I didn’t know John was your sensei. What an amazing sensei to have. You are blessed and lucky to have such an amazing athlete and karateka as your coach. I love his channel. Some great stuff there.

Your coach is terrifying. All I have to say. He's capitalizing so easily on any mistakes, managing the range, and He's also either messing up your rhythm, or making you fight at his pace. All the while he had his hands down. Surprising to see he isn't in Karate Combat yet. He'd piece up a lot of people real fast.

man you're footwork's looking great. You should really make a tutorial about it! I would love to learn more about it as a karateka

Your coach is on a whole another level! 😮 I can see why you would want to learn from him.

Man, you can never get enough sparring. When I started sparring at around 12 years, I would do it a lot less frequently compared to now and I really didn't like it back then (I didn't fully understand its importance and how enjoyable it can be if you treat it as a learning experience). Now, I'm in high school and I love sparring when I get the chance. Each training session that I spar in, I feel like I always come out of it with just a little bit more knowledge. Thanks for making great and relatable content, Nat!

The way you guys spar really restores my faith in karate. There is so much nuance and high quality striking, blocking and head movements. Will definitely enjoy seeing more of this content. Perhaps add a round that also allows some take downs because I feel that that is quite important to simulate a fight, perhaps no need to add ground work because that is too far removed from karate and this kind of exercise.

I loved this. Proper martial arts looks and feels more like an intricate and beautiful dance rather than simple mindless combat. I would love to see it more often

this looks gorgeous mate. I’ve watched a lot of competition tae kwon do which is quite start stop but seeing the fluidity of Karate when you’re sparring is so beautiful. Love how you drop down a level for body strikes when punching, the stance switching and shifting of balance is amazing to see. Really made me appreciate this style so much more watching this video

Good thing coach was in a good mood

I'm here because some dude commented on one of my videos and told me I should give back my black belt. When I asked why and who he would hold up as the standard for black belts, he said I wasn't anywhere near as fast or as skilled as Nat Hearn. So take that as a compliment, I guess. Even my trolls are your fans. 🤣 I knew who you were, but hadn't watched you spar. This is cool. It's clear your coach is bringing out the best in you (except for a little too much tension maybe). Love your head movement and combos. I've seen your coach's videos on Insta. Sharp, technical karate. It's great to see that reflected here with some contact and a spirit of play. Well done!

I thought you and John trained together didn't know he was your coach, that's is awesome. I regularly follow you, John and Terry Birkett (he's Kyokushin karateka like myself) since you three are my favorite UK karatekas. Side note started your flexibility program over the weekend. It's gonna take me longer than 3 months since a few of the stretches I have a difficult time getting into some of them, let a lone actually holding.

Nat is the best! Love the long form videos bro! You are such a legend!

I like this a lot you should definitely do more Also, your coach is a wizard!

I've enjoyed John's videos for a while as well as yours, nearly 30 odd year karateka here. Love it!

Your coach is definitely your coach. He is really a good one despite being older than u, not a trace of slowing down. Excellent timing and precision.

Why is no one talking about how clean this is. 2 people who are obsessed with mastering the art of moment in striking. Beautiful stuff man .

Enjoyed! Much more head movement, front kicks, retracting hand being kept at the jaw when punching, kicks being caught and use of leg kicks than I would expect to see in traditonal karate. You've adapted your art to be more practical for full contact sparring. Hopefullly more traditional dojos follow suit. Well done

Ive been wanting to see you spar for quite some time so this is a real treat for me

The sparring in 2x speed looks insane and keep up the good work nat

Damn I am quite literally the *second here, hello! Love your content Nat, you get straight to the point and the quality of your videos is great!

man you gotta make more of these. i learnt a lot from this 6 mins video

I train long guard, and the way your coach combines it with the philly shell is very clean it really inspires me. I can't comment much on the kicks since I don't have a lot of knowledge in that area :-)

Nat Hearn, your videos are amazing inspiring and exciting to watch. Nearly at 1million!!🎉

This is so awesome. I go to a kickboxing gym and I got so much from this.

We'll do another one soon 🤜🤛🥋

That double sweep was lowkey smooth legs only💯🔥

YES please more The legs only round was amazing from both of you that was crazy to watch

The coach should be the proudest person alive

The coach will always win.

