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List of Kyokushin practitioners

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This is a list of highly notable practitioners of Kyokushin Karate.

Founder

Oyama's direct students

Japanese nationals

  • Terutomo Yamazaki – the first champion of the All-Japan Full Contact Karate Open Championships in 1969, and has promoted Kyokushin famous through his accomplishments. Because he fought and defeated Muay Thai boxers, he created a reputation for Kyokushin before the First All-Japan Open Full Contact Karate Championships was held.[3][4][5][6] Yamazaki is highly skilled at and an authority on fighting and breaking. When he fought someone, it was usual that he knocked them out without receiving any injuries himself.[7] He is nicknamed "The Genius Karate Fighter" or "The Dragon of Kyokushin", and when he was an active fighter, he was the most popular figure of the time.[3][7][8][9] He has shown off his mixed karate and Muai Thai style of fighting at both full contact karate open championships and kickboxing, and has been noted internationally as a prominent fighter in karate's history, appearing in Black Belt Magazine in the United States.[10][11][12]
  • Yoshiji Soeno, founder of Shidōkan Karate.[13][14]
  • Hatsuo Royama – 9th dan, Kancho (Director) of the Kyokushin-kan International Honbu.[15]
  • Kenji Kurosaki – He is a 7th Dan Black Belt in Kyokushin Karate and operates various martial schools focusing in different arts. He is most well known as a pioneer of Full-Contact Karate and Kickboxing in both Japan and Netherlands.[16][17]
  • Hideyuki Ashihara – founder of Ashihara Karate
  • Tsuyoshi Hiroshige – founder of Kyokushin Kenbukai
  • Takashi Azuma – founder of the martial art Kūdō.[citation needed]
  • Akira Masuda – 8th dan, Rijichō (chairman) of the International BudoMan Association (IBMA-KyokushinKai)
  • Shokei Matsui (alias Matsui Akiyoshi, born Moon Jang-gyu) – 8th dan and current Kancho (Director) of the International Karate Organization Kyokushin-kaikan aka IKO-1.[18][19]
  • Katsuaki Satō – winner of the 1st World Full Contact Karate Open Championships and All-Japan Championships on two occasions
  • Kenji Midori – winner of the 5th World Full Contact Karate Open Championships and current president of World Karate Organization (Shinkyokushinkai)
  • Tsutomu Wakiuchi - He is a 7th dan black belt (shihan) , and he is director of the Italian Kyokushin Federation.[20][21]

Japanese relocated overseas

  • Shigeru Oyama – No relation to his teacher Mas Oyama, he was a karate practitioner and instructor who operated a dojo in New York and was head of the US Kyokushin organization for half a century. He taught Kyokushin karate for many years before forming his own organization World Oyama Karate in 1985.[22][23][24]
  • Jōkō Ninomiya – founder of Enshin Karate, he presides over the Enshin organization from the headquarters (honbu) in Denver, Colorado.
  • Seiji Isobe – 8th dan, designated to Brazil, became Shihan after spread Kyokushin through South America, who taught and trained Francisco Filho, Glaube Feitosa and Everton Teixeira.[25][26]
  • Miyuki Miura – 8th dan, operates independently as Miura Dojo in Oak Park, Illinois, and works with other full contact dojo internationally through his Global Budo Karate Alliance.[27][28][29]

Non-Japanese expatriates

Celebrity

Knockdown Karate

Kickboxing

  • Andy Hug – regarded as one of the best Kyokushin fighters of all time.[64][65][66][67] He began practising Kyokushinkai karate from age 10 under Werner Schenker. At age 15, he won the 1979 Swiss Oyama Cup, a national Kyokushin competition.[67] Competed in Kyokushin under Knockdown rules from 1977 to 1991. In 1992, he began pursuing Kickboxing, starting from Seidokaikan and later transitioned to fighting under K-1 Rules.
  • Jérôme Le Banner
  • Mark Reeder - 6th dan black belt in Kyokushin Karate. Known as one of the preeminent practitioners in the Boston metro area. Currently a Professor of Mathematics at Boston College.
  • Francisco Filho – 7th dan black belt in Kyokushin Karate. Started Kyokushin kaikan around age of 10 and received black belt six and half years later. In 1995 Fancisco Filho completed 100-man kumite in Brazil and in Japan.[68][69]
  • Glaube Feitosa - Brazilian former kickboxer and a kyokushin full contact karate practitioner who was competing in K-1.[70]
  • Ewerton Teixeira – Brazilian professional kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and Kyokushin Kaikan karateka.[71][72]
  • Jan Plas – was a Dutch professional kickboxer, trainer and founder of the Mejiro Gym in Amsterdam. Started learning Kyokushin from Jon Bluming. He founded the Mejiro Gym in 1978 after learning kickboxing from Kenji Kurosaki.[73][74]
  • Thom Harinck – Dutch kickboxing trainer and founder of the Chakuriki Gym in Amsterdam. At the age of seventeen he worked as a bouncer at a local Club and began a partnership with Jan Stapper, a Kyokushin instructor.
  • Lucien Carbin – Surinamese-Dutch former kickboxer, karateka and trainer. He was the first European Kyokushin karate champion, a world kickboxing champion and a European Savate and Muay Thai champion.[75] Studied Kyokushin under Jon Bluming.[76]
  • Sam Greco – Australian retired full contact karateka, heavyweight K-1 kickboxer, mixed martial artist. Greco started training in Kyokushin karate at the age of 11 and commenced tournament fighting at the age of 18 establishing himself as one of Australia's best Kyokushin fighters in the late 1980s and early 1990s.[77][78][79][80]
  • Tenshin Nasukawa - Nasukawa was regarded as a pound for pound talent throughout most of his career as a professional kickboxer and is regarded as one of the greatest kickboxers in the modern history of the sport. He initially started learning Kyokushin Karate at age 5. He frequently utilizes the Do Mawashi Kaiten Geri (Rolling Thunder kick) from Kyokushin.[81][82]
  • Semmy Schilt
  • Peter Smit
  • Michael Thompson (karateka)
  • Jan Soukup
  • Nicholas Pettas
  • Marek Piotrowski
  • Peter Graham
  • Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Takayuki Kohiruimaki
  • Tsogto Amara
  • Leona Pettas
  • Baboo Da Silva
  • Hiroki Akimoto
  • Mike Bernardo
  • Aleksandr Pitchkounov
  • Yūji Nashiro
  • Kengo Shimizu
  • Shota Takiya
  • Yuki Yoza

Mixed Martial Arts

Celebrity

This lists celebrities, who were not directly trained by Mas Oyama:

See also

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