Shōbayashi Shōrin-ryū
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Shōbayashi Shōrin-ryu (少林流) (Shōrin-ryū) is a style of Okinawan Shorin-ryu karate founded by Eizo Shimabukuro. Eizo Shimabukuro (1925-2017) dropped the Chatan Yara no Kusanku and the Oyadamari no Passai he learned from Chotoku Kyan and he added Kusanku Sho and Dai and Passai Sho and Dai of Yasutsune Itosu lineage. It is said that Eizo Shimabukuro learned these Itosu kata as well as Pinan Shodan to Godan and Naihanchin Shodan to Sandan from Choshin Chibana. However, in his book "Okinawa Karatedo Old Grandmaster Stories" Eizo Shimabukuro says that Chibana was too old to teach and so Chibana referred Shimabukuro to his senior student, Nakazato, for instruction. Eizo Shimabuku also added two kata from his time in Goju-ryu with Chojun Miyagi. These kata being Seiyunchin and Sanchin (Eizo Shimabukuro used to call his version of Sanchin, Sanchu). At one time Shimabuku taught Shorin-ryu and Goju-ryu side by side.
Also known as | Shōbayashi Shōrin-ryū |
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Country of origin | Okinawa, Japan |
Founder | Eizo Shimabukuro |
Current head | Eizo Shimabukuro |
Arts taught | Karate, Kobujutsu, Jujutsu |
Ancestor schools | Shorin-ryū |
Practitioners | Joe Lewis, Jerry Gould, Bill Hayes, Steve Rittersporn, Kevin Dewayne Hughes, Ken Shugg, Ilene J. Smoger Mark Knox |