Dojo Kumite- Some survival tips
Hello, everyone This post is dedicated to a very special friend who is soon going to take her 2nd Dan exam in JKF Shotokan Karate. Now we might not all know this, but Dan gradings involve free sparring as well and the type of free fighting used in these gradings is much more intense than the competition fighting which the public sees. Yes- everybody knows that Kyokushin kumite is full contact and does not stop when a point is scored, but how many people that do NOT study Karate know about the Dojo Kumite of Shotokan which is used at black belt gradings and black belt initiations? The videos below show some mild examples of what did manage to come out on the internet. https://youtu.be/dDf-wknmegg https://youtu.be/Uf0yOgTUdQw https://youtu.be/Pbkr_UnX9iM https://youtu.be/zjRejKWoNoo https://youtu.be/I_zmL6BRCOA https://youtu.be/GsjRUMxAyJc https://youtu.be/BKHyXgpqOVs With Kyokushin this is no big secret and lots of videos can be found of their full-contact figh...