Karate Randori: Basics and Flow Drills

Karate randori is the translation of kata into combat, and is essential for understanding bunkai. Ché shows some basic drills that can be taught to students at the start of their randori journeys, including flow drills that teach how to block, redirect and suppress attacks, including kicks.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:28 - First drill - hammer fist
02:46 - Second drill - straight punch
03:42 - Third drill - hooks
04:57 - Why we need to break the line
06:07 - Combination drill
07:42 - Ebb and flow
09:04 - Low blocks
15:23 - Dealing with kicks: maegeri
18:38 - Roundhouse kick (mawashi geri)
21:30 - Summary
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[@jozef_chocholacek]

Thank you for the inspiration! And love the on-screen text comments, the sense of humour is very much in line with what my different senseis used to say in trainings. 😂

[@barbarba7]

Thank you to both Sensei and Deshi... Brilliant as always

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Thank you for your kind words, Barbs 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

[@chejagger1]

Part one of many I hope. So much that we can work on and develop.

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Well, it will keep us busy for a while at the least (and appease those waiting for Suparinpei

[@karatejutsudojosociety]

Love the husband and wife hands, enter control and suppress.

[@GiC7]

Thank you Sir for de demonstration, was rally helpful. I did share it with my nephew of 12 and I am hoping that he will start to learn from you Sir. Thank you and blessings for you, your family and dojo amen.

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

We are honoured that you share our work with family, and that you find value in what we do - thank you for your kind words, and may you and your family be blessed and safe!

[@davinaerwee2349]

After such a long time without randori this a such a great video to familiar ourselves again with not only our own training but to get the basics again for our students. 💡 💡 💡 . Thank you.

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

We'll all return to randori, even if it takes another year. One day is one day!

[@jori4345]

Excellent instruction and useful drills, to learn randori. Top editing. Thx a lot! 👍😊

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Ah, thank you, Jo Ri! This video was originally 30 minutes, but I think the streamlined version is better :) Hope you will be able to practice randori soon 🙇

[@koshinryukempo3570]

Sensei! Marvelous stuff! Over the years i've seen way too many making tai/ashi sabaki drills far more complicated than they need be for something that should be as simple as, well, walkig (Berty Einstein: "genius is the art of simplicity"). You're giving us gold... arigatou, and kudos, sir!

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Ah, thank you so much, Sensei Jed! Randori should be simple, which is not the same as easy, and making something complex just to give it the unnecessary aura of difficulty for the sake of it lacks elegance. And like Da Vinci said: simplicity is the ultimate sophistication 🙇🏻‍♀️

[@dragoncity99]

Thank you very much sir. Very good tips on randori and have been practicing it with my wife and daugther, I can see myself improvements for us by doing this drill. No stress, no adrenaline and allows time to think constructively on the attacks. Also, it helps to remove my old sports karate training bad habits away while practicing to make it functional karate.

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Randori is truly the science lab of karate, where we can test out all our theories, strengths and weaknesses and discard that which no longer serves us. So glad you have found these drills helpful (we have two more videos on the same topic) and we look forward to hearing about your progress :) Thank you so much for watching and commenting!

[@frankbruun2572]

Excellent instruction 🥋👍

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@charleshills6614]

Great explanations. Thank you, Sensei.

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Thank you so much, Charles! So glad it was useful to you - that's all we hope for when it comes to our little channel. Thank you for commenting and watching!

[@kwilczynski89]

Excellent editing-skills and well presentation. I love it

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Thank you so much for the kind words, Konrad! We're so glad you enjoyed our video 🙇🏻‍♀️

[@nickyjohnson3618]

Thank you for this video!

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

You are so welcome, Nicky! Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment 🙇🏻‍♀️

[@jasonmorgan2799]

Lots to think about! Awesome work, thank you!

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Always welcome, Jason! Luckily, you have a brother to practice with ;)

[@angelinadamatta2670]

Thank you sensei!

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Any time, Lina!

[@karatejutsudojosociety]

Early release. Thanks so much for this!!!!

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

For once I finished editing an hour early, so I thought I would treat everyone to early release :D

[@karatejutsudojosociety]

@@GojuRyuKarateCentre I was waiting for the 2pm alarm, but Chris started talking about it, so that's how I found out about it.

[@19Cai]

Great video and explanations here, thanks for all the work on the channel. I would love to see some videos in the future on sparring guidance, particularly close-in fighting. I've switched to Goju from Shito-ryu and it's quite a change in terms of distances.

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Thank you for the kind words, CJ! Stay tuned 😉 your request may come to fruition sooner rather than later...

[@warhawksmemories3071]

Lol yes Cobra Kai is the best. I'm going to practice these evasions

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

I hope in the next season they have some new female characters! Tory and Sam are annoying 🙈

[@warhawksmemories3071]

Yeah the one from Eagle Fang 😂

[@blockmasterscott]

Not sure if Goju has a version of Bassai, I would love to see the bunkai's for it. KZbin videos have some really weird applications for that kata.

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Goju doesn't really have a similar kata, but the excellent @practicalkatabunkai channel of Sensei Iain Abernethy has excellent bunkai videos and he does have a couple on Bassai! His approach to karate is similar to ours, so hopefully his Bassai content will be helpful :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZPEo3-vjManlck

[@udaygurav6113]

👍💐

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺

[@mikkeljensen6080]

Is this what is called Tai Sabaki?

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Very much so! Taisabaki is definitely part of karate, even if we don't talk about it as much as we do stances, for example. Body management and getting out of the way is as important as blocking, but maybe the shortfall is that we don't name it and teach it as much as we should at the very beginning.

[@joelquebec]

We do that third set in our Filipino style also. With the hands, knives and sticks or any combination of them.

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Great ideas transcend styles 🙏🙏🙏

[@dcrafton3988]

I'm really bad at this

[@Burvedys]

Goju - yet another euphemism for a thug-wife (hardness per softness, flow drills, etc.).

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

The way of the Thug Wife is Goju Ryu ~

[@Burvedys]

@@GojuRyuKarateCentre : that's what white crane means in China.