Fight Quest - Season 1 - Eps 3: Japan (Kyokushin Karate)
Location: Tokyo, Japan Masters: Shihan Yuzo Goda, Shihan Isamu Fukuda Features: Hands, feet, smashing things Kyokushin kaikan is a style of stand-up, full contact karate, founded in 1964 by Masutatsu Oyama. Kyokushinkai is Japanese for "the society of the ultimate truth." Kyokushin is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement, discipline and hard training.
About Fight Quest
Title: Fight Quest
First Air Date: 2007-12-28
Last Air Date: 2008-10-09
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.2/10 (from 4 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 2
Total Episodes: 15
Network: Discovery
Genres: Documentary, Reality
Production Companies: NorthSouth Productions
Synopsis
Fight Quest is a television show on the Discovery Channel that had a preview episode air on December 28, 2007 and began airing weekly on January 4, 2008. The show followed Jimmy Smith and Doug Anderson as they travel around the world learning different styles of martial arts, spending five days training with notable masters of the styles they are studying, before exhibiting what they have learned in a final demonstration and/or fight. According to quotes by the hosts, the show was cancelled after the first season. At the end of February an updated DVD box set was released that included the final three episodes not in the original release. The series was canceled at the beginning of the second season and only three episodes aired, the last one ended on October 3, 2008.
