Profiles By Style

Goju-ryu

Kyokushin

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	Merriman, Chuck	Miyagi, Yasuhichi
Miyazato, Eiichi	Morris, Steve	Nakamura, Tetsuji	Okamura-Hamasaki, Suzuko
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	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
Oyama, Shigeru	Pickthall, David	Pinero, Antonio	Quinn, Cameron
Royama, Hatsuo	Soeno, Yoshiji	Tockar, Trevor	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	Gneo, Sergio	Hall, Elwyn	Harada, Mitsusuke
Hazard, Dave	Heselton, Richard	Higgins, Billy	Hirayama, Yuko
Hishiki, Hiromi	Hotton, Rick	Iida, Norihiko	Kagawa, Masao
Kanazawa, Hirokazu	Kase, Taiji	Kato, Sadashige	Kawasoe, Masao
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	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	Trimble, Aidan	Tsuyama, Katsunori	Ueki, Masaaki
Valdesi, Luca	Valera, Dominique	Whitcher, Eddie	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