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Marilyn Fierro is one of the highest ranking women in the world in Isshin-Ryu karate and a Ninth degree 2014 by Nick Adler and Angi Uezu black belt. [21] She was promoted in 1996 to the rank of Nana Dan on Okinawa and became the first Isshin-Ryu Master woman recognized on Okinawa. [22]
1977 Co-founded the United Isshin-ryu Karate Association with Harold Mitchum. [10] 1983 Made three Escrima Videos for Panther Productions. 1986 Published author in Black Belt Magazine & Wholeheart News. 1987 Black Belt Magazine Co-instructor of the year with Ray Dalke. [11] 1988 Featured in Karate/Kung-fu Illustrated. [12] [13]
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Gary Alexander is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in the Pacific with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, Fleet Marine Force during the mid-to-late 1950s, and has acted in films and on television, specifically Avenging Force (1986) with Michael Dudikoff for Cannon Films and Gideon Oliver (1989) with Lou Gossett, Jr. for ...
[2] [3] He was a co-founder of the International Isshin-ryu Karate Association, [4] and also served as the vice president of the United States Karate Association. He co-produced the first nationally televised Isshinryu Hall of Fame Karate Tournament (1992), [ 5 ] co-produced an instructional video series (1991) and co-authored seven books. [ 3 ]
Isshin-ryū (一心流) is a traditional school of the Japanese martial art of kusarigamajutsu, the art of using the chain and scythe (). [1] Its exact origin is disputed, and may have been founded as early as the 14th century by the samurai Nen Ami Jion 念阿弥慈恩 (b.1351-?), but the modern-day techniques were compiled and incorporated no later than the 17th century, by the unification ...
Isshin-ryū kusarigamajutsu is a school of handling the chain and sickle weapon. The 24th unofficial headmaster of Shinto Musō Ryu, Shiraishi Hanjirō, received a full license (Menkyo) in Isshin-ryū from Morikata Heisaku in the late 19th century,. [1] Shiraishi would later transmit the Isshin-ryū to his own Jōdō students.
Master Tatsuo Shimabukuro, the founder of Isshin-ryu (blend of Goju-ryu and Shorin-ryu), was quoted as saying that, Naifanchi is mother to Shorin-ryu and Sanchin is father to Goju-ryu. When these two come together then Isshin-ryu is born. In many mainstream Japanese styles, Naifanchi is known as Tekki. Funakoshi Gichin made this name change.