15 places you must see when you visit Okinawa
With less than a month to go until the start of the world Budosai, IOGKF members around the world are ramping up their training as they prepare to come […]
June 2016
Book Review: Sanchin – Three Battles
Sanchin is a Kata practiced by millions of Karate practitioners all over the world and the global popularization of Okinawan martial arts over the past 60 years has seen […]
The essential IOGKF guide to traveling in Okinawa
Budosai excitement fever is still spreading worldwide! More and more people are still registering to train each day as the event is almost upon us! The chance for you […]
May 2016
Your Budosai Instructors
The IOGKF World Budosai countdown is well and truly on, with people from every corner of the globe registering in their hundreds to participate in this traditional martial arts […]
April 2016
10 Reasons to go the IOGKF World Budosai
10 Reasons why you should register to attend the IOGKF world Budosai
Every once in a while life throws rare opportunities your way. Whether we take them up or not […]
March 2016
Interview with Sensei Tetsuji Nakamura
Sensei Tetsuji Nakamura is world chief instructor of the International Okinawan Goju-ryu Karate-do Federation (IOGKF), the largest Okinawan traditional Karate organisation in the world. Sensei Nakamura is successor of […]
Anatomy of a Punch
Anatomy of a Punch
By: Sensei Pervez Mistry – IOGKF India
(From December 2012 IOGKF International Newsletter)
INTRODUCTION
On returning from The Okinawa Budosai in 2004 one of my students, a Go-Kyu from […]
IOGKF Jewelry for Sale
IOGKF Jewelry for Sale – Pick up at the World Budosai
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The incredible products of Whispering Elms Studio’s are the brain child of IOGKF Canada […]
Interview with Sensei Bakkies Laubscher
Interview with Sensei Bakkies Laubscher
Interview by: Sensei David Lambert
Please tell us about what growing up in South Africa was like for you and how you came across fighting arts?
Growing […]
September 2015
Passing of Teruo Chinen Sensei
The passing of Teruo Chinen Sensei
Message from Sensei Morio Higaonna – IOGKF Supreme Master
I would like to express my sincere condolences on the death of Sensei Teruo Chinen. […]