Goju-Ryu Karate - Kata, Techniques

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• hard and soft

• Founded a Karate school in the 1920s

• Goju Ryu Karate

• taken from the precepts of traditional Chinese Kempo

•  He was the first among different schools of karate to name his art

• Goju Ryu was formally registered at the Butoku-kai, Japanese Martial Arts Association in 1933

• Goju-Ryu is one of the major schools or sub-styles of Karate.

• Main Elements of Goju-Ryu

• No name was given to this particular style until after an impressionable kata performed by a student, Sensei Shinzato, at a Japanese martial arts tournament 

• In order to promote his art as well as cooperate with other schools of Japanese martial arts, Sensei Chojun Miyagi decided it was necessary to name his art 

• Katas

• Stances

• Bunkai

• Kicks

• Punches

• HandStrikes

• ElbowStrikes

• Blocks

• Kumite

• Terminology

• Stretches

• Kihon

• Other Elements

• How to tie your belt

• Hojo Undo

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