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Dolph Lundgren – He took up Kyokushin karate at the age of 10. [94] He captained the Swedish Kyokushin karate team, and was a formidable challenger at the 1979 World Open Tournament (arranged by the Kyokushin Karate Organization) when he was only a green belt. He was the Swedish champion in Kyokushin in 1979, 1980 and 1981. [95]
Kyokushin Karate has served as the basis for the Kyokugenryu Karate, a fictional martial art from SNK Playmore's Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury, and King of Fighters series. Kyokugenryu (lit. "the extreme style") and Kyokushin are similar sounding names, and the family patriarch Takuma Sakazaki is modelled after Kyokusin founder Mas Oyama.
Terutomo Yamazaki was born on July 31, 1947, in the village of Yamato, Yamanashi.He began the study of Kyokushin karate as a student in high school at the headquarters of Kyokushin Kaikan at Ikebukuro, Tokyo, where founder Masutatsu Ōyama taught.
Hatsuo Royama (盧山 初雄, Royama Hatsuo, born 31 March 1948) also known by his Korean name of Noh Cho Woong (Korean: 노초웅; Hanja: 盧初雄) is a master of Kyokushin Karate and was current Kancho (Director) of the Kyokushin-kan International Organization Honbu, one faction of the International Karate Organization (IKO) founded by Mas Oyama (1923–1994) until April 2022.
List of karateka includes notable practitioners of karate, listed in alphabetical order by surname. Note that Japanese name order might not be consistent in this list, due to differing conventions . Individual entries list each person's name, years of birth and death (as appropriate), and main karate style(s).
Yoshiji Soeno (添野 義二, Soeno Yoshiji, born September 29, 1947) is a Japanese karateka and a retired professional welterweight kickboxer.. Soeno was a renowned practitioner of Kyokushin-kaikan style of karate, before branching out and founding his own style of Shidōkan Karate.
Miura began training in Shotokan karate at the age of 13 years, and had been promoted to the rank of 2nd dan black belt by his 18th birthday. [1] He also studied judo in his youth, achieving the rank of 1st dan in that art by the time he was 17. [1] In 1967, aged 18, he began studying Kyokushin karate in a club at Josai International University.
This is Karate!, 1965. ISBN 0-87040-254-4; Mastering karate, 1966. ISBN 9780448017471; Vital Karate, 1967. ISBN 2-901551-53-X; Advanced Karate, 1970. ASIN B000BQYRBQ ISBN 9780870400018; Essential Karate, 1978. ISBN 978-0-8069-8844-3; The Kyokushin way : Mas. Oyama's karate philosophy, 1979. ISBN 9780870404603; Mas Oyama's complete karate course ...