Top 5 Best Shotokan Karate Masters

[@oldlion5506]

KANAZAWA,TANAKA,KAGAWA,YAHARA,ENOEDA AND ASAI

[@robertlaschever3935]

Teruyuki Okazaki.

[@johnheaton5058]

Yep - all legends.

[@childofthe60s100]

VERY surprised to not see Terry O'Neill in this list??????

[@Li.Siyuan]

Yes, Terry also deserves a place.

[@renzolazzarin1774]

Li

[@renzolazzarin1774]

Magnifico

[@renzolazzarin1774]

Grazie mille maestri

[@brianthomas9220]

WHAT? In the Top 5? Are you serious?

[@MarceloAcuña-x3u]

Que gran video muy bueno! La verdad que me encanta estos deportes ya que soy karateca del estilo shotokan ya hace más de 22 años y la verdad es unos de los estilos más complejos para mí.Shotokan es mí arte Marcial mí estiló de vida mis respetos a todos los sensei.oss

[@ycc9369]

Hirokazu Kanazawa is among top.

[@riyahnajim]

Though I am not professional, I am fascinated by OSAKA techniques of kata.

[@jannafilla7400]

Powerful and excellent 💪👍👏 Oss.

[@nickxcore74]

The man who Sensei Trimble is fighting is my old Sensei Chris Hallam, what a great teacher he was to me when I started out as a kid back in the 80’s.

[@cj-rb8fz]

He Still is a great sensei / teacher

[@Li.Siyuan]

Where was Kanazawa Hirokazu shihan? I'd known him as well as a couple of the men featured here, since 1971 after meeting him at the Crystal Palace in London and assisted him in a number of his training sessions in the south of the UK over quite a few years. The last time we met was just outside Milton Keynes in around 2005 and I was proud to call him my friend. He had an unnerving control over his qi and had a story about how, when young, somebody was contemplating pushing him into a swimming pool whilst Hiro was not looking. Without turning around, he told the chap that it might be better for him were he not to try anything. Hiro was god-like to all of his students and I was deeply saddened when he died just over three years ago. Terry O'Neill is somebody also worth a place on this list - a phenomenal karateka.

[@iainbrown4632]

My father Colin Brown trained with him at crystal palace. Colin is facing a very different battle right now. I never tire of hearing stories of the great man.

[@nickxcore74]

The man who Sensei Trimble is fighting is my old Sensei Chris Hallam, what a great teacher he was to me when I started out as a kid back in the 80’s.

[@mikeh2613]

@@Li.Siyuan I was present in the early 60s at a meeting in Manchester when the KUGB was formed having broken away from the BKA. Terry was present amongst other great British karate-ka 🙂.

[@TheSomnathchatterjee]

In shiina version I am glad that you took a clip from Kolkata training session,,, I was there,,,,, the guys practiced with shiina sensei had black spots everywhere in there body wen we saw each other at night

[@adamkane7513]

Sounds like vitamin B12 deficiency.

[@TheSomnathchatterjee]

@@adamkane7513 yes yes karate induced vitamin deficiency perhaps right ???? I think you fought shiina before mo_/

[@DhanrajMeerpet]

Great sensei

[@ucciosaccu8118]

Shirai Case kawazoe Naito Himura Kanazawa

[@andpinto1]

This list sucks. Shiina in the top 5? Really? Kanazawa, Tanaka, Enoeda, Kagawa, Shirai, Yahara, Kase, Yamamoto, Kawawada, etc., all much better. Those I have named are also superior to Imamura. Your video is named top 5 best MASTERS, but then you focus on shiai results. Competition is a game that takes some of karate´s techniques and spirit, in a controlled environment, under safety rules. Competition is not equivalent to karate.

[@georgewilkie3580]

Mr. Pinto, as a American Shotokan Karate Instructor for 51 years, I sincerely Thank You for your very knowledgeable comment as to this videos list of who is the Top 5 Shotokan "Masters". During the late 1960's I had the honor of training under Shihan Ohshima. Later in life, I attended Yudansha grade only seminars conducted by the late Shihan Mori of New York City. (I am a New Yorker by birth). I began my Shotokan training in 1961 at 16 years of age. I am a Senior Citizen now, but I am in good health, and I stay physically fit. I am still instructing twice weekly. Again, I send You my heartfelt Thank You for Your impressive input concerning this video. OSU!

[@Li.Siyuan]

Completely agree. I knew Kanazawa Hirokazu as a friend, met Tanaka once or twice and Enoeda Keinosuke several times in the early/mid seventies. Both were real 'masters' of their craft. The others you mention I know only by reputation but going by that, I have to say that you're right. I also deplore the way competition karate has spoiled the art, taking it down to a level I'm not longer interested in practising it after more than 50 years of enjoyment.

[@mikeh2613]

@@Li.Siyuanwholeheartedly agree and I too feel that karate has lost its ‘do’. I began training in 1964/65 & Mr. Kanazawa was my sensei, a wonderful human being. 🙂

[@Li.Siyuan]

@@mikeh2613 Crikey - you're one of very few people who've been training even longer than me 🙂...

[@mikeh2613]

@ thank you but I ceased training some years ago, mainly for the reasons you mention. I felt karate-do was being lost. At the end of the day it is a martial art not a sport which, in many cases, it has evolved into. However, I am privileged to have trained with some great masters and karate-ka. I have actually seen Masatoshi Nakayama. I had the honour of being graded by Mr. Kanazawa from beginner to 6th kyu in one grading back in the mid 60s. I don’t wish to boast but I was amazed at the time. I revered Mr. Kanazawa and still hold him in the highest regard both as a brilliant karate-ka and, more importantly, a beautiful human being. As a result of his teachings I took Shotokan to Menorca in 1971. Most of the clubs on the island are now Shotokan and in 2010 I was honoured by the Spanish karate federation as being the pioneer of karate there. I am now 75 yrs old but am very happy to have left a legacy on the island.

