Okay, who took karate lessons? Who recognizes those Japanese words? Who remembers practicing the upward block followed by the reverse punch, placing your feet just so, moving your body just so, getting your form just right, generating so much power from body movement, punching so hard because you use all the force of your whole body in the punch, from toes to knuckles?
But you laugh at all that. You've seen MMA fights. You know that nobody does that. It's a joke. Those perfect form karate moves are useless in a fight.
I used to teach karate from my home. One of my students was a very chubby insurance salesman. It was back in the 70s. I taught him that kind of thing, the blocks and punches of karate.
He was sitting at a bar with two girls. Two punks started making fun of him. Who is that fat prick with the two girls? They came up to him. He stood up to face them. One threw a punch at his head. Jodan uke, yaka zuki. He laid the guy out flat. The other put his hands up to say okay, okay, I'm not fighting. He saw the hands move and .... jodan uke, yaka zuki. He laid the guy out flat.
Nice block. Hard fuckin punches. Got all his body weight behind it. Pretty damn effective against a stationary target, against a stupid bag of lard. Just goes to show that sometimes a street fight starts with a stationary target, a big dumb bag of lard standing in front of you. Biff, pow, Batman.
lfbno7 posted on Jun 17, 2008
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crybabylu said on Jun 17, 2008....
okay, what does Mukaido & Hajime mean? -
lfbno7 said on Jun 17, 2008....
They always yelled hajime. I heard that 500 times. It sounded like Ha Jhee May. It was so long ago. I think it was what they yelled at the end of the fight when they wanted you to separate, but maybe it was what they yelled at the beginning when they wanted you to start. They didn't have any bell or gong or whatever so they yelled hajime at you.
Mukaido is a 600 year old giant turtle that is known to swim in coral reefs off Hawaii. Or else it is a flying monster that did battle with Godzilla. Maybe not. Was I close? -
Lucytorial said on Jun 17, 2008....
Kwoooooowwwwaaaayyyyyy **whack!**
Lucy Fu Tsu ~ fibe minut, me lub ew wong time....
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curmudgeon said on Jun 17, 2008....
Actually it's Gyaku Tsuki, gyaku meaning reverse, tsuki meaning thrust.
Then of course there's gyaku geri or reverse kick, and my favorites, gyaku gote and gyakute nage.
Mokaido apparently means line up.
Hajime means begin. Yame or Ma-te means stop, relax, break, etc.
The basics in Karate don't translate into MMA style fighting, but Karate randori -especially if you look at Oyama's Kyokushin randori - doesn't really look like the basics taught to beginners. There's more fluidity in sparring than in the basic mechanics, but the point that Karate movements tend to be kind of rigid is well taken.
We need to remember that though Karate has its origins as a fighting method from Okinawa, Gishin Funakoshi was a school teacher who developed Karate as a means of giving kids exercise and building their character. Effectiveness in actual combat was a secondary concern. One can say the same for a great many of the traditional Asian martial arts, because they are "arts".
MMA has really brought a whole new dimension to the martial arts in that they not only condition the body and mind, but the techniques are simple, direct, powerful and can be used in certain self-defense situations. Unfortunately, one wonders how long people can last within MMA training before the injuries pile up
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rubymae said on Jun 18, 2008....
I enjoy watching these matches, but honestly, I am not familiar with their terminology.
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