Masutatsu Oyama studied Shotokan Karate
空手先生 Myint Kywe
ဆိုရွိကိ ကရာေတးအသင္း နည္းျပခ်ဳပ္
ဦးျမင့္ၾကြယ္ ( ၿမိဳ ႔မ ျမင့္ၾကြယ္ )
組織空手クラブのチーフインストラクター
首席先生 Soshiki Karate (松濤館 空手)
作家、歴史家,ビルマ（ミャンマー）
Masutatsu
Oyama
surely learn not only 剛柔流 GOJURYU karate
but also 松濤館流 SHOTOKAN
karate.
In
1938, at the age of fifteen years old, Mas Oyama became a student of 船越 義珍 最高首席師範 Gichin
Funakoshi,
founder of Shotokan Karate and father of JKA , at the Takushoku
University.
Funakoshi
Gichin, a school teacher from Okinawa, was credited with introducing karate
from Okinawa to Tokyo, Japan. It is this master that Mas Oyama later would
refer to as his true karate teacher. Throughout the years Oyama always spoke
highly of Funakoshi, remarking in later recollections of his gentle yet
overwhelming presence. Mas Oyama went on to say that of the many things he
learned from Funakoshi, kata (formal exercises) was the most important. Mas
Oyama's training progressed so rapidly that by the age of 17, he was a Nidan 二段 (2nd Dan), and by the age of 20, he was a Yondan 四段 (4th Dan) in Shōtōkan 松濤館流.
Sosai Masutatsu Oyama (大山
倍達), was a famous karate master who founded Kyokushin Karate, considered
the first and most influential style of full
contact karate.
Oyama contacted the Shotokan dojo (Karate school) operated by Gigō Funakoshi, son of karate
master and studied Shotokan karate from Gichin Funakoshi.
References:
http://www.masutatsuoyama.com/en/home/masoyama.htm
http://www.akka.com.au/kata.html
http://breakingmuscle.com/other-martial-arts/4-training-tips-from-the-godhand-mas-oyama
http://www.uskyokushin.com/sosai.htm
Mas Oyama, 1963, “What is
Karate”, Japan Publications Trading Company
