Shoto Cup 1996 - full length

[@GlockMonk]

Thank you very much for the upload. It is very refreshing to see the classic Shotokan kumite, instead of today's jumping jack style kumite.

[@bepperighi5496]

More and more convinced that it is better to lose for Hansoku than to win for Hansoku .... Kokubun is the best. Osu!!

[@richardamos3173]

Kokubun was masterful that day

[@marcellocosi9084]

sharp.. good actor no honor.........Kokubun fantastic !!!!!!!!!

[@tiborzkarate1]

I was there and I can tell you Sharp was acting shamefully taking a dive, Kokubun went on and won the following Shoto Cup.

[@Sangfx26]

Lol =)))))

[@konstantinos8868]

@@Sangfx26 shut up its true dog

[@florinungur3461]

Sensei Kokubun's haito uchi was really impressive!

[@leonardobarnard7825]

Lost but Won

[@AslanDatiev]

Basically, this type of kumite is much better for Olympic karate. Looks like judo. Everyone can understand who won and why.

[@pettybehlinda]

for me kukubun was the winner.

[@Khornebsk]

16:17 why Toshihito Kokubun can't get a point after that punch?????

[@amirresidovic9811]

This is Karate ..

[@elijahmandlazi26]

Really it is karate

[@coopersheldon394]

​@@elijahmandlazi26 Undoubtedly; hence the official casually walking across the floor at least nearly as fast as they can punch, it really is karate, and karate really is acting. That 14:10 casual step back from the referee; he could out speed people on two four-hour energy drinks (heart attacks in a bottle) if he could move like that in real life (off-camera). Reminds me of Bruce Lee punching a guy into a wall that made an accurate cutout of him at an ice factory. Cool stuff, if it were real. But since it is a film with special effects like frame skipping (it's really fun to point out the "magic teleport punches" amidst the officials doing casual teleporting feet techniques within a frame or so at similar speeds), I'd say that some eighties movie characters would easily defeat them. Unfortunately, in the real world, a karate "grandmaster" could not match my speed when I threw three moves in sequence before he could blink at a shadow sparring match, then he said taking an unguarded elbow to the face at full strength is worth him kicking below the belt; I'm sure Mike Tyson would gladly take the hit beneath the belt for a powerful head shot. But...the funniest part is that he said I was "fast"...when he thought I was having a panic attack and eventually found out it was an asthma attack that was causing me to breathe rapidly and shallowly. An opponent who can barely breathe and didn't have his inhaler on him outsped a karate "grandmaster" with two punches and a kick before he had time to blink. Now _that_ is funny! Almost as funny as my video being taken down from three sites showing me lighting up a three-hundred-and-fifty-pound bag. I see why the Sanhedrin paid off the Romans to spread rumors that the Lord did not rise. And yet here I am, following Christ Jesus, King of my People: the Jews.

[@coopersheldon394]

Should I tell you of the time that an eigth degree okinawan karate "grandmaster" punched less than half as strong and less than half as fast as a poorly trained blue belt (one year total experience) in a diluted form of tae-kwon-do, even though the latter was out of practice for twenty years, had a frozen shoulder, a torn acl, etc.?

[@coopersheldon394]

Or, is it best to let you know that Mas Oyama was a ROK solider who diluted the training down to the point where head punches were not instantly lethal? Do you really think that the ROK Army White Horse and Tiger Divisions killed enemy soldiers in the Vietnam rat holes using the _sport_ version of tae-kwon-do (fake-kown-do)?

[@Anton_Todov]

18:00 великий чемпион! И великое падение чемпиона 16:19 (так он вошёл в историю).

[@cristofercabrera9945]

Y las catas ?? Porque no las aplican ? Nunca lo hacen en combates

[@leondavidmunozlozano7973]

Porque las katas no son para aplicarse en un combate sino en defensa personal... Hay una diferencia enorme entre enfrentarse a alguien en una pelea tipo boxeo con reglas y otra defender tu vida de un asaltante en la calle

[@yeshuaeselmashiaj6037]

Las katas son para la memoria muscular , desarrollar fortaleza en tu cuerpo al mantener las posiciones y lanzar golpes rapidos y saltos o movimientos defensivos. Las katas si se aplican con cada patada y bloqueo que das en el kumite solo que lo haces rapido . A veces es cuestion de golpear y salir de la linea de golpeo del enemigo y ya desde otra posicion lanzar otro golpe.

[@andrecarlos586]

Já perdi as contas de quantas vezes assisti esse vídeo, kokubun o melhor!

[@serhanbaygon5126]

Don't they use the teeth protection?

