Profiles By Style

Goju-Ryu

Kyokushin

Okinawan

Other

Shito-Ryu

Shotokan

Sport

Wado-ryu

Goju-ryu

Meaning “hard-soft style“, this is an Okinawan style of Karate created by Chojun Miyagi.

Chinen, Teruo	Higa, Seiko	Higaonna, Morio	Izumikawa, Kanki
Kisaki, Tomoharu	Laubscher, Bakkies	Lipinski, Leo	Merriman, Chuck
Mirikian, Anthony	Miyagi, Anichi	Miyagi, Yasuhichi	Miyazato, Eiichi
Molyneux, Ernie	Morris, Steve	Nakamura, Tetsuji	Okamura-Hamasaki, Suzuko
Quintero, Damian	Roseberry, John	Rousseau, James	Rowen, Chris
Sanchez, Sandra	Seigo, Tada	Singh, Gurmit	So, Meichu
Spiers, Gary	Tasaki, Shuji	Toguchi, Seikichi	Toru, Iwai
Uchiage, Kenzo	Ujita, Shozo	Wakai, Atsuko	Yagi, Meitoku
Yamaguchi, Gogen	Yamaguchi, Gosei	Yamaguchi, Goshi	Yamashita, Yosuke

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Kyokushin

Meaning “the ultimate truth“, this is a Japanese style of Karate created by Mas Oyama.

Arneil, Steve	Ashihara, Hideyuki	Bluming, Jon	Buck, Don
Chiba, Sonny	Chong, Peter	Collins, Howard	Cujic, Nikola
Da Costa, Nick	Fitkin, Brian	Fogarassi, Steve	Gordeau, Gerard
Hasegawa, Kazuyuki	Hiroshige, Tsuyoshi	Hovhannisyan, Artur	Hug, Andy
Isobe, Seiji	Jarvis, John	Kanamura, Seiji	Kazumi, Hajime
Kurosaki, Kenji	Kurosawa, Hiroki	Legree, Jacques	Lowe, Bobby
Lundgren, Dolph	Markwell, Emma	Masuda, Akira	Matsui, Shokei
Midori, Kenji	Miura, Miyuki	Nakamura, Tadashi	Ninomiya, Joko
Ntumazah, Felix	Oishi, Daigo	Oliver, William	Oyama, Shigeru
Oyama, Yasuhiko	Pickthall, David	Pinero, Antonio	Quinn, Cameron
Royama, Hatsuo	Sato, Katsuaki	Soeno, Yoshiji	Taylor, John
Tockar, Trevor	Viccars, Gary	Whybrow, Jeff	Yamaki, Kenji
Yamazaki, Terutomo

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Okinawan

Arashiro, Tomohiro	Daly, Terry	Dometricht, Devorah	Dometricht, William
Grant, Frank	Kinjo, Hiroshi	Kiyuna, Ryo	Nakaima, Kenko
Perry, Doug	Sakumoto, Tsuguo	Shimabukuro, Zenpo	Shimabukuro, Zenryo
Tippet, Andre	Tokashiki, Masahiko	Ueshiro, Ansei

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Other

Borkowski, Cezar	Kubota, Tak	McCarthy, Patrick	Muhammad, Steve
Nash, Viv	Tomiyama, Keiji	Yamazaki, Kiyoshi

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Shito-Ryu

A style of Karate created by Kenwa Mabuni, this style is practised in both Okinawa and Japan.

Au-Fonseca, Elisa	Brose, Douglas	Coulter, David	Daniels, Eddie
Demura, Fumio	Diaz, Antonio	Egea, Jose Manuel	Hayashi, Teruo
Inoue, Yoshimi	Kotaka, Chuzo	Iwata, Genzo	Iwata, Manzo
Kimura, Shigeru	Knighton, Stan	Mabuni, Kenei	Mabuni, Kenwa
Mabuni, Kenzo	McKay, Pat	Minakami, Akio	Mizuguchi, Hirofumi
Morris, Tommy	Nakayama, Mie	Nanbu, Yoshinao	Negishi, Yuichi
Nguyen, Hoang Ngan	Okamura-Hamasaki, Suzuko	Sakagami, Ryusho	Saito, Del
Sato, Shoko	Sakagami, Sadaaki	Sawayama, Masaru	Tani, Chojiro
Tomoyori, Takamasa	Tsukada, Ryozo	Usami, Rika	Watanabe, Masaru

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Shotokan / Shotokai

This is a style of Karate founded by Gichin Funakoshi and later extended by his son Yoshitaka.

