Hawkmoon Posted August 30, 2013 Share Posted August 30, 2013 Cool! do drop an update into the the thread if you get lucky with a club!The names are different, but the art the teaching is 'Kyokushinkai karate'.! “A human life gains luster and strength only when it is polished and tempered.”Sosai Masutatsu Oyama (1923 - 1994) Founder of Kyokushin Karate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Safroot Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 (apologies for the following essay, my passion for Kyokushin will come out and my annoyance at the misconceptions and misunderstanding many people have about Kyokushin will drive me here) If you walk into a Kyokushin dojo take a little time to study the students as they train you will see things you recognize!(Kata - kihon)Kyokushin owes much of its foundations to Shotokan!Kyokushin is mainly famous for its approach to 'full contact' karate, we call it 'Knockdown', its done bare knuckle!We are also famous for one of the tests we have, the 100 man kumite!(One fighter vs one hundred other fighters)Kyokushin karate also calls itself 'The strongest karate'......no not because we think we are super hard, but because we exercise a great deal, much of a session in many dojos is dedicated to pushups, situps and so on! we exercise more than we fight in many instances!We spar/fight as often as we can, and we take fighting extremely serious.We do work the mind as much we fight, honestly we do, just take the time to understand/study with us to see the evidence.Many look to our kata and say simple, not hard at all, easy katas, not so.Sosai Oyama, selected kata for his karate (Kyokushin) with a simple logic if it worked to support his teachings, his karate, he used it, else it was dropped.Example:We have a kata called; Kanku dai - it translates to mean 'To Look To The Sky (Major)'. There is a second kata to accompany this kata called: Kanku sho - it means 'To view the sky minor'Both are in Shotokan.The Kanku Sho kata is not in the our training syllabus! (We used to many years ago, but Sosai removed it as unnecessary to Kyokushin.)We do have a different mind set to many fighting arts, but then many other arts have different mind sets to other arts as well. Our 'mind set' comes directly from Sosai Oyama, the best example of this mind set is in our systems name.Kyokushinkai - the society of the ultimate truth.Our philosophy is self-improvement, discipline and hard training, look at my signature for another example.We train hard which is great, but honestly take a look at other systems, our philosophy sounds much the same as any other school.Take your time, and when you decide to join in a session, seriously, do so from a beginners perspective, you'll be glad you did.!!Solid post .... One of the best posts I have ever read about Kyokushin Thanks for that post "The Martial Arts begin with a point and end in a circle." Sosai Mas Oyama founder of Kyokushin Karate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkmoon Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Thanks, your welcome!IKO? “A human life gains luster and strength only when it is polished and tempered.”Sosai Masutatsu Oyama (1923 - 1994) Founder of Kyokushin Karate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Safroot Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Thanks, your welcome!IKO?it's really a good post specially for someone like me going to start his MA journey with Kyokushin classes so I am currently looking for any topic throughout the whole forum about kyokushin style btw what's IKO ??!! "The Martial Arts begin with a point and end in a circle." Sosai Mas Oyama founder of Kyokushin Karate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkmoon Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 (edited) ah!IKO = International Karate Organization.http://www.kyokushinkaikan.org/en/Its the main organization in your part of the world governing Kyokushin karate, where as I'm in Europe and here its the IFK.IFK = International Federation karate.http://www.ifk-kyokushin.com/Edit: ty'po!Seems 2014 hasn't improved my typing skills! Edited January 7, 2014 by Hawkmoon “A human life gains luster and strength only when it is polished and tempered.”Sosai Masutatsu Oyama (1923 - 1994) Founder of Kyokushin Karate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Safroot Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 yes the dojo I will join is part of IKO https://www.cujickyokushin.comI will start on 20/01 once they open after their Christmas & new year's holidays I wish it will be a good dojo !! "The Martial Arts begin with a point and end in a circle." Sosai Mas Oyama founder of Kyokushin Karate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkmoon Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 I had a look at the website you offered!yes this will be good! Do go and enjoy!There is a nice pic on the site on this page:http://www.cujickyokushin.com/galleries/otherfriends.phpSecond image from the bottom!IKO meets IFK!Hanshi Steve Arneil (10th Dan) heads the IFK here in Europe! “A human life gains luster and strength only when it is polished and tempered.”Sosai Masutatsu Oyama (1923 - 1994) Founder of Kyokushin Karate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Safroot Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Hope so Hawkmoon "The Martial Arts begin with a point and end in a circle." Sosai Mas Oyama founder of Kyokushin Karate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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