A Kyokushin Karate Coming of Age Story Just another unassuming undergrad? Yes, but this one carries a terrible secret ...one that's driven him through seven years of hellish karate training and study so that he might learn to bear its weight. Seven years have already taken Nathan Ligo to Japan, where he spent 600 days in the most rigorous, monastic karate program in the world, training under the watchful daily supervision of Masutatsu Oyama, Japan's most famous living karateka. But it's not until he suffers a crushing defeat in Japan, and returns home empty-handed, that he comes to understand...
A Kyokushin Karate Coming of Age Story Just another unassuming undergrad? Yes, but this one carries a terrible secret ...one that's driven him through...
Mere teenagers at the start, Judd Reid of Australia, Nathan Ligo of the United States, and Nicolas Pettas of Denmark were the only three foreign uchi deshi (personal residential students) of Mas Oyama to receive certificates of completion from his famed, three-year Young Lions' program. After enduring overlapping periods of three years each, Judd and Nick would go on to become formidable fighters, proponents of a training style that reached its pinnacle in the 1990s and emphasized body toughening in the pursuit of tournament victory. But Nathan Ligo, "the American," the most...
Mere teenagers at the start, Judd Reid of Australia, Nathan Ligo of the United States, and Nicolas Pettas of Denmark were the only three foreign
