Improve Your Roundhouse Kick (Mawashi Geri)

A short lesson on mawashi geri with a few tips for a stronger, faster, more effective kick.
#karate #martialarts #kicks #shotokan

[@lancecahill5486]

The most complete tutorial on Mawhasi Geri on KZbin. The idea of the fake jab followed by the kick is very useful for kumite. Thank you so much.

[@dumitriuflorentina6137]

LMPROVE YOUR ROUNDHOUSE KICK (MAWASHI GERI)

[@xylsvos]

This karateka is the real deal, people should truly learn from him!!! Great work

[@adamkane7513]

It is amazing that I can still learn something "new" (to me!) about a kick I was taught years ago and have seen many VHS/DVDs on the subject. Thank you, *JG.*

[@shokster]

These longer form videos have been great Sensei! REALLY helpful, thank you! 🙏🏽

[@satheeshkumar6865]

Excellent tutorial on mawashi. Thank you for sharing 🙏

[@steverivera4916]

Good job. I'm glad to see you're open to adaptive techniques. Keep up the good work.

[@JoseFernandez-mt1se]

The best tutorial on Mawashi Geri i've seen! Approaching the kick from different angles. Thank you!

[@ShukokaiStu]

Very good explanation and demonstration. Thank you!

[@maddie1363]

thank you sensei johyn for one of the best tutorials ive seen on this kick

[@andrejlykov6408]

Excellent tutorial, Sensei Gardiner! Very grateful to you for your work. Osu!

[@TheRogueSquid]

Sweet kicks, great explanation of training and strategy for use. Class as always!

[@jkgardiner]

Thank you 🙏

[@hybris159]

Thank you very much for your explanations, Sensei !

[@maxander9010]

Excellent tutorial! Outstanding technique thank you sir .

[@curtisanderson7246]

I love your channel. Especially the exercise drills

[@donoberloh]

Waka Sensei’s contribution to His father’s Karate. A true Japanese Keri Waza void of any Ryukuan influence.

[@Newtonstewart]

Thanks Sensei Gardiner. Very clear and precise.

[@mountainwarrior108]

That’s a mad Mawashi Geri (Round House kick. Great explanation, demonstration, control & power. 🤜🤛

[@zxborg9681]

Beautiful. Great explanation and technique.

[@Wado-Kon_Khmer]

It's practical. Thank you for sharing. ❤

[@theodoroskitsios3251]

Very real staff !!!!!!!! This guy is very very good ! First time i see him !

[@chriswashington4891]

Your form is impeccable. The instructions are fantastic.

[@jkgardiner]

Thank you 🙏

[@aguslugiman9067]

Thank you...great tips ❤❤❤

[@lancecahill5486]

Exercise #2 is terrific. Probably the one and only exists on KZbin. 👍👍

[@sebashtiannumberone5431]

Thank so so very much Sensei !!! Brilliant!!!!!

[@shayhoulihan4391]

Shay checking in from dublin Ireland thank you ❤

[@NYKgjl10]

To me, one if not the best mawashi geri tutorial on KZbin with excellent copious details from hip movement to connecting with the target plus personal self-training. Will subscribe. Thank you for taking the time to do this video. Respect!!

[@jkgardiner]

Thank you 🙏

[@slingshotshooter7536]

john when you are going for a low kick to the leg do you rotate your standing foot full 180 like when you are going for the ribs ?@@jkgardiner

[@slingshotshooter7536]

@@jkgardiner john when you are going for a low kick to the leg do you rotate your standing foot full 180 like when you are going for the ribs ? @jkgardiner ??

[@HereticPunk]

Great Tutorial! Will surely use it.

[@alainleite8191]

Very, very accurate. Spote on!

[@krishnanaidoo2758]

Hi Sir, great technique I have learnt from your video. Thank you.

[@naw9398]

This came in at the right time,I have just practiced this kick and the fall its still hurts 😅Thank you Sensei Gardiner for the video! I will try to put this in practice.

[@sebastianmichalski5318]

Amazing skills, speed and power!

