y si... son los creadores del arte.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better!!

They should follow these rules in WKF, general public won't like WFK, it won't last in Olympics

LionMan My thoughts exactly. No offence but WKF kumite looks more like a dance than sparring, with all the rapid jumping and shouting, but they are in my opinion "less" brutal than other styles of karate in terms of kumite so eventhough I am not pleased to see WKF representing the entire karate community but when it comes to Olympics they may be a better fit (the Olympics prefer a more "public-friendly" style of martial arts, just look at what they did to taekwando)

I dont really know much about the kumites rule differences or anything. Whats different between this and wkf kumite ?

From what I have seen wkf karate jumps more rapidly which looks more like a dance (no offence) and most of the time they just stare at each other while jumping

Mario U You are right. This is Nemoto Sensei. Before he started karate he has trained judo for a long time.

That would make sense why Ne Waza (ground technique) is showing

it's one of the thing I like about kumite, even when you get on the ground, if you somehow protect yourself not being hit, your rival wouldn't get the point. unlike some other type of martial arts, you need only get your opponent down and you get the point, no matter the situation after that.

Gichi Funakoshi, the founder of Shotokan, was a good friend of Kano sensei, the founder of Judo, which BJJ originated from. A lot of these Karatekas also have Judo experience in one form or another. As a matter of fact, you'd be amazed how much Judo is applied in their fighting. You can check some footage of Mikio Yahara sensei, he used the throw called Tomoe Nage from time to time. I also remember a sparring footage from Tanaka sensei where he showed amazing awareness of defensive ground fighting, constantly blocking his sparring partner's arms to avoid a rear naked choke when that guy got his back. He later turned around and used the other guy's collar to secure a choke

Karate got roots in Judo and jiu-jitsu

Isso acontece sempre hermano, infelizmente é assim. :(

Tenes mucha razón, yo eh notado que cierto puntos que eran claros de argentina fueron cancelados. La verdad es una vergüenza que allá pasado una cosa asi.

voutespancar sadly always the way in Japan...they have the best fighters, but the refereeing is ridiculous...gives Japan a bad name...

lo que pasa es que tienen que marcar el punto bien profundo y los japoneses conctaban mejor los golpes que los argentinos, los japoneses relajaban con ellos

I don't think that would be possible, UFC is pro fighting, there's lots of money involved, if the fighters get injuried, there's big medical assistence.

Hugh Mongus u can watch lyoto the dragon machida fighting in ufc... He uses pure shotokan karate exactly what u saw in this video the jka karate in the ufc octagon against other mma fighters and proud to say he does really well...

Chinzo machida the older brother of lyoto was once a champ here ;) and they both went to ufc together

@@fjdjxfjdjcjx2349 second place in jka world championship!he was a brasilian champ in shotokan jka,he is a great karateca!!

@@fjdjxfjdjcjx2349 Chinzo does MMA, but he's not in UFC though

Roby De Marzi not really

to me it was the most intense, no hits but constant tension

why not? What's interesting in a fight without action?

it´s boring when you know nothing about karate

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