The JKABy Tracy Warrener Van KruistumThe Japan Karate Association was founded in 1949 by a group of Gichin Funakoshi’s senior students; Isao Obata, Masatoshi Nakayama,and Hidetoka Nishiyama who served …

One of the modern day martial arts masters was Okinawan Goju Ryu’s Teruo Chinen. He was born in 1941, in Japan, to a family with deep martial arts roots. Both his parents, grandfather and uncles were …

Shotokan Karate Do was founded by Gichin Funakoski. Funakoshi was originally a student of two other styles of Karate, Shorei-ryu and Shorin-ryu. He studied both of these styles for a number of years …