Johnpaul Williams

Originally from New York now residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, Johnpaul Williams has been the catalyst connecting Goju-Ryu Karatedo practitioners across the globe. His ventures have ranged from the Gojuryu.net forums, the JKF Goju-Kai Networking project (defunct), and the founding of multiple martial art and budo groups. With Gojuryu.net, the author provided legendary, open and unbiased forums to all organizations. The Gojuryu.net (All Gojuryu Network) forums are now hosted under www...See more

Originally from New York now residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, Johnpaul Williams has been the catalyst connecting Goju-Ryu Karatedo practitioners across the globe. His ventures have ranged from the Gojuryu.net forums, the JKF Goju-Kai Networking project (defunct), and the founding of multiple martial art and budo groups. With Gojuryu.net, the author provided legendary, open and unbiased forums to all organizations. The Gojuryu.net (All Gojuryu Network) forums are now hosted under www.gojuryu.network a free online magazine. Johnpaul is also credited for a range of projects from the digital character model of "Street Fighter" (IMDb: 1987) to, distinctive Goju-Ryu Karatedo research & contributions to multiple publications and articles. Here, the author has constructed arguably the most historically accurate chronology of Goju-Ryu Karatedo to date. He continues to travel to Japan annually for Karatedo research, study and training. See less