Kyokushin Videos

This DVD includes the first 3 roudns of the 8th World Open Kyokushin Karate Tournament that was held on 11-1-2003 in Tokyo.

This DVD includes the final rounds of the 8th World Open Karate Tournament held on 11-1-2003.

This DVD contains footage of 3 Kyokushin Karate training camps with instruction taking place both indoors and outdoors.

Hitoshi "Bullet Fighter" Kiyama - World Open Tournament champion - known as instructs his Karate techniques in this brand new DVD.

Matsui Shokei presensts 20 of the best fights from the 4th World Open Karate Tournament. All fights are shown in their entirety.

Shokei Matsui, successor to Mas Oyama, and current head of Kyokushin Karate, instructs the art of kumite in this DVD. If you're interested in Kyokushin Karate, Matsui is the man to learn from!

Instructor at the Kyokushin honbu dojo, Ryu Narushima instructs in the art of one punch knockouts in this exciting DVD. Fans of Kyokushin tournaments will recognize Narushima by his tremendous speed and power in delivering knockout blows.

This amazing video documents a full 10 years in the life of Mas Oyama - founder of Kyokushin Karate.

Contains basic techniques and 19 Kyokushin katas.

This video includes rare footage such as the infamous fight with a live bull, outdoor training scenes, and lectures.

This video features various summer and winter camps led by Mas Oyama, founder of Kyokushin Karate.

This high quality production documents a full 5 years of Oyama's life. Includes many outdoor training scenes and the infamous footage of Oyama's fight with a live bull.

Mas Oyama's Kyokushin Karate is the focus of this exciting documentary series. Filmed in different cities around the world, this film provides an interesting look at the hard training that Kyokushin Karate students go through to prepare for the full contact tournaments.

Volume 1 contains intense footage of Kyokushin Karate founder Mas Oyama - the man made famous for his fights with live bulls!

Mas Oyama's Kyokushin Karate is the focus of this exciting documentary series. Filmed in different cities around the world, this film provides an interesting look at the hard training that Kyokushin Karate students go through to prepare for the full contact tournaments.

Volume 2 contains intense footage of Kyokushin Karate founder Mas Oyama - the man made famous for his fights with live bulls, sparring in the dojo. The final few minutes of disc 2 feature top Kyokushin Kareteka "Willy Williams" fighting a live bear! This has to be seen to be believed!

Mas Oyama's Kyokushin Karate is the focus of this exciting documentary series. Filmed in different cities around the world, this film provides an interesting look at the hard training that Kyokushin Karate students go through to prepare for the full contact tournaments.

Volume 3 contains more footage of severe outdoor training scenes from around the world and full contact tournament coverage.

This 6 DVD set was filmed in the Netherlands and features instruction by Andy Hug on the fundamentals, sparring and fighting strategy and also footage of the 1990 Open Dutch Kyokushinkai Fighting Championships.
 

Shokei Matsui instructs this video intended for the beginning student. Contains instruction on punches, kicks, blocks, stances, and much more.
 

Instructed by Hiroto Okazaki, head of the Kyokushin kata competition, this video covers 5 Taikyoku and Pinan katas. Katas are thoroughly demonstrated and the relationship to actual fighting is explained in detail.
 

Instructed by Hiroto Okazaki, head of the Kyokushin kata competition, this video covers 5 Taikyoku and Pinan katas. Katas are thoroughly demonstrated and the relationship to actual fighting is explained in detail.
 

Instructed by Hiroto Okazaki, head of the Kyokushin kata competition, this video covers 4 katas. Katas are thoroughly demonstrated and the relationship to actual fighting is explained in detail.
 

Instructed by Hiroto Okazaki, head of the Kyokushin kata competition. Katas are thoroughly demonstrated and the relationship to actual fighting is explained in detail.
 

You too can experience Honbu's original training! Instruction provided by Shokei Matsui, Yuzo Goda, Hatsuo Royama, Bobby Lowe, Loek Hollander, Peter Chong, Seiji Isobe, and Tsuyoshi Hiroshige. Also features an all star cast of top Kyokushin fighters including Hajime Kazumi!
 

You too can experience Honbu's original training! Instruction provided by Shokei Matsui, Yuzo Goda, Hatsuo Royama, Bobby Lowe, Loek Hollander, Peter Chong, Seiji Isobe, and Tsuyoshi Hiroshige. Also features an all star cast of top Kyokushin fighters including Hajime Kazumi!
 

You too can experience Honbu's original training! Instruction provided by Shokei Matsui, Yuzo Goda, Hatsuo Royama, Bobby Lowe, Loek Hollander, Peter Chong, Seiji Isobe, and Tsuyoshi Hiroshige. Also features an all star cast of top Kyokushin fighters including Hajime Kazumi!
 

Contains coverage of the 20th All Japan Open Karate Tournament held on June 7th and 8th of 2003.
 

