Machida!

**Devil** · Posted On: 5/02/2011 8:58am

Machida wouldn't be where he is today without Steven Seagal.

**It is Fake** · Posted On: 5/02/2011 9:30am

Originally Posted by HARDERISAY

Isn't that kick a technique in suparimpei of Goju ryu? In Uechi Ryu dan kumite it is known as a flying jump kick. I believe it is also in taekwondo. Generally it is used to rapidly close distance while attacking.

That kick is in damn near every striking style that involves kicks. Yes, we know what it is called.

**Vieux Normand** · Posted On: 5/02/2011 10:56am

Originally Posted by patfromlogan

Well I do admit being a little bit of a nutrider here, but I'll go ahead and add that karate training (eventually/hopefully) teaches striking powerfully at gazilions of possible angles (personal note, I like the spinning back/sides to the head plenty, but in sd would think that that kick that breaks all those boards would really hurt some asshole's shin) and Machida RULES! Uh, let me calm down... Machida has used TMA in an exemplary manner.

FRONT KICK!!!!! I LOVE FRONT KICKS!

We're all fans if we're posting here (one hopes). My issue is with knee-jerk reactions re: karate.

You get people who go to a stripmall-dojo, wave around at air for an hour twice a week and mistakenly call this krottercise 'karate'.

Some of them then go on to something more effective than
krottercise but continue to recall what they'd done in the stripmall as 'karate' and thus become automatic karate-bashers. They'll find any excuse to dismiss any effective karate they see in MMA.

Others call krottercise 'karate' and continue on with it, maintaining their delusion that what they do is effective MA. They'll see a karate-related victory in MMA and think that what they saw on PPV is what they do in the stripmall twice a week.

What they all have in common is a knee-jerk reaction to whatever karate they see in MMA...as well as mistakenly associating krottercise with 'karate'.

**Devil** · Posted On: 5/02/2011 11:05am

All true, but MMA proponents shouldn't be all defensive about it, either. Machida has a strong karate background in addition to MMA. He used karate technique he's been practicing since a child to win the fight. No need to de-emphasize it.

**patfromlogan** · Posted On: 5/03/2011 11:42am

There's at least one other Shotokan trained bb out there fighting well:'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uyuN...embedded#at=50

**Eddie Hardon** · Posted On: 5/03/2011 1:53pm

Frank Brennan from the 1980s. Apparently the whole JKA Team trained to beat him. They failed.

Enjoy.

**patfromlogan** · Posted On: 5/03/2011 8:49pm

warning, kata til 1:43... and anoying repeated shots, but nice rndhs sweep leg takedown at 2:56 - a personal fave and the same technique that was on Hong Kong TV with cops taking people with knives down.

Originally Posted by Eddie Hardon

Frank Brennan from the 1980s. Apparently the whole JKA Team trained to beat him. They failed.

Enjoy.

**Vieux Normand** · Posted On: 5/04/2011 1:29pm

Nice opening KO (after all that nijushiho and trophy-handout stuff) and indeed sweet sweep-roundhouse just before 3:00). I don't really get no-contact sparring but, if some can adapt this to make for out-of-nowhere KOs in open-ruleset situations like MMA, more power to them.

**patfromlogan** · Posted On: 5/06/2011 9:18pm

Yeah, I've found that a lot of schools (some karate, some Hawaiian Kempo, Kosho Shorie ryu Kempo etc), unlike KK or Shotokan, don't practice leg kicks/unbalancing/takedowns and they are therefore very susceptible.