List of Kyokushin Techniques

List Of Kyokushin Techniques

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Kyokushin Karate
Focus Striking
Hardness Full-contact; Competitions include kicks to the head, but not hand strikes to the head
Country of origin Japan
Creator Masutatsu Oyama (Choi Yeong-Eui)
Famous practitioners Sonny Chiba, Sean Connery, Glaube Feitosa, Francisco Filho, Andy Hug, Hajime Kazumi, Katsunori Kikuno, Bobby Lowe, Dolph Lundgren, Akira Masuda, Shokei Matsui, Kenji Midori, Glen Murphy, Andrews Nakahara, Nicholas Pettas, Bas Rutten, Semmy Schilt, Tiger Schulmann, Georges St-Pierre, Ewerton Teixeira, Michael Jai White, Terutomo Yamazaki
Parenthood Various, mainly Gōjū-ryū, also including Shotokan, Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu.

Kyokushin kaikan (極真会館?) is a style of stand-up, full contact karate, founded in 1964 by Korean-Japanese karate master, Masutatsu Oyama (大山倍達, Ōyama Masutatsu?) who was born under the name Choi Young-Eui. 최영의}. Kyokushinkai is Japanese for "the society of the ultimate truth". Kyokushin is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement, discipline and hard training. Its full contact style has had international appeal (practitioners have over the last 40+ years numbered more than 12 million).

Read more about List Of Kyokushin Techniques:  History, Dojo Kun (Training Hall Oath), The Kanji and Its Meaning in Kyokushin, Techniques and Training, Influence, Notable Practitioners

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