New Site?


		Shinjinbukan Shorin-ryu

		Shorin-ryu and Okinawa Ti, a living tradition. Why the new site?
		I know many people are going to ask where all the content from the old site has gone. Well let's just say it's gone. The content that directly relates to the Shinjinbukan is either still here or will soon be re-published. along with much more new, never before published material. Much of the old content that was not about Onaga sensei or our Karate has been removed. Since a lot of it had been up for the better part of 10 years, I suspect anybody who wanted to read it has already done so. The new site is dedicated exclusively to Onaga sensei's karate which was taught to him by Higa Yuchoku at the Kyudokan and that which he has passed to the next generation at the Shinjinbukan. Many of the pages on this site will need text, but it seemed that the quickest and easiest way to get the site up and running again was to get the pictures up first. Since most people are hoping to see pictures on the internet and seldom read the text, I suspect most visitors won't even notice that text is missing. The motivation for publishing the new site came as a result of a long conversation I had with sensei during his visit to my home and dojo in the Fall of 2004. He decided it was time to start opening up and showing traditional Ti before it is completely forgotten. Since 1989 when I became a student of Onaga sensei his (our) effort was always to keep our art to ourselves. Even in Okinawa few people know or understand what Ti is or what being a Tijigaya is really about. I recall a conversation Onaga sensei and I had with Yagi Meitoku sensei (Goju-ryu 10th dan) in the early 1990's, were Yagi Dai-sensei expressed his concern that our art would die with Onaga sensei if the course of Okinawa Karate didn't change. I didn't really understand what he meant at the time (in hindsight it was because I didn't understand sensei's Ti very well in the early 90's.) I now understand how different Higa and Onaga sensei's karate really is from the rest. Meitoku sensei understood that and I suspect that he would be happily proven wrong with regard to his prediction, even though Karate on Okinawa looks more like Japanese sports karate today than ever before and unfortunately continues down that course faster than ever before. Yet in spite of this, Higa and Onaga sensei's Ti is not only being taught and learned, but has made a renaissance in the past few years. Therefore, where the Okinawakaratedo.com site originally discussed most of the major Okinawa Karate schools, it no longer seems appropriate to lump us in the same bucket. They are doing more tournaments and less Ti, while we focus more on Kakie, irikumi, machiwara and tenshin.


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