Chito-ryu

[BillKephart]

I have looked around and it does not seem like anybody else practices the style I study.

It was founded by a medical doctor from Okinawa named Chitose Tsuyoshi, we call him O-Sensei.

http://www.chito-ryu.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chito_Ryu

A lot of our upper level people are DNBK certified.

I am fortunate to live near the main honbu in Covington Kentucky. It is also very popular in Canada. I was wondering if anybody else was familiar with it (and what your opinions might be) or if there was anybody else who practices it here.

[sangngak]

In the early 60's I saw old man Chitose put on a closed exhibition of Chito Ryu in Honolulu. My girlfriend was a photographer for a newspaper and she always volunteered for the MA events as she knew I would want to use one of her passes to get in.

I will say this, the old man could make a pair of Sai move like airplane propellers. I've only seen one other person as fast as he was.

I stayed down by the stage front trying to get every photo I could, hoping he'd ask for volunteers from the audience for a sparring demo etc etc. No luck.

Chito Ryu is, to me, similar to Wado and Shito Ryu. A good school but the GI's living in Okinawa didn't , for whatever reason, end up in their style. Thus a lot of Gu Ju and Shorin people returned to teach in the US in the 60's but not so many from the other schools. Also I was told some of the Okinawan schools were hostile to Americans while the Shimabuku clan, for example, welcomed them to train and even set up classes on the US bases.

Glad to see Chito Ryu is alive and well. Good luck.

[Roys15]

do some research on sensei katsuoh yamamoto, then research sensei ray nichols and sensei mike foster, this will give you a good insight into the branches of chito-ryu yoshukai that have been growing in alabama and florida. Yamamoto was a student of Dr. Chitose, who gave him permission to start his own style, which became known as chito-ryu yoshukai

I hope this has helped clear up some questions about chito-ryu, and if not research the names listed above.