There was only one JKA, these were the men who started Nakayama, Nishiyama, Kanazawa, Enoeda, Mikami, Shuri, Okazaki and Oshima but to mention only a few. They are all here demonstrating there skills. These are the men that single handedly spread karate world wide back in the 1960s. There skills speak for themselves and after watching them thru their developmental stages of the 50s all the way to the 1970s when they teach their kumite or sparring drills and techniques. They are second to none and their training has taken the Okinawan karate of Gichin Funakoshi to a new level as they implemented the psychology of the Samurai and the philosophy of Japan into the art. If you study Shotokan this will show you the entire kata syllabus the way it was when Funaksohi was alive plus so much more we just dont have the space to describe it all.
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