Welcome to IFK Australia!

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Your details will be added to our student databases, so that we can record your training progress, and so that we ensure that we can communicate with you about events and other important information regarding your training.

WAIT - have you paid your IFK Australia Inc. Membership?

If you haven't already paid your annual membership for IFK Australia Inc (our Australian governing organisation), please do so now by clicking on the button below.

This is an annual membership, renewable on the 1st July every year.

• If you join between July 1 and Dec 31, it will cost $10.
• If you join between Jan 1 and April 30, it will cost $5
• If you join between May 1 and June 20, it will be $10, but it will cover you for the next year too.

NOTE: There is a 50c transaction fee added to the payment by Trybooking, which is the billing company we are using for these fees.

Kyokushin was founded by Masutatsu Oyama in 1964, but it had been developing since the early 1950s. As a child, he also trained in Kempo, and later extensively in Shotokan under Gichin Funakoshi, Goju Ryu under So Nei Chu, and Judo.

Sosai Masutatsu Oyama, also known as Sosai Mas Oyama

Kyokushin rapidly gained in popularity, to the extent that more than 12 million people worldwide practice it. It became known as "The Strongest Karate", not only because of the incredible feats of strength and endurance that Mas Oyama performed, such as the 300 man kumite, but also because of the rigorous requirements of training and tournaments.

It requires you to be strong in mind and body, and this characteristic of its practitioners is generally well recognised among the martial arts in general. Kyokushin is best known for its full contact fighting.

The Kanku is another significant image associated with Kyokushin, and symbolises holding two hands up together and looking into the sun

In 1994, Mas Oyama died, leaving behind a saddened organisation. The original one he formed broke up into a number of different ones using the same, or similar, name, which sometimes is a source of confusion to the uninitiated.

For more information, check out the other items under the About us tab in the menu above. The spirit of the karate however still remains much the same in most of the groups.

KYOKUSHIN means "search for the ultimate truth"

This is represented by the stylised Japanese kanji characters on the left hand side of this paragraph. These are embroidered over the heart on every Kyokushin karate uniform, and some practitioners even have it tattooed on their chest in the same place.

It is almost universally recognised by most established martial arts. The logo was developed for Mas Oyama by a renowned calligrapher.

This truth is a personal truth - it cannot be given to you. You must find it through training, sweat, pain, but above all, persistence.

The International Federation of Karate Australia Incorporated (IFK Australia) is a not-for-profit NSW incorporated association, and our primary function is to provide resources to help develop our members to become the best Kyokushin karateka they can be.

As such, almost all our activities are geared towards raising funds to support our members to attend local and international tournaments, seminars, camps, and to bring experts from overseas to teach us here at our Annual Camp and seminars. In addition to basic operating expenses, we also need to buy common equipment, such as tournament mats.  The minimal annual membership doesn't even begin to cover those costs. Therefore, all seminars, gradings, and tournaments have a fund raising component.

The IFK Australia team heading off to the Junior World Tournament in Greece, 2015

Yet, even this is not always enough. Sending teams overseas, or bringing experts from there, can cost up to $20,000 for each event. In 1996, 2006, 2011, and 2015 we raised funds to send teams to compete at world tournaments (the last three being Junior World tournaments), and we have also provided some funds to members attending international camps as participants, or participating as officials at international tournaments.

Shihan David Pickthall, International Vice-President of the IFK, supervising some techniques at the 2018 Camp in Sydney.

But to cover all these costs, significant and continuous fundraising efforts must be conducted. Included among these are

• Chocolate/Lolly Drives
• Raffles - big and small prizes
• BBQs
• Refundable Bottle Collection
• One-off merchandise specials e.g. hoodies or jerseys

Sponsors and donations

We welcome anyone who would like to sponsor us, either generally or for specific events, either in cash or prizes. We will gladly provide appropriate advertising where ever possible and appropriate to acknowledge your contribution. e.g. your logo on our team uniforms.

Donations are of course also welcome, but as we not a registered charity, these would not be tax-deductible, and they would have to be made solely out of the goodness of your heart.

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