Alain Breugelmans was born on the 1947-02-21 in Orleans, France, but because his parents had the Belgian nationality he became Belgian.
At the age of 3 his Mother moved back to
Because his mother had found a company in
He started Kyokushin Karate in 1973, the first year he trained under Senpai Brants and Senpai van der Stelt who were running a Dojo under Shihan Loek Hollander’s wings.
After about a year he was advised to join the Dutch Honbu Dojo of Shihan Hollander in Rotterdam. There he was not only lucky to train directly under Shihan Loek Hollander but also under Shihan Loek Hollander's right hand, Shihan Peter Voogt.
Also Shihan Henny Ruberg and Shihan Roel Wildeboer have been of great importance to him.
In January 1980 Alain Breugelmans went, together with Roel Wildeboer, to the U.S.A. to train under Soshu Shigeru Oyama in Fairfield, Connecticut.
There he trained 6 days a week, 4 hours to 5 hours a day during his 5,5 months stay.
Besides Soshu Shigeru Oyama he was very lucky to have Shihan Fuchiwara and Sensei Hioki as sensei.
In January 1981 at the age of almost 34 he had a severe car accident and was unable to train for more than 7 months. Due to his serious head injuries, his physicians did not allow him to do any form of contact sport any more. Nevertheless he went back, together with Shihan Henny Ruberg, to Soshu Shigeru Oyama for 6 weeks, and they had the luck to be present at the grand opening of the New York Kyokushinkai Honbu Dojo on the Avenue of the Americas or the 5th Avenue in May 1982.
In 1983 again he went back to the USA to train for one month under Soshu Shigeru Oyama.
In 1985 he started his own sportcentre “ De SPORTARCADE “ with a separate karate dojo called “ NINTAI “. In 1988 the N.K.A. (of with he was a member) left Shihan Hollander and joined Soshu Shigeru Oyama, who had started his WORLD OYAMA KARATE organization a couple of years before.
After the N.K.A. separated from the W.K.O. in the summer of 1994 he stayed with Soshu Oyama, unfortunately this was the last contact he had with Soshu Shigeru Oyama, even after several trials to communicate. He still considers Soshu Shigeru Oyama as a respected friend and as the teacher who influenced him the most.
Before moving to
Very soon he was involved with Karate again but now in Belgium, he also had to go back to his roots, Kyokushin Karate, because there were no W.K.O. Dojo in Belgium and all the people he met where Kyokushin (but of course Oyama Karate and Kyokushin Karate are very related).
In 1999 he was asked by several clubs to become Belgian country representative of the I.F.K. (Hanshi Steve Arneil) which he accepted, but only for one year.
After that year he decided to stop completely with Karate and left the Belgian I.F.K., having enough of all politics and games that where going on. After several invitations from Shihan Sjaak van de Velde he accepted to participate at a Kyokushin Reunion. To his surprise he was nominated Godan by Kaicho Jon Bluming for all the work and effort he had done in all those years (I.B.K.).
In 2001 he was invited at I.B.K. summer camp in
In 2004 he visited Canada to Shihan Michel Bégin to meet Kaicho Tezuka after several meetings he decided to join the International Kyokushin Tezuka Group, after he had teached several times in his presence he was well accepted as a Rokudan by Kaicho Tezuka. Soon afterwards he became technical director for
In July 2005 during his stay in Japan with Kaicho Tezuka he was asked to be chairman/ shuseki of the European Kyokushinkai Tezuka Group. Knowing that this would mean a lot of work, he accepted this task.
For several years he has a Dojo in Brasschaat Belgium, here Belgian and Dutch Yudansha from the various Kyokushin groups train together under his guidance regardless of affiliation, thus following the Kyokushin Way to preserve Sosai’s heritage the best he can.
Shodan 1980 I.K.O.
Nidan 1983 I.K.O.
Sandan 1990 W.O.K.
Yondan 1994 W.O.K.
Godan 2000 I.B.K.
Rokudan 2001 I.B.K.
Rokudan 2004 I.K.O. Tezuka Group
Nanadan 2007 I.K.O. Tezuka Group
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