This is very entertaining to see! I love how you are very good at dodging, blocking and footwork...

You inspired me to start tkd. Tysm for bring you. Keep up the goodwork mate❤❤

Good knowledge in sparring being 18 yr old girl and a beginner in martial arts it really helped ....thanku My favourite Sir❤lots of love✨

I’m not a karate practitioner but I can’t lie, you guys make your kicks look so much crispier lmao

you're amazing bro!! keep it up!

A good trick to do when someone leans back after your jab is to immediately follow up with another jab while they are still in the leanback position. Something that has helped me a lot.

Nice and light. Time to polish up technique. Perfect pace. Wonderful respect shown

Hey Nat, been watching your videos for a while, I can't help but admire the skills you've honed especially compared to myself who just trained in Martial Arts for almost a month this year. Question that I have, ever thought of participating in the next season of Rokas' season 2 of Ultimate Self-Defense Championship or maybe save it for season 3 ; )

Yes, that was eggscellent. Getting very skilled. Nice work! 10/10 Enjoyed.

This was very good! The only other karate sparring that I had seen was the boring tournament stuff. this was very fast, and interesting to watch.

you both are so good at karate! i hope i can be as good one day, aiming to be as good as you Nat, dreaming to be as good at your sir coach!

I love your vids you showed up on my feed when I was thinking about picking up a martial art i even practice some moves you so funny enough haha

This whole time I was wondering who was whos coach, you're both so good!

nat you are the goat, great inspiration ooossss👊🥋

One of the things I learned in life was never challenge the master. This guy was going easy on you.

The fact is sparring with coach is the tuffest job

Great Sparring Nat, You're definitely got Skills. Also, Happy Holidays🎄🎄🎄🎄🥋🥋🥋🥋🤝🤝🤝🤝👊👊👊👊

Through watching both y’all’s content I did notice you guys have similar technique. Awesome sparring 👍.

Great Sparring! Keep it up Nat! 💪

Fantastic to watch. I'll be taking my shodan next December so I need to be this good. Tempted with your stretching and flexibility programme.

I was looking for karate sparring video and your video was what I wanted :)

this was awesome. I'm new to karate so i didn't understand much of the techniques shown but i really liked it. I would really like to see more content like this and maybe even a video of sparring tips?

Love this! This was awesome!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I really enjoyed this video! I would love to see more like this. Also, you look really nice in your gi.

This video really helpt me, now i can do technics from this to my own sparring. thanks💪

Nat I JUST LOVE YOUR VIDS

Got the flexibility program yesterday! Let's gooooo

Wow, your coach is great. You both did a great job.

Those kicking moves were just- wow… especially when you fell trying to do a spinny kick when you were trying to get away from your coach’s grasp💀💀

I just love to see the head work of your coach. Its pretty good

what he meant was: round 1-boxing round 2- taekwondo round 3- karate

Your coach plays more safe and you take many chances and keep up The good work

Nathern: gave one kick Coach: I will give you ten kicks

Dudes warmup round is looking like my regular rounds 😭

oh boy, after watching the sparring i got some questions in my mind. Being a black belt in karate 1st dan and doing shotokan style, my first question is do you practice kata with kumite and my second question is what style or form of karate do you learn like me learning shotokan style. love your videos. Grow bigger

Nah your coach is too powerful

Your coach is awesome Nat and I love the longer video

Ah finally. Yesssss. Why didnt i get this notification. Ive been dying to know your sensei. Yessss.

can I ask what Dan black belt your coach is? I’m very curious as to his experience, as his style looks nothing like what my coach is teaching. Compared to my sensei in sparring, your coach is a lot faster and quicker as well as a lot more focused on his kicks and his offence, at least compared to my sensei. I find my sensei is almost impossible to hit during sparring purely because of how good his defence is but your coach seems still have an excellent defence but also an impressive offensive capability.

Dude that was clean i love that❤

This is why coach is coach

When he goes for the rear leg roundhouse, you can counter with a reverse inside hook. Very effective in point sparring

Love it man❤

I do multiple round sparring as well. Grappling only Strikes only Both allowed

This looks great! May i ask what style of karate this is?

