 Here is a bonus video from our exploration of Gojiru Karate with guest John Paul Williams. Find a link for the full episode on the history of Gojiru Karate in the video description. Now, Gojiru has seen itself become a major component in other martial arts as times have gone forward, such as Kiyokushin. Are there any ways that Gojiru has majorly impacted the development of subsequent arts that people might not be aware of? Wow. I think I list maybe seven or eight. I'm trying to think of the names of them. I don't focus on them specifically, but if they know who Kobuta is, the inventor of the Kobutan, his style was influenced by heavily by Gojiru. Several root styles or offshoots of Kiyokushin were actually offshoots of Gojiru first, and when they didn't get enough kata but they were so successful at fighting, they joined Kiyokushin organization in the 1950s, and they thereafter became Kiyokushin. And now they've become another version of another style law where they call themselves a different style law together, but they started with their roots with Gojiru and did pure Kiyokushin fighting and made quite a successful organization later on. I think they group out, there's a Kiyokushin group out in New York. They're not called Kiyokushin, I don't know at all. They have some regional branch, no, those here in California. Spectacular fighters. You look at them and say, oh, they're pure Kiyokushin guys. No, they're kata. They practice gikisai-ni, saipa, saienjin, sanseiru, and shisojin, and that's where they stop. That's all their kata. That's it. But you definitely see the Gojiru influence in there. No, you don't see any Gojiru influence in their umete at all, but their kata are 100% Gojiru. Interesting. Quite. I like to watch their school because it really draws my attention to just look at their technique and really absorb and learn from them. It's very distinct. Kiyokushin itself is very distinct. You look at it, you're like, oh, that's Kiyokushin. I love how it is a mixture of Shodokan and Gojiru. The group that I'm thinking of, that their biggest Gojiru is in New York, they actually elbow like we do in Gojiru kata. They elbow forward and they elbow here. Kiyokushin, I don't see anybody grabbing anyone from the behind and holding them and elbow in here. And I don't see Kiyokushin at all doing, let's say, step kick and land with the elbow in a spear type way. I don't see that in Kiyokushin. This group, these guys at this Dojo, yeah, we're a chest protector because it's coming. They use it extensively. Wow, I like this. All the evolution. Yeah. What works, right? What works? What's effective? Yeah, and when you find that right blend too, when you start blending stuff together, you get the best of both worlds. Oh, wow. Yeah, I've seen some Kempo guys who I think I got to do so. I'm stealing that technique. Yeah, I'm stealing it. Celebrate the art of Gojiru kata with this commemorative forefather t-shirt available only here at Art of Wendojo. Pick yours up on the product shelf below the video or at the link in the description.