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SHORIN RYU - SEITOKAN – KATA

 

Katas\

7th kyu

Fukyu gata ichi

Naihanchi shodan

6th kyu

Fukyigata ni

Naihanchi nidan

5th kyu

Pinan shodan

Pinan nidan

4th kyu

Wansu (matsumura)

Naihanchi sandan

Wankan 

 3rd kyu

Pinan sandan

Pinan yondan

Ananku ( matsumura)

2nd kyu

Pinan godan

Seisan (matsumura)

1st Kyu

Kusanku sho

Rohai

Unzu

1st Dan

Passai sho ( Itotsu no passai -Chibana)

Passai sho  (matsumura- Honan Soken)

2nd Dan

Chinto

Gojushiho

3rd Dan

Kusanku dai

Kusanku  (matsumura- Honan Soken))

4th Dan

Passai dai (Itotsu- Chibana)

Passai dai (matsumura – Honan Soken)

5th Dan

Jion

Kooryu passai

6th Dan

Seisan (kobayashi)

Chatan Yara No Kusanku

7th Dan

Tetshu

 

8th Dan

Hakutsuro (Kumemura- Seikichi Kim))

 

 

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Our Staff

 

 

 

Algeria 

 

Ben laziz Mouloud 5th Dan

Yakoubi Achour 2nd Dan

Ben laziz Amokrane 2nd Dan

Ben belkacem Smail 1st Dan

Oukaci Kaci 1st Dan

Ben laziz Juba 1st Dan

Ould Ramdane Ahmed 1st Dan

Ben laziz Messad 1st Dan

Ben laziz Boussad 1st Dan

 
 

 

Argentina

 

Bruno a. Donati 9th Dan

Oscar Cesano 8th Dan

Julio Cesaretti 8th Dan

Anibal Carallol 8th Dan

Antonio Eiras 6th Dan

Bruno Luciano Donati 7th Dan

Benjamin Baca 6th Dan

Javier Calvo 6th Dan

Victor Arrula 4th Dan

Javier Arrula 4th Dan

Rogelio Buscemi 3rd Dan

Mauricio Dellagnolo 3rd Dan

Horacio Ferro 2nd Dan

Bartolo Lopez 2nd Dan

Andres Aguero 2nd Dan

Yamil Sat 1st Dan

Paula Algaba 1st Dan

Alberto Ravalle 1st Dan

Dario Giannoni 1st Dan

Jorge Adrian Sola 1st Dan

 

Sergio Rodriguez 8th Dan

David Alcalde 7th Dan

Aldo Osorio 7th Dan

Victor Juncos 6th Dan

Claudio Roig 6th Dan

Oscar Quevedo 3rd Dan

Daniel Quevedo 5rd Dan

Nestor Zurita 5th  Dan

Jose Luis Latapie 2nd Dan

Nicolas Quinteros 6th Dan

Celeste Castro 2nd Dan

Carlo Alberto Acosta 6th Dan 

Carlos A. Castro 5th Dan

Daniel Dubnic 5th Dan

Eduarde Paredes 2nd Dan 

Ricardo Jaime 2nd Dan

Valentino Zucchella 2nd Dan

Claudio M. Sanchez 1st Dan

Rene E. Gagliardi 1st Dan 

Hector M. Angeli 1st Dan

Mariano Rosas 1st Dan 

Hector A. Gonzalez 1st Dan 

 

 

 

Brazil

 

Walter Martins Menezez 9th Dan

Mauricio Petronilio Souza 9th Dan

Mauicio Siqueira 9th Dan

Manoel Rocha Pereira 9th Dan

Jose Gomes de Medeiros 8th Dan

Satoro Ebihara 8th Dan

Wagner Andrè Svaizer  7th Dan 

 

