Gojuryu Internatonal Karatedo Kobudo Unioin YUZENKAI
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  I have two faces now. One is the shihan of my high school's karate club.In there, I teaches JKF style .
..The other face is the kancho of Yuzenkai. By looking at this website, you are going to understand Gojuryu I teach is traditional and classic. If I am to compare it to Western civilization, Yuzenkai would be the equivalent to the Greek and Roman classics. I am not someone completely denies WKF or JKF sports karate. However, the internationalization and sportification of karate over the past half century has changed karate itself. In order to understand modern Western thought, we need an understanding of Greek thought. The same can be said about karate.
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Many of Yuzenkai's overseas branches are affiliated with WKF."That's good for me." It is of big significance .Because they got two chance to learn WKF Gojuryu and our original Gojury.

..I think I should first explain to everyone the brief history of karate in Japan after WWII.It is a history of a conflict between bujutsu and sports, the contradiction between globalization and loss of tradition, the conflict between mass production and apprenticeship training.

  空手はブルース・リー映画のヒット(1970年代)以後急速にブームとなり世界に拡散しましたがその過程で多くの大切なことが消えていきました。
The image shows the Kamae that Chairman Naganuma often used in the 1960s, when karate was not " sport" but "karate". It was a time when we practiced for actual combut rather than competitions.




Karate, which was developed in early-modern Okinawa, has been considered a technique can kill and injure enemies with bare hands, it was during the chaotic period immediately after the defeat people really witnessed its power.
 Shuri-te spread to the mainland during 1910'th , and Goju-ryu began its dojo activities in the 1930'th. For better or for worse, people first witnessed the power of karate in the streets during the occupation period, when security was at its worst right after the war was defeated. In the town dojo, techniques inherited through Kata and verified in actual combatthey were passed down like a secret menu.






(the gojuryu karate around1960;1960前後の剛柔流の様子)

 沖縄で誕生した「手(て)」「唐手(とうで)」(両者の意味は違いますが)は大正時代に本土に渡来し、剛柔流は1930年代に本格的な道場活動が始まり、1970年以前は写真のような稽古が行われていました。

 We believe that these techniques are the essence of karate and that they are traditions that should be inherited along with the training of Kata.
Considering the relationship between the history of Okinawa (Ryukyu)and the history of karate, it can be said that these techniques are the orthodox and the essence of karate.In Kata's Bunkai there is a geometry-like order and logic that advances the argument from a handful of axioms and leads to new theorems.This is also a tradition that we must not abandon.

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....Karate was portrayed as a villain in judo movies, and the public image of karate in 20century Karate was negative, and few parents wanted their children to attend. When I see a modern dojo where children are the customers, I can't help but feel a different world.

 1982年、沖縄本土復帰10周年の節目の年、空手が国体(今の国民スポーツ大会)の競技種目となりました。安全具が開発され剣道を手本に競技形式やルールが整備されていきました。まだ金的無防備のフットワークや上段蹴り、脇のあいた突きなどは評価されない時代でした。他方、投げや崩しは禁じられ、"形"競技では本土の"形"を指定形とし、三戦の呼吸やムチミは違反とするなど沖縄排除の進め方をしました。以降沖縄のほとんどの道場は全空連に現在も加盟していません。

 Karate become the official event of Japanese National Sports Festival in1982.
The situation of Karate rapidly changed and recognized as sports .The protective gear was invented, and the non-contact rule was made with making trial and error.In dojo, children and the women came to be seen.
 However, the essence as a martial art was still strongly conscious. In the kumite competition, Kamae, who protected the flanks and key points, was coached, and footwork and Jodan-geri, which made kinteki vulnerable, were not evaluated as "not like karate." In the Kata competition, for example Seienchin, Gojuryu's, Shitoryu's, and Okinawa's were equally evaluated. The referee had the experience and insight into the essence to deal with it.
 The biggest drawback was a way of proceeding that excluded Okinawa karate. Since then, most karate dojos in Okinawa have not joined JKF.

...However Goju-ryu Kumite starts from hand-to-hand distance with the opponent, and emphasizes breaking down, knocking down, and throwing the opponent through transformations, breathing, and the strength and weakness of force. The unified rules were clearly the rules of Shotokan-ryu and Wado-ryu.
And the scoring criteria of Kata clearly excluded Okinawan styles, such as Sanchin's strong breathing characteristic of Goju-ryu and Muchimi were considered a violation.


