Karate kykoushin?

Question

what do u think about kykoushin karate?

wich style of karate is the best.

Answer 1

well i take martial arts and i take wado ru/tae kwon do at the international institute of martial arts. that place is best to me and the style is both offensive and defensive it really evens out i've been goin there for about 5 years now its amazing

Answer 2

My teachers teacher got his black belt from Mas Oyama and yes I had to spar 100 people for my black belt, very exhausting, I was in excellent shape in my 20's and still felt like I was going to die of a heart attack.  I later trained in Muay Thai and still think Kyokushin is tougher.

Answer 3

Kyo is the best!!! Osu!!

although I have to add that Kyo is hard on your body and injury happens often in training.

Excellent for base if you want to go on training grappling and other thing later.

If you can reach brown belt in Kyo I can guarantee that you'll succeed in other MA training later on.

Answer 4

Dude... Kyokushin fighters were the most feared in the world!

Their conditioning is very hard on the body, which unlike popular belief, is not a good thing.

There are also offshoots of Kyokushin like - Oyama Karate and Seido which share the same training and conditioning.

Nowadays, many of the old-school practitioners are realizing that the really hard training is more detrimental than beneficial.

You must choose a Teacher that can heal or assist in healing as well as teach MA.

Answer 5

i feel sorry for America, sounds like everyone is sueing everyone else there.  Australia is far away from that but maybe heading this way

Anyway, I train in Kyokushin and its a very good style and have very tough training.  Its a very blue collard karate, not much talk, just lots of training, I'd say that overall kyokushin schools would have the toughest training and produce the strongest fighters simply because the standard, although not as high as when Oyama Sosai was around is still very high and full contact fighting makes you train hard less you want to get your *** kicked

Answer 6

I know it always comes down to the individual fighter and not the art, but I have a deep respect for Kyokushin Karate. I think every school should try to implement their full contact training techniques if possible.

And Andy S is right, it is a lawsuit waiting to happen lol. That's why even in as big an area as mine (Detroit), you have a very hard time trying to find a Kyokushin Karate school.

Answer 7

Kyokushin is a combination of Goju-Ryu and Shotokan Karate.  Really, it's more Goju than Shotokan but it's the full-contact sparring and 100 man sparring for black belt that distinguish it from other styles.

Even in the old days, the Kyokushin-kai Kan was a bit extreme.  By today's standards, its a lawsuit waiting to happen.  But if you survive the training, no doubt that you'll be good.

Answer 8

its a good style and is hard which suits me but may not suit you but in my opinion it is an incomplete system.

Answer 9

I agree with the above posters.

It is a tough style but an incomplete one.

But if you find a good teacher maybe you will learn enough to then be able to branch out on your own eventually.... maybe still in Kyokushin, but learning more about control and defense, etc.

Answer 10

i respect all the above opinions and i agree that Kyo is one of the hardest and toughest styles on earth and during its training you have to go through a very tough time....... I have practiced Kyo and i found it really tough and kind of limited and far away from Sports and Spiritual Karate and it also does not help you building up your inside, your attitude...... the real essence of practicing karate..... then i changed to Shitoryu.... Shitoryu is one of the oldest styles and it has its roots in Okinawa Japan.... the real home of karate..... this style gives you inner, outer and spiritual strenght and in today's times this is the most classical and beautiful style... its basics... katas.... kumite techniques... everything is very very effective, practical and yet beautiful.

Answer 11

I like the look of Kykoushin (GSP has a black belt in that)  but i think that shotokhan and real traditional okinawan styles are the best.

Answer 12

its the hardest style of karate ; lots of endurance training , diffrent strikes on punshing bags , and verry hard sparring only strikes to the head with fist are not allowed and elbows but all  other parts of the body can be used to the head  like legs , knee's and fist to the body, you can compare it with muay thai only that you cant hit the face with fist and elbows :p.

Answer 13

Kyokushin is an extremely hard (external) style of Karate. It is mostly made up of Shotokan, western boxing & kickboxing but as you advance in the ranks it becomes more circular with techniques coming from Goju-Ryu which places emphasis on in-fighting.

There are only 3 things that I have a problem with.

1) Katas

2) Traditional weapons

3) High kicks

In my opinion Isshin-Ryu & Kyokushin are the two best styles of Karate.

Answer 14

It is a very good style, and yes  trains with contact, but so do many other styles of Okinawin karate when trained properly and the correct way. Many other styles of karate also have intense body conditioning excercises. As mentioned it is an incomplete system, as far as punching to the head and elbowing to the head go.

There is no best style of karate. What is important is what kind of instruction and training you get, and how much you put into it. You can have the fastest car in the world, and if you do not learn to drive it and practice driving it right, it might as well be a sub compact.