What is a Brazilian kick?... Its a term that pops up from time to time on this board.. is it anything to do with capoeira?

Satankid:

The Brazilian kick do pop up from time to time on this board, and I don’t know if it is term used in other sports than in Kyokushin Karate and in the K-1?

As far as I know, the term "Brazilian Kick" started back in 1995 at the IKO1 Kyokushin 6th World Open Tournament, because Filho, Glaube and some of the other fighters from team Brazil use this "strange" but also very effective circle kick for the first time in a international tournament. The Brazilian fighters where the only one who made it at the time, so that is/was the reason why it was called the "Brazilian kick".

Glaube is a true master making it, and he has knock out many of his opponents in karate by this amazing powerful and fast kick. Glaube won all his fights by KO at the 1998 Kyokushin Coupe Du Monde, he defeated all the best Europeans and Japanese fighters by using the Brazilian kick. At the 1997 IKO1 Kyokushin World Weight tournament he defeated the former All Japan champion by KO so hard, that he was carried away from the ring, after he was hit by the Brazilian kick in the back of his head.

Glaube has also used the Brazilian kick many times in the K-1. He has knock out Nakasako by the Brazilian kick at the K-1 GLADIATORS 2001, and Glaube also hit Andy Hug in the face at the K-1 MILLENNIUM so hard and clean, that Andy got a deep cut behind his ear.

If you got some of Glaube’s K-1 fights on video, you can see the Brazilian kick in action against Mike Bernado at the K-1 DREAM '98, and against Satake at the K-1 GRAND PRIX ‘98 and against CroCop K-1 WORLD GRAND PRIX 2000 IN FUKUOKA etc……

The Brazilian kick is a combination of difference kicks. If you take it level by level, it first look like a knee strike or a front kick, then it turns into a circle kick and before it gets close to the face, it is drop down like an Ax kick. It is a very fast kick and hard to block, and if it hits you point blank.... There is pain in the air.

Here is a picture of Glaube using the "Brazilian Kick" in the dojo. As you might is able to see on the photo, it looks “strange” and like a combination of a knee strike, front kick and circle kick.

Glaube in action at the 1997 Kyokushin World Weight Open Tournament.

Glaube hitting Nakasako by the Brazilian Kick, two seconds latter it is end of game and goodnight Nakasako!!

Andy Hug after he got hit by the "Brazilian Kick" from Glaube at the K-1 Millenium Fight Night.

Here it is Filho using the Brazilian kick against Mark Hunt at the K-1 2001 GP.

a picture tells a thousand words.

oliver is such a blabbermouth. hehe.

beautiful pics of a beautiful kick. you can see how hard it is to block.

I can’t help it Felix. I found a few pictures in my collection of the “Brazilian Kick”, and then I had trouble picking only one. That is the reason for all these pictures.

As you say my friend, a picture tells a thousands words, so I have just told half a million words:)

Yes it is a beautiful kick, lets hope that Glaube will show it against Tra Telligman at the K-1 Fukuoka 2002.

That's what i thought was the crocodile kick! Does it get snapped down on an angle? Because Zach ,from the video game dead or alive, uses that and it looks devastating.

You never let us down Oliver!

However, from the pictures and your desription (I haven't seen the fights you mentioned)it simply looks like a well delivered Thai round-kick..

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I'm sure i've seen this being used by Kyukushin guys before Filho et al hit the scene

That would be because it is really a Muay Thai technique that them sneaky Japs robbed and claimed as their own.

wouldn't they call it the jap-bastard kick instead of the brazilian kick then? hehe.

satankid,
thinking it's a roundhouse is what gets you a boot to the head. first you think you're going to get teeped, then roundhoused but finally the foot comes downward on your skull. look at nakasako above, he had his guard up to block a roundhouse and got ko'd.

thanks Oliver
I've learnd something.

As Felix says above, you think you got your guard up to block the kick, but then it turns direction and hit you hard.

Even Nicholas Pettas got hit by Glaube as it shows on the first photo on this topic, and Pettas has been training hundreds of times together with Glaube in Kyokushin karate and in the K-1, but still he could not see the Brazilian Kick coming.

It is an very effective kick, I mean Glaube has hit Andy Hug, CroCop, Mike Bernado, Satake and Nakasako point blank with his Brazilian Kick, just to name a few fighters in the K-1, but it was "only" Nakasako who went down for good. If just Glaube were as good a boxer as he is a kicker, it would be a deadly wapon for him, just like the axekick was for Andy Hug. Lets wait and see if Martin Holm got a defense for Glaube’s Brazilian Kick, or if he also will bite the dust and get hurt like all the other big fighters named above?

