The Official World site for the Okinawa Butoryu GohokaN Hozon kai!
Kokoro 心 "Heart Within"
Learn Real, Original,Authentic, Traditional Okinawa Butozan (Konan Budo) Tsuruken as taught on Okinawa! The original teachings of Yabiku Takaya~Sensei.


About Us
From China, Taiwan to Okinawa & beyond!
Ichariba chode 行逢りば兄弟
An Okinawan expression:
“Though we meet but once, even by chance, we are friends for life.”
A closer connection to our ancestral warrior lineage. Hakutsuruken as originally taught by Yabiku Takaya Sensei & Katsuo Kishimoto Sensei of Okinawa!

Soken Kan Karatedo:
The Karatedo of Hohan Soken Sensei!

Okinawa Tsuruken
Original, Authentic Okinawan Crane-Fist Yabiku-Ha Style!

Ryukyu Kobudo:
Ryukyu Kobudo of the Katsuo Kishimoto Lineage!

The best choice for martial arts training!
World-President: Juan Galva
範士 Hanshi
- 10th Dan: Okinawa Butoryu Gohokan
- World representative
Your best source for martial arts knowledge!
The Okinawa Butoryu Gohokan Hozon Kai houses the twin lineages & Teachings of the Butozan of China & the Butoryu Gohokan of Okinawa. We are the only school in the world that can bring you these time-honored traditions!
A Very Important Notice!
Observing the many self-serving groups whose headmasters post with abandon ever-increasing ego-based photos and information designed to allow them to thrust their egos onto others, we within the Okinawa Butoryu Gohokan Hozon Kai and its related divisions feel our aim is best served to walk our own path and to share what we have with those who walk not behind us or in front of us but beside us!
The Okinawa Butoryu Gohokan Hozon Kai is not just for Tsuruken but also has divisions for the Soken Kan, Ryukyu Kobudo, Naha-Te and Shuri-Te and even Japanese Koryu. We don’t tell people what to do; rather, we let them decide what direction they will take with our backing and research material via our Members Only Informational pages, etc. The Okinawa Butoryu Gohokan Hozon Kai ….. is not a style but a watershed or group for sharing our research! Doing things this way helps us maintain a healthy attitude to the arts and seeks to avoid the ego and political manifestations seen in other groups and styles. No one is the “Boss”. No one tells the our members what to do with the information we share other than to keep it private and not give it away to people outside of the group! No one person says, “I have it all and am the only true one”
This makes the Okinawa Butoryu Gohokan Hozon Kai truly unique within the Martial Arts World!

OBGK WORLD VICE-PRESIDENT: ALBERTO CRUZ KYOSHI

OBGHK SOKEN KAN KARATEDO HOZON KAI ADVISOR: ED GOBLE SENSEI
Inheritor of Machimura-di Hakutsuru from David Lukasiak who was a direct inheritor from Soken Hohan Sensei and Nishihira Kosei Sensei.

OBGHK OKINAWA BUTORYU GOHOKAN RYUKYU KOBUDO / SOKEN KAN KOBUDO DIRECTOR: GARY SASS KYOSHI

OBGHK NAHA-TE / GOJU ARTS DIRECTOR: DEAN CHAPMAN HANSHI

OBGHK SHURI-TE / SHORIN RYU KARATEDO DIVISION DIRECTOR: DANITA CLARKE HANSHI

OBGHK TECHNICAL ADVISOR: RON GONINON ~ SENSEI
Okinawa Butoryu Gohokan Butozan direct inheritor from Yabiku Takaya~Sensei.

To enquire about our various Divisions, please email okinawabutoryugohokan@gmail.com