Sosai Masutatsu Oyama, The Founder of Kyokushin KarateSosai Mas OyamaSosai (Great Master) Masutatsu Oyama was born in Korea in 1923 and became the founder of Japan’s most renowned — and the world’s most widespread — style of karate. From the age of 9, Mas Oyama learned Chinese Kempo in Manchuria and followed into his teens by practicing Judo and boxing. Finally this led him to the practice of Okinawan karate, which ultimately served as the springboard for the creation of his own style, Kyokushin, or the “The Ultimate Truth.” By the time Mas Oyama was 20, he had received his 4th dan in Okinawan karate and, though tireless study,eventually attained a 4th dan in Judo as well.Among Mas Oyama’s many accomplishments, he is perhaps best known for introducing tameshiwari or “stone breaking” into the practice of modern karate. Mas Oyama reasoned that through hard training he could condition his hands to be as powerful as a hammer. Since one could break stones with a hammer, he began the practice of learning how to break boards, bricks and stones with his bare hands. This incredible power he then translated directly into his theory of fighting karate, reasoning that if he could break stones, human bones would break beneath his blows as well. Perhaps his greatest contribution to Japanese karate, therefore, was the introduction and popularization of full-contact fighting karate.

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At the time he won Japan’s largest tournament sponsored by Okinawa’s Shotokan karate, he was often penalized for fighting too hard, resulting in frequent injuries to his opponents. It was this experience, perhaps above all other influences, that led to his creation of Kyokushin karate. After all, Mas Oyama believed, karate is a fighting art: Without taking it to its extreme by practicing to break the body of one’s opponent (for application during real life and death struggle), one could never realize the true spiritual potential of karate.mas oyama woodFrustrated by society’s opposition to his gathering strength, Mas Oyama at the age of 23, retreated to a remote spot in the mountains with the ambition of training more hours per day than he slept for three years.

During this time he practiced by striking the few mountain trees around his cabin with his bare fists until those trees withered and died. He pressed twice his body weight 500 times per day, meditated under icy waterfalls, and fought in the night with the demons of bitter cold and isolation. Upon emerging from mountain training, it is said that Mas Oyama struck a telephone pole and left a clean imprint of his fist in the treated wood.downloadAt the age of 27, convinced that he could not find another fighter in Japan who could match his power and skill, Mas Oyama began his famous battles with bulls to prove his strength and make the world realize the true power of his karate. In one famous bout in front of a movie camera, he battled an angry bull on a beach for 45 minutes, both he and the bull refusing to be beaten.

Finally the bull tired, and Mas Oyama sliced one of his horns off with his shuto, or “knife-hand strike.”Mas Oyama opened his first dojo in Ikebukuro, Tokyo at the age of 30, and called it “Oyama Dojo.” It was here that he took all that he had learned from the various styles that he’d practiced through the years, combined them with what he’d learned during the many thousands of hours of self-training and full-contact fighting, and created a new style of karate, which he called Kyokushin. In 1964, a new dojo in Ikebukuro became the world headquarters of the International Karate Organization, Kyokushinkaikan, which had over 12 million members in 133 countries at the time of his death.Mas Oyama died of lung cancer in April of 1994, leaving to the world a legacy of the world’s strongest karate.

Contents.Early life Mas Oyama was born as Choi Young-Eui ( 최영의) in,. At a young age he was sent to, Northeast China to live on his sister's farm. Oyama began studying at age 9 from a Chinese farmer who was working on the farm.

His family name was Lee and Oyama said he was his very first teacher. The story of the young Oyama's life is written in his earlier books.In March 1938, Oyama left for Japan following his brother who enrolled in the Yamanashi Aviation School aviation school. Sometime during his time in Japan, Choi Young-Eui chose his Japanese name, Oyama Masutatsu ( 大山 倍達), which is a transliteration of Baedal ( 倍達). Baedal was an ancient Korean kingdom known in Japan during Oyama's time as '.One story of Oyama's youth involves Lee giving young Oyama a seed which he was to plant; when it sprouted, he was to jump over it one hundred times every day.

As the seed grew and became a plant, Oyama later said, 'I was able to jump between walls back and forth easily.' The writer, Ikki Kajiwara, and the publisher of the comics based the story on the life experience Oyama spoke to them about – thus the title became 'Karate Baka Ichidai' (Karate Fanatic).In 1963, Oyama wrote What is Karate which became a best seller in the US and sold million copies all over the world. It is still considered by many to be the 'Bible' of Karate to this day. It was translated into, and English.Post-World War II In 1945 after the war ended, Oyama left the aviation school. He finally found a place to live in. This is where he met his future wife whose mother ran a dormitory for university students.In 1946, Oyama enrolled in School of Education to study sports science.Wanting the best in instruction, he contacted the (Karate school) operated by, the third son of and founder.

