WEBVTT - How Karate Works 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.320 Welcome to you Stuff you should Know from house Stuff 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:13.960 Works dot com. He and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:18.159 Josh Clark, just Charles W Chuck Bryant, and Jerry and 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:22.880 this is stuff you should know the Kata Day edition. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:25.360 That's pretty good. I looked up a bunch of these 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:29.280 pronunciations for once because we get the random email. Still, 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.479 it's like, it's really lazy that you guys don't pronounce 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:33.519 things right. I had a guy the other day on 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:35.800 Facebook said that he's brand new to the show and 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.360 it's a big turn off for him, and I just said, 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.800 you are in for a long, frustrating experience, my friend, 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.360 because it's kind of a hallmark of the show that 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:52.200 we botch pronunciations. Don't try we botched pronunciations. That's good stuff. Check. Thanks. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.560 You do you know a need karate? No, I never 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.360 took any of that stuff, did you. I took taekwondo 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:03.639 for in it. Yeah, And then I was like, yeah, 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.720 I'm surprised I didn't do it after the Karate Kid 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.560 movie because I was the age where I should have 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:14.600 run right out to the nearest dojo and signed up. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.959 But um, I think I remember even back then thinking 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.280 I don't ever want to get hit in the face 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:23.960 if I can help it, which is the same reason 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.280 I've never been in a fistfight. I don't. I don't 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:27.960 think they hit you in the face. I think, as 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.760 a matter of fact, if if you do go to 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.480 a dojo or a karate school and they hit you 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.520 in the face, you should tell somebody, because I don't 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.039 think they're supposed to do that. Well, yeah, you're right. 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:39.720 I just didn't want to be hit at all. And 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.400 once you see karate kid, all bets are off, you know, 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.559 because if you you never know, if there's a cobra 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.400 kai next door. They don't play by the rules. No, 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.880 they really don't. You know. They don't have sleeves to 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.360 their g now they well, they're just bad kids. They 0:01:55.360 --> 0:02:04.920 sweep legs, injured legs all like like I bleedingly blonde. Yeah, um, yeah, 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.400 they're bad guys. Did you watch that recently? I watched 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.280 some of it today, I did. I watched a little 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.760 bit of it. Um last week it was on And 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.919 I have to say that there's no bigger disappointment in life. Well, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:20.320 of course there are, but the more disappointing things in 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.079 your cable TV watching life than when you're scrolling through 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.080 and you see, oh, karate Kid and you turn it 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:29.440 on and you see Will Smith's son. Whoa, it's such 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.560 a letdown. I can't imagine you know that it was 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.080 at all enjoyable. So I've been burned. No, I didn't 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:36.800 watch any of it. I've been burned a lot lately 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.160 with that. And so the other day, Yeah, the other 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.280 day I saw karate Kid and I was like, I'm 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.200 not even gonna try, and I did, and I saw 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.960 Ralph Macchio and my heart just burst. That's the real 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.799 karate Kid. They should put on the cable list karate 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:57.360 Kid sucky version for the other one, I still say 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:01.119 to that moment where um Pat mur Da has been 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:06.520 training him with all the unknowingly training him with all 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.680 the tasks he performs, Yeah, like wax on, wax off, 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.800 sand floor, paint, fence, paint, house, jump on. When he 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.240 finally has it, the big climax of that part when 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.120 he's like, that's it, I'm out of here and he 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:18.760 tells him to show me all this stuff and then 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.320 he just starts in on him and he blocks all 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.160 the stuff. I'm getting chill bumps just thinking about it 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.160 all these years later, you really are Yeah, Wow, it's 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.240 it's powerful. They do that zoom in and he just 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.240 goes and he just starts wailing on him and he 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.440 blocks it all and then they bow and that just 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.400 should have been the end of the movie. Oh no. 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.880 I watched the end of the movie today and I 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.560 was like, hoping this is still good, like the whole 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:47.119 montage with the best around, you're the best around. Uh 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.760 and then the of course crane kick at the end 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:55.480 where he sends Billy's avka, Yeah, sprawling ye great stuff. Yeah. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.960 And if you want to feel super old, last year, 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.760 Ralph Mancio turned the same age that At Marida was 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.880 when they shot Karate Kid. What yeah, oh wow, because 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.880 he was rob Macho was old when they made that movie. