Mas Oyama
Korean-Japanese full-contact karate master, the founder of Kyokushin (1922-1994) · Japan · Writers · Lived 1923 to 1994 · aged 70
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Something wrong?He turned karate into something you could test by breaking bones - your opponent's or your own. Mas Oyama built Kyokushin around full contact, no pulled punches, and made it the template every hard style since has measured itself against.
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Born Choi Yeong-eui on 27 July 1923, he carried a Korean name into a Japanese art and remade both. He founded Kyokushin Karate, stripping away the ceremonial distance and insisting students hit for real. It became the first full-contact style that mattered, the one every other hard school had to reckon with. He died 26 April 1994, but the bruises are still standard issue.
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