Outcast is too good at martial arts (148)
Over the past three years, Im Jin-soo has traveled around the world and mastered all kinds of kicking techniques.
Starting with East Asian martial arts such as Taekyun Kyokushin Karate and Wushu Santa, Muay Thai Kickboxing and even Brazilian Capoeira.
The more I studied, the wider and deeper the world of kick was.
During the training period, Im Jin-soo was able to smile with relief every time he heard the news of a flawless victory.
‘As expected, I’m a bastard, I’m a bastard!’
Mugyeol’s kicking skills were enough to make him a WFC contender.
However, in their first title fight against middleweight Adebayo, Mugyeol revealed a glimmer of weakness.
Of course, the physical problem was bigger, and he won by KO in the second round, so it was an embarrassing crack to call it a weakness in the end, but it couldn’t be ignored.
A small gap created during his rookie days eventually becomes the cause of the downtrend.
Having seen so many seemingly invincible players collapse in the same pattern, Im Jin-soo made up his mind.
Now is the time to return to the innocence.
Coincidentally, Im Jin-soo was also in Brazil, the last journey of his samurai training.
After witnessing the match of Renato Silva in Brazil, Lim Jin-soo completed three years of safe training and headed to the United States.
To upgrade the flawless kick to the next level.
Moo-gyu and Im Jin-soo, who met after a long time, shared the joy of the reunion with a warm embrace.
“How long is this really?”
“I know. How come you look younger?”
“I did all kinds of sports while walking around.”
“Then shouldn’t I grow old?”
“Originally, people who accept new things never get old.”
Im Jin-soo said that and lowered his voice to a whisper.
“Actually, I saw the Rio Carnival in Brazil.”
“hmm?”
“Looking at it once, I felt like I was 5 years younger.”
“…does your sister-in-law know about this?”
“Do I really need to create a riot?”
As the feelings of the reunion gradually subsided, Im Jin-soo immediately checked the level of the flawless kick.
“What are you doing now? Are you going back to your accommodation?”
“no. It’s a bit out of the blue, but let’s see some kicks.”
“now?”
“Yes, right now.”
Im Jin-soo went straight to the point as if one minute was wasted.
Founding-!!
Watching Mugyeol kicking a punching bag and kick mitt, he quietly nodded.
“You are still there.”
“Is it still the same?”
“Hmm-.”
“What is praise or criticism?”
“For now, it’s not that bad.”
The perfect kick was exactly what Im Jin-soo said.
It hasn’t regressed compared to 3 years ago, but it doesn’t mean that there is a corner that has developed in particular.
The trajectory is not bad because the basics are thoroughly taught.
In addition, the destructive power that comes from the strong lower body and core muscles is of course advanced.
However, there is still a lot of room for improvement.
‘How nice it would be if I could kick a variety of kicks with this good hardware!’
Equipped with various kick options that make use of the overwhelming reach.
That will be the key to defeating light heavyweight champion Johnny Bones.
“Mr. Khalid, can I be in charge of coaching the unbeaten kick?”
Lim Jin-soo proudly volunteered as a personal kicking coach.
It’s different from three years ago when I wasn’t confident about my skills.
For three years I spent all my time traveling around the world to become a good kicking coach.
“As long as your integrity is good.”
From Joel Khalid’s point of view, there was no reason to refuse.
From the very next day, Moo Gyeol and Lim Jin Soo had daily training and separate kick training sessions.
Relative analysis was the first step.
“Nothing, are you going to fight Kojiro Sato?”
“Oh, you seem to be understanding my situation.”
“of course. News articles, communities, podcasts, SNS, I watched everything related to you anyway.”
“Did you make sure you played the role of manager even in my absence?”
“then. My place is right next to you.”
“I don’t know if I would have done this if I had failed at the WFC.”
“What a disappointing sound.”
“Anyway, brother is right. I think my next opponent will be Kojiro Sato.”
“Doesn’t it look good?”
“That’s why I’m pulling more.”
As he said that, his innocent eyes lit up.
“I guess I am a pervert. When people say it’s a difficult opponent, I really want to smash it even more.”
“You are a pervert.”
“It’s been such a long time since we met, so you only talk about nice things?”
“uh? Shall I praise you then?”
“ah?”
“I heard that Mugyeol flew around in the WFC too? We fell in love.”