Kyokushin Karate is brought to the stage with live action in "Spirit of Karate".
 

Contains coverage of the 20th open tournament All Japan Karate Championship held on 4/12 - 4/13 2003 at the Osaka furitsu Taikukaikan.
 

Part 1 of the Kyokushin Karate series. Sonny Chiba stars in this action drama portraying Mas Oyama a martial arts champion who wants to leave the competitive world for a quieter life. But after he becomes involved in the death of an underworld figure, he finds himself on the run from thugs determined to take revenge against him.
 
 

Part 2 in the Kyokushin Karate trilogy. Japanese martial arts legend Sonny Chiba stars in this action-packed drama. In Karate Bear Fighter, Chiba plays Masutatsu Oyama, a karate master whose "take no prisoners" style ultimately proves too brutal for the other fighters in his dojo. Oyama turns his back on his fellows and becomes a body guard for an old army buddy who has since become a member of the yakuza (the Japanese Mafia).
 

This is the final chapter in the trilogy based on the life of Sonny Chiba's mentor, martial arts master Masatatsu Oyama. 
 

Contains 30 of the best fights shown in their entirety from the 8th Open World Karate Tournament.
 

Successor of Mas Oyama, Shokei Matsui instructs in detail the basics of Kyokushin Karate in this instructional tape and book set.
 

Koichi Kawabata interview
40 man kumite
Power training of Koichi Kawabata
Introducing Kyokushin shibu in Kyoto
7th generaion Kyokushin sai
3rd world open taikai
Kamogawa godo keiko
And more

 

Both Hajime Kazumi & Francisco Filho take on 100 Karate competitors in this DVD.
 

This DVD contains 3 previously released videos:

"Great Technical Fights"
"23 Amazing Knockouts"
"Kyokushin World Competition"

 

You too can experience Honbu's original training! Instruction provided by Shokei Matsui, Yuzo Goda, Hatsuo Royama, Bobby Lowe, Loek Hollander, Peter Chong, Seiji Isobe, and Tsuyoshi Hiroshige. Also features an all star cast of top Kyokushin fighters including Hajime Kazumi!
 

With unique champions like Brazil’s Francisco Filho (K1) or the extraordinary Russian prodigy Lechi Kurbanov, this style created by Master Oyama seduces more and more new practitioners every year. Kihon technique, Kata and realistic bunkai, preparation to the fight, are demonstrated here.
 

This 2 DVD set documents 4 complete Karate tournaments:

- 3rd World Open Weight Karate Tournament
- 5th World Female Karate Tournament
- 2005 World International Karate Championship
- 2005 World Road to Karate Championship


 

Contains complete coverage of the All Japan Karate Tournament held on June 5th, 2005.

 

See all the best fights from the 7th annual World Open Taikai.
 

Mas Oyama, the founder of full contact Kyokushin Karate in Japan is quoted as saying "The essence of Kyokoshin Karate lies in the defeat of a larger opponent by a smaller one." In this DVD, you will see actual fight footage along with instruction on how smaller fighters can beat a larger opponent.

 

Mas Oyama Books (in English)

"What is Karate?" was the first book that Mas Oyama wrote in English on the art of Kyokushin Karate and remains a classic even today. Includes countless step by step photos detailing techniques.

The 2nd book by Mas Oyama, the classic follow-up to "What is Karate"

"Advanced Karate" was Mas Oyama's 3rd book written on the art and was primarily a response to all of the inadequate Karate instructors he came across during his world tours. Going further than perhaps any Karate instructor before him, Oyama writes at length about the Karate arts in this long out of print classic. More than 1500 photos illustrate the techniques.

Masatatsu Oyama, the founder of Kyokushin Karate explains his philosophy in great detail in his 4th book in English.

Made after the "Strongest Karate" film series, this book includes photos and with minimal text of Kyokushin Karate practitioners in various countries around the world.

This technical instruction book by the founder of Kyokushin karate includes chapters on Karate weapons, calisthenics, stances, thrusts, kicks, blocks, practice fighting, and self defense techniques.

Step by step instruction book on the art of Kyokushin Karate as founded by Mas Oyama. The author, Bobby Lowe, was the first "uchideshi" or live in student of Mas Oyama and opened the first Kyokushin dojo outside of Japan, in Hawaii.

Reprinted as "Mas Oyama's Classic Karate"

The kyokushinkai karate of Mas Oyama is widely practiced and well respected. His exploits in the art of karate are the stuff of legend. He killed a bull using only his bare hands. He fought 100 men in one day, one after the other. Over the course of one year Oyama accepted 270 challenges. He fought boxers, wrestlers, bouncers, and anyone who issued a challenge. He was undefeated. His dynamic feats of board and brick breaking are so amazing that he has been nicknamed by the press ?Godhand.?
 

On of the biggest names in the Karate world, Mas Oyama presents a broad overview of his art in this book. From kata to sparring to self defense, this book covers it all!

