Training at JKA (Japan Karate Association) Honbu Dojo

A training session at the JKA (Japan Karate Association) Honbu Dojo (World Headquarters) in Tokyo, Japan. Filmed in July 2014. Original upload from the JKA YouTube channel Kuro-Obi World.

[GABRIELJACMEL]

ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING! I remember when Sensei Aschkar from New York City had us training like this. The testing examinations were very brutal no exaggeration. If you were testing for brown and up your test was five hours long. You were going to earn that black belt for real. Oss for showing how real martial arts is to the worl.

[dimitristripakis]

Nice overloading, the one with the bungee. The ancient Greek wrestler Milon, from Krotonas, had discovered progressive overloading himself, which gave him many an Olympic wrestling medal (well, it was not a medal back then, it was an olive branch). He used to carry around a calf for weeks, and as it grew stronger, so did he. I like the wits behind such training. Makes you feel like feather afterwards, a great feeling.

[barrettokarate]

Tang Soo Do should have remained like this instead of turning into what it is today. I've watched some of their tournaments and I think any JKA fighter from only a few years ago would smash them. I'm lucky that I come from the Chuck Norris lineage and he early on cross trained with guys like Fumio Demura, Tsutomu Oshima and Hidetake Nishiyama. Most of our training and sparring looks like what you'd see in many of the JKA training sessions you see on the Kuro Obi World channel.

[naufalrajaaflah]

0:37 what is the term of that feet protector?

[GoandGoandgo]

I want to get admit here. How can I do this from Bangladesh?

[nerurastogi]

proud of our national. i dont know that is also more imp. in his life, s fight

[devildog]

Karate originated in Okinawa and remained in Okinawa for centuries. Along came the JKA and corrupted the general syllabus of karate with tournaments, contrived and unnatural techniques and general training nonsense. Then along came the west and added more nonsense plus really ignorant and adulterated techniques. The entire corrupting evolution has changed original karate into non-karate. If I pour water into a glass and then add some tomato juice, I no longer have pure water. The same applies to karate, outside changes defile it and it is no longer karate at all. This is not karate, it is just ignorantly but purposefully called karate.