[@RajeshRaj-wk4wb]

Very nice tutorial sir Thank you

[@rams4d]

Great level and control. Excelent tips. Oss !!!

[@user-iw3nf3kq4u]

押忍🥋日本人よりわかりやすい解説ありがとうございます😊 thank you

[@drip4175]

great vid! any tutorials on things to help with point sparring would be amazing!

[@jackharding1238]

Super demo, I’m going for Brown belt in Wado Ryu next month and this has been really helpful, thanks for posting!

[@Sundance_6608]

Excellent advice for anyone studying karate 🥋

[@tonysoprano04]

Awesome Video Sensei, thank you.

[@mattt1974UK]

Very good tutorial and covers all the mistakes that I commonly see. I like the chair exercise.

[@ivannieves5708]

You have gained a subscriber sir. Good day from the USA

[@mrnomad1737]

Good lesson Sensei. I am learning Ninpo and am finding these kickts difficult to master. This will help a great deal. Arigato.

[@marcoliviertoure1676]

Thank you Sensei!

[@thomasflewellyn4848]

Superb training. Absolutely what I needed because I'm working on my sidekicks I practice Tang Soo do. This was a great training. I will implement these. Thank you so much brother

[@Cybertron-cs7sk]

Excellent Shotokan Mawashi tutorial 5 stars 🌟

[@ahmedjamil8525]

Love this tutorial

[@keelei]

Doing Karate since 20 years for now, loved Mawashi Geri since the beginning and I'm pretty good at this. Even for me this helped me improved it a little more. Thanks to you!

[@jkgardiner]

Excellent, that's good to hear 👍

[@slingshotshooter7536]

@@jkgardiner john when you are going for a low kick to the leg do you rotate your standing foot full 180 like when you are going for the ribs ? @jkgardiner

[@jonnelson2331]

Very knowledgeable man.

[@miguerys9503]

Super useful, there's a lot to work on here.

[@otisbeck5327]

I know that mawashi-geri is called foutté (whip) in Savate. Great video.

[@shayhoulihan4391]

Excellent thank you wish I was showen those years ago ❤❤

[@MisterKra]

Exercise 2 looks interesting, never heard of this. This might help me. So thanks

[@hb9145]

Great exercise, and a good idea to break down complex movements into smaller parts. I have trained Karate, Taekwon-Do, Kickboxing and Muay Thai, and while kicks were executed differently in each sport, all beginners did the same mistake of trying to kick flat-footed.

[@thomasda3482]

Clearing powerful kick

[@bladerstorm]

William Afton just stopped his attacks to turn into a karate master

[@erikthunderstorm]

Great tutorial. We‘ll do this in the dojo next week.

[@Subholik3]

Thanks for the foot information ☺️

[@cindrella897]

Amazing 👍👍thanks

[@dksivagis1]

You became my Virtual Master sir. Oss to you Master

[@glayssonbezerra6035]

Ensinamento com bastantes detalhes! Grato por isso Sensei.

[@markjeffery3237]

Brilliant, thank you. This advice will be invaluable in my training 👌🏻(48, just graded yellow in Wado-Ryu) My Sensei recommended you, fantastic channel 👍🏻🥋

[@jkgardiner]

Thank you and pass my thanks on to your sensei. 🙏

[@MartinShushu]

great video and helps me a lot during practice. Would love to see a video like this for the back kick or spinning back kick. Also low kick tutorial would be helpful. Osu!

[@jkgardiner]

Thank you, I have a video on the back kick here on this channel 👍

[@zero84two13]

Thank you sir

[@goshaletun8164]

Been doing karate for many years. Had to come up with correct techniques through thorough investigation and trial and errors. This guy is very good. I like it. Beautiful form and function!

[@jkgardiner]

Thank you, your process of coming up with correct technique is the same as mine, trying things, changing bits and working out the most efficient way for me 👍

[@degosiompu8411]

Beatiful

[@javieralvarez1311]

Great video, good tecnics.

[@stefanlicht2060]

Excellent

[@andrecalandrino]

Hello from Brazil> Excellent video, very good job.

