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Go for the clinch...

There used to be a Berkeley Branch, but it closed down many years ago. All the Branch Chiefs are now located in Southern California. There might be a Kyokushin-affliated school up there, but I doubt it.

You could drive for two hours south and visit the Los Angeles Dojo.

Kyokushinkaikan vs. Shinkyokushinkai... It's brother fighting brother.

Fedor Emelianenko.

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I practice knees with the Thai pads, but I practice elbows on the banana bag.

If people wanted to to talk abut Kyokushin in this thread, then they would have a reference.

I really need to change my avatar. A lot of people are confusing me for a girl. The person in my avatar is actually Amuro Namie, a famous Japanese singer. Just to clear up the confusion in this thread: Yoko geri is a side snap kick. Mae geri is a front snap kick. Yoko keage is a straight-legged kick to the side. Mae keage is a straight-legged kick to the front. Personally, I don't use mae keage or yoko keage in kumite, but I do use uchi mawashi geri, soto mawashi geri, and kakato geri which are all straight-legged. Mae geri and yoko geri are very efficient kicks as well; and they can reach the chin much better than mae keage and yoko keage..

There are plenty of karate and other martial art magazines which you can find at a well-stocked Japanese newsstand.

Academically speaking, my branch teaches that kata helps with power control, speed control, and breath control. If one has good kata, he cannot have horrible fighting skills; or else, his kata is not good in the first place.

"Real fighting cannot exist without proof; proof cannot exist without trust; and trust cannot exist without respect." - Sosai Oyama Kyokushin Karate uses kata as a tool along with stretching, kihon, ido geiko, strength exercises, cardio exercises, kumite, etc. to improve combat techniques. It maintains the use of traditional katas, but it's practiced more for application than philosophy.

Well, Noji got triangled...

Here's the posted schedules: http://www.kyokushinla.com/class.html Just click on the desired location...

"Sandbox... 12 o'clock... Be there!" Wow. Big talk like that just gets my heart pumping...