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Who is Masutatsu Yama?

Masutatsu ?yama (?? ??, ?yama Masutatsu, July 27, 1923 – April 26, 1994), more commonly known as Mas Oyama, was a South Korean karate master who founded Kyokushin Karate, considered the first and most influential style of full contact karate.

Who is Mas Oyama?

Mas Oyama was born as Choi Yeong-Eui ( ???) in Kintei, Ch?sen. At a young age, he was sent to Manchukuo to live on his sister's farm. Oyama began studying Chinese martial arts at age 9 from a Chinese farmer who was working on the farm. His family name was Lee and Oyama said he was his very first teacher.

When did Oyama start karate?

In 1953 Oyama opened his own karate dojo, named Oyama Dojo (form of G?j?-ry? ), in Tokyo but continued to travel around Japan and the world giving martial arts demonstrations, which included knocking live bulls unconscious with his bare hands (sometimes grabbing them by the horn, and snapping the horn off).

How many times did Mas Oyama fight?

As well as fighting in one-on-one contests, Mas Oyama participated three times in his famous one-hundred-man kumite. He invented this to further test his abilities by taking on one fighter after another over the space of three days.