Tsukamoto says if you practice kneeing a mitt, and then look at your opponent and try and knee them in the face it is difficult to hit, and it is easier for your opponent to read. But you know where your own head is, so just knee your own head with their head in between then it is easier to hit their face. This is partly because if your face is next to theirs then their face is closer so your knee can go straight up as opposed to forwards and up. I think that there is also a sort of reticence that prevents us from putting our knee in someone else's face. So first practice putting your own knee in your own face (about which you should have no reticence) and then put their face in between your face and your knee. Then he describes various secret techniques to get your knee in your opponents face, making this probably the best knee video on the planet.

it's awesome how i can understand him through a language barrier he's a really good teacher

なんか、大学のいい先輩が教えてるって感じでいいですね。

わかりやすい指導ですね。勉強になりました。

Awesome... I can tell he is a good instructor because I understand what he is saying by his body language and gestures... I also can not speak Japanese. Osu!

塚本先生、今も、鍛錬しているんですね！素晴らしい‼️

he is handing out pieces of gold in that video

seem like a really nice guy. saw him won the world tournament today. great fighter

I like the way he talk to the student, pity to not understand. By seeing the movement something new to put in my life bag. OSU

塚本師範はやばい

Seems like a super nice guy.

tsukamoto is no doubt, the best fighter ever!!

traditionally in ancient Japan the floors were wooden in palaces and the Kenjutsu training halls of the samurai, it's just one of those things that are more based on Japanese cultural norms than anything else, and the gis are white to symbolise the white death garments the samurai used to where under his armour before battle to sybolise that he was ready to die in battle which was an honourable death for a Bushi (warrior).

塚本先生優しい

Interesting vid,wish my Japanese was a bit better but you know what he is saying anyway,this seems to confirm what people that have meet him have told me that he is as nice a person as he is a fierce fighter the Budo ideal .

だから、彼の道場は人気があると思います。

prosta боеч. аааа невероятная

he is agreeing... kinda like "right, right, right, right" etc.

at 9:11, that guy is brown or black belt?

Un altra prova che sensei Tsukamoto è un gran maestro oltre che un grande atleta. OSU!

初期の頃のユース合宿かな？この数年後まさか自分も選出されるとは思わなかったな

I wish somebody could translate theese japanese kyokushin videos. There are no instructional vids anywhere, allways something to learn from them,.

0:50 下手すると鼻血が出そうだね

Osu

Just a way to judge how high you should be able to bring your knee for the technique, that's all

it's a cunning technique, used to confuse your opponent. When confused, mawashi jodan him KO.

why is he kneeing his own face???

osu.. ^_^

kusogaki! no imi yoku wakaru! sore wa anta ja nai? gyahahahha!

i can beat this guy in a minute .... ( BY gun ) LOL

a lot of talking!!!!

mmm low level

boring