Description: Okinawan Goju-ryu karate, with its unique emphasis on development of external power and internal chi, represents a lifelong discipline integrating physical fitness, self-defense, spiritual nourishment, and a philosophy that one can live by in an evermore stressful and complicated world.
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Okinawan Goju-ryu karate, with its unique emphasis on development of external power and internal chi, represents a lifelong discipline integrating physical fitness, self-defense, spiritual nourishment, and a philosophy that one can live by in an evermore stressful and complicated world.
In 1983, I entered the dojo (training hall) of Sensei Anthony Mirakian and the U.S. Headquarters of the Okinawan Goju-ryu Karate-do Meibukan Association in Watertown, Massachusetts. Upon observing the class, it became immediately clear that this was no ordinary dojo, nor was Sensei Mirakian an ordinary teacher.
As Sensei Mirakian’s student, I came to understand that he was not only a pioneering force in the martial arts found in the West, but also was a living embodiment of the “golden age” of Okinawan karate, teaching the art of Okinawan Goju-ryu exactly as it had been practiced in the 1950s.