 Around the same time, the European karate world was strongly influenced by Taekwondo and converted to its own point-based game. ``Makiwara training is unnecessary for non-contact rules. Kinteki breaks the rules, so you don't have to be conscious of defense,'' he began to actively move from light dance-like steps to unprotected upper kicks. It has changed greatly to a quick touch thrust that is thrown loosely, taking into account the thickness of the fist supporter.
...The biggest feature is that the "quantity over quality” system, with 1 point for tuki, 2 points for chudan keri, and 3 points for jodan keri, had made a major shift to a game that emphasizes kicks.
“Kata and Kumite have become completely different, both in philosophy and technique”

..そのころヨーロッパの空手はテコンドーの成功に影響されて突き1点、中段蹴り2点、上段蹴り3点とする見栄え重視のポイントゲームへ変貌していました。そちらの方が海外では受けたのです。日本では金的を守り脇をしめた「止めずに打撃したら必倒となる」キメだけを1本(技あり2つで1本)とした組手が行われ地味な中段突きの応酬が主でした。
...On the other hand,Japanese kumite culture, defeating the opponent with a single counter shot aimed at a vital point is considered the best technique (it is the japanese concept of Ippon), and the match became a battle of chudan tuki counters. The jodan keri was ignored. It didn't make for a great looking game. In the first place, a Karate match is not a show to please the audience.
 Currently, WKF's money-grabbing structure is flagrant, and in developing countries fraudulent high-ranking DAN and titles are being sold under the WKF's official approval. Japan, on the other hand, has no leadership whatsoever.

 2000年のソウルオリンピックでテコンドーが五輪種目になったことは日本の空手関係者に強い焦りをもたらしました。2004年JKF全空連はヨーロッパスタイルに統合することを断行し世界空手連盟(WKF)の1支部になりました。この出来事に沖縄出身で日本の空手の発展に大きく貢献してきた金城裕氏(1919-2013)は「あまりにも失ったものが大きかった」と述べています。(「唐手から空手へ」2011年) 今日WKFの利権体質は目に余るものがあり、特に途上国では詐欺まがいの高段位や称号の乱売がWKF承認のもと行われています。日本は何の指導力も発揮できていません。完全に庇を貸して母屋を取られてしまいました。

 ともあれこの出来事は日本の空手道場の風景や稽古内容を大きく変えました。一例としてどの道場にもあった巻き藁(写真)は本土の道場からほぼ姿を消しました。鍛えぬいた拳が当たったら大けがをする恐怖が本気の受け技を会得させたものですが。

 The internationalization of karate was especially led by France, so the European kumite style quickly became an international standard, leaving only Japan behind. Furthermore, the inclusion of taekwondo in the Olympic Games in 2000 created a strong sense of frustration among those involved in karate in Japan, who felt that "karate must also be an Olympic sport."
..In 2004, the All Japan Karatedo Federation decided to change the rules to European style. Regarding this, as mentioned above, Kinjo Hiroshi (1919-2013), who was born in Okinawa and made a great contribution to the development of postwar karate in Japan beyond the boundaries of schools, later said, "We have lost too much. " said.
 I have no doubts that overseas people practice WKF karate, but the fact that Japan, the birthplace of karate, has abandoned its traditions and turned to European-style karate is nothing but a misleading of history and the future.

 型(形)競技は流れを止めて見せ場を設定し強烈な表情で気合を爆発させる表演(パフォーマンス)になりました。古来そのような気合の出し方はしません。技がそこに居着くからです。気合は動作の流れの中で自然に発するものです。
型の分解に至っては稽古する道場はもはや少数派でしょう。

 This change removed the essence of karate as a martial art. Form became a performance, and strange movements like acrobatics were created there. Kumite became a competition to compete for the speed of the touch, and there was no need to train fists. Nowaday ,WKF- Karate (which JKF propelled )had changed the Japanese traditional Karate into the different Karate came from Europe. "Kata has become "something to practice so that people can see it and score it." For so it stopped at unnatural places and became a performance that created a highlight with like as Kabuki expressions. Now the standard practice is to copy the performance of the previous year's winner. The number of dojos that have traditional Kata and Bunkai training as their curriculum must have become a minority..
 The Kata in sports karate competitions has become a performance for scoring points, discarding the elements of traditional Kata in both philosophy and technique.  

