ous Oliver thanks for the link, to answer your question, no i didnt participate in the 1999 world tournament,my 18 years old unfortunately and mutual dislike for the british coach has always kept me outside of the team although both in 1999 and 2003 I won the iko1 british open, thats the reason that in 2002 I participated in the european championships representing sweden loosing on a crappy 3-2 desicion to thomas najduch (who won the tournament) in the quarter finals, I was 14 kilos lighter than him and 2 flags were on my favour and two flags were on his favour after 3 extentions, but the ref gave it to him.

so yeah that is the only thing that lets kyokushin down, the dodgy and biased desicions, and to be totally honest I think kyama is not a worthy succesor to the kyokushin throne.
much respect ous