Claudio Souza Melo 7th Dan

Jose Airton de Oliveira 7th Dan

David Valentin Filho 7th Dan

Jose Vlademir De Aragao Santana 7th Dan

Roberto Nunes de Souza 6th Dan

Moises Camilo da Almeida 7th Dan

Reginaldo da Costa Lima 5th Dan

Ronaldo Silva 5th Dan

Luis Coelho Rocha 6th Dan

Sergio Luiz Nogueira Maia 4th Dan

Arnaldo Rodrigues da Silva Junior 5th Dan

Marcionilio Alex Curvelo Santos 3rd Dan

Carlito Martins Pereira 3rd Dan

Julio Basqueira 4th Dan 

Luiz Henrique Alves dos Santos 3nd Dan

Bruno Siqueira 3rd Dan

Suellen Garcia de Menezes 2nd Dan

Manuel Caldeira da Silva Filho 4nd Dan

Rodrigo Lopes 3rd Dan

Adalberto Raimondo Medeiros 3rd Dan

Davi da Silva Ferreira 3rd Dan

Helder Andrè dos Santos 2nd Dan

Manoel Pereira Alves Neto 2nd Dan

Luciano Rodrigues dos Santos 3nd Dan

Jose Carlos Bitencourt de Moraes 2nd Dan

Pedro Atanazio de Jesus Junior 2nd Dan

Catia Cirlene De Almeida Brito 2nd Dan

Marcio Jose de Lima 2nd Dan

luis Alberto Lyra de Aguiar 2nd Dan

Alexsandro Bezerra Rodrigues 2nd Dan

Sharley Camilo Naziazeno de Almeida 1st Dan

Thiago Mendes dos Santos 1st Dan

Antonio Augusto Dìas Cruz 2nd Dan

Flavio Ferreira de Souza 2nd Dan

Fàbio Ramos 2nd Dan

Leonardo Da Motta Ribeiro 2nd Dan

Wesley Souza Da Silva Nascimento 2nd Dan

Cleto Marinho Da Silva Junior 2nd Dan 

Jorgino Correa Dos Santos 2nd Dan

Flavio Borges Leitao Filho 1st Dan

Cleber Silva De Andrade 1st Dan

Ewerton Jaworski 1st Dan

Fabio Amador Bueno 1st Dan

Flàvio Magalhaes 1st Dan

Josia Alves Bezerra Junior 3st Dan

Alexandre Vinagre 1st Dan

Manoel Pereira Alves Neto 1st Dan

Alexandre Machado Fernandes dos Santos 1st Dan

Paulo Cesar Cerqueira Pereira 1st Dan

 

 

 

Canad

 

Mark Morrison 7th Dan

 

Egypt 

 

7th  Dan    Ali Sabra Abeden    
6th  Dan    Essam Ragab     
4th  Dan     Mohammed Eid     
3rd  Dan    Taher Gamal    
3rd  Dan    Ramy Farag     
3rd  Dan    Amira Saber    
3rd Dan    Tamer Abd Almageed   
2nd  Dan    Yaser Alkardwsy  
2nd  Dan    Abdelatef Salah     
2nd  Dan    Noora Yehea     
2nd  Dan    Reda Eleayed     
2nd  Dan    Ali Elsayed Ali     
2nd  Dan    Hassan Abdulsalam     
2nd  Dan    Hadeer Mohammed     
2nd  Dan    Ramadan Khaled     
1st Dan     Hussein Alshlymy    
1st Dan    Ahmed Mohammed Ali     
1st Dan    Lamiaa Abdulkhleq     
1st Dan    Ahmed Abdulkhaleq     
1st Dan    Amro Ali Mahmmod    
1st Dan    Amro Mohammed Hamed     
1st Dan    Shorouk Elsayed    
1st Dan    Farouk Ali Farouk    
1st Dan    Ebrahim Ali Farouk    
1st Dan    Mohammed Adel     
1st Dan    Mahmmoud Mosaad     
1st Dan    Nehal Emad Mohammed     
1st Dan    Ahmed Helmy Fahmy     
1st Dan    Walaa Helmy Mohammed     

 

 

England 

 

Philip Bradley 8th Dan

George Bishop 8th Dan

Derek Lines 3th Dan 

 

 

España - Spain

 

Licesio Prieto Blanco 6th Dan

 

 

Germany 

 

Thomas Zullich 3th Dan 

 

Italia-Italy

 

Enrique Alejandro Rivolta 6th Dan

Emanuel Mazzetti 5th Dan

Emanuel Giordano 4thDan

Teresa Parisi 2nd Dan

Manuel Vignola 2nd Dan

Francesco Bianchini 2nd Dan

Simone Pisaniello 2nd Dan

Simone Verza 2nd Dan

Paolo Rollino 2nd Dan

Daniela Fregeneda 4rd Dan

Andres Sacaba 3nd Dan

Edin Saleta 1st Dan

 

