Shigeru Oyama was a karate practitioner and instructor who operated a dojo in New York for half a century.
10 Facts About Shigeru Oyama
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Shigeru Oyama taught Kyokushin karate for many years before forming his own organization World Oyama Karate in 1985.
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Shigeru Oyama was hand-picked by Mas Oyama, karate master and founder of Kyokushin karate, to spread his contact style of karate in the United States and was sent to New York City to teach in 1966.
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Shigeru Oyama first saw Mas Oyama after World War II when he was nine or ten years old.
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Shigeru Oyama described the young karateka as being very muscular with 'very scary and strong' eyes.
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Shigeru Oyama received his black belt when he was seventeen.
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Shigeru Oyama would go on to consummate the 100-man kumite on Sept 17,1966.
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Shigeru Oyama reminisced: 'One-hundred kumite is the hardest thing I ever did in my life.
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Richard Bernard, a representative for Kyokushin in New York, requested a Japanese instructor, and Mas Oyama chose S Oyama.
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Shigeru Oyama consolidated the US Kyokushin Karate Organization in the late 1970s and became its chairman.