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Gert Corfitzen Jürgensen

Hi, I’m Gert Corfitzen Jürgensen

Martial Arts Researcher
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Jissen Karate

To search for the old!

Gichin Funakoshi once said: "To search for the old is to understand the new. The old, the new, this is a matter of time. In all things, man must have a ...

Yoshitaka Funakoshi’s Shotokan

Yoshitaka "Gigo" Funakoshi was born in Okinawa in 1906. Already from childhood, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, which was also the cause of his death in 1945. Yoshitaka began his ...

Channan

The concept of certain kata being lost to the sands of time is not a new one. However, among these lost forms, none have been remembered and preserved quite like ...