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He became coach of the Dutch Amateur Judo Association and made his name throughout Holland and Europe solely because of his fight against the Judo Union of Anton Geesink who told not such nice tales to the press about Bluming but refused 7 times to meet Bluming on the judotatami wherever. Bluming was under false accusations not aloud to participate in Paris. The press was wondered , especially when Bluming was introduced to the Black belts of the NAJA as the new coach the first week of December 1961 in Bloemendaal. He made a match against all comers some 80 judoka from 1th dan until 4th dan and threw them all within about 4 seconds under the watery eyes of the press .
They wrote the next day that Holland would be first and second in Paris and that Bluming must be aloud to fight. It did not help and Bluming watched in Paris a well deserved victory of Anton Geesink.
It made him so miserable that he stopped with competing and started teaching instead.

In his career as a teacher he delivered several champions, like Chris Dolman (4 times world champion), Willem Ruska (double Olympic champion in 1972 and three times world champ judo), Ottie Roethof (World champion in soft style karate and the team world champion), Sem Schilt (at the top in K1 and free fight winner of three times the daido juku and three time King of Pancrase) and the students of his students like Jan Plas (who gave it all to Ernesto Hoost and Peter Aerts), Peter Adelaar and Jan Kallenbach. Bluming went all throughout Europe and founded the European Kyokushinkai kan. The first karate union in Europe was founded by Bluming January in1962. The first ever karate championships were held in Krasnapolsky Hotel Amsterdam in 1965. The first international match was held against the team of Steve Arneil (a student of Oyama and Bluming in 1967) and won by the Budokai dojo.

On the 15th of Januari 1965 he was the first foreigner awarded the 6th dan in kyokushin karate from the Kyokushinkaikan Honbu by Mas Oyama. The karateworld, who was not so big those days, was shocked. Oyama put a classical samurai end to that spectacle and told the karateworld that they could fight Bluming man to man without any rules in a boxing ring. The one who could beat Bluming that way would get $ 100.000 from Oyama and he would stop with karate and take away Bluming his 6th dan.
It was than very silent all of a sudden. Nobody came forward … In 1966 their was one budoka from Korea who came to Blumings dojo and wanted to fight him in a sporty manner. His name was KWAN MO GUN 5th dan Tae Kwon Do and Heavyweigt Champion of Korea. Bluming admired Kwan because he fought his way through Jan Kallenbach, who knocked him cold, then Kenji Kurosaki (the poor man had not heard of him) who knocked him cold and than he still wanted to fight Bluming. That is spirit and real karate and the fact that he lost had nothing to do with that fact. He had KOKORO with big letters. Bluming knocked him out with a shotei for which he is still famous and Kurosaki stopped the fight. That was the only one in all those almost 50 years who really came to fight in the real samurai manner.

In the period after this Bluming delivered a lot of teachers who sometimes went their own way. One example is Loek Hollander who betrayed his teacher Bluming in Japan and Europe in such a way that the Japanese organisation (who was then interested more in money than good teachers) followed Hollander. The Dutch Karate Organisation (NKA) was a initiative of Bluming, grew big under Loek Hollander and got separated in the 80’s when a lot of teachers left Hollander because of the fact that financial benefits where more important to Hollander than practicing kyokushin karate and educating students and teachers.

In January 1989 Bluming received his 9th dan in kyokushin karate from Japan. In that same year he also got his 9th dan in Judo from Japan and was the only one in the world now who got both of the highest grades in Martial Arts from JAPAN. In November 1989 he got a visit from Akira Maeda 8th dan of the Budokai. He told Bluming that Oyama Sensei had send him to talk to Bluming and that he wanted Bluming back in the Honbu and wanted to make him President of the World Karate Kyokushin kaikan. Also that he wanted Bluming to teach the karateka of the Honbu who where keen on fighting professionally in allround especially by the fight organisation of “RINGS JAPAN “ of which Maeda was the President. Bluming said that he would do so only if Loek Hollander was out of the HONBU. Maeda said that Oyama sensei was aware of the problems but for several reasons could not agree with that.

In april 1994 instead of going to Japan Bluming got a fax that his Sensei Mas Oyama had died suddenly in the hospital. He was so devastated that he went to Tokyo to pay his respect and say Sayonara to his Sensei. September the 4th he got a fax from Kenji Kurosaki that he was awarded with the grade of his teacher Mas Oyama and got so his 10th dan signed by 5 big organisation of Budo in Japan. He was the first 6th dan in Honbu and now the first 10th dan in the world as a westerner.
The separation and start of several Dutch karate organisations increased after the death of Mas Oyama in 1994.

Kyokushin Budo Kai
The Kyokushin Budokai was founded by Bluming in 1980. Why this name ???
First because of his Sensei who gave him this new martial art which also changed his life some more after Judo. Second because of Trevor P. Leggett, who was a 6th dan before the second world war n Kodokan judo together with O’Neill (an American). Leggett became very tired of politics and the jackasses who where only interested in making money and taking power positions for the good times without (most of them) having done anything themselves in Judo. He decided to make the Budo kwan in London. His rules where very simple. Anybody who was genuinely interested in doing real judo was welcome. Strictly forbidden was talking about politics as well in Judo as in world business, race, religion etcetera. Only judo. Those who stepped on those rules where expelled. That made a big impression on Jon Bluming when his Sensei Opa Schutte told him that. For Opa and Leggett where good friends. In 1980 a budoka from the Dutch Navy, Jan de Bruin, called him and asked Bluming to give a seminar at the Navy base Vlissingen. Bluming accepted and after the seminar and a good heart to heart talk to Jan de Bruin he decided to make the Kyokushin Budokai in the same style as Leggett.
The first dojo to join was from his former students Tom Eikmans and Frans van Wijngaarden from Spijkenisse. The Budokai was born and has now grown to a healthy and international organisation.

The Kyokushin Budo kai later was also molded into the International Budo kaikan with the support of Dave Jonkers (now 8th dan) and David Cook (who is now expelled because he committed fraude and started his own organisation). The budokai styel is a nonsense style and especially good for free fight and selfdefence or as Bluming likes to call it: All round karate.

The Kyokushin Budokai has now many dojos who all work together for the good of Budo who can learn from each other and Bluming travels still all over the world to show them his ideas of fighting, refereeing, shiai’s ( the honest way ) and selfdefence which is so important our days.