Isshinryu Luminaries: There Can Be Only One

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Not long ago another Isshinryu Karate pioneer passed away, Harold Mitchum. It made me think of the list of those who were the first to bring home and pass on Isshinryu Karate - Don Nagle, Steve Armstrong, Harold Long, Harol Mitchum and Arcenio Advincula.

Of course, there were others but the light didn't shine all that bright on them. Their names don't trigger the memories like these mentioned few. 

They and their influence spanned the length and breadth of the great country from the Jersey shores to the dry heat of Georgia on to the sunny beaches of SAN Diego and up to the wet climate of Washington State.

These guys were universally known while others locally.

A combination of their students and those who followed created a family of Isshinryu Karate-ka that has spanned the entire globe.

It now comes glaringly obvious that those few first-gen luminaries of Isshinryu are all gone but one - Sensei Arcenio Advincula. 

Here is another fact of interest in that all the Isshinryu-Five were ALL Marines, Ohrah, Semper Fi!

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“In order for any life to matter, we all have to matter.” - Marcus Luttrell, Navy Seal (ret)

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