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.000 He was playing sixteen. But he was like, yeah, he's 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:15.000 much older. Wonderful actor then he had met. I worked 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.520 with Pat Marida once on a music video. He was awesome, 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.920 which one I can't remember actually it might have been 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:27.680 uh Alien Aunt Farm there they were banned. Okay, they 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.800 weren't very good, but they had a video with Pat 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.280 Marida and it and he uh, Pat Marida drank white 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.840 wine all day long. Yeah, in his trailer he had 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:36.520 like a couple of bottles of chardone on ice. I 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.520 thought that's my only story. Was he in the Karate 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.000 Kid three with Hilary Swank. I didn't watch any of 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:47.000 the sequels. Actually, the second one was pretty good. It 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.400 had at Peterson Tara song in it. Yeah, I didn't 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.000 see that one. Good one he goes as he goes 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:53.600 to Okan. Now, all right one and there's like the 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.960 hurricane and the bad guy who turns out to be 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:57.400 a good guy in the end. And he probably has 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.840 a Japanese girlfriend in that one, right, he falls in 0:04:59.920 --> 0:05:04.000 the love over there. Yeah, I'm not Elizabeth Shoe. No, no, 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:05.800 I don't. I don't even know if she made an 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.480 appearance in the second one. But anyway, Chuck, you realize 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.560 we've just dedicated it eight minutes to talking about Karate Kid. Well, 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:16.400 I mean, you can't not. Every other line in this 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.800 article made me think of the Karate Kid movie. It's 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.599 funny you point out this article because reading this article 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.760 made me laugh for a different reason. Every time I 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:30.240 saw martial arts expert or karate Master, I thought of 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:34.800 like Napoleon Dynamite. I couldn't get past that. So if 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.080 you're if you want to real treat, read this article 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.680 and just think read it in the voice of Napoleon Dynamite. 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.839 It works really well. Uh, and just a bit of 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.760 c O, a real quick with a lot of things 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:48.160 like chess and things that people are really into. This 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.440 is a very broad introduction to kadate. This is uh. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.400 We should even call it kata te for non practitioners, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.800 kada te for people who pronounce it karate right be 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.680 because this is gonna be a nice overview and a 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.720 nice introduction. But um, please do not think we are 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:14.080 kata te experts or masters, because we are not. Let's begin, Yes, 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.760 so chuck. It turns out and you're pronouncing it correctly, 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.640 kata t. It's actually two words, and I guess okinawan 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:29.000 because that's where it was originally invented okinawa. Um. And 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.640 basically the whole premise of I am forgive me everyone 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.800 who's appears, but karate. That's how I was brought up 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:40.000 to say it. Yeah, we'll just say it like that, yes, um. 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:45.400 The whole purpose of it is to basically manipulate basic 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:49.320 physics to your advantage. So no matter how big or 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.320 small you are, you could conceivably win a fight or 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.320 thwart an attack. That's right, um. And like I said, 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.839 the whole the whole thing began in Okinawa, and most 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:04.640 martial arts came out of India, Japan or China. And Um, 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.640 karate is, from what I could see, the second most 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:12.920 widely practiced martial art, so after taekwondo. Interesting. I I 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:14.960 saw it like in a couple of places, but it 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:20.240 wasn't necessarily verified. And then, um, that's really saying something 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.440 because over the years of the last few millennia, since 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:26.640 people started practicing martial arts, um, there have been thousands 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:31.960 of variations on the theme. But karate is definitely its 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:36.280 own thing, and it arose out of this these periods 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.360 of strife where the peasantry often had their weapons forcibly 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.920 removed from them by the ruling classes so they couldn't rebel. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.840 And so the o'kanawan said, you know what, Um, fine, 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.320 We're going to teach ourselves to use our bodies as weapons, 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.480 and thus began the groundwork for karate. That's right. And 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.200 there's a father and son who are credited as the 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:02.920 uh sort of the father of modern kata te um. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:08.440 The father was Funa Kochi gi Chin Chichen and he 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.640 wrote the original twenty guiding principles of kada Te. And 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.600 his son they developed the Shoto Khan style. And the 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:20.960 son his name g I g O. What is that? Gijo, Gijo? 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.000 Where do you see that? Well? That was his his 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.640 His full name is Funakoshi Yoshitaka, but I think he 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.040 went by Guijo, Uh, Funakochi. It would probably be gi 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.440 Jo because name is chi Chin, which I verified with 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.640 my wife by the way, okay, and she knows much 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.640 more than me. So uh, that's the father and son. 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.559 The son started doing kada te because he had tuberculosis 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.840 and you know, well, as we'll get into this krid, 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.280 he's very much about breathing and so he did to 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.199 help with that, which it did. But he did dive 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:57.800 tuberculosis at thirty nine. But they were the modern founders, 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.000 and Dad was a little more aggressive than son. He 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.960 was full contact. And the sun came around and said, 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.040 you know what, I believe in a more peaceful application 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:11.120 of this and this karate dough or the karate way 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:16.120 is more of approach to life and um than just 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.000 like a combat style. Right. He took it from like 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:23.199 being a like a kind of a lunghead, like just 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.680 like his old man, right, just beating people up kind 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.880 of things too. You don't really have to actually hurt anybody. 