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- I own "Sensei Ash," martial arts and fitness.
I've been training with some of the best in the world.
I'm a fourth degree black belt.
I'm working on my own
family fitness revolution program for kids.
- My primary base is American Kempo karate
but through my time, when I turned to black belt,
I was able to train with a bunch of different people
at different styles, TaeKwonDo,
some Mixed Martial Arts, Muay Tai, Judo, parkour,
some knife fighting and military combatives, as well.
I'm really excited.
I want to see how, uh,
you can pull off the kicks in real life.
- It's a front elbow.
So, it's more likely when we do our jabs,
it's like a jab with the elbow.
So, you're... the guy's up close to you...
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You go right in to him,
right into the head, the jaw,
anywhere to knock out.
So, it's definitely a move used in fighting all the time.
- This one is a hook with the front leg.
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Some people do it with a vertical punch
and some people turn their wrist
and get the full motion here.
When you're here, you have to turn your body
make sure you get the hip movement in
and then turn your body well into it.
So, that one is a reverse punch.
It's also quite a cross punch.
So, you're using your back hand.
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This is going to be one of your most powerful punches.
The problem is that it's very easy
for the opponent to see it.
- Crosses, uh, more the power
the power that actually comes from the leg.
and that's why you see him,
when he punches, he turns his leg,
He rotates it to add that power into it.
And, uh, that's a backend
and backend we use it all the time when we're fighting,
you just go right, instead of jabbing it
you're going to go around the head, bam
and hit him in the back of the head
or the side of the head, I mean.
So, it was a quick backhand
to the body or to the stomach.
So, this is one of the most popular front hand jabs.
And it looks Ryu was doing it to the body
and instead of telegraphing
and using your hips this way, you're pushing forward.
And it also looks like he's doing a shuffle.
So, he's getting a little more momentum to push forward.
- That's an uppercut, we really don't do it
from this...this bottom position.
I want to start down here to throw a punch from up here
but if I'm down here and he gets me down
I want to come right back up.
It's still a practical move.
- I'm not too comfortable with this one,
just because it's really hard to get power
with the front hand.
My worry is that if I get super low
it's super easy for them to sweep my leg.
So, this one is a push sidekick with your front leg.
This one's more of a defensive move.
It's not, gonna to be a most powerful kick
because you're not stepping through with your foot to kick.
- When you're attacking to the person,
it's a quick easy move to go right into him.
That's a leg kick and a leg kick us used more...
Most than anything in MMA and fighting,
in the UFC you see...
Is the kicking right to the thigh.
- So, if you kick right here
there's a bunch of nerves in your leg will fall asleep
Ryu is actually kicking to the...
It looks like the ankles
trying to kick the bottom of the leg, that works as well.
You can do a calf kick, which is the newer kick
that we see in MNA and that freezes up the leg.
And then they can no longer use the leg at all.
I don't know if I could pull that off in real life.
He's using his super good flexibility to bring his leg up,
in inward cresting kick.
This one's a little tougher
because realistically, if I'm in a fight,
and I throw a kick and he sees it coming,
he blocks out of the way.
I'm just wide open.
- But it is a martial art kick that we teach.
So, it is part of the martial arts
but not really practical in actual fighting.
It's like more of a shake kick
with the front leg as a little side kick.
It's a lot on the legs but if you miss uh...
the person will come on top of you,
so, it's kinda dangerous.
- Oh, that's a tough one.
Holy crap.
I feel like I've never seen this one actually happen
in real life.
All right, looks like we're kind of doing
some more of the fake ones.
- Oh, this is the hardest one.
This is not practical at all.
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- He's doing kind of like a crescent kick we did earlier
but trying to sweep the feet.
- I've been trying... I try to practice this.
The rotation is so hard to keep your foot up.
You can't turn your body and go into it,
but it's different than what he's doing.
Unless you're a break dancer, that's kind of impossible.
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That's a pop around us
that one we use a lot in martial arts,
it's a good, you go up, in the air,
bam, kick him in the head, come right back down
and you can get a lot of power into it
and bam, knock somebody out.
Fighters have used it.
I use it in my sparring matches and stuff.
So, yeah, it's fine. It's a good kick.
- All right,
so, this is probably one of my most favorite
of the kicks so far.
This one's kind of a sneaky one.
It's called an ax kick.
Usually, if you ever do a round kick,
it's very easy, you're telegraphing.
Anytime you do a straight kick, it's usually less power
but it's more direct and it's faster.
This is kind of a mix of both.
It looks like you're about to do a front kick
but you actually just bring your leg really high.
And they crack them across the face.
- It's more of a martial art,
like a Kung Fu-ish kind of stance.
It's more for the art of it.
You know, we don't... we don't have like,
oh, hold on, wait,
let's get ready into a stance before we fight.
- So, this is kind of an interesting combination.
So, he's starting off with a cross punch
and it gives him the distance to follow
up with a inward Crescent kick.
So, this one's kind of cool
because if the guy's too close to you,
you usually can't kick someone
especially with a really high kick.
If they're smothered up this close to you.
So, instead of using a jab, because there's not enough room,
he really brings it back, throws that cross punch.
So, we can do an inward Crescent kick we did before.
- That's a double elbow to a punch.
So, he's blocking his head and you go down
and you hit him in the stomach, as hard as you can.
So, it drops.
So, it just kind of practical.
I would never go on my knee, but I'll hit him
and I go low and hit the stomach
to have him drop his hands
and bam, I go for the head.
- He's using again, forward elbow.
He unravels it into a jab to the face,
reverse punch to the body and then upper cuts to the face.
It's a little bit of a combination of everything we've done,
pulling off in a real fight
if you're trying to tell yourself, you're going to do this,
you have to practice it hundreds of times.
So, you don't have to think about anymore
but it's definitely doable.
- Of course, you can't do a Hadouken, but hey,
it's always fun to do it again.
It was my favorite move in the whole game.
But, we do have double hand punches in martial arts.
We know we come around
and hit both the stomach and the chest at the same time.
So, it's a, kung-fu kind of move.
- In karate, I've definitely done a side push
to fold them over again or to push them away.
The other thing to do, as well,
is kind of this overhead and underhand strike.
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And this one, it's all about another combination
roundhouse kick to the groin
and then brings his leg back, steps up,
does a side-kick to push him backwards,
shuffles in with a reverse punch
and then really knocks them out with inward Crescent kick.
- And that's just a cool little combo.
You know, you hit them with a cross
or blocking and end them with a kick.
You just want to keep going levels and fighting.
We've got different levels to always play chess with them.
So, they don't know where the kick is coming from.
- I'm kind of surprised how many moves
actually worked pretty well.
Definitely, all of his punches
were actually super realistic.
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