How good is Kyokushin

[KyokushinFX]

In what region do you live AceKing?

I live in the sacramento area. ive been looking for a kyokushin school but i cant find any. I might take shotokan since there are some schools in the area.

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[The Kyokushin punisher]

When i first started Kyokushin i thought it was pretty basic but more as i got in to it and learned more and found out it was full contact. I loved it even more not for the mere fact of that but if a situation should arise i will be relaxed enuff for combat. I know i can take a beating as well is give there fore i will be prepared.

-Osu

[powerof0ne]

Okay...so you heard from a friend that Shihan Lowe complained about Hawaii being to nice for Martial Arts or something like that and that nobody trains hard enough.

I've been to many dojos in Hawaii (includeing Shihan Lowe's) and I can reassure you that we are not half way Martial Artist. Some of the greatest Martial Arts Masters have traveled into Hawaii and influenced the Martial Arts culture in Hawaii.

The beach is something that's there all the time. When you grow up with it in your front or back yard, you see it everyday and it becomes nothing more than just another beach. If Martial Arts is truely your passion, the beach is not going to stop you from training just has hard as anywhere else in the world. Honestly, I think your buddy has mis-quoted Shihan Lowe. I've spoken with him on many occasions and he has never knocked the Martial Arts community we share in Hawaii.

I hate to streotype but many of the locals are known for street fighting in Hawaii, it pays to do martial arts in Hawaii....especially if you're a haole and call an islander a 'mahu'

[Osu No Seichin]

What Shihan Lowe said was that the quality of Martial Arts in Hawaii is very high, but the percentage of people who train there compared to the population is very small. I have trained with Shihan Lowe many times and I assure you it is never an easy go. If you want to train Kyokushin the way it was meant to be trained then I suggest that you seek out some of Shihan's students, forget all you think you knew about Kyokushin and learn some very valuable lessons. I just spent three days at a seminar in the mountains and 90% of what we trained was taught to us by Shihan Lowe. Yes we did kata, yes we did basics, yes we did more kata, yes we did fight training, but mostly we did the hand reversals and grappling techniques that were taught to us by Shihan Lowe and I wonder who taught him.

[Sensei Mark]

When i first started Kyokushin i thought it was pretty basic but more as i got in to it and learned more and found out it was full contact. I loved it even more not for the mere fact of that but if a situation should arise i will be relaxed enuff for combat. I know i can take a beating as well is give there fore i will be prepared.

-Osu

Osu Sempai Punisher, do not be fooled, as situations of expectations very rarley present themselves in a time of ones own choosing.

Even the most gifted and highly trained Martial Artists does not always relax when they find themselves in a fight situation and being that relax is not really an instinctive reaction, as you do not want to be "too" relaxed.

I have had over 150 full contact bouts in my career, and be it fight #1 or fight #100 i was never relaxed, more like a controlled rage inside to pump up the fighting spirit and keep the mental demons away.

The adrenalin is dumping at a huge rate, and only experience allows the fighter to stay calm.

Now i do not think that taking a beating will do anyone any good if the beating is a headbutt to the face coupled with a few foot stomps to the head while your down and even smashing your face into the cement for good measure.

Their are all sorts of beatings my friend, but to state that you can take one may be not the best approach to the question.

Remember The beating my be something you never recover from!

With this attitude to yourself and your art, i am sorry but you will "not" be prepared!

[The Kyokushin punisher]

Osu Sensi Mark

Sorry if my words dont come out as much as i want them too. I do understand i have a long way to go in Kyokushin. I guess what i meant to say was if a situation should arise i will have a better chance then a person that does not train in Martial arts. Im aware u can never be fully relaxed in a fight situation.

I am sorry if i came across cocky or arrogant those were not my intentions. My words came out wrong in the explantaion of what i was tryin to say.

-Osu

[Sensei Mark]

I am sorry if i came across cocky or arrogant those were not my intentions. My words came out wrong in the explantaion of what i was tryin to say.

Osu sempai, no apologies needed as i did not take it the way you assumed.

Your heart is in the right place, and it is this which contributes to our perserverance when we forget why we do what we do.

Our beloved Martial Arts are very special to us all as it is this "Gateway" into the world of warriors which makes it so.

Gambatte my friend (Go Hard) and as Sosai Oyama once said:

"In the Martial Arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve."

Feel free to visit my forum one day

Osu

Sensei Mark

[knarfster]

I live in Phoenix and was wondering if the Fred buck "School of the Tiger" is a good Kyokushin school? I see he is the son of Don Buck, and pictures of him with his dad and Mas oyama, so I hope it is alegit school.