Original Kyokushin Karate was BRUTAL!

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  @bryanskrantz · 2 years ago

  My Shihan was a direct student of Oyama Soke when he lived in Okinawa. Our style is mixed Karate but the kyukushin mentality is there. My sensei will go all morpheus and tell you to stop trying to hit and just hit.  Beginner stuff is mostly Kihon and self defense but when you get to the intermediate ranks that's when the real stuff gets goin.

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• DO

  @doublep1980 · 2 years ago

  Sensei Mas Oyama was one of the inspirations for Ryu from the Street Fighter games, doesn't get more badass than that.

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• EM

  @emptyemptiness8372 · 2 years ago

  There is a great Korean movie called Fighter in the wind about Mas Oyama.  I trained under one of his students in the 1970s, I was a skinny 13 yr old...absolutely no quarter was given, I crawled out of class, it was brutal. Nobody would train like that today.

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  @SoulTruthAmen · 2 years ago

  I train in Kyokushin here in North Carolina. My Sensei trained under one of Mas Oyama's students for 49 years. Shihan Shigeru Oyama. Osu!

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• WA

  @wasabi5338 · 2 years ago

  its sad that most kyokushin schools lost this. Almost every dojo trains for competition, hence only prioritize competition rules training, when the old and purest form of kyokushin should be a primitive version of kudo.

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• JO

  @JoesGeekShow · 2 years ago

  I remember the first time I saw Kyokushin on a YT video and thought it looked cool but never thought I'd be able to do this. Plus I've never had the opportunity as my hometown didn't have that. So I studied Shotokan. But when we moved to Japan a few years ago the only Shotokan class was kids only. So my only option to continue Karate was Kyokushin. It's been almost 4 years, I'm still here, and I couldn't imagine how much I'd love it.

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  @ADAM_COLLECTS · 2 years ago

  Look up Valeri Dimitriv, he is shinkyokushin 5th dan, european champion 20+ times, 3 times world champion and runner up world tournament winner. He has his own kick, Valeri kick. Look it up, it’s wonderful

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• GU

  @gunnerhiro394 · 2 years ago

  I think Kyokushin Karate in its ORIGINAL form - would be deemed illegal in most countries - and with our society, would bring lawsuits for accidental death or lifetime of damage.

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• MA

  @makesenz · 1 year ago

  Out here in the Netherlands his spirit is alive and kicking! lots of Kyokushin dojo's! Osu

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• AJ

  @ajshiro3957 · 2 years ago

  There's an anime based on Mas Oyama called Karate Master. Pretty good show.

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  @chadthomas09 · 2 years ago

  I grew up with American Kenpo from the age of 4 with my father who ran the school.  This meant higher standards of excellence. There were other things than kenpo mixed in with the core curriculum whether students knew it or not.  A little hopkido, judo and escrima fighting styles have served me very well combined with kenpo principles

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  @Shadow-Man94 · 2 years ago (edited)

  This is why I don't see Kyokushin or any other system as a style but rather as a method for training. People talk about styles but we all have arms & legs - a punch is a punch, a kick is a kick. Be water my friend 👊🥋

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