Black Belt 1st Dan Assessment GKR Karate Brisbane Australia

[OOOOOOOSHNAAAPPP]

Hey guys.. i have a question... whats a Dan? Im a 1st degree Shodan in kempo jujitsu and i know that means 1st degree black belt... but i have never heard of a Dan before.. can someone tell me what a dan is? thanks

[Alona62]

is she screwing the instructor, most of the female students in this club are

[sandy90412]

I go to GKR karate. I find it really fun and exciting I am a yellow belt going for my orange belt.

[omikeyz]

@sandy90412 Thank you for the positive feedback. I really don't know why people keep bagging this organisation. Thanks again.

[vitterpup]

Hey, google GKR and the first thing that comes up? GKR SCAM!!! No smoke without fire eh, whoever 'teaches' this is an insult to martial arts and should never be allowed to enter a dojo again, cowboys.

[zhkid]

@vitterpup Exactly. I unfortunately trained with them for a few years, got a black band to hold my pants up, and taught classes. All GKR is is a legal pyramid scheme coupled with a cheap child minding service.

Fortunately I was shown what a real style is before it was too late.

[ColosseumHaslemere]

Your far better walking into a shop a buying a black belt then ever training in this rubbish.

The sad thing is all you guys and girls out there that have a black belt in GKR are fed false confidence and when the time comes that you might have to defend your self im affraid in the real world you will get a pasting.

This black belt would not even help you fight out of a paper bag.

Its time someone in the UK closed down you Jokers your giving karate a bad bad name

[ColosseumHaslemere]

GKR in the Uk is a Mc Dojo . They advertise in job centres (Karate Instructors £20.000) They then send their guys door Knocking for money.

The classes are taught by a so called instructor with a black belt with a white stripe through it, this guy is normally only an orange belt but no one questions it because they just see the black belt.

This so called style of Karate is screwing good people and making students believe that they actualy know karate.

This system is fake stay away

[ArtChaos17]

@ufc786 lol it would take you five minutes to win a fight??? NICE ONE BUDDY!!! -_-

[6366Jeffro]

In my time in GKR the only contact I did in class was the odd board break.I have however had to defend myself and hitting someone in the face offers no resistance and so practiced striking of solid objects gives no indication of what a true strike feels like.

Martial arts are about respect, disipline and humility as much as about the different moves. People who train in GKR put in as much effort as those in other styles, please respect there efforts if not there style.

[mikeycbd]

@6366Jeffro Thank you for taking the time to write this. I believed sharing on YouTube was the right thing to do but I can't believe the negative comments that come in. I have worked with one of this that took part and I know the hours these guys put in to their training/technique.

thanks again.

[1sttony7]

@6366Jeffro with all due respect, karate is a martial art, and therefore contact is inevitable, but, you must have an acceptable fitness level , and a degree of intestinal fortitude and not go thru the motions, when i graded i had to fight not just semi contact, but i suppose its a different word now.......

[MCo770]

I think its crap how a person gains there belts by how many classes they take, my sister does this down in melbourne and her and very few others who are actually skilled will go far, but the less skilled still go just as far by almost buying there way through classes towards their black belt, however in saying this alot of the ppl that take GKR will gain alot of discipline and friends! to compare this to BJJ in which a person could still be on white belt for 3 years because of lack of skill.

[djeq721]

Bunch of idiots, GKR is the biggest McDojo on the earth, i would completely Annihilate all the idiots in this video with ease, they are no better than white belts.

[mikeycbd]

@djeq721 You clearly must be eating too many Mc's for a comment like that.

[djeq721]

@mikeycbd

I havn't eaten a McDonalds since i was about 10. My thinking is that YOU must be victim to the door knockers of GKR who tell you a load of lies, why not start Kyokushin or a decent form of Karate, not one were you are taught by orange belts?

[katey3]

@mikeycbd I agree, and here was I thinking Karate was a defensive technique, NOT an overly aggressive annihilation process. Thats greasy beefburgers for you eh Mikey!!

[816tiger]

Congratulations to all who graded. Keep at it and keep seeking 'perfection'. Perfection of technique, perfection of character. Don't seek to be like your instructor, but better than your instructor. Too often people forget that Shodan is not the destination, it is the start of the journey, with the Kyu grades being the preparation for that journey.

[mikeycbd]

@816tiger Hey thanks for the feedback.

[sidbates]

shodan-ho is really 1st kyu... if your not ready for shodan then your not ready..... its purely your clubs way of gettin money off you.. also surely the idea of gyaku-tzuki is to both pull and punch at the same time... aslo the hips should push through creating the dynamics of the punch... if your shoulders are doing the work then its not correct... see Sensei kKnazawas teachings to see what i mean... oss

[816tiger]

@sidbates I can sprt of see what you mean regarding Shodan-Ho. I was talking to a Shotokan karate-ka the other day who has the same frustration. According to their Sensei, all gradings are only provisional anyway (way to motivate people, not!), he tells you when you're going to be graded and you pay per attempt. GKR is not the only club/style with imperfections, just the biggest.

