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List of Kyokushin practitioners

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This is a list of highly notable practitioners of Kyokushin Karate.

Kyokushinkaikan founder Masutatsu Oyama fighting a bull at the Denen Coliseum in 1956.

Founder

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Oyama's direct students

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Shokei Matsui (head of IKO-1)
 
Takashi Azuma (Founder of Kudo Daidojuku)
 
Jon Bluming (Founder of Kyokushin Budokai and IBK)
 
Steve Arneil (Founder of IFK)

Japanese nationals

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Japanese relocated overseas

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  • Shigeru Oyama – No relation to his teacher Mas Oyama, he was a karate practitioner and instructor who operated a dojo in New York and was head of the US Kyokushin organization for half a century. He taught Kyokushin karate for many years before forming his own organization World Oyama Karate in 1985.[22][23][24]
  • Jōkō Ninomiya – founder of Enshin Karate, he presides over the Enshin organization from the headquarters (honbu) in Denver, Colorado.
  • Seiji Isobe – 8th dan, designated to Brazil, became Shihan after spread Kyokushin through South America, who taught and trained Francisco Filho, Glaube Feitosa and Everton Teixeira.[25][26]
  • Miyuki Miura – 8th dan, operates independently as Miura Dojo in Oak Park, Illinois, and works with other full contact dojo internationally through his Global Budo Karate Alliance.[27][28][29]

Non-Japanese expatriates

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Celebrity

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  • Sir Sean Connery – was awarded an honorary Shodan in Kyokushinkai by Sosai Mas Oyama.[44]
  • Masashi "Milton" Ishibashi – worked as a Karate instructor at the Oyama Dojo and Kyokushin Kaikan during his early days as an actor. He was also instructor for Sonny Chiba[45][46] and Terutomo Yamazaki.[46][47]
  • Sonny Chiba – popular Japanese actor and martial artist.[48] While he was a university student, he began studying martial arts with Sosei Oyama (whom he later portrayed in a trilogy of films), which led to a first-degree black belt on 15 October 1965, later receiving a fourth-degree on 20 January 1984. Although supervised by Oyama, Chiba was mainly trained by Masashi Ishibashi.[45][46]
  • Etsuko Shihomi – actress who specialized in action films
  • Kyosuke Machida – Japanese actor. When he was a child, he became Mas Oyama's pupil.[49] He now serves as an advisor for the International Karate Organization Kyokushin-kaikan.[50]

Knockdown Karate

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Hajime Kazumi
 
Alejandro Navarro

Kickboxing

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Mixed Martial Arts

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Georges St-Pierre
 
Bas Rutten

Celebrity

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This lists celebrities, who were not directly trained by Mas Oyama:

See also

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References

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