 

 

Indonesia 

Suwito 4th Dan

Ahmad Riza Gultom 1st Dan

Sutrisno Pujohandoko 2nd Dan

Rahmad Nurhadi 1st Dan

Yudi iswanto 1st Dan

Syaiful Ardhi 1st Dan

Chairus Sabri 1st Dan

Rhino Sofana 1st Dan

Jepri Medrianto 1st Dan

Adharia Saptiti 1st Dan

Hanny Ardelia Cahyaningrum 1st Dan

Rachiesa Yazid Audi 1st Dan

Nurfitria Rahman 1st Dan

Riri Ramadhani 1st Dan

Maharani Zamrud 1st Dan

Harun Hudari 1st Dan

Bambang Andrianto 1st Dan

Dwi Sanjaya 1st Dan

Jordan setiawan 1st Dan

 

 

Japan

 

 

Kuwait

 

Ali Sabra Abeden 7th Dan

 

Mozambique

 

Arnaldo Rodrigues da Silva Junior 4th Dan 

 

 

Nepal

 

Asmita Gurug 5th Dan 

Indra Bajracharya 5th Dan

 

Netherland 

 

Leonardo G. Beroes  4th Dan 

 

Paraguay.

 Miguel de Alzaa 4th Dan

 

 

 

 

 

Philippines 

 

Ferdinad Federis 4th Dan

 

 

 

Peru 

 

Roman Garcia Paredes 6th Dan

Anthony Paredes 4th Dan 

Julio Bocanegra 2nd Dan

Lieteh Castillo 1st Dan

Karen Guevara Diaz 1st Dan

Andres Panduro Grandes 1st Dan

Jesika Garcia Chistama 1st Dan

Domingo Quintos 1st Dan 

 

Puerto Rico 

 

Mario Alejandro Charon 7th Dan 

Carlos Rodriguez 4th Dan 

 

Sry Lanka 

 

Sensei Ajith Wasantha Abeygunasekara 3rd Dan         

Sensei Ajith Wijethunge 2nd Dan

Sensei Wasantha Munasinghe 2nd Dan

Sensei H. A Asoka Thilakaratne 2nd Dan

Sensei Rasika Gayapriya 2nd Dan

Sensei S. K Karunaratne 2nd Dan

 S. M. P Kasun Malaka 2nd Dan

 M. K. G Roshan 1st Dan

  Ranjan Ranasingha 1st Dan

  M. K. C P Kumara

  Chinthaka Wijesundara 1st Dan

  Charith Wijesundara 2nd Dan

   M. L Sooriyaarachchi 1st Dan

   Sampath Udayakumara 1st Dan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want to learn and train of the true Sensei with the official Certification ask us the near Dojo in your Country or City, we send you by e-mail the information about it, INTERNATIONAL-SHORIN-RYU-SEITOKAN-KARATE-KOBUDO-ASSOCIATION. We have  Dojos all over the World . INTERNATIONAL-SHORIN-RYU-SEITOKAN-KARATE-KOBUDO-ASSOCIATION is your better option

 

Our Staff

 

 

 

Algeria 

 

Ben laziz Mouloud 5th Dan

Yakoubi Achour 2nd Dan

Ben laziz Amokrane 2nd Dan

Ben belkacem Smail 1st Dan

Oukaci Kaci 1st Dan

Ben laziz Juba 1st Dan

Ould Ramdane Ahmed 1st Dan

Ben laziz Messad 1st Dan

Ben laziz Boussad 1st Dan

 
 

 

Argentina

 

