How did you come to be training Kyokushin? - Page 2

Chimofu · 11-07-2007, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Bloke

A kyokushin infection - I Like it (Of course I wouldnt take anything to get rid of it - I want to be infected as long as I can.

I've search the internet for medication, but there's no medication for it...YIPPEEEE!!!
You must try to infect more people with it!!!!!

Bloke · 11-07-2007, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Chimofu

I've search the internet for medication, but there's no medication for it...YIPPEEEE!!!
You must try to infect more people with it!!!!!

Thanks Chimofu - Im off work sick and you just made me laugh - much appreciated.

Chimofu · 11-07-2007, 11:47 AM

.... get well soon!

koji112091 · 11-08-2007, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by jcbel

Infected by Kyokushin - yea it's pretty hard to get out of your system!

Agree. I don't even do it and I feel about the same. But ofcorse minds are like parachoots, they only work when open.

twosix · 11-08-2007, 12:22 PM

I was a healthy young man my father used to ask me and my brother to do 5 push-ups or stomach leg raise I guesse the bug got us there. But it was when I went to high school that I felt I owed it to my self to join a sport club I had boxing in mind my older brother and some of my friend were already doing Karate. I just went in and joined. The welcome was motivational until it came to the sparring part... But like i said before It made me a better person and karateka

kyofighter · 11-08-2007, 04:32 PM

My first contact with martial arts was through judo and then shotokan karate. When I moved to another city for school , I discovered a kyokushin dojo and I tried a few classes. I was immediately interested in this new style ( this was in 1987 ) and I continued since then. I was always a skinny and weak kid , luckily I realized that kyokushin can make you very strong .
This year I had 20 years of training, and I feel like I'm just starting.
Osu

tranquoc_c · 11-08-2007, 07:37 PM

As I said in my introduction, I did Karate to encourage my three sons (14, 10 and 9 years old). Karate is a good sport for my kids, also Karate teach them a lot of thing (respect, confident, ...). After 25 years inactive, I'm not quite sure that Karate is good for me. But now, I know that I'm wrong...I'm not a good fighter, but I feel better after each training, physically and mentally.
Osu

intwominds · 11-09-2007, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by tranquoc_c

As I said in my introduction, I did Karate to encourage my three sons (14, 10 and 9 years old). Karate is a good sport for my kids, also Karate teach them a lot of thing (respect, confident, ...). After 25 years inactive, I'm not quite sure that Karate is good for me. But now, I know that I'm wrong...I'm not a good fighter, but I feel better after each training, physically and mentally.
Osu

Don't kick yourself about your fighting skills (save it for sparring others). I am the same grade as you, and several others have assured me that fighting didn't really gel for them until they were green belts. So keep up the training and it will get better.

As for how I got into kyokushin, my daughter started around 3 years ago, and as it was a reasonable distance from home I sat and watched them until it finished. After about 10 minutes I thought b*gg*r this, I was so twitchy (just wanted to get up there) sitting watching that I thought I am going to do it next week too... and I did

sarah_beth · 11-09-2007, 11:56 AM

Well I had been training at another style which becuase of the instructors other commitments where we were traning kept getting moved and eventually got to far away for us to train.
I was about 12 at the time and Mum just wanted to take us somewhere close so we could continue doing Karate.
and the Kyokushin dojo was only a 5 min drive away.
So my mum and Dad decided and I've been doing it since :P

bushido spirit · 11-09-2007, 03:22 PM

i was young whan i was FORCED to go to karate at that time , u cant imagne how did i hate such an art with the lack of knowldge about it untell one day..................i got in a fight at school with some bullys , i was the 1st to throw a hit it was a jodan mawashi it was just marvelus i stell can remamber it in slow motion , though i got beatn down hardly , then my spirit started to fire into full contact karate....

tranquoc_c · 11-09-2007, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by intwominds

Don't kick yourself about your fighting skills (save it for sparring others). I am the same grade as you, and several others have assured me that fighting didn't really gel for them until they were green belts. So keep up the training and it will get better.

As for how I got into kyokushin, my daughter started around 3 years ago, and as it was a reasonable distance from home I sat and watched them until it finished. After about 10 minutes I thought b*gg*r this, I was so twitchy (just wanted to get up there) sitting watching that I thought I am going to do it next week too... and I did

Like you, but I did it only a year after

Now, I have a little bit regret. I was not quite sure about my physical at all. But the chance to do the same sport with my kids take over me, and I will do it as long as I can.

**Shokei Marcsui** · 11-09-2007, 03:51 PM

Started at a shotokan dojo at the age of 10. Stopped at the age of 13 and reached 2nd kyu because my parents wouldn't drive me anymore.

Fast forward 14 years later. I stopped smoking for 3 years and wanted to get back into shape and picked kyokushin. I'm a 5th kyu now!

vapor · 11-10-2007, 01:48 AM

It is great to see the different reasons, approaches and circumstances!
Look forward to hearing more from other members!

vapor

Bloke · 11-10-2007, 08:28 PM

Theres quite a few stories here where Kids started and the parents end up getting involved.

seienchin · 11-10-2007, 11:23 PM

Very much backed up by my own Dojo experience - usually, the family would bring along the son to start. I introduced a rule that parents could either participate, or leave, but nobody in the back of the room becoming an armchair expert.
then I saw all the daughters who actually were keener than the sons...so I introduced a "Whole family can train for the price of one adult and one child" rate.
I suddenly had a dojo full of really keen parents and girls, and the sons...well, they got swept along by everyone else's enthusaism.

Bloke · 11-11-2007, 09:26 AM

Thats a really good Idea Seienchin - well done you.

sarah_beth · 11-12-2007, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Bloke

Theres quite a few stories here where Kids started and the parents end up getting involved.

Thats true with our dojo, too.
Unfortuently, if one quits, the other will too.

My parents have not started up yet though, and there is five of us (four younger siblings and myself) My mum isn't bad at the Japanese side of it though, lol.

**Brad** · 11-12-2007, 11:40 AM

As for me to be honest i got onto a fight and i got hurt. So i new a friend that was training in kyokushin and i asked him if i could come along so i did. I rally never thought much of this guy as a fighter even though we were sort of friends. But as we were going though drills he really new where to hit. I could feel his bones hitting my bones hard. And it didnt even effect him. Thats why i never underest no one any more ive being getting hurt to much as a result.

**Brad** · 11-12-2007, 11:42 AM

of underestamating someone. The guy i trained with was little but strong hard bones.

shinobijesus · 12-10-2007, 05:31 AM

how did i come to be in Kyokushin? i wanted to find a good instructor in any style but was not impressed with anything i saw or anyone i had met. until i walked into a Kyokushin dojo and immediately knew i was going to be training there for many many years.

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