[@fowerTwo]

Can someone Explain how the Canadian one can have won?

[@adriancotter7368]

The Japanese fighter was disqualified for excessive contact

[@Raposa234]

You should have a sport spirit, so you have to only simulate a hit, but he punched too strong in the opponents head, and in a sport, it is not acceptable by the judges.

[@Kevins-Philippine-Retirement]

@@adriancotter7368 True Karate kumite is a test of proper technique execution. To score ½ point or 1 point (ippon), the competitor must demonstrate decisively: timing, distance, accuracy and speed(power). The distance has to be demonstrated so decisively that the judges determine correct sundome(within about 2cm)with absolute control of the distance, that the Karateka could have just as easily changed it to be destructive. Excessive contact demonstrated lack of distance control.

[@piyawattarasombut3011]

Shameful win for Sharp. Kokubun won.

[@pickledfish150]

It's a shitty way to lose/win - particularly in a final. But rules are rules. If blood is drawn it's an automatic Hansoku - trust me, in reality everyone knows who actually "won". Kokubun is an absolute legend!

[@Anton_Todov]

6:47 удар явно сошел мимо головы. Шина не должен был проиграть...

[@AugustoNizzoMcIntosh]

When you do a Seminar with Shiina and Sharp Sensei's 😮

[@yeshuaeselmashiaj6037]

No entiendo... gano el tipo que fue nokeado???

[@davidarancibia9558]

sí

[@yeshuaeselmashiaj6037]

@@davidarancibia9558 Porque???

[@aldowsalassalas5164]

@@yeshuaeselmashiaj6037 porque en el reglamento dirá que ese golpe fue excesivo entonces lo descalifican y si el golpeado es derribado al piso e incluso no puede pararse simplemente gana, terrible reglamento, Kokubun gano!! en lo real, pero en reglamento gano sharp incluso con su mala actitud de festejar cuando marca un punto.

[@TiagoPortas]

En Karate hotokan tenemos que tener autocontrol. se puede golpear en la cara pero el contacto debe ser controlado y no causar sangrado. Era una técnica hermosa e Ippon hubiera sido marcado si no hubiera sido tan fuerte como para cortarle los labios al oponente, era evidente la falta de control. Una pena, pero tenemos que entender que, en Karate, tener autocontrol es más importante que ser el mejor luchador.

[@takayujiniituma]

ルールだから仕方ない、実践なら完全に国分利人の勝ち

[@Anton_Todov]

6:05 Танияма бой проиграл... Это второй Вазари Сиро.

[@TV-ce6xf]

これは実質は国分選手の優勝だな！実力差が凄いよ流石は高速上段つき

[@eduardeduard3165]

OSSUSHINOBU

[@soujirou86]

lol this tournaments were such a rip off for gai jin still fun to watch tho' kind of unfair

[@sylwalsh4313]

Some of the behaviour of the western fighters are disgusting!!

[@SoyaOng]

Yameeee'"*

[@ВикторЧугунов-ж7г]

Класс

[@pindasek1]

ouuu. so sorry. bur in this age this was karate. u must be prepate tofight! japanes can be win! when i atarted trainig. my trainer sad me. only blad blame and hard work. good sport. noce member this video.

[@Cesar-f4c]

Fala sério em, que final foi esse 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Munwalker7]

I don't like Sharp, the way he celebrates after scoring and the acting after that ipon, is a shame I'd feel ashamed of winning that way

[@emilsoncorrea4393]

Mais uma vez, quem apanha, ganha....... nada a ver....

[@treZE1111]

O canadense era badass sinto muito por ele não ter lutado mais :(

[@redfox5445]

Лажа полная! Пропустил удар в лицо и стал победителем.

[@choakkiee]

low level of refereeing...

[@RENATO-si8up]

This “kokubun” guy (who do not even deserve capital letter) is not, never was and never ever will be a sensei. He is just a very bad loser who, desperately, seeing that he could never win the fight against Sharp, decided to intentionally hit him seriously, out of the rules, in a cowardly way (hansoku = shameful serious intentional fault) so to be disqualified, because losing within the rules would have been an unbearable embarrassment to kokubun’ petty ego. Shame on this miserable and ignoble kokubun, who never practiced karate within the spirit of budo.

[@tiborzkarate1]

Your are an idiot, Kokubun was already winning with one ipon Sharp was took a dive, I was there at that event and I can tell you that's the only way Sharp could win that to dive.

[@fredmbengs3149]

Fair fight excessive contact, if you have been hit hard and you feel you cant take more good to stay down, Those hands pound the makiwara daily. Kokubun is a good fighter