Bruno a. Donati 9th Dan

Oscar Cesano 8th Dan

Julio Cesaretti 8th Dan

Anibal Carallol 8th Dan

Antonio Eiras 6th Dan

Bruno Luciano Donati 7th Dan

Benjamin Baca 6th Dan

Javier Calvo 6th Dan

Victor Arrula 4th Dan

Javier Arrula 4th Dan

Rogelio Buscemi 3rd Dan

Mauricio Dellagnolo 3rd Dan

Horacio Ferro 2nd Dan

Bartolo Lopez 2nd Dan

Andres Aguero 2nd Dan

Yamil Sat 1st Dan

Paula Algaba 1st Dan

Alberto Ravalle 1st Dan

Dario Giannoni 1st Dan

Jorge Adrian Sola 1st Dan

Sergio Rodriguez 8th Dan

David Alcalde 6th Dan

Aldo Osorio 6th Dan

Oscar Quevedo 3rd Dan

Daniel Quevedo 4rd Dan

Nestor Zurita 2nd Dan

Jose Luis Latapie 2nd Dan

Nicolas Quinteros 1st Dan

Ricardo Aguirre 1st Dan

Carlo Alberto Acosta 6th Dan 

Carlos A. Castro 5th Dan

 

Eduarde Paredes 2nd Dan 

 

Claudio M. Sanchez 1st Dan

Rene E. Gagliardi 1st Dan 

Hector M. Angeli 1st Dan

Mariano Rosas 1st Dan 

Hector A. Gonzalez 1st Dan 

 

 

 

Brazil

 

Walter Martins Menezez 9th Dan

Mauricio Petronilio Souza 8th Dan

Mauicio Siqueira 8th Dan

Manoel Rocha Pereira 8th Dan

Jose Gomes de Medeiros 8th Dan

Satoro Ebihara 8th Dan

Wagner Andrè Svaizer  7th Dan 

 

Claudio Souza Melo 7th Dan

Jose Airton de Oliveira 7th Dan

David Valentin Filho 7th Dan

Jose Vlademir De Aragao Santana 7th Dan

Roberto Nunes de Souza 6th Dan

Moises Camilo da Almeida 7th Dan

Reginaldo da Costa Lima 5th Dan

Ronaldo Silva 5th Dan

Luis Coelho Rocha 6th Dan

Sergio Luiz Nogueira Maia 4th Dan

Arnado Rodrigues da Silva Junior 4th Dan

Marcionilio Alex Curvelo Santos 3rd Dan

Carlito Martins Pereira 3rd Dan

Julio Basqueira 4th Dan 

Luiz Henrique Alves dos Santos 3nd Dan

Bruno Siqueira 3rd Dan

Suellen Garcia de Menezes 2nd Dan

Manuel Caldeira da Silva Filho 4nd Dan

Rodrigo Lopes 3rd Dan

Adalberto Raimondo Medeiros 3rd Dan

Davi da Silva Ferreira 3rd Dan

Helder Andrè dos Santos 2nd Dan

Manoel Pereira Alves Neto 2nd Dan

Luciano Rodrigues dos Santos 2nd Dan

Jose Carlos Bitencourt de Moraes 2nd Dan

Pedro Atanazio de Jesus Junior 2nd Dan

Catia Cirlene De Almeida Brito 2nd Dan

Marcio Jose de Lima 2nd Dan

luis Alberto Lyra de Aguiar 2nd Dan

Alexsandro Bezerra Rodrigues 2nd Dan

Sharley Camilo Naziazeno de Almeida 1st Dan

Thiago Mendes dos Santos 1st Dan

Antonio Augusto Dìas Cruz 2nd Dan

Flavio Ferreira de Souza 2nd Dan

Fàbio Ramos 2nd Dan

Fabio Amador Bueno 1st Dan

Flàvio Magalhaes 1st Dan

Josia Alves Bezerra Junior 2st Dan

Alexandre Vinagre 1st Dan

Manoel Pereira Alves Neto 1st Dan

Alexandre Machado Fernandes dos Santos 1st Dan

Paulo Cesar Cerqueira Pereira 1st Dan

 

 

 

Canad

 

Mark Morrison 7th Dan

 

Egypt 

 

