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How similar is Kyokushin compared to circular Karate styles?


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Are you training Kyokushin or considering it?

What little I know about Kyokushin is from books and video clips. Kyokushin is pretty linear and high impact. There are plenty of circular technique, but they are the ones common to other forms of karate like ridge hands and round kicks etc.

Kisshu fushin, Oni te hotoke kokoro. A demon's hand, a saint's heart. -- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine

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I think one of the practitioners here has stated that Kyokushin tends to be a mix of Goju and Shotokan, but I am not 100% clear.

The founder of Kyokushin Karate, Sosai Mas Oyama, learned Shotokan under Gichin Funakoshi and later on Goju Ryu under a senior student of Chojun Miyagi (he was eventually awarded an 8th dan by Gogen Yamaguchi).

Oyama essentially combined Goju and Shotokan with jissen kumite to make Kyokushin.

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I think one of the practitioners here has stated that Kyokushin tends to be a mix of Goju and Shotokan, but I am not 100% clear.

The founder of Kyokushin Karate, Sosai Mas Oyama, learned Shotokan under Gichin Funakoshi and later on Goju Ryu under a senior student of Chojun Miyagi (he was eventually awarded an 8th dan by Gogen Yamaguchi).

Oyama essentially combined Goju and Shotokan with jissen kumite to make Kyokushin.

Oyama San also learned Goju from So Nei Chu and Masahiko Kimura. And Kimure also showed him Judo, which Sosai gained his 4th Dan in as well.

To fear death is to limit life - Xin Sarith Azuma Phan Wuku

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So Nei Chu was the name of the senior student of Miyagi's, correct.

Oh haha I thought you were referring to Yamaguchi as his senior student...woops Sorry.

To fear death is to limit life - Xin Sarith Azuma Phan Wuku

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I think one of the practitioners here has stated that Kyokushin tends to be a mix of Goju and Shotokan, but I am not 100% clear.

The founder of Kyokushin Karate, Sosai Mas Oyama, learned Shotokan under Gichin Funakoshi and later on Goju Ryu under a senior student of Chojun Miyagi (he was eventually awarded an 8th dan by Gogen Yamaguchi).

Oyama essentially combined Goju and Shotokan with jissen kumite to make Kyokushin.

That is what I thought I remembered reading. But I read so much, things can get garbled at times....

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Posted (edited)

Oyama also trained Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu :nod:

So unnecessary to answer to this now...

Edited by Soheir

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