How similar is Kyokushin compared to circular Karate styles?

[Kuma]

Oyama also trained Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu

So unnecessary to answer to this now...

I've never heard of that before. Where did you learn that from?

[Toptomcat]

Oyama also trained Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu

So unnecessary to answer to this now...

I've never heard of that before. Where did you learn that from?

He did have 4th dan in judo, and the close association of Daito-ryu with the early roots of judo means that if you were training judo around the 30s-40s pioneering era when Oyama was training it, you were training Daito-ryu to some degree as well.

[Soheir]

Oyama also trained Daito-ryu Aiki-jujutsu

So unnecessary to answer to this now...

I've never heard of that before. Where did you learn that from?

He did have 4th dan in judo, and the close association of Daito-ryu with the early roots of judo means that if you were training judo around the 30s-40s pioneering era when Oyama was training it, you were training Daito-ryu to some degree as well.

Actually, this is what I've read:Mas Oyama received hismenkyo kaiden - an older form of grade a scroll signifying mastery, from Kotaro(well-known ex-samurai, who was a top-student of Sokaku(known as a founder of jujutsu)at Daito-ryu) This scroll is stil on display at the Honbu dojo in Tokio.

Later, Masahiko Kimura ecouraged Oyama to take up judo so that he would have an understanding of the art's ground thecniques.

[Toptomcat]

A cursory Googling reveals scattered online sources that corroborate this- but, oddly, none of them appear on Web sites directly associated with Kyokushin. I'd love to hear from an authority on this, it's pretty interesting if true.

[Dobbersky]

Soheir-san

Without Sosai, Ashihara Karate would not have been created and with that the style I practice would not have existed

OSU

[Soheir]

OSU