 そうしての東京オリンピック2020でしたが結果は沖縄の男子選手の形の金メダル以外海外の後塵を拝する結果となりました。組手は惨敗といえます。2024年パリ・オリンピックで空手は種目から外れ2028年ロサンゼルス・オリンピックでも不採用が決定しました。2024年、WKF-JKFはルールを再び大変更しました。
 
長年高校空手部の顧問もしてきましたが小中と伝統空手をしてきた生徒のほとんどが高校空手部に入って来ず空手部そのものが多数消滅しています。他方フルコンタクトを学ぶ高校生は増えMMA(総合格闘技)やコンバット柔術へ流れる経験者もいます。人材が活用できていません。原因は町道場と部活動(高体連)の接続がうまくいっていないこと、一流大学の指定校推薦に空手が含まれないことです。
 海外では人材活用は活発でさかんです。同一人物がフルコンタクトの大会にもWKFの大会にも出ることは珍しくありませんし、空手の選手がオリンピックではテコンドーをめざすことも見られます。東京オリンピック前にはテコンドーの道場が急きょ空手コースを設置したケースもありました。空手の足技のテコンドー化が著しいのはそのためかもしれません。この違いが日本がWKFで世界のトップになれない理由と関係ありそうです。
..It was the Tokyo Olympics 2020, but as a result, except for the men's karate gold medal of the Okinawan karateka, it was a result of worshiping the overseas competitors. The Kumite can be said to have suffered a crushing defeat.
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Karate will not be included as an Olympic event at the 2024 Paris Olympics. It can be said that karate was an event unique to the Tokyo Olympics.
..It was also decided in 2023 that it will not be included in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Karate had been a reference sport limited to the Tokyo Games.
 WKF made the major rule change in 2024. The way they keep changing the rules one after another for the Olympics may give to the world the misunderstanding about the Budo of Karate.
 Yuzenkai is taking action to practice and pass on traditional karate, which is not European karate, but a connection between basics, kata, and kumite, and enlighten the world.

 なお勇善会は剛柔流空手のWKF化に批判的な立場です。その視点で海外へ剛柔流の思想と技法を伝えて10年がたちました。近年、その中から総合格闘技で戦い優勝できる剛柔流、戦場で生き抜くための剛柔流が生れてきています。そもそも剛柔流空手の本質は実戦志向でありそのようなものだったはずです。
...It may be rude to say this, but to me WKF-Karate now looks like non-contact kickboxing or taekwondo wearing a Karate jacket.Overseas, many karate athletes also double as taekwondo athletes. Many Taekwondo instructors also serve as karate instructors.There are many foreigners who only see the difference between karate and taekwondo as a difference in rules.
There are a certain examples of this in Japan as well.
..Yuzenkai inherits the Japanese tradition of karate, kata, and kumite, which existed before it became European-style karate, and presents it to the world. It is not to deny the karate that each branch practices individually, but to show the original Japanese tradition that they want to know about...

 (kakete;kakey: Originally, Gojuryu's kumite starts from the distance of Kakete. "Kumite'' was also called"te-gumi'' in the past, and the literally means to join (kumi)hands (te) with each other .)"kakete(掛け手)" is one of the basic exercises for us."kakete" has various ways depending on several purpose.

  剛柔流の組手は柔道に近い間合い、すなわち「手組み」(掛け手)の間合いから始まる接近戦です。2メートル間隔の開始線からの「始め!」はもともとは松濤館の流儀です。

..In my memory from half a century ago, I remember being
beaten and kicked by my seniors, as well as being knocked down with a byoubu-gaeshi, thrown, and knocked off by a body attack. I was swung around by kakete, sometimes headbutted, and stepped on when I fell. Those were of course tricks in Kata.


The achievement of the essence of Gojuryu is impossible in the game by JKF-WKF rule. Jiyu-Kumite that admits contact,joint technique,throwing,constriction techniques and grappling technique are necessary . Particularly, "Mawashi-Uke" attack to a neck is the important battle method of Gojuryu.

