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Goju-ryu

This popular style of karatedo was founded in the 1920s by Master Miyagi Chojun of Naha City. The style combines Okinawan (hard) and Shaolin kung fu (soft) techniques. Several Chinese systems, in fact, were studied by Master Miyagi and incorporated into the pure Okinawan styles (te), notably White Crane Kung Fu, Pakua Chang, I Ch’uan, and t’ai chi ch’uan. Goju-ryu is a close-range fighting style emphasizing kicking to lower-body targets, joint manipulations, and dynamic breath training along with the typical Okinawan karatedo techniques of blocking, striking, kicking, punching, and parrying.

Miyagi Chojun chose the name Goju-ryu from the third precept listed in the Goju-ryu text called “Eight Poems of the Fists”:

1. The mind is one with heaven and earth.

2. The circulatory rhythm of the body is similar to the cycle of the sun and the moon.

3. The way of inhaling and exhaling is hardness and softness.

4. Act in accordance with time and change.

5. Techniques will occur in the absence of conscious thought.