Originally Posted by pornpf69

I used to practice Kyokushin as a regular student and participated into tournaments without doing any extra workout (specific training for competitions).. people used to say I was crazy, but if what I do in class doesn't work, I don't have any reason to continue doing it... I generally lost my fight because I used to lack in stamina I could do up to 6 minutes fighting, but when you are in tournaments you will have to go to a few rounds in order to win... my best result was 4th place...

if you click on the link for the video below you will see one of my fights a few years ago... there was over 10kg in body weight (and my opponent was about 20cm higher)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tcvkoygnu9I

I only used my Kyokushin knowledge once when there was 4 guys robbing my parents house... I was able to handle them... to bad the cops took over 2 hours to show up...

BTW: in this 10 years of training I was not able to get the black belt (yet)... I Brazil we have one of the hardest Kyokushin black belt exams of the whole world (harder than in Japan)