Hideo Ochi

Hideo Ochi (2008)

Hideo Ochi Shihan ( Jap. 越智秀男 , Ochi Hideo ; * 29. February 1940 in Saijō , Japan) is a Japanese karateka and former karate national coach . He was JKA World Champion of the Japan Karate Association in 1966 and 1967 in Kumite and Kata . Ochi has the 9th Dan in JKA karate.

biography

Hideo Ochi is a Karate teacher of the Shōtōkan style. Ochi started karate training when he was 14. During his studies he was intensively involved in karate, which he had taken as a second subject alongside economics. After four years of study, he completed this first phase of his karate training in 1962. During this time he gained his first experience in Kumite Shiai in the university team of Takushoku University . Ochi's successes in the university team pointed the way to training in the JKA instructor group .

He now took the entrance exam for this group in JKA karate and prevailed among hundreds of applicants. Just four in his group, like Ochi, passed the final exam to become a JKA instructor. In 1964 Ochi, 4th Dan, became a JKA instructor and henceforth taught in Tokyo at the Hombu Dōjō . Today he is Chief Instructor of JKA Europe.

Kata - Kumite Shiai

In the following years (1965–1969) Ochi achieved his great competitive successes on the occasion of the All-Japanese Championships: 1966 1st place in Kumite and Kata, 1967 1st place Kumite and 2nd place Kata, 1968 2nd in Kumite and 3rd in Kata, 1969 1st place in Kata and 3rd in Kumite. He is one of the few who holds the title of Grand Champion . A fighter is only awarded this if he has achieved first place at least three times in one of the two disciplines and at least third place in the other.

Germany / Europe

In 1970, Hideo Ochi came to Germany to succeed national trainer Hirokazu Kanazawa in the German Karate Association (DKB) . He led the DKB national team to many successes in Europe in the following years (European championships in 1971, 1972, 1975, vice world championships in 1975 in Los Angeles and at the 1980 World Cup in Bremen ). On the occasion of a vacation in Japan, he took part in the Japanese championships again in 1976 and won 1st place in Kata Shiai ahead of the reigning world champion Osaka. Hideo Ochi was first national trainer of the DKB, then national trainer of the German Karate Association (DKV) before he decided in 1993 to found the German JKA-Karate Association (DJKB), the German branch of the Japan Karate Association . H. Ochi is Chief Instructor in the DJKB and, as the successor to Enoeda , Chief Instructor of the JKA World Federation-Europe.

DJKB

It is fought on a single point (Ippon). The ideal of winning with a single hit is adapted to reality by also awarding half points (wazaari). The karate-typical concentration in the fight, to end the fight with the first successful attack, remains as a basis. The point system also favors kicks to the head, for which there is usually an ippon. This is to ensure that the performance of foot techniques in competition is encouraged and not atrophied.

DKV

The system was modified over time so that several points are "collected" (via Ippon, Nihon and Sanbon).

Base

From the very beginning, Hideo Ochi devoted himself to popular sport as a national coach in Germany, both initially in the DKB, later within the DKV and in the DJKB. His weekend courses are meeting places for karateka from all over Germany. The Gasshuku , initiated by Ochi, developed over the years into one of the great karate courses in Germany.

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (March 11, 1997)

literature

• Fritz Wendland: Ochi - a Japanese couple . Niedersachsen-Druck Wolfsburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-87327-043-5
• Jose M. Fraguas: Masters . schlatt-books 2008, ISBN 978-3-937745-17-6

Web links

• Karate Dojo Arawashi-Bottrop
• DJKB
• JKA Europe
• Portrait on the website of Gasshuku eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DJKB current reports Official announcement of March 13, 2016
2. ↑ Hajime ... Yame, Hajime ... Yame, Hajime ...  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 8.0 MB) Excerpts from the book Ochi - a Japanese couple by Fritz Wendland, JKA Magazin 2013/1, pp. 5–9  
3. ↑ kusunoki.de ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ DKB European Champion
5. ↑ DKB Vice World Champion and European Champion
6. ↑ DJKB competition rules  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 228 kB)  
7. ↑ DKV competition rules  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 909 kB)  
8. ↑ Office of the Federal President