Career
He was the runner up at the K-1 World General Practice 2007 in Hawaii and K-1 World General Practice 2008 in Taipei tournament. Pitchkounov began training in Kyokushin kaikan at age of thirteen in 1993. He became a black belt in 1999 and started training kickboxing a year later after being interested by watching K-1-competitions.
He was the 3rd place in the 7th World Open Karate Tournament in Japan at the age of 20.
He knocked out a very famous fighter Nicholas Pettas by a high kick (jodan mawashi geri) 2008 K-1 World General Practice in Taipei finalist.