“Ah…”
“You did a great deed a while ago? touching touching.”
“Don’t do it…”
“Maybe it’s because you never got hit in the face, so your beauty has blossomed too?”
“Stop it.”
“Why does Mugyeol always wear the same tee?”
“what? What bullshit…”
“Booty cutie.”
“… damn it…”
“The appearance shines, it shines very much.”
“Please stop!”
When Mugyeol couldn’t stand it and screamed out loud, Im Jin-soo giggled.
“Look at that, isn’t it better to criticize?”
“Eh yes.”
I had no choice but to admit it.
These awkward and embarrassing days when the whole world praises him.
It’s okay to have at least one partner with whom you can easily exchange criticism.
Besides, Im Jin-soo is not always playful.
“Now then, let’s organize a training session in earnest.”
From the moment he started training, Im Jin-soo suddenly turned into a more professional and strict coach than anyone else.
After studying the kick mechanism of major martial arts around the world for three years, Im Jin-soo also learned about Kojiro Sato’s base martial art, Kyukjin Karate.
In mass sparring, he perfectly reproduced Kojiro Sato’s signature extreme karate kick.
There was a clear difference in detail between the kicks of Muay Thai kickboxing commonly used by fighters and the extreme kicks.
If the kick in Muay Thai kickboxing is a kick that does not use much of the knee joint and is vigorously raised to the target point, the kick of extreme use uses the knee joint more effectively.
Using the range of motion of the knee joint, the knee is bent, the thigh is raised, and the knee is spread as if giving a snap.
It is the extreme kick that is introduced as a ‘non-rebound high kick’ in various media.
A method that many players do not choose because it loses in terms of trajectory and destructive power is somewhat reduced.
However, there are definitely advantages of the kick of Kyukjin karate.
In the case of Muay Thai kicks, where the trajectory of the middle kick and high kick are almost the same, if the trajectory of the kick is blocked well with a long guard, it is possible to block the middle and high kicks with one guard.
However, in the case of a karate kick kicked with the knee joint perfectly folded, if the guard is not tight, the head will be shaved off.
In other words, ‘blocking the path’ defense is impossible.
So, in order to completely block Sato Kojiro’s kick, I had to recheck the guard first.
“Pull the guard tighter! At that angle, the kick will come over the guard!”
“okay!”
“You have to watch out for the Brazilian kick too! Because karate masters try to kick Brazilian kicks whenever they have a chance! There should be no problem reading because the preparation is big! With your concentration, you can tell them all apart!”
“okay!”
After reestablishing the basics of defense, he began to use kick attack techniques in earnest.
“Now, I’m going to come up with an attack strategy.”
“oh.”
Mugyeol’s eyes sparkled at the word ‘attack’ and Im Jin-soo smiled.
“Aren’t you planning on focusing on punches?”
“of course. A guy who is good at kicking should be defeated with a kick.”
“Come on, that’s why you’re a pervert.”
Im Jin-soo nodded as if he knew that.
“Something like saying that since the opponent is a Japanese guy, he’ll beat him with a Korean-style kick…”
“Of course, that would be better, wouldn’t it?”
“It wasn’t just a pervert, was it a pervert?”
“Gukbbong, brother. I am a member of the ‘Do You No Club’.”
Im Jin-soo was startled by the words of no-gyeol.
In fact, there were several times when I went to samurai training and said ‘Do you no tea?’
“I’m not the gukppong, but the gukbbong is me, right?”
“How come the character seems to have changed a bit?”
“Please understand.
“Anyway, it’s fine.”
Saying that, Im Jin-soo smiled as if he was satisfied.
“Finally, this concept is the soup itself.”
“Oh what is it?”
“One hundred words is not enough. Now look.”
Saying that, Im Jin-soo stood up and demonstrated the punching bag himself.
As soon as he saw it, Mugyeol caught the core of the attack pattern.
“Oh, is this okay?”
“okay. Kojiro Sato would be perfect as long as he didn’t suddenly close the distance.”
“Okay, shall we start practicing right away?”
“okay. Then put a kick mitt here…”
“Ah, what a kick mitt. My brother will take it himself.”
“What?”
“You can wear headgear and put on a kick guard.”
“This child. Think about your poop power!”
* * *
Two weeks after the fight with Renato Silva, Mugyeol called Jack Shelby.
