In my latest tournament, I got matched up with the Singapore representative aka, best Kyokushin fighter in Singapore (Gurkha Dojo) in my first match, which was also the first match of the day, so I lost quick and sat around for hours for the closing ceremony.
Latest “fight” I had was a friendly exhibition to let the Junior belts watch our competition style and it was the 2nd time I was fighting this opponent, great guy and strong as hell, made of muscle. Starting of the video is 2 kids in the first ever fight, fierce and unrelenting Too cute for words.
I’m looking to compete in a tournament soon, am curious what your supplementary training, if any, looks like? (training aside from karate).
The tournament in question is in 2014(September) I’m skipping this year because I’m not good enough yet, and want to be in tournament shape by the date.
I don’t do kyokushin however, so my coaches don’t really know much about the competitions, I’m flying a little blind.
[QUOTE=marcwagz;2795475]I’m looking to compete in a tournament soon, am curious what your supplementary training, if any, looks like? (training aside from karate).
The tournament in question is in 2014(September) I’m skipping this year because I’m not good enough yet, and want to be in tournament shape by the date.
I don’t do kyokushin however, so my coaches don’t really know much about the competitions, I’m flying a little blind.[/QUOTE]
All my supplement training comes mostly from Karate, we have specific fighters training/run sessions etc.
This is a video taken from one of our fighter trainings to show what we do.
Other than that, I use my home gym and gym door suspension training. If you are going to enter a knockdown karate competition. Body conditioning is more important than anything else.
Hmmm…we do forms fairly often. It is like a focus shift. Before gradings we keep doing basics and forms. RIght after gradings the focus will shift to competition fighting (knockdown). And then there are fighters trainings purely focused on conditioning like you see above for competitions, less technique is taught, just corrections here and there, and more work is done.
However we have several instructors and some instructors favour a mix of forms and fighting while others lean to one side, so it is hard to say. I do believe that perfecting body control with movements in forms and basics in karate is training an important discipline in itself and see fighting as separate from it.
I was lucky, winning every round in the tournament by mostly split decision and winning my finals by the fouls given to my opponent resulting in my advantage.
Recently had my 30 men Kumite. It is part of a training for the upcoming open weight tournament this year. All full contact Karate styles in Singapore is invited for this annual event.
A lot of the footage was not taken, I did multiple wheel kicks and front kicks because I was getting tired and beat up. I really enjoyed testing myself out
Repeats in people was because I ran through the class twice, 1 min each round.
Been away from forum for many years. Thought i would come back and post recent competition footage. Started working so training now is every now and then. Still want to continue competing as long a I can.
Too cute for words.