Baltic

Because I like fighting. That's the main reason.

Kyokushin, Daido Juku (I don't know if you have any dojos there), Ashihara, Enshin, Shidokan and etc. These would be the best choice for your brother - hardcore enough and still has more or less traditional training. So your brother would learn to fight in full contact and ranks wouldn't be achieved so easy.

Just one month of training and you got orange belt??

Yes, everything is exactly like you said, exept that fight lasts 1 minute, not 2. For example: we do all techniques, pushups and etc. with all karatekas that are grading to 5 kyu, then the same with 4, 3, 2 and then comes the time for 1 st kyu. - physical test, techniques and katas. After that goes kumite. There are no breaks between fights, just that time for changing between kumite partners. For example 1st kyu grading takes ~8 hours pure hard work. I'm in IKO2.

Hi, I would like to find out how many fights you have when grading to kyu/dan. For comparison - these are numbers of jiyu kumite we have to pass in Lithuania: 10 KYU - 9 KYU - 8 KYU - 7 KYU - 6 KYU - 10 kumite 5 KYU - 12 kumite 4 KYU - 15 kumite 3 KYU - 20 kumite 2 KYU - 25 kumite 1 KYU - 30 kumite SHO DAN - 30 kumite NI DAN - 40 kumite SAN DAN - 50 kumite By the way: how intense the fights are?

Hello everyone. I've been training kyokushin for 8 years since now. I'm happy to join this friendly martial arts community.