Tino Ceberano Hanshi was born in Hawai'i. His parents had emigrated to Hawai'i from the Philippines. Hanshi began training in the martial arts at a young age before settling on the karate of YAMAGUCHI Gogen Hanshi (山口 剛玄 1909 – 1989,) Yamaguchi-ha Goju-ryu karate.
In 1966 after he retired from the US Marine Corps Ceberano Hanshi received his Sandan, 3rd Dan, from Yamaguchi Hanshi and at Yamaguchi Hanshi’s direction emmigrated to Australia with his family.
He immediately set about introducing the relatively unknown martial art of karate to the people of Australia.
From small beginnings his school of Goju-ryu Karate became one of the most widely practiced karate traditions in Australia. This is due in no small part to the skill and dedication of Ceberano, Hanshi.
After the passing of Yamaguchi Gogen Hanshi in 1989 Ceberano Hanshi formed his own karate organisation and the IGK, the Kokusai Goju Karate 国際 剛柔 空手 the International Goju Karate organisation was established. In the early 2000's The IGK was changed to stand for the Kokusai Goju Kobujutsu Kenkyukai 国際 古武術 研究会 the International Goju Classical Martial Art Research Society. In 2020 after more than 50 years of teaching in Australia Ceberano Hanshi reorganised his organisation into a three tiered model for the three discrete, but integrated, martial arts he teaches.
Yamaguchi Gogen Hanshi
The New Sekai
Kushindo Kobujutsu Kenkyukai Logo
The new umbrella organisation is called the Sekai Kushindo* Kobujutsu Kenkyukai 世界 空神道 古武術 研究会 the World Free Spirit Classical Martial Art Research Society.
* The name Kushin 空神 Free Spirit was given to Ceberano Hanshi by Yamaguchi Hanshi as the name he should use going forward for
his personal expression of martial arts.
Below this headline organisation are the three departments that manage each of the arts that make up Kushindo Bugei, they are:
Goju-kenpo 剛柔 拳法 Goju Fist Method - the traditional Goju-ryu karatejutsu that Ceberano Hanshi learnt from Yamaguchi Gogen Hanshi - Managed by the Kokusai Goju-kenpo Kenkyukai 国際 剛柔拳法 研究会 the International Goju-ryu Karatejutsu Research Society.
Goju-kobujutsu 剛柔 古武術 Goju-ryu Influenced Classical Japanese Martial Arts - Managed by the Kokusai Goju-kobujutsu Kenkyukai 剛柔 古武術 古武術 研究会 the International Goju Influenced Classical Japanese Martial Arts Research Society.
Goju-kalis 剛柔カリス Goju-ryu Influenced Filipino Martial Arts - Managed by the Kokusai Goju-kalis Kenkyukai 国際 剛柔 カリス研究会 the International Goju-ryu Influenced Filipino Martial Arts Research Society.
Ceberano Hanshi training with the Goju-kalis weapon Hawakan
Hanshi is in constant demand around the world to provide seminars and other training. He spends a significant part of his life travelling the globe. We in the Kushindo Kobujutsu community have the very good fortune of having Hanshi see us as part of his close family
Ceberano Hanshi teaching Hawakan at a
Seminar on Kaua'i, Hawai'i
Ceberano Hanshi demonstrates Goju-kobujutsu
at Martial Arts Expo in England
Ceberano Hanshi demonstrates Goju-kalis
(Arcanis) Takedown at Martial Arts Expo in
Melbourne Australia
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