History
 Motobu Chōki The Okinawan karateka Motobu Chōki
(本部
朝基,
1870-1944), younger brother of
karateka Motobu
Chōyū, was born in Akahira Village in Shuri, Okinawa, then
capital of the Ryūkyū Kingdom.
His father, Lord Motobu Chōshin (Motobu Aji Chōsin)
was a descendant of the sixth son of the Okinawan King, Shō
Shitsu (1629-1668), namely Shō Kōshin, also known as Prince
Motobu Chōhei (1655-1687). Chōki was the third son of Motobu
Udun ("Motobu Palace"), one of cadet branches of the royal
Okinawan Shō family.
As the last of three sons, Motobu Chōki was not entitled to
an education in his family's style of
Te (an earlier name
for karate). Despite this Motobu was very interested in the art,
spending much of his youth training on his own, hitting the makiwara, and lifting heavy stones to increase his strength.
He is reported to have been very agile, which gained him the
nickname Motobu no Saru, or "Motobu the Monkey." He began
practicing karate under Ankō Itosu and continued under Matsumura
Sōkon, Sakuma Pechin and Kōsaku Matsumora.
 Chotoku
Kyan (喜屋武
朝徳,
Kyan Chōtoku,
born December 1870 in Shuri, Okinawa - September 20, 1945 in
Ishikawa, Okinawa) was an
Okinawan karate master who was famous for both his karate
skills, and his colorful personal life. Chotoku Kyan (also
spelled Chotoku Kiyan) was a large influence in the styles of
karate that would become Shorin-Ryu and its related styles.
Chotoku Kyan was born
as the first son of Chofu Kyan who was a steward to the Ryukyuan
King before the realm's official assimilation into Japan as the
Okinawan Prefecture. Kyan was noted for being small in stature,
suffering from asthma and frequently bed-ridden. He also had
poor eyesight, which may have led to his early nickname Chan
Migwa (squinty-eyed Chan).
Kyan's father is noted as possibly having a
background in karate and even teaching Kyan tegumi in his early
years. When Kyan was 20 years old, he began his karate training
under Ankoh Itosu, Kosaku Matsumora and Kokan Oyadomori. While
at 30 years of age, he was considered a master of the karate
styles known as Shuri-te and Tomari-te. The most long time
student of Kyan was Zenryō Shimabukuro, who studied with Kyan
for over 10 years. Kyan is also noted for encouraging his
students to visit brothels and to engage in alcohol consumption
at various times.
Kyan was a participant in the 1936 meeting of
Okinawan masters, where the term "karate" was standardized, and
other far-reaching decisions were made regarding martial arts of
the island at the time
 Ankichi
Arakaki
1899-1927
The first
of 11 children, Ankichi Arakaki was born in November 1899, in
Akata Village, Shuri. His family were sake (rice wine) brewers
and, as such, enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle and eventually
moved to Tori-hori Village.
Sensei Arakaki
commenced his karate training at an early age, learning from
Shinpan Gusukuma (his primary school teacher) and also Chomo
Hanashiro (his junior high school teacher), before leaving
school and intensifying his training under Chosin Chibana
(founder of Kobayashi Shorin-ryu).
It was because of the
wealth that his family enjoyed that Arakaki was able to devote a
great deal of time to his training, and soon became very
proficient, earning the nickname of 'Uwayaguwa Ankichi' (Ankichi
of Uwayaguwa). His specialty was the development of the toe kick
or tsumasaki-geri.
One story tells of the devastating effect of Arakaki's toe kick: Once,
when Sensei was around twenty years old, he and some
friends were in a tea house in Tsuji drinking and having
a good time. While getting up to go to the toilet, he
accidentally bumped into a big man who insisted on
picking a quarrel with him in the corridor on the second
floor. Trying to ignore the man, Sensei was unable to
get out of his way, which resulted in Sensei being
shoved down the staircase. Being in such good physical
condition, Arakaki was able to roll down the stairs
avoiding injury. The enraged man leaped down the stairs
and grabbed Arakaki by the arm, trying to yank him up in
an effort to punch his face. Seizing the man's arm with
the other hand, Sensei drove his toes deeply into the
armpit of his attacker, which resulted in the man
dropping to the ground unconscious.
Needless
to say, Sensei never returned to that tea house again.
