Anyone follow the Japanese kickboxing scene?

[biscuitsbrah]

I never paid attention until now how dynamic their lighter weight kickboxing scene is.

Guys like tenshin and takeru are so quick and explosive. Even mma fighters like kyoji horiguchi and the asakura brothers.

Seems like the karate background mixed with kickboxing might help produce these types of fighters.
Who else is fun to watch?

 

[SandaKicker]

Masato was fun to watch, not a current fighter though. Not really a Karate stylist either;

 

[zapataxiv]

I never paid attention until now how dynamic their lighter weight kickboxing scene is.

Guys like tenshin and takeru are so quick and explosive. Even mma fighters like kyoji horiguchi and the asakura brothers.

Seems like the karate background mixed with kickboxing might help produce these types of fighters.
Who else is fun to watch?

That use to be my shit.
You should check out AJKF from the 90’s and early 2000’s
They had a bunch of dudes who competed in basically that rules with more weight given to punching and had several ranked Thais compete.

My dudes were atsushi tateshima he had some of the nicest spinning elbows in the game (galaxy jill) has a great highlight of him.

Actually just check out galaxy Jill on YouTube there will be a gang of great highlights on Japanese kickboxers who were from/still represent various KK styles.

 

[SandisLL]

karate background mixed with kickboxing might help produce these types of fighters.

Or karate mix with MT.
Asian scene is full with very powerful and highly mobile athletes <65 kg ……….
Because different average male's weight in Asia vs Europe, talent pool for this weight in Asia is larger + large countries with dense population.

 

[exclamatio]

Nojillnolife

 

[zapataxiv]

@biscuitsbrah check out this website it has the most recent k1 event and Krush stuff
https://patadaalta.com/videos-y-resultados-de-krush-112-keiji-consigue-venganza-contra-hisaki-kato/

This is a blog by fellow sherdogger @Loriquero

 

[right hand lead]

I stopped after the golden days of K-1max ended..... man what a great time it was to be a striking fan! Without k-1max idk if I’d ever be where I am at today

 

[JohnPJones]

I never paid attention until now how dynamic their lighter weight kickboxing scene is.

Guys like tenshin and takeru are so quick and explosive. Even mma fighters like kyoji horiguchi and the asakura brothers.

Seems like the karate background mixed with kickboxing might help produce these types of fighters.
Who else is fun to watch?

I mean kickboxing in Japan and the US was just full contact karate for the first decade or so...so ya, their karate background probably helps

 

[zapataxiv]

I mean kickboxing in Japan and the US was just full contact karate for the first decade or so...so ya, their karate background probably helps

That’s not 100 percent true. Kickboxing in Japan has had a long history of incorporating Muay Thai and KK. Most of the current orgs in japan have guys coming from modified kk branches or gyms that focus on hybridized karate and Muay Thai. The type of Muay Thai tourneys that happened in japan with the level of karatekas didn’t really happen here in the USA.minstead it spread here and was not as popular

 

[JohnPJones]

That’s not 100 percent true. Kickboxing in Japan has had a long history of incorporating Muay Thai and KK. Most of the current orgs in japan have guys coming from modified kk branches or gyms that focus on hybridized karate and Muay Thai. The type of Muay Thai tourneys that happened in japan with the level of karatekas didn’t really happen here in the USA.minstead it spread here and was not as popular

KK is karate...and MT wasn’t trained by Japanese kickboxers, MT rules helped form the rules in early KB in Japan.

In the 60s and 70s there is little evidence of cross training between karateka sandy MT for the KB scene, at least on any major or notable scale.

 

[AndyMaBobs]

Masaaki Noiri was always my favourite of the Japanese kickboxers a few years ago - he's still active but was really on a tear during the early days of Glory

 

[KID Yamamoto]

Subscribe to the K-1 youtube channel. You can see a lot of recent fights there.

 

[zapataxiv]

KK is karate...and MT wasn’t trained by Japanese kickboxers, MT rules helped form the rules in early KB in Japan.

In the 60s and 70s there is little evidence of cross training between karateka sandy MT for the KB scene, at least on any major or notable scale.

My bad I thought you were trying to equate the kickboxing and KK with flashy pants stuff from the US

 

[JohnPJones]

My bad I thought you were trying to equate the kickboxing and KK with flashy pants stuff from the US

i mean US kickboxing started with karate as well...that's why all of the original kickboxers here were karateka through the 60s and into the 70s. i'd estimate the late 70s-80s would be when full contact kickboxing really began to be considered it's own thing.
in the US the from a legal point of view, point fighting is classified as semi-contact kickboxing