[@Authorityoneverything]

That first kick is incredible

[@MartialArtsGamer]

When the KZbin algorithm works. Subbed. I need to work on my rotation as admittedly, my kicks aren’t the best they could be. Osu

[@freespeech4023]

Very nice ❤❤

[@nndaystar]

Right on! Huge fan of your KZbin and Insta channel John! I'm a 34 white belt in Shorin Ryu! Can't wait to impress everyone at the dojo. Ossu!

[@jkgardiner]

Thank you for the support, good luck in your training 👍

[@Asifiwefrank2246]

Good instructor

[@dgallagher7029]

Excellent explanation. As someone who trains in Muay Thai, I was interested to see how you generate power. Great to see the similarity in the importance of throwing that hip into the mix and going through the pad.

[@jkgardiner]

Thank you. The further you go into martial arts the more they become similar. I like to watch things from all different places and take the ideas I like.

[@mwanamwalyekakoma9627]

Nice tutorial. I commend this

[@user-wk4xk7eh6b]

Great video Masao Kawasoe sensei is amazing at kicking like you did looks like front kick but changes to roundhouse ,makes it look effortless

[@jkgardiner]

Thank you, Kawasoe sensei graded me for my 1st Dan.

[@user-wk4xk7eh6b]

@@jkgardiner me to ;) my clubs part of the jkawf so Kawasoe Sensei is our chief instructor amazing how he can do the splits and full pancake u will most likely have seen him do it ;)

[@jkgardiner]

@user-wk4xk7eh6b yes I graded with him back in 2004 back when it was UKTKF. His movement is excellent.

[@tombrand236]

Great guide. Thanks sensai

[@wakeupuk3860]

John, really made a great change to see a Black Belt master demonstrating Shotokan technique as well as you can. My style was Tae Kwon Do which I studied for five years in the RAF back in the 1970s by a South Korean Major who fought in Vietnam with the Americans. I cannot recall since watching KZbin when it started, in seeing anyone on here demonstrating a round-house kick with your power, speed, technique (a word my master drilled into me) and conviction as my master Rhee Ki-ha taught me and my RAF pals. I truly hope the many so-called Black Belts that we now have running martial art clubs and who put their selves on here, with the belief they are good enough to teach, get to watch you, because they need to know what true martial arts mastery actually is.

[@jkgardiner]

Thank you 🙏 There is a lot of poor martial arts on here, not saying mine is better than anyone else's of course but I'm just trying to show what I believe is good technique from my experience 🥋

[@wakeupuk3860]

WOW !! That was quick and a “Thank You”. as well 🙂 Later in life after the RAF and Civil Engineering I became a Maths Teacher in some very tough schools, I never taught TKD even though asked, but Master Rhee at the end of a session would talk about many aspects of life such as humility, respect, politeness and maturity which I did the same to my pupils when I could. I also in life came across other martial art exponents and generally the better they were, the more they had of such worthy traits. Your reply shows that is the same for you. @@jkgardiner

[@arkatarunmukherjee]

Excellent video! Absolutely loved the detailed explanation which I am absolutely certain would benefit anybody learning karate. I personally felt a bit sad for this wonderful video brought back memories of yester years when I used to practice Ashihara and I am so much off the mark now with the kicks which I used to practice so much. 🙁🙁 Nevertheless, Liked it and subscribed to your channel.

[@1966badnova]

bro...mad skills. I subscribed.

[@jkgardiner]

Thanks 🥋👍

[@myheartHarley]

Oh ye! That's real hit and I like it😊

[@richardbartlett8038]

This is great,The good thing you are teaching here is lifting the knee vertical similar to what bill wallace used to do this way you do not know what kick is coming mawashi yoko or ura mawashi done in the traditional way it is easily telegraphed.Look forward to seeing more.

[@WarriorEsoteric]

Nice technique

[@666OldNick]

Good stuff 👍👍

[@Turbulent2000]

Nice turorial! Please, make a video about ura-mawashi geri because many people stuggle with problems doing this kick. Thanks.

[@jkgardiner]

I will do next 👍

[@Turbulent2000]

@@jkgardiner Thanks! Oss!

