Explaination of Dai Ni Goju Emblem

Explaination of the Dai Ni Gojuryu Emblem

The Dai Ni Gojuryu Emblem was designed by a kyu level student in 1976. It is composed of a Yellow and Red Yin / Yang with a vertical punching fist, surrounded by a black outer circle.

The student who developed this emblem based it upon a lecture by Tukerii Sensei concerning his philosophy of hard and soft (goju) in karate. The Yin and Yang represent hardness (Red) and softness (Yellow) in their natural balance. The forces complement each other, but opposites. The inner circles of opposite color within each crescent indicates that hard and soft are continually in a flux, and that each can encompass the other.

The vertical fist in the center represents a disruption in the harmony, that hard can be used to interrupt soft, and soft to interrupt hard, but only by remaining at the same time as both hard and soft is it possible to overcome the whole.

Thus, to a Dai Ni Goju practitioner hardness and softness are both internal and external simultaneously. By responding with a harmonious opposite to any given state within the flux of hard and soft one is attacked with, the attack is neturalized and defense is effected. The black outer ring indicates that there is much yet to be discovered.

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