A big storyline to emerge for the Kansas City Chiefs this offseason is franchise legend Tamba Hali taking second-year DE George Karlaftis under his wing.
The two have spent time together this offseason, with Hali teaching Karlaftis both pass-rushing and martial arts techniques that helped take his NFL career to new heights. The first clip to emerge showed the two working on hand-fighting techniques. Hali followed that up with a video of him and Karlaftis working with Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Dave Smarr in Kansas City.
Our story on the most recent video seems to have caught Hali’s attention, prompting him to share even more clips of his work with Karlaftis on his Instagram page.
Check it out:
“Thankful and grateful to work with another great human being @georgekarlaftis,” Hali wrote in the caption.
Hali explained in a prior video that the two had been getting up at 6:00 a.m. for martial arts training and then working specifically on pass-rushing techniques in the evenings. In this particular video, you get some clips of Karlafits working on some solo footwork drills. He also works on some hand-fighting disengagement techniques with Hali. We don’t get to hear the instruction from Hali, with one of his songs playing in the background of the video, but we do get to see Hali’s tutelage of Karlaftis again.
