1997 Okinawa Full Contact Championships

risingsunproductions.net presents the 1997 Okinawan Karate Championhsips. You just got to see this one KO's and all the rest

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[wetdreamsband]

this is NOT okinawa karate!

[deek77]

Actually it's the other way around. Machida's main art is Shotokan, his father's like a 6th or 7th Dan who moved to Brazil from Japan, and he trained his kids in karate growing up. The Machidas took up BJJ later, but used it to complement their main art.  If he was mainly BJJ, he'd spend way more time grappling in matches than he does now. Instead he uses karate's strategy of treating the opponent's arms and legs as swords, picking the right time to strike without absorbing too many blows.

[ur2cool1001]

what the hell is this, nothing like Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate Do that im used to, this is like "hardest kick to the calf" hardly any kicks were to the head, in Okinawan Karate you don't just kick and take jabs its more doing whatever you are able to do in order to win. Thats what Okinawan Karate is like. even if it means knocking them out clean.

[kskusawa]

There are other non-Kyokushin styles/organizations that have kumite under "knockdown kumite" rules that resemble Kyokushin. There are many non-Muay Thai stylists that compete under Muay Thai rules, too. Yoshukai (Chito Ryu offshoot), Byakuren (Kempo offshoot), and others more or less use Kyokushin knockdown karate rules and regularly train under that type of kumite. Osu!

[LeComte13]

ridiculous

[ttt3045]

kyokushin

[Jerryefisher]

silly

[yardkyle]

looks like kyokushinkai to me...

[wetdreamsband]

@adairbritton Because I train okinawa karate for 10 years now.

[adairbritton]

@wetdreamsband and how did you come to that conclusion?

[Reyu]

Uh... Number 2 block might of helped..

[SeerTravisTruman]

I bet I could give these karate guys a good thrashing. A muay thai fighter is better.

They should give them clown suits.