[@georgekondylis6723]

I’ve taught this method of roundhouse for 4 decades. Advanced people can make their kick drop slightly at the end of the arc for more power. The question mark kick will is easier to learn and sneaky, but it’s best to learn how to set up and land the bigger kick first. I always emphasize keeping the hands up for this. Ie, starting w hands at face level and pulling the rear hand past the hip for power, as this guy does, but also keeping the front hand up for defense, particularly against a counter wheel kick. This doesn’t sacrifice any power and also allows you to shoot your rear hand cross to the face from your chin. Ie, less telegraph.

[@gomakuu]

Thank cause i always struggle with mawashi.

[@hrist34]

We do the same in taekwondo, rotate the support foot, move the hip etc.. in the end we have 2 legs and arms. So same goals may end to same paths. Great video.

[@jkgardiner]

There are more similarities between the arts than there are differences 👍

[@user-gg4vh8jm7l]

Такой удар точно поставленный и очень тяжёлый Физическая форма атлета замечательно гармонирует с техникой Удар отработан идеально

[@alanbone5512]

Very good , it would be great to see , inside mawashi to groin , and chin , or stomach , using feint of normal mawashi , then turn into inside mawashi , geri to groin etc , then use combination of even backfist combo , twisting techniques ,

[@nuryhernandez6830]

Comparto muy Bien la explicación, pues se debe respetar y comprender la biomecánica de la cinética mio-articular, por lo que el pivote es MUY importante, GRACIAS

[@ronan4681]

I find many students get the power easily if you tell them to concentrate on pointing the heel towards your target. Greatly simplifies the explanation and much less for them to concentrate on. Everything else tends to just fall into place

[@jkgardiner]

That is the most important part in my opinion. As you say the rest almost happens automatically if the support foot works properly.

[@Note-dy6yd]

That was revealing a profound secret. Sensei Gardiner's deadly kicks have incredible speed which does not compromise the quality. This demonstrates how deeply exact his technique is. I enjoy watching it over and over again without getting bored. My question is about the equivalent for a punch? What does equalize the force of a heel-first kick in a punch, still thinking for decades about the greatest and most efficient answer?

[@user-fw3zy1qt1r]

ottimo video dettagliato e tecnicamente perfetto

[@jkgardiner]

Grazie 🙏

[@wildcathawkins]

Good video

[@mazrimazri6101]

I have a brown belt I still struggle with round house kick this video was helpful

[@hiranom20]

Dude looks like my manager from the UK. When the video started, i almost was like: "So this is what he does in his free time..?" 😂😂 Anyway, smooth technique man. Definitely giving these a try in my home sessions. Oss!

[@brooktu4249]

Man, that kick looks heavy, and dangerous, too! Form, balance, power and speed? Check ✅

[@LaoZi2023]

Instep kicking is o.k. for tournaments, but if you need to break bones the ball of the foot is the best point of contact.

[@bender75]

Nice video and interestingly I see a few points or differences between sport and traditional karate. From a sport perspective, I have no issues. In traditional karate, we only use the ball of the foot for this kick. The foot that stays on the ground does not turn all the way like shown here (I was taught the same in sport version of Wado Ryu style), but rather stops halfway there, so at the moment of the kick the back and front foot are facing the same direction, which ensures the maximum (ground-body-leg) connection and power. In Wado we also learned to bring the leg up (like with mae geri) and then twist and kick. In the traditional version, we don't lift the leg at the back and then do the turn, but rather lift straight from the side at a 45-degree angle, then continue until the knee points straight at the target at which point you release the foot, without losing the momentum. The point is you stay connected to the ground lightly while twisting the back foot and lifting the front leg, kicking with the whole body, and at the moment of impact your back foot is firmly on the ground (not on the side, or the edge, or the ball or the toes). Thank you for clarifying a doubt I had for years after switching from sport karate to traditional, why I remembered a slightly different body position towards the opponent when I used to kick with a flat foot (not a ball of the foot). It makes sense as the impact comes more from the leg swing than a kick!

[@raphaelmansour9693]

nice kick

[@rulyagus8645]

oushh 👊🙏