Goju-ryu

Kyokushin

Ryuei-ryu

Shito-ryu

Shotokan

Wado-ryu

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Goju-ryu

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

Higa, Seiko	Higaonna, Morio	Izumikawa, Kanki	Kisaki, Tomoharu
Merriman, Chuck	Miyagi, Yasuhichi	Miyazato, Eiichi	Morris, Steve
Okamura-Hamasaki, Suzuko	Rowen, Chris	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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Kyokusin

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

Arneil, Steve	Ashihara, Hideyuki	Bluming, Jon	Collins, Howard
Fitkin, Brian	Hovhannisyan, Artur	Hug, Andy	Kazumi, Hajime
Kurosawa, Hiroki	Masuda, Akira	Matsui, Shokei	Midori, Kenji
Nakamura, Tadashi	Ninomiya, Joko	Royama, Hatsuo	Thompson, Michael
Yamaki, Kenji

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Ryuei-ryu

Originally the Karate style of the Nakaima family, this is an Okinawan style of Karate.

Nakaima, Kenko

Sakumoto, Tsuguo

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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	Coulter, David	Demura, Fumio	Diaz, Antonio
Hayashi, Teruo	Inoue, Yoshimi	Knighton, Stan	Mabuni, Kanei
Mabuni, Kenwa	McKay, Pat	Morris, Tommy	Nakayama, Mie
Okamura-Hamasaki, Suzuko	Sakagami, Ryusho	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	Alcheik, Jim	Asai, Tetsuhiko
Bell, Vernon	Best, George	Bindra (Laville), Pauline	Brennan, Frank
Carroll, Thomas ‘LaPuppet’	Cattle, Steve	Cope, Frank	Dorfman, Malcolm
Egami, Shigeru	Enoeda, Keinosuke	Field, James	Funakoshi, Kenneth
Hall, Elwyn	Harada, Mitsusuke	Hazard, Dave	Higgins, Billy
Kagawa, Masao	Kanazawa, Hirokazu	Kase, Taiji	Kato, Sadashige
Mack, Charles	Mikami, Takayuki	Milon, Michael	Mimura, Yuki
Miyazaki, Satoshi	Mochizuki, Hiroo	Mochizuki, Minoru	Murakami, Tetsuji
Nagai, Akio	Nakayama, Masatoshi	Nishiyama, Hidetaka	Nowak, Frank
Obata, Isao	Ochi, Hideo	Okamoto, Hideki	Okazaki, Teruyuki
O’Neill, Terry	Osaka, Yoshiharu	Ohshima, Tsutomu	Otis, Edmond
Ozawa, Osamu	Plee, Henri	Pinna, Christophe	Poynton, Bob
Rhodes, Bob	Rielly, Robin	Robinson, Norman	Schmidt, Stan
Sherry, Andy	Shirai, Hiroshi	Tamang, Pemba	Tanaka, Masahiko
Trimble, Aidan	Valdesi, Luca	Valera, Dominique	Whitcher, Eddie
Yahara, Mikio

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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
Bo, Hideo	Charles, Vic	Codrington, Eugene	Donovan, David ‘Ticky’
Eriguchi, Ehichi	Etienne, Mervyn	Horiguchi, Kenichi	James, Doug
Kono, Teruo	Nash, Bob	Ohtsuka, Hironori	Ohtsuka, Jiro
Sakagami, Kuniaki	Shiomitsu, Masafumi	Seaton, Walter	Spanton, Peter
Sugasawa, Fumio	Suzuki, Tatsuo	Takamizawa, Toru	Takagi, Hideho
Tanabe, Shigetoshi	Thompson, Chris	Thompson, Geoff

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