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
Miyagi, Anichi Miyagi, Yasuhichi Miyazato, Eiichi Morris, Steve
Nakamura, Tetsuji Okamura-Hamasaki,
Suzuko		 Quintero, Damian Roseberry, John
Rowen, Chris Sanchez, Sandra Seigo, Tada Singh, Gurmit
So, Meichu Toguchi, Seikichi Toru, Iwai Uchiage, Kenzo
Ujita, Shozo Wakai, Atsuko Yagi, Meitoku Yamaguchi, Gogen
Yamaguchi, Gosei Yamaguchi, Goshi    

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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
Fitkin, Brian Hasegawa, Kazuyuki Hiroshige, Tsuyoshi Hovhannisyan,
Artur
Hug,
Andy		 Isobe, Seiji Jarvis, John Kazumi, Hajime
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 Pickthall, David
Pinero, Antonio Quinn, Cameron Royama, Hatsuo Sato, Katsuaki
Soeno, Yoshiji Taylor, John Tockar, Trevor Whybrow, Jeff
Yamaki, Kenji Yamazaki, Terutomo    

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Okinawan

Arashiro, Tomohiro Grant, Frank Kinjo, Hiroshi Nakaima,
Kenko
Perry, Doug Sakumoto,
Tsuguo		 Shimabukuro, Zenpo Shimabukuro, Zenryo
Tokashiki, Masahiko Ueshiro, Ansei    

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Other

Kubota, Tak McCarthy, Patrick Muhammad, Steve 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, Kanei Mabuni, Kenwa
McKay, Pat Minakami, Akio Morris,
Tommy		 Nakayama, Mie
Nanbu, Yoshinao Nguyen, Hoang Ngan Okamura-Hamasaki,
Suzuko		 Sakagami,
Ryusho
Saito, Del Sato, Shoko Sakagami, Sadaaki Sawayama, Masaru
Tani, Chojiro Tomoyori, Takamasa Usami, Rika Watanabe, Masaru

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Shotokan

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

Abe, Keigo Adkins, Caylor Aghayev, Rafael Alcheik, Jim
Asai,
Tetsuhiko		 Bell,
Vernon		 Best, George 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 Fuller, Ray
Funakoshi,
Kenneth		 Funakoshi, Yoshitaka Gima, Shinkin Gneo, Sergio
Hall, Elwyn Harada,
Mitsusuke		 Hazard,
Dave		 Heselton, Richard
Higgins,
Billy		 Hirayama, Yuko Hishiki, Hiromi Hironishi, Genshin
Hotton, Rick Iida, Norihiko Kagawa, Masao Kanazawa,
Hirokazu
Kanazawa, Nobuaki Kase, Taiji Kato, Sadashige Kawasoe, Masao
Kawawada, Minoru Koyama, Shojiro Lecourt, Pascal Machida, Yoshizo
Mack,
Charles		 Marchini, Dario Maurino, Lucio Mikami,
Takayuki
Milon,
Michael		 Mimura, Yuki Mitsuoka, Tomiko Miura, Masaru
Miyazaki, Satoshi Mochizuki,
Hiroo		 Mochizuki,
Minoru		 Mori, Masataka
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
Okamoto, Hideki Okazaki,
Teruyuki		 Oishi, Takeshi Omura, Fujikiyo
O’Neill,
Terry		 Osaka,
Yoshiharu		 Ohshima,
Tsutomu		 Otis, Edmond
Ozawa,
Osamu		 Plee,
Henri		 Pinna, Christophe Poynton, Bob
Price, Matt Prinsloo, Karin Randall, Michael Rhodes, Bob
Rielly, Robin Robinson, Norman Sahota, Gursharan Schmidt, Stan
Sherry,
Andy		 Shirai,
Hiroshi		 Shoji, Hiroshi Sugimura, Koichi
Takahashi, Shunsuke Tamang, Pemba Tanaka,
Masahiko		 Tanaka, Shinji
Trimble,
Aidan		 Tsuyama, Katsunori Ueki, Masaaki Valdesi, Luca
Valera,
Dominique		 Whitcher,
Eddie		 Wittstock, Ken Yahara, Mikio
Yamaguchi, Toru Yaguchi, Yutaka    

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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    

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