enshin karate, sabaki challenge 1999, Suzuki vs Izuka

Fight from the 1999 sabaki challenge karate event arranged annually in Denver, USA, by the enshin style of karate.
Nobuhiro Suzuki (JPN) vs Toshihiteru Izuka (JPN)

Enshin is a Kyokushin offshot, although the founder spent some time as #2 in Ashihara karate (another kyokushin offshot) in between leaving Kyokushin and founding Enshin.

The enshin rule variation of the knockdown rules (created by kyokushin) allows for more grabbing and throwing which also scores high points. Personally I think it makes the fight a little messy. The basic goal is still to knock the opponent out though.

As in kyokushin, no punches or elbows to the head, only below the neck. kicks and knees anywhere

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• Enshin
• kyokushin
• ashihara
• karate
• budo

[Dobbersky]

Osu!!!!

Good Clip, Respectfully Enshin is an Ashihara Karate Offshot if we look at the correct lineage. Kancho Ninomiya was one of Kancho Ashihara's top students.

To me the ethos is Enshin and Ashihara karateka are like father and son and Kyokushin is the Grandfather

OSU!!!!

[kolsyrade]

To me its all the same family. I tend to call everything a kyokushin offshot when talking to "outsiders", because kyokushin is more well known, and it makes it easier for people not already familliar with knockdown karate styles and lineages to know what it is about.

In this case however, I did say that the enshin founder spent time as #2 in ashihara karate after leaving kyokushin -where he first became a famous.

But its all in the same "family", and the differences is really not that big.

[anonymousbecause]

Hmmm i wish i saw more sabaki.

[00Jackacid]

damn i wish there were face punches

[seatonmadness]

@Dobbersky Osu!

[TheFudokan]

very very good speed and power...they are great karatekas, but suzuki sensei was better!!!

[blugularis]

@Dobbersky I would say that Ninomiya was his top student, bar none! started placing in the tops in Kyokushin before he turned twenty. Had he stayed not broken w/ Ashihara, I think that he would now be the head of the org. and that branch of Ashihara would be a lot stronger! in my humble opinion, osu!

[blugularis]

@kolsyrade actually, he became famous in Kyokushin at about the age of 18 or 19 when he entered his first open (the first open) and took third place. quite an accomplishment, he later went on to take first place in kyokushin kai open, then Ashihara broke w/Oyama, and later Ninomiya broke w/Ashihara, which is a shame, in some respects, as after the death of Ashihara, Ninomiya would have been the head student and could have taken over, more collaboration in the schools, less division.

[blugularis]

@gonorrhoeheliumgirl you have gonorrhoea? and breath helium?

Osu has a lot more meaning that Hitler would ever understand.

[blugularis]

@anonymousbecause Sabaki technique is more difficult to implement than it seems in practice, Most fighrters can resist, if they are any good.

[Kyousuke687]

lol, your funny.

[gonorrhoeheliumgirl]

To be frank: This is a boring, unspectacular fight, and the referee is too actice.

And all those "osu!" chanters here, wonderful - Pol Pot or Hitler would have loved you: "Kill this one!" - "Osu!"