Matsubayashi Shorin Ryu Karate - Nagamine Dojo

Matsubayashi Shorin Ryu Karate - Nagamine Dojo " TRADITIONAL OKINAWAN KARATE
Okinawan Shorin-Ryu Karate, established in Harrison Oh in 1981

Classes Available

MONDAY
Youth 11 years & younger 7 pm - 7:45 pm
* Adults 12 years & Older 7 pm - 8:30 pm

WEDNESDAY
Youth 11 years & younger 7 pm - 7:45 pm
* Adults 12 years & Older 7 pm - 8:30 pm

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06/01/2026

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Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate - Midwest Honbu Dojo

Karate no Omoide Makishi Yasuhara Sensei RIP 🙏 Nov 24, 1938 - May 31, 2013One of the Senior Sensei at the Nagamine Honb...
05/30/2026

Karate no Omoide
Makishi Yasuhara Sensei RIP 🙏
Nov 24, 1938 - May 31, 2013

One of the Senior Sensei at the Nagamine Honbu dojo in Naha Okinawa during the 1980s until his passing. A mainstay in our Matsubayashi Shorin Ryu Karate and subject expert for Kusanku kata.
I was very fortunate to receive direct instruction from him during my visits to Okinawa and in America during the 1980s, 1990's and 2000s
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お誕生日おめでとうCelebrating Eihachi Ota Hanshi's 81st Birthday Today & almost 60 years of teaching our Matsubayashi Shorin Ryu...
05/23/2026

お誕生日おめでとう
Celebrating Eihachi Ota Hanshi's 81st Birthday Today & almost 60 years of teaching our Matsubayashi Shorin Ryu Okinawan Karate.
Domo Arigato Ota Sensei.
Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate - Midwest Honbu Dojo
And from those, all over the world, who have had the honor and experience of training with you.
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World Matsubayashi Shorin-ryu RENGOKAI June 19th - 21st 2026Less than ONE Month away ⛩️ inGardena California.Eihachi Ot...
05/20/2026

World Matsubayashi Shorin-ryu RENGOKAI June 19th - 21st 2026
Less than ONE Month away ⛩️ in
Gardena California.

Eihachi Ota Hanshi,10th Dan
Matsubayashi Shorin Ryu Karate
A once in a lifetime event for all Matsubayashi Shorin Ryu Yudansha and Practitioners, to Share fighting applications for advanced kata. 🥋

If you are TRULY interested in learning, you will be attending. Contact Eihachi Ota Sensei for more information.
Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate - Midwest Honbu Dojo

This is a list of recognized 10th Dan holders, posted in an Okinawan newspaper a few years ago. This list might have be...
05/18/2026

This is a list of recognized 10th Dan holders, posted in an Okinawan newspaper a few years ago. This list might have been updated since then, but in this list are some of the great instructors I was able to meet or train with during my last 57 years in Okinawan Karate .

#1 Soken Hohan, #6 Chitose Tsuyoshi, #9 Nagamine Shoshin, #54 Oyata Seiyu, #59 Taba Kensei, #72 Kise Fuse #124 Ota Eihachi &
#126 * (my sensei) Nagamine Takayoshi.
I have been very blessed to have had these wonderful memories in my years of Karate
Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate - Midwest Honbu Dojo
Bill George "Karate no Omoide "

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Visiting Japan in 1984. Before making it to Okinawa, we had a few days that we spent in Japan, to visit and site see. ...
05/09/2026

Visiting Japan in 1984. Before making it to Okinawa, we had a few days that we spent in Japan, to visit and site see. Japan is a beautiful country and the people are very friendly and courteous.

The Policeman I met spoke English, and I found out that we had 2 things in common. We both were Law Enforcement officers, and we both practiced Judo, however he was a 4th Dan in Judo, and I will still a novice.

We also met Hisataka Masayuki Sensei from ShorinJiryu KarateDo, who took us to the Budokan (Martial Arts Center) and the Kodokan (Judo HdQtrs Training Center), where I was honored to meet Risei Kano, one of the 3 sons of the founder of Judo, Jigiro Kano O-sensei.

Later one evening, we were also invited by Hisataka Sensei to training at his Dojo in Tokyo. We also spent a our last day visiting many sites in the Tokyo area.