Reprinted as "Mas Oyama's Classic Karate"

Originally titled "What is Karate", this is one of Mas Oyama's most well known books in English.

Perhaps the most sought after book by Mas Oyama, Boys Karate had a short print run thus it is a very rare text to find.

It?s a classic, with over 750,000 copies sold! One of the  world?s greatest karate masters, and the founder of Kyokushin karate, Mas Oyama, reveals his philosophy and technique for practicing one of the world?s greatest martial arts.

Mas Oyama Books (in Japanese)

This special box set includes all 7 Mas Oyama Karate School texts, a DVD Rom with the complete Karate Magazine back issue collection, and a Mas Oyama "Godhand" sticker.

This is a very rare Karate book featuring Mas Oyama, founder of Kyokushin Karate. Loaded with articles and photos of Oyama including a 5 page article detailing Mas Oyama's training in Daito Ryu Aikijujutsu under Yoshida Kotaro!

This is an out of print book titled "What is Kyokushin?" Features interviews with Mas Oyama's best students - most who have gone on to spread the art of Kyokushin Karate throughout the world. Loaded with pictures!

Includes "The Karate chop of Mas Oyama"

Oyama Dojo Reading in includes many unknown facts about Mas Oyama and the Kyokushin Karate world. Chapters include:

• Truth of Shogo Ariake

• Reality of Oyama Dojo

• Foreign students of Oyama (Jon Bluming, Steve Aneru)

• Oyama manga

Mas Oyama and his top students share insights into Kyokushin Karate in this text. Contents include:

• Oyama's message to the world

• What is Oyama?

• Veterans of Kyokushin

In this book, Oyama talks directly to young people, trying to instill in them the Kyokushin spirit!

Contents include:

• Shugyo in America

• Godhand

• Karate Chop

• Fighting in Brazil

• And more

Contents include:

• Native white tiger

• Art of Karate

• Winning in isolation

• Fighting with a bull

• Students

• And more

In this out of print book, Oyama talks about his long history of real fights against other martial artists, armed and unarmed, and even against wild animals!

In this book Oyama talks about:

• When I was a child

• Art of Karate

• Hardships

• Karate worldwide

• My beliefs, my life

In this book, Mas Oyama tells how to strengthen both your mind and body from the breath to the muscles.

Contents:

• Kyokushin spririt can help the Earth

• Spirit of Kyokushin

• Shugyo, practice, fight

• Olympics, sports, and martial arts

• Kyokushin Karate

Contents include:

• How to restart your youth

• How to achieve enlightenment

• How to control

• How to use the mind and body

• How to change your personality

Contents include:

• Is Japanese Karate OK?

• How to strengthen your Karate

• Karate revolution

• Way of the fighting man

• Misfortune develops independance

• This is the man's life

• Growth!

• Karate has spread all over the world

Contents include:

• Be God

• Penance

• Exploitation

• The art

• Way of the warrior, way of man

This is a HUGE 277 page hardback book written by the founder of Kyokushin Karate, Mas Oyama.
Contents include:

1) Oyama's history
2) About Oyama
3) Bujutsu and spirit
4) Form of Kyokushin karate
5) Students all over the world
6) Development in the world
7) Karate and mental thought
8) What is "bu"?
9) Secret of Kyokushin karate
10) Karate and health

Includes:

• My beliefs

• Musashi's way of thinking

• Kyokushin spirit

• Human's have unlimited potential

• Philosophy of man

• Transformation

• Humble mind

This is a book written by the founder of Kyokushin Karate, Mas Oyama. Contents include:

1) People who leave Kyokushin Karate
2) Secret of Kyokushin
3) Mori sensei and Shinkaikan
4) What is good and what is bad
5) What is the essence
6) About Karate-budo
7) Next generation of Kyokushin Karate

This rare book by the founder of Kyokushin Karate includes many detailed photos of technique and kate instruction.
Contents include

1) Kyokushin is the strongest in the world
2) Basic practice of Kyokushin
3) Basic attacks of Kyokushin
4) Basic defense of Kyokushin
5) Advanced techniques of Kyokushin Karate
6) Kyokushin Karate kata
7) Kyokushin kumite

Written by the wife of Kyokushin founder Mas Oyama, this pocket sized book shows the soft side of this Karate legend that most haven't seen.

Mas Oyama recounts in detail his encounter with practitioners of various fighting systems from his travels around the world in this pocket sized book.

This technical instruction book includes many detailed photos.

Oyama details his early years of intensive training in Karate in this text.

This introductory text on Kyokushin Karate thoroughly details Mas Oyama's view of Karate training.

This out of print book contains a wealth of information otherwise unavailable on the art of Kyokushin Karate.

Mas Oyama, founder of Kyokushin Karate teaches the heart of Budo in this rare text.

Mas Oyama, founder of Kyokushin Karate writes about the way to develop into a true martial artist drawing from the experiences of Musashi Miyamoto and others.