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:32.760 You don't even necessarily have to land a blow on 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:37.160 another person to be a karate master. And that's what 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.080 he came up with, Like you said, the karate dough, 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.160 um and this is this is all fairly recent. I 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:47.160 mean we're talking like the early twentieth century. Yeah, um 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.880 and the dad uh Funukoshi ji chin he took it 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:56.959 from Okinawa to Japan. But his son, um Funukoshi Yoshitaka 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:02.840 what did you say, his nickname was sure he uh 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.280 kind of introduced it to the world, made it a 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.880 lot more like two guys like you or like I 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.880 don't want to get kicked in the face. Yeah, he said, 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.680 no one's gonna kick you in the face. Let me 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.000 teach you the karate way, and he did. But a 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:17.720 way to really know you're not getting kicked in the 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.439 face is to never take karate. Let's just watch from 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.280 the sidelines. Yeah, to be a student, and the students 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:30.319 are called a kata taka um or karate ka from 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.280 the American South, And like you said, that's actually two 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.640 words in Japanese. It means a kada is open and 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.400 ta means hand, So it means open hand and reference 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:44.560 to your body as your weapons. And there is the 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.200 weapon and then openness. It's all about being open to 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:52.720 the world around you and very observant um for many reasons, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.000 but one reason is so you can be aware of 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.559 when the street thugs are coming after you, right the Yeah, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.760 you're open to your roundings. And I didn't realize that 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.280 they were, that they signified two separate things. I thought 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.520 it was open hand, like you know, like slat fighting 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.640 or something like that. I knew it wasn't. There wasn't 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.640 a lot of slapping in karate, but um, I thought 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.240 open hand meant that you had no weapon in your hand. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.040 But that's just what the hand meant. The open part 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.319 was I'm aware of everything right now, and I'm open 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:28.360 to changing possibilities and options, which is a huge fundamental 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.640 part of karate. Yeah, your spirit is open as well. 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:36.520 Yeah this, uh, this UM article gets kind of esoteric 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.400 at the end. It does, but I think that's part 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.640 of it for a lot of people. So we'll cover that. 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:46.240 So if you are a non cobra kai member of 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.280 a karate school, you're gonna wear what's called a G 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:54.120 in white. It's the loose fitting pants in the robe 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.320 that's pulled together by a belt. It's not a black 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.360 muscle shirt. I know that's disappointing with a cover on 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.920 the back. Uh, that's right. And you are ranked by 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.920 your dawn d A N and these are the rankings 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:12.440 in ascending order, from ninth to six Q. That's your 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.760 skill level. Right, you can mean novice. You can just 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.800 give a little white belt. Your your belt is gonna 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.920 match your g You're gonna feel silly. It's a little 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.559 white uh mess of a six year old. That's probably 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.640 when you're gonna do kta tell these days. The fifth 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:29.560 que is you're gonna get the yellow belt. You can 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.560 feel a little bit better about yourself because you have 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.600 color now. Then you're gonna get your orange belt at 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.040 the fourth level. You're gonna get your green belt at 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.920 the third, your blue belt at the second, the brown 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.040 belt at the first, and then from first to eighth. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.400 Don you're gonna get that old black belt, which I 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:51.160 always thought was the top level. Apparently there's a red 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.439 one after that, did not know that ninth and tenth 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:58.160 dawn And it even says in quotes rarely awarded. Um, 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.959 but now that you mentioned it, the bad guy from 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:05.320 Karate Kid, I believe we're a red belt man. What's 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.840 his name? I don't remember. He was from the pac 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.959 Man headroom. Yeah. I was gonna say Mr Lawrence, but 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.760 that was the kid because he's the one that said 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.200 you have a problem, Mr Lawrence. Oh yeah, with sweeping 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.080 the leg just since. Yes, everybody knows him as since. 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:22.599 But yeah, I think he had a red belt. But 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.720 boy he got his come up and send the parking lot. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:29.120 He sure did. Spoiler alert. But the Q actually the k, 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:33.720 the kyu, the different levels. Um, that's not just used 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:39.720 in karate. They use it in flower arranging, ichibanabana um 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:44.280 and tea ceremonies and basically any Japanese pursuit where there 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:48.880 are masters and there are novices. Maybe I didn't see that, 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.000 but I wouldn't be all that surprise fly catching with 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:57.319 chopsticks maybe. So, Um, you go through queues. Interesting, that's 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.000 pretty cool. They really take that stuff seriously, Like it 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.440 seems like I don't know, I just appreciate the culture. 