Uechi

Uechi-Ryu America Karate Studio

1) What are the names of the senseis?

2) What are the names of the katas?

3) What are their meanings?

4) Who is the grandmaster of the style now?

5) Where is he located?

6) Where did Grandmaster Kanbun Uechi first study?

7) What was the name of the style before Uechi-Ryu?

8) What does it mean?

9) What does Uechi-ryu mean?

10) Why did Kanbun have to leave China?

11) Where did Kanbun go when he left China?

12) Who was Kanbun’s first student in Wakayama?

13) What was his son’s name?

14) Name the three animals of the style?

15) What are the names of the three original katas of Pangainoon?

16) What is the only exercise in Pangainoon?

17) What does kotegitae & ashigitae mean?

18) Who brought Uechi-Ryu to America?

19) What does the word “kata” mean?

20) What does the word bunkai mean?

21) What does the word yakosoku kumite mean?

22) What does the word jiyu kumite mean?

23) Who is my sensei now? Where is he? What rank is he?

24) What does NijuRokku mean?

25) Why did the name of the style change to Uechi-ryu?

26) Who are the five living 10^th Degree Black Belts in the system now?

27) How did Ryuyu Tomoyose get Kanbun Uechi to teach again?

Answers:

1) Sensei Mike Murphy Grandmaster Kanei Uechi

Sensei Robert Blasidell Grandmaster Kanbun Uechi

Sensei Ted Kresge Shushiwa

Sensei George E. Mattson Shushabu

Master Ryuko Tomoyose Zho Zi He

2&3) Sanchin -- 3 conflicts (body, mind, and spirit)

Kanshiwa -- Grandmaster Kanbun Uechi and Shushiwa

Kanshu -- Grandmaster Kanbun Uechi and Shushabo

Seichin -- Seisan and Sanchin or 10 conflicts

Seisan -- 13 conflicts

Seiyu -- 16 conflicts

Kanshin -- Grandmaster Kanbun Uechi and Sanchin

Sanseiryu -- 36 conflicts

4) Grandmaster Kanmei Uechi

5) Futenma, Okinawa Japan

6) Central Temple, Fukein Province, China

7) Pangainoon

8) Half hard-half soft

9) Style of Uechi

10) One of Uechi’s students killed a man in self-defense and he felt to blame

11) Wakayama 20) Formal Application of kata

12) Ryuyu Tomoyose 21) Prearranged Fighting

13) Ryuko Tomoyose 22) Freestyle Fighting

14) Tiger, crane, an dragon 23) Sensei Robert Campbell -

Hong Kong - 8th Dan

15) Sanchin, Seisan, Sanseiru 24) 26 Movements

16) Kotekitai 25) Students named it in honor of

Grandmaster Uechi after he died.

17) Arm Conditioning & Leg Conditioning

18) Sensei George E. Mattson

19) Formal Exercise 26) Masters Tomoyose, Inada

Takara, Nakahodo, Mattson

27) He would make up stories of fights that occurred and Master Uechi would tell

him what he should have done. He finally agreed to teach again.