Anyone familiar with this style?
I enrolled my son in the local club last Sunday. Thought some one else should teach him while he's young.
(I'll introduce him to Uechi if he sticks with it for a while and wants to do what I do)
I thought the sensei's were good with kids when I watched his first class. Lots of positive reinforcement and they kept it fun and moving fast.
Absolutely no attention to form but the kids that had been around for one or two years seem to have figured some of it out.
All I now about the style, it is Mas Omma's style (sp?) I think it's a fusion of Shotokan and Gojo-Ryu or Kempo. It's definitely got a hard Japaneese feel about it.
Laird
Kyokushin
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Bill Glasheen
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Laird
You basically have it down.
Mas Oyama made his hybrid Japanese style famous by killing or maiming live bulls. He was a BIG dude. The Mas Oyama people had the reputation (in the past) of being rough-and-tumble folk. One of my former instructors who passed through the style before studying with Yamaguchi and Kimo Wall said they had the nickname of "gangster style."
These days their founder is far from his bovine antics, and the practitioners have to make their own reputations. I would say you have just as much chance of finding a good or terrible instructor in this style as you would in MOST other Japanese styles.
I'll check with one of my buddies and see if he can comment further.
- Bill
You basically have it down.
Mas Oyama made his hybrid Japanese style famous by killing or maiming live bulls. He was a BIG dude. The Mas Oyama people had the reputation (in the past) of being rough-and-tumble folk. One of my former instructors who passed through the style before studying with Yamaguchi and Kimo Wall said they had the nickname of "gangster style."
These days their founder is far from his bovine antics, and the practitioners have to make their own reputations. I would say you have just as much chance of finding a good or terrible instructor in this style as you would in MOST other Japanese styles.
I'll check with one of my buddies and see if he can comment further.
- Bill
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Bill Glasheen
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- Joined: Thu Mar 11, 1999 6:01 am
- Location: Richmond, VA --- Louisville, KY
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Hi Laird,
I have trained for a few years in Kyokushin. In my experience standards of instruction have always been high. To progress through the ranks studnts have to show technique, fitness and spirit
A typical class starts with stetching then kihon (many repititions of hand and foot techniques
from sanchin dachi for hands and heiko dachi for legs). Geiko ido - moving kihon i.e.basics moving in various stances. Kata: A selection appropriate to the level of the class. Kumite using "knockdown" rules i.e. full contact but no punches to the head (obviously in dojo kumite full power is not always used. When traing for tournaments, however, it can get very tough). Finally conditioning eg push ups, sit ups, squats etc
In major tournaments cometitors are usually of a high standard. To qualify for certain rounds tameshiwara is compulsory. Training for these events is tough: Lots of roadwork, bagwork, weights etc. The style is very distinctive (fluid and circular) with gedan and jodan mawashi geri much in evidence.
It's a tough, credible style for which I have a lot of respect.
Yours,
KB
I have trained for a few years in Kyokushin. In my experience standards of instruction have always been high. To progress through the ranks studnts have to show technique, fitness and spirit
A typical class starts with stetching then kihon (many repititions of hand and foot techniques
from sanchin dachi for hands and heiko dachi for legs). Geiko ido - moving kihon i.e.basics moving in various stances. Kata: A selection appropriate to the level of the class. Kumite using "knockdown" rules i.e. full contact but no punches to the head (obviously in dojo kumite full power is not always used. When traing for tournaments, however, it can get very tough). Finally conditioning eg push ups, sit ups, squats etc
In major tournaments cometitors are usually of a high standard. To qualify for certain rounds tameshiwara is compulsory. Training for these events is tough: Lots of roadwork, bagwork, weights etc. The style is very distinctive (fluid and circular) with gedan and jodan mawashi geri much in evidence.
It's a tough, credible style for which I have a lot of respect.
Yours,
KB
