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The Yuishinkai Karate and Ryukyu Kobujutsu style

The style is preserved and transmitted by the Ryukyu Kobujutsu Hozon Shinko Kai based in Japan, and is a traditional Okinawan style that encompasses the legacy of many generations of Japanese, Okinawan, and Chinese masters and teachers.

1. Basics include:

1. Stances
2. Breakfalls
3. Punches and Reverse Punches
4. 3 Kicks and 4-Direction Kicks
5. 5-Knee Kicks
6. 6-Knife hands
7. 7-Blocks
8. 8-Elbow techniques
9. Tai-Sabaki and Balance-Breaking/Take-Downs
10. 10-Locks and escapes

2. Empty-hand Kata include all the traditional Okinawan kata (80 of them):

These Kata encompass those of the Shorin (Itosu style and Funakoshi school) and Goju Systems (Higaonna Style and Miyagi school) as well as Aragaki Style Kata.

Over a year, I started these in the following order:

1. Naihanchin Shodan
2. Pinan Nidan
3. Rohai Sho
4. Pinan Shodan
5. Pinan Sandan

From the kata, we learn principles of applications, as well as different levels of applications. The traditional ways of doing kumite based on kata bunkai have also been preserved and are transmitted.

3. Weapons    (42 weapons kata, 22 of which concern the Bo): 

 1. Bo
 2. Sai
 3. Tonfa
 4. Nunchaku
 5. Kama
 6. Tekko
 7. Tinbe/Rochin.
 8. Surujin
 9. Shuriken (Shuriken Jutsu) 

For each weapon:

1. Kihongata (Basics Kata, e.g. for Bo: the Go-Go-Go, i.e. 5 Postures, 5 Attacks, 5 Blocks)
2. Kata
3. Attack-Counter Kumite (e.g. for Bo, the 10 Kumite). Other weapon Kumite are usually done against the Bo
4. Continuous flow Kumite (e.g. for Bo the Ju-Go Kumite).