Ryu Kyu Kobudo

It is the traditional art of self-defense with farming tools from the island of Okinawa. This Martial Art refers to the use of a tool as an extension of the body to achieve greater focus, execution, coordination, and technique. To obtain the Black Belt in this art the student must handle five different weapons: Bo, Sai, Tonfa, Kama and Nunchaku.
Daishi Jorge Sosa Sr. learned the art of Kobudō directly from Master Kenei Mabuni, eldest son of the founder of Shito-Ryu, Grand Master Kenwa Mabuni, who is known as one of the Masters with much knowledge in Martial Arts and who trained with outstanding Masters such as Sakumoto, Aragaki or Arakaki, Yabiku Moden, Chinen Sanda, Sueyoshi Jino, and Tawada Simbuku.
Among the greatest achievements and satisfactions of Sosa-Kai, we have the demonstration carried out by Daishi Jorge Sosa Sr. and Hanshi Jorge Sosa Jr. in the Coca-Cola stadium in Pretoria, South Africa with an audience of about 20,000 people and then in the city of Johannesburg in 1973; also, they were requested to give Kobudo training in the different Dojos of Johannesburg.

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This article was written by María Sosa, one of our in-house Budo historians dedicated to research and document the different ways Japanese Martial Arts came to America.