Dear
shihan, sensei and all the people of our great Kyokushin family.
This is to inform you all that as of today, 1st of june, I have
resigned from the group of Shihan Tezuka.
I have ask shihan Tezuka by letter to give me back my fee for my
grade so that i can return his certficate and belt. I have also
ask him to return the money for all membershipcards of the
Netherlands because this money is not in the right place.
My reasons for resignation are very simple :
1) I believe we must support the Oyama family because they are
the flesh and blood of Sosai.
2) I don't want to be part of what I now realize, after lengthy
and ongoing discussions with key people, is a big deception and
an organization that acts without authority.
3) Mas Oyama's Kyokushin will be always Kyokushin. I cannot
allow or accept any change to the original name as chosen by
Sosai.
I have become aware of the challenges faced by the wife and
children of Sosai by not just one or two but all the Kyokushin
Karate groups. The family has had to constantly fight in court
for their most fundamental rights, ie, their legal inheritance
from their father. Any right to use Sosai's intellectual
property (the kanji, the kanku mark, the copyrighted images of
Sosai owned by the family, the Dojo Kun and so on), which the
Japanese court has clearly stated belongs to the family, should
under any legal system in the world and even within the most
basic guidelines of common decency, honesty and respect, come
from the family.
Yet this is not the case and NOT ONE of the organizations that
call themselves a legitimate representative of Kyokushin Karate
and Sosai Oyama pays ANY due, royalty or respect to the family.
As a result of the information that has come to light in the
past months, I feel strongly compelled to align myself to IKO
Sosai, the organization that works with and for Sosai's own
flesh and blood family. I feel a great sense of respect and
loyalty to the family which I had been led to believe was being
shown through the Tezuka Group. I now realize that is NOT the
case at all. As someone calling myself a student of the
teachings of Sosai Mas Oyama, I think it is my duty to help,
work for and honor his wife and children. To claim the
privileges of one without fulfilling the responsibilities of the
other is nothing more than a convenient lie.
For me, it is time to end this lie.
Osu.
Best wishes in Kyokushin
Sjaak van de Velde
Branch Chief of The Netherlands
