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Kazuyoshi Ishii (born in 1953) is the master of Seidokan Karate and the founder of K-1.

When he was 16, he started to learn Kyokushin karate from Hideyuki Ashihara, who was a well-known legendary Karate master.

Black Belt Magazine honored Ishii as “Man of the Year” in January 2003.

What he says in his Karate theory is, in short,

1. Aim at the opponent’s liver, which is very effective to knock him down.
2. In order to strike the liver, and also the other vulnerable points like chin or temple, keep the opponent’s consciousness away from the point before striking.
3. In order to keep the opponent’s consciousness away, use diagonal combination. That is, to hit both ends of a diagonal.
4. When you hit preliminaries, you don’t need strong hits as to knock him down, but painful ones.

Ashihara karate is an off shoot of Kyokushin. I did not follow Ashihara Karate closely, but after this fight I probably will. It looks like Kyokushin in old days. Fighters are allowed to grab a partner’s gi during the fight. it makes the fight a little bi more interesting.

Here you can see Alexander Lavrushin (Russia) vs Daniel Weibi Newmann (Denmark). Best fight out of all other fights. Dynamic. Russian won since he clearly dominated the fight.

Interesting to see this one compared to the last video with kyokushin fighters. The guard is much lower in kyokushin and the distance is longer here, with more moving around.