Kyokushin kaikan
Also known as Kyokushin karate, Kyokushin
is a style of karate, a martial art originated in Japan. It is a full-contact style of stand-up fighting and is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement, discipline, and hard training.
Key facts
- Martial art.logo
- Kyokushinkai.svg
- Martial art.logocaption
- Logo of Kyokushin-kai written in a style of cursive script kanji.
- Martial art.logosize
- 90px
- Martial art.name
- Kyokushin (極眞)
- Martial art.focus
- Striking
- Martial art.hardness
- Full-contact
- Martial art.creator
- Masutatsu Oyama (Choi Bae-Dal)
- Martial art.ancestor arts
- Gōjū-ryū, Shotokan, Bogutsuki Karate
- Martial art.descendant arts
- Kudo (or Daido Juku) Ashihara, Enshin, Seidokaikan, Shidokan, Satojuku, Seidō juku, Dutch Kickboxing, Japanese Kickboxing, Zendokai
- Martial art.famous_pract
- (see notable practitioners)
- Chinese.hangul
- 극진회관
- Chinese.hanja
Article
44 sectionsContents
- History
- Founding
- Splintering organizations
- The IKO crisis
- Techniques and training
- ''Kata''
- ''Kumite''
- Self-defense
- Grading
- Competition formats
- Internationally
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Canada
- Australia
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Nepal
- Brazil
- Poland
- Hungary
- Romania
- Russia
- Lithuania
- Bulgaria
- Spain
- Singapore and SEA
- Iran
- Slovakia
- Central America & the Caribbean
- Kyokushin organizations and derivative styles
- Kyokushin organizations
- International Karate Organization
- Other major Japanese organizations
- Major organizations outside Japan
- Derivative styles
- Influence
- In popular culture
- Notable practitioners
- Literature
- Notes
- References
- See also
- External links
is a style of karate, a martial art originated in Japan. It is a full-contact style of stand-up fighting and is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement, discipline, and hard training.
Kyokushin Kaikan [Kaikan (会館) Assembly Hall or "Honbu" (本部) Headquarters] is the martial arts organization founded in 1964 by Korean-Japanese , officially the International Karate Organization. Previously, this institution was known as the Oyama Dojo. Since 1964, the style has continued to spread to more than 120 countries, becoming one of the largest martial arts organizations in the world, and in Japan itself.