KyokushinKarateMan
Train hard, fight easy
I train in Kyokushin Karate.
It is also commonly referred to as 'knockdown' karate, known for our bare knuckle full-contact fighting format. We stand alone in the karate world in this aspect. Our tournaments do not consist of "point" fighting. We do not wear any protection in our tournaments, except for a mouth guard and groin cup.
There are only two ways to win our tournaments, either KO your opponent or TKO your opponent.
There are no point systems, or raising of flags from corner judges to signify strikes landed, as exist in "sport Karate" type styles.. which are far more widely known and the first thing that comes to peoples' minds when they hear the word Karate. There are roughly 25-30 recognized styles of karate, each different in some way or another -but none more different, and consequently more outcast by the karate 'community', than Kyokushin.
Because we do not use any hand protection, there are no face punching allowed in our bare knuckle tournaments. Hand and elbow strikes to the head or neck are prohibited. However, kicks to the head, knee strikes, punches to the upper body(including stomach, liver, solar plexus, etc), and kicks to the inner and outer leg are permitted. Initially, and to anyone who has never been on the receiving end of such strikes, one may read and think *yawn what kind of "fight" is that? How much damage could one possibly do without face punching?
Without seeming like I'm 'over-promoting' the style, I'll simply lend a few .gifs (vs. long ass videos) of what happens in our Kyokushin tournaments:
So as you can see, even without face-punching in our tournaments(which would be nothing but bare-knuckle fighting and that's barely legal anywhere) we still manage to put a wide variety of skills on display for the fight's sake, and they are skills that are very effective(ask everybody who gets put to sleep). This short clip below shows a Kyokushin fighter(andy hug, rip). I chose it to show how "not having face punching" in our tournaments has zero effect on our actual fighting because we train face punching when in the dojo. The first part shows an Andy Hug KO in a Kyokushin rules style fight(no face punching), second shows him in K-1 getting a KO.
Many people mistake the fact that we don't allow it in our tourneys as "we don't train it in the dojo", and that's nothing short of pure silliness and ignorance. We fight. That is what our style of karate is about and is also why it is the only style that has repeatedly had success against MMA and K-1 fighters. Bas Rutten, Andy Hug, Fransisco Filho, George St. Pierre- are just a few Kyokushin fighters who've had success in MMA. And these are high-ranking Kyokushin guys, too. Not just a handful of 'seminar takers'.
So please dispel these myths that Kyokushin "doesn't do face punching".
There's a huge difference between training it daily, and tournament rules. We practice throws and tosses all the time as well, but you will never see one in our tourneys, unless the fighter wants to be DQ'd.
It is also commonly referred to as 'knockdown' karate, known for our bare knuckle full-contact fighting format. We stand alone in the karate world in this aspect. Our tournaments do not consist of "point" fighting. We do not wear any protection in our tournaments, except for a mouth guard and groin cup.
There are only two ways to win our tournaments, either KO your opponent or TKO your opponent.
There are no point systems, or raising of flags from corner judges to signify strikes landed, as exist in "sport Karate" type styles.. which are far more widely known and the first thing that comes to peoples' minds when they hear the word Karate. There are roughly 25-30 recognized styles of karate, each different in some way or another -but none more different, and consequently more outcast by the karate 'community', than Kyokushin.
Because we do not use any hand protection, there are no face punching allowed in our bare knuckle tournaments. Hand and elbow strikes to the head or neck are prohibited. However, kicks to the head, knee strikes, punches to the upper body(including stomach, liver, solar plexus, etc), and kicks to the inner and outer leg are permitted. Initially, and to anyone who has never been on the receiving end of such strikes, one may read and think *yawn what kind of "fight" is that? How much damage could one possibly do without face punching?
Without seeming like I'm 'over-promoting' the style, I'll simply lend a few .gifs (vs. long ass videos) of what happens in our Kyokushin tournaments:
So as you can see, even without face-punching in our tournaments(which would be nothing but bare-knuckle fighting and that's barely legal anywhere) we still manage to put a wide variety of skills on display for the fight's sake, and they are skills that are very effective(ask everybody who gets put to sleep). This short clip below shows a Kyokushin fighter(andy hug, rip). I chose it to show how "not having face punching" in our tournaments has zero effect on our actual fighting because we train face punching when in the dojo. The first part shows an Andy Hug KO in a Kyokushin rules style fight(no face punching), second shows him in K-1 getting a KO.
Many people mistake the fact that we don't allow it in our tourneys as "we don't train it in the dojo", and that's nothing short of pure silliness and ignorance. We fight. That is what our style of karate is about and is also why it is the only style that has repeatedly had success against MMA and K-1 fighters. Bas Rutten, Andy Hug, Fransisco Filho, George St. Pierre- are just a few Kyokushin fighters who've had success in MMA. And these are high-ranking Kyokushin guys, too. Not just a handful of 'seminar takers'.
So please dispel these myths that Kyokushin "doesn't do face punching".
There's a huge difference between training it daily, and tournament rules. We practice throws and tosses all the time as well, but you will never see one in our tourneys, unless the fighter wants to be DQ'd.
not my thing.
I wish i knew this art in addition to Brazillian Jiujitsu.
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