The Iron Fist Karate Man gets kicked by a Shorinji Kempo master!【Verify the protective gear】

0:02 I'm totally fine with it!

0:03 This is a really well-made!

0:05 Strong punches and kicks do not work at all!

0:08 This is the protective gear of Shorinji Kempo!

0:11 This is how to strike against the protective gear!

0:13 There seems to be a secret in the way you grip your fist.

0:23 "The Iron Fist Karate Man",

0:25 Taka's punch doesn't work against this protective gear.

0:30 Taka, let's put on this and try to get attacked.

0:36 Yes!

0:36 I want to take it!

0:37 What will happen?

0:42 Here you are.

0:43 Please sit down.

0:44 Kawashima sensei, could you teach him how to put that on?

1:01 Perfect.

1:02 This reminds me of my time doing Koshiki-Karate.

1:09 This protective gear is very solid.

1:12 It doesn't wobble at all.

1:20 Kawashima sensei, please hit him.

1:30 How is it?

1:33 That is double, so you don't get much of a shock, do you?

1:37 No.

1:37 This is nice.

1:38 I still feel the weight of his punches.

1:42 His punches are very strong!

1:44 But this absorbs the shock properly!

1:48 What is this like?

1:49 I see, the inside is also hard.

1:51 Yes, it is.

1:52 Yes, two hard things collide with each other.

1:55 This is great.

1:57 It's surprising.

1:59 You will be safe.

2:02 Let's talk like TV shopping.

2:04 How much is that?

2:05 It must be expensive.

2:08 Amazing!

2:09 Now, take a kick from Inoue-sensei.

2:13 It's scary!

2:14 Slowly first please.

2:17 Yes.

2:17 I'll do it slowly.

2:18 You are the same age, 63 this year, right?

2:22 -Yes.

2:24 I'll kick lightly.

2:25 -Please.

2:26 Should I bend forward a little?

2:28 -No.

2:28 That's fine.

2:31 A little use of the ankle can help with this.

2:33 Can you kick gradually harder?

2:40 I'm totally fine with it!

2:43 Do you feel no pain but the shock comes?

2:46 -Yes!

2:46 I feel the mass of the kick is transmitted.

2:51 Both the inside and outside plates are hard,

2:55 so indeed the kick does not smash through them.

3:00 This is a really well-made!

3:03 Incredible!

3:04 Here is the feature of this.

3:06 I have now mainly done this kind of "Keri-komi".

3:09 This kick is actually used when the opponent attacks.

3:14 He is attacking my "Chudan".

3:19 In this situation, if a woman kicks a man, she may be pushed back.

3:26 It's difficult to perform "Keri-age" in Shorinji Kempo.

3:30 So in the old days, when we had a single layer of protective gear,

3:34 we used to teach people to counter kick.

3:36 Our original technique is using this kind of "Go-no-sen",

3:40 but it was not easy to do.

3:42 With this kind of double structure, however, you can kick in space.

3:48 Someone said that this is space like a physical body.

3:52 By having space in this moment you can kick after blocking the attack.

4:00 With a single layer of protection, the impact will bounce back at you.

4:06 But with two layers, you can kick like this, or like this.

4:13 So the double layer allows you to practice with "Keri-age".

4:19 That is the best feature of this.

4:21 The other thing is when you practice punching like Taka-san did.

4:26 We normally use these 3 knuckles to punch.

4:28 But when we practice with this protective gear, we use 2 knuckles.

4:35 This is an applied way of punching; you use a grip.

4:40 We use these three when punching the body.

4:45 But when we punch hard objects like this, we use these two.

4:52 By practicing this applied punching technique, you will not hurt your fists.

4:58 In other words, this is like the difference between eating curry

5:01 and rice with a spoon and eating pasta with a fork.

5:05 So when you hit the body you punch in this way.

5:09 This way is for hitting the gear.

5:12 Teaching in this way prevents everyone from getting hurt.

5:16 This approach causes injury.

5:18 So you do this way.

5:21 It's like this.

5:25 Actually, to tell you the truth, this is very hard.

5:30 Your fists will get a workout if you hit this every day.

5:33 Inoue-sensei's knuckles are actually big.

5:39 You can see these.

5:43 These are bigger than mine.

5:45 They've developed big.

5:47 It is not a callus on the fist, but the joint itself is developed.

5:52 Like you, when I use these two,

5:54 I grip them in a way that puts the other two inside.

5:58 You need to study the grip too.

5:59 We do the normal Shorinji Kempo grip,

6:01 and we also do a grip that dares to put these two out.

6:04 Could you do that again?

6:06 We usually grip in this way.

6:10 It looks like this.

6:13 But we also do the grip that put these two out.

6:16 The other two is in.

6:18 -Yes.

6:18 Did you see it?

6:20 The normal Shorinji Kempo grip is like this.

6:26 It's curved this way.

6:27 Yes.

6:28 And another way is this.

6:30 These two come out.

6:32 We use this grip too.

6:33 We use this kind of grip when we punch the protective gear.

6:39 Do you need change the angle of the wrist?

6:41 Well...

6:41 Obviously yes.

6:42 Yes.

6:43 This part here is straight.

6:45 That's the difference between this and this.

6:48 -Yes.

6:48 This is what it looks like at the moment the punch hits, but not before.

6:55 When it hits, these two go in and the other two come out.

6:57 I see.

6:58 You keep this state when you punch the body.

7:01 You also need to study how to grip to prevent injury.

7:06 I sometimes teach this to our students.

7:08 Another thing I thought is, you hit such a hard object that if you

7:14 don't know how to punch accurately and tighten your wrists,

7:18 you will quickly get hurt.

7:21 Perhaps they can learn how to punch and kick accurately,

7:25 with a lot of mistakes, and that is the beauty of this protective gear.

7:32 This is great.

7:33 Whether you are punching or kicking, you must think about "Seichusen".

7:37 If your punch is off the "Seichusen" your opponent will rotate.

7:40 I see.

7:41 It's same for kicking.

7:42 If the kick is off the "Seichusen", it doesn't work.

7:46 You have to capture it.

7:50 He will rotate if you punch like this.

7:53 It is a basic principle that you capture

7:57 the "Seichusen" even though you attack from different angles.

8:02 Both attackers and defenders have to think

8:05 about capturing and off the "Seichusen".