- Welcome back to another episode
of "Scenic Fights",
Fight Scene Breakdown.
(upbeat rock music)
Name's Chad Vázquez.
- I'm Logan Lo.
- And we are back with another "Kengan Ashura" episode.
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- That's the right idea.
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With all this being said.
Let's break down the fight between Karo Yoshinari
versus Saw Paing.
- Wait, are you gonna choke me out again?
- Better, I'm gonna use strikes.
All right.
And let me explain about that.
Saw Paing, interesting character.
His background is not Muay Thai,
though it may look like Muay Thai, in his style,
if you're familiar with it,
is a style referred to as Lethwei
or also known as Burmese bare knuckle boxing, okay?
What's the big difference here?
Well, there are no gloves in this combat sport.
They use tape or rope to protect their hands.
There is also no point system.
So the fighters,
in using, ready?
Punches, kicks, elbows, knees, and yes,
headbutts, their goal is to just knock each other out.
So it's pretty intense in how they go about it.
- I gotta say you and I defer greatly
on the meaning of the word better,
but you seem passionate about it.
- Well, look, better for the fans.
- All right, let's get this breakdown started then.
- It's an awesome fight, let's do it.
All right there we see the Lethwei, Muay Thai stance.
Here we go.
Karo is massive.
- He's huge.
If I look like that
I would be posing like that all the time.
- I still do.
You know with or without that body
- [Logan] Damn, is the fight over?
He just stabbed him in the heart
- He just harpooned his ass, yeah.
- Oh, do I get to stab you with a harpoon?
- Oh, not yet.
No, no, not yet.
That's, you know, next episode.
Right cross by Saw Paing, right to Karo's face, son.
All right.
Nice body shot by Saw Paing to Karo,
and in this particular spot, he hit the liver.
- Gotcha.
- [Chad] All right, now
Saw Paing's unleashing combinations,
punches, kicks, elbows, knees.
Karo's going back.
Trying to meet Saw Paing's pace.
- [Logan] Wow.
- [Chad] Yeah, this is very dynamic.
Love it.
And there's a knee to the torso on Karo,
thrown by Saw Paing.
Okay, nice. - Nice.
- It's actually a move we do in dodging head kicks.
- Yeah, we have something-- - By Karo.
- We have something similar called wave in wave out
in Kali. - Okay.
- [Logan] Not that deep.
- And we have now a massive upper cut
by Karo on Saw Paing.
Okay, let's stop here.
A lot's happening.
We had a body shot, a punch to the torso, a liver punch.
We have a knee strike to the torso.
We also see an upper cut done by Karo,
which is launching Saw Paing right now.
Lot happening, lot of cool stuff.
Let's break it down.
So the first major body shot
by Saw Paing on Karo, was a liver shot.
Now how can you tell a liver shot?
Well, first thing is, if you look at two fighters
you have to first identify the fighter's right side.
This case here, Logan's liver will be right here,
by automatic human design,
on the right side.
We saw Saw Paing
in one of the exchanges,
throws a shot right there.
And that's a heavy shot.
If it lands well, you can drop someone.
You see it all the time in professional combat sports.
So the way that Saw Paing got to his liver shot,
he actually slipped Karo's right cross.
So in the exchange here, as Karo throws his cross here,
he slips it, which leaves the liver wide open.
Saw Paing saw it.
He took a shot.
Woo, right there in the liver.
Let's look at how to apply power into a liver shot,
with the pad on Logan.
So here we go.
Nice big pad to protect Logan.
- Thank God.
- Yeah (laughing).
We're assuming this is the liver.
So off that slip, there's a level change.
And this level change gives you the right base
and rotation power to hit that shot.
Here we go.
Level change.
(punches bag)
And that rotation,
is what gives you
that heavy liver shot.
So Saw Paing landed a shot like that on Karo.
Surprised that Karo didn't fall on that one.
- I did not enjoy that.
- So the next big body shot we saw thrown by Saw Paing,
on Karo, was a knee.
And if you look closely
it was a right knee to Karo's left side.
Now Saw Paing set up his knee with a lot of punches.
If you saw before, he throws that knee,
a lot of combinations were being thrown
with the hands.
Karo, being nervous and mindful
of those punches, opens up an opportunity
to hit here in the body.
(kneeing punching bag)
Which is what Saw Paing did.
So we have Karo coming back
with a heavy upper cut to Saw Paing's face, son.
Okay, so what's happening here?
Seems like Karo's was a big fan of "Scenic Fights"
and saw our April Fool's breakdown video
and the judo chop that came with it.
Good form.
Didn't scream, but no one's perfect, right?
So with his big gigantic two block right hand
he came in and judo chopped Saw Paing.
He comes back with the same hand.
He does a big upper cut, eyes white,
smoke coming around the hand,
as he just sends Saw Paing flying.
Okay, a bit exaggerated.
So how would a upper cut
really be set up in real fight using combinations?
Let's look at it.
So one basic strategy
to set up upper cuts
is to create the threats of hooks, punches.
For example, Logan and I, we're fighting.
He has fight stance here,
and I'm using combinations.
