND go full power. Some back and forth footwork is possible but not side to side. DIY maize bag: put an 8 lb sand-filled mini medicine ball in a reusable shopping bag and hang it from the ceiling. I hit it bareknuckle or with gel wraps and can add a little more footwork. 50-80% power.

[@OniBoiXD]

my favorite is having a harder shield pad with someone pushing against your strikes

[@LeeJCander]

I'm actually loving these collabs!

[@MartialCoachJF]

What a nice meeting of modern Warriors 💪💪I do sparring and hard bag with gloves, the rest is conditioning (makiwara and knucle pushups)🥋🤗

[@w4rf4c39]

"...because I wanted some super-smart, expertise, knowledge... Mike can you stand over there? " Lmao I'm dead.

[@yatakarasu98]

This was an all-stars collaboration

[@jasontaylor4765]

By far one of my favourite videos, awesome job guys and have a great new year.

[@rockymolina8912]

5:51 isolation, integration, improvisation 10:51 learn the rules, Brake the rules, MAKE the rules

[@bigdoubleu117]

You guys sounded like Attorney Tom there at the end. "It Depends" is his catchphrase lol.

[@thomasturner4253]

Love u guys having Jesse on I don't practice karate but love his videos I do however practice martial. arts Ur videos are always informative Thumbs up 👍

[@Esodum]

Dude, i spent most of quarentine doing bag work for kick and punches. When things started going back to normal i jumped straight on an amateur competition and by the end of the day my right ankle and shoulder were a mess: i had unlearned how to hit a real person and how you can't reeeally go hard

[@zsolthorvath495]

I usually hit bareknuckle the bag in the last two round. But interesting: I started the full-contact kickboxing after 30 years karate (shotokan and kyokushin). The bareknuckle bagwork never injury to my joints an hand bones, but I suffered several long and painful injury in gloves in the first years.

[@stevemac8859]

5:02 Jessy asking why Sensei Seth kicked the tree really made my day

[@yasemincetinkaya8887]

This is what we wanted, awesome video

[@aidy7961]

HI, what a breath of fresh air your channel is. I have been studying Martial arts since the early 1980’s, (yep I am very old) never Karate though. I am so sick of the bull, that is everyone claiming only they have ‘the right way’, or the best martial arts style, and they are super elite warriors! (Obviously this is rubbish as the style I study is the best otherwise I would study a different style. 😎😎 I am joking ). Anyway back to my point, it is so refreshing to see your channel and the mixing of different ‘Dojo’s/Styles’, instructors and viewpoints. It is also nice to see that you all seem to have fun, in an educational way, obviously the best environment to learn and teach. Well done I appreciate you all, never stop being a student and always keep learning . 👍👍👍👍

[@IceWyte]

I can't handle the fact my 4 favorite people on the internet are all in one place.

[@khronicaltv6523]

I love how fucking wholesome the this youtube fith community is.

[@Leon-R2D2]

True and awesome collaboration guys do more together, i like this forum-ish style🤙🏼☀❤

[@andrewhudson3723]

Jesse is awesome. So is his brother.

[@annoyed707]

There is a Kevin Secours video where he talks about how to avoid common bare knuckle punching injuries.

[@stickmouse5002]

Oh Kevin Secours. I read his combat systema manual and it has been very useful in knowing the martial art. Cheers

[@BigSlanko]

Use those old school bag mitts like Dewey was chatting about a while back. Works great.

[@fRikimaru1974]

I'll say it again, these bunch are quite awesome.

[@YousifSaif]

Wish you invited a kyokushin guy to know his opinion when it comes to bareknuckel strikes. But amazing one man keep the great work.. Osu

[@alphamorion4314]

I remember, back in the days of practice, during some sparring sessions I would punch with very little "force" (maybe around 10%/15%), but trying to really focus on the micro-technique explained by Jesse of the punch. It kinda surprised me how big of a difference it makes to the impact. I was somewhat used to try body shots (around the liver and lower ribcage), and when hitting without that much of a structure, maybe even with the surface of all knuckles, it really did nothing much; but with a somewhat 'decent' structure and somewhat decent focus on the two big knuckles, those same hits (and the same force applied) really made a couple of sparring partners struggle to stay on their feet.

[@Blake-gh8xl]

Love the duets!

[@CoASoFi]

These crossovers are fucking epic!

[@aegisprotection4969]

For my part, I usually do bag work with 4oz or 7oz mma gloves and tape. Working on BOB, I usually use 4oz or bare knuckles. Wooden Dummy, usually bare knuckles for the reasons of learning precision and hitting safely. As Icy Mike noted: If you know.how to hit, you can't really hit full power without hurting your hands. I did a video about it years ago, where I progressively worked down from full boxing gloves, wraps and tape to barknuckles. And for a good, bare knuckle balanced on a #10 can. Worth noting, gloves also change the nature of the impact, making the collision much more elastic.

[@tuerkefechi]

The old Pugilists of the 18th/19th century also conditioned their fists and punched with vertical fists using the three lower knuckles (to the head/face). When going for the body (the „mark“) aka soft targets, they used the horizontal fist 🤜 often. Besides backfists and hammerfists and so on.

[@RavenburnX]

This is a great collaboration, excellent… Osu Shinobu

[@fistsmcnasty]

Wonderboy did a video on this as well. It made me think about what Mike has said on previous vids. I like how even pros can't agree, but obviously something is working for both.

[@fistsmcnasty]

Or maybe I should finish the video before commenting...

[@RedHairdo]

The only thing this episode lacked was Rokas. It would be a delight to have everyone on at the same time!

[@milanvanik8701]

Nice team 👏 I miss two more bare knuckle fighters/boxers with experience. Bobby Gun (bare knuckle boxer) and Dave Leduc (lethwei fighter). Bdw Oliver is right, in old times (and today some Irish bare knuckle boxers keeping it alive) boxers was hitting with bone part of the hand palm. Also in ancient Greece boxers and pankrationists were using hammer fists from simple reason - they was competing in the tournament format. Hands are fragile and in order to continue in the competition they preferred using hammer fists.

[@Gyrodyssey]

Fantastic Video Sensei Seth

[@gosunflower]

Great video as always

[@snieves4]

That little series of 1-2, uppercut by the smaller guy…impressive technique.