Goju - Ryu is a style that mix forms " hard" (Go) with forms " smooth" (Ju), created for Chojun Miyagi, pupil of the master Kanryo Higaonna (1853-1917), that it was, so to speak, the Father of the restoration of the Naha You in Okinawa, Japan. Master Miyagi after passing 4 years in China, where he trained styles Pará Kua Chang and Shaolin Chuan, came back Okinawa and, basing on the beginning of YIN-YANG (the energies negative and positive that conduct the universe), joined the flexibility of the Chinese arts to the rigidity of Naha-You, creating the Goju-ryu - the Rigid School of and the Flexible one. GO = HARD; JU = FLEXIBLE; RYU= STYLE The Goju-ryu is the style of Karate that search the balance of the opposites, of the different and complementary energies. It teaches how to act: if with energy or calm, fast or smoothness. He characterizes for opting to positions high, but steady and powerful, next to the street fight. To practise Goju-ryu is to learn to be as the water: flowed and without form, therefore being able itself to assume all the forms; soft calm and, turning itself from the obstacles, or revolt, both with the power to exceed any obstacles, exactly the ones that apparently seem not to want to yield.

OHSHIKAI
The Japanese Association Karate-Do Goju-Ryu Oshikai [J.K.G.O.A.] appears in October, the 1st of 2003, for the hand of two Masters formed in the University of Karate of Osaka. Derivative of the Association Karate-Do Seigokai established for the Sensei Mr.Seigo Tada, which comes to die in 1997, and witch was faithful follower of the Sensei Mr. Chojum Miyagi, the Real Founder of the Goju-Ryu style that dates of 1888. The Ohshikai as Official Style, appears in Japan the October, the 1st of 2003, having as its Founders the Shihan Hansi Mr. Kusuda- 8º Dan and the Shihan Hanshi Mr. Kiyotaka Takasaki - 8º Dan, respectively President and Vice-president of the Association of the Graduated ones of the Club of Karate-Do of the Osaka University which dates of 1955. Recognized Officially in Portugal since January of 2007 the AKGROP (Association of Karaté-Do Ohshikai of Portugal), collective person of private law, without lucrative ends, exerts its activity in all the domestic territory aiming at its extension to other countries of the European Continent and has for objective, to foment and to expand the one practical of the Karate-Do, through, appointed, of initiatives that aim at the welfare mental physicist and of its associates, developing and strengthening the cult of the respect for the other, thus narrowing the relations of friendship between the same ones. For the effect the AKGROP can support financially, on the basis of proper resources, the accomplishments of shares related with its object or still catch external resources and financial subsidies. The Association has as Responsible National European and the Sensei Mr. Carlos Fernandes - 5º Dan, simultaneously member of the Direction of Association Karate-Do Goju Ryu Oshikai in Japan, Responsible Technician and Official Examiner for the Europe and Portugal; it still counts on the accessorizing of Council member of Ohshikai-Japan for the European Continent, Miss Susana Proença and its presided over by Mr. João Bernardino since its beginning for invitation and nomination of the Sensei Mr. Carlos Fernandes. Currently the AKGROP counts on more than a hundred of athlete of both sex in a fan of ages that oscillates between the 4 and 68 years, distributed for ten Dojos. They are principles of the Ohshikai, to exercise the spirit and the body with intention to reach the nobility of character through the trainings of Karate-Do. It stops beyond its intention to train capable people for the contribution in the development of our society, has also for motto to stimulate the people to cultivate its proper ambition, have a strong spirit and to character irreproachable, therefore thus they will only be apt to take the handle the concretion of these estimated. One of the Dojos, concretely, the Dojo of the Basic School nº 1 of Moscavide, to function in installations gently yielded by the Meeting of Clientele of Moscavide and whose responsible is the Master Jose Baptista (2º Dan, Trainer of Level I), acceded to the challenge launched for the Aragão Pinto Foundation, to train children and deriving young of socially vulnerable geographic areas. The AKGROP desires that the chance that however appears for the joint effort, for the practical one of Karate-Do Ohshikai for the young of the Foundation, can come to contribute for the personal and social formation of the children and involved young.