Gōjū-ryū (剛柔流), Japanese for "hard-soft style", is one of the main traditional Okinawa styles of karate, featuring a combination of hard and soft techniques...
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present name on January 15, 1956). Isshin-Ryū karate is largely a synthesis of Shorin-ryū karate, Gojū-ryū karate, and kobudō. The name means, literally...
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Chōjun Miyagi (category Gōjū-ryū practitioners)
1888 – October 8, 1953) was an Okinawan martial artist who founded the Gōjū-ryū school of karate by blending Okinawan and Chinese influences. Sensei Miyagi...
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developed in Japan, especially in Okinawa are Shotokan, Wado-ryu, Shito-ryu, and Goju-ryu; many other styles of Karate are derived from these four. The...
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years of instruction with Ryu Ryu Ko and founded what would become Naha-te. One of his students was the founder of Gojū-ryū, Chōjun Miyagi. Chōjun Miyagi...
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Morio Higaonna (category Gōjū-ryū practitioners)
of the Traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-do Federation (TOGKF 2022). He also founded the International Okinawan Goju Ryu Karate-do Federation (IOGKF)...
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Rikkyo University to teach Goju-ryu style of traditional Karate. Subsequently, Oyama's Karate theory would deviate from Goju-ryu and would form his own style...
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as Gōjū-ryū and Ryūei-ryū. Gōjū-ryū is considered the direct evolution of Shōrei-ryū. The Shitō-ryū style also contains many elements of Shōrei-ryū, since...
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the fast and dynamic Shōtōkan style as well as from the strength-focused Gōjū-ryū style. The International Karate Association (IKA) was formed in Tokyo,...
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WMAC Masters (section Goju-Ryu)
WMAC Masters is an American live-action television show produced by Norman Grossfeld featuring choreographed martial arts fights. It was created and produced...
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