Where is the BEST place to learn kyokushin?! - also judo

[FutureProdigy]

does anyone know the kyokushin scene in say seoul korea?

[Kansetsu]

try contacting this guy...i think he's out of Seoul Korea...

YouTube - parkjaehyun's Channel

[FutureProdigy]

I never thought of korea as a centre of kyokushin... it only came to my head because my buddy just got back from tokyo and he said he enjoys korea much more than he did Japan. He thought I should apply for teaching there over japan, but one of my motivating factors in where I go is MA's... so I thought I'd ask here.

[smoothsake]

Just to be clear... Korea isn't a center or powerhouse or even a contender in the international Kyokushin scene. And with TKD being their national sport, I'm sure Kyokushin has a very, very small following. If you're gung ho on going to Korea, why not stick with TKD?? Seeing that you are already in the system - it's the logical move...

[FutureProdigy]

I'm not gung ho on korea, thats just what my friend whose taught in both recommended. I still have some interviews to go through and time to figure things out - if i decide teaching abroad is the route i want to go.

I actually stopped taking WTF TKD, im now a couple weeks into kyokushin and loving it. The chicken fighting sparring of WTF TKD drove me nuts. I feel much more at home in kyokushin. Couldn't have been more happy with the move. I'll change that now

[smoothsake]

So if you are looking for a place to train Kyokushin while teaching English, then there's only one logical place - Japan. End of debate.

[nangoushuujin]

Originally Posted by smoothsake

So if you are looking for a place to train Kyokushin while teaching English, then there's only one logical place - Japan. End of debate.

Let me explain something to you. When you ge to Japan, and that is where you will end up going, you will find the home of Kyokushin and Judo.

I lived and worked in japan for five years as an ALT similar to the JET program and I did Judo for three years Monday to Friday and all it cost me was the prices of a Gi because I was part of my school club. There were about five kyokushin dojos within car driving distance and three by bicycle. I lived in a ruralish area.

It is the best place to be exposed to MA in the world unless you are into Chinese martial arts then go to China.

Osu

[nunu]

hey there this is a good reqest from nunu-san

[Spirit]

this is a very simple question to answer, though maybe harder to make or find it to come true.

The best place is not a place but a who...
and that who is a teacher that you fully feel extremly comfortible with...

It is never a place or style it is always a person!!!

I have seen over and over again that a truely poor instructor teach a student [or students] to levels that great known instructors possible could not. I seen these students soundly beat great instructors students over and over again...
So as I always say, find the instructor that you best with not you follow them because of who they are or claim to be!!!

It is always the person who is motivating you not always the knowledge they have to pass on.

[robato]

Ishikawa-machi, Japan. The instructors are awesome and it's a nice community. Unfortunately, they are full up with ALTs (assistant language teachers; your most likely ticket into long-term living in Japan) just now, and all the surrounding areas are likewise full. If you want to get a job as an ALT, your best bet at this point is Interac (try googling them), but your choices for placement might be limited and outside of Fukushima-ken, I couldn't tell you much about Kyokushin. Sorry; that's all I've got. Ganbatte! (good luck!). Osu!

[Nix]

This is off-topic, but doesn't ganbate mean 'do your best' or 'keep going' (to which the answer is ganbarimasu - 'I will (ganbate)'? On a more related matter, if all the students are ALTs, that must mean they speak English, yes? As far as I'm aware, generally Japanese don't speak English very well. Of course, I could be wrong.

[robato]

Yea Nix, ganbatte does mean literally "try hard" but my understanding is that it's used where an American English speaker might say "good luck." The Japanese don't generally say "Good luck!" as we do in America, they instead say "Ganbatte!" Yea, the sense is different; you and I might say "Give it your best shot!" Unfortunately, Japanese and English don't translate directly very well, hence I kind of translate for both sense and meaning (unfortunately it's a rather subjective thing; my apologies for not including the literal meaning as well). We could skip the whole mess and just go with osu!

Errr, in that part of Fukushima-ken, there are 4 ALTs total; at this point none of them study kyokushin-kan (I did try to convince them, but I'm not sure if they'll give it a shot now that I'm gone). The school is Okazaki Hiroto-Sensei's school (the Vice Honbu Chief, at the bottom of the kyokushin "About" page) and there's not really anyone in the dojo that speaks very good English. Of course, I didn't speak very good Japanese, but we managed to communicate with each other. If you do go the inaka (rural) Japan route to study kyokushin, it's a good idea to learn Japanese before-hand, but if you're willing to study Japanese while in Japan and give it your best effort, you can really pick up a lot of the language and you can, in fact, communicate.

Osu!

[Dent]

Osu!

Good post there, Robato!

Osu!