Karate Institute Shinkenkan 2.17

All styles of Karatedo utilize speed and power but there are certain characteristics of Shinken Kubokenshikai Karatedo that makes it faster and the movements more powerful than some of the more common conventional styles. Shinken Kubokenshika Karatedo has it's roots to Traditional Tominakoshi den (Shotokan ryu) and Miyagi den (Goju Ryu) and Ashihara Kai Kanand Gosokukai styles of Karatedo.

Shinken Fūrinkazan Karatedo takes the powerful linear movements utilizing the deep rooted stances and hip rotation of Shotokan ryu and combines them with the fast circular “soft” movements and short stances of Goju ryu to create a martial arts style that generates tremendous power and speed.

Miyagi den (Goju ryu) Karate often redirects energy, instead of meeting force on force like the Tominakoshi den (Shotokan ryu) style and is considered a soft style – “do not consider soft – as lacking of power”, Goju utilizes shorter rooted stances and very powerful yet quick movements with dynamic body tension and breathing.

Shinken Fūrinkazan Karatedo is the perfect union of Shotokan and Goju ryu the hard and soft styles and therefore is suited to all body types large and strong as well as light and fast. Shinken Fūrinkazan Karatedo is the culmination of centuries of martial arts taking the best of all styles to create a hybrid martial art with great strength and speed. Shinken Fūrinkazan Karatedo manages to fuse these two styles and in the process creates many of its own unique movements.

Shinken Fūrinkazan Karatedo is characterised by fast circular hand movements and very fast footwork. Offensive movements are explosive and utilize the full body power of the practitioners, creating tremendous force. The most fundamental of these movements is the unique footwork and body shifting movements called “Sabaki” that is characteristic trait of the Shinken Fūrinkazan Karatedo style.

Much of the footwork incorporates the switching of the position of the feet and hips. This switching causes the entire body to rotate and harness the power of the entire body into the movement. This rotation therefore puts the entire mass of the body behind the punch, kick or block, greatly amplifying the power, using the opponents own power against them.
There are also many short explosive steps, which translate to rapid hand movements and quick closing of the distance to the opponent. This quick movement translate into a devastating offensive attack that is very difficult to defend against.
The flowing circular movements also retains the momentum during the defence and allows this energy to flow into the subsequent offensive attack making for a very quick counter with little or no lapse in time or movement between the defence and counter- attack. Once the Shinken Fūrinkazan Karatedo defence opens up the attacker, often times the final blow will be delivered by changing into the classic reverse punch, which has no rival when it comes to power. Combine this reverse punch with the momentum generated by the Shinken Fūrinkazan Karatedo footwork and this powerful traditional punch is made even stronger by harnessing the energy and momentum generated by the footwork of the Shinken Fūrinkazan Karatedo practitioner.



Offensive hand techniques in Shinken Fūrinkazan Karatedo also utilize circular movements, at close range; circular hand movement attacks are very effective and able to breach the linear defence of many fighting styles as they go around the defensive limb of the defender.
Hooking offensive in combination with linear offensive makes for a very difficult and powerful attack to defend against.
All techniques taught at the Shinken Fūrinkazan Karatedo have been tested both in the street and in karate tournaments. If the technique is not effective it is not used.