But in my combinations, I'm trying to throw hooks, hooks,
which will create what you're seeing now,
this shell like effect that Logan's doing
and what creates an opening up to the face.
So now I use a pattern,
let's say for example,
jab, cross, hook, rear cross, right?
Logan defends it.
I come back to it again.
Jab, cross, hook,
upper cut, right to the face.
That's one example.
And now with form and power,
here's how you apply an upper cut.
I treat upper cuts the same way I treat a hook,
same rotation of the torso.
The only thing I change is the rotation of the arm.
Here's my target.
(punches pad)
And then later on, mix it up with different combos
like leg kicks, jab, kick, fake, here
(punches pad)
and so forth.
- [Logan] Okay, he just,
he broke his hand. - Yeah.
That's because Saw Paing,
he has so much little fractures
in his body that it's hardened up.
So his bone's just like unbreakable.
Nice inside leg kick by Saw Paing on Karo,
dropped the man.
Boom, combinations.
Here we go.
Saw Paing's just throwing punches, kicks, knees, elbows.
This is the representation of his style.
Nice head kick by Saw Paing.
- [Logan] These are brutal fights
- Counter by Karo, yep.
- [Logan] Okay, what's happening here?
- Karo's styling, son.
He's on his big toe, upside down.
His fist is smoking.
He's not playing around.
Gets crazy.
- Are you gonna balance on your big toe too?
- Let's see, let's see, you know?
That might be a Patreon thing, hah?
All right, look at that stance
- [Logan] Charging.
- Here we go.
Screaming, war cry.
One eye missing
- [Logan] I'm actually interested in seeing
who's gonna win this.
So what was all that?
- They're going through the mind
of what the combinations will be.
- Gotcha.
- And we have a teep done by Saw Paing.
It's not a front kick, right to the gut
of Karo, and just thrown by Karo.
All right, we now have an up kick by Saw Paing.
Let's let's stop here.
Let's stop here.
Okay, we have leg kicks,
head kicks, a teep, upward kicks.
We have a lot of kicks here.
Let's break all these kicks down by kicking Logan.
Okay, ready for this?
Exactly, let's go.
One really cool exchange here.
We see Karo throw a big hook at Saw Paing.
So Saw Paing does a snap back.
Avoiding the hook from Karo.
He sees the legs exposed.
The lead leg.
From here, Saw Paing must come back to his stance
and launch a quick inside leg kick.
(kicking pad)
Saw Paing for his kick.
When he snaps back
and comes back to his kicking stance
his head first lands over his lead knee.
But when his head moves over to his right knee
there's no longer any body weight on the lead leg.
Which makes it very light and loose just to fire off.
And that's how these kicks are going.
The head goes over the opposite knee
of the leg that's kicking.
So here we go.
(kicking pad)
And then as you get better with this
snap back here,
you can just launch right from here.
So snap back.
(kicking pad)
And that's a beautiful inside kick by Saw Paing.
- That hurt.
- So Saw Paing throws a beautiful head kick
which makes Karo start doing ballet later in the fight.
But before we get there, what's happening,
how does he set it up?
So the way that Saw Paing is setting up his head kick
is in his combination before it,
he's throwing a lot of leg kicks,
which is bringing Karo's attention downward and not here.
And so here is an example
of a head kick.
I'll aim high here in order to protect Logan.
- Thank you.
(kicking pad)
- Nice little detail when it comes to kicks,
the further your knee goes out
the heavier it is,
but the slower it is as well too.
The tighter my knee is, the faster it is
but not as heavy as a kick.
As you spar and you learn these techniques.
You have to know how to pick a speed kick
over a heavy kick at the right time.
Usually heavier kicks come later in a fight
after you learn the person's pattern.
And you're finding the openings
to go for that finishing blow.
In fact, very similar to what Saw Paing did to Karo.
Saw Paing demonstrates
one of the unique kicks that you see from Muay Thai,
which is referred to as a teep.
So the teep is mainly used to maintain distance,
which allows the attacker to combine other kicks
and maintain that range.
As I step, my weight is mostly on my lead leg.
This makes my rear leg lighter.
And now, when the knee comes up,
I do a foot extension, a leg extension, and a lean back.
Push! (kick pad thuds)
And that push,
Push! (kick pad thuds)
is a good spear thrust.
That's a teep.
So Saw Paing throws his teep
while he's rushing and charging Karo.
One eye closed, bloodied up, screaming, and he lands it.
Now, there are counters to when you receive a teep.
For example, if Logan was to extend his foot
towards my stomach,
there are catches here where you can move the opponent
and whether a strike or sweep.
Karo just used his big ass hands to grab the ankle
and just toss this guy like the Hulk on Loki,
left and right.
- Please don't do that.
- Yeah, I don't think I could.
I wish I could though, you know, right.
Imagine my muscle and everything
But look, even though Karo did an exaggerated,
super human counter by grabbing the ankle
and throwing his partner left and right.
The logic is there, where when countering a teep,
you capture the leg.
Why is it easy to capture?
It's a spear thrust leg.
So it's easier to catch because it's so stiff.
So Saw Paing gets thrown down
to the ground by Karo's giant big ass hands.
