I invited @KARATEbyJesse to compare old school karate tournaments to new school karate competition and also to take a look at old school karate training methods and how they changed over the years.

00:00 Is Karate becoming less effective?
00:32 Comparing old-school and modern Karate
01:12 Old-school techniques were badass?
01:47 How Savate transformed Karate
02:43 The flaws of old-school Karate
03:37 Why modern Karate makes sense
04:26 Takedowns are forbidden in modern Karate?
04:57 2020 Olympic disqualification for a knock-out kick
06:10 Pros and cons of modern and old-school Karate
06:51 Super heavy Karate shoes for training
08:05 Hardcore exercise for abs?
08:15 Punching and kicking trees
08:55 Should Karate people train cardio?
09:25 Where does breaking bricks come from?
09:44 Nukite - fingers that can break things
10:09 How Karate competed with Boxing
11:23 Punching using weights - bad idea?
11:49 A major flaw in Karate
12:09 Full on Karate sparring and Makiwara
12:42 Punching students as they do kata?
13:03 Going all out in kata
13:41 Bunkai - practical Karate for self defense
14:15 Takedowns in Karate were lost?
15:19 Knees in karate and Karate for students?
15:48 Throwing knives in Karate?!
16:12 Impressive Karate move


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Welcome to the Martial Arts Journey YouTube channel!

My name is Rokas. I'm a Lithuanian guy who trained Aikido for 14 years, 7 of them running a professional Aikido Dojo until eventually I realized that Aikido does not live up to what it promises.

Lead by this realization I decided to make a daring step to close my Aikido Dojo and move to Portland, Oregon for six months to start training MMA at the famous Straight Blast Gym Headquarters under head coach Matt Thornton.

After six months intensive training I had my first amateur MMA fight after which I moved back to Lithuania. During all of this time I am documenting my experience through my YouTube channel called "Martial Arts Journey".

Now I am slowly setting up plans to continue training MMA under quality guidance and getting ready for my next MMA fight as I further document and share my journey and discoveries.

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