In 1991, after training in Okinawa, I made another stop in Japan and spent another week, visiting many sites in both Tokyo and Kyoto. I encourage any serious Martial Artists, to make at least one Life Time visit, as it will immerse you deeper into the culture.
Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate - Midwest Honbu Dojo

Bill George - Karate & Judo no Omoide
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1980s -90s History. * POLISHING THE HUMAN SPIRIT * I found this Thank You card from members of a Matsubayashi Shorin Ry...
05/08/2026

1980s -90s History. * POLISHING THE HUMAN SPIRIT *

I found this Thank You card from members of a Matsubayashi Shorin Ryu Dojo in the Dayton Ohio area, who came down for an event that we held annually for many years at our old Harrison Ohio dojo.

Our event was a 12 hour MARATHON of Karate training. In the first years we conducted the event from 6pm Friday - 6am Saturday morning, but later changed it to 6am Saturday morning to 6pm Saturday evenings.

Every hour, we would train for 55 minutes, with a short 5 minute break after. We did - kata - bunkai - training drills- yakusoku kumite - makiwara training & bag training, etc. Half way through we would take a 30 minute break for a food and karate history leason. Then we would continue training like this until the last hour, when we had the
"Special Event".
ONE HOUR of continuous, punches, blocks and kicks. Needless to say it was quite an endeavor, but very fulfilling for each participant.

Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate - Midwest Honbu Dojo

Karate no Omoide - Memories 56 years ago in May 1970, I competed & placed 1st in the Brown Belt Division, full contact...
05/08/2026

Karate no Omoide - Memories

56 years ago in May 1970, I competed & placed 1st in the Brown Belt Division, full contact kumite with bogu, at the All Okinawan Karate Championship at Kadena AFB in Okinawa. Because of this accomplishment, I was awarded my Shodan rank by Kaneshima Shinsuke O-sensei.

At that time (1969 - 1970) I was studing TozanRyu Shindokan Shorinryu karate, at the Kaneshima Dojo, under Kaneshima O-sensei & Izu Seiko Sensei. We trained 6 days a week for 3 hours daily.

Those were Great days & memories of training in Okinawa, that I will cherish & treasure always.

Bill George - Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate

REMEMBERING those instructors from our past:SHIMA MASAO studied the Matsubayashi ryu karate under Shoshin Nagamine. Shim...
05/04/2026

REMEMBERING those instructors from our past:
SHIMA MASAO studied the Matsubayashi ryu karate under Shoshin Nagamine. Shima Sensei was one of his most important students of the Sensei Nagamine and Hombu Dojo. Shima Sensei always held a close relationship with Sensei Nagamine and the Hombu dojo.

Shoshin Nagamine did not permit sparing at the Hombu Dojo, this caused several of Sensei Nagamine top students to make arrangements to start a new school. Shima Sensei founded a Dojo together with Kishaba & Taba Sensei. This was at the beginning of the fifties, shortly after their Dan graduations.

Shima Sensei did not charge anyone to practice at his new dojo, but due to lack of water the students support the school by bringing water, if you have ever been to Okinawa during summer time you would learn quickly how hot and humid it is and water is of great importance during training in the evening since day time training is not recommended.

Shima Sensei’s dojo had no more than ten or more students, when visiting Okinawa, Sensei Shima and his students had a yearly celebration and saw one another, the number of students that showed up each year were no more than a dozen.

Kata was still of the utmost importance at the Shima Dojo followed by strength training and Chi'shi, The name chishi is composed from two parts; Chi - means energy or power, and Ishi - means stone. This equipment is intended to strengthen the inner power, the grip and the wrists. The chishi is also good to strengthen, among other parts, the shoulders and forearms. It helps to develop the thrust and some kind of blocks like Hiki Uke. Weapons were also practiced.

The instruction at Shima dojo also included Sensei TABA and Sensei KISHABA, this was a force from Nagamine Dojo.

Shima’s Dojo was known for the rough training and fighting, in opposite to the rather Kata oriented Dojo of Nagamine. Sensei Shima’s Dojo was located in Kanzatobaru, Naha City.

One of the well known students of Sensei Shima was, among others, Eihachi Ota Hanshi, 10th Dan

Masao Shima, (1931-2000) Chokei Kishaba and Kensei Taba (1933 -) founded the Shima Dojo.

This was under the direction of Sensei Shima.

Shima Sensei 10th Dan lived in Los Angeles for a year. In Okinawa one student at the yearly dinner party was asked would you want to go back to the training you once had with Sensei Shima, he paused and said no, when asked why he said we called him the devil due to the brutal training but he also added I would never change what he learned. In the U.S. students called him "Master of Shadows"

Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate - Midwest Honbu Dojo

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