 どの流派にも固有の型があり、型は流派独自の戦闘思想と理論の集約であり、型と連動した組手の様式があります。そうでなくば流派を名乗って他流と区別する意味などないといえましょう。
 勇善会は剛柔流固有の型の戦闘思想と技術に沿った組手をします。そもそも半世紀前までの地稽古はこのようなものだったわけですが。

 半世紀前の剛柔流組手を競技として再生させるために。
趣旨:ダメージ目的のフルコンタクト組手ではない。打撃は五部当てとし剛柔流の型を意識した組手を互いに意識する。得点としては攻撃によって一瞬気力が中断したら「技あり」、戦意を失くしたら「1本」。投げられたり崩されたら技あり。そこでキメられたら「1本」。技あり2つで1本。
①掌底当てのためヘッドギア着用。(少年は拳と足にサポータ着用義務)
②掛け手に等しい間合いから「始め」。
③掛け手からの崩し、投げ、倒し可。肩、体側による体当たりあり。
④上段への掌底当ては次の技への牽制として可。ダメージ目的の強打は反則。
⑤中段攻撃は五分当て。(相手動きが一瞬止まる程度)
⑥腰より下への攻撃は牽制として可。ダメージ目的の強打は反則。
⑦剛柔流の型にある技ならば5秒以内の掛け手、掴み、崩し、投げ可。特に屏風返しと虎投げは重要なのできまったら1本。
⑧倒し、関節技が「かかった」状態になったら技有り。
⑨首を回し受けの形でホールドしたら1本。
⑩咬み手が喉に接触したら1本。
⑪両手で掴んで密着した相手のヘッドギアに自分のヘッドギアを押して逃れる疑似頭突き有り。
⑫原因によらず足の裏以外がマットについたら相手に技あり。身体がマットにつく前提の技、例えば胴回転による回し蹴りは使えない。

 
Yuzenkai Gojuryu Kumite rule 15/7/2024
..Development rules for kumite competitions that can maximize the characteristics of Goju-ryu. It must be safe, and it has to be karate, not MMA ,Kick boxing Judo and Jujutsu.
..This is not a full contact kumite for damage purposes. Trying to reduce the power by half, compete against each other in kumite that is mind of Goju-ryu Kata.
 This rule requires wearing a face guard. For boys, guards are worn on the fists and feet.
..The competition time is 2 minutes, and ippon is two wazaari.This rule states that if my concentration is momentarily interrupted by an opponent's attack, it will be wazaari, and if I lose my fighting spirit, it will be ippon.
①Hajime from the same distance as Kake-ta.
②It is possible to break, throw, and knock down from the Katete distance. Body attack with the shoulder or side of the body is allowed.
③This rule recognizes the Syotei attack as a deterrent attack to the opponent's face and allows temporarily suppress the opponent's head. Of course it's a push, not a so-called headbutt.
④This rule allows for entangling the opponent's arms with Goju-ryu's traditional "kake-te", throwing, breaking, and syotei to the throat. However, a strike to the throat is considered effective the moment it makes contact with the throat, and the referee must immediately call Waza-ari.
⑤In particular, "Byobu-kaeshi" and "Tora-nage" are essential techniques of Goju-ryu, so always Ippon.
⑥This rule recognizes the techniques such as throwing and breaking which made the opponent's body other than the soles of feet touching the mat as waza-ari.
⑦This rule allows you to push your opponent's headgear with your own headgear (simulated headbutt) under certain conditions.
⑧This rule considers it an important technique to scoop up your opponent's legs with your hands and break them down. This rule recognizes to use syuto and syotei to push the opponent and link them to breaking and throwing.
⑧In order to differentiate it from full-contact karate, we would like to allow attacks on the hands and feet only as deterrent touches, and consider it a violation where the opponent is damaged or injured.
 他方近年興味深いのが前述の金城氏の「あまりにも失ったもの」への関心が海外で盛り上がっていることです。WKFスタイルで学び、ある段階に達した外国人の中に基本と型と組手が連関した昔ながらの空手や古武道への関心が高まっています。

It is only a mere stick dance if kata of Bo is not trained as kumi-Bo(Bo-kumite).  
沖縄古武道 組棒 Kumi-Bo from Bunkai of traditinal Kobudo Kata
  Sensei, Sizuaki Futamata
(1931~:Shihan of Okinawa Matayoshi-kobudo,Kancho of Shynbukan),the comrade my
respect
 海外の古武道ブームのなか、80代にしてかくしゃくと世界各地を巡って沖縄又吉古武道を指導し海外の古武道大会に現役で出場される真武館館長二又静明先生。 先生の励ましがなかったら勇善会の海外進出はなかったといえます。外国人相手の経験談、彼らを指導する際の注意点やこつなどご指導くださった恩人です。


