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.

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.

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

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!

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.

Thanks for the extra Kyokushin video, I been doing Kyokushin off and on for 8 years so far, and I get more hype every time I watch Kyokushin videos, it's unfortunate that Kyokushin training back then was way more intense than it is now, still I love doing the art, and it's no slouch!

Shotokan in the 60’s and 70’s were also equally as brutal and tough as Kyokushin. At the end of the day, GSP and Bas Rutten both said it best during Karate Combat: ‘A punch is a punch and a kick is a kick’ I agree with that statement completely.

Thanks Sensei Dan. As both an American Kenpo and Kyokushin practitioner I really enjoy your content and look forward to what you have coming up. OSU 👊😁

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 👊🥋

I'm glad to find your channel. Well done videos. I was exposed to Ed Parker's Kenpo in 1976. My training began in 1979 with my Instructor who trained directly with EKP. Learning and practicing lead me to advance to Head Instructor rank. It was through teaching that I realized being a practitioner was a lifelong learning experience. It's helped in more ways than I ever imagined. Teaching and practicing is learning (meditation) in motion. Incorporating Useful knowledge and techniques from other martial arts expands the applications; a big toolbox 😉. Kenpo is a MA which promotes an effective merging of Mind and Body for self defense and beyond. It works when you need it; whether fighting or not. Thank you for the videos. Be safe, practice diligently, Blessed Be 🙏

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

The system I teach has its roots in Kyokushin, by way of Enshin Karate. 🥋👍

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

A few techniques i think daniel should try from taekwondo: Jump back kick - can be used at closer ranges(where kempo stylists tend to fight) or can be used aggresively to close the gap. Fade away round kick - easy to do round kick to the body that lets you fade back from boxing range back into kicking range. Something that could compliment a hand heavy style like kenpo. Ill keep it to those for the sake of brevity, but i have a few more ideas if daniel wants!

You should interview Hanshi Fred Cabano Buck. He is the son of Don Buck that opened the first American Kyokushin Karate Dojo (one year after Shihan Bobby Lowe on Hawaii that had not yet become a State) I had train at his Dojo and its so much that the vast majority has no.idea about with the history of Kyokushin outside Japan

Another great video! I love this channel!

Check out the photo at 2:14 minutes. The chap in the middle looking at the camera is my old instructor the late Steve Arneil and the first man to complete the 100 man kumite.

The secret if there is one is that the training is the hardest, In the 80’s and 90’s the dojo I was at we did hundreds of kicks and punches, If you were green belt and above then fighting was full contact, We were covered in bruises. The dojo after the 90’s went and joined Enshin.

I had the Chance in the 90:S to do 3 years of Kyokushin Karate With Shihan Claude Bouchard from Karate Canada who had the chance to train a few times with Oyama in japan before he passed.

Wow, never knew he was Korean. Much respect to him for putting national pride aside and dedicating himself to a Japanese style. One way to defeat a strong attack is not to be there. I'd love to see a hard style against a style known for it's evasive movements. I can't remember the name, but we had a Chinese stylist in class one day and when I tried to hit him he always moved out of the way but not in a way I could easily catch on to; that is to say, I couldn't catch what he did fast enough to know what he did.

Love the Kyokushin content.

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

Awesome video

I trained several lineages of Kyokushin. First Kar-do-jitsu (Shotokan, Goju Ryu, Judo hybrid) at Amato's Goju Ryu in NJ we trained American Kickboxing and ISKA Kickboxing and Judo. Then the other was Tiger Schulmann Martial Arts (World Oyama Karate derivative) in NJ & Manhattan NY we trained K1 rules (Japanese Kickboxing, Low Kick) and MMA. The other was Shidokan at Trammell Martial Arts in Alpharetta GA. Thus, when people talk about karateka not knowing Kickboxing or striking in general that was not my experience growing up training or competing. Traditional early Kyokushin when it was still affliated with Goju Kai was full contact. That was the system that was exported to the USA, which was the lineage of "Goju Ryu" that I first trained Karate, so for me Karate has always been full contact whether Bareknuckle, wraps, or gloves. Much closer to Sanda or Lethwei than modern Kickboxing or Muay Thai.

