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The Toughest Karate Instructor Of All Time!
While there have been many fantastic karate masters, only Mas Oyama can honestly lay claim to being the toughest karate master of all time. This is most interesting, because Karate came from China, was born on Okinawa, and migrated to Japan, which became the 'Land of Karate.' Mas Oyama, (birth name--Choi Yeong-eui), however, was not from any of those countries, but was born Korean.
Mas was born into Japanese occupied Korea in 1923. He took his first lesson from a Chinese migrant worker named Lee when he was 9 years old, he was told to plant a seed, and to practice jumping over it as it sprouted. It is said he could jump fantastic heights because of this.
After the Second World War Mas made his home in Japan, where he was looked down upon because he was Korean. In 1946 he became a student at Waseda University and took karate lessons from the second son of Gichin Funakoshi. Because of his Korean heritage his training was very lonely, and many would claim his solitary lifestyle would keep him dedicated to his karate and free of distractions, and enable him to achieve a very pure and elevated level of martial arts.
From Waseda University he migrated to Takushoku University, and from the son he went to the father, for at Takushoku he took instruction with the father of modern day karate, Gichin Funakoshi. After shotokan he began lessons in the style of Goju Ryu, studying with Chojun Miyagi. He was eventually given the rank of 8th dan in that martial art by head instructor Gogen Yamaguchi.
During this time Mas Oyama became famous as a fierce fighter, and he specialized in fighting members of the US military police. He was involved in so many fights that his picture was displayed on the walls of every police station. Eventually, and probably because of his propensity for fighting, he was advised by a friend, Mr. Neichu So, to retreat to the mountains and live a life of seclusion and hardship, and to dedicate himself to a regimen of hard training in the martial arts.
Mas Oyama spent 14 months in this type of lifestyle on the top of Mt. Minobu, then, later, another 18 months. He returned to Tokyo as a fierce fighter who could not be beaten. During this time he began giving demonstrations, which included fighting bulls, shearing the horns off them with a chop, or killing them outright, with nothing but brutal kicks and iron fists.
Eventually, Mas established the Kyokushinkai, which became renowned for its brutal and tough training. One of the hallmarks of this type of training is the 100 man kumite, in which a fighter faces one hundred opponents in the roughest type of freestyle imaginable. The schools of this toughest Karate master are now spread throughout the world.
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