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Kyokushinkai karate first came to Britain in 1965 when Hanshi Steve Arneil, then a 3rd dan, settled here and began the British Karate Kyokushinkai (BKK) with Shihan Bob Boulton (now resident in Australia). their first full time dojo was located in Stratford in London and students travelled from all over the country to train there.

Hanshi Arneil began his Karate in Japan under the instruction of Sosai Mas Oyama the founder of Kyokushinkai and was the second man after Sosai Oyama to complete the 100 man Kumite (100 full contact fights one after the other). Hanshi was later "adopted" by Sosai Oyama so that he could marry a Japanese girl.

From 1968 to 1976 Hanshi Arneil was team manager and coach of the All styles English and British Karate team, the first non-Japanese team to win the World Karate Championships in 1975/76.

In 1991 Hanshi Arneil and the BKK, upset by the politics taking hold in Karate, resigned their membership of the Japanese based International Karate Organisation (IKO) and founded the International Federation of Karate (IFK).

The BKK currently consists of between 65 and 70 clubs, the IFK is active in 19 countries and has a membership of over 100,000 Karateka.

After ten years of sterling effort by it's members the IFK is now a force to be reckoned with, it now has the membership and influence to begin staging World tournaments, giving it's talented members the opportunity to show their skills on an international stage.

In 2001 Hanshi was awarded his 9th Dan by the IFK for his outstanding services to Kyokushinkai Karate.

For a fuller account go to the BKK website from our links page.

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