Kyokushin Karate

SOSAI MAS OYAMA

Masutatsu Oyama was born in Ryong-Ri Yong-chi-Myo’n Chul Na Do Korea in 1923, and completed middle school in Seoul. In 1938, when he was 12 years old, he came to Japan to live, where in 1941, he entered the Tokyo Takushoku University.

Oyama had mastered the Eighteen Techniques of Chinese Kempo while he was still in his homeland. When he came to Japan, he became a pupil of Gichin Funakoshi, the man who introduced karate into Japan, and soon achieved the status of a second-grade (Dan) karate master. He interrupted his college education when he was drafted into the military in 1943, but he continued his karate studies with Sodeiju, then karate instructor at the Goju school. By the time the war was over, he had become a fourth-grade karate master.

When World War II was over, he temporarily volunteered to assist his native land in its recovery, because of the conflict that soon followed between North and South Korea he gave up these efforts and concentrated on karate. In 1947, after he had won the All-Japan Karate Tournament, he resolved to live his life in the way of karate and determined to follow the doctrines of its way. After 1948, for a full three years, he secluded himself from human society, devoting himself completely to a life according to the precept of Zen. He lived in temples and in the mountains and subjected himself to the disciplines of the martial arts both night and day. Through such rigorous training as seated meditation under waterfalls, struggles with wild animals, and smashing trees and stones with his bare hands, Oyama refined not only his doctrine of karate, but also his own mind and body. When he had completed this course of rigid discipline, his self-confidence returned to him. In 1951, he returned to civilization from his mountain retreat to teach the true meaning of karate to the world.

His amazing techniques, manifested most dramatically in his ability to rip the horns from bulls, caused a sensation in the karate world. The renown of Oyama karate flashed abroad with such speed that a training hall soon became necessary for the many students clamoring to be trained in the Oyama way. Oyama’s 1952 karate tour of thirty-two of the United States met with great success. In 1956, he toured Southeast Asia, and in 1962, starting in Europe, he went around the entire world establishing training halls for the Oyama karate method.

Now Oyama karate halls number 17 in the United States and 76 in 16 other countries of the world. The number of students already exceeds 100,000. In 1958, for the sake of these students, Oyama published his first karate guidebook, What is Karate? In Japan, the first Oyama training hall, the Kyokushin Kaikan, opened in 1955, and in 1964 a new five-story hall, with present Prime Minister Eisaku Sato as honorary chairman, began carrying on the master’s training program.

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Panglipur di liputan 6 SCTV

Sekilas tak ada yang istimewa pada sosok nenek ini. Tua, ringkih, dan terkesan sudah tak bertenaga. Namun, jangan salah sangka nama perempuan tua itu sudah tersohor di jagat persilatan sebagai pendekar besar. Dia adalah Raden Eni Rukmini Sekar Ningrat, guru besar Perguruan Pencak Silat Panglipur.

Di balik ketuaanya Eni Rukmini masih menyimpan tenaga seorang pendekar pencak silat. Ia pun tak pernah gentar jika harus berhadapan dengan orang muda. Menurut Eni Rukmini, kepada SCTV yang menemuinya belum lama berselang, makna dari kekuatan pencak silat bukan pada tenaga besar namun pada rasa.

Sebagai seorang guru besar pencak silat, Eni Rukmini memang memiliki latar belakang keluarga pendekar. Ayahnya adalah Abah Aleh, pendiri dan pencipta jurus jurus ampuh pencak silat panglipur. Ia mulai dipercaya memimpin perguruan pada 1950. Saat itu sang ayahanda berpandangan dibalik kelembutan dan kecantikan anak bungsunya tersimpan potensi luar biasa dalam hal ilmu pencak silat dan ilmu kepemimpinan.

Pandangan Abah Aleh ternyata benar. Dibawah kepemimpinan Eni Rukmini, Perguruan Pencak Silat Panglipur semakin berkembang pesat. Bahkan dikenal hingga ke mancanegara. Karena itu tak sedikit warga negara asing berguru kepadanya.

Kini usia Eni Rukmini telah mencapai 93 tahun. Itu artinya ia telah memimpin Perguruan Pencak Silat Panglipur selama 58 tahun. Baginya pencak silat adalah tarikan dan hembusan napas. Pencak silat adalah desiran aliran darah ditubuhnya dan jurus jurus panglipur adalah denyut nadinya.

Karena itu pula Eni Rukmini tak pernah merasa lelah untuk menurunkan ilmunya. Ia tak segan turun sendiri ke padepokan sederhananya hanya untuk menyaksikan dan memastikan anak didiknya telah berlatih dengan tekun. Ada harapan besar dijiwanya. Harapan tentang makna jiwa kesatria, jiwa kasih sayang, dan jiwa pengabdian. Dan harapan ini ia tumpukan pada murid-murid perguruannya. Di usia yang telah senja Eni Rukmini mengaku hanya ingin berbuat sesuatu yang bisa memberi arti tentang pewarisan nilai nilai kebajikan dan warisan budaya