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00:29Hello everybody, it's me, the Real Joe, and this is Martial Arts Styles, a brief history
00:48of Kyokushin Karate.
00:51Kyokushin Karate is a hardcore style of Japanese karate, founded in 1964.
00:59The style was founded by Mas Oyama, who is a Korean martial arts master who lived most
01:05of his life in Japan.
01:08Kyokushin Karate is considered the first full contact style of karate.
01:14Mas Oyama, who was born in South Korea in 1923, was sent to China to live with his sister.
01:21There, he studied Chinese martial arts from a person who was working on his sister's
01:28farm.
01:29In 1938, he left China to go to Japan where he would join the Yamanashi Aviation School,
01:38which at the time was part of the Japanese Imperial Army Aviation School.
01:43After World War II, he left aviation school and opened up a karate school.
01:49He had to then close the school shortly after opening it because no one wanted him around
01:55due to his Korean heritage.
01:57In 1946, he moved to Tokyo, met a Japanese woman who would become his wife, enrolled in a university
02:08school.
02:09That his wife's mother worked in, and sought instruction from a Shotokan karate master,
02:15Igo Funakashi, who was the second son of the founder of Shotokan karate, Ichin Funakashi.
02:24Because he felt unwanted in Japan, he trained in solitude.
02:30After two years of studying Shotokan karate, he started studying Gojuru karate.
02:36After World War II, he would get into numerous fights with U.S. military personnel.
02:42He hated the fact that a lot of his friends were killed in the war, and that the U.S. took
02:50over Japan.
02:51His Gojuru karate instructor, Sonai Chu, informed him that he should go up into a lone mountain
02:59and focus on his mind and body.
03:02Mass Oyama followed his teacher's advice and went up into a lonely mountain to focus on
03:09his mind and body for three years.
03:12The training was so harsh that he almost gave up.
03:16After taking more advice from his teacher, he spent the rest of his 14 months on the mountain.
03:24When he came down from the mountain, he was a much stronger person.
03:29In 1964, after Mas Oyama founded Kayoku Shin Karate, he handpicked instructors who had experience
03:38in marketing and recruiting.
03:40The style expanded quickly.
03:43Today, Kayoku Shin Karate is still the most hardcore style of karate and has been featured
03:51on many shows and in movies.
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