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Prasdana asked in SportsMartial Arts · 5 years ago

What's the differences between Shotokan Karate and Kyokushin Karate? Do they have different moves/techniques?

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  • 5 years ago
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    Shotokan has long deep stances and stems from Shorin Ryu karate and Shorei – Ryu karate. Shotokan also has great influences from Zen Buddhism and bushido so you will see “finishing blow” strikes in this style.

    EDIT:

    Forgot to mention that this is a linear art.

    Kyokushin is a very hard knockdown style of karate. The stances for this art are natural as Oyama Sensei dismissed the deeper stances from Goju Ryu and Shotokan in favor a kickboxing stance. Linear strike and the Zen and Bushido influences carry over from his study of Shotokan a few strikes and boxing he took from kickboxing while some of the body conditioning and circular movements and its close hand fighting come from Goju Ryu. After Oyama sensei's death there are many offshoot schools to this such as Enshin Karate and Ashihara Karate and Seidokaikan just to name a few. I have trained in this art and it is a great form of self defense and sport. In my own observation I have noticed that Kyokushin trains its students in the katana sword while most offshoots dismiss the sword and concentrate on the bo and jo staffs (although every instructor is different).

    Hope this helps!

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    they have the same techniques, they both have the same strikes, locks, throws chokes, (grappling) etc. The shotokan schools that teach grappling go more into then kyokushin does.

    Tactics, footwork, hip motion the way techniques are performed are slightly different

  • 5 years ago

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