About six months later, while reading the newspaper one
morning, Ankichi was shocked to see a story which
described some big wrestler who had died as a result of
injuries sustained by "some karate expert" at a tea
house in Tsuji. The article went on to say that
"survived by two daughters, both of whom were serious
judoka, the family sought to revenge the death of their
beloved father". In spite of the man allegedly dying
sometime after his encounter with Arakaki, the police
were never called in, and a subsequent investigation was
unable to provide the actual reason for his death
Around 1921,
after discharge from his military service, he moved to the
village of Kadena. Unfortunately, due to the fact that his
father had died and the family business was profoundly affected
by the recession which followed World War 1, Sensei Ankichi
Arakaki contracted stomach ulcers and died on 28th December
1927. He was just 28 years old.
 Shōshin
Nagamine (長嶺
将真, Nagamine Shōshin,
1907-07-15–1997-11-02) was a
Japanese author, soldier, police officer and karate master.Nagamine was born in Tomari, in Naha
City, Okinawa. He was a small and sickly child, and he
contracted a gastroenteric disorder in 1926, his second year of
high school. He began a self-imposed diet and took up karate
under the watchful eye of his next-door neighbour, Chojin Kuba.
Nagamine soon became a picture of good health, crediting his
recovery to "hard work both at school and training of Karate".
His health improved to such an extent that he became a leader of
the school's karate club, and his friends dubbed him Chaippaii Matsu,
a nickname meaning "tenacious pine tree".
After graduation in March 1928, he began to
study martial arts full time, moving to Shuri and training under
Taro Shimabuku and Ankichi Arakaki. Later that year, he was
conscripted into the Japanese army in the 47th Infantry
Division, and fought in China before receiving an honourable
discharge in 1931.
Leaving the army, Nagamine sought an area in
which his martial arts abilities would be useful, eventually
settling on the police force. During his time as a police
officer, Nagamine received further instruction in karate from
Chotoku Kyan and Motobu Choki, and achieved the title of Renshi
in 1940. By 1951, Nagamine was a Police Superintendent, of
Motobu, and was training his own officers in karate.
Nagamine retired as a policeman in 1952, and
in 1953 he returned to Naha City and set
up his own dojo, which he named "Matsubayashi-Ryu
Kododan Karate and Ancient Martial Arts
Studies". From the dojo he taught
Matsubayashi-ryu, a karate school he had
invented in 1947, and named in honour of
Sokon Matsumura and Kosaku Matsumora. He
continued to teach the discipline until
his death in 1997.
Nagamine wrote two books in Japanese, The Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do
and Tales of Okinawa's Great
Masters. The Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do,
which has been reprinted many times, was first published in the
English language in 1976. Tales of
Okinawa's Great Masters received
its first English translation in 2000.
 Ansei
Ueshiro (April 20, 1933 - May
11, 2002) was an influential Okinawan martial artist. Born in
Kin, Okinawa, Ueshiro relocated to the United States in 1962 at
the request of founder Shōshin Nagamine of Matsubayashi
Shōrin-ryū, under whom he had studied, for the purpose of
spreading the martial art. He founded Shorin-Ryu Karate USA and,
according to that organization's official website, "was one of
the first Oriental martial artists to bring karate" to the US.
 Chotoku
Omine Though not widely known, Chotoku Omine
remains one of the brightest lights of
traditional Okinawan karate-do. He trained
under Master Shoshin Nagamine, the founder of
modern Matsubayashi Ryu, and eventually became
the chief instructor at the Honbu
(headquarters) dojo in
Naha.
In 1969 he accompanied Nagamine on a trip to
the
U.S.,
after which, at the master’s request, he
remained behind to supervise the teaching of
Matsubayashi Ryu in
America,
standardize techniques and teaching methods,
and encourage unification of practioners under
Nagamine’s traditional style. He spent
several years living in the dojo of his
disciple, Joseph Carbonara, where the two men
trained together and taught each other about
their respective cultures. Omine eventually
returned to Okinawa and brought his family to
America,
and opened a dojo in
San Bruno,
California.
Tragically, not long afterward, in 1975, he
died of brain aneurysm, leaving behind a wife,
four children, and many bereft students. At
the time of his death he carried the rank of
6th Dan, Renshi. In light of his great
contributions to the art, he was posthumously
promoted to 8th Dan, Kyoshi.
 Joseph Carbonara
was
born and raised in
Brooklyn,
N.Y.,
and served in the Navy during the Korean
War period. Afterwards he became a
professional slipcover cutter, got
married, and moved with his wife out to
Long Island
where they raised two sons. He began his
karate training under Sensei Ansei Ueshiro,
and received his Shodan from Master
Shoshin Nagamine, founder of modern
Matsubayashi Ryu karate-do, when he
visited the
U.S.
in 1969. Carbonara then opened the first
of a series of dojos, and over the next
few years trained closely with Sensei
Chotoku Omine, former chief instructor at
the Nagamine dojo. After Omine’s premature
death in 1975, Carbonara continued to
teach traditional karate while remaining
loyal to teachings of Omine and Nagamine,
visiting Okinawa a number of times with
his senior black belts, and eventually
rising to the esteemed rank of 9th Dan,
Hanshi. He retired from full-time teaching
over a decade ago but continues to teach
Doshi-Kai black belt workouts several
times a year and gives private lessons at
his home in
Greenport,
N.Y.
