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Hi,

 

Does anyone know when low kicks were brought into Kyokushin?

 

We have a guy in his 50s who joined our dojo who did Kyokushin in the 60s and he says that there was never any low kicks.

 

This is confirmed by watching early videos too.

 

Does anyone know when the ubiquitous Kyokushin low kick was introduced and where it came from?

 

Thanks

 

ET

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May have been just the guys dojo he trainned in.

 

Okinawa karate is known for its low kicks, maybe from there, maybe from mauy thai and the early kyokushin vs. mauy thai matches.

Posted

Muay Thai follow through with their high roundhouse kicks whereas Kyokushin is executed with more snap.

 

We all know that K-1 was born out of Kyokushin and Muay Thai so maybe the low kick came from there?

 

We have several Muay Thai fighters from Fairtex that cross train with us in San Francisco. There is not a hell of a lot of difference between our styles.

 

We both do a fair amount of knee kicks, low kicks and in-close punching.

 

Osu!

 

ET

Posted

Perfect - that's exactly what I was looking for!

 

Thnx

 

ET

Posted

You are welcome.

 

the other person sometimes given credit for this

 

is Kenji Kurosaki as he was the coach of the team

 

to take on the Muay Thai Kickboxers in Thailand

 

under Thai rules back in the 1960s. he also fought,

 

but lost his particular bout.

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