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Kyokushin.

many of those whom put there rank in would have graded in particular the kyu grade get back to me with your current grade.

we have just changed after many years wearing a white gi . if you are nidan or above you must wear black pants and white gi top. not sure if i like the change or not because iam so use to the white gi, whats your thought's

hey. I train in Australia N.S.W and have been training in kyokushin karate since 1993. our club left the kyokushin organization late in 1994 after Mas Oyama death. although our club still participate in a most of the IKO3 tournament's ran by shihan John Taylor OSU!

I have to agree with >NidaninNJ< the only time you wash your belt is when you have gotten it wet training at a beach camp or near water. your belt is the hard work that you have done, and the only thing that makes you different from another student. it is not there to make you look pretty.

I have seen only few fail, in our club. the instructors only hand out to those whom he thinks are ready to pass to the next level. but even instructors every so often make a misstake and have to fail a student. shodan, or black belt gradings are different in kyokushin you train between 4-6 years to become a black belt, and in the last 12 months from 1st kyu to the shodan grading there is a large drop out rate i have known over 80 1st kyus come through our club and yet we have only 27 blackbelts. shodan grading starts from the time you are a 1st kyu. the grading day for those whom have been to a kyokushin grading is very difficult and very rewarding once over. once you start a shodan grading you dont walk out , you push....Osu!

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Thank you 4 all those who are participating.

quote: was simply stating my opinion on the subject. In no way did I mean to offend, Just stating that some do real breaks. I agree that some are compleatly fake "set up" the only reason i asked was because you stated that quote: using #2 pine with the grain, scoring the boards, allowing ice to melt and weaken under it's own weight, using un-baked clay tiles and bricks....etc .....etc. you cant asume that all Martial artist do this. that is my point.

What would be your choice of color? are Black Gis hotter to wear then the white Gi's. if anyone knows, i thought it would have been!

Can other Styles join in your organisations tournaments!>?

That is true and it is ashame that there a so many bias people around we all practice martial arts. it's ashame different and same styles can not get along

Nidan since last christmas. 2003

what about a baseball bat break with a round house kick using the shin. is that legit. for a break. Yes some people choose to if i may cheat eg. i dont know about a piece of 4x2 plank being broken upon you, thats not going to be broken by someone hittig it on you But there are some whom train and do fantastic breaks such as the Baseball bat. the ones that do hard breaks dont come out of it with out brusing and swelling. those who do breaks that are hard and make it look like a piece of Pi-ss, and look as though it was nothing and have know swelling. i think that is a little hard to believe This topic has really taken off.

Should Judges of major or large kata tournaments be judged by people whom has done several styles so that the best will win>

Black Belt gradings ...all BB have to be there if they are able to make it . For my Nidan. i was given it at our christmas party and presentation night in which the whole club participates in BB and Kyu Grades

Couldn't say it better myself.

kickboxing.

No real set about of time sometimes 10minutes some times 45minutes everynight. 2xKata for 6th Kyu

those whom have posted messages and those that might in the future do you only participate in such tournaments of your style or do you enter tournaments from other style when the chance arises

Now Now please show some respect to others opinions! anyway. where we train when i first started i was about eight years old . we use to light a candle and punch it to try and blow it out. this is a good test for speed for a adult and kids whom want to learn . But we did get Some Kids whom whould blow it out as they punch so they were the quickest.

Goes for 5 hours. Push-ups sit ups 3km Run techniques horse stance holding bo kata breaking . 40 rounds of fighting

For what reasons did you become a martial arts instructor.? and are you still under the organization that you came from or did you found your own style? for what reasons politic or non political did you decide to found your own style.?

If on the Death of Mas Oyama, TheInternational Karate Organisation(IKO) members were able to put there differences aside would Kyokushin have Become the largest bodied martial art group? In the world! or was Kyokshins spilt inevitable? IKO(1) Shihan Akiyoshi Matsui ~1953 IKO(2) Japan Shihan Kenji Midori ~1953 IKO(3) Shihan Yoshikazu Matsushima ~1953 (Split on the death of Mas Oyama) IKO(4) Japan Shihan Toru Tezuka 2000 another claiming the heir of Kyokushin

Yeah 30 to 60 minutes not all make it that long but and one person in training for there black belt done it for 90 minutes at the traingi dojo. but most of the male Shodan gradings can hold it for 30-60 minutes. some just make the 30 minutes some go higher. and no point did i say 60 minutes was the bench mark. by no means iam even doubtful of that! but beteen the 30-60 minute range can do it. Kyu grades there is no time more of a game of whom can stay up the longest, when ever you decide to sit down they do push ups. it has little to do with physical strengh rather your mental strenght on weather you can keep saying to your self one more minute and continue to push yourself onward rather then say "I CANT DO IT" it's all in the mind> This is my opinion anyway.