 Matsubayashi-ryū (松林流),
also known as Matsubayashi Shōrin-ryū, is a
school of Okinawan Shōrin-ryū karate founded
by Shōshin Nagamine (1907-1997) in 1947. Its
curriculum includes 18 kata, 7 two-man
yakusoku kumite (prearranged sparring)
routines, and kobudō (weapons) practice.
Nagamine named his school
in honor of masters whom he viewed as two of
the most important forebears of Shōrin-ryū,
Matsumura Sōkon and Kosaku Matsumora. He chose
to name the school using kanji characters that
can be prounounced in Japanese either as "Matsubayashi"
or as "Shorin." Therefore, it is correct to
refer to the school as "Matsubayashi-ryū", "Shōrin-ryū",
or "Matsubayashi Shōrin-ryū". Most people
today choose one of the "Matsubayashi"
variants in order to avoid confusion with the
other many schools of Shōrin-ryū. Nagamine
Shōshin also credited Motobu Chōki as the
teacher who inspired his seven Yakusoku kumite
forms. Today, the official Matsubayashi-ryū
organization is run by Shōshin Nagamine's son,
Takayoshi Nagamine, though there are many
schools teaching Matsubayashi-ryū that are not
officially affiliated with the Nagamine dojo.
Matsubayashi-ryū is one of
the better-documented traditional karate
styles, owing to Nagamine's book, The Essence
of Okinawan Karate-dō as well as Tales of the
Masters.
History page
information gathered from the
Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia.
Information for Ankichi Arakaki text by
Scott Roberts, (MSISSHINRYU.COM)
Nidan - Isshinryu Karate.
 Kancho Terry Maccarrone – 8th
Dan Kyoshi Karate USA
Since
1962 Matsubayashi Shorinryu has flourished
in the USA under many organizations and
groups
that taught
principles and skills found in the
Okinawan Karate System of
Shoshin
Nagamine and his representatives.
Terry
Maccarrone found that opportunity in St.
James Long Island NY.
Terry
Maccarrone became manager and partner in
Hegashi Karate Do with Sensei Joseph
Johnson.
-
1969 he became full owner and sensei under
Master Ansei
Ueshiro
-
1976 he took ownership of Ryukyus
Karate Studio
in Patchogue, NY
1980 he opened Port
Haven Karate Dojo in East Setauket, NY
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1983 he took
ownership of Mastic Karate Dojo in Mastic
Beach, NY
1987 he opened
Westhampton Beach Karate USA Dojo, NY
-
1992 Master Ansei ueshiro awarded Kyoshi 7th
Dan International Representative and
full Instructor Menkyo
-
2001 Master
Ueshiro confirmed the title of Kancho head
of Family to Terry Maccarrone
Terry Maccarrone has
published the Shorinryu karate training
Manual and Teaching Syllabus from
Shiro-Obi Beginner to Go Dan Instructor •
Renshi Title 4th
to 6th
Dan • Koyshi Title 6th
to 7th
Dan
Hanshi Title 8th
to 9th
Dan • Kobudu Okinawan Tachi Kobudo •
Japanese Busshido and KenJustu
Terry Maccarrone and
Joyce Santamaria founded the original
Empire States championship 1978-1979
Terry Maccarrone and Nick Adler founded
The Greater Long Island Open
Karate
Championships 1980-1989
Terry
Maccarrone founded the St. James AAU
Karate Club, Patchogue AAU Karate Club
Terry Maccarrone sponsored Junior
Friendship Karate Exhibitions and
Karate USA Juniors Under 21 Open at St
Joseph College in 2000 to date
Sensei Maccarrone has
taught PE-101 Credit Physical Fitness and
Self defense at
St. Josephs College
since 1989 to present
Maccarrone Kresge
Martial Arts Book Collection with
Annotated Bibliography donated to the
Patchogue-Medford Library over 1,000 books
for public use.
Over 250 men and women
received blackleg recognition from his
program.
In1996 created the first
Junior Blackbelt title program in
Matsubayashi Shorin ryu for children under
16 years of age Kosei, Okuiri, and Shido-in
Levels to Shodan-ho.
In 2004 the 47th
Ronin awards were
established
In 2004 the Kokoro USA
Awards were established
Also see
more about Matsubayashi Shorin here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorin_ryu
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