#kyokushin

[scholarofgloom]

[1800free]

[kyokushinpunk]

My belt test tomorrow got cancelled because of the heatwave that is sweeping France right now and I'm really, really bummed. See you in september with a brown belt around my waist, hopefully. I need to keep up the training during the summer.

I'm so close the the black belt I can't believe it. When I started this blog in 2015 I was just going back to martial arts after a lifelong stop because of shitty circumstances, first through savate, then american kickboxing, until I fell in love with kyokushin in 2021 after coming back from COVID. I would have never thought I'd attend such a physical, hard class 4 times a week, including saturday mornings, but here I am now about to test for the brown belt (which means the black belt is in about 2 years, if everything goes right). I wish 10-year old me could see current me.

I would have never guessed bare knuckle would get so addictive too. It's hard to go back to gloves now, the feel is just SO DIFFERENT. I used to be afraid for my hands since I'm a musician, but the reality is much safer than I thought and holy shit is it exhilarating. Nothing tops a bare knuckle round in terms of adrenaline and fun. I just wish I was better at sparring (I really suck haha)

Not to mention it brought me to compete for the first time and I even got to train in Los Angeles when I visited my then girlfriend there. Beginning kyokushin in 2021 has been one of the best decisions in my life.

Belt test in september, then in january. If all goes well, I'll test for black belt in 2027, and if not, 2028. It's SO CLOSE.

[tardigradeinatrenchcoat]

And It's You,

And Me,

In The Summertime.

can i please get a susato mikotoba stimboard with avian stims like wings, sweets and martial arts? thank you (⁠^⁠^⁠)

For @feppepurin !

I couldn't find any martial art gifs, so we got some Judo, a martial art form created and popularized in the Meiji era, and Kyokushin, a popular style of karate

This was fun to do, cheers for the request dear mutual

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[the-history-of-fighting]

[theanticool]

The 1st Women's World Karate Championships (Kyokushinkai IKO - 1996)

Today's deep dive for women's combat sports is a throwback to 1996 and the first ever Kyokushinkai IKO women's world championships. A quick explainer because this is confusing. If you follow any combat sports at the amateur level, you know there are different sanctioning bodies for the same sports (Kickboxing has the ISKA, WAKO, WKO, etc). Well, Kyokushin Karate is no different. After it's founder (Mas Oyama) died, there were a ton of schisms and a bunch of folks created their own orgs. The most successful of which (I believe anyway) is the IKO which was founded almost immediately after Oyama died.

In 1996 the org held it's first ever women's championships in NYC.

[franmadaraki]

Testing for my brown belt tonight! Looking forward to it but a little anxious as well :)

[omeletcat]

sup girl, you make me like the kyokushin karate style

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