Hitoshi Kasuya 1982 Fight.mpg

[@MrFerfabiano]

Personalmente conozco la fortaleza de este hombre, en un seminario que tome por allá del 94 en una demostración golpeo mi traquea con haito e interrumpió mi respiración momentáneamente, sin duda uno de los mejores Karatecas que existen un fuera de serie!!

[@BelloBudo007]

I've seen and trained with Kasuya Sensei a lot. IMHO he is just as good at kata as he is at kumite. He's a well rounded karateka that doesn't just live by his reputation but by his daily actions.

[@ClaudiuDinu]

Kasuya Sensei vs Kurasako Sensei (Today Instructor from JKA Honbu Dojo)

[@paskunji]

hecame in Georgia a lot of time i went in his seminars, kasuya is a good karate man!

[@ariturbo4094]

The highest technique in karate is still tsuki,,,, even in real street fight still effective,,,,, i saw my best friend using tgis jodan tsuki in street fight it only take 1 second to put the opponent down( his style karate kyokunshinkai)

[@yasuminization]

Thanks for your response. Of course, I'm not so sure of his name, either. However, as somebody wrote the opponent is Mr. Kurasako who is now JKA headquarter master instructor, I just gave my different impression. Judging from the image of the bout, the referee should be Mr. Kanazawa, the legendary JKA champion who started SKI. Mr. Kasuya later separated to start his own World Shotokan International, right? I still think it is Mr. Omura, who is also a great JKA master teaching now in Thailand.

[@stormfalcon72]

I see this post is 10 years old. Kasuya Sensei split from JKA to form WSKF along with Sensei Nigel Jackson (South Africa), Kangi Tanabe, Takeaki Kamiyanagi and Kotaro Hiruta (Japan). Other influential members were, Adrian Arsinevici (Denmark) and Alan Strates (South Africa). Sensei Nigel was my head Sensei. He passed away in 2020. We made a split to gain autonomy from WSKF in 2011 and were simply called Shotokan Karate S.A. In Dec 2018 we became New World Shotokan Karate Association.

[@yasuminization]

Isn't the opponent not Kurasako Sensei but Omura Sensei ?

[@BelloBudo007]

I don't know who it is from that long ago and the film is not too clear. However this is almost certainly an SKI Japan championship. Therefore I doubt very much it will be any JKA opponent, only SKI.