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.560 Of like if something's worth pursuing, it's worth pursuing, like 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.800 with all you got right exactly. They don't do things 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.440 halfway like we do here in the United States. Like 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.440 I'd stop at the green belt, right, you'd be like, 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.840 I'm at the green I'm doing good now you you you. 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.520 They definitely do pursue things all the way. Um. And 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:26.440 there was another point that I went and clarified with 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.840 your cue with going from like a white belt to 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.600 a yellow belt to an orange belt. It doesn't necessarily 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.720 mean like you are like a karate master or even 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.120 like a tea ceremony master. What it means is, um, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:47.280 you are capable of performing certain um acts that are 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:52.400 expected to be performed by somebody of that level. Okay, 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.560 because I wanted that, because I'll see on Facebook, like 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.240 a friend's like eight year old son is a black belt, 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.760 and I'm like, really, like really, I mean that means 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.120 that they can do like X kicks or something. It 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.760 doesn't necessarily have to do with talent, although I'm sure 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.840 a lot of people dispute that. I think it's more 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:14.360 like your technical proficiency is described by your belt. I think, 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.360 all right, oh man, we're gonna have a murder for 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.760 that one. I can already hear the keys, the hands 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.440 on the keyboard. So we're gonna talk about physics and 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.280 probably a lot more about the karate kid right after this. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.720 So physics, buddy, If you're moving and doing anything in 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.920 this office, it's going to be described in terms of physics, 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.240 because that's what we do here. And when it comes 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:44.440 to katte or any fight, really, um, you've got potential 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.240 energy going on, and uh, just because you're a big, 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:52.680 strong dude doesn't mean you're gonna necessarily win a fight 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.560 against someone smaller and weaker, because there are different ways 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:59.400 of applying that energy, and karate exploits all that it 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.880 does not exploits, but I guess well, it teaches you 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.840 to exploit it because if you've got your energy and 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.360 you've got somebody else's energy, if you can figure out 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:11.160 a way to put them together, then you have just 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:15.280 doubled or done whatever to your energy. By adding theirs 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.960 to yours, that's right, you create an advantage for yourself. 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.040 And that's kind of the key to being a little 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.720 guy like Ralph Maccio and still winning the tournament like 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.480 a broken leg even that's right, Um, so the first 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.840 stuff you want to focus on is learning to concentrate 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:37.040 your energy. Um, I think manipulating your opponent's energy. What 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:38.920 we'll talk about next. That seems to be like a 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.440 possibly a more advanced step. First you start out on 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.920 yourself and um, there's a couple of ways to do this. 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:50.320 By concentrating your energy, we mean you're concentrating the force 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.640 that you're delivering with a punch or a kick to 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:58.840 a very small surface area of your body. Like if 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.120 you come up and you shove me, and you're like 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:05.480 you got something to say, huh, and your hand displayed, Um, 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.520 like you're gonna push me backwards, but you're not gonna 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.800 break my rib because the force of your shove is 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:16.560 distributed across your palm, your fingers, your fingertips. Um, you 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.359 know all the jewelry you wear, all of that is 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:23.639 going to be spread across my chest. If you took 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.720 that same amount of force and put all of your 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.920 fingers in your thumb together, I delivered it all form 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.920 basically a point um with your with your fingers and thumb, 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:35.960 then all of a sudden, you are going to break 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.240 my ribs. You probably would punch right through my chest 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.480 and out of my back, I would rip out your 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:44.000 heart and like a street fighter, right. Um. Yeah, and 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:45.359 you can do that on your own body. If you 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.760 take like your five fingers and just kind of pound 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.080 them on your chest and then with the same amount 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.640 of energy put them all together, it's gonna feel much different. Yes, 0:17:54.640 --> 0:18:00.080 very simple concept. You're you're diminishing this the s this 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.960 area of the point of impact and thereby increasing the 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.360 amount of damage you can do to an opponent. Yeah. