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Shūkōkai
Shūkōkai Tani’s most senior student, Sensei Shigeru Kimura,
left Japan in 1965 to teach Shūkōkai in Africa. He devel-
oped Shukokai even further, emphasising its power and
strength; and was regarded as an expert on the style.[4]
He continued to teach after travelling to Europe, before
settling in the United States in 1970 at the age of 29,
where he taught at Yonezuka’s Cranford dojo for two
years; creating the first Shukokai World Tournament in
1981. When he was 37 years old, he was the youngest ever
to have held the 7th Dan with an acknowledged style.
Sensei Kimura died of a heart attack at the age of 54.[5]
Tani died on 11 January 1998.[1]
Miyake Shūkōkai International logo
Focus Striking Grading
Hardness Full-contact; Competitions include kicks and The white belt (10th Kyu) is assigned to beginning stu-
hand strikes to the head dents, who then progress to brown belt (1st Kyu), before
Country of reaching black belt (Dan). Certain Shukokai Karate asso-
Japan ciations do not have a red belt grade, making the white
origin
belt a ninth Kyu. In addition, certain associations also re-
Creator Chōjirō Tani
quire a probationary black belt grade (Shodan-Ho) before
Parenthood Various, including Shitō-ryū, Shotokan, progressing to fully fledged dan grading.
Gōjū-ryū
Shūkōkai (修交会, shūkōkai) is a group of closely related Branches
Shitō-ryū,
styles of Karate, based on Tani-ha Shitō-ryū a branch of Shūkōkai split into several independent branches
Shitō-ryū developed by Chōjirō Tani in the late 1940s, throughout the world
and refined by his student Shigeru Kimura. • [6] grew out of the Shūkōkai school taught since 1978
in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA and later in Tenafly,
History New Jersey by Shigeru Kimura, a long time student
of Tani.[7][8] After Kimura’s death in 1995, this
Chōjirō Tani (谷 長治郎 Tani Chōjirō) was born in 1921,[1] international organization was formed to promote
and started his formal karate training under Miyagi his style, co-led by his four senior students: Eddie
Chōjun, who founded the Gojū-ryū style, while a student Daniels, head of Shukokai Karate Federation, Bill
at the Doshisha University in Kyoto. After a few years, Bressaw, head of American Shukokai Karate Union,
Miyagi Chōjun returned to Okinawa and the founder of Chris Thomson and Lionel Marinus of South Africa.
Shitō-ryū, Kenwa Mabuni took over the teaching. Upon This branch has also been brought to the forefront
graduating from university, Tani began learning Shuri- by Gavin Armstrong who still maintains a dojo in
te and then Shitō-ryū from Mabuni as well. After many Tenafly, New Jersey, and Ken Domney who maintains
years of training under Mabuni and becoming one of his a dojo in Ridgewood, New Jersey.[9]
most senior students, Tani received the certificate of suc- • , founded in 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland (as Kobe-
cession from him and became the head of Shitō-ryū, en- Osaka Club) by Tommy Morris, a student of Yoshinao
abling him to use the name Tani-ha Shitoryu. Nanbu and Chōjirō Tani.
Chōjirō Tani began teaching the Karate style Union,
• Shukokai Karate Union founded in 1969 in Sheffield,
Shūkōkai (meaning the way for all)[2] at a dojo in Kobe, England, and currently led by Stan Knighton, a
Japan in 1946. Shūkōkai was designed around the study student of Tani and Kimura.[10]
of body mechanics, is very fast due to its relatively high • , founded in 1971 in Paris, France by Yoshinao
stance aiding mobility,[3] and is known for the double hip Nanbu, a student of Chōjirō Tani. Yoshinao Nanbu
twist, which maximises the force of its strikes; making it abandoned the style to create Nanbudō in 1978, and
one of the most hard-hitting Karate styles.
