4th dan test, part 2: one-steps

This is one-step sparring, or self-defense techniques.
I was required the create and demonstrate 6 defense and counters against a punch, 3 against kicks, 3 against club attacks and 3 against knife attacks.
My gracious friends attacking me are:
Steven White, 1st dan
Scott Jeffery, 1st dan
Davis McClelland, 2nd dan

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Taekwondo
• karate
• one-steps
• self
• defense
• knife
• club
• kick
• punch
• John-Paul
• Mitchell
• black
• belt

[cwm1]

Nice, a lot of work has gone into creating these drills. How much efficiency is really in those spinning techniques? ;)

Which style of karate is this? I have done Goju Kensha for the last 15 years and our style focuses a lot more on close in techniques utilising the elbows and eye/throat/groin strikes a lot.

[Pope2501]

@cwm1

I assume you are using the wrong word; instead of "efficiency," you mean "power." Otherwise, I don't know what you mean when you use that word. And as for the power generation, spinning techniques can create significantly more power than non-spinning; for instance, rotating your hips 90 degrees as you throw geddan barrai creates more power. When we rotate their hips 180 during what you call a mawashi geri, more power is generated than stopping the hips.

Taekwondo. I'm now a 5th dan.

[Kinghercules]

It was nice.

Who you trained under?

[Pope2501]

@Kinghercules

Thanks.

Roy Kurban.

[EleManT24]

Awesome one-steps. I loved the move at 2:08!

[Pope2501]

Thanks!

[TakekuraKaze]

@Pope2501 Awesome, and thanks for understanding! :)

[attal77]

@cwm1 Yes i tottally agree, I train shotokan and I`ve felt the power my sensei (6 dan ) has when hitting me with a short kime, and barly twiching his hips, but that said its very important for beginners (9 kyu - 1 dan) to emphazise hip movement and correct teqnique. :-) ouss!!

[cwm1]

@Pope2501 By efficiency I meant how much power for the amount of hip movement. I have been hit by martial artists who have refined the hip movement so their hips hardly move, the tips of their belts "twitch" - but in the same movement they can cut you in half with a strike or send you flying across the room. The large hip movement becomes a smaller, more internal energy rather than a large, outward display.

Don't think I meant to criticize, I meant only to question.

[SuperSneakySteve]

lots of spinning!

[buri2zaemon]

great performance

Why there are also Taekwondoin wathcing in the test?