Karate is an extraordinary art which connects the strength of your soul and the quickness of your body. Karate can be described as martial arts which help you protect yourself and the weak, and makes your body at its’ best shape. It’s a type of sport which relieves stress, manages your anger, and top notches your endurance. Karate is a way of life, it has lots of philosophy in it.

Kyokushin Karate is one of many Japanese Karate Martial Arts, it was invented my Masutatsu Oyama in the year 1964. In English, Kyokushin means “Community of Absolute Truth.” The goal of the system is to defeat all of your weaknesses; fear, anger, and other factors of the so called “lower nature” of a human, and then make you strong outside and inside.
Kyokushin is the biggest Karate Organization in the World, it has about 12, 000, 000 followers over 140 countries. Mas Oyama, also, started Kyokushin Championships which were so called “Full- Contact” and “Bare Knuckle”, the system still lives today.

Kyokushin yra didžiausia pasaulio Karatė organizacija, turinti 12,000,000 studentų iš 140 pasaulio tautų. Mas Oyama taip pat pradėjo "Full-Contact", "Bare-Knuckle" turnyro sistemą.
Kyokushin Karate, as in real world, starts as an ambition; ambitions to become World’s Greatest, to have your first Black Belt, or someday even get your own Dojo. These are the very simple dreams for which you have to work really hard with your own pure heart. When you achieve your dream, then you know that you can dream freely, since dreams come true.
Kyokushin Karate- art to fight, art to fight not only for you, but for every evil thing which surrounds you.
Kyokushin Karate- art to defeat… but first you have to defeat yourself.

I chose this Karate Style not by coincidence- I picked Combat Kyokushin, not the Sport Kyokushin (In Sport Kyokushin the hits are only imitated, while the victory is decided by the number of points each person gets, so there are not knock outs.) It may sound brutal, but Kyokushin is not a brutal sport. This karate style involves Karate- do (traditional Karate), Thailand’s and Classical Boxing. Big plus is that it’s prohibited to hit opponent with an arm to the head, which prevents serious head injuries, while Muay Thai fighters and Boxers get them a lot. Also it is important to say, that Kyokushin Karate is the most popular non- Olympic sport style in Lithuania. Maybe that’s why Lithuanian are amongst the finest of Europe’s Kyokushin Fighters.


Kyokushin Karate Instructor
Dmitrij Aleksandrov
OSU