Antonio Diaz- Annan- 2006 WKF World Championship

[ultrasety]

muito bommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm­mmmmmmmmmmmmm

[rocknymm]

señores mis respeto a todos los practicante de shito ryu,espero pronto volver a practicar, esta es una muestra de lo mucho que se ama al karate,sensei antonio numero 1 del ranking mundial.

[josedc007]

jean carlos peña(en combate),representando a venezuela y a su estado lara.  y jhoana sanchez(en kata)----obvio q antonio diaz tambien...

[loolooface]

Whats sup with the one finger thing?

[chanpoliheha]

el mejor shito ryu del mundo

bravo antonio

[Yllyenwe]

Tsuguo Sakumoto's Annan kata is believable. I do not like Diaz's stances and what really gets to me is his Mae geri. As though it tried to say: Hey, grab me an throw me to the floor.

[ckga1980]

Annan of sakumoto is better.

[rocknymm]

@ckga1980 antonio diaz  multi champion of the wolrd.think about it.

[Thugmufin36]

Yeah, i didnt like it very much, there was no exitement. The kata was done all in one pace.

[mjdcgb]

At times, his heels are off the ground when it appears that they should not be. Watch his rear heel when he moves through the Sanchin steps. Additionally, there were times when he stepped "heel first" as opposed to "ball to heel".

To my perspective, this puts Mr. Diaz slightl;y off-balance or (to put it another way) he is not "rooted" or "taking power from the floor" when appropriate thus giving the appearance of a weaker koshi.

Am I correct?

[owenloco]

noob like hell...

[mike5789]

tsakumoto ...

[lgfu8x]

fast but weak

the front kicks are really sloppy

[nano4550]

se nota que el que dice que no vee nada de movimientos impresionantes jamas en su vida practico ningun deporte segui con las bolitas que vas a ser campeon del mundo muy buen kata

[zzzvvvppp]

Oh!, muy buen kata!

Si se dan cuenta, en las partes que los movimientos son parecidos a los de shotokan, se ve mucho mas potente.

Tal vez ese sea el problema, o no sabe hacer las demás partes igual de potentes, o el shito ryu no lo es en las katas.

Pero de todas formas Muy buen Kata!

[erommelrg]

A me olvidaba, Antonio hizo el mejor kata de la final del mundial no se por que dientres ganó Valdesi.

[pourtoiloveyouxxx]

Ca cest un karatéka tkt ;) jle fé moi aussi cette anée :) il me plait trop et vous ?

[TheSuperN00b]

no hace gran vaina... sera que no entiendo el deporte... pero no veo nada de movimientos impresionantes así como en la gimnasia no creo que acepten el Karate en las olimpiadas

[chinlore]

el karate no se trata de hacer movimientos extraordinarios a la vista, sino de tradicion y cultura, ahi como lo ves, eso es muy agotador!!!

[elysc]

te amo antoniooo!! =D

viva venezuelaaa!

[hssp900]

he should have the decency to blow his nose,before doing kata.

[gankaku33]

he has a very very good kata...but Luca Valdesi is the best in the world!

[aznboi0816]

not really if you look at his pulling hand. ;)

[gankaku33]

it's true, but valdesi has a better control of body's movements in general. However in shito ryu there are more circular movements of hands, but this depends by the style and not by the athlet.

[goplatinumrglez]

Antonio Diaz is actually not Shito Ryu, eventhough Shito Ryu is big in Venezuela. Rather he is a Goju Ryu practitioner.

[FranciscoCerrada]

Antonio practices Shito Ryu but he knows kata from every stile so he knows how high any stance has to be but he started practicin at a Shito Ryu dojo

[Karadota]

You right. He began Training in SHito-ryu then he also learned some Goju-ryu Kata and also he trained Kata like Anan under Tsugo Sakumoto

[FranciscoCerrada]

he practices goju ryu but only the shitei kata not the traditional ones... I bet that if he knows sanchin kata from goju ryu no one has ever meassured him

[toanthony]

Diaz is awesome. But he doesnt get in the low stances like valdesi, so he can beat everyone but him.

that said, would love to do kata like this

[charger089]

Antonio Diaz looks to be a shito-ryu practionner (correct me if it's not the correct answer) and Luca Valdesi is a shotokan practionner. This is why his stances are lower.

[toanthony]

thanks for that. I didnt realise Shito-ryu had a higher shiko-datchi stance. Most i have seen do annan drop into a nice low shiko-datchi and low nekoashi-dacthi.

Diaz is very sharp though. I saw him compete in finland at the 06 world titles. All his kata are rock solid

[KarateConCarne]

shiko dachi is the same height, though shotokan doesn't make extensive use of it. front stance is higher in shitoryu, they also make use of sanchin dachi, whereas shotokan has a low front stance and very little sanchin. also nekoashi dachi in shito ryu is replace by kokutsudachi or back stance in shotokan.

[smooth108]

shito ryu does have higher stances but as a athlete in this level of compition he should be lower to beat some one like valdessi who does do shotokan karate but any way nice kata!!!

[Robbie0415768067]

Quite true. His front kicks look a bit heavy on the retraction phase.

[Bluntphilly]

He needs to make his mae geri's snap back, they looked week and they just fell straight forward.

Good though

[davefarber]

You are right, no real retraction on the front kick... needs to have a twang in it...

[xylofish1]

doan look like shit 2 me i cud do this shit when i was a white belt when i was 14 watta waste of tiem

[dynamic53]

Did you just claim you are better then Antonio Diaz? If so the get lost you idiot. Antonio is world class. If you think your better then why dont you compete? loser.

If you didnt, then my appologies.

[xylofish1]

i repeat wat i said this is shit i cud do when i was 14..i wud b embarrassed to do this in front of people like it wuz some big deal

[dynamic53]

pull your head out of your ass. Do you realise how much work goes into competition kata? I can tell by your arrogence that you know nothing about it.

The reason you would be embarrassed to do this in front of people is probably because you are crap.

I think alot of people will agree with me.

[xylofish1]

boy u must b suckin this guyz dick yer so emotionally involved..c u fool

[dynamic53]

there is no point arguing with an idiot. eat dick.

[alex8783]

If you were like this when you were 14, well how old are you now? I am sure you must be so good that WKF don't want you to compete because it will be too ridiculous for the others competitors. I'll be very proud to see your videos and to claim that you are able to have that much of explosiveness and flexibility at the same time.

[xylofish1]

goddamn,u boyz r so in luv wit dis guy u r suckin him off,..he's just some shithead doin kata,n u r just a coupla shitheads doin kaka in your own cereal bowl n eatin it hahahhahaha

[giannolakarate]

Molto bravo ma...... Valdesi è Valdesi

[xxjoha1xx]

I'am a big fan, great kata, but i like more the annan of mexico 2004

[montagner]

Very good, but speed is not at all.