7th  Dan    Ali Sabra Abeden    
6th  Dan    Essam Ragab     
4th  Dan     Mohammed Eid     
3rd  Dan    Taher Gamal    
3rd  Dan    Ramy Farag     
3rd  Dan    Amira Saber    
3rd Dan    Tamer Abd Almageed   
2nd  Dan    Yaser Alkardwsy  
2nd  Dan    Abdelatef Salah     
2nd  Dan    Noora Yehea     
2nd  Dan    Reda Eleayed     
2nd  Dan    Ali Elsayed Ali     
2nd  Dan    Hassan Abdulsalam     
2nd  Dan    Hadeer Mohammed     
2nd  Dan    Ramadan Khaled     
1st Dan     Hussein Alshlymy    
1st Dan    Ahmed Mohammed Ali     
1st Dan    Lamiaa Abdulkhleq     
1st Dan    Ahmed Abdulkhaleq     
1st Dan    Amro Ali Mahmmod    
1st Dan    Amro Mohammed Hamed     
1st Dan    Shorouk Elsayed    
1st Dan    Farouk Ali Farouk    
1st Dan    Ebrahim Ali Farouk    
1st Dan    Mohammed Adel     
1st Dan    Mahmmoud Mosaad     
1st Dan    Nehal Emad Mohammed     
1st Dan    Ahmed Helmy Fahmy     
1st Dan    Walaa Helmy Mohammed     

 

 

England 

 

Philip Bradley 8th Dan

George Bishop 8th Dan

Derek Lines 3th Dan 

 

 

España - Spain

 

Licesio Prieto Blanco 6th Dan

 

 

Germany 

 

Thomas Zullich 3th Dan 

 

Italia-Italy

 

Enrique Alejandro Rivolta 6th Dan

Emanuel Mazzetti 5th Dan

Emanuel Giordano 4thDan

Teresa Parisi 2nd Dan

Manuel Vignola 2nd Dan

Francesco Bianchini 2nd Dan

Simone Pisaniello 2nd Dan

Simone Verza 2nd Dan

Paolo Rollino 2nd Dan

Daniela Fregeneda 4rd Dan

Andres Sacaba 3nd Dan

Edin Saleta 1st Dan

 

 

 

Indonesia 

Suwito 4th Dan

Ahmad Riza Gultom 1st Dan

Sutrisno Pujohandoko 2nd Dan

Rahmad Nurhadi 1st Dan

Yudi iswanto 1st Dan

Syaiful Ardhi 1st Dan

Chairus Sabri 1st Dan

Rhino Sofana 1st Dan

Jepri Medrianto 1st Dan

Adharia Saptiti 1st Dan

Hanny Ardelia Cahyaningrum 1st Dan

Rachiesa Yazid Audi 1st Dan

Nurfitria Rahman 1st Dan

Riri Ramadhani 1st Dan

Maharani Zamrud 1st Dan

Harun Hudari 1st Dan

Bambang Andrianto 1st Dan

Dwi Sanjaya 1st Dan

Jordan setiawan 1st Dan

 

 

Japan

 

Katsumi Okubo 10th Dan Adviser of Seitokan 

 

Kuwait

 

Ali Sabra Abeden 7th Dan

 

Mozambique

 

Arnaldo Rodrigues da Silva Junior 4th Dan 

 

 

Nepal

 

Asmita Gurug 5th Dan 

Indra Bajracharya 5th Dan

 

Netherland 

 

Leonardo G. Beroes  4th Dan 

 

Paraguay.

 Miguel de Alzaa 4th Dan

 

 

 

 

 

Philippines 

 

Ferdinad Federis 4th Dan

 

 

 

Peru 

 

Roman Garcia Paredes 6th Dan

Anthony Paredes 4th Dan 

Julio Bocanegra 2nd Dan

Lieteh Castillo 1st Dan

Karen Guevara Diaz 1st Dan

Andres Panduro Grandes 1st Dan

Jesika Garcia Chistama 1st Dan

Domingo Quintos 1st Dan 

 

Puerto Rico 

 

Mario Alejandro Charon 7th Dan 

Carlos Rodriguez 4th Dan 

 

Sry Lanka 

 

Sensei Ajith Wasantha Abeygunasekara 3rd Dan         

Sensei Ajith Wijethunge 2nd Dan

Sensei Wasantha Munasinghe 2nd Dan

Sensei H. A Asoka Thilakaratne 2nd Dan

Sensei Rasika Gayapriya 2nd Dan

Sensei S. K Karunaratne 2nd Dan

 S. M. P Kasun Malaka 2nd Dan

 M. K. G Roshan 1st Dan

  Ranjan Ranasingha 1st Dan

  M. K. C P Kumara

  Chinthaka Wijesundara 1st Dan

  Charith Wijesundara 2nd Dan

   M. L Sooriyaarachchi 1st Dan

   Sampath Udayakumara 1st Dan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OSRKKF and ISSKKA  BRANCHES

