[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dao3gEEYEBc"]Kyokushin Karate : The Ultimate Fighter - YouTube[/ame]
Hands up if any five year olds you know could do this? [ame="www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw4qxFDK8dg"]JKA Heian-nidan by 5-year-old girl　五æ³å¥³ã®åã®å¹³å®‰äºŒæ®µ - YouTube[/ame]
What an awesome little girl!! I am completely clueless when it comes to Karate, so I wouldn't know how well she performed the kata, but her movements seemed very slick, fast, well balanced and powerful to my eyes.
Some more of Legend Productions clips of the 1970s shotokan championships - back before people expected to leave a karate tournament alive Including the very unusual sight at 02:05 of Masao Kagawa getting hoofed in the face by George Best (the karate guy, not the football player). [ame="www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ZX_y8DRys"]Shotokan Raw Power.avi - YouTube[/ame]
I think I'm going to have to start watching those legend videos with the sound off. The music is terrible. I feel like I'm trapped in a cross between Airwolf and your pick of cheesy 80s action films.
[ame="www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkjnAYm0Ryg"]Sensei Valeri Dimitrov (2011) - YouTube[/ame] I thought this was quite interesting just because he makes frequent use of an inwards heel kick to the outer thigh. Not a technique that you see a lot.
I really wish I could go to tournaments like this. I'd have to do months of preparation training if I wanted to exit the building still conscious but I think it would be great. Although, if somebody kneed me in the head like that, I'd probably kick them in the jugular (if I saw the chance).
Some interesting techniques from Mr Kagawa here [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VDlrwCIW3c"]Kagawa Sensei teaching sabaki training - YouTube[/ame]
The beauty and power of low kicks as demonstrated by one of my favorite knockdown fighters, Hajime Kazumi. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgJpiak1wxw&feature=related"]Hajime Kazumi demonstrates the power of gedan mawashi geri - YouTube[/ame]