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.960 And in case of punches and kicks, you're you're probably 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.520 reducing that to a bony area of your hand or 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.840 your foot. And uh, a lot of training goes into 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.879 strengthening those areas of your body. Um. And that's your 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.840 technique because uh, you know, if I just went and 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.439 flailed at someone and punched them, I'll probably break my 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.840 hand because I don't know how to do it. But 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:31.159 it's all about technique and karate. So um, you're you're 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.320 gonna have those parts of your body ready to absorb 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.880 that impact on your end as well. Yeah. And apparently 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:41.240 up until not too terribly long ago, UM kata techas 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:45.560 which are karate students again, UM would in their training 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.960 once they said Yeah, I think I'm gonna get serious 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.000 about this. Yeah, they would break their middle fingers of 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.320 their own hands and larger knuckle. Yeah. Crazy, As as 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.240 it healed back, the knuckle would just be larger, and 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:01.680 so that little point of impact is strengthened and um 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.240 made just a little larger so that they could really 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.160 focus it in there and hurt people. Wow. Yeah uh 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:09.880 and that that they don't do that anymore, Right, that's 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:14.160 out of practice, out of fashion probably you never know, Um, 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.159 did you see that article I sent to the Science 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:20.000 of Bruce Lee's one inch punch? That is a pretty 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:25.320 good example of concentrating your energy over a small surface area. Yeah, 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.439 And and there's a video that goes along with it too, 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.240 that was it's pretty cool to watch, you know. He's 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.240 he was famous for that for being able to hold 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.120 his hand one inch away from a board and then 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.040 send that fist through the board without like reaching back 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.359 and rearing back. And he does it so quick and 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.200 there's so much power. It's it's just like it really 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.480 comes through even this old, grainy black and white video, 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:48.639 like you have to rewind it ten times just to 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.679 be like, man, did that just happen? Yeah? That quickly. Yeah, 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.200 and the bride famously used it to punch her way 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.119 out of a coffin when she was buried alive and 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.840 kill Bill. Yeah. I'm calling total bs on that now though, 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.119 what that she the way out? Yeah, because if you 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:03.879 watch and then I guess it's a good time to 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.040 talk about this. Uh. Karate is all about putting as 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:11.040 much um impact with your whole body behind that puncher kick. 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:15.720 So when you see someone kicking karate, it's uh, they're 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.359 not just kicking at you like Daniel Son did at first. 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.440 They're usually standing sideways and winging their whole body around 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.360 to get their whole the whole energy of their whole 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:27.639 body into that kick or punch. And that's what Bruce 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:30.760 Lee does. You see him, He lunges forward super fast 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.120 with his body and just puts all that energy into 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:35.800 his little one inch punch. But Uma Thurman's in a 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:38.639 coffin like she can't move at all. So I just 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.840 called total bs on that. So with Bruce Lee's punch, 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.320 and that's the only thing that movie that wasn't realistic, right, 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:48.720 everything else is totally dead on. Beat somebody baby, Uh. 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:52.520 When uh Bruce Lee does that one inch punch he 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:57.160 um and you say he lunges forward a little bit. Yeah, 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.399 what you're seeing right there from that lunge to the 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:03.320 point where he's broken through the board um is actually 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:07.560 a sequence. They figured out. It's a sequence of muscle 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:13.399 movements to where he starts out generating energy or force 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.359 through his huge through the big muscles in his legs, 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:20.399 and then moves him up through his hips by and 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:23.800 then twists his torso and then basically shoots it out 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.679 of his arm. It's crazy. So basically he's he's generating 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:30.520 a tremendous amount of force and power in his legs 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:32.919 and directing it up through his body and out his 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:36.720 arm and then shooting his his hand and inch out 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:39.560 and all of that force that's been generated by his 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:44.480 muscles is focused right onto his little knuckles and it 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:47.439 goes right through a board. It's it's pretty awesome, like 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:51.640 someone should animate that, like the the energy of that 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:55.280 from the who knows, from his little toes all the 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:57.280 way up. It seems like every part of his body 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:00.400 is going into that tiny little area. Yeah, it's pretty pressive. 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:03.520 And that they in this article that was on Popular Science, 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:07.760 they figured out that, yes, the the muscles definitely count 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:09.920 like somebody who didn't have these muscles wouldn't be able 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:12.960 to do this. But even more important was um the 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:17.160 white matter, the the the material that connects neurons, that 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:23.440 transfers energy or not energy information between your brain cells. Um. 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:28.560 Because the timing that was required to fully focus this 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:32.280 force in this perfect sequence over this very short period 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:35.520 of time took a lot of white matter and Bruce 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:38.000 Lee must have had that stuff in aces. Yeah, he 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:40.800 was awesome. Man, those movies are still so great. Uh. 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:43.960 The other thing Bruce Lee is doing there is following through, 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:48.800 which is huge in uh in Katte, what's it called 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:51.480