Month: April 2017

As a Karate Ka practising and researching the training methods as passed on by Chojun Miyagi Sensei one can so easily become self absorbed in belief that there is a set distinct way of performing or practising Goju Ryu Karate. There are in fact many exponents who sadly disregard any of his other training methods and teachings that are not. At the time of Chojun Miyagi Sensei’s untimely death in 1953 he certainly left behind him a wealth of knowledge, in many ways though this knowledge was spread out over a number of students on Okinawa, this being over a good many years too. Also, things Chojun Miyagi weren’t kept to his newly named Goju Ryu way of Karate either, research will show that a vast amount of Miyagi’s advanced Karate was passed on through his Senior student Jinan Shinzato Sensei down through the Yuchoku Higa lineage. Some students quite obviously certainly had more exposure to the teachings of Chojun Miyagi than others. Now if you are or were a Sensei of Karate and you practised, refined and taught your […]