"Okinawan Goju-Ryu" is an instructive text on the etiquette, kata, stances, and powerful techniques of the renowned goju-ryu system as practiced in Okinawa. This book includes a detailed section on sanchin breathing and step-by-step photos with foot patterns.
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This review is from: Okinawan Goju-Ryu: Fundamentals of Shorei-Kan Karate (Japanese Arts) (Paperback)
The inclusion of the Goju-ryu Sanchin kata (complete with instruction for proper breathing) makes this book a must-have. Sanchin kata has many variations in different schools, even within Goju-ryu. Seikichi Toguchi was a very highly respected Shihan (master). The explanations in his book are lucid and the photos extremely helpful.
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Invaluable for newer Goju Ryu practitioners, this outstanding book covers the basic stances, punches, kicks and blocks required learn hookiyu kata and gekisai kata (including how to formally begin and end the forms). While you cannot learn any martial art solely from a book, the kata, bunkai oyo, and basic kumite are clearly illustrated and adequately described for beginners. For more advanced students the sanchin kata write-up is excellent, integrating movement, breathing and technique in a way that illuminates some of the more difficult aspects of that essential form. There is also an interesting yet brief history of Goju Ryu, including biographical information about Kanryo Higashionna (the founder of Naha Te) and Chojun Miyagi (the founder of Goju Ryu karate). Seikichi Toguchi, a direct student of Miyagi's, was an inspirational leader of the Goju community whose teaching will be sorely missed. Both his books are essential reading for Goju Ryu practitioners.
Lawrence Kane Author of Surviving Armed Assaults, The Way of Kata, and Martial Arts Instruction
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Correct information for all Goju Ryu stylists.,
By David Nielsen "Founder of Nahashu Ryu Karate Do" (Cabot, Ar United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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Face it. There are lots of varied styles of Goju Ryu Karate Do. There are even those claiming direct lineage and senior student status from Chojun Miyagi Sensei. Toguchi is not one of those. This man actually trained with him! He also trained with and was a student of Seko Higa a true senior student of Chojun Miyagi.In this book you get a feeling of a true Goju Ryu Sensei. He accurately develops the history of Goju Ryu and the people involved with promoting it after Miyagi's death. This is extremely important since Miyagi never named a successor to his style. The only person Miyagi granted permission to open a dojo was Seko Higa. After Miyagi's death his senior students opened the Jundo Kan which still exists to this day. This is where splits in the style come from. Toguchi explains his basics with ease and introduces his developed techniques that he was given permission by Miyagi himself to create. This is why this book is so good. You get a first hand account. This book is easy to understand and the author comes to the point quickly without pages and pages of rhetoric. It is great reading and very discriptive both in words and pictures. Great for any library.
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Karate was born when peace, the heart of the Okinawan people, was incorporated with the spirit of Zen as embodied in Chinese Shorin Temple boxing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
left zenkutsu dachi stance, shomen geri, gedan punch, jodan punch, right kamae, right chudan, left gedan, jodan block, kaishu kata, left chudan, unified kata, musubidachi stance, yoko kentsui uchi, morote tsuki, right gedan, hookiyu kata, soko tsuki, chudan punch, classic kata, enbusen line, age tsuki, left jodan, tate empi, kiso kumite, bunkai kumite Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Karate was born when peace, the heart of the Okinawan people, was incorporated with the spirit of Zen as embodied in Chinese Shorin Temple boxing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
left zenkutsu dachi stance, shomen geri, gedan punch, jodan punch, right kamae, right chudan, left gedan, jodan block, kaishu kata, left chudan, unified kata, musubidachi stance, yoko kentsui uchi, morote tsuki, right gedan, hookiyu kata, soko tsuki, chudan punch, classic kata, enbusen line, age tsuki, left jodan, tate empi, kiso kumite, bunkai kumite Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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