The International Goju Shorei Karate Do Association (IGSKDA) is a martial arts organization created to maintain the quality and the purity of instruction of the different dojos that are affiliated with it.  Founded in Chile by Shihan Felix Garcia, it has expanded to the United States of America establishing a US branch. The Director for the IGSKDA USA branch is Dr. Efrain A. Miranda, who holds a Sixth Degree Black Belt in the style. Shihan Garcia and Dr. Miranda are shown in this picture.

The Goju Shorei style is in reality a continuation of the Goju Ryu style.  The term Shorei honors Seikichi Toguchi Sensei who named his style Shorei-Kan.  For a detail of the lineage of the style, please refer to the best Goju Ryu site in the Web, at http://www.gojuryu.net

The IGSKDA has a school branch in San Antonio, TX, this is the GSM Karate School. Under the guide of Sensei Diego Mesias, Fifth Degree Black Belt of the style, this school maintains the high standards of the IGSKDA.

The patch of the IGSKDA USA represents some of the basic precepts which underline the Goju Ryu style. In the center, a modified yin-yang symbol represents the three precepts of Goju Ryu:

 - It should be known that secret principals of Goju Ryu exist in the kata. 

 - Goju Ryu Karate-do is a manifestation within one's own self of the harmonious accord of the universe. 

 - The way of Goju Ryu Karate-do is to seek the way of virtue.

The external symbol represents an eight-pointed star where all its components are interlaced and are in reality only one.  This reflects the spirit of the Eight Poems of the Fist:

 - The mind is one with the heaven and the earth.

 - The circulatory rhythm of the body is similar to the cycle of the sun and the moon.

 - The way of inhaling and exhaling is hardness and softness.

 - Act in accordance with time and change.

 - Techniques will occur in the absence of conscious thought.

 - The feet must advance and retreat, separate and meet.

 - The eyes do not miss even the slightest change.

 - The ears listen well in all directions.