Thorminator

I train Kyokushin Budo Kai, a full contact Karate style. "Hard Semi Contact" fights starts at the grading for 10. kyu, fullcontact around 8-7 kyu. We wear shinpads, knuckle pad, groind prot. and a mouthpiece, nothing more. Attacs to the back, joints, groin and neck is phrobited, exept jointlocks when on the ground.

Pleace explain to us mortals, what the h..ll is Karate culture? The culture is different from every single dojo, how can you say that there even is such a thing as "karate culture". The culture we nowdays assosiate with Karate has got almost NOTHING to do with the Japaneese culture. The MA culture that have grown and been accepted is a modern way of thinking, mixed with some good ideas found in Christianity, Asian cultures, muslims etc, "bee nice, dont harm others". What does this have to do with Karate? Unarmed combat has always been about: "Kill or be killed while watching your family die." This does no longer apply in our modern community, not the way it was 200 years ago anyway. Most of the modern philosophies that are known to be part of Karate has got nothing to do woth the hundreads of years old defence systems wich were cultivated in the east. No, let me practise Karate without all the bullshit. I want to learn to fight, if I wanted to do magic (as many people seems to belive Karate's all about) I would join A. LaVey and his Satanic church or something like that. PS Parden my english

Just wanted to add: I practise Kyokushin Budo Kai, wich is Kyokushin + grappling + throws ++. The idea was to make a perfect "All round" fighting style, a mixture of almost any style. We think that if a technique is good, we adapt it, no matter where it comes from (boxing, kung fu, TKD...) To me, it's a great way of life!