Takayuki Kubota is a Japanese master of karate. He founded the Gosoku-ryu style of karate, and is the founder
and president of the International Karate Association.Kubota holds the title of Sōk
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Masutatsu Oyama 1923 –
1994“Man with The Iron Fist”He was born Choi Yeong-eui, more commonly known as Mas Oyama, the
karate master who founded Kyokushin Karate, considered the first and most influen
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Ed Parker 1931 – 1990“Founder of American Kenpo Karate”Parker was
born in Hawaii in 1931 and began training in the martial arts at a young age in
judo and later boxing.Sometime in
the 1940s, Ed Par
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Miyazato Eiichi 1922 – 1999 “Grand Patriarch of
Okinawan Goju”Eiichi Miyazato was a leading Okinawan master of Goju-ryukarate.He was a senior post-war student of Chōjun Miyagi, founder of the Go
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Gichin Funakoshi founded Japanese ShotokanKarate-Do, perhaps the most widely known style of karate, and he is
referred to as the "father of
modern day Japanese karate". He
also trained i
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Professor Don Jacob “Martial
Arts Young Gun Master” Born and raised in Port of
Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Don Jacob is a Jiu Jitsu stylist who trained under
Moses Powell in New York City, Wal
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Choshin Chibana 1885- 1969“The Last Warrior of Shuri”Hanshi Choshin Chibana, was a 10th dan Okinawan martial artist
who developed Shorin-ryu karate on what he had learned from Anko Itosu. He was
th
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Angel Cabales 1917 – 1991 DW July 29, 2015“Father of Eskrima in the United States”Born in the Philippines in 1917, Cabales moved to
the United States in late 1939. He is acknowledged as the Father o
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Chuck Merriman was born in
Connecticut and beganhis martial arts training in Judo in 1960 under Korean
Judo master Soo H’Wang and Nakabayashi Sadaki Sensei’s.Soon after in 1962 he started
into kara
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Eisuke Akamine 1925 – 1999“Okinawa’s Passionate Kobudo Master”In 1942, at the
age of seventeen, he began the study of Yamani-ryu bojutsu under Higa Seichiro,
Higa Raisuke, Higa Jisanburo and Akamine
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Ronald Duncan 1937-2012 DW August 3, 2015“America’s First Ninja Master”Professor Ronald Duncan was born in Panama. He served in the US Marines, immigrating to
the US in 1954. He was known as Americ
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