I Took The SLOWEST Yet The STRONGEST Kick! Kikuno Sensei

[@KarateDojowaKu]

🌏Karate World Tour 2023🌏 courses.thekarateuniversity.org/pages/world-tour-2023 Episode 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJDWlmCpjsafhtU Kikuno Sensei's Channel: @daretsuyo

[@Muxik4k]

Can you explain the difference between SKIF and JKA, and which one is better? Will your videos be helpful for me if I practice SKIF?

[@BLenz-114]

These two videos with this guy are really interesting. Some of what he says seems counter to “traditional” practice but it seems to work for him in a professional ring. There’s definitely stuff to ponder here.

[@lorismarchitelli5274]

I just got back to italy from 23 days in Tokyo and discovered only yesterday thet Kikuno sensei's Dojo was just 8 minutes from were i was staying. I wanna die🥲

[@daiblaze1396]

Missed the last episode but Kikuno sensei is one of the rare person that you can see the power that he throws. I have no doubt on it. First time I've seen him, I was amazed by the feeling. It was a video on his low kick. It was slow but you could tell it was very impactful. Now I understand a bit more the phylosophy behind. Just love his way of fighting ! Thanks for sharing ! Can't wait to try it tomorrow...

[@giovelazquez8872]

Today?

[@daiblaze1396]

@@giovelazquez8872 LoL It was night time for me when I wrote it, close to midnight.

[@giovelazquez8872]

@@daiblaze1396 oh

[@timoloef]

Impressive. Makes me want to try this. To make the kick impact harder, we learned two ways: - hip movement, so may geri meant moving the hip forward at the right time - "winding and unwinding the spring" of the leg that carries your weight. So mai geri means that you briefly stand in a deep neko achi dachi, then upon kick stretch the rear leg for instant forward movement of your entire body. That said.... it seems that Kikuno senseis method does the trick better and more relaxed... who wouldn't want that?

[@kodokaidojo-ramblingsofare3436]

This is the way I was taught to kick by Odo Seikichi when learning Okinawa Kenpo, which, I believe, is the style he practices.

[@yamawakihideo]

Thank you for the video! This is gold! Long time ago i adapted my kicks just like that for full contact Karate. Additionally, I also use the knee and heel of the supporting foot to increase speed. My base style is dento karate, and at the time i wasn't physically strong and heavy to fight head on like full contact usually do.

[@outerlast]

Sensei, you should make a video summarizing the variety of body mechanism for power generation. Like the common one with hip/waist initiating the movement, then this one with the stretch and the hand / knee leading the movement, and the many strange ones from your Okinawa tour videos.

[@atmaddekbix]

If you do the shiko exercise from sumo, you create the same stretching of the rear hip. Then bring it down with intent to create a strong force. Be careful about hitting really solid ground without protection. You can generate ALOT of power and start to hurt your ankles after just a few of these. Works best for side kicks and front kicks at a slow AND fast speed.

[@jozef_chocholacek]

That mae-geri at the beginning looks exactly the same like Masaji Taira-sensei teaches us in the Okinawa Goju-ryu Kenkyukai. To my understanding, the problem with most karate practitioners is they do too much kihon, without actually hitting anything (sandbag, makiwara, partner with a pad, ...). So they kicks are done the way to remain stable and pull back the kick. However, if you want to transfer all your power into your opponent in a fight, you must not kick that way, your body has to follow your kick. Exactly as Kikuno-sensei shows in the other kick (something between kansetsu- and gedan yoko-geri, but looks highly functional and damn powerful).

[@TheReverb1]

If you let a mae geri there for more than a second, opponent can grab your leg and take it down in no time. The best ever kick is mae geri jyodan BUT very close to the opponent 99% of time is KO. For that; you need 180º of flexibility.

[@jozef_chocholacek]

@@TheReverb1 you're right, if you leave your foot (not just by mae-geri) lingering at your opponent, it's easy to grab it. But we don't leave it there, we kick and put the foot back on the floor ASAP, just not pulling it back, but stepping down. Second, as we don't do karate as sport but rather self-defense, we don't kick higher than groin (lower abdomen), which is much harder to block and/or grab. And from tactical point of view, we only kick with mae-geri an already imbalanced opponent.

[@giovelazquez8872]

@@jozef_chocholacekCompetition is fun for me so I do it

[@jozef_chocholacek]

@@giovelazquez8872 that's completely fine! That's the beauty of karate, you can do it as sport, you can do it as a martial art, you can do it as a way of life. And you can switch between these as you progress in your path.

[@giovelazquez8872]

@@jozef_chocholacek I just don’t like practicing aimlessly for just yeah, I like having competition and having a goal to face and surpass

[@kazunobundong8072]

We have a similar principle in Capoeira: Imagine your leg stops at your knee when you're kicking, you then have to involve all your body to connect, and the real kick becomes heavier

[@rojaparvin1499]

I wish I could learn from you ( can't do online), thanks for your youtube videos 👍🏼

[@nathandunnam3349]

I’m a big fan of you

[@KarateDojowaKu]

Thanks! Do you practice karate?

