History of the Hirsch Dojo

When I was in highschool I started training in Kyokushin with two coleagues and very good friends. We made several demonstrations during high school balls and we trained in the Subarini Park from Sibiu, regardless of the weather. I remember that there were rains pouring and we ran in Gi's throught the park and the people sheltered under terraces probably thought we were mad. Were the muds were greater and the waters deeper, there we jumped and made flotations after which we made kumite combinations, leg techniques and Tensho Kata. In the winter we ran (sometimes barefooted) on the diagonal of the sloapes from the park and sometimes we slided, fall and rolled bown to the bottom. We tryied to exercise kata through the snow and ice.

This park was our wallles dojo which then we crossed its boundary we respectfuly saluted: OSU !

These inconvenient but also pleasant trainings made us realise that we still missed a place in which we could practice quietly the techniques and kata, because the physical training and the kumite combinations could be practiced outdoors without any problems.

So, in 1998 we convinced the management of our highschool to let us use the sports hall as our training hall and so our first Dojo emerged. We first named it GARYU (after the kata name created by Sosai Oyama). At some poin we had around 70 students.

Over the time we modified its name into C.S. Hirsch, and today, for it to be a national symbol when we participate in an international competition or championship, we renamed it Transilvania Sports Club and obtained a judicial personality

With our club we organized competitions and training camps at a local level, and as competitional results we had clasifications of our students on the highest levels of the Karate Kyokushin National Championship, following the international participation.