Abe, Keigo	Adamou, Nick	Adkins, Caylor	Aghayev, Rafael
Alcheik, Jim	Asai, Tetsuhiko	Asano, Shiro	Baroux, Patrick
Bell, Vernon	Best, George	Bilicki, Bernard	Bindra (Laville), Pauline
Brennan, Frank	Carroll, Thomas ‘LaPuppet’	Cattle, Steve	Christopher, Ronnie
Cofield, George	Cope, Frank	Cummins, Cyril	Dorfman, Malcolm
Egami, Shigeru	Enoeda, Keinosuke	Field, James	Fugazza, Carlo
Fuller, Ray	Funakoshi, Kenneth	Funakoshi, Yoshitaka	Gima, Shinkin
Gidley, Charles	Gneo, Sergio	Golden, Greer	Hall, Elwyn
Harada, Mitsusuke	Hattori, Tatsuhiko	Hazard, Dave	Heselton, Richard
Higgins, Billy	Hirayama, Yuko	Hiruma, Atsuo	Hishiki, Hiromi
Hironishi, Genshin	Hotton, Rick	Iida, Norihiko	Imamura, Tomio
Kanazawa, Hirokazu	Kanazawa, Nobuaki	Kase, Taiji	Kato, Sadashige
Kagawa, Masao	Kasuya, Hitoshi	Kawasoe, Masao	Kawasoe, Norio
Kawawada, Minoru	Kershaw, Dave	Koga, Rikuta	Kisaka, Katsuya
Konishi, Yasuhiro	Koyama, Shojiro	Lautier, Daniel	Lecourt, Pascal
Lefevre, Junior	Mack, Charles	Machida, Yoshizo	Marchini, Dario
Maurino, Lucio	Mikami, Takayuki	Milon, Michael	Mimura, Yuki
Mitsuoka, Tomiko	Miura, Masaru	Miyazaki, Satoshi	Mochizuki, Hiroo
Mochizuki, Minoru	Moran, Ged	Mori, Masataka	Murakami, Manabu
Murakami, Tetsuji	Nagai, Akio	Nakamachi, Miki	Nagatomo, Yasuaki
Nakayama, Masatoshi	Naito, Takeshi	Naka, Tatsuya	Nicholson, Julie
Nishiyama, Hidetaka	Nitschmann, Susanne	Nowak, Frank	Nursey, Michael
Obata, Isao	Ochi, Hideo	Ogura, Yasunori	Ohta, Yoshinobu
Oishi, Takeshi	Omura, Fujikiyo	Okamoto, Hideki	Okazaki, Teruyuki
O’Neill, Terry	Osaka, Yoshiharu	Ohshima, Tsutomu	Otis, Edmond
Ozawa, Osamu	Plee, Henri	Pinna, Christophe	Poynton, Bob
Price, Matt	Prinsloo, Karin	Randall, Michael	Raye, Craig
Rhodes, Bob	Rielly, Robin	Robinson, Norman	Rokah, Avi
Sahota, Gursharan	Sato, Yuichi	Sawada, Kazuhiro	Sherry, Andy
Schmidt, Stan	Shimoji, Toru	Seto, Kensuke	Shirai, Hiroshi
Shoji, Hiroshi	Sugimura, Koichi	Sugiura, Motokuni	Takahashi, Shunsuke
Sumi, Yoshikazu	Tabata, Yukichi	Tamang, Pemba	Tanaka, Masahiko
Tanaka, Shinji	Trimble, Aidan	Tsuyama, Katsunori	Ueki, Masaaki
Valdesi, Luca	Valera, Dominique	Whitcher, Eddie	Wittstock, Ken
Yabe, James	Yahara, Mikio	Yamaguchi, Toru	Yaguchi, Yutaka
Yamada, Toshio	Yokota, Kousaku

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Sport

Laine, Sari

Talarico, Gennaro

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Wado-Ryu

This is a Japanese style of Karate founded by Hironori Ohtsuka.

Abe, Hidetaka	Adam, Hamish	Ajari, Yoshiaki	Arakawa, Toru
Arashiro, Tomohiro	Bo, Hideo	Charles, Vic	Codrington, Eugene
Collins, Jim	Donovan, David ‘Ticky’	Eriguchi, Ehichi	Etienne, Mervyn
Foster, Norma	Horiguchi, Kenichi	James, Doug	Kono, Teruo
Nash, Bob	Nishimura, Seiji	Ohtsuka, Hironori	Ohtsuka, Jiro
Patterson, Cecil	Sakagami, Kuniaki	Shiomitsu, Masafumi	Seaton, Walter
Spanton, Peter	Stevens, Mary	Sugasawa, Fumio	Suzuki, Tatsuo
Takamatsu, Koji	Takamizawa, Toru	Takagi, Hideho	Tanabe, Shigetoshi
Thompson, Chris	Thompson, Geoff	Wilkinson, Barry

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