“Jack’s next match will be against Kojiro Sato.”
-Are you okay? The game term is too short these days.
“are you okay. It doesn’t even fit a few.”
-Puhahaha, you’re right, so I can’t even refute it. okay. Sato seemed to be waiting for you.
“Good for you.”
In that way, the unmatched matchup with Kojiro Sato was easily confirmed.
[WFC 432 in Busan confirmed in September 2027.]
[Light heavyweight 10th place Cha Mu-gyeol vs 4th place Sato Kojiro, a showdown of pride between Korea and Japan is imminent!]
[Cha Mu-gyeol returning to his homeland in September is expected to be overcrowded at BEXCO Stadium.]
Everything is easy It seemed to be going smoothly, but Sato Kojiro started to twist the schedule.
[Ankle injury two months before WFC 432 by Kojiro Sato.]
[As a result of the match decided to fight at WFC 432, Kojiro Sato’s match is postponed.]
[No match match vs Kojiro Sato postponed to WFC 433 in Saitama?]
Kojiro Sato’s injury Exquisitely, the game schedule was postponed by a month.
‘Unfortunately’, the match went into the WFC 433 Saitama tournament card that was set one month later.
It is only natural that the staff of Cha Mu-gyeol went into a rage.
“Flawless! I’m sure this bastard is messing around with this!”
“Hmm.”
“Look at what these sneaky Japanese bastards are doing. I really ate too much. I ate too much. Just looking at it, I’m going to play at Zug’s home…”
“No bro.”
However, in contrast to the excited Im Jin-soo, Moo-gyeol was smiling happily.
“Rather good.”
“Good, what’s good, dude. He would do all sorts of tricks called home.”
“Isn’t the pinnacle of the original gukppong, the Taegeukgi raised in enemy territory?”
“!”
“Of course it’s Saitama again. It’s the city where our Jisung hyung hyung took a walk and celebrated.”
“That’s right.”
“Let Saitama friends PTSD come.”
“Ohh…”
“Besides, hyung taught me a cool new technique, didn’t he?”
“Oh oh…!”
Im Jin-soo was quickly persuaded by Mu-gyeol’s confident appearance.
The flawless side accepted the changed schedule without muttering and finalized the game schedule.
“Since the schedule has been set, let’s get ready to win.”
“good. Roll harder.”
The kick vs. kick match was expected, so the training camp was held under the leadership of Lim Jin-soo.
Absolute’s amazing fighting intelligence absorbed Im Jin-soo’s teachings.
“Okay, okay, this is going too fast?”
Excited, Im Jin-soo heated up by teaching Moo-gyeol new techniques.
“How about flawless conditions?”
“hmm? What is that?”
“This is a technique used in capoeira, but what was the name… it was the lower part.”
“Oh, how cool is this?”
In the spare time, Mugyeol even learned capoeira kicks to prepare for the match.
As he learned various kicks, he gradually realized what his body lacked.
Flexibility of lower body joints such as the hip, pelvis, adductors, and hamstrings is essential for kicking with perfect posture.
Since he had been training with a focus on muscle strength, he had been somewhat neglectful of flexibility training.
“This time, I need to make sure to increase my flexibility as well.”
“Yeah, good point. Soft lower body joints are the key to a powerful kick. The greater the range of motion, the higher the kick power.”
“As if a more flexible and elastic whip can hit the opponent harder?”
“You’re right. But why is the metaphor a whip? As expected…”
“Enough.”
After opening a virtual physical training center by activating the ‘Competition Preparation Protocol’ six weeks before the competition.
This time, I put all my energy into increasing flexibility rather than strength.
During the day, I learn the technical setup and kick technique.
At night, I build a flexible and strong lower body to perfect those techniques.
In Saitama, the hard training to fly the national flag once again continued.
Late summer, WFC 433’s official tour schedule has finally begun.
[WFC 433 Light Heavyweight Battle between the top rankers!! The showdown between the two heavyweights who command East Asia will unfold at the Saitama Dome!!]
[The main event will be Mugyeol Cha vs. Kojiro Sato!! Also, I was expecting a battle of words between the two fighters!!]
Kojiro Sato, ranked 4th in the light heavyweight division, appeared at the press conference with a neat appearance, and it felt a little different from the fighters that No Gyeol had fought before.
