Never trained with Carl Cestari or anything, but it's hard to argue with the simplicity and usefulness of the stuff he is doing. Unless, of course you are fifteen years old and you entire view of martial arts comes from watching MMA.
I can see for someone with a narow perspective how these techniques could be nitpicked, but if you look at the kind of stuff Cestari taught, it appears to be more effective self defense than what is taught in 90% of traditional dojos OR MMA gyms.
Defendu, I don't know what you are talking about, Carl did use hip rotation to generate power. The proble with the video is you have Damian Ross demonstrating the movements, and frankly, he is just not that good at it. He was in the videos with Carl b/c he owned the school they were filmed at. To see how it is really done, you need to see guys like Clint Sporman, Ralph Grasso and Tony B.
Carl Hands rock even without one finger sure they can break a jaw of any dude no doubt about it.Closed punch fists are not pwerful as hammer punches in latests MMA the hammer punches makes thec devasting blows right?
you all stfu, cestari is the shit, i dnt see you all posting videos on doing shit so stfu, cestari wud fuck you guys up and so would any of his pupils
Agreed! Especially considering whoever can get the first hit in usually will be the victor in a street fight, as long as they follow through with power after the initial speed intro..
@angelajudochop Yes and let me guess you are someone close to Damian right?.No need to advertise your friends dojo angela.
diediekiller 1 year ago
Hehe a young Damian Ross... bless :p
MidnighWolf 2 years ago
That's Carl with Self Defense Company founder Damian Ross. This video was shot in Damian's dojo in 2003-04.
angelajudochop 2 years ago
See those knife-edge/ palm combos that guy was using?? Any1 of those would put an average line backer on his ass in a heartbeat. :-O
HalfCracker4life 2 years ago
Never trained with Carl Cestari or anything, but it's hard to argue with the simplicity and usefulness of the stuff he is doing. Unless, of course you are fifteen years old and you entire view of martial arts comes from watching MMA.
I can see for someone with a narow perspective how these techniques could be nitpicked, but if you look at the kind of stuff Cestari taught, it appears to be more effective self defense than what is taught in 90% of traditional dojos OR MMA gyms.
zachariahz 2 years ago
Defendu, I don't know what you are talking about, Carl did use hip rotation to generate power. The proble with the video is you have Damian Ross demonstrating the movements, and frankly, he is just not that good at it. He was in the videos with Carl b/c he owned the school they were filmed at. To see how it is really done, you need to see guys like Clint Sporman, Ralph Grasso and Tony B.
MDAC1012 2 years ago
Carl Hands rock even without one finger sure they can break a jaw of any dude no doubt about it.Closed punch fists are not pwerful as hammer punches in latests MMA the hammer punches makes thec devasting blows right?
punhada 2 years ago
...wtf was that...
sagmann20 2 years ago
you all stfu, cestari is the shit, i dnt see you all posting videos on doing shit so stfu, cestari wud fuck you guys up and so would any of his pupils
enemywhitemilitant 2 years ago
Agreed! Especially considering whoever can get the first hit in usually will be the victor in a street fight, as long as they follow through with power after the initial speed intro..
Ensureqwerty 3 years ago