Contents
The class outline the IKO publishes
The IKO Technical Syllabus (2011, p. 16) runs the class in this order:
- Warm-up + stretching: mobility, the traditional junbi undō;
- Line kihon: stances, tsuki, uke, geri on the count (Sanchin, Kiba);
- Ido geiko: the same techniques moving;
- Kata: the grade's form, by segments;
- Yakusoku kumite: the pre-arranged bridge (uke-kaeshi), light or no contact;
- Light / jiyu kumite: within the age and grade gate;
- Conditioning: push-ups, squats, core, the syllabus's graded ladder;
- Stretching + cool-down.
The three pillars, never flattened
Kihon, kata and kumite are three different jobs under one art, the same discipline as kyorugi/poomsae in taekwondo. A kumite rule ("no fist to the face") is never a kata fact: hand strikes to the head exist in kihon, kata and self-defence, not in fighting. An honest weekly plan gives each pillar its place: kata is roughly half the grading program (see "The grade-by-grade program").
The five minuted blocks
The hub's generator (and the one in the app) composes the session in five blocks from the eight themes:
| Block | Themes drawn | Example (60 min) |
|---|---|---|
| Warm-up | Flexibility & mobility · ido geiko · physical (never high intensity) | 10′: junbi undō, dynamic mobility |
| Main 1 | The chosen focus (kihon, kicks, kata, kumite, physical) | 16′: line kihon on the count |
| Main 2 | The same focus, second drill | 16′: ido geiko in zenkutsu |
| Kumite game | Situational knockdown kumite, within the age gate | 14′: distance game, conditioned rounds |
| Cool-down | none | 4′: stretching, mokuso |
Three construction traps
- Kicks do not warm up on the pad. Power work on the shield is high intensity: it belongs in the mains, never the warm-up. The kyokushin warm-up is mobility, junbi undō and footwork.
- The youngest band's kumite game is a game, not a bout. For the ≤8s the "kumite game" block fills with distance games, shield rounds and evasion: no organisation has this age fight (see "Fundamentals by age").
- A session = a grade as much as an age. The dojo also plans by belt ("from 4th kyu", black-belt class): drills carry their grade anchor wherever the syllabus states one.
Frequently asked questions
How much session time should kata get?
Does conditioning replace the warm-up?
Sources
IKO Kyokushinkaikan: Technical Syllabus (April 2011), class plan p. 16 + the per-grade conditioning ladder. IKKU (Arneil/IFK lineage): Grading Syllabus, the correction ladder and the sanbon/ippon kumite bridge. Paak kyokushin corpus, files 00 and 03. Content verified September 2026.