Karate-addict

http://www.uga.edu/karatedo/history.html http://www3.sympatico.ca/jeffrey.muir/jeffkdev.htm http://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/023/eng/006/001/index.html I hope this helps.

Chito ryu is a karate style founded by Tsuyoshi Chitose. http://www.chito-ryu.com/index2.html

Okinawan masters studied chuan fa in China or chinese masters came to Okinawa and then tought the local people. Anyway, karate came from China, mostly from Fuchou city in Fukien province.

Mark Bishop: Okinawan Karate: teachers, styles and secret techniques One of the best books about okinawan karate. Somebody also mentioned Unante which is probably the best book on the subject of karate's history. I highly recommend it. You can also get it here http://www.monabooks.co.uk/ .

Uechi Ryu

Uechi-ryu is considered a sister style to Goju-ryu because they are very similar. A few years back I was able to go to a seminar to train under Mr. Thompson in my experience he is one of the most knowledgeable karateka. So my advice is go for it.

We let people do jiyu kumite only at the green belt (3.kyu) level with strong emphasis on control and not useing kime. And it doesn't matter if a larger person is sparing with a smaller person or a man is sparing with a woman, because on the street you will not be able to choose your opponent so why should you in a dojo.

When I went to a seminar in Germany a few years back, everyone was looking at me a little bit strange because i wore a blue belt, then I noticed that germans had a sistem of white, green, brown (green and brown belts also had 1,2, or 3 brown or black stripes so they had 8kyu ranks before a BB), and black belts, so some of them especially the lower rankes have never seen a blue belt before. So it depends on the organization or school which colors they're gonna have, but the kyu ranks are more or less the same 8 or 10.

I think that everyone is talking about sport karate fighters in this topic, so I guess those guys that won most of their fights are considered "great" in sport karate. But as far as "great" in MA is consered I think that those martial artists that devoted their lives to practising, studying and teaching MA for decades are "great".

Back in the 80-ies Frank Brennan of UK was the best in Europe but the one everyone feared the most (from the UK team) was Elwyn Hall.

I don't do sport karate so I don't really know anybody except some of the older bunch . Hirokazu Kanazawa - winner of the first JKA tournament back in the late 50-ies.

Welcome to the forum and congratulations to both on passing your exam. (Još jedan Slovenac ) Perhaps there will be some karateka from slovenia but who exactly I wouldn't know. How big is this camp and does it include all karate styles or just shotokan?

I agree, in my Dojo we accept students that are around 15 years old, younger students consider karate as a martial play instead of martial art.

In Japanese Bujinkan Ninpo or Ninjitsu, you can go as high as 15.DAN!!

You are probably talking about Keinosuke Enoeda, or am I wrong?