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Gōjū-ryū
Style of karate
Gōjū-ryū (剛柔流), Japanese for "hard-soft style", is one of the main traditional Okinawan styles of karate, featuring a combination of hard and soft techniques.
Gō, which means hard, refers to closed hand techniques or straight linear attacks; jū, which means soft, refers to open hand techniques and circular movements. Gōjū-ryū incorporates both circular and linear movements into its curriculum, combining hard striking attacks such as kicks and close hand punches with softer open hand circular techniques for attacking, blocking, and controlling the opponent, including joint locks, grappling, takedowns, and throws.
Major emphasis is given to breathing correctly in all of the kata but particularly in the two core kata of the style, Sanchin and Tensho. Gōjū-ryū practices methods that include body strengthening and conditioning, its basic approach to fighting (distance, stickiness, power generation, etc.), and partner drills.
History
[edit]The development of Gōjū-ryū goes back to Higaonna Kanryō, (1853–1916), a native of Naha, Okinawa. Higaonna began studying Shuri-te as a child. He was first exposed to martial arts in 1867 when he began training in Luohan or "Arhat boxing" under Arakaki Seishō, a fluent Chinese speaker and translator for
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Here follows my updated version of my 5th Dan thesis which will also help those reading to “Know where my Karate is coming from”.
It may appear strange for someone who has spent the last 40 years, plus, of his life teaching the art of the empty hand to advocate the filling of that hand with a martial art weapon, but I do.
The more I have learned, especially in the last two decades, the more I truly believe that any student of Karate can gain much understanding of Karate-do through the study of the old Okinawan and Japanese martial arts weapons.
My reasons follow further on. However I think it’s important to say that all Karateka of Black Belt standards should know at least something of these weapons and the part they played in Karate history.
For higher Dan grades it must be surely essential that they have some training in their use. This then would ensure:
- The understanding of the distance at which a weapon is effective and consequently the distance at which it is least effective. (Ma-ai)
- That the history of the martial arts weapons and how they influenced Karate are understood.
- Finally, how even in these modern times we can still take and use those old martial arts weapons as modern training aids, so that their use is not forgotten.
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