Oyama 7
Sosai 2
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International Shinkyokushin Karate
Academy

Midori 1

Kyokushinkai

Only full contact of karate

Founder of this style is Masutatsu Oyama. The  master began his combat haven run course as a small child in Korea with Kempo.  As a pilot candidate he came to Japan, where he became in the Dojo Funakoshis  soon an extremely good pupil. With 17 years it was already carrier of the second  Dans, and to its out education belonged a respectable study in judo. Soon it  reached both into karate and in the judo the fourth Dan.

During long time  Mas Oyama trained intensively in the Dojo Funakoshi's at the university of  Takushoku and became with twenty years Yondan. Oyama its knowledge in the  Judosport and it deepened from then on became likewise Yondan in less than four  years. In the process of these years the Gojuryu aroused the interest, which  exercised this discipline during approx. 2 years with Mas Oyama. 1946 went the  23-year Oyama with its friend Yashiro on the mountain Miobu in Japan,  because they were inspired of the famous Musashi writings. In the mountains, in  complete separatingness, the two trained untiringly. After a half year however  Yashiro left the isolation, but Oyama continued to train, 12 hours on the day at  night maintained it in the light of the candle its body or played on a Japanese  bamboo flute. After 14 months also Oyama left the mountain completely prepared  for the national championships in Japan, which he also won .