[@ottosgarage7986]

Considering the whole JKA team trained specifically to beat Frank Brennan....

[@brucelevine6517]

yes but none of them had the Balls to fight Frank Smith from Nishyama's club in California Nakayama ordered him not to compeate

[@waynecolburn8849]

@@brucelevine6517frank was the best! Shameful he was order not to compete. Wish the two franks fought on the same team

[@BRS5]

@@brucelevine6517 frank was a scary fighting machine at an entirely different level than most other competitors. I wish I would be able to see a match between Frank Smith and Lyoto Machida with them both in their prime. It can never happen; they are from different eras but that would have been one hell of a match. I was in a class taught by Nishiyama at the annual San Diego summer class. Frank Smith was called on to free spar. It was so violent that my girlfriend started crying and she wasn't prone to cry. I enjoyed it and was happy that I didn't have to go up against him. She would have really cried had he kicked my ass all over the place. But I was a kid so he might have given me a break, maybe and not destroyed me.

[@BRS5]

@@waynecolburn8849 yes he was! He would probably be a star in MMA if he was in his prime today. He destroyed his opponents always.

[@SK-bk3yh]

You forgot Kanazawa and Kagawa

[@attilabohm9634]

And (ex)Jka Masahiko Tanaka the best!

[@constantincalota2646]

Any of this master will have their a**es kicked hard by MMA fighters...

[@oleshotokan]

My list? Kanazawa Hirokazu, Nobuaki Kanazawa, Murakami Manabu, Inoue Sensei, Higaonna Sensei, Tanaka Masatoshi, and quite a few more. Sorry guys, no Brits amongst them.

[@adamkane7513]

Higaonna Sensei? He's an Okinawan Goju Ryu teacher, not Shotokan.

[@oleshotokan]

@@adamkane7513 an Inoue was Shito ryu. Same but different.

[@kevdoran9918]

Brennen.

[@johnheaton5058]

Maybe Frank Brennan..

[@markmarshall9820]

I was a student of Charles Mack in London in the 70s.

[@karateinveins]

Can u tell plz what the scope of karate in western and karate is so popular in western as cricket and football

[@bornofgodjohn.33-79]

Kanasawa is one of a very good masters in shotokan karatedo

[@Aniontedone]

Where is Frank Brennan.?

[@david-pb4bi]

It was clickbait for the uninitiated, obviously meant top five below Frank Brennan.

[@georgewilkie3580]

1-Shihan Ohshima, 2-Shihan Nakayama, 3- Shihan Nishiyama, 4-Shihan Kanazawa, 5-Shihan Okazaki. Period.

[@childofthe60s100]

NOT "Period" - You have forgotten the greatest non-Japanese - Terry O'Neill !!

[@gunpark399]

y Mitsuo Inoue?

[@robertlaschever3935]

Without mention of Sensei Teruyuki Okazaki, it is not the top 5 list (if the list is all time).

[@nickxcore74]

Criminal that Kanazawa isn’t on this list.

[@michaelpamphilon7513]

Terrific vision and skillsets. As for the microscopic fly-specks of print down the bottom, which Einstein was behind that idea? 🤨

[@Hana-pb2nt]

Ale od ženy

[@ГореЛуковое-ю8е]

Имеет практическую ценность?

[@Li.Siyuan]

Наверерное нет. Этот список является субъективным мнением одного человека.

[@ГореЛуковое-ю8е]

@@Li.Siyuan а про федоришина Вы какого мнения?

[@Li.Siyuan]

@@ГореЛуковое-ю8е Если честно, как англичанин кто живет в Англии, я его не хорошо знаю. Спрошу свою (русскую) жену.

[@ГореЛуковое-ю8е]

@@Li.Siyuan у Вас великолепный русский для англичанина. Респект и уважуха.

[@Li.Siyuan]

@@ГореЛуковое-ю8е Спасибо Вам большое! Моя жена - русская с украинскими родителями. Кроме того, в конце 70-х и 80-х я работал разведчиком в Королевских ВВС 😂...

[@lesgreene2012]

Seriously, no Terry O'Neill or Frank Brennan???

[@CarlosHomeroEscobar]

Oss.

[@manuelajenjo4620]

vous oubliez oshima ce n'est pas normal

[@MrDebouvry]

cuando el karate era bueno y no la porquería que es ahora

[@ДмитрийДмитрий-е6г]

Цирк

[@torreszosimo1519]

GOD JESUS CHRIST IS COMING BACK AMEN SHARE

[@martinmajoch7449]

Andy Hug. The best Karate fighter of all times. The most of these 9 Dan clowns would'nt stand 3 minutes against a Thai boxer.

[@lukeanil1336]

Why do u have to insult these men who have spent years practicing this martial arts

[@itzdraw7782]

Read the title, this is shotokan idiot, not kyokushin

[@tommarti2922]

wer bist den du was du sowas beurteilen kannst ? ich glaube das du Andy nicht einmal persönlich kanntest !

[@mpolodz7233]

Well, Andy Hug was great but... RIP Master Huge was Kyokushinkay karate master, not Shotokan

[@pabeebe76]

No Asano Sensei?