Shootfighting
Shootfighting History is not long, even if the catch wrestling style that it was born from does. In the 1970's, a catch wrestler by the name of Karl Gotch taught…
Danzan Ryu Ju Jitsu
Danzan Ryu Ju Jitsu: Henry Okazaki was born in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan in 1890. In 1906, he immigrated to the island of Hawaii. Soon arfter, he was afflicted with a…
Bojutsu
The Japanese martial art of wielding the bo is bojutsu. The basis of bojutsu history is te, or hand, techniques derived from Quanfa and other martial arts that reached Okinawa…
American Karate
American Karate History is very unique. Karate Mainly made its way to America Officially by US service men who learned their chosen art from first or second generation Okinawan or…
AMERICAN MARTIAL ARTS
American Martial Arts first contact with Japanese martial arts most likely came from Japanese immigrants, especially after 1853 and the "opening" of Japan to the West. In the 1880's, Jigoro…
Wado Ryu Karate Do
Wado Ryu Karate History officially began in May 1934 when Hironori Ohtsuka registered his own style of Karate, which he called "Wado Ryu" and was recognized as an independent style.…
Shotokan Karate do
Shotokan karate history was started with Gichin Funakoshi (1868-1957) in Tokyo in 1938. Funakoshi is considered to be the founder of modern karate. Born in Okinawa, he began to study…
Shorin Ryu Karate do
Shorin Ryu Karate Do History started with Matsubayashi-Ryu karate did not exist before Nagamine Sensei founded it, it's beginnings had existed for hundreds of years before. According to Patrick McCarthy…
Shito Ryu Karate do
Shito Ryu Karate Do has been taught outside of Japan for almost 40 years, and was exported to the rest of the world along both stylistic and organizational lines. By…
Kyokushin Karate
Kyokushin Karate started with Sosai Masutatsu Oyama was born on July 27th, 1923, in a village in Southern Korea. At the age of 9 whilst staying on his sister's farm…
Isshin Ryu Karate
Isshin-ryu was founded by one of the great karate masters, Tatsuo Shimabuku, and is derived from several of the other, older classical styles. Master Tatsuo Shimabuku, began learning karate at…
Goju Ryu Karate
In the 19th century Shuri-te and Tomari-te merged into Shorin ryu, which was the start of the Goju ryu Karate History. Grandmaster Kanryo Higaonna was born on March 10, 1853,…
Kodenkan Ju Jitsu
Professor Henry Seishiro Okazaki, founder and Master of the Kodenkan Ju jItsu and the American Jujitsu Institute of Hawaii, was born in the town of Kakeda, Fukushima Prefecture, on the…
Taiho Ju Jitsu
Taiho Ryu Ju Jitsu has a complex history. In Japan, the MUROMACHI period (1333-1600) was a time of unrest and civil war, as a new line of SHOGUNS fought for…
Budoshin Ju Jitsu
Budoshin Ju-Jitsu is the gentle art of self-defense. It incorporates Judo [throws, pins & matwork], Aikido [leverage, momentum, pressure points & joint locks] and Karate [hits & kicks] into an…