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    Full contact karate is any format of karate where competitors spar (also called Kumite) full-contact and allow a knockout as winning criterion. Full contact...
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    Full Contact Karate Vovinam Wrestling Kickboxing A semi-contact sport is typically a combat sport involving striking and containing physical contact between...
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  • Full contact may refer to: Full-contact sport Full contact karate Full Contact, a 1992 Hong Kong action film directed by Ringo Lam Full Contact (2015...
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  • Karate Combat (KC) is a brand which promotes the first professional full-contact karate league, hosting worldwide events since April 2018. The private...
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  • practitioner of Shōrin-ryū karate and champion in point sparring competitions, he became one of the fathers of full contact karate and kickboxing in the United...
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  • Aline Silva Pereira Celso (born 1990) is a Brazilian Karate Combat fighter, former kickboxer and mixed martial artist. In mixed martial arts (MMA), she...
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  • 68 countries. Shidokan karate is sometimes described as the "Triathlon of Martial arts", as it encompasses full contact karate, Muay Thai, and grappling-based...
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    fitness, or for competition. Some styles of kickboxing include: full contact karate, Muay Thai, Japanese kickboxing, Lethwei, Sanda, and Savate. Although...
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  • Kyokushin (redirect from Kyoku shin karate)
    Kyokushin (極真) is a style of karate originating in Japan. It is a full-contact style of stand-up fighting and is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement...
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    non-contact karate competitor who later pioneered full-contact fighting in the United States. He made the transition from point to full-contact karate in...
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    the Professional Karate Association (PKA) held the first World Championships. American Kickboxing was first known as Full Contact Karate before becoming...
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    karate master who founded Kyokushin Karate. Terutomo Yamazaki – the first champion of the All-Japan Full Contact Karate Open Championships in 1969, and has...
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    a Zainichi Korean karate master who founded Kyokushin Karate, considered the first and most influential style of full contact karate. Mas Oyama was born...
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  • Seidokaikan (category Full contact karate)
    traditional full contact karate derived from Kyokushin by Kazuyoshi Ishii. Seidokaikan organized the first professional full contact karate tournament...
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    Karate (空手) (/kəˈrɑːti/; Japanese pronunciation: [kaɾate] ; Okinawan pronunciation: [kaɽati]), also karate-do (空手道, Karate-dō), is a martial art developed...
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    knockout finish in debut - Karate Combat 41". mmamania.com. Retrieved 2024-07-09. https://app.karate.com/fight-events/6 Karate Combat. Retrieved 2023-12-17...
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  • Ashihara kaikan (芦原 会館) is a modern full contact street karate developed from Kyokushin karate by Hideyuki Ashihara with influences from various martial...
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    Kūdō (category Full contact karate)
    events known as THE WARS, which was centred on "gloved" ruleset of full contact karate, and showcased Daido juku's top talents. In the media, there were...
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  • Enshin kaikan (redirect from Enshin Karate)
    Enshin kaikan (円心会館) is a style of "full contact karate", or knockdown karate, founded in 1988 with dojo and students in various countries around the...
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  • World Super Light Heavyweight Full Contact Championship match in 1984. He rebounded from this by winning the Professional Karate Association (PKA) World Light...
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    Yamamoto worked with Mas Oyama of Kyokushinkai Karate to develop the rules for Japanese full contact sparring to replace the sun dome tournament rule...
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    American superstars of kickboxing, he was the Professional Karate Association (PKA) World Full-Contact Champion, and the Middleweight Kickboxing Champion for...
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    memorable match. He began his full-contact career in 1977, when Claude Goetz promoted the first ever full-contact karate tournament in Belgium. From 1977...
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    [citation needed] He was the 1993 Enshin Karate Sabaki Challenge Heavyweight champion, an annual full contact karate tournament held in Denver which allows...
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  • Terutomo Yamazaki (category Japanese karate coaches)
    (Grandmaster - 7th Dan). Yamazaki is a first champion of the All-Japan Full Contact Karate Open Championships in 1969, and has promoted Kyokushin famous through...
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  • Byakuren Kaikan (category Full contact karate)
    literally translated: "White Lotus Association") or Byakuren Karate is a full contact karate style founded in 1984 by Sugihara Masayasu (Japanese: 杉原 正康)...
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  • 100-man kumite (category Full contact karate)
    physical and mental endurance in Kyokushin karate. Kumite is a form of sparring, one of the three main sections of karate training, and involves simulated combat...
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  • Kenji Kurosaki (category Japanese karate coaches)
    arts instructor, specializing in full-contact karate and kickboxing. He is a 7th dan black belt in Kyokushin Karate and operates various martial schools...
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  • Andy Hug (section Karate)
    up the sport to pursue Kyokushin karate which he began practicing at ten years old. Beginning his full contact karate career in the 80 kg/176 lb middleweight...
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  • kickboxer, a former Professional Karate Association Full-Contact Middleweight United States Champion, a sport karate Hall of Famer, and the only fighter...
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