krooked

If you want the best for your son I think decide by the instructor not the group. Your son won't really feel he is being ripped off in AKKA as no one really talks about it anyway (and when they do they are good liars). Get him to a good instructor frst and foremost. How old is he now? Krooked

I think it kinda sucks when you got AKKA and Shihan Taylor using Kyokushin to make money and saying they are teaching the real Kyokushin but they are'nt anymore because they decided to go on their own. So no your right, AKKA is not part of IKO in Japan, and the belts and gradings you used to pay for knowing your money would go to Honbu in Japan now goes into Shihan Taylor's pocket and the certificates are fakes and if your instructor or Shihan goes red in the face trying to say thats not true, there bullshitting I don't know if he is really smart or really stoopid! Or he just doesn't care about anybody else.