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The irony here is that the original kyokushin full contact tournament fighting took on the similar linear methods of the fighting that existed primarily within shotokan karate system,which was basically straight foward and back in a very linear fashion.The difference ofcourse being in full contact aspect of fighting which was encouraged during kyokushins kumite. I think kyokushin as you well know was derived upon the concepts from both the shotokan and goju-ryu karate styles.As a matter of fact I think kyokushin represent both of those styles thru their katas within the kyokushin curriculumm. If you ever get the chance,check out William oliver (kyokushin fighter)doing his own interpretation of the harlem sabaki during the film fighting black kings,way before ashihara and enshin styles were ever created. The majority of the fighters who successfully used the principle and concept in competition most likely learned it from him He may not have created it but he certainly used it the most, both as a fighter himself and as a trainer of fighters. Spread the word! īUT even if the concept of sabaki existed in Kyokushinkai it was Ashihara who "taught" and "exposed" his student to it the most. Perhaps they had still more material with Ninomyia. "Even more fighting karate" (I must say that he didnt put much work into the titles), were never translated. They were released in japanese long before they were translated to english. The two books by ashihara are called "Fighting karate" and "More fighting karate". However his old ashihara instructor, coach and sensei (Dave Jonkers, head of ashihara international in europe), is still his coach even after the switch.
Semmy Schilt was a member of Ashihara international until he switched to seidokaikan for k-1 political reasons a year ago. They are not part of the main ashihara organisation (NIKO ashihara kaikan) that is now run by Hidenori Ashihara, Hidyuki Ashiharas son. Hoosain Narker is the head of a splinter oranisation of ashihara that broke off after Hideyuki Ashihara passed away, called Ashihara international with headquarter in south africa. His movements, positioning and timing were awesome.Įven though Ninomiya may have been a better natural athlete I think Ashihara was a better fighter. And to see him demostrate it was a very beautiful thing to watch. His style was very simple, logical, practical and effective. Let me tell you when Ashihara was healthy he was damn impressive. There was alot of things (techniques, strategies etc) he kept to himself because he was afraid that whomever he showed would leave him and start their own thing like Ninomiya.īUT because Ashihara was sick with ALS (Lou Gerhig's disease) I don't think there was much he could really physically show anyone anyway. He told me Ashihara was really hurt by Ninomiya's leaving the organization. He trained with Ninomiya for awhile before Ninomiya broke away and started Enshin.Īnyway this guy's name is Hoosain. I've talked to a student of Ashihara's who is the head director of Ashihara South Africa (I can't remember the exact name of the organization but he is a big name in the Ashihara organization especially in South Africa). His popularity did alot to promote Ashihara's style. In case you didn't know Ninomiya was one of the most popular former All-Japan Kyokushinkai champion. I guess that even though they both were not on speaking terms Ashihara felt he still needed Ninomiya to help promote the book. Ashihara's second book was published in 1989 with lots of pictures of Ninomiya in it. Interesting thing is Ninomiya broke away from Ashihara in May of 1988. The fist book was published in 1985 and the second was published in 1989.Īshihara demostrated most of the techniques in the first book and Ninomiya demostrated alot in the second book. Both were the english versions of the two books he produced.
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Incidently the video was produced in 1985, about 4 years before Ashihara became ill. And then loan the video to someone and they never returned it. I actually "borrowed the video from someone and never returned it to him. It also had Ninomiya demostrating Ashihara's style. It had the man himself, Ashihara, in it demostrating the techniques. I had an Ashihara instructional video that was in Japanese. I don't know of any Ashihara schools in my area.