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  2. Isshin-ryū - Wikipedia

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    In Isshin-Ryu it is believed that the vertical punch is faster than the cork-screw punch: three vertical hand punches can be generated in the time of two cork-screw punches. [1] Isshin-Ryu arm blocks are performed today with the muscle at the intended contact point as opposed to other styles that block with the bone.

  3. Harold G. Long - Wikipedia

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    [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 ]

  4. Comparison of karate styles - Wikipedia

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    The four major karate styles 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. [1] 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 ...

  5. Isshin-ryū kusarigamajutsu - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Ticky Donovan - Wikipedia

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    David 'Ticky' Donovan OBE (born 1947) is a British karate competitor and coach. [2] [3] He was the coach and manager of both the British and English national karate teams, from 1977 until he retired from that role in 2008. [4]

  7. Shintō Musō-ryū - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Full contact karate - Wikipedia

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    One major format of full-contact sport karate is known as knockdown karate or sometimes Japanese full contact karate. This style of sport fighting was developed and pioneered in the late 1960s by the Kyokushin karate organization in Japan, founded by Korean-Japanese Masutatsu Oyama (大山倍達, Ōyama Masutatsu). In fighting the competitors ...

  9. Modern schools of ninjutsu - Wikipedia

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    In 1972, Masaaki Hatsumi founded the Bujinkan organization. It uses the concepts of Ninjutsu in three of its nine schools [3] though they have since steered away from the "Ninjutsu" moniker in order to avoid stereotypes and since the art, which contains 9 ryūha (or schools), only has 3 schools based on the ninja while the other 6 are based on samurai tactics.