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I have recently found out about a IOGKF Goju-ryu club in my city and wanted to give it a go. I know that Goju has different orgs with different sparring rules so I wanted to check what IOGKF does. I found a video from the 1991 IOGKF World Championship in Okinawa and another one from the 2013 IOGKF Canada Friendship Tournament... the difference blew my mind.
Goju-ryu people, could you please comment - how did IOGKF go from this:
to this:
Is it just me or do the guys from 1991 look WAY more solid than the supposed blackbelts in 2013? @LEGS MAHONEY ?
If I am not mistaken, the ref in the 2013 vid is IOGKF World Chief Instructor Tetsuji Nakamura himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Okinawan_Gōjū-ryū_Karate-dō_Federation
Goju-ryu people, could you please comment - how did IOGKF go from this:
to this:
Is it just me or do the guys from 1991 look WAY more solid than the supposed blackbelts in 2013? @LEGS MAHONEY ?
If I am not mistaken, the ref in the 2013 vid is IOGKF World Chief Instructor Tetsuji Nakamura himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Okinawan_Gōjū-ryū_Karate-dō_Federation