About the name " YUZENKAI"勇善会という名称の由来

 勇善会Yu-zen-kaiという名称は実戦で技を検証した最後の世代である二人の師の名前 Isamu Kato:加藤勇(右:1941~2023)の「勇」(Yu)とYoshiaki Naganuma;長沼善秋(左:1944~)の「善」(Zen)からいただいたもので長沼師範による命名です。
 
「本当に強いとは相手を傷つけず生け捕りにできることだ」
"Being truly strong means being able to capture your opponent alive without hurting them."
という長沼師範の言葉を旨として勇善会は二人の成果を継承し、剛柔流が本来打拳・投げ・関節・締め・固めの5つの要素からなることを重視して後世へ伝えることを考えています。

YUZENKAI has two logo. The culture, the religion, and the custom, etc. are different according to each country. YUZENKAI member in each country can select appropriate .
 国際的に勇善会は2種のロゴを用意しています。当初は世界の文化的多様性(形や色のもつ思想や禁忌)に対応する目的でしたが現在はほぼ「懸り乱れ龍」ロゴで統一されています。
 戦国時代の中でも哲学的な武将だった上杉謙信の軍旗からデザインしました。文字は謙信の戦闘旗「懸り乱れ龍」です。剛柔流は南派少林拳にルーツを持つため象形拳であり、つまり龍・鶴・鷹・虎・獅子・蛇等の動作が型に表象しており、また沖縄伝武備志の哲学を根底に持つため謙信のデザインはとてもふさわしいと考えています。

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...また紺地に日の丸の旗は謙信が第106代天皇の正親町天皇から下賜されたものですが、紺色は信義と清廉を表すと伝わります。これもまた我々の志と同じです。
...This emblem is derived from the combat flag of Kenshin Uesugi,a famouse warlord in the age of civil wars in Japan,16century.It means "Fight bravely".The Kanji of center is Kenshin's original cursive script of Ryu(龍:dragon).
...KATA of Gojury are derived from a images of dragon, crane, tiger, hawk,and so on. For instance, Sepai and Kururunfa are dragon Kata. Saifa and Kakufa are crane Kata.Seienchin is hawk Kata. I think the character of this "Ryu" is suitable for Yuzenkai Gojuryu. Dragon is existence of fictitious. But it is "symbol of transcendent strength" in the Japanese culture.
..In addition, Yuzenkai believe that the logo of the philosopher Lord Uesugi Kenshin is very appropriate for Goju-ryu, which has the philosophy of "Okinawa Bubishi" at its core.
...The avove flags, navy blue and red circle, is
the flags Ougimachi-Tenno(1517-1593) gave Kenshin. The red circle means Japan, and the navy blue means justice and sincerity.Kenshin was religious Samurai. He never did an unfair act. He always not fought for his personal greed but fought for the justice of god .
This logo originates from oriental philosophy that Goju-ryu based on.  Five colors – blue, red, yellow, white, black - mean five elements compose the world. The diamond means four directions – north, south, east and west. This design originates in the family crest of Shingen Takeda (1521-1573),the warlord in the age of civil wars in Japan.
"YU" and "ZEN" are from names of my two masters, and they mean “courage” and “goodness”. KAI" means “Society” in Japanese
 謙信と並び立つ武田信玄の「武田菱」を中央に配し青・赤・黄・白・黒の五色(東洋哲学で世界を構成する五元素の色)を配置しています。四つの菱形の集合は東西南北の世界の和合を象徴しています。
gojuryu internatinaol karatedo kobudo union yuzenkai japan 9/2012 With the late great professional wrestler I respect,Masashi Aoyagi(1956-2022)



 私事ですが私の高祖父は1868年の戊辰箱根戦争で戦いそれが元で命を落とした小田原藩士でした。幼少期からの武道への憧憬は母、祖母、曾祖母から伝えられた先祖の思いと血だと思っています。
..But I'm afraid in the private affairs,my great-grandfather, Kazuma Sugiyama, (杉山一馬)was the head samurai of border patrol team of the Odawara Clan. He lost his life in the war in 1868 for the Clan.(The picture is the Odawara castle in Kanagawa prefecture.)
 I feel that my admiration for Budo from my childhood stems from the storiies on my ancestors, which I heard from mother, grandmother.
..(The swords were made 300 years ago, but they do not louse sharpness by accurate care from generation to generation. Real Japanese sword is full of severe brightness and integrity.I think my life must be like them.)
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