Kirves Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Shorinji-ryu, Gensei-ryu, Gijomonkai, Yuishinkai. And BTW: It's Kyokushin, not Kyukushin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radok Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Kyokushinkai is one you forgot. If you can't laugh at yourself, there's no point. No point in what, you might ask? there's just no point.Many people seem to take Karate to get a Black Belt, rather than getting a Black Belt to learn Karate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirves Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 Kyokushinkai is Kyokushin-kai (kai = organization), so he did not forget it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superleeds Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 There are atleast 250 styles of karate only on okinawa....most are derivations of course, good luck.... Read a book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakugawa Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 Apparently some Japanese-Canadian is at 9th Dan and founded a style called "Tsuruoka" Karate-do, about fourty years ago. Masami Tsuruoka was born in 1929 in Cumberland, British Columbia. At the end of the war, he moved with his family to Kumamoto, Japan. During a trip to Tokyo he chanced to see a karate demonstration; he was so impressed that he resolved to learn this art, and upon his return to Kumamoto began to study Chito-ryu karate with Dr. Chitose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martial Artist Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 Shuri Ryu Black Belt (Or, Sash i should say) - 2nd Degree - Wu Shu & Wing Chun Kung FuBlack Belt - 1st degree - Shuri Ryu KarateBlack Belt - 1st degree - Okinawan KobudoBlack Belt - 1st degree - Tomikki AikidoBlack Belt - 2nd degree - JujitsuTai Chi Chuan PracticionerMuay Thai Practicioner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sauzin Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 Shijitsukan, head instructor Dean Stevens 9th dan in Ryukyu Hon Kenpo Kobujutsu Federation (Okinawan Kenpo) Dean was awarded the Shijitsukan style from Daisensei Seikichi Odo. The style contains mostly Odo's kata along with a sprinkling of Go-Ju-Ryu and Ishin-Ryu and a heck of a lot of Kobudo. -Paul Holsinger The only two things that stand between an effective art and one that isn't are a tradition to draw knowledge from and the mind to practice it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iolair Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 Seido (the style I started in: an offshoot of Kyokushinkai) - headquarters website http://www.seido.com Seidokan (no relation to Seido - and I'm afraid despite training in it for over a year I know little about it) Currently: Kickboxing and variants.Previously: Karate (Seido, Shotokan, Seidokan), Ju Jitsu, Judo, Aikido, Fencing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kempocos Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 KEMPO is an OKINAWIAN art with heavy CHINESE influences. KENPO is the american hybrid Ed Parker learned in HAWAII "If you don't want to get hit while sparring , join the cardio class" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sauzin Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 KEMPO is an OKINAWIAN art with heavy CHINESE influences. KENPO is the american hybrid Ed Parker learned in HAWAII Not exactly. Many Okinawan Kenpo stylists use the "Kenpo" spelling others use the "Kempo" spelling. The Kanji is the same. It means "Fist law" and is indifferent to how us Americans would like to spell it. Okinawan Kenpo comes from Shigero Nakamura who's major infuence was Shinkichi Kunioshi who was the successor of Naha "Bushi" Sakiyama who had studied in China. So the art is about 4 or 5 generations removed from China. I would say it's about as Okinawan as anything your going to find on the island. I wouldn't say it has a heaver Chinese influence then any other art on the island. What I would say is that it has both Naha-te and Shuri-te influences, is largely an "outside" fighting style, and it has a rich Kobudo tradition. The term Kenpo or Kempo can be used to describe any number of styles from Okinawa to China to perhaps the most famous Ed Parker's American Kenpo which is indeed an interesting mix. -Paul Holsinger The only two things that stand between an effective art and one that isn't are a tradition to draw knowledge from and the mind to practice it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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