Karate Kumite With Masters Keinosuke Enoeda and Hirokazu Kanazawa

A rare chance to see karate masters, Keinosuke Enoeda and Hirokazu Kanazawa in action, amazing skill from these karate legends. These two people have played an extremely strong part in the development of shotokan karate. Both these masters have skills unique to them, but no one can deny their martial arts prowess!

Master Masatoshi Nakayama - Unsu

Shotokan Karate - Kata Unsu (M. Nakayama)

The great karate master, Masatoshi Nakayama was born in 1913, in Yamaguchi Prefecture Honshu Japan.

After graduating from university he went to Peking, to study Chinese. The young karate master practiced kung fu whilst staying in Peking.

Master Nakayama was very close to the founder of Shotokan Karate, Master Gichin Funakoshi and when master Funakoshi passed away, master Nakayama became the 2nd chief instructor of the famous JKA or Japan Karate Association.

He was responsible for the world wide expansion of shotokan Karate, throughout the 1960's and 1970's where fantastic karateka who had graduated from the JKA Instructor Training Program, were sent abroad to set up karate dojo and spread the word of shotokan karate and the JKA.

Shotokan Karate Japan Karate Association

Shotokan Karate Japan Karate Association JKA-Karate





The Japan Karate Association (JKA), is still the home of shotokan karate, still the one place in the world, all shotokan karateka turn to for guidence.

The Japan Karate Association Promotional Video

The JKA is the most authoritative and by far the largest karate organization in the world, the Keeper of Karate's Highest Tradition.

No other organizations approaches karate with greater intensity of purpose, or maintains such a large and dedicated professional staff of highly-trained, highly paid full-time instructors.

At the JKA, karate is not merely a sport, it's a martial art whose aim is the harmonizing of mind and body for balance, strengh, perseverance, patience - for total confidence and self-mastery.

Learn Karate - Reverse Punch

Here's a great video showing gyakuzuki (reverse punch), one of shotokan karate's trademark karate moves.This short karate Kumite (sparring) clip, is from the JKA (Japan Karate Association) All Japan Championships (1985).