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SHORIN-RYU KARATE


"THE MAIN BRANCHES OF SHORIN-RYU"


The Shorin-ryu style was broken into several branches: the Shobayashi-ryu ("small forest style"), the Kobayashi-ryu (";young forest style") and the Matsubayashi-ryu ("pine forest style"). All three refer to the small pine forest where the Shaolin Temple was last located, and all three are still interpreted to mean Shorin-ryu or"Shaolin way." Shobayashi, the original style of Shorin-ryu, was taught by one of Itosu's famous students, Chotoku Kiyabu, better known as Chotoku Kyan (1870-1945). Kyan was extremely well-known and revered in Okinawa, and was considered Itosu's greatest student, even though he was second in succession, with Kentsu Yabu (c. 1870- ) having more seniority. Yabu took charge after Itosu's death, but retired shortly afterward, leaving Chotoku Kyan in charge.

Kyan trained quite a few notable students, among them Tatsuo Shimabukuro (the elder brother of Eizo), who also studied under Chojun Miyagi. Kyan also trained Shoshin Nagamine (1907- ), who later developed the Matsubayashi form of Shorin-ryu. It has been stated that Nagamine developed this style himself. He named the stlye after Bushi Matsumura (1797-1889). Nagamine's son Takayoshi has taken over this branch of Shorin-ryu Karate.

Kyan's most noted student is Eizo Shimabukuro. Upon his death, Kyan left Eizo Shimabukuro in charge of the still-unchanged system of Shobayashi Shorin-ryu. Another of Itosu's students, Chosin Chibana (1887-1969), taught Kobayashi-ryu. This system, according to Master Shimabukuro, is the same as Shobayashi-ryu. He states that Master Chibana simply misspelled the term by using incorrect kanji (characters), which changed the pronunciation from "Shobayashi" to "Kobayashi." These two systems of Shorin-ryu are the same today, with the same form and pattern in their kata.

In fact, in the early 1960s, Master Shimabukuro went to Chibana, who was then in his late seventies, to ask Chibana to correct his (Shimabukuro's) kata. Shimabukuro was concerned about the discrepancies gradually emerging in the various Shorin-ryu styles which had begun to proliferate by this time in Okinawa. Shimabukuro was a tenth dan at the time he appealed to Chibana. Out of respect for Chibana, who was Itosu's oldest living student, Shimabukuro removed his red belt and instead wore a white belt while being corrected. This action demonstrated Master Shimabukuro's intense desire to retain the purity of Shorin-ryu. Another oldest of Kyan’s student, Takayoshi Simabukuro (1916), Next to II War in 1950, he emigrated to Huston, USA, where he worked as mechanic and returned to Okinawa in 1987. He didn’t accept degree, and he continued to do the older from, Master Shimabukuro continued to use the Shorin Ryu Shobayashi as name of his system.

Seibukan Shorin-ryu:

Zenpo Shimabukuro Kaicho of the Seibukan shorin-ryu branch of Shorin-ryu. Seibukan Shorin-ryu Karate was developed by Zenryo Shimabukuro after Chotoku Kyan's death in 1945. His dojo opened in 1947. His first students were nephews of his oldest son, Zenpo. It is believed that Zenpo is still teaching Seibukan Shorin-ryu Karate on Okinawa at the Seibukan Dojo. Seibukan means holy art school, and was named because the students minds are developed in a spirtual way- it is not how many students one has, it is how good they are.

Hanshi Katsuya Miyahira (10th Dan) is Kaicho of the Shido Kan branch of Kobayashi Shorin-ryu Karate. After Chosin Chibana's death in 1969 his most senior student was Katsuya Miyahira. Miyahira would become the logical heir to inherit leadership of Kobayashi Shorin-ryu Karate. But seniority doesn't neccassarily make you the heir apparent. As to, who is the rightful heir to Chibana's Kobayashi Shorin-ryu Karate depends on who you talk to. After Chibana's death, the 9th Dan's of Chosin Chibana's dojo all became 10th dan's and started their own subdivided styles.