[@mariocolecio1372]

Thank you so much!

[@elmalifico3708]

Amazing I saw the last video and was about to ask if he taught you his “Crescent Kick”. I’ve seen him take people down with that.

[@chengfu7063]

Well done this is The important base is to be well-rounded at everything vision hearing technique usage speed power knowing when to sidestep knowing when to counter knowing when to dodge to use lower attacks to sweep it all must be as one understanding that weapons are blocks and strikes at the same rules apply nothing is different and always adapt change up at all times because all Arts the same in the goal is to be a better human being day in and day out and keep up the good work the point of battle is to be superior against the enemy at all times and to embrace life and death has the same not being afraid to die because you're not afraid to live 👊

[@giovelazquez8872]

For the punches and the kicks,will strength training, weight training and bodyweight training help increase the power of the strike?

[@kevinmccleskey3858]

I make my kicks heavier by switching stance, applying my full body weight, and torque. Ideally all 3 synchronized.

[@schrodinger6429]

The notion is like a cycling a bike movement but you do a subtle kick jerk at the end.

[@vincentremi4397]

When you mention that "it feels like the body's weight is in the foot" then you just get the essence of karate I think. I think the goal in karate is to apply this effect on all techniques and as fast as possible. Once the foot is connected properly to the body, what matters then is to increase the translation speed of the body. I think I think I-chuan is very interrestin to train to develop this aspect

[@TonyqTNT]

Does Arakaki Sensei of the Muso Kai Karate System have a unique Okinawan methodology of punching?

[@judhathapa9243]

Day by Day please I'm Nepal

[@samimakiwara8584]

Hi . and can you put subtitles in all languages 😅

[@Rotaks]

Oh, one more thing. I'm not sure if I understand that correctly. This "way" of kicking is Kikuno sensei own ideas? Or this is a regular technique in his karate style, so every practitioner of this style knows that?

[@007captainnemo]

It was taught to him by Yamashiro Yoshimoto , the foremost practitioner of tamari te karate.

[@thunderkatz4219]

Better than Muay Thai

[@johntay3831]

Sensei yusuke, 6:50 they call this stretch reflex, similar to pulling a rubber band to the end and releasing.

[@Rotaks]

Hmmm....two interesting things. 1. This counter-rotation (with shoulders) at the end of the - let call it a "side kick". I saw this counter-rotation in taekwon-do (WTF version). But I'm not sure if they knew precisly what is the purpose of that move. They say something like "your leg is like a drill or a screwdriver", others say that this last move extend the reach of the kick at last moment few more centimeters. Here the Joe Rogan take focus on that counter-rotation with sholders kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKSXpoRsect-jJo What's more, they even use that counter-rotation in spinning hook kick, look at here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nauzhKN_gJx8gtE 2. We have to set what is the difference between hitting and pushing :) When you fly away after slow front kick - maybe you were just pushed? When I watch Muay Thai fights, they kick a front kicks a lot, and they "flying away" after that kicks, but... this kicks doesn't knock them down. They don't even block these kicks. So I think it is a matter of how quick the power... "is expressed/delivered" :) If your kick is more like... "pushing", ergo it's slow, then your body have time "to escape" - it moves with the kick. So the energy of the kick isn't use to damage (ribs, internal organs) but to move the whole figure. When you search in youtube, something like "knockouts after spinning back kick", you will see that in most cases they are not "flying away" after the kick, but they are knocked out. Maybe it has something to do with "shockwave" after the fast kick. And after the slow kick, there's no shockwave - just pushing? So i'm not sure, but I suspect that kick the Kikuno sensei preseted is more like pushing.

[@hydroturd]

I think you're on the right track. The impact is there but because of the follow through, it's a different sort of impact than a snappy kick. Originally in shotokan I only kicked using hips/pelvis->knee->foot, but after training with some goju ryu folks, watching "teep" kicks and also how the Okinawan sensei on Yusuke's channel kicks- I started trying to think of the kick as less of a swing and more of a lateral movement. I hope that makes some sense. you could try this on a bag or padholding partner - try front kick but like a horse with your whole sole of the foot. I think that is the feel of the kick here.. it's almost like the leg is coming down and out rather than up and out. Of course for Lyoto Machida's head level front kicks, it doesn't work like that, instead the snap made them almost like an uppercut

[@hubertjosephposadas2643]

Good question, though after watching his fights his kicks seem to be devastating. Maybe he was just showing a certain aspect in this demo?

[@タイガーの武者修行]

日本語で失礼します。 この前蹴りは押して相手を動かすものではなく、重さを衝突させて人体に効かせる蹴りです。沖縄拳法空手では、基本的にこの方法で蹴ります。 ↓ぜひこの試合を見てください。菊野先生は動画で紹介している蹴り方で、試合を終わらせました。 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKetipeJoNF7l9ksi=tgBnIUoJ8E6FF8dv