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The past few months I have been training kyokushin karate in Thailand getting ready for a few fights coming up (August Thailand, September China, November Japan) and I'm surprised I never knew anything about it before... it's great and it's easily as tough as Muay Thai which I have also fought... so why had I never really heard of it before back in Canada?
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KYOKUSHIN KARATE NEW YORK
If you don't mind, how are you able to travel, fight and train around the world and how old are you? -
I don't mind at all, I'm 35, I live in Bangkok Thailand running my martial arts school and working in movies and training. ( http://eng.phranakornfilm.com/upload...e/movie_25.wmv that's a trailer for the last movie I worked on, Im the bearded, blonde guy with black stripes in his hair and on his face. ) And I train at my instructors school in a city 2 hours away (bus it there 3 times a week.... ugh), right now I and a few other fighters are getting ready for a kyokushin tournament that he is hosting through his organisation (World Kumite Org.), recently they fought in Japan 2 times and did VERY well. I missed those ones but hope to make the next 3 if my injuries don't add up too fast. The reason I can travel is because my instructor sponsors the fighters by taking care of the travel costs.Comment
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Originally posted by Damian Mavis View Post
Hmm couldn't see where you were but that sounds like fun, thanks for the info.Comment
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I guess my description of myself sucked... haha. Ok I'm the first white guy you see, Im stabbing some old Thai guy and then laughing at him, after that Im the guy they "special effected" a tiger face on and in the highway scene Im the guy jumping from truck to truck and flipping off the last truck. It was alot of fun, but also alot of work... had to do an hour of makeup every morning at 6 am and work out in the hot sun all day some weeks.Comment
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Originally posted by Damian Mavis View Post
Well, that's not very nice at all. You really should be more considerate.Comment
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The Official Canadian Kyokushinkai-kan Karate Organization Website
I never really ran into Kyokushin people much over here, but they do have a presence. More so in Western Canada, it seems.
We should bump your old "Adventures in Thailand" threads - they make for great reading!Comment
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Ya I'm not very nice in this movie at all... but that's my job as "the bad guy". I also smash a budhist shrine... probably the worst thing I do, and I kill a crippled guy after throwing him and jump kicking him in the head!
I just found this: YouTube - MV หนุมานคลุà¸à¸à¸¸à¹ˆà¸™
Its a link to a Thai rock video featuring tons of scenes from the movie.
I hope to visit a few kyokushin schools in Japan on my next trip and then some back home when I visit Canada again. I already met Shihan Hasegawa when he visited us in Thailand, really nice guy. Its times like that I'm glad I have a Japanese girlfriend to translate!
You know about those Thailand threads... I have been meaning to make a blog site about Thailand for YEARS now... guess I should get it done finally.Comment
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