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Generally, Okinawan karate schools did not have individual names for styles like schools in Japan. Several branches of traditional Shōrin-ryū exist today in both Okinawa and the western world. While there is a more concentrated population of practitioners in its birthplace of Okinawa, Shōrin-ryū Karate has had many high dan grades outside ...
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Shorin-ryu Shidokan (小林流志道館, Shōrin-ryū Shidōkan) is the main branch of Shorin-ryū style of Okinawan karate, started by Katsuya Miyahira, Hanshi 10th Dan.. It should not be confused with the newer Japanese Shidōkan (世界空手道連盟士道館 World Karate Association Shidōkan), which was founded by Yoshiji Soeno in 1981, another style of knockdown karate.
Shōbayashi Shōrin-ryu (少林流) (Shōrin-ryū) is a style of Okinawan Shorin-ryu karate founded by Eizo Shimabukuro.Eizo Shimabukuro (1925-2017) dropped the Chatan Yara no Kusanku and the Oyadamari no Passai he learned from Chotoku Kyan and he added Kusanku Sho and Dai and Passai Sho and Dai of Yasutsune Itosu lineage.
The first three of these styles find their origins in the Shorin-Ryu style from Shuri, Okinawa, while Goju-ryu finds its origins in Naha. Shuri karate is rather different from Naha karate, drawing on different predecessor influences. Shito-ryu can be regarded as a blend of Shuri and Naha traditions as its kata incorporate both Shuri and Naha ...
USA: Nanzenkai Tokyo Karate: Tamon Kashimoto (student of Kori Hisataka) USA: Nido Icho Shinto Ryu: Evan Marcus 7th dan (student of Ken Mack) USA: Shorinjiryu Kenryukan: Myron Lubitsch 9th Dan [12] USA: Shorinjiryu Ake no Myojo Budo: Peter Hiltz, 6th Dan; Canada: Shorinjiryu Kentokukan: Wayne Donivan 9th Dan [13]
He is a tenth dan in both karatedo and kobudo. Yamashita is the President and Director of US Shorin-Ryu Karate Association, the US President of the Zen Okinawan Kobudo Association and Chief Instructor of Shorin Ryu in the United States. Yamashita has traveled to South America, Greece and Bulgaria. Yamashita goes to Hampton Roads, Virginia, US ...
He was the last of the pre-World War karate masters, also called the "Last Warrior of Shuri" [2] He was the first to establish a Japanese ryu name for an Okinawan karate style, calling Itosu's karate "Shorin-Ryu" (小林流 or "the small forest school") in 1929. [3]