Love it Nat, I recently subbed to John. Seems like a great guy. I’d love to spar with you guys.

Hey brother Thanks for the inspiring content Just wanna know, are you a pro? Like, do you compete at national or state level or something?

coach>>>

4:33 tried the van damme cyborg kick 😂

Wussup man ive been doing jung sim do or about 5 years and been doing muay thai for 5 months I just wanted to ask what dan are you in martial arts?

Idk about karate but I kind of noticed your legs getting real close, sometimes crossing, but y’know your the expert, we just don’t do that in kickboxing. Anyway great video, your amazing man!

That was super fun to watch

You are an excellent martial artist and great mentor for others, I really apprecciate what you are doing. I do karate from nearly 10 years, I have done wado ryu and currently goju ryu style and always used sports karate gloves for kumite. I know that you do shotokan but in karate you dont spar with boxing gloves and you are not allowed to throw boxing punches, moreover, in competitions you fight with the small gloves as i said you. I know that you want to stop the karate hate but I’ve never seen or done kumite sparring with boxing gloves on

1) Hands use = Boxing 2) Legs use = Taekwondo 3) Hands and Legs = Karate

Yeah boyyyyy so dope, 1:38 - back again with some hilarious editing, that moment of regret captured on your face lol

Looks very similar to our dojo. Its re-assuring to myself that I'm at a good place to train.

God damn nat you are amazing much love❤

Hey bro I'll be 14 in 2 months ,is it good to start martial arts now ,(ofc now that intense ,I mean by videos of you , should I start it at home?)

Hey Nat!I need some help.Im 21 years old and I have some experience in taekwondo and wing chun.I did taekwondo from 6yo-12yo and wing chun from 15yo-16yo.I stopped doing taekwondo because I’ve only really learned how to kick the air and memorize forms,oh and I got flexible.And I quit wing chun because of school.I really wanna start a new martial art and commit to it.Tried boxing but it was a decent experience and now Im considering to look Muay Thai or get back to Taekwondo.Do you think that I should try out muay thai? p.s. another problem in my country are the bad dojos on karate and taekwondo so how do I tell if I have found a good taekwondo Dojo and instructor? Thank you for your time.

Can you please make a footwork totorial video i started karate 2 years ago before this i was in mma and i can't manage to get this kind of footwork and by the way your coach technique is crazy good I can't even understand how can you spar him your great

Your coach is a beast. Who would have thought. 😅

In your general sparring I saw very very few front kicks. Any specific reason why ? I’ve personally found fantastic success in it, especially in faking it to transition to another kick.

This is amazing and absolutely lovely. I have been trying to mix up my kicks because I am weaker in my wrists. This is amazing for learning! Thank you. Some questions though: my sensei says that I am not allowed to make low kicks. Is that because of the form we are training in, or because I am still a blue belt? Also; what are some mixups for kicks wich I can train for sparring. Amazing content, keep it up!

Hi Nat, I practice karate from nearly 10 years, you are such a great source of inspiration, i follow you from your first bag and you are doing an excellent job as a mentor for other martial artists, i really look for you. I have also noticed that through your channel you want to create respect for karate and demonstrate that it is as serious and effective as other martial arts and sports that are full contact like MMA that is currently really popular. Always considering that sports karate is only semicontact. I am a fan of yours and I understand that you want to bring karate closer to full contact martial arts and sports. However what I dont get is why you always show sparring with boxing gloves, I have practiced wado ryu and goju ryu karate and in kumite sparring we always have used sports karate gloves, I have seen videos of you performing katas when you were a child but never seen you competing in kumite

Ur almost at 1m subscribers!! 🎉

whats very interesting is how the couch switches between stances and how much it helped with his attack

Great jab Nat Hearn

he makes it look so easy

Thanks for the footage. Nice to see you for once getting handled in actual Sparring. I wonder why you guys don't do more front and sidekicks and Sparring. That are my main kicks to control the distance in kickboxing. It's probably the karate stance right?

yo nat, have you ever tried some of capoeira kicks? I think it would be cool to see a video abt it!

Man this looks so fun, I want a coach lol but I train at home instead