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Read MoreKyokushin-kan’s Mission
At Kyokushin-kan, our mission is to DEFEND, REVITALIZE, and ADVANCE the teaching of Kyokushin’s founder, Sosai Masutatsu Oyama. Defending Sosai’s teaching means preventing any deterioration of the best that Kyokushin was durhing Sosai’s lifetime. Revitalizing it means, in some cases, reintroducing elements of Kyokushin training that helped make Kyokushin what it is, but that were no...
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Read MoreKyokushin-kan Technical Committee
To understand the mission of the Kyokushin-kan Technical Committee, chaired by Shihan Hiroto Okazaki, it is important to understand Kyokushin-kan’s view that technical material (kata, bunkai, kihon, etc.) play an integral role in honing karate fighting ability. In our mission statement, we said that it is our intent to promote the best of what Sosai’s Kyokushin is, was, and will be, rather than...
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Read MoreKancho Royama vs. Snapshot Kyokushin
One of the great stumbling blocks to Kyokushin’s protection after the death of Mas Oyama has been instructors in leadership positions who had extremely valuable experiences training with Mas Oyama (or with great students of Mas Oyama), but who mistakenly decide that what they witnessed during that one single “snapshot” experience was all that Kyokushin was (and all that Mas Oyama...
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Read MoreWORLD NEWS! Article Written in Spanish by Sensei Mauricio of Costa Rica!
You can now add your own News stories, and Honbu’s site will be automatically updated to display what’s going on in Kyokushin worldwide. Your submitted news stories might cover seminars, promotions, training camps, promotion tests, or any topic that, through photographs and video clips, might paint Kyokushin-kan in a positive light. We hope that branches who host significant or newsworthy events will...
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Read MoreWORLD NEWS! 29th Annual ACKK Beach Training in Canada!
You can now add your own News stories, and Honbu’s site will be automatically updated to display what’s going on in Kyokushin worldwide. Your submitted news stories might cover seminars, promotions, training camps, promotion tests, or any topic that, through photographs and video clips, might paint Kyokushin-kan in a positive light. We hope that branches who host significant or newsworthy events will...
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Read MoreWhat is Ikken?
Ikken is a parallel, Chinese martial art heavily stressed by Kancho Royama and other instructors during Kyokushin-kan seminars. It is the name currently used for an martial art Sosai Mas Oyama practiced, Taikiken, and incorporated into his synthesis of Kyokushin. At its core is the training of Ki (or Chi in Chinese) energy. Westerners who’ve never seen Ikken might think it similar to Tai Chi, although it...
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Read MoreShinken Shobu Rules
We all know that by the 1990′s when Sosai was alive and Kyokushin achieved such enormous popularity, all Kyokushin tournaments, including the world tournaments held in Japan, denied the competitors the use of hand strikes (punches, elbows, etc.) to the head and face. This was done originally for an obvious reason. No one wanted to see so many competitors bloodied and sent to the hospital...
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Read MoreWorldwide Unification of Kata
On Sunday afternoon, June 23rd, 2013, Kyokushin-kan hosted it’s annual weight category Shinken-Shobu Rules Tournament. This new set of Kyokushin tournament rules has drawn a lot of attention because it is the first time in most of our lives that we have ever seen Kyokushin fighters fighting with head punches. Kancho Royama, and other young students of Mas Oyama at Oyama Dojo (prior to the...
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Read MoreKata and Bunkai
Bunkai means “application” in Japanese. It refers to a type of training, usually performed as formal one-step kumite, in which the practitioner studies the application of the individual movements performed during kata by applying them as defenses against the simulated attacks of a training partner. The practice of bunkai is a long-missing-from-Kyokushin, but vital, link between kata and...
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Read MoreBuki Jutsu
One of Kyokushin-kan’s major innovations since it’s founding has been the introduction of Buki Jutsu (weapons training), including training with Okinawa’s traditional weapons intended for defense against the Japanese sword, including: bo, jo, sai, tonfa and boken. Although from all the innovations and re-introductions to Kyokushin Kyokushin-kan has made in the decade since its birth, Buki Jutsu is...
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Read MoreKyokushin-kan Tournaments
Full-contact tournament fighting has been a hallmark of Mas Oyama’s Kyokushin Karate since the All-Japn tournaments of the late 60’s, and especially since the commencement of Mas Oyama’s world tournaments held every 4 years since 1975. Kyokushin-kan continues this tradition of excellence by hosting its All-Japan Tournament every November in Japan, and through its support of numerous international and...
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Read MoreInternational Seminars
Above all other content at Kyokushin-kan’s International Instructors’ Seminars is Kancho’s message, “Attend these seminars! Take what you’ve learned back to your countries!” One should understand that Kyokushin-kan is NOT “just another IKO.” We are not just another label under which Kyokushin dojos and instructors worldwide continue their snapshot...
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Read MoreKancho Hatsuo Royama and the Birth of Kyokushin-kan
Hatsuo Royama was born in Saitama, just north of Tokyo, in 1948. Inspired by a country-wide boom in popularity of celebrity fighters and wrestlers, he traveled to Ikebukuro at the age of 15 and entered Mas Oyama’s legendary “Oyama Dojo” where Kyokushin Karate was being born. Having trained there at the birthplace of Mas Oyama’s Kyokushin, Kancho Royama was one of a very few...
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