UKZN Howard College
Kyokushinkaikan
Karate

OSU! Shihans, Senseis, Senpais, Instructors, Dojo heads
UKZN HOWARD COLLEGE Kyokushinkaikan Karate invites you and your dojo to the Fittest of the Fittest Team Tournament to be held at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's OLD MUTUAL Sport Hall, Gate 9, on the 31 of March 2012. Weigh-in and registration will be at 8am the fighting will start at 10am.
Listed below are the requirements and some points to note about team formations:
TEAM CHALLENGE
A team for the Team Tournament shall comprise of 7 fighters (3 senior males, 2 senior females & 2 junior males)

Senior Males : 1x Under 60kg, 1x Under 70kg, 1x Over 70kg
Senior Females : 1x Under 60kg, 1x Over 65kg
Junior Males : 1x 15years or under, 1x 17years or under

Districts/Regions can form teams, but individual dojos are allowed to form their own teams
Instructors, please note that the district/region must be given preference ahead of the dojo. This means that in cases where the district has selected a fighter to compete in its team, the dojo will have to release that fighter.

No Reserve fighter/s or any substitute/s allowed. Should a fighter incur an injury during the tournament such that he/she would not be able to continue the team will forfeit the points.

*Fighting fee per team is R560 with IKO cards and R700 without IKO card
* Every fighter MUST have an HIV-negative certificate not older than 3 months
* The team with most points will ultimately win a trophy and 7 gold medals for its members
* The runners-up will receive a trophy and 7 silver medals for the team members
* The 3rd placed team will take home a trophy and 7 bronze medals

PLEASE NOTE: Breast cups are compulsory for all female fighters and gum shields are optional. The tournament organising Committee will not be held responsible for any injuries sustained by fighters in this tournament.

Please feel free to contact Sensei Oscar Mdunge on 074 728 4169 or Abongile Mpofu on 0715141271 to confirm your team's participation and for more details about the tournament.Osu!

Sensei Simphiwe Dlulane

Simphiwe shook the Kyokushin world in November 1999 when he defeated the undefeated Japanese heavyweight champion (Hitoshi Kiyama) and the European middleweight champion (Emil Kostov) at the Seventh World Open Karate Championships in Japan. Hot on the heels of that achievement he lifted the Russian and Eastern European light-heavy weight trophy in Ekaterinberg Russia, May 2000.
Simphiwe Dlulane is the young Free Stater of the year 2006; an award which was awarded to him by the honourable free state premier, Me Beatrice Marshoff, on the 2nd June 2006 in Bethlehem. Simphiwe Dlulane won the sport category of the premier’s awards and also became an overall winner topping other young free staters from different categories (Youth Entrepreneurship, Education, Community and Youth Service, Science & Technology, etc).
Simphiwe Dlulane is an internationally recognized tournament judge and has officiated in many tournaments in South Africa. He holds a 4th dan Black Belt and has been teaching karate to the youth from the previously disadvantaged communities throughout South Africa since 1990.

Founder of Kyokushin Karate

The founder of our system, Masutatsu Oyama was born in 1923 near Seoul in South Korea. He studied Chinese Kempo at 9 years of age. When he was 12, he went to Japan to live and enrolled at University. After mastering Judo, he became a pupil of Gichin Funakoshi himself making such rapid progress that at 17 he was 2nd Dan and at 24became 4th Dan. Deciding that he wanted to devote the rest of his life to spreading the knowledge of Karate, he spent the next year in seclusion from human society, living in temples and in the mountains; subjecting himself to the physical rigours of martial arts training day and night and meditating on Zen precepts, seeking enlightenment. In 1951 he returned to civilisation and started his own training hall in Tokyo.
In 1952, he travelled the United States for a year, demonstrating his karate live and on national television. During subsequent years, he took on all challengers, resulting in fights with 270 different people. The vast majority of these were defeated with one punch! A fight never lasted more than three minutes, and most rarely lasted more than a few seconds. His fighting principle was simple — if he got through to you, that was it.
In 1953, Mas Oyama opened his first "Dojo", a grass lot in Mejiro in Tokyo. In 1956, the first real Dojo was opened in a former ballet studio behind Rikkyo University, 500 meters from the location of the current Japanese Honbu dojo (headquarters). By 1957 there were 700 members, despite the high drop-out rate due to the harshness of training.
Sadly, Sosai Mas Oyama died, of lung cancer (as a non-smoker), at the age of 70 in April 1994, leaving the then 5th Dan Akiyoshi Matsui in charge of the organisation. This has had many political and economic ramifications throughout the Kyokushin world, which are still being resolved. In the end, the result may well be a splintering of Kyokushin, much like Shotokan now appears to have done, with each group claiming to be the one-and-only true heir of Mas Oyama's Kyokushin, either spiritually or even financially. It has even been suggested, not entirely in jest, by one Kyokushin writer in Australia (Harry Rogers) that maybe Oyama created the turmoil on purpose, because he didn't want Kyokushin to survive without him! It is however reasonably certain that all Kyokushin groups, regardless of their ultimate allegiance, will still maintain the standards set by Mas Oyama.