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Many will know of Tino Ceberano Hanshi as the Father of Australian Karate and a one of our most prominent martial arts pioneers. Tino Hanshi being a pioneer, inevitably does what pioneers do best and that is blaze new paths for others to follow – hence the birth of Goju Kalis a combination of Tino Hanshi’s 60 years or more experience in the martial arts.

Hanshi’s Goju Kalis, is something that all styles, systems and practitioners can learn, develop and progress from. The name “GoJu Kalis” may incline the reader to take paths of thinking that Tino Hanshi has simply combined the Go Ju Karate that he is famous for with Kali that is one of the terms used for Filipino martial arts.

We invite you to step away from what appears to be the obvious intent of the name. Tino Hanshi is referring to the the Go Ju concept of hard and soft and the numbers 50 and 100 rather than to the style of Go Ju.  The philosophy behind the number 50 refers our first fifty years of life and training. In this first half we tend to explore the “Hard” aspects of training, but what happens when we cannot continue to do the hard training all of the time? We all get older, what are we going to do for the second batch of 5o years. Tino Hanshi’s answer, we explore the soft on the way towards 100, it gives us a new dimension to learn and explore, most of all it enables us to keep going and keep training. So onto the second part of the name “Kalis”, it is a Filipino term for martial arts as a whole and so, can be taken as a different word to that of  Kali.

Goju means the “Hard & the Soft” this balances and harmonises perfectly with Kalis to provide a holistic approach to training and practicality. This provides the balance as in the way of “Yin and Yang”, Hard/soft, Power/Flow and Strength/endurance . Hence it is the merging of these concepts that Tino Hanshi brings to us, a unified yet diverse application of Martial Arts study that brings to bear the benefits of modern training and scientific methods.