Student Reports

Osu!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Sensei Tohyama for allowing me to take the grading, and to everyone of you in the Tohyama Dojo for your heartfelt support.

To be honest, I had to think over whether I was really up to taking the grading when Sensei Tohyama first suggested so. Though I was going through a hard time of my own, trying to balance my job, family and Karate, with some concerns I had to cope with over my health, in the end it came back to me that 'No or Cannot' is not an option in Kyokushin Karate.

I was not completely confident, but with the help and support

Under the warm autumn sunshine, many of the Dojo students had gathered up at the Acton Dojo to attend the 2nd Kata Seminar. Each and every one of them eager to gain the essence in depth and to possibly master the Katas we were about to work on.

All Dojo students who were to attend this Kata Seminar have been notified of the Katas to work on and had all practiced, but the seminar itself was of a very advanced level that most of us found it challenging to even keep up with it.

With the fact that this seminar was held on a Sunday, all of us should have come with high intentions in an

Since the first moment I saw Shihan Yamamoto in the dojo, my head was full of questions. Shihan Yamamoto is a very senior figure in the Gojuryu school of karate and yet he has guts to start from a white belt to learn Kyokushin karate under Sensei Tohyama. What made him leave his comfort zone? Why does he do that technique that way? What does he think of Kyokushin's theories and techniques? So I cannot express how thrilled I was to know that Shihan Yamamoto had kindly agreed to teach us about Gojuryu karate.

Sosai Oyama learnt karate at the Gojuryu school and the Shotokan school before