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Calasanz' students Roger Mayers (who is now a state trooper) and Reggie Blackwell ended up fighting each other for 1st place in a Mas Oyama Kyokushinkai tournament. It took place in Brooklyn New York, 1986.
If you go back and ask, "What was the most brutal martial arts with the best killers in the world in the 20th century within the martial discipline of karate?" In order to answer you must then talk about Mas Oyama's Kyokushinkai. These people did not have so many blocks, they did not train to block so they just learned the traditional blocks. But they trained not to be human. These people would spend in training half-hour to fourty-five minutes just punching each other in the chest with punches that were capable of killing someone instantly. And these people would just take it. Yes, this made them tough, but what happens to them as they lose their shape and as time passes is a different story. A story that has to be understood and has to be said.
When you physically prepare yourself like a body builder or a football player then yes, you are in great shape. But when you stop training, when you stop playing football the whole picture changes. The only thing that stays with you is the spiritual part of it, the mental and spiritual part of it. The physical, you just lose it. That is what happened over time to those practitioners of Kyokushinkai from the 80's until about 2000.From the 80's until the 90's was probably the best decade of Kyokushinkai and when it had its largest following because during those times Mas Oyama opened a lot of schools in the United States. Hundreds of them. One or two years later most of them were closed because nobody could take the training, especially for extended periods of time. And that is going to tell you what the Calasanz System was in the 80's when these two guys Roger and Reggie went to and won the Kyokushinkai tournament in Brooklyn.
In those times you could not distinguish a knock down tournament from a hard point tournament within Kyokushinkai. Competitors for both trained the same. And there were Calasanz' guys, delivering kicks and punches and winning. One of the things that helped them the most was what we call the "system kick" or "system side kick". Kyokushinkai did not have blocks for a fast strong side kick. Again, we call it the "system kick". And it was delivered there many times by Roger Mayers and Reggie Blackwell.
So they went, and one got first place while the other got second place. That was during the 1984/5/6 era. This particular example happened in 1986. That was one of the toughest days that I ever could mention here in respect to Kyokushinkai and I'll explain why on the topic of another student of mine, Glenn Van Lesser (read more).
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