Kudo Karate: A brief history.

[@alialamdar1783]

as a mma fighter i always thought karate was soft or that the true karate had been lost, until now i think the evolution into kudo is a great one and i think it has huge potential for mma fighter to learn kudo, over all im a fan now. great

[@vadertime9880]

Well, you have Tarec Saffiendine, Lyoto Machida, Stephen Thompson, Michelle Waterson, and many others in MMA.

[@bigmember5908]

honestly if you are training at an mma gym you are training in a bit of everything and so it does not really matter what your base was aside from some habits it will build. I'd love to try Kudo but does not seem any are in my area.

[@ciscokid1214]

also karate combat and the various karatekas are helping karate to make a comback

[@bigmember5908]

I just wish I could find some Kudo to train in

[@Gauntlets]

I've kinda maintained it's not da style; rather it's da fighter who wields it. However, with dat being said, training methods in most arts need 2 b updated and/or overhauled. Da obvious thing 4 most schools 2 do is "glove up and fight," but there's more 2 it than just dat. I could go on an' on, but I think I said enough right there.

[@artisticsolarninja]

Kudo is an MMA Kyokushin style. Russia is became its primary Representive and very popular in russia.

[@ClydeRowing]

Really well made video showcasing a brilliant development of traditional martial arts in line with what past innovators such as Kano, Funakoshi and Oyama did. Chasing Olympic status might be a mistake though, just look at the watering down Karate had to do to be included in Tokyo 2020...

[@scarred10]

it will never be olympic,it needs to be pracised in a huge number of countries to even attempt to be aceepted.Amatuer MMA has a much better chance .

[@wiggisworld7133]

I´m a Kyokushinka and i would love to train in Kudo, sadly there is no Dojo in Germany who teaches this kind of Martial Art. But greetings out to all Budoka. OSU

[@BuddhaCatt]

go to your local MMA gym and keep your Kyokushin close to your heart, this will be very close to Kudo

[@linkzone3797]

I mean you can learn using the internet I don't know if you can master it through online training but you would at least be somewhat proficient.

[@inoob_id6236]

Me too

[@inoob_id6236]

This style look so useful

[@cahallo5964]

@@linkzone3797 that's not true, there are very few resources on obscure martial arts on the internet, it's like trying to learn a certain jujutsu school, it's just not a possibility.

[@tettsubushi]

RIP ....A great Master and icon of Martial arts

[@robertdollinger3570]

I love finding martial arts that have grown the same way as Kajukenbo.

[@shootits48]

It's legit, i wonder why more people haven't heard of Kudo?

[@prvtthd401]

I heard a funny story about how the Kyokushin founder, Masutatsu Oyama, tasked Takashi Azuma to design a new system that would substitute Kyokushin in order to improve the art. Unfortunately by the point that Azuma had presented a prototype, Kyokushin has spread so far already that Oyama decided to stick to the old system. Azuma asked Oyama if he could leave Kyokushin to further improve his design and thus start his own school. Oyama obliged thus Kudo is one of the few arts that branched off Kyokushin without bad blood (there are many branches with bad kyokushin history, it is laughable). If this is true, then Kudo is what Kyokushin was supposed to be. Which is interesting.

[@majdikamal1389]

I think this style will succeed in this world and will be famous someday... It is a very good base for MMA competition like UFC, Bellator, and One

[@heliopijpe]

I think there should be rounds with and without the head gear, with mixed rules,, it doesn't make sense to have the head gear on all the time and messes with your internal compass and training reflexes. Other than that from what I've seen online,, it looks like the next evolution in full contact karate-style combat. It reminds me of Sanda, and even forgotten Russian full contact combat sport. It would be awesome if Kudo could grow in popularity and spread it's experience and knowledge among traditional Karate dojo's all over the world, we all know how stylized the original okinawan family styles became after being introduced into Japan,, this could re-liven them without losing what was developed in spirit over the last 100 years.

[@kevthegoat8774]

I wish this art was more popular, would love to train in it

[@MRXN-fx5hq]

Now this is some working karate. Not this sport karate stuff where after one hit the pace is resetted. Personally I would change the headgear to something that doesn't have a full mask in front of the face to a more traditional boxing headgear but other than that is martial art (or rather combat sport) is amazing. It should be representative for all of karate

[@IrishKyokushin]

I would love to trajn in this style.