And now he's about to get clobbered by this guy.
Saw Paing does a quick reaction
and does an upkick right to the face.
This is actually totally legit.
It's actually one of the first strategies used
in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu when it was being developed
in Brazil in street fights.
When the guard was being made, kicking was a main strategy.
It got more advanced where there was these good
unique controls now
to better control lower body
and create opportunities to kick
and go into different type of attacks.
Saw Paing does just a basic version of this
to get out from that position.
A very good example to show you how strong
up kicks are is Jacare vs Mousasi.
Mousasi was down,
Jacare was going to do very big punch,
exactly like that.
He leaned his head forward
and ate it, all five toes, right to the face.
(Logan laughing)
That was a clear knockout.
Perfect example of what I mean.
Okay, back to the feet, Karo dodges it,
goes for a a bear hug, a body lock on Saw Paing.
- [Logan] Saw Paing's done.
- No Saw Paing comes down with an elbow onto Karo
and let's see what's happening here.
Neck's getting bent.
And it's Karo that's done, baby.
- [Logan] Oh, don't do that to me.
- Okay, you know, we'll see.
We'll see, we'll see.
We'll figure it out.
But look, lot of cool stuff happened.
Let's break it down.
So on this final exchange
Karo applies his bear hug to finish off Saw Paing.
We refer to it mostly as a body lock within combat sports.
And he gets there by dodging, Saw Paing's punch,
stepping in and acquiring that lock here.
Then he picks up Saw Paing
and then starts squeezing him like so,
trying to finish the fight, right?
From here though
Saw Paing picks his elbow up and strikes right on his neck.
And that's how he escapes.
Is that a realistic way of getting outta the position?
I would say no.
What Karo's trying to do is squeeze the life outta Saw Paing
using his giant superhuman abilities,
which I guess in real life,
if there's that much of a size difference, okay.
Maybe there might be some damage,
but let's show you an effective way
to effectively use a bear hug,
AKA front body lock in combat.
And two, let's show you how to effectively
escape a body lock.
If you're in one.
In grappling
there are two types of controls.
And I tell my students this all the time.
There are outside control and inside control.
They're both important.
You need to know both, but if you have a choice of the two
I tell my students, generally speaking,
always go for inside control more than outside control.
What does that mean?
For example, this is an over hook.
This is an outside control.
This is an under hook.
That is an inside control.
Generally speaking, the person
with the most inside control
wins the exchange.
This bear hug, slash front body lock, is a perfect example
of inside control.
There's so much you can do here.
If Karo had some good grappling training, I don't know,
maybe a spot called Paxibellum Martial Arts in NYC,
he would know to use that position
to take the fight to the ground.
He had so many options
especially with his giant well-belly.
He would've won that fight.
So here's what he could've done.
From the body lock
create a circle where his leg ends up inside,
Saw Paing's leg, like this.
Now with that lead leg, he could bring his legs together
and circle his foot inside
for an inside trip.
This gives Karo top position
to start throwing punches right away.
With this take down
Karo could then start applying
immediate ground and pound
or some better positioning
in order to help him finish the fight.
So we saw Saw Paing finish the fight
and escape the bear hug with a downward elbow.
Could it work in real life?
I wouldn't say it wouldn't
You know,
you'd be surprised where a good strike can do
but let's look at a more realistic way.
So in this case here, I'm gonna pick Logan up.
All right?
Logan's first defense.
If he effectively gets lifted,
creating frames and pushing my head away.
Go ahead Logan, really go ahead.
Yep, yep, yep.
You'll notice
as my head goes more back,
holding my partner's body weight gets more difficult
because of my head position.
I need my head close to my hands for proper mechanics.
If you notice, as Logan pushed my head more back
I start to lower him down more
because holding him became much more difficult.
When you're using strong grappling grips
you need your head close to your arms for that connection.
He's ruining that.
Now there's more.
Logan, to better help himself,
can start incorporating strikes.
Well, in this case here, his arms are busy
but not his head.
Logan's head never goes to sleep.
Know what I mean?
So from here
we're going to show how Logan
creates a good frame here.
At any point, if I don't let go
he can opens his hands up
and create a headbutt opportunity
right to my face, man.
If he connects,
I'm letting go,
and you'll notice, even as he pushes my head,
he starts going down to the floor.
So now, as Logan is pushing and possibly headbutting
he's combining all this
with moving backwards and trying to extend my arms.
So altogether here,
Logan's getting challenged like so,
good frame there, some head strikes.
And now as he starts walking away from me,
I slowly lose my body lock,
giving Logan a clean exit.
(glass crashing)
It's always great to do a "Kengan Ashura" breakdown.
The matches they have there,
it's cool how they show real martial arts within that world.
What I really liked was Saw Paing in his demonstration of
Muay Thai and the Burmese bare knuckle boxing style,
the stance, the punches, the elbows, the knees, the kicks.
It was all really cool.
The only con I would say is Karo Yoshinari
did not demonstrate as much advanced martial arts techniques
and tactic and strategies
as compared to older episodes that we broke down before.
So because of that, I give it a B plus.
(glass crashing)