I know K-1 Dream was a bad day for Kyokushin. But defeat should be taken as a learning experience. Pride sometimes blinds us. Kyokushin fighters need to be humble and learn from others as well. I think that's the spirit of Kyokushin. To adapt the most efective fighting techniques of all other fighting styles into your own style and learn from your defeats. To know yourself. Your weak points and your strong points. That might be even more important than knowing your opponents.

Even though Nick and Feitosa lost their matches back in 1998, Filho still managed to pull a win over Aerts (with some luck though).
Nevertheless, i think these Kyokushin guys have improved a lot from back then. By the way, when i was saying that K-1 Dream was great it's only because of the concept (Kyokushin vs Seido vs Shidokan vs Muay Thai ....). Of course it ain't nice
to see an unexperienced karateka steeping into the ring to fight a top kickboxer.

As far as what concerns Ishi, i'm not aware of all those schemes against the Kyokushin Kaikan but i guess things didn't turn out very well for him. As far as i know he's in jail right now. If he wanted to embarass Kyokushin he should take a good look at himself. He has dishonoured his own Karate school (at least in the japanese point of view,i mean, just wonder, a guy comes into a Seido dojo and the sensei there tells the student that the kancho is locked up in jail). And Nobuaki Kakuda ain't no saint either. In fact, Seido without Andy is almost nothing. Lucky them to still have Sam Greco, Petar Mastorovic and Yasuhiro Kazuya on their side but even these last two will hardly ever get the same consideration Andy and Greco got.


Osu