[sidbates]

shodan-ho is really 1st kyu... if your not ready for shodan then your not ready..... its purely your clubs way of gettin money off you.. also surely the idea of gyaku-tzuki is to both pull and punch at the same time... aslo the hips should push through creating the dynamics of the punch... if your shoulders are doing the work then its not correct... see Sensei kKnazawas teachings to see what i mean... the knot on your belt should rest on your lead leg when forward punch is performed OSS!!!

[lolzkaful]

Little kids with black belts..."non-contact self-defense"... (non-contact is convenient, but if you study behavioural proprioception, you will see that practicing non-contact for years will ADVERSELY affect real-life fighting). Search "McDojo" on Google, the first link found should make things abundantly clear, it did for me, after other research. Assuming any GKR people read this, really, don't consider me an enemy, you'll come to see me as a good friend if/when you see the bigger picture.

[TheRushingWind]

@lolzkaful I've had a glance on the web about GKR karate, but a website I found seems to contradict its self. In the sparring, is there any contact at all? Do GKR clubs at least use punchbags/pads to test power of technique? It's obviously pointless punching air and not practicing on, at the very least, a physical object to see if your technique, whilst looking good, actually lacks in power.

[lolzkaful]

@TheRushingWind GKR's base teaching syllabus involves no padwork. Some dojos might do it, but at best very rare as far as I could see - GKR's core problem is its inconsistency in teaching quality. You're not meant to make contact at all, but in the higher ranks of GKR members tend to make just enough "contact" to touch their opponent's gi.

[TheRushingWind]

@lolzkaful that's ridiculous. What's the point of hitting air? you may be able to hit air very fast and seemingly very effectively, but find that hitting a person does nothing to them - because your technique is not powerful as you've only practice on air!

[lolzkaful]

@TheRushingWind Agreed completely. But that's the way GKR rolls, it's just cool like that ;-)

[lolzkaful]

Meant "Goju" in my first comment. I would be glad to talk to any GKR members who feel I'm talking rubbish. The awful videos of "Kancho"'s demonstrations put things into clearer perspective for me. And "Kancho" - this is the name of a Japanese phenomenon where people put their finger up someone's butthole for a joke. Claim to be a student of "Go Kan Ryu" in Japan, and you will be literally saying "I am a student of rape school". GKR bears disrespect from all other MAs for good reasons.

[lolzkaful]

Anyhow, I have now found a good club, and am happily starting again from white belt. A black belt should be a sign of a warrior, and, no personal disrespect to the people in this video, but warriors are not what I see. I want to know that once I have obtained my black belt, I am something special - GKR could not provide me this. It's easy to brush off other peoples' comments about your club - hell, even I did it for a long time, the people who spew the nonsense only help serve to help this.

[Alona62]

@lolzkaful I was suckered in to GKR through doorknockers and ended up getting molested by the ego maniac taking the class in front of my son.....grotesque, I would do anything to go back and not sign up.....here here here

[zhkid]

@Alona62 That would be Peter eh ? lol

[lolzkaful]

Please don't call GKR "Gojo", it's really not. I got to 3rd kyu some time ago (very successful in GKR tournaments) before leaving, I'd got to that mid-late teen age. I'm 20 now, and was about to sign up again, but I thought I'd do some research into GKR (some GKR karateka do this, yet accept the evils they find) and then do research into GOOD clubs (GKR karateka SELDOM do this, which doesn't put the evils they find into perspective).

[XxDIDDYANZxX]

That is great.

Welldone! I do GKR Karate not in Australia though.

[splodgenessabounds]

some warm up. mcdojo bollocks

[musicalkaratekid]

Im sure this is GKR because of the badges on the gis. anyway, pretty good to watch i thought-im going for black belt (shodan-ho) myself in afew weeks, looking forward to it:D

[mikeycbd]

@musicalkaratekid thanks for some positive feedback.

[legfighterz]

WTF is that shit? Are they really meant to be Blackbelts? Stiff like robots. Disgrace to real martial arts.

[nesquikrabb1t]

All these guys r bothers about is money they try to make instructors I'n a year it's weak as hell

[ap95481]

I'm a read belt hopefully going to brown belt this Christmas

[mikeycbd]

@ap95481 hey good luck with that!

[jdmvoliver]

it's a style cross btwn goju and shotokan..Go Kan Ryu...gkr. They aren't recognised by the AKA

[katey3]

Marvelous and very impressive, the discipline and unison is amazing and great camera work too.

[underugmedia]

what style is this? ....

[mikeycbd]

@underugmedia I lied, it's Goju. A friend at work had told me as Angelena was busy. she's just told me.