[@X1xRiGox3X]

John McHenry just go to your local MMA gym

[@nyhyl]

GeekJocky They don't use head protection in MMA. You get your face smashed in MMA it's not the same.

[@artisticsolarninja]

Kudo is the rarest hybrid martial art right next to vovinam, sambo kajukenbo, yaw yan and hapkido. These are the only traditional and rarest mix martial art styles that are very different than mix martial arts.

[@bigmember5908]

that is odd, they said you can't attack the joints of a laying opponent, but I was under the impression you could submit people like with armbars

[@silenciummortum2193]

Big Member Like with armbars or with armbars?

[@Bober4200]

you can actually, its one of the most common ways to win a round, im not sure what he was talking about here but where i go we commonly practice armbars/legbars and chokes

[@scarred10]

You cannot strike the joints is what they mean obviously.

[@kingkazuma2239]

My only problem I see is that there's not a lot of head movement. Everyone is trying to take each others head off with big, fast punches and kicks. Which is fine because they are wearing head gear. I feel that they might grow a little too confident in the headgear protecting them and not focus on head movement and defense as much as their offense. They almost kinda eat shots with their headgear in hopes of landing a blow. But once you take that headgear off theres a big difference in how you want to approach that. Anyways still a tough sport

[@scarred10]

exactly correct,there is no defense in kudo,not head defense anyway so youd need to do a lot of sparring without the helmet to prepare for mma or a real fight.

[@simonmagnum7821]

I wouldn't be so sure about it : In Boxing, which is to my opinion the most head movement-oriented discipline, athletes wear protective headgear in all but professional levels, and still boxers are quite heavy on the bob and weave department, because it suits the style. Here the main basis is Karate, in which you tend to keep the back straighter and hold the head more towards the rear, hence the lack of emphasis on head movement. My guess is they count more on Tai-Sabaki (body placement) for dodging, and Uke-Waza (parries) from karate. As for the head gear itself, it protects from blows to the nose, mouth or eyebrows, but still allows "clean" (=bloodless) KO's, and any punch or kick to the head although not cutting will still hurt and disorient or knock out of consciousness. That blame would be better pointed at Kyokushin karate which, if very contact-oriented, prohibits fists to the face, thus creating a lack of face protection in its fighters (that they correct very quickly when competing in MMA though).

[@johanjonsson6504]

I wish I could train this, but there are no schools in my country :(

[@MegaGuitarplayer92]

Johan Jönsson just fund a judo school and a karate school and cross train till you find a place or open a place that’s what I’m planning on doing I already did some judo but am doing more karate lately

[@tangodelta6890]

It’s just so badass because you wear a gi, I’ve always wanted to do some kind of striking in gi, closest to anything like this we have in Tucson on a kyokushin school, besides mma.

[@YujiroOgreHanma]

What a well dojo

[@paulschulte3847]

Kudo is very similar to Kyokushin Budokai, founded in 1980 by the late Dutch kancho Jon Bluming. Bluming also reached the 10th dan in Kyokushin, given to him by Kenji Kurosaki, who together with Ohama founded Kyokushin. In 1969 Bluming brought Kyokushin to Europe/The Netherlands.

[@HH-bi7yk]

Amazing Mashallah, there’s no different to MMA

[@kobi2187]

first time i hear about it. what are the principles?

[@kenirawadi4689]

Is thus about Kudo in eastern Europe? Or Kudo does exist mainly in eastern Europe?

[@fartsare2023]

Badass.

[@DouglasGomesBueno-jw9lh]

Kudo Karate mix All the Japanese martial arts very strong.

[@DanielGarcia-ms7lh]

Are there katas in kudo?

[@gladiumcaeli]

nope

[@artisticsolarninja]

Like kajukenbo or yaw yan. No

[@alexwing3880]

Badass

[@JJO117]

I swear this is just MMA with a Gi. It has Judo Wrestling and Muaythai.

[@nyhyl]

Of course it is. MMA means mixed martial art. MMA is not a style, it's a general method.

[@ssejllenrad561]

It is MMA as a concept. Mixing styles. It did predate modern MMA as a sport, though.

[@chrisprad8325]

Yeah but the kicks that are mainly found in Karate like spinning kicks or snapping round kicks are more prevalent here. They’re basically Kyokushin guys with better hands and can grapple

[@ssejllenrad561]

@@chrisprad8325 and headshots.

