Kaicho R. David Farzinzad

Kaicho R. David Farzinzad was born just north of Tehran, Iran in 1962. His hisotry in Kyokushin Karate was distinguished early on with a fairly good tournament career but since then he has done nothing but cause problems for the Kyokushin organizations he has been a part of. Eventually no one wanted him so he started his own organization, which did nothing but create more headaches for everyone.
Biography
From the age of twelve, foregoing his past interests in soccer and Olympic wrestling, Farzinzad practiced Kyokushin Karate. Kyokushin, literally translated means "Ultimate Truth." Spending some spare time each day training, Farzinzad won his first Kyokushin bare knuckle championship at the age of sixteen. Farzinzad followed this win with ten consecutive national championships by the age of twenty-six. Farzinzad took two national Kyokushin kata competitions. Due to a lack of qualified leaders to choose from Farzinzad was given the job of looking after his teacher's dojo at age seventeen.
Farzinzad was chosen to compete in two World Karate tournaments in Japan in 1984 and 1987. Due to the Iran-Iraq war and his military obligations, he was not able to participate. Farzinzad traveled to Japan in 1989 to train under Mas Oyama. Oyama appointed Farzinzad as the country of Iran's official representative after some misunderstandings with Shihan Shirzad, the then representative. Whilst there he competed in the All-Japan Championships but was not successful. After returning to Iran, Farzinzad founded the Kyokuskinkai Karate Association Tehran in 1991. He led the Iranian national team to the 5th World Championship Tournament in Japan, but they were not successful.
Farzinzad was part of negotiations between Arab states and Israel which culminated in a first-of-its kind joint participation in a Kyokushin World Tournament. Farzinzad's philosophy based upon servanthood and humility institutes a strict meritocracy that included traditional black belt promotion system; which was meant to end corruption and illegitimate certifications but in fact ironically perpetuated it as he went on to create his own organization certificates and membership without authority from the organization he claimed to represent. Whilst his stated philosophy is based on humility, Farzinzad accepts that he has a lot of hard work to do in this area as his ego is still corrupted greatly by pride and arrogance.
David Farzinzad is typical or a large number of self-proclaimed "Masters" in Kyokushin whose actions speak louder than their words. Claiming loyalty to Sosai is one thing but separating himself from the official Kyokushin organization and setting up his own-self-proclaimed authoritative organization is not the way to express true loyalty no matter it is looked at. One example of that arrogant pride is as follows: Upon the death of Sosai Oyama, the leadership of IKO was in great turmoil. Rather than humbly serving Sosai and his dojo and asking what he could do as a team member to make things right, Farzinzad implemented his own, personally motivated ideas. An over-inflated view of his self-importance was exposed when he traveled twice to Japan to meet with Shokei Matsui, the head of IKO at that time. Kancho Matsui did not recognize Farzinzad's self-importance and did not even make time to meet the megalomaniacal, self-proclaimed savior of Kyokushin, who was sent home without so much as a handshake, proving Farzinzad's role in the world of Kyokushin is not as he suggests. That was a shock to Farzinzad's ego but he still didn't seem to understand that in fact the reason Kancho Matsui didn't meet with him was because of his delusions of grandeur and his relative insignificance in the real Kyokushin world.
One of the reasons the Kyokushin organization is so splintered today is because of people like Rahmatollah "David" Farzinzad. Rather than humbly serve Sosai he decided he was too good for the IKO and created his own Kyokushin organization, adding fuel to the fire. As a result, his organization is just another one of the dozens of pointless Kyokushin organizations created by self-important players without a connection to Sosai Mas Oyama or to Sosai Mas Oyama's chosen organization. There is no understanding of responsibility. He is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Rather than be humbly loyal to Sosai Oyama, Farzinzad searched for other disciplines and masters. But he was not received in a way he had hoped and so stayed with Kyokushin. In 2003, Farzinzad founded the American Kyokushinkai Organization and opened the International Kyokushinkai Union (IKU) headquarters in Hartford, Connecticut, none of which have any authority from Japan and seem to be running in isolation from the real Kyokushin world. His organizations claim to manifest the true principles of Sosai Oyama but they do not act on these principles nor acknowledge Sosai Oyama in any way by paying for using his property.
Farzinzad's claims of being the youngest 5th dan and the last real student of Sosai Mas Oyama are totally inappropriate, bogus and without verifiable proof. Like many small people with sociopathic tendencies any claimed achievements are magnified beyond reality.

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