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Go means "hard", Ju means "soft" and Ryu means "style". The Go aspect refers to a strike that emphasizes maximum power generation with little effort.

There are many methods of power generation practiced in Kakurin Dojos (Training Halls) with the objective of increasing power in old age instead of decreasing, this is only possible with authentic training.

The Ju aspect refers to the softer, sometimes yielding methods of defence that enables adhesion, sensitivity and eventual control of an attacker.

Traditional Goju Ryu Karate

About Goju Ryu Kakurin Kan Karate Do International

Goju Ryu

Go means "hard", Ju means "soft" and Ryu means "style". The Go aspect refers to a strike that emphasizes maximum power generation with little effort.

The Ju aspect refers to the softer, sometimes yielding methods of defence that enables adhesion, sensitivity and eventual control of an attacker.

Kakurin Kan

Kaku means "crane" and rin means "people", and the term Kakurin refers to the strong influence of the The Chinese White Crane System of Gung Fu has had on Goju-Ryu. The name was suggested to James by Master Ohtsuka at the time of his retirement.
Kakurin Kan Karate is real Karate-do, a synthesis of 40 years of training in the Japanese Goju Ryu Karate system of Goju Kensha Saishinkan headed in Japan by Hanshi

Tadahiko Ohtsuka 9th Dan.

James Sumarac had been a personal disciple of Master Ohtsuka since their chance meeting in Tokyo in 1973 an all his Dan gradings have been awarded personally by him . At Tokyo in !989 at the time of his 6th Dan Kyoshi title Master Ohtsuka also bestowed upon him a personal copy of the Bubushi text.
The preoccupation of competition Karate is not evident in Kakurin Kan, instead a relentless search of original and authentic martial art training methods,principles and philosophies.

Karate-do

Karate comes from the Japanese meaning "empty hands", referring to a martial art that does not require actual weapons (instead using the human body as tools of this art), as well as the subtle Zen sense of being 'empty' of agressive thought. The "-do" suffix means "way".

Karate is a mature art and had its developments on the small island of Okinawa, part of the Ryukyu island chain that (both culturally and geographically) links China and Japan. Its origins lie in China.

James Sumarac 7th Dan Goju Ryu Kyoshi

Origins of this Style of Karate

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