kids Kyokushin Karater belt gradation | martial arts for beginners

kids Kyokushin Karater belt gradation | martial arts for beginners Kyokushin (極真) is a style of stand-up, full contact karate, founded in 1964 by Korean-Japanese Masutatsu Oyama (大山倍達 Ōyama Masutatsu). "Kyokushin" is Japanese for "the ultimate truth." It is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement, discipline and hard training.[3][4][5] Its full contact style had international appeal (practitioners have over the last 40+ years numbered more than 12 million)A growing popularity of mixed martial arts in India In this cricket-crazy country, it’s suddenly the less popular sports like wrestling, mixed martial arts and badminton that are in focus, thanks to Olympic victories and cinematic endeavours. We find out if all this attention will actually help these sports, as their premier leagues kick off.A hard-hitting combat sport, MMA involves striking and grappling—it doesn’t matter if the two competitors are standing or not—the opponent with a combination of techniques borrowed from other forms of martial arts. Wrestling, boxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kick-boxing, taekwondo, karate, judo, etc, all form an important part of MMA, with different components having different philosophies. “I have been training in taekwondo and MMA for the past six years. I was 15 years old then and had no idea about MMA, but I started learning taekwondo under my school instructor. After that, I started training in boxing as well,” says Dhoundiyal. It’s the ‘different’ rules of MMA, she says, that make the sport so exciting. “You can strike an opponent even when she is on the ground or in the heavyweight category,” says Dhoundiyal. For a cricket-crazy country like ours, MMA might be a little late on the scene, but it seems it is quickly making up for lost ground, with many like Dhoundiyal embracing it whole-heartedly. Renowned fighters like Conor McGregor and Ronda Rousey have become idols for many—both play for the US-based Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the largest MMA promotion company in the world. That’s not all. The sport will very soon have its own professional league in India. A franchisee-based competition, the Super Fight League (SFL) will feature eight teams and has been sanctioned by the All India Mixed Martial Arts Association, the governing body for MMA in India. The league is slated to start on January 20, 2017 and will feature women fighters as well. A total of 96 fighters—from India and abroad—will fight in the league and represent teams from New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Mumbai, Haryana, Bengaluru, Punjab, Pune and Goa. Each team will have nine Indian fighters and three international ones. “After cricket, MMA is the second most-watched sport online in India today,” says Bill Dosanjh, principal founder and CEO, SFL. “Sixty per cent of our population in the next 10 years is going to be under the age of 24 years, and MMA connects with the youth.”