He became a student, and began his lifelong career in Karate. Feeling like a foreigner in a strange land, he remained isolated and trained in solitude.Oyama attended in Tokyo and was accepted as a student at the dojo of.

He trained with Funakoshi for two years, then studied karate for several years with So Nei Chu ( 조영주 / 曺（曹）寧柱, 1908–1995), a senior student of the system's founder,. So was a fellow Korean from Oyama's native province.Around the time he also went around Tokyo getting in fights with the U.S. Military Police.

He later reminisced those times in a television interview, 'Itsumitemo Haran Banjyo' (Nihon Television), 'I lost many friends during the war- the very morning of their departure as pilots, we had breakfast together and in the evening their seats were empty. After the war ended, I was angry- so I fought as many U.S. Military as I could, until my portrait was all over the police station.' Oyama retreated to a lone mountain for solace to train his mind and body. He set out to spend three years on Mt. Oyama built a shack on the side of the mountain. One of his students named Yashiro accompanied him, but after the rigors of this isolated training, with no modern conveniences, the student snuck away one night, and left Oyama alone.

With only monthly visits from a friend in the town of Tateyama in, the loneliness and harsh training became grueling. Oyama remained on the mountain for fourteen months, and returned to Tokyo a much stronger and fiercer Karateka.Oyama gave great credit to reading by, a famous Japanese swordsman, to change his life completely. He recounts this book as being his only reading material during his mountain training years.He was forced to leave his mountain retreat after his sponsor had stopped supporting him. Months later, after he had won the Karate Section of Japanese National Martial Arts Championships, he was distraught that he had not reached his original goal to train in the mountains for three years, so he went into solitude again, this time on Mt. Kiyosumi in Chiba Prefecture, and he trained there for 18 months.Founding Kyokushin In 1953 Oyama opened his own, named Oyama Dojo (form of Gōjū-ryū), in Tokyo but continued to travel around and the world giving martial arts demonstrations, which included knocking live bulls unconscious with his bare hands (sometimes grabbing them by the horn, and snapping the horn off).

His dojo was first located outside in an empty lot but eventually moved into a ballet school in 1956. The senior instructors under him were T. Mizushima, E. Ishibashi, and T. Oyama's own curriculum soon developed a reputation as a tough, intense, hard-hitting but practical style which was finally named (Japan Karate-Do Kyokushinkai), which means 'the ultimate truth,' in a ceremony in 1957. He also developed a reputation for being 'rough' with his students, as the training sessions were grueling and students injuring themselves in practice fighting (kumite) was quite common. Along with practice fighting that distinguished Oyama's teaching style from other karate schools, emphasis on breaking objects such as boards, tiles, or bricks to measure one's offensive ability became Kyokushin's trademark.

Oyama believed in the practical application of karate and declared that ignoring 'breaking practice is no more useful than a fruit tree that bears no fruit.' As the reputation of the dojo grew students were attracted to come to train there from inside and outside Japan and the number of students grew. Many of the eventual senior leaders of today's various Kyokushin based organisations began training in the style during this time. In 1964 Oyama moved the dojo into the building that would from then on serve as the Kyokushin home dojo and world headquarters. In connection with this he also formally founded the 'International Karate Organization ' (commonly abbreviated to IKO or IKOK) to organise the many schools that were by then teaching the kyokushin style.In 1961 at the All-Japan Student Open Karate Championship, one of Oyama's students, at 19 years old (1961) made his first tournament appearance, where he was placed first.

Nakamura later became Mas Oyama's Chief Instructor as referenced in Mas Oyama's book, 'This is Karate.' In 1969, Oyama staged the first All-Japan Full Contact Karate Open Championships which took Japan by storm and became the first champion, which have been held every year since. In 1975, the first World Full Contact Karate Open Championships were held in Tokyo. World championships have been held at four-yearly intervals since.

After formally establishing Kyokushin-kai, Oyama directed the organization through a period of expansion. Oyama and his staff of hand-picked instructors displayed great ability in marketing the style and gaining new members.

Oyama would choose an instructor to open a dojo in another town or city in Japan, whereupon the instructor would move to that town, and, typically demonstrate his karate skills in public places, such as at the civic gymnasium, the local police gym (where many judo students would practice), a local park, or conduct martial arts demonstrations at local festivals or school events. In this way, the instructor would soon gain a few students for his new dojo. After that, word of mouth would spread through the local area until the dojo had a dedicated core of students. Oyama also sent instructors to other countries such as the, and to spread Kyokushin in the same way.

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