Shugoro Nakazato (1921- ) became Kaicho of Shorin Ryu Shorin Kan branch of Kobayashi and Katsuya Miyahira became Kaicho of the Shorin Ryu-Shido Kan branch of Kobayashi.

Yuchoku Higa(10th Dan), Founder of Shorin Ryu Kyudokan was born in Naha City, Okinawa in 1910. He was a well known 10th dan in Okinawa and famous as -The Strong fist of Okinawa-, because of the amazing power generated in his punch. He had a strong physique as a warrior because his long time practice in Karate.

Choki Motobu was born in Akahira village from Shuri region, Okinawa. He was son of Motobu Udun, which was a nobleman. Motobu had learnt some of techniques from his family, but, as his elder brother, Choyu,  was the one who had the right to continue the martial tradition of the family, he had to look somewhere else the opportunity to study. Choki started to train a lot to makiwara and used to lift heavy rocks in order to gain strength.  He proposed himself to become more powerful and good, and he dedicated himself to a series of hard trainings.  Soon he became famous with the "Motobu zaru" nickname (Motobu, the monkey), thanks to his agility and speed. He became Anko Itosu's student

 

There is another form of Shorin-ryu on Okinawa called Matsumura Orthodox.* Some of this style's followers have reportedly changed the name to Sukunai Hayashi. Matsumura Orthodox was supervised by Hohan Soken (b. 1889-1982), who is said to have studied from his uncle Nabe Matsumura, who in turn studied from Soken Matsumura. In 1920 Hohan Soken emigrated to Negro, Argentina, where he worked as a farm laborer. He returned to Okinawa in 1952 and started teaching karate, calling his style Matsumra Orthodox Shorin-ryu.

Hohan Soken not only lived in Argentina, but traveled to Peru and other places. He spoke fluent Spanish. It is known that Kyan Chotoku occasionally traveled with him. Kyan was Soken's training partner under Nabe Matsumura.

Negro, Argentina was an Okinawan trading colony. Okinawa had many of these all over the world. Hohan Soken probably had relatives there because there were many Okinawans living there. We don't know if he would have liked living there for so long without seeing his family. Therefore it is believed he took some family members with him. Who knows if they stayed. One of his student in Argentina was Seikichi Kim, he did not open the Dojo and have given lesson a few student there, Kim have never came to Okinawa. 

Hanshi Fusei Kise's Ken Shin Kan a combination of Matsumura Orthodox and Shorinji Kempo ) is reported to have undergone many changes from the original Shorin-ryu. Some branches of Matsumura Orthodox remain more faithful to the original system.

 

There are others teaching modified forms of Shorin-ryu. But these are by far the most popular on Okinawa with Kobayashi and Shobayashi being virtually unchanged from the age-old origins of the Shorin-ryu style.

A sensitive issue on Okinawa was the question of adopting a unified name: whether to refer to all Okinawan fighting styles in the Kanji, meaning "Chinese hand," or to use the Kanji of karate already used in Japan, which translates as "empty hand." In a meeting of the elite karate masters of Okinawa, who on October 25, 1936, convened to make the decision, this issue was finally settled. Some of the masters and their senior students present at that meeting were: Kyan, Kenstu Yabu, Chomo Hanashiro, Miyagi, Miyashiro, Nakamora, Chibana, Nakatsune and Choki Motobu. It was agreed that karate would be written and referred to in kanji and translated as "empty hand." This interpretation, it was agreed, embraced a much broader and more philosophical meaning than it is generally gramted.

That is a small resume of Shorin Ryu History, and we know that so many others Grand Master of Shorin Ryu are not mentioned in this article, I want to apologized about it.

 

In 2010 Sensei Santiago Sacaba with the sopport to Soke Katsumi Okubo 10th Dan open the Shorin Ryu Seitokan, the union of Kobayashi amd Matsumura Seito to respect to the roof of Shorin Ryu 

 

Miyagi Takeshi Hanshi, started to teaching in 1955, he was 20 years old, in his own Dojo, and on June 28, 2004, Miyahira Katsuya promoted him to Judan (10th Dan) 

 

In 2017 I began to train and studied, and in that moment I am senpai his Dojo, and representative in Europa and South America. That is a grand honor to me. 

 

 

Hanshi 10th Dan Santiago Sacaba

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