SEIDOKAIKAN

[MMX]

Seidokaikan.

First formed in 1980 by Kazuyoshi Ishii, a former Kyokushin Karate practitioner who began his training under Hideyuki Ashihara in 1969. In 1980 Ishii left Kyokushin to join Ashihara's new style and organization, but after only a few months he left to form his own style and the Seidokaikan organization. Seidokaikan arranged several successful challenge events against other martial arts organizations, loosely based on the Kyokushin Knockdown karate rules as SeidoKaikan also allows grabbing. In 1993 Mr. Ishii founded the K-1 organization as a kickboxing organization, with many students from Seidokaikan. Seidokaikan is world renowned and also has international dojos in many countries including Australia.

www.seido.co.jp/

[yoshukai]

Seidokaikan used to have a presence here in the U.S. I remember in the late 90's, you could not get a blackbelt magazine without 2 or 3 advertisements for Seidokaikan.

Arne Soldwedel was the branch chief for the U.S. and at one point the international director. They even hosted a few knockdown tournaments called Knockdown Kings in New York. Apparently when he stopped praticing, Seidokaikan in the U.S went away with him.

Osu

[MMX]

Yeah plus the lack of interest in K-1 here.....

[powerof0ne]

I like Seidokaikan but it was never offered any of the places I ever lived. The Seidokaikan practitioners I have sparred over the years seem to have a good blend of knockdown karate and kickboxing is why I like it so much, go figure LOL.
Osu!