[@Shadowrulzalways]

Actually there is no Muay Thai. It’s Kyokushin Karate and Judo. That’s all it is.

[@stevenpearson4045]

karate is not a sport traditionally , its a civillian self defence system where any technique can be used . This style is a sport with rules and limited techniques . When people who dont train in karate make assumptions its soft they are being ignorant and dont fully understand it its not a sport ,there are very big differences between a sport with rules and being attacked in the street where your life could well be in danger where you can use any techniques to defend your self .

[@Agbahizzal]

You should police ur art better because outsiders have no reason to lie about what karate is or is not.

[@sambhajimaharaj8913]

❤️❤️

[@Spacetime23]

Kudo is like the calculus after you complete Elementary mathematics 😂😂😂😂😂

[@vishaluttam4806]

Rip jukucho amuza Takashi

[@Shadowrulzalways]

Kudo is just a mix of Kyokushin Karate and Judo. Hence the name Kudo.

[@harageilucid4352]

No ground fighting though? Submissions?

[@dipayandegtyarev7177]

Ground fighting is allowed for 30 seconds. Submissions are also allowed.

[@counselorchandru]

There was an armbar in the video too

[@harageilucid4352]

There was an armbar in a dojo setting but i didnt see any ground work in the footage of the actual competition. The narrator says at 3:45 "the martial art of kudo allows any kind of attack using punches, kicks, elbows, headbutts and throws...attacking the head *and joints* of a lying opponent is not allowed".

[@nibirsactiongamecorner8738]

are you blind?didn't you see the take downs and armbars?

[@scarred10]

@@harageilucid4352 they mean striking the head or joints isnt allowed on the ground

[@lordduck1040]

MMA with headgear and a kyokushin gi

[@gabbar51ngh]

lord duck as If MMA didn't take from martial arts

[@Agbahizzal]

MMA isn't a martial art, its a rule set to compete by....

[@gianlu6863]

lord duck Ops, someone here doesn't know martial arts story... Kudo has came before the famous Ultimate Fighting Championship (i know that when you say mma you are referring to UFC), and also "mma" isn't a martial art, is a type of specific martial arts who combine 2 or more martial arts. So, stop with this story of "mma with gi"

[@lordduck1040]

man you didnt get what i was saying at all lol.

[@gianlu6863]

lord duck Well, tell me what you was saying

[@inoob_id6236]

Is this karate?

[@antanassmetona1144]

Kudo Best (im kudo fighter)

[@mustafas4871]

شجابني هنا

[@FakJionis]

Have you seen TARUNG DERAJAT from INDONESIA..?

[@miyu_myu21]

Ugh liat

[@mustafas4871]

هاي شنو

[@juanmanuelfrias2699]

High channel

[@tailu9719]

sound like jkd

[@gianlu6863]

Tai Lu Well, Bruce Lee was the spiritual father of the mma

[@MrMZaccone]

And of course, at UFC 2, A champion of this style Minoki Ichihara, got his ass handed to him by Royce Gracie.

[@nyhyl]

Edmond Dantez Of course? So only because some practicioner is better than another it disqualifies an infinite number of every other practicioner of this style? Sounds like a balanced point.

[@MrMZaccone]

Show me someone exclusive to this style actually succeeding in mma. I'll wait.

[@gianlu6863]

Edmond Dantez He's just said you that just because one athlete is better than another it doesn't mean that one style is less effective than another one. Also, (don't get me wrong I love mma) please stop think that the maximum elite of the fighting sports is in mma. Not everyone wants to risk serious damage doing those type of fights (see Evangelista Santos)

[@MrMZaccone]

The maximum elite of fighting sports ARE in mma ... period. Now if you want to remove the word "sport" from that and talk about actual martial arts, it's a completely different subject.

[@Pric3less1]

Semmi Schilt has a black belt in both Kyokushin and Kudo, and also Hisaki Kato knocked the fuck out of Joe Schilling who's a pretty good Kickboxer/Muay Thai practitioner not only once but twice. Not to mention when Royce was competing in the UFC, not many fighters were hip to Jiu Jitsu or understood what it was. There's a reason why the Gracie family saw less and less success in MMA as the years went on. Because the rest of the martial arts community continued to evolve except for them. The Gracies got their asses handed to them by a catch wrestler for fucks sake, and if a young in prime Royce Gracie fought in the UFC today the way he fought back then, he'd get his fucking head knocked off. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.