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Org/Style: GoJu/Kyokushin Join Date: May 2012 Location: Germany Posts:2,022
It was japanese, not Okinawan. We were the guys with the fist on our gis. As to organization, I am unsure. Of course, we were organized in the German Karate Association (DKV - Deutscher Karate Verband) just as everyone else, but which organizational ties bound us to Japan I cannot say. Nobody cared for that actually, it was simply Goju Ryu, and on the more grand scale, it was just Karate, that's how most of us saw it.