Bankokuden Dojo

Goju-kenpo  剛柔拳法  Goju Fist Method or, if you prefer, Ceberano-ha Goju-ryu Karatejutsu, is Ceberano Hanshi’s karate method.   This method builds on the legacy of YAMAGUCHI Gogen Hanshi as he expressed it at his Zen’nihon  Karate-do Senmon Gaku  全日本空手道専門学校, the All Japan Karate-do Special School, known colloquially as the All Japan Karate College, located below Yamaguchi's home in the Tokyo suburb of Suginami.

Yamaguchi Hanshi taught much more than Goju-ryu karate at his karate college, he had instructors from other forms of karate, Shotokan, Shito-ryu, and Wado-ryu and well as Okinawan Kobujutsu from INOUE Motokatsu Hanshi, headmaster of Yushin-kai karatejutsu and the Ryukyu Kobujutsu Hozon Shinkokai 琉球 古武術 保存 新古会 or Ryukyu Ancient Martial Arts Preservation Society. Teaching the Okinawan weapons arts of Master TAIRA Shinken. Yamaguch Hanshi also taugh Shinshin-toitsu-do or Japanese Yoga at the college.  

          Yamaguchi Gogen Hanshi

The Sekai Kushino Kobujutsu Kenkyukai Goju-kenpo is organised under a sub-department called the Kokusai Goju-kenpo Kenkyukai  国際剛柔拳法研究会 International Goju Fist Method Research Society or IGK   剛柔拳法  Goju Fist Method or, if you prefer, Ceberano-ha Goju-ryu Karatejutsu, is Ceberano Hanshi’s karate method. 

This method builds on the legacy of YAMAGUCHI Gogen Hanshi as he expressed it at his Zen’nihon  Karate-do Senmon Gaku  全日本空手道専門学校, the All Japan Karate-do Special School, known colloquially as the All Japan Karate College, located below Yamaguchi's home in the Tokyo suburb of Suginami.

         Entrance to the Senmon Gakku

          Yamaguchi Gogen Hanshi
     with Ceberano Hanshi in Tokyo

         Ceberano Hanshi being 
       tested by Yamaguchi Hanshi

   Left to Right: Sal Ebenez Sensei, Yamaguchi Hanshi, 
           Ceberano Hanshi and Garry Spears Sensei

The Goju-kenpo Kenkyukai syllabus is build around the skills and methods found in the kata of Yamaguchi-ha Goju-ryu karatejutsu with the addition of kata and kihon found in the following Uchinadi  沖縄 ⼿  or Okinawa-te traditions:

Nafadi  那覇手  (Japanese Naha-te) or Naha Hand – Karate from the Naha District including Goju-ryu.

Tumaidi  泊手  (Japanese Tomari-te) or Tomari Hand – Karate from the Tomari District, the Gohakukai, Motobu-ryu and Shorinji-ryu traditions.

Suidi  首里手  (Japanese Shuri-te) or Shuri Hand – Karate from the Shuri District - The various Shorin-ryu traditions.

Okinawa Baihe Quan  沖縄白鶴拳  Okinawa Hakkaku-ken or Okinawan White Crane Fist - Kingai-ryu 金硬流 and the various Southern Chinese traditions found in Okinawa.