I have a video called "Full Contact Karate in Early MMA" and that is probably what the original version of Kyokushin Karate would have looked like in old MMA bouts. In that video, you will see a lot of things which are not common in modern Kyokushin bouts such as: throws, open-hand strikes to the face, joint locks and clinch fighting with knees. They are like Bas Rutten during his career in Pancrase. However, those practitioners of Knockdown Karate don't seem to be from the main branches of Kyokushin. Their logos look different from Kyokushin's emblem.

I have a Baji cohort who practices Kyokushin and has applied the philosophy of Bajiquan in his karate to make it even stronger. Very nice short summary video I still suggest a video of Bajiquan for the next “History of…”

Nice explaination..

Kudo are the strongest style of Karate, Someone who train Kudo can handle Muay Thai fighters and Kyokushin fighters even Boxers it's a Complete fight style.

Might I recommend Kobayashi Shorin-ryu. I trained in it for many years (2nd degree Black Belt) and for it great for close quarters combat. The head of the association (WOSKKA)is named Sid Rayford.

Unarmed fighting methods of Chinese actual martial arts (also called actual gung-fu, actual kung-fu) contain kicks, buffets, throws, manipulations, sensitive points strikes, ground skills and jumping surprises. The kicks included kicks and knee-kicks. The buffets contain punches, smackes, finger-jabs, claws, hooked hand strikes, head-butts, shoulder-charges, back-charges, arm-strokes, elbow-strikes, hip-charges, buttocks-charges. GD CAMA /AGF/AKF💯❤️🔋🔔💥💣🥊🥋🌎

Sensei Dan, If you ever get around to making a video on Jailhouse Rock, I would love to see it.

Sensei Daniel, could you please make a video about Matsubayashi-Ryu? Greetings from Germany, Salvatore

If people are getting into Kyokushin, they need to know the name Jon Bluming.

Mr Oyama was very interesting Man He took his training to the extreme

I am definitely looking forward to your new project, of analysing new techniques that you can attain from other martial arts styles, then integrate them into your own personal style of American Kenpo Karate! I wonder what would have happened to American Kenpo Karate, Jeet Kune Do and Kyokushinkaikan Karate, had its genius creators, of Grandmaster Ed Parker, the legendary Bruce Lee and Sosai Oyama Masutatsu, would got together, to exchange combat ideas. Many successful professional fighters be it in Kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, or even in the films industry, such as Michael Jai White and Georges St. Pierre, have Kyokushin Karate as part of their martial arts repertoire. Now as a bona-fide and Kyokushin Karate student and teacher myself I can say that our Kyokushinkaikan Karate needs itself to become more well rounded, by incorporating the grappling, throwing and ground fighting, plus submissions techniques of wrestling, Judo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Sambo and so forth, along with Okinawan Kobudo (weaponry) and Chinese martial arts weaponry in order to become more fully complete and vastly versatile. Unfortunately Sosai Oyama Masutatsu, passed way too soon, before he could implement such ideas and leave us with a more complete system of combat. Looking forward to your new projects throughout 2024 Sensei Dan, as such I wish you and everyone at the Art Of One Dojo team, as well as your respective families, the utmost best for this New Year of 2024, may God Almighty bless you all ✝️🕊📿🤲🙏🕯Osu 🥋 🇲🇽 🇦🇺 !

I study koryu uchinadi We have joint locking breaking Throwing techniques chokes and strangles all these techniques are in the katas they have always been in the katas they are not "hidden" as some suppose its just lost knowledge that is being rediscovered thanks to shihan Patrick McCarthy and others ian Abernethy also John burke to name a couple Im wondering is kyokushin a complete system of combat ? With the facets of combat i have listed From what ive seen it seems to be more sports oriented

My teacher's teacher had a BB under Mas Oyama. His name was Bob Babich. At that time, he met a Korean man that did Kang Duk Won karate. Because Babich was very fast and slight, not thick like Oyama. He changed to KDW as it suited him better. That is what I learned. Bob's school was known to have the best fighters in Northern California. That's where the Tracy's brothers found instructors for the kenpo they were spreading. Money was the driving force during those times as everyone was poor. No one did it better than the Tracy's brothers At one time there were more Tracy's schools than any other franchise. I want to say at least 150 in the US.

