SHOTOKAN Clips

[zakardo]

it was the good time....

[jpek919]

ok so black people arent only the best at basketball but at shotokan as well... NOT RACIST just saying that was an amazing display of speed and power with the black fighters! awesome!!!

[fredkarat]

GREAT SHOTOKAN.

[wolfbomber]

whats about ronny christopher????Mr. ashi barai..or the great George Godfrey, Steve Cattle (R.I.P. , Stumpi..we miss you) or Terry O`Neal..

[200374]

Buy the movie!

[MrYes00]

Elwy hall is a best fighter well he never beated frank brenan but still hes soo hard, i've trained with him last saturday at catford... 4 hrs os kumite it wass harddddd

[200374]

Hi, Elwyn Hall defeated Frank Brennan at the 1990 KUGB Nationals.

[mkdios122]

Great stuff from Elwyn hall.

[camargocam]

this guy Elwyn hall is amazing fighter!

[seanvega92]

wow! great! i want to be like them some day! im a shotokan and taekwondo fighter here in philippines. 16 years old

[rodoShaolin2]

oh! gran video

oss

[jmshoto37]

um...Lyoto Machida and Anderson Silva? Not very well known about Silva's Shotokan background, but he has one, and is Machida's training partner

[bexupnorth]

Kata and Kumite are intrinsically linked. Kata is like an encyclopedia that tells you more as you progress. Every move can be a block, a strike, an evasion, the limit is your imagination.

Anyone that slags off another martial art shows themselves as shallow, a good fighter would be a good fighter in any style. However, I would say once rules are introduced, you will limit that style. TKD is no longer what it once was...

Shotokan comes from the founder Gichin Funakoshi's pen name 'Shoto'

[jamesecash]

Wow, the guy at 3:15 is amazing. Who is he?

[200374]

Name's Elwyn Hall - one of the nicest guys you could wish to meet in everyday life. However, you would not want to be his enemy!

[jamesecash]

Thanks, I thought Elwyn Hall might have been the location of the event. I'll be searching for more info/clips for him.

[mfuji02]

@200374 does Elwy hall have a dojo? any one know where? 0_o

[Ariciah]

In competition yes, taekwondo is focused on kicks, but in dojo, training is also concentrated in other techniques.

[1URESAM]

Shotokan is real and honest and taekwondo is purely a sport. You cannot be effective if you concentrate solely on your kicks. You have to be good with your hands and no one can contest that about practioners of shotokan.

[Ariciah]

Sorry everyone but i disagree with the ones that say taekwondo is no match for shotokan... i think all martial arts are great and unique, but every martial artist has a weak point, as nobody is perfect, so it doesn't matter which matial art you know, the most important is your hard work and dedication to it and this, yes, will make the difference in a fight.

[chandyc76]

Shotokan...the best Martial Art ever!!

[chickmagnetNo1]

SHOTOKAN KICKS TAEKWON DO'S ASS

[yamatophoenix]

with shiai kumite and world championships the line between sport and martial art becomes difuse, so kata and kihon are the ways to preserve de original tenchniques.but if u rly want to improbe ur shotokan try training not only at the dojo.(i.e, go to the beach and try nukite and shuto un the sand or the water, and that stuff.

[MrSweetPotato]

I used to train alot of TKD in many different places. Some of it was JUNK, some was ok.

But SHOTOKAN, is known for being consistantly strong across the board.

Funakoshis quote about character development proves that too much traditional (OLD school) training is not good. It creates a one dimensional fighter.

Kata not good for fighting. good for consentrational, endurance. AND is the 'art part' of Martial art.

kids now?

[tdigyt]

Elwyn Hall is bad ass!

[andykarate]

That footage of Master Enoeda in sepia was AMAZING !

[UtahShotokan]

Very funny imdking2! I checked your favorites list, you are all about Shotokan!

[puset00]

First of all.. imdking2, if you're gonna look at the real world, taekwondo is no match for a shotokan traditional fighter. KEN AND RYU in street fighter is not shotokan, their style is ansatsuken. and last of all.. SHOTOKAN KILLS!!!!!!!!!! :D

[UtahShotokan]

The quote at the beginning in incomplete. It should say, "The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory nor defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants." -Gichin Funakoshi.

[UtahShotokan]

and experts and masters from ages past have carefully preserved the various kata, kata should be practiced and performed in the same way as they are taught... But in actual combat, it will not do to be hampered or shackled by the rituals of kata. Instead, the practitioner should transcend kata, moving freely according to the opponents strengths and weaknesses."

[1URESAM]

during sparring you employ various techniques from kata without your even realising it. your stances shifting accordingly is a direct result of practising kata.

[UtahShotokan]

To Kieron, Im only a 7th kyu in Shotokan, and I dont know much about point sparring, but as for kata, remember what Gichin Funakoshi said in his "Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate." "Kata have been at the center of karate-do training from ancient times. Since techniques and methods of every kind have been woven into kata,

[kieron01823123]

i hold a first dan in shotokan karate i woukd say kata and ponit sparing is the downfall of shotokan karate what do ppl think?

[1URESAM]

kata is the essence of karate. it works on your reactions and reflexes and not to mention stances. those are all what is important. if you simply spar you will be one dimentionaln and limited.

[Sh0ot0okan]

Yay Shotokan!!!!

[toxin214]

isn't shotokan from the characters ryu and ken from street fihgter that's what I heard.

[Fishies125]

Ya, that's what Shotokan's all about.

[Fishies125]

Gosh who's the black dude? He's incredible!

[200374]

His name is Elwyn Hall - former KUGB front line fighter - dynamite, but a nice guy in ordinary life.

[Fishies125]

Thanks.

[Terryhasnopubes]

Elwyn Hall was fast!!

[mfuji01]

big difference in quality between 80's & 02 footage

[TheRealTenchu]

lolz Id say

[Toxeh]

Shame that English Karate is just a mess at the moment...

[Katamaster]

y is it a mess?

[Toxeh]

Karate England resignations, Falling apart, debts etc. Not to mention there being loads of different associations for the same styles...

[Katamaster]

i hope they sort themselves out eventually

[mfuji01]

just the same a the original jka in the 80's.