Let’s begin. • Let’s begin. When we go into the fighting we almost invariably have the trainer, the team partner or sparring partner standing at the back of us on the edge of tatami. They support us and are worried about us. I prefer they not only to worry about an outcome of fighting but also to take active part in it. But two competitors against the one is better than one to one – I tried it on myself. • To realize all this successfully we have to go into special training. At first you have to define which blow your partner will help you with. He won’t have to get on tatami and beat your competitor. But you can believe me that your competitor will be very astonished and you gain a clear victory over your opponent by knockdown or knockout. It depends on how close you will cooperate with your partner. • One of the blows which I used on this method is a left middle kick. One should take into account that you can choose an only blow for one fight as your secret weapon. Let’s consider how to use the left middle kick. You arrange with your partner that he’ll watch for a position of the left hand of your competitor. He has to keep an careful eye on when the opponent raises his right elbow and exposes his liver to your attack. Your partner must be an experienced fighter to see all the opportunities to attack the right side of your opponent.

Hi, friends! • Hi, friends! Today I’d like to share with you one of my secret that I began using on competition as far back as in 1994. And the following competitive practice proved its efficiency. I suppose this secret is a matter of topical interest even now. Using of this strategy is available only then you stand on a high level of execution and tactical training. If you want to use this method efficiently, you‘ll have to spend some time for training, but the result repays all your efforts. Anyway, you’ll improve your knowledge and comprehension of kumite and tactic and strategy of fighting. Our way in karate is like a way of the practical scientist. The harder we study something new and unknown, the more remarkable results we achieve. • It’s a matter of co-operation with the partner during a fight itself. If you bring up the co-operation with your partner to perfection, your opponent will be forced to fight not face to face against you but against two competitors of high level. Just don’t think that I suggest you getting on tatami with your partner, it’s forbidden by rules, but if you make use of my method, you won’t be alone on tatami and it won’t break any rules of fighting.

In 1987 year In 1987 year, this law has been canceled. The result of this prohibition was back that nobody has had any experience of really competition fights. In addition, a little bit of masters have had a wish to share with somebody their knowledge of Karate. That is why I decided to improve my fighting skills on my own. Nobody could not help me. Well, I have some advice for you about how to prepare for competitions. If you are feeling yourself, too excited before the fights you need to take a special training. The first thing that can help you gets rid of the anxiety is simulation of competitions. What do I mean under that term? I mean that you need to spend a special training. Choose some quiet music. Use your audio plyer for it. Wear your kimono then wear a sports suit and running shoes. Start jogging from one wall of the dojo to the other. Listen to the music and do jogging for example 15 minutes. After that make three round of fights with shadow for 2 minute every. Work hard and intensive. Then imagine that referee have given the victory to you. Continue your jogging and listen to the music. Repeat this circle of exercises as long as you can. For example during about two hours. How do you think will you be alarmed or worried? I am sure you will be quiet and fun. When the day of competition will come just repeat, these actions without fights with shadow (remember that on their place will be real fights). Jogging. Listen to the music. Do not look any fights of anybody. Do not worry. You did all that you can earlier. Now it is just time for fight. I am so sorry for my too long post! The most terrible fact that it is a little bit of part knowledge about what must you do when you participate in competitions. Anyway, please feel free and ask me any questions if you would like. Take my best wishes and have a good time. Osu!

Kumite techniques and tactics. Hi friends. Thanks for visiting and welcome again to my page about kumite techniques and tactics. Today, I would like to ask you have you ever been a too excited before your fights. Have you ever felt an anxiety or alarm before the fights? Did it ever help you to win? I suppose that definitely not. When I was younger, I mean a really younger, you know. I always felt anxiety and alarm before the fights very much. I have begun to train karate in 1986. I was 16 years old school-boy. Russia have called as USSR in that time. The terrible fact was that in that time into my country was a law under which Karate classes were punished the USSR government by criminal penalties! All of people who interested karate risked of going to jail. Any competitions were not possible. Nobody could not train and learn karate legally. All of us were out the law! This was a dangerous time but our desire to study karate was stronger than all the prohibitions. We studied and risked! We have felt ourselves like as members of the secret order of karate, it was very fun.

How to maintain your exercise tolerance when you combat? How to maintain your exercise tolerance when you combat? What kind of technics and tactics can help you to be success? There are some very useful technics and tactics methods that make you possible to combat more efficiently. First try to anticipate your opponent by making attacks. For example: 1. Use your right gyaku tsuki against right low kick of your opponent; 2. Use your left seiken shita tsuki against left low kick of your opponent; 3. Use your left hiza geri against left tsuki of your opponent.