Kyokushin is a fantastically tough knockdown style but has lost a lot of its true self defence emphasis because of this… (Shodan, 13 years experience)

You should have mentioned that Oyama said that Kyokushin was the only style that kept the Kempo hand techniques of roundhouse block and roundhouse inverted thrust. Also worth noting that when Kyokushin first went up against Muay Thai his team were destroyed by the Muay boxers. Kenji Kurosaki was Oyama's best student and became disillusioned when he was soundly beaten by a Muay Thai boxer. Kyokushin added leg kicks Muay style to its system as a result of this.

I saw ONE guy complete a kumite. It was pretty fricken cool.

I am a kyokushin practitioner, You talk about tequniques comparing kenpo it sounds to me with other styles. If you are talking about self defence tequniques in other styles i cant help you. My focus has been in finding intended applications, this i have coined due to application forms. So for me its stand up wrestling. Which is very different from the kenpo systems that have less enfices on take downs. I don't know how much help i can be, but you can look at what i am working on as some inspiration.

Each style of karate was brutal, not only kyokushin.

Current Kyokushin is brutal.

Here in Chicago training with leslaw 7th Dan president of us kyokoshin OOSS

Love Kyokushin and if it’s the hardest then ashihara karate (, a first gen student who trained under oyama ) is definitely the smartest .

Mas Oyama also achieved 7tg degree Black Belt in Judo.

Even though he’s not a traditional Karateka. One old fighter to look into is Toshio Fujiwara. I believe his style is basically Kyokushin but fully realized.

What about Ashihara karate ? Make some content on that also !

I used to do this form of karate when it was known as Kyokushinkai karate: 1986, rising to (only) blue belt. I switched to Shotokan which was more suitable for my build.

The same vidéo for morio higaonna ?

Kyokushin and the various systems that evolved from is the closest to combat as compared to the more traditional systems of Okinawan Karate. It highly emphasize on combination attacks plus sparring is highly emphasized. The traditional systems do not even encourage sparring.

go look at Yasuhiko Oyama channel he explained in detail how brutal Oyama dojo really was. they would bite, throw into weights, eyepoking basically everything and i mean everything was allowed till yeah you surrendered or got knocked out. and black belts in that dojo did not hold back. they liked to kick the living shit out of brown and white belts

I do kyokushin karate

I've never done Kyokushin, but Dutch Kickboxing(KYOKUSHIN,Muay Thai,Boxing) is the closest thing I've done to it.

My Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu teacher says this is the effective karate. Our school also has Muay Thai though.

osu, politely, their are more Kyokushin people than judd reid. Plenty of footage of great fighters who won world tournaments, fought 100 man kumite, all japan winners. Osu.

Original kyokushin are knocking out Original muay thai since the 60's 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Respect for the Kyokushin Founder and old kyokushin practioners

im a Shodan kyokushinkai karateka and ill admit a better and more improved version of Kyokushin is Ashihara and Enshin. Old style kyokushin were heavy on strength and conditioning but lack focus on Sabaki and techniques. I ended up learning footwork from Boxing after my karate days.

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Well, this full contact Karate style incorporates protective sparring gear to minimize risk of injuries during matches.

Hey Art of One, can you do a KZfaq collab with Jesse Enkamp, Sensei Seth, Icy Mike (Hard2Hurt), Kevin Lee, Ramsey Dewey, or Rokas (Martial Arts Journey)?

The only reason I don't do Kyokushin karate is because there is no dojo near by.

Osu!

Do you want know what really bugs me about Oyama? There is an old footage of Oyama with his early students training with boxing gloves. That video is called "Rare Kyokushin Sparring 1964 Mas Oyama Dojo" and Oyama himself is in the video. Why couldn't he make and maintain a curriculum that equally includes kickboxing format and kumite format to balance things out?

Not mixed with China's player. It's separated with chanese.

