Shōrin-ryū Shōrinkan

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Shōrin-ryū Shōrinkan

Shōrin-ryū Shōrinkan
Date founded	1975
Country of origin	Okinawa, Japan
Founder	Shūgorō Nakazato
Current head	Minoru Nakazato[1]
Arts taught	Karate
Ancestor schools	shuri-te[2] Kobayashi Shorin-ryū
Descendant schools	Suikendo Shorin Ryu[3] Shorin-ryu Reihokan Shorin-ryu Shobukan

Shorin-ryu Shorinkan (小林流小林館, Shōrin-ryū Shōrinkan) is a branch of the Kobayashi Shōrin-ryū style of Okinawan karate, developed by Shūgorō Nakazato, Hanshi 10th Dan. Nakazato was a student of Chōshin Chibana.^[4] After Chibana's death in 1969, Nakazato assumed the title of Vice President of the Okinawa Shorin-Ryū Karate-do Association. In November 1975, Nakazato resigned from this association and formed the Okinawa Karate-do Shorin-Ryū Shorinkan Association.^[5]

In the United States the senior teachers are Noel Smith^[6] (8th dan) and Eddie Bethea.^[7] Both Smith and Bethea trained directly under Nakazato in the early 1960s, and have first-hand knowledge of his teachings, philosophies and concepts of karate. In the early years, seven of Nakazato's black belts returned to the US to spread Okinawan Shorin-ryu to the States; they are referred to as the Original 7.^[8]

This lineage only reflects the Original 7 black belts from Shugoro Nakazato and their Kyoshis: Tadashi Yamashita, Nabil Noujaim, Eddie Bethea, Pat Haley, Noel Smith, C.D. Williamson, Neil Stolsmark, Sean Riley, Sam Ahtye, David Rogers, Robert Rowley, Claude Johnson, and Harunobu Chiba. ^[9]

• United States Shorin-ryu Shorinkan website (Official North American Website. Senior North American Kyoshi Noel Smith
• Shorinkan

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