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Okinawa Karate-Dō Shōrin-ryū Kishaba Juku, also called, familiarly, Kishaba Juku, is Sensei Chokei Kishaba's private academy of the Matsubayashi-ryu

Matsubayashi-ryu

Matsubayashi-ryū , is a style of Okinawan karate that was founded in 1947 by Shōshin Nagamine . Its curriculum includes 18 kata, 7 two-man yakusoku kumite routines, and kobudō practice...

style of Okinawan

Okinawa Prefecture

is one of Japan's southern prefectures. It consists of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over long, which extends southwest from Kyūshū to Taiwan. Okinawa's capital, Naha, is located in the southern part of Okinawa Island...

Karate

is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...

. The Kishaba Juku was officially founded on February 1, 1998, but had been in existence as an informal karate study group since the late 1970s.

Chokei Kishaba

Chokei Kishaba

Chokei Kishaba was an Okinawan martial arts master and founder of the Shōrin-ryū Kishaba Juku.He was born October 4, 1929 in Okinawa and died in the year 2000.Kishaba's younger brother Chogi Kishaba is also an Okinawan martial arts master....

, the founding Juku Cho (head of the academy), was a student of Hohan Sōken

Hohan Sōken

was an Okinawan martial arts master who founded the Shōrin-ryū Matsumura Seito Okinawa Karate Kobudo Association.He was born May 25, 1889 in Nishihara, Okinawa. He died November 30, 1982 in Nishihara, Okinawa.He was the nephew of Nabe Matsumura...

, Shoshin Nagamine

Shoshin Nagamine

was a Japanese author, soldier, police officer and karate master.-Early Life and Karate-do:Nagamine was born in Tomari, in Naha City, Okinawa. He was a small and sickly child, and he contracted a gastroenteric disorder in 1926, his second year of high school. He began a self-imposed diet and took...

and Seigi Nakamura

Seigi Nakamura

Seigi Nakamura was an Okinawan martial arts master who learned both the Shōrin-ryū and Gōjū-ryū styles of karate.-Karate-do:Nakamura practised with Shoshin Nagamine and was also influenced by Shinyei Kyan and Jokei Kushi who were both senior students in Nagamine's dojo...

Academy

After the passing of Kishaba-sensei in 2000, Katsuhiko Shinzato

Katsuhiko Shinzato

Katsuhiko Shinzato is an Okinawan martial arts master and head of the Shōrin-ryū Kishaba Juku.-Life and Karate-do:Shinzato was born in Manila, in the Philippines. His father was a fisherman...

became the Juku Cho. Shinzato-sensei's dojo is located in Yonabaru, Okinawa, in Japan.

Dojos affiliated with the Kishaba Juku are located in Japan, the United States, France, Israel, and Slovenia. Within the United States there are dojos in California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Virginia.

Training Methodology

The training methodology developed by the Kishaba Juku was profoundly influenced by the natural ability of Seigi Nakamura. For many years Kishaba, Shinzato and their students worked towards reverse-engineering Nakamura's natural movement. They did this because what appeared natural and effortless to Nakamura was difficult to teach and it was important to preserve that ability for posterity.

They developed a distinct training methodology focussed on body mechanics to make it easier to learn the elementary components of each move. This method of training has made Shorin-ryu Kishaba Juku distinctive and easily identifiable.

George Donahue of Fighting Arts magazine observed:

"Nakamura-sensei preferred to call the "hidden" moves "intermediary" moves, because they occur between the obvious-to-the-eye basic moves, and because they are not exotic or special, but are just a little harder to catch. The key to catching them, by the way, is to watch the koshi (pelvic carriage) and hikite (pulling hand) carefully to penetrate the sleight of hand."

The Kishaba Juku sai kata. Kishaba No Sai, was named after Kishaba and is distinct to Kishaba Juku.

Okinawan Kobudō legacy

Kishaba Juku also has a Yamane Ryu

Yamanni ryu

Yamanni-ryū is a form of Okinawan kobudō whose main weapon is the bo, a non-tapered, cylindrical staff...

Bōjutsu

Bojutsu

, translated from Japanese as "staff technique", is the martial art of using a staff weapon called bō which simply means "staff". Staffs are perhaps one of the earliest weapons used by humankind. They have been in use for thousands of years in Eastern Asia. Some techniques involve slashing,...

legacy since Kishaba's younger brother, Chogi Kishaba

Chogi Kishaba

Chogi Kishaba, also Choji Kishaba, is an Okinawan martial arts master and founder of the Ryukyu Bujutsu Kenkyu Doyukai .Kishaba's older brother, Chokei Kishaba, was also an Okinawan martial arts master.- Ryukyu Bujutsu Kenkyu Doyukai :...

, was a student of, Masami Chinen

Masami Chinen

Masami Chinen was an Okinawan martial arts master who formed Yamani ryu. He taught Bōjutsu privately at his home in the village of Tobaru, in Shuri, Okinawa.- Life :...

, Sanda Chinen's son, and Chinen Pechin

Pechin

The is an Okinawan term for the warrior class of the former Ryūkyū Kingdom , the class equivalent of the Japanese Samurai...

's grandson. Shinzato studied Bōjutsu with Chogi Kishaba.

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