You will never run again.... Blog Post

[JR 137]

I will only run if I'm chasing somebody, and if they're young and fast I'm probably not going to catch them.
And I don't think that running should be done on cement/asphalt.

But, my buddy Richard, a long time Kyokushin black belt, runs ten miles every day (EVERY day) on the road. He's in his sixties and is as good a shape as anyone I know. He's obviously nuts.

Call me crazy, but I have an image of him running barefoot and wearing his belt and gi like in the movie Fighting Black Kings. Does he randomly stop and throw some punches and kicks while letting out a loud kiai while standing in the middle of a few innocent bystanders?

 

[Xue Sheng]

Call me crazy, but I have an image of him running barefoot and wearing his belt and gi like in the movie Fighting Black Kings. Does he randomly stop and throw some punches and kicks while letting out a loud kiai while standing in the middle of a few innocent bystanders?

You forgot, he is a Kyokushin black belt...so you need to add "While carrying a full grown bull on his back"

 

[JR 137]

You forgot, he is a Kyokushin black belt...so you need to add "While carrying a full grown bull on his back"

They don't carry bulls on their backs. They wrestle them down to the ground and knife hand chop their horns off, Mas Oyama style.

Have you seen Fighting Black Kings? It's free on amazon prime, except the title is changed to Strongest Karate.

One of my favorite flicks. Absolutely awful editing, 80s porn type music, some blaxploitation thrown in there, and Kyokushin propaganda film. But it all comes together nicely for me. I am a bit biased being in Seido Juku - Tadashi Nakamura, our founder, is prominently in it, as is Charles Martin who's still Nakamura's senior-most student. I've met both of them several times. Martin got a little weird when someone asked him about it recently. He responded with (in a chuckling way) "That movie's still around?"

Someone proposed that Frank Dux got the idea for Bloodsport from that film. It's actually quite a bit similar, except the tournament really happened. It was the first World Open Karate Tournament (Kyokushin knockdown rules).

If you've got amazon prime, it's definitely worth checking out. Sorry for the sidetrack and commercial