Karate Combat: now, this is interesting!!


Now, if you follow this blog you may already know that I do not specially enjoy WKF kumite.

That kind of point sparring is impossible to understand for me. How can you give points for NOT touching your opponent in a Martial Arts competition?!?!

Well, I just discovered "Karate Combat".



Do you know Rafael Aghayev?
He is from Azerbaijan and has won (multiple) World and European titles in WKF kumite.
Here he is:



I am not a fan but I just found him in my new found love: Karate Combat.
For what I have seen, the rules are really really interesting: full contact, throws and takedowns allowed, a bit of ground fighting is all right...
I could take part on this very happily!

Watch Rafael going full contact here:



Now, this is some nice competition rules. 
It is real. It is alive. 
Karateka looking like strong athletes... You get my point?

Compare the same guy under both rule sets. 
Can't barely recognize him, can you?
Why mainstream Karate is so lame, so boring, so fake?

Under my perspective of self-defense Karate, training to score points and training to hit a guy who is trying to KO you are completely different. 
What would you rather master?

Here, some treats:






@practikalkarateagain in Facebook
josep_cla in Instagram
josep_cla@hotmail.com









Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A rainbow of choices

Image
Let's talk about something really trivial now: What colour should the embroidery of my belt be? First, let's start with the most common one: golden brown (金茶, in Japanese): This is a belt that was gifted to me so the content of the embroidery is kind of unusual but the picture will show the colour I am talking about. Beautiful and classic, right? So, what other colours are acceptable? By far, the two next more common colours are red and white: (red one is mine too) All the other colours have really few adepts but I have seen a blue one, a green one and a pink one: (it is pinker in person) You also can choose a metallic gold or silver threat: Considering getting a silver one soon... if not pink! And you can choose to get kanji and/or katakana (or hiragana) embroidered, but also common letters: Or you can just go crazy and get a multicolour multifont belt, like this one: Cool, uh? And what about rank strip...
Read more

My fight on video

Image
First of all, thank you to all my partners in Budokan Castellón who helped me prepare for the fight, thanks to Pedro, David, Xufei and specially Sensei Josep Florido for coming with me and helping me on fight night. Also, thanks to VFL for having me in this event. I would also thank my sponsors, but... Coming in. Spatial awareness run (thanks Ramsey!). Waiting for an opponent. Being introduced. Moving my arms. Thinking of the tactic. Where are my gloves? Well, the experience was amazing! I got to fight in a cage, in a nice promotion, against a very strong guy and then got to walk home unharmed, sure of having given all I had inside, that was not much. I gassed out too soon and could not play along very well. But it doesn't matter. The other guy, Fabio Wellinton, was more experienced, stronger and did a better fight. He was a nice guy before and after the fight and that is important too. Now, the fight: ...
Read more

My Karate style

Image
What is my Karate style? I guess one needs to know if he/she can feel identified with the contents of this blog. If my methods and theories are aligned with those of his/her Dojo. Fair enough. What is my Karate style? That is a fair question with a complicated answer. My first Art was Judo, which I started to learn when I was six years old. Even though I never stopped training I did it in a discontinuous manner, never caring too much about it. I never thought it could be used in a fight, until recently. After that I joined a Shotokan Karate class, not by choice (I wanted to learn Kick boxing) but because it was the only kicking-and-punching option available at that time, until I broadened my martial circle of friends and became involved in full contact styles. Many years and a few dans later I was forced to move my residence to China, having Kyokushin as my only choice for the first years after I landed. After that I met many people involved in a variety of arts who were ...
Read more