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Eltham Martial Arts offers Kyokushin Karate for adults. A style of Karate developed by Mas Oyama after a self inflicted mountain isolation that was to last several years. His curriculum emphasises contact, physical toughness and full contact sparring. Because of its emphasis on physical, full-force sparring, Kyokushin is often called "full contact karate" or "Knockdown karate" (after the name for its competition rules). EMAA also offers Muay Thai Boxing which naturally strengthens the Karate and in addition seminars with other martial arts instructors throughout the year - Arnis, Aikido, Jiu Jitsu, Yoga, Meditation etc. This way our training is more holistic. Our members come from melbourne, eltham, eltham north, research, warrandyte, diamond creek, greensborough, montmorency, templestowe, briar hill, lower plenty, plenty, bundoora, watsonia, viewbank, yallambie, st helena and kangaroo ground.
"The spirit of Kyokushin is to overcome oneself, not others" (Sosai Mas Oyama : Founder and Father of Kyokushin Karate)
Kyokushin Karate today is a very practical martial art, though one that continues to maintain it's traditional aspects through the honor of it's foundations and basic principles. It's techniques are strong and powerful and very much a fighting orientated art; All martial arts in their natural form are. They are all forms of combat. Kyokushin Karate is no exception and the pinnacle of this style can be seen with it's full contact fighters.
There is more to Kyokushin though than full contact fighting. Classes concentrate on the development of the mind, body and spirit. Much time is spent in class on perfection of the basics. Kata (forms, patterns) , self defence techniques and non-contact and full contact sparring also form a large part of the syllabus.
Translated literally, Kyokushin means 'the ultimate truth'. This is not to say that Kyokushin is claiming to be the ultimate fighting art, or the best martial art but it asks that each of it's students strive to find their own 'ultimate truth'.
Being a demanding style in terms of discipline, technique and fitness, each student is required to search within themselves during the hard times in training for their own spirit. In doing this, each student should leave each training session a better person. This self improvement should not be limited to the Dojo (training hall) and should be carried through into the Karateka's everyday life.
Quite often people visiting the dojo on a night when we are sparring are quite surprised with the 'reality' of the fighting. It can look quite scarry and confronting. Rest assured, you will not be thrown into this sort of environment. What you see are those who have been training for years, conditioned, fit and simply training hard. With training you too will look like this and have the same effect on others who are visiting the dojo for the first time.
One cannot expect to react in a way in which they do not train.
Instructor:Sempai Kiley
Instructor:Sempai Bernard
Eltham Martial Arts Academy
We'll Make a Martial Artist Out of You!
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