An old judo karate master said that he is not a fighter 😅

There are fighting arts which does not look brutal but effective. I prefer martial arts not constrained by tradition. I like western boxing in their way of punching it is more realistic; and add to their classic close fist Karate technique, like extended knuckles and finger strikes. I prefer Shotokan or Okinawan style of kicking which is originally hip level to the bladder area; and not kicking high to the head level, which can be easily countered by a master of kicking defense. No high kicks therefore is preferable but fast and very strong. I like practicing with casual shoes(not barefooted) in kicking because when you are outside your home you are in shoes now a days. use the heel of the shoes or the side of it when kicking front kick and side kick respectively; and use the tip of the shoe to kick the round house kick to the floating ribs or kidney area or to the bladder area- no high kick like in tournament. The in-step is use in roundhouse when hitting the lower limbs. generally, no high kicks because of kicking defense.

Daido juko👍, Kyokushin 🏳️‍🌈👭

As much as I love kyokushin, all that stuff about Oyama is myth and marketing.

1:38 The historical hoaky storey get more silly as time goes on...

Why teaching blocking when in sparring there is none? If punching to the face would be allowed, Kyokushin would be very different.

"Was BRUTAL"? I've seen kyokushin live and it's no cakewalk now! Silly people will often say silly things like: "Kyokushin does not allow punches to the face so it trains you to not hit to the face which is bad for self-defence". Well, I knew a kyokushin fighter who also worked at a club as a bouncer and when brawls broke out he had no trouble finding the chin of someone attacking him. What I do not understand is why kyokushin fighters stand toe to toe to exchange punches and kicks in kumite rather than attack and retreat. Why would you turn it into a battle of attrition? I'm more used to seeing martial arts as attacking and defending. Avoiding damage (or getting points scored on you), while inflicting damage (or scoring points). Could someone explain the objective of the kumite in kyokushin in five sentences or less and why they stand toe to toe exhanging blows?

I don't understand what is the point of learning self-defence when the martial art you practice is going to cause you serious injuries. With that comes time off work and medical expenses. At least with boxing and MMA you are getting paid for it.

Original muay thai do Not know boxing, That's Why Rick Roufus broke the Jaw of Changpuek and knocked out Changpuek 2 times by Punching Changpuek in the Face 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

Kera-tee, TKD, silat and many other martial arts are merely cultural dances.

Kudo it's the Most Effetive and more realistic have elbows, Grappling, Punch in the face but doesn’t Have Marketing like Kyokushin, I respect Oyama but Kyokushin it's not the strongest.

Modern martial arts originated from the Indo Europeans and not far east

It astounds me how misunderstood the term "Mixed Martial Arts" is, even amongst supposed martial arts enthusiasts. No holds bar fighting with out rules is a form of competition, NOT MMA. Mixed martial arts means learning from more than one discipline of martial arts, transcending nationality, culture and the globe and is a modern term because the world in the last 50 years has been more open than in has ever been compared to times of the past. Oyama is through and through mainly a karate practitioner and just because a style includes strikes and grapples does not make it "mixed martial arts". Granted cross martial arts training and sharing has always been a part of martial art history (Karate came from Kung Fu originally, and became systematized and modernized with flashy kicks for show and sell later), but MMA is a relatively new term that Bruce Lee was the first to both propose and make main stream, a "global martial artist" concept if you will. Additionally, Oyama was a good salesman for his art, creating propoganda and myths to help spread and sell his karate, including his bull wrestling/horn chopping edited and cut footage (where he tussled with an ill/starved/aged bull which local sources have confirmed). Even the footage of 100man kumite seen in many Kyokushin propaganda videos of old, the students aren't even trying to fight back properly, throwing half committed shots at a gassed out, sloppy Sensei that a true fresh black belt would knock out if they really meant to do harm, and the students just fall to the ground by a simple shot, they are rather feeding into their master's ego and myth and afraid of reprimand from the club, not unlike the "no touch master clown shows" we see every here and there.

Yes very brutal. However Kyokushin in the USA was always soft and awful compared to UK, Russia and Brazil.