I promised content, and I’m a man of my word. Here’s the first round I got. Me vs. a teenager that doesn’t speak English.
[video=youtube_share;k5sA7r-fFrQ]https://youtu.be/k5sA7r-fFrQ[/video]
Yup. I still suck.
Green belt has some tricky feet and some ingrained good nature and mutual well being. You look loose enough, it is KK so the cues I look for in confortablity aren’t there to my eye all KK looks stiff… but you looked comfy enough but crispy. You kept things simple, aggressive, basic, and technical. Maybe a little to much go for the situation but shrugs the people watching seemed to think all was well so.
Hell yeah, looked like fun… I wanna kick people … 
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There a round 2?
Yup, vs a much, much larger opponent. Green belt used to throw those kicks with real bad intentions, and he only stopped after a few… Incidents. Other video is still uploading and it’s… A lot more one-sided, and not in my favor.
1.05 When he threw that back kick and tried to spin it into a roundhouse you missed a grand opportunity for a right teep into his chest that would have knocked him on his back without much force. As i saw him try to double spin my own right leg twitched a little bit lol
Keep up the training… good job
For all the sadists out here, round 2. Someone reacted strongly to a poorly timed oblique kick, and the laws of physics came into play. No worries, we’re good now. And yes. I really need to get better at checking leg kicks.
[video=youtube_share;2AjUzEmAqHM]https://youtu.be/2AjUzEmAqHM[/video]
[QUOTE=ghost55;2965370]Yup, vs a much, much larger opponent. Green belt used to throw those kicks with real bad intentions, and he only stopped after a few… Incidents. Other video is still uploading and it’s… A lot more one-sided, and not in my favor.[/QUOTE]
Someone has very clearly talked to him about not rocking people with his kicking combos, he was very controlled and polite in the first round.
Are you aloud to clinch a bit in Kyokushin or not? How about knees?
A little more pivot on the front foot when kicking with the rear leg. More power and less destruction on the knee over time.
All in all, good work.
[QUOTE=BackFistMonkey;2965374]Someone has very clearly talked to him about not rocking people with his kicking combos, he was very controlled and polite in the first round.[/QUOTE]
… and holy shit he gained127 lbs, went bald, got a brown belt, learned english and grew 3 feet taller in the second round.
[QUOTE=lant3rn;2965375]Are you aloud to clinch a bit in Kyokushin or not? How about knees?[/QUOTE]
Knees yes, clinching no. First round had some missed opportunities for knees. Second round? My legs are short enough as it is, not landing that kind of thing vs someone that much larger than me without grabbing.
[QUOTE=hungryjoe;2965376]A little more pivot on the front foot when kicking with the rear leg. More power and less destruction on the knee over time.
All in all, good work.[/QUOTE]
Definitely need to work on that as well as turning the hips over when I kick.
[QUOTE=ghost55;2965378]Knees yes, clinching no. First round had some missed opportunities for knees. Second round? My legs are short enough as it is, not landing that kind of thing vs someone that much larger than me without grabbing.[/QUOTE]
If you get in range throw one to his thigh… it wont tickle i can guarantee you.
[QUOTE=ghost55;2965379]Definitely need to work on that as well as turning the hips over when I kick.[/QUOTE]
You’ll get there with more practice.
maybe more cardio wouldn’t hurt though.
[QUOTE=lant3rn;2965381]You’ll get there with more practice.
maybe more cardio wouldn’t hurt though.[/QUOTE]
Agreed on both accounts. Although for what it’s worth, this was the last 10min of a 90min class that was almost entirely hitting the mitts and kicking shields.
[QUOTE=ghost55;2965382]Agreed on both accounts. Although for what it’s worth, this was the last 10min of a 90min class that was almost entirely hitting the mitts and kicking shields.[/QUOTE]
It all takes time unfortunately, hours and hours of sweat and sometimes puking… and then after its all over there is still guys hoping around that act like they have two sets lungs
[QUOTE=lant3rn;2965384]It all takes time unfortunately, hours and hours of sweat and sometimes puking… and then after its all over there is still guys hoping around that act like they have two sets lungs :([/QUOTE]
Yup. Time to hit the rowing machine more.
Small school?
Not having enough partners is stifling.
That was the feeling I got watching.
It looks like you look low/at the floor a lot and drop your hands some.
You look a bit foot-draggy too.
Some running and agility drills might help.
[QUOTE=ghost55;2965392]We started at the same time (with him having almost a decade of some sort of korean karate experience), and he kept going while I was away for 18 months due to work and a back injury. When we first started I did pick him apart pretty easily using my muay thai experience. Sparring people like him is frustrating because if he got magically scaled down to my size tomorrow, I feel like I would be able to technically toy with him. The problem is that getting combos rolling on him is a scary proposition because it’s hard to know when he’s going to run out of patience and throw something with bad intentions. And, for what it’s worth, these days he spends more time in the kid’s class with his son than anything else. Ultimately, all of that shit is unimportant because what I need to focus on above all else is improving my technique, and sparring with larger opponents that have real power will help with that even if the process itself sometimes feels like unfair bullshit.[/QUOTE]
Shit like that grips me but you’re quite right, be the bigger man. You’re there to train, no score points. Thill will be evident as your training evolves and his stagnates.
[QUOTE=ChenPengFi;2965402]Small school?
Not having enough partners is stifling.
That was the feeling I got watching.
It looks like you look low/at the floor a lot and drop your hands some.
You look a bit foot-draggy too.
Some running and agility drills might help.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. The people in those videos are the only other people that showed up for class. I have an awesome instructor and a depressingly small pool of sparring partners here. I’m probably going to start splitting my time with a local 10th Planet school that has an MMA program. There are some good fighters at my dojo, but a lot of them only come 1-2x a week these days if at all because they have jobs n shit. I think the problem is that most adults that want to do karate don’t want to engage in the type of ass beating that kyokushin entails, and most adults that are up for kyokushin style ass kickings just go to MMA gyms.
[QUOTE=ghost55;2965373] And yes. I really need to get better at checking leg kicks.[/QUOTE]
I was going to say that, but in general you did a good work. Keep training.