what I like most of your videos is you go deep into the technique, explaining all the mechanics and giving helpful tips for beginners. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

One of the best demonstrations of ushiro ura mawashi I've seen.

Beautiful control and technique John. Restores my faith in martial arts.

Great vid Sensei ! Your kicks are swift, deadly and explosive ! 😎 Great explanation of the body mechanics as well….

That is absolutely exceptional!

This is just the video i needed to see, ive been trying to figure out why when i do ushiro ura mwash, i over rotate and struggle to control the rechamber and ultimately become unbalanced, what you said about keeping everything tight is something im looking to work on, thanks for the demonstration.

This video is great! We teach the exact same movement in hapkido for our hook kicks. They may be different styles, but there are only so many ways to move the body correctly. Keep up the great work sir!

Really well explained and awesome to watch.

exactly the kind of video I was looking for

Great vid! Thanks, Sir!

Fantastic video, thanks for making this series!

Shay checking in from dublin Ireland thank you

Great video. Exactly how I learned it after Bill Superfoot Wallace did a course for my old club back in the 90s. Great stuff John as always.

Thanks for your tips. Very useful

Great video, all important details explained. This comparison with yoko kekomi is perfect, thanks John!

Made me decide to attend my local shotokan club.

Excellent explanation and tips, let's practice it, thanks.

I'd like to see you teach an entire kata.

Great technique!

My favorite version of this kick. So well done. Im almost there but i had to relearn this version. Taekwondo style and other karate style hook kicks are different. We use more of a front wheel kick turned sideways with a hook in it and it lands in hook position as front foot lands. Almost like a wheel kick sideways with a hook in it. Its effective and powerful but it hurts to throw and requires a massive range of motion and doesn't look as good. I know the spinning version of this hss enough knockout power. Sensei have you been told how much we love you for teaching this, just want to make sure you're getting your validation today!

bro your videos are actually so good man and your karate looks so nice, im a wing chun guy but my wing chun teacher taught us the primary karate kicks as well just for fun

Brilliant John , I can remember watching Dave hazard in Chrystal place years ago , in 1970s , watching him in competition was just amazing with these kicks , Needless to say he won , great technique John ,

I was taught to always point your toes when you swing kick. You can choose to hit with ball of the foot for safety or the heel for damage. The reason to always point your toes is to prevent achilles tendon snaps. I didn't think it was posiible until I heard it happen to one of my training partners in sparring. He went for the spin the opponent stepped back and high blocked. Pow achilles tendon gone. Watch your follow thru and use point your toes people.

Most useful video

Excellent performance!!!!!

Nice exercise is take 2 targets , hit through one hit 2nd and space those more and more. Good hook kick hip training.work on roundhouse too. Just carefull on the targets holders head when wide split. Great video

Nice stuff as usual. Sensei Hazard always used to say to us to do a yoko geri kekomi past their head, then whip back with the heel, so when I hear someone else saying the same things I know the following instructions will be good :)

Muy bueno pacticar movimientos de extremidades inferiores, interesante, desplazamientos rapidez en extremidades superiores, y las inferiores. El complemento perfecto. Gracias.

Really wish i trained under john. As soon as i saw Nat i needed to know who trained him. Im literally having to relearn half my kicks i do because my form is off. This is tight. Its so good i believe Nat could become a serious fighter because John trained him so bloody well. The tight, perfect technique is beautiful. What bothers me is in taekwondo style they acrually teach us to swing the whole leg with the hook like a wheel kick almost but with a hook and sideways. It is more power but we dont rechamber and the foot just goes down as the front foot in stance and same with the spin hook kick. Its held in a hook but it is chambered and thrown a little sooner but the leg swings as well using the glute to speed it up. The hook is held formed and not brouught back, its meant to swing through the target. Its got power but its less controlled but it does land. Almost like a sideways axe kick held like such and swong like a bat. I like johns proper version better. I dont know if it has more power but its tighter and looks better. Why do they train us to throw it like that? Anyways thanks john. Good form.

Thank you sooo much

Just started watching you, and dude, your technique is phenomenal! Keep it up!

Awesome!

Thank you 🥋sensei OSs

awesome , thank you very much for the tips, can you do tutorial on leg hold please ?

can you please upload a short video showing what part of the leg you want to make contact with the target for a hook kick that you hit with the heel ?? really important you forgot to mention it

Oss

Name of the kick: ura mawashi!!! Subtitles: or washing or hook kick! 🙂

i can do a perfect spinning hook kick like yours but i cant do just a plain ura mawashi, it feels like my muscle mind connection doesnt work on the movement, only with the spinning cuz i already have the feeling of it. gonna try those exercises while holding something to take out the balance issue.

Good clear lesson, thank you. At some point he makes kekomi and turn it to ura mawasi geri.. So, should we think it as a kekomi (missed kekomi) that evolves to hook kick. I mean the mindset when you practise it, first regular kekomi and then change it to ura mawasi geri. Anyone, does that make any sense?

for a karateguy you do hook kick pretty good., but you should hit target with snap of leg stright with back of heel. power coming from your body., not from bending knee, that is most common mistake, hitting by bending the knee, your spin hook is better but actually more like full wheel kick, spin hook is different as you step forward after snspping the leg, wheel kick goes all the way around. You need TKD lesson!

you make a fist and clinch it hard in order to not hurt your hand , when you throw a hook kick with the leg and hit with the heel how do you protect the feet ?

at 2:50 too bad we cant see the feet :(

you are bending knee too much

There is no ura mawashi geri in any traditional karate style. It's a Taekwondo ripoff. Watch the old tapes of Karate.