Harry Cook´ Shotokan Karate: A Precise History Morio Higaonna´s The History of Karate: Goju Ryu articles in fightingarts (online) And some...
By the name "traditional", people refer to karate as practiced in XX century in main-island Japan, under the JKF. Usually, schools of this karate...
Competition and self defense are two very different games: in competition open-tournament type (like NASKA's tournaments), if you tag the other,...
Old kicks school are better because they were not designed for competition sparring, but for fighting without rules. TKD kicks are for sport, and...
Sometimes some goju people do break some wood by hitting somebody who is performing sanchin kata: that is for demo. Normal sanchin kata training...
Just to be sure that we all see the differences, I post these vids of kids practicing fukyugata dai ichi and fukyugata dai ni: Fukyugata dai...
People are not very interested in history, but in training, so it doesn't surprise me. Some people say that when Miyagi developed gekisai dai ni,...
Except flying kicks, we do all that in IOGKF. Well, tameshiwari is not part of the curriculum, so it depends on the instructor.
Bad question: You can't compare: "traditional karate" is a group of organizations and the way the train; "fullcontact karate" is just a type of...
Yes, there is such a kata; however, is not traditional goju. Fukyugata dai ichi and fukyugata dai ni were created by Nagamine sensei (Matsubayashi...
Hi, I practice goju ryu (IOGKF), I am a nidan and live in Newport News (VA), however I am moving to Perú in a couple of months. Glad to be here.
Even lower: gedan kicks, kanzetsu geri, stamping... In goju there are three ways to end a fight: by attacking your opponent's breathing, his...
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