Ōyama Masutatsu (大 山 倍 达, July 27, 1923 - April 26, 1994) popularly known as Mas Oyama was a karate teacher of Korean origin, the founder of Kyokushinkai style.
Biography.
He was born in July 12, 1923 in Wa-Ryong-Ri Yong-chi-Myo "n Chul Na Do, South Korea. His birth name was Choi Young-Li, but when he emigrated to Japan decided to take a Japanese name .
At a young age he was sent to Manchuria to live on the farm of his sister. At 9, he began studying Kempo southern expression. At the age of 12 years returned to Korea where he continued his training as a child but never got too interested in the practice of martial arts. Later he traveled to Tokyo to become an aviator, which failed due to Japanese to Korean racism. During this time he began his training in boxing and Judo. One day he noticed some students who were training Karate, was interested and went to train at the dojo of Gichin Funakoshi at Takushoku University, where he learned the Shotokan style.
His progress in his training was very impressive, at age 17 he was already a Second Dan, and at 20 won the Fourth Dan. During this time seriously interested in Judo, reaching the rank of Fourth Dan. At this time entered the Dai Nihon Butokukai, a training academy for the Japanese Imperial Army, who specialized in anti-guerrilla warfare, espionage, and the melee. Oyama was two years in this organization was dissolved with the end of World War II.
Later he continued his training under the direction of So Nei Chu, who was also a Korean citizen (in the same province Oyama) based in Japan, which had specialized in Goju Ryu and disciple of Chojun Miyagi. It was he who encouraged her to Oyama to undertake his retreat to the mountains to strengthen their technical skills and temper his spirit. He was accompanied by one of their own students, but after six months of isolation, the student secretly fled during the night. Oyama had to continue his vigorous training just became even harder because of his loneliness. It was at that time, he felt the irresistible desire to leave their training and return to civilization. Knowing this Master So Nei Chu sent him a letter telling Sosai to shave their eyebrows to suppress his urge to return, Oyama course that he would not want anyone to see him under those conditions. This, along with other moving words convinced him to continue his training and decided to become the most powerful karateka in Japan, finishing their training after 14 months in the mountains.
A few months later in 1947, after returning to civilization, he proved his skills in the division of Karate in the first National Martial Arts Championship in Japan, where he won. However, he felt a void in his life. Under these circumstances he decided to devote his life completely to karate, was started again and isolation from society, this time chose Kiyozumi mountain located in Chiba Prefecture. He chose this site for its atmosphere and landscape, which produced a spiritual uplift.
Since then your training becomes extremely rigorous, 12 hours a day, seven days a week, leaving no rest days. His training was to sit and meditate under the cold waters of the falls, fighting with wild animals, breaking trees and rocks in the river with their hands, using trees as makiwara, jump on flax plants hundreds of times every day. In their daily training period also included a study of ancient classic Zen in the martial arts, and philosophy. Oyama perfected not only his doctrine of Karate but also his own mind and body.
After eighteen months of rigorous training, went down the mountain completely confident, and able to take full control of your life.
In 1950, Sosai (the founder) Masutatsu Oyama started testing its power to fight bulls. In total, he fought 52 bulls, three of whom died instantly from a stroke, and 49 were stripped of their horns using a handheld blow executed with the edge of the hand (Shuto). In 1957, at the age of 34, almost lost his life in Mexico when a bull gored.
In 1952, he traveled for a year to the United States, demonstrating his style of karate live and on national television. During the following years, he accepted all challenges presented to him, coming to fight with 270 different people. Most of these battles were won with one punch. The fights never lasted more than three minutes, and most lasted no more than a few seconds. He also traveled to Thaylandia and did the same with the famous wrestlers that thay had so much respect and achieved fame with his art. Oyama became known as "Godhand, a living manifestation of a possible Japanese warriors" Ichi geki, Hissatsu, "or," A blow, a death. " This represented the maximum that the first sought in the techniques of Karate. The complicated techniques and footwork were secondary to (but he was also known for his powerful kicks to the head).
In 1953, Sosai Oyama opened his first dojo, was a grassy site in Mejiro (Tokyo). In 1956, the first real Dojo was opened officially in a shop located behind Rikkyo University. In 1957 had 700 members, despite the high dropout rate due to the severity of training. Oyama students were seriously considering the practice of kumite. They had very few restrictions, attacking the head was common, usually with the feet, with the heel of the palms of the hands or fists. Grabs and releases were also common in their practices.
Style Kyokushinkai
In June 1964 creates its World Headquarters Oyama, Kyokushinkai adopting the name, meaning "whole truth." Since then continued to spread to over 120 countries, becoming one of the martial arts organizations in the world's largest.
Death
On April 23, 1994 in Japan, at the age of 70 years, Sosai Masutatsu Oyama died of cancer of the lung, leaving the organization by the then 5th dan Akiyoshi Matsui.
His last words were: ¨ I'm going, but should continue Karate ¨.
Curiosities
Oyama Masutatsu has been considered in the greatest heroes in Japan.
Among his feats are legendary account of fighting bulls and defeat them with only their hands, making a total of more than 50 battles against these animals, which used to break the horns of a blow with his hands.
In the decade of the 70 Japanese actor Sonny Chiba would roll a trilogy of films on the life of Oyama Masutatsu.
In 2003 the film was shot "Fighter In The Wind" based on the life of Oyama as a posthumous tribute.
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