How to survive on the 30-man kumite? How to survive on the 30-man kumite? This is the most exciting test for people who are following on the karate way. All kyokushin students know that the exam on the third dan includes the one very important part. It called the 30-man kumite test. The well-known fact is it is the most difficult ordeal for masters who are preparing for the exam on the third dan. When I prepared myself to the exam, I was very excited about it. Then I was not surprised that of the four applicants for master's degree only my friend and I were able to pass this test without any consequences for our health. Two other candidates got severe injuries. What did help me? First, the footwork helped me very much. The second thing, which helped me to pass this test, was a practice of self-defense by movement around my opponent. The third thing I would like to advise you never do remain motionless especially when your opponent punches or kicks you. Move all the time, change a direction of moving, change a distance from close to long, backwards and forwards, and do not forget punch and kick very strong. Let your opponent be afraid of you. It is very difficult but you do not have any way for survive.

Now I would like to take a conversation about Geometry. Hi again, friends! Thanks a lot you are still with me :) Now I would like to take a conversation about Geometry. You may ask me “What's the trouble? Do we are already at the High School ? Shihan, you have promised to tell us about kumite and why you are talking us here about Geometry?” Do not rush to throw the stones upon me :). Now you will understand all of I am saying.

These are some useful things for beginner karate fighters. Hello and welcome to my FB – my name is Juriy you know). Now you may have read another part of my book "The Kumite: Techniques and Tactics" in which I would like to introduce you how you can become a qualified fighter and can be successfully in kumite. In that, part I want to share with you some of my views on some useful things for beginner karate fighters. I have conceived this book as a generalization of my exclusively personal experience and participating in the different level tournaments also my instructor work in own karate club "Hokushin dojo." All of I am saying here is my personal view of Karate and methods education students who want to become qualified fighters and to win fights not by sheer force their muscle but by the great skill, knowledge and understanding of what is actually a fight in karate. So don’t be stringent judges to me please. I’m just going to my karate way and hope to be usefully for another people. When I had begun to practice karate, I didn’t have any remarkable physique. I was a person of mediocre ability but I wanted to polish up myself and, obviously, I wanted to win very much! So, the first my “secret weapon” became the good technique of kicks. The second was the development the personal tactical techniques. Well let's see the some advice for beginners karate people: - Try to work yourselves perfecting certain kicks; - Train a different ways of movement . Link them together one after the other that it looks like an uninterrupted dance. Ok, that's all from me today)). Good luck with your kumite challenge!

The four hands fighter! Hey, friends. Thanks for visiting, and welcome to this note on techniques and tactics of kumite. Today, I would like to share you some of my views about what technique’s holds we could use when we are engaged in the fights. So, the first thing that I want to tell you I name “The four hands fighter”. What do I mean when I tell about four hands? Is it a joke or it is an erroneous expression? Definitely not. I sure. Each of you knows that man have two hands only. I know that fact too of course, but I would like to show you how we could become the four hands fighters. We use our two hands for attacks and defenses. We often use it’s on the close distance in the fight. What techniques we use at this distance else? And the answer is we use the knee kicks. The trick of “the four hands fighter” it is in which sequence we put punches and knees. And also which of knee kicks we use together with different punches of hands. Unfortunately, there isn't many knee kicks in the basic techniques of Karate but if we’ll look at the Thai boxing we can see a lot of different such kicks. I would like to suppose you to learn all of these kicks and to use them together your hand punches. I tested this method on my own competition experience and I won many of my fights with its help. For example, I have been using together such punches as: • a left tsuki plus a right mae-hiza-geri (I always use it combination with an offset from the line of attack and I'm taking a position next to the opponent on the right of him or on the left); • a right tsuki plus a left mae-hiza-geri; • a right mawashi- tsuki plus a left sankaku-hiza-geri; • a left mawashi- tsuki plus a right sankaku-hiza-geri; • a right shita-tsuki plus a left soto-mawashi-hiza-geri; • a left shita-tsuki plus a right soto-mawashi-hiza-geri. Do you remember I told you about sequence of using your techniques? And if you remember I told you how you can become " The four hands fighter" it is time for clarify this question. Try to do one punch your left hand then to kick your right knee and next continue with your right hand and then the left knee and then punch left hand again. Using way like this will do you " The four hands fighter". That's a little about my own experience of fighting, guys. If you'd like to ask me something about, feel free please. Best regards and good Luck. Osu!