Also known as | Gosoku Ryu, Go Soku ryu |
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Country of origin | Japan |
Founder | Takayuki Kubota |
Current head | Takayuki Kubota |
Arts taught | Karate • kobudo |
Ancestor schools | Shōtōkan • Gōjū-ryū |
Practitioners | James Caan, Rod Kuratomi, Val Mijailovic, Takemasa Okuyama, Grant Campbell, Natasha Inuhaere, Mike Ireland, Orlando Castro |
Official website | ikakarate |
Gosoku-ryū (剛速流) is a style of karate which was founded by Takayuki Kubota.[1] Gosoku stands for hard and fast, which suggests a combination of techniques both from the fast and dynamic Shōtōkan style as well as from the strength-focused Gōjū-ryū style.