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some fun and cool facts about dolph lundgrens karate background!


1 . hes legitimately highly ranked

  • dolph holds a 4th dan black belt in kyokushin karate, which is a very intense, full-contact style known for toughness and conditioning
    (kyokushin is one of the toughest karate styles
    it focuses on full contact sparring, strong body conditioning, and endurance. practitioners are known for breaking boards, bricks, and doing very intense training.)

2 . he started young

  • he began training karate when he was a teenager, and trained very seriously not just as a hobby

3 . he was a real champion!!

  • he won the european kyokushin karate championship in the early 1980s
  • he also won the australian kyokushin heavyweight tournament in 1982 when he was studying there

4 . he competed internationally

  • dolph represented sweden in international kyokushin competitions

5 . hes smart and tuff

  • while training and competing, dolph was also academically gifted and studied engineering

6 . he studied directly under kyokushin masters

  • dolph trained within the kyokushin system founded by masutatsu oyama
    (that means his training followed very traditional, strict discipline rules)

7 . he used martial arts discipline in his acting career
hes talked about how karate trained him to;

  • stay mentally focused
  • handle pain and exhaustion
  • stay calm under pressure during filming

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Pub: 15 Aug 2022 18:29 UTC

Edit: 21 Feb 2026 12:14 UTC