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Shūkōkai Karate Belt Order
Black (Dan)
Brown (3rd, 2nd and 1st Kyu)
Purple (4th Kyu)
Blue (5th Kyu)
Green (6th Kyu)
Orange (7th Kyu)
Yellow (8th Kyu)
Red (9th Kyu)
White (10th Kyu)
Sankukai is currently taught by several national • Shito-ryu Shukokai Karate Union Europe The Shito-
organizations throughout the world. Ryu Shukokai Union officially decided to be
• Kofukan International founded in Brussels, Belgium represented in Europe and appointed the Shito-Ryu
in 1974 as Shūkōkai World Karate Union Europe but Shukokai Union Europe. Actually it is led by
renamed in the early 1980s to distinguish itself from KAMOHARA Tsutomu sensei, 8th dan as Chief
the numerous Shūkōkai organizations. Kofukan was instructor and Mr. HAUSNER Thomas, 6th dan as
founded by Yasuhiro Suzuki, a student of Tani, and is President. Its headquarter is located in Vienna,
currently managed by Keiji Tomiyama and Naoki Austria, where Mr. Hausner resides. Member
Omi.[11] countries are: Austria, England, France, Germany,
• KenYu-Kai Karate founded in 1980 by Terry Pottage Greece, Italy, Jersey, Portugal, Scotland, Wales.
in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England. • Alliance of Shukokai Karate founded in 2001 by
• Samurai Karate International founded in 1980 by George Campbell , Adrian Coan and Stewart Proctor
Paul Mitchell in Australia, who is a student of of Kimura tradition, in North West England
Masutatsu Ōyama of Kyokushin, Chōjirō Tani and • , a union of Seikukai and Samurai Karate
Kimura of Shuko-kai[12] International with headquarters in Kobe, Japan,
• Miyake Shuko-Kai International founded by Kunio founded in 2004 [17]
Miyake, a student of Chōjirō Tani, in 1985 in • The Horan Shukokai Cente Founded in 2005 by Andy
Westminster, California, currently headquartered in Irvine 3rd Dan who trained under John Horan 7th
McAllen, Texas.[13] Dan and is based in Blackpool, England.
• Battistello Shukokai Karate founded in 1989 by Luc • The Garforth Shukokai Club has been noted as
Battistello and Sonia Leonardi of Australia, who combining traditional karate with competition
trained under Alan Murdoch, a student of Thomas Karate in the North of England.
Morris, Shigeru Kimura, and Chojiro Tani. Alan
•
Murdoch was the first to bring Shukokai to Australia.
Shukokai Karate Association founded in 1991 by
References
Malcom Hudson of KenYu-Kai karate in the West [1] ^ "CHOJIRO TANI - TANI-HA SHITO-RYU
Midlands of England.[14] (SHUKOKAI)". Shuriway.
• Dudley Shukokai Karate Club founded in the early http://www.shuriway.com/chojirotani.html.
1990s in West Midlands and Dorset, England, now Retrieved 11 May 2010.
headed by Mandie Read, a student of Kimura. [2] What is Shukokai on www.Shūkōkai.com
• Kobushi Shukokai Karate Association founded in [3] "SHUKOKAI-RYU KARATE-DO ASSOCIATION".
1998 by John Harris, a student of Kimura, in West http://www.btinternet.com/~shukokairyu/.
Midlands. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
• Kawata-ha Seikukai Karate founded in Kawanishi, [4] "The History of K.S.K.A". KOBUSHI SHUKOKAI
Hyōgo, Japan after the passing of Chōjirō Tani in KARATE ASSOCIATION.
1998 by Kawata Shigemasa, his most senior http://www.kobushishukokai.com/page12.htm.
student[15][16] Retrieved 10 May 2010.
• Shito-ryu Shukokai Karate Union founded in 1998 by [5] "Master Kimura 10th Dan".
Haruyoshi Yamada, 10th Dan, a student of Chōjirō http://www.kobushishukokai.com/page11.htm.
Tani, in Amagasaki, Hyōgo, Japan, with branches in Retrieved 10 May 2010.
13 other countries. [6] Kimura Shukokai International
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[7] Shigeru Kimura on shuriway.co.uk [13] Kunio Miyake on miyake-Shūkōkai.com
[8] About Shigeru Kimura on Shūkōkai.com [14] Malcolm Hudson on Shūkōkaikarate.org.uk
[9] http://www.shukokai.com/SGA.html [15] Kaicho Kawata Shigemasa, an interview by Brett
[10] Stan Knighton on sku.org.uk Sampson and Kohji Doi
[11] History of Kofukan at kofukan.org.uk [16] Still Samurai, 2003 Blitz Magazine article on Sensei
[12] Q&A with Shihan Paul Mitchell, extracts from Kaicho Kawata Shigemasa
Impact Magazine (Issues 31 & 33, 1995) and Blitz [17] Japan 2004 SWKA Groundbreaking
Magazine (Vol 10 no. 12 & Vol 11 No. 1, 1996).
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