Varga’s saifa slam

GojuTommy

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Last night was karate combat 37, and I’ve been believing for a while now the first set of movements from saifa kata were throws/body slams, rather than the elbowing someone behind you I was taught, and Gabriel Varga went into a body lock, to a body slam ending more or less in shiko dachi early in the fight pretty much exactly how I have been thinking of the practical application of those early saifa movements.
 

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Any chance you have video of the particular section you are talking about?
 
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Any chance you have video of the particular section you are talking about?
Weirdly couldn’t find it on their channel


3:16:57

In a day or two they’ll like have the individual fights uploaded as their own videos as well.
 

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The fight starts at 3hr 15min mark if anyone wanted to fast forward to that specific fight.
 

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Okay, I've watched the fight and Varga looks good (as he always does). @GojuTommy , could you post a link to video of the kata in question and point out the sections which you think corresponds to the technique Varga was using?
 

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