Kana vs. Meiko Satomura (Triple Tails - 2/13/2011)
Mar 15, 2019 17:23:57 GMT -5
Post by fxnj on Mar 15, 2019 17:23:57 GMT -5
Probably not gonna make my list, but well worth checking out. I don't agree with my comment about it being comparable to Ishikawa/Ikeda as it doesn't quite have that level of brutality, but it is still hella brutal.
Watched: 20110213 Kana vs Satomura
I wanted to watch their 2010 match, but this is the closest thing available for free. I didn't like this the first time I saw it back in 2011. It's not a bad match or anything, but I was just so taken aback by the violence on display here. I don't think it would be an exaggeration to describe the Kana/Satomura pairing as the female equivalent to Ishikawa/Ikeda, though the women seem to have been lucky enough to have had far more profile careers. Watching this right now, it really feels like a strong 2011 MOTYC for how it takes the "your turn, my turn" strike exchanges that were en vogue in puro at the time and pushes them far beyond what anyone else is doing. I mean this not only in the stiffness and technical beauty of the strikes, but also in the care taken to create a sense that they want to finish each other and how they avoid treating the exchanges as some pissing contest. I thought it was pretty smart how both women got seriously hurt in the first few minutes to create the impression that the fight could end at any moment. The matches follows that opposite direction of a lot of other matches in that the first half is an all-out striking war while the second half is more focused on submissions, but they make it work. The first half features such brutality that it feels like they're just trying whatever they can to end it. Still, they never really abandon the strikes entirely and the second half does feature some of the hardest shots of the match. The cartwheel into a knee to the back of the neck done by Satomura always makes me wince. All the submissions look brutal as well, especially the finish. About the only thing holding this back from being a lock for my list is the dead crowd, but given how I reacted when I first saw this I would chalk that up to them just being too shocked of what they were watching to react much. ****3/8
Watched: 20110213 Kana vs Satomura
I wanted to watch their 2010 match, but this is the closest thing available for free. I didn't like this the first time I saw it back in 2011. It's not a bad match or anything, but I was just so taken aback by the violence on display here. I don't think it would be an exaggeration to describe the Kana/Satomura pairing as the female equivalent to Ishikawa/Ikeda, though the women seem to have been lucky enough to have had far more profile careers. Watching this right now, it really feels like a strong 2011 MOTYC for how it takes the "your turn, my turn" strike exchanges that were en vogue in puro at the time and pushes them far beyond what anyone else is doing. I mean this not only in the stiffness and technical beauty of the strikes, but also in the care taken to create a sense that they want to finish each other and how they avoid treating the exchanges as some pissing contest. I thought it was pretty smart how both women got seriously hurt in the first few minutes to create the impression that the fight could end at any moment. The matches follows that opposite direction of a lot of other matches in that the first half is an all-out striking war while the second half is more focused on submissions, but they make it work. The first half features such brutality that it feels like they're just trying whatever they can to end it. Still, they never really abandon the strikes entirely and the second half does feature some of the hardest shots of the match. The cartwheel into a knee to the back of the neck done by Satomura always makes me wince. All the submissions look brutal as well, especially the finish. About the only thing holding this back from being a lock for my list is the dead crowd, but given how I reacted when I first saw this I would chalk that up to them just being too shocked of what they were watching to react much. ****3/8
