Kubotan keychain takayuki kubota biography

Karate legend Soke Takayuki Kubota visiting Armenia

Founder and President of the International Karate Association Soke Takayuki Kubota is currently in Armenia to attend a tournament to be held in Dinamo Stadium on July 25 and 26.

Takayuki Kubota, born in Kumamoto in 1934, Japan, holds the title of Soke for his development of the Gosoku Ryu style of karate. He was a self-defense instructor for the Tokyo Police department in the 1950s where he was noted for his expertise in practical style karate. He has devoted his life to learning, creating and teaching the application of self-defense techniques to military, law enforcement and civilian personnel. He has earned black belt degrees in karate, judo, aikido and kendo. He is the president and founder of the International Karate Association Inc. He is also the inventor of the Kubotan self-defense keychain which bears his namesake.

"The International Karate Association includes 59 countries. I have a lot of Armenian friends and I always told them that I will visit Armenia one day. I am happy to be here now and hope that the tournament will be held on the highest level," Kubota told a news conference in Yerevan.

孝行(Takayuki)"たかゆき, Tak"Kubota formerly 窪田 aka くぼた

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Biography

Kubota Takayuki was born in Kumamoto-ken, Japan on September 20, 1934. He was a karateka who founded Gosoku-ryū, one of the styles of karate, in the 1950s. He also invented the Kubotan keychain for self-defense purposes in the 1960s. He died in Glendale, California on August 14, 2024.

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Self-defense keychain weapon

A Kubotan is a self-defense keychain weapon developed by SōkeTakayuki Kubota in the late 1960s. It is typically no more than 140 millimetres (5+1⁄2 inches) long and about 13 mm (1⁄2 in) in diameter, slightly thicker or the same size as a marker pen. The material is usually a hard high-impact plastic such as Lexan. The body of the Kubotan is lined with six round grooves with a screw eye or swivel and split ring attachment at one end for keys. The term is a genericized trademark.

History

The Kubotan keychain was originally based on a small bamboo weapon called a "hashi stick", an invention by Kubota's father, Denjiro. Its popularity grew from 1969 to the 1970s when Kubota, at the request of California State Senator Edward M. Davis, the former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, created the weapon and began training female officers in its application.

Concept

Applied as a weapon, some of its uses can be similar to that of the yawara stick or koppo stick. The principal targets in self-defence include bony, fleshy, and sensitive parts such as knuckles, forearms, bridge of the nose, shins, stomach, solar plexus, spine, temple, ribs, groin, neck, and eyes. It is 130–150 mm (5–6 in) long and easily concealable in the hand.

The Kubotan is usually held in either an icepick grip (for hammer fist strikes) or a forward grip (for stabbing, pressure point attacks, and seizing). Common uses include hardening the fist (fist load) for punching, attacking vulnerable parts of an assailant's body, and gaining leverage on an assailant's wrist, fingers, and joints. With keys attached, it can function as a flailing weapon. As a pressure point weapon, it can attack any point a finger can, but with greater penetration because of the smaller surface area at the ends.

For example, a law enforcement officer may wrap their arm around a suspect's neck while simultaneously digging the end of the K