The Big question.

[Shorinryu Sensei]

Or another option you might consider instead of searching the internet for information, is to fly ME over to the UK (I need to get to the Norwich area REAL BAD! ) and I'll be glad to show you the ins and outs of Shorin Ryu.

[Charlie]

Here's a site with an extensive list of the off-shoots from Kyokushin. There's an amazing number of them:

http://www.australiankyokushin.com/lineage.shtml

Perhaps someone, someday, can combine all of the "family trees" from the different karate styles to present the complete family diagram of karate. Sounds like a fun project for someone with their own website to post it to.

[xXSaiWarriorXx]

Go to my club website and there's a diagram on there that shows the main types of Japanese and Okinawan karate and how they relate to each other.

Click here!

Sorry, I hate to be a bother, but I noticed that your Chart on your site left a small branch out. Tatsuo Shimabuku also learned Goju Ryu from Chojun Miyagi and Kobayashi-Ryu from Chotoku Kiyan. I don't mean to sound like a Know it all, because I'm not, But I thought that you might like to know.