JKA World Cup: Japan v Denmark

[fredkarat]

Best of the Best  Spirit and Amazing Speed JKA SHOTOKAN KARATE ....OSS....

[brinnonvallere]

i love this referee or judge....he makes more saves than a hockey goalie

[kidokan111]

mori was lucky not yahara never seen a ref jump in so quick when a fighter goes down then to help him up unheard of

[25500]

3:03 awsomeeee combination! my goddesss

[aefiallos]

1:56 was sick! Yahara is a beast!

[toki1221]

Hard to judge. That's why Shotokan is a crap.

[fongman312]

This is kumite competition. The system itself is so much more than that one part.

[georgemg]

The first fight- the Denmark athlet gives one perfect jodan mawashi geri, and incridble the judge gives one jodan of japanese figter???? Almost all judges in70' and 80' were happy in gives points to japanese karatecas.

[fandorin74rus]

Awsome video! Thanks for posting!

WKF's gay!

[solmarken]

TOTAL CRAP, Waist of time. W.K.F. Rocks

[menneskeabe]

Demark, Denmark!!

[chavalote]

Yahara was lucky? Is that a joke? Yahara dominated the fight all time.

[R0nge]

Don't get me wrong I am a Yahara Fan, but he did not dominate by any stretch of the imagination.

[Betsnipe]

Haha loved the second one... xD

[bondarev42]

No, Yahara was not the lucky one. His opponent was lucky... lucky the ref. was there.

[R0nge]

First and last fights should have gone to Denmark. The opening Mawashigeri was ippon in my opinion in the first fight. And the Japanese fighter was totally dominated by his danish opponent in the fith fight. Actually looking again Yahara was lucky not to lose the fourth fight. But I suppose it was 1983 and we all were in Awe of the Japanese Karate squad back then.

[vladimirator]

Re: The opening Mawashi-geri: It's hard to see it here, but Yamamoto actually blocks it w/ his left hand (open palm). The kick doesn't connect w/ his head as it looks from here. That's why neither the ref., nor the line judges give the point to the Dane. It's no question of Ippon. And the lad didn't do anything else in the fight, so let's chalk up the first bout to Japan.