I love this kick!

another difference between this kick and the roundhouse is the supporting leg. look at the pictures above. glaube's foot is pointing away from the target.

feitosa may never be a top 10 fighter but he'll always please the fans with his beautiful kick. i can't wait to see it this week-end.

I am also looking forward to see Feitosa fight, I always do - no matter if it is in Kyokushin karate or in the K-1.

As you say Felix, Glaube may never be a top 10 fighter, but he ALWAYS fight to the last bell, even do he gets knock down over and over again. Quitting isn’t his game, and if you combined his lion heart with his amazing kicking skills, you always got the feeling that he is only one kick away from victory. Just like Mark Hunt, he also only needs one single punch to finish a fight.

It is not always about winning or being a top 10 fighter, but as much about trying and believing in your self, also when it hurts. Many fighters in the K-1 don’t have that quality. Look at Nakasako, at the end of the day he is a "good" fighter, but he is also the biggest pussy in the K-1, he always start to cry and make faces when he get hurts just a little bit. He is the first to play smart and tuff, but also the first to lie down begging the ref to stop the fight.

There are always some fighters you like more than others, but I will always respect fighters who may not have the best skills in the world, but who always fight to the end. A good example is Noji and Glaube. And if you look at top 10 fighters, lets not forget Jerome le Banner! Remember his fight against Peter Aerts and Mark Hunt? He is type of person who will try to stand up and walk even do he was hit by a truck.

Here is a photo of Nicholas Pettas making the Brazilian kick.....

i think glaube is fun to watch, he has some good techniques. one thing
about glaube's "brazilian" kick is that he may fool some people that
think that a roundhouse is coming, but it always turns into a brazilian!
i dont think ive ever seen him throw a high roundhouse kick, so someone
that has seen him throw a few of these wont be fooled..

Hi!
I've been using this kick for years - ever since I started kickboxing and ju-jitsu! Its because I couldn't round kick to the head due to inflexibility and poor technique, and it was the only way of getting my foot up there!!
In fact, many times at the Ju-jitsu World Championships I've seen friends from several countries calling it the 'crappy Gary' instead of Capoiera! Cheeky sods!

I've always called it a downward round kick, for want of a better explanation!

Still use it now, as it can really catch people out!

Smiler
www.kickboxingshow.co.uk

The kick has been around for years, but the name: "Brazilian kick" comes from Glaube and Filho - that are 100% sure.

I have also seen the kick made before Filho and Glaube became international fighters. Back in 1987 at the 4th Kyokushin World Open, fighters like Kenji Midori, Andy Hug and the big Brazilian champion and 100 men kumite fighter Ademir da Costa already made the kick, but no one never mention or talk about the kick back then?

The first time I heard about the “Brazilian Kick” was back in 1995, at the IKO1 Kyokushin 6th World Open. But it was especially 4 years latter at the 7th World Open in 1999, where Glaube and Filho was fighting the Japanese hero and biggest star Hajime Kazumi, that the "Brazilian Kick" got famous world vide.

In 1999 Japanese journalist and members of the Kyokushin organization made the reason for the name, because for the “first” time in the history of Kyokushin, foreign fighters where bigger favorites than the Japanese. The Brazilian national team had tree fighters alone who all was better or at least as good as the best Japanese fighters, so the Japanese kept talking about the dangerous Brazilian team and if the “Brazilian Kick” will be the “death” of Japanese dominants in Kyokushin.

That was in the same period Glaube also got the knick name “Monster Glaube”. One year before the 7th World Open in 1999, Glaube defeated all the best Japanese, European and Russian fighters by KO at the Coupe du Monde in Paris. Glaube was so strong that he KO the All Japan Champion in less than 15 seconds!!

Glaube Feitosa was dominating and defeating anybody, who got in his way, only loosing two fights in a period of four years. Glaube only two looses was against Kazumi and Filho from 1995 to 1999. His lost against Filho was when he became 2nd at the 1997 World Weight Open, after defeating the Danish fighter Nicholas Pettas, and the best Japanese fighters on his way to fight Filho for the title. So team Japan and the Japanese karate nation really feared Glaube and Filho – with big reason!

I know that I just have told a long story, very long!! I also know that to 99% of all members here on the Axe, they don’t really cares about Glaube or the Brazilian Kick. But I just thought I would tell the real story and background behind the name: Brazilian Kick”.

Glaube hitting Nicholas Pettas at the 1997 Kyokushin IKO1 World Weight Open.

so how does this kick contrast and compare to your bog standard round house then??

See it on video and you will know tootslek.

thanks ol,
that helps alot :-P

actually toots, i described some of the differences above. in short this kick loads differently and connects differently.

thanks felix,
that helped me a lot:)

Filho making the Brazilian kick Vs Kazumi at the 1999 World Open.