Fumio Demura Death – Japanese Karate and Martial Arts master, Fumio Demura has sadly passed away. He was confirmed dead on Monday, the 24th of April 2023. The news of his death has lef to many saddened and heartbroken. He was regarded as a legend in the USA karate scene, He was best known as the karate double for Mr Miyagi in the Karate kids films.
Fumio Demura was Karate and Martial Arts legend who is considered a pioneer of the arts. He was known as on who practiced the Shito Ryu Karate and Okinawan Kobudo. Over the decades, Fumio has been regarded as an awesome practitioner, teacher, and involved in many movies. He is often also referred to as “The Sensei” meaning teacher. He was born on September 15, 1938.
“He was Pat Morita’s martial arts stunt double in the first, third and fourth Karate Kid films (and the inspiration for “Mr. Miyagi”). Demura Sensei held the rank of 9th dan in Shitō-ryū karate. You will be missed Sensei.” – Emerald Coast Martial Arts Academy
He obviously didn’t give a shit about keeping up with the Karate politicians. 20 years of not communicating. Lol.
Good.
Fuck the karate establishment.
One of the reasons I went to kickboxing and MMA was the karate establishment
It’s nothing but politics after black belt. No wonder everyone just breaks off from JKA or whoever they are affiliated with and just starts their own shit.
My older brother is an SKIF black belt from Kanazawa. He said he wanted to start his own school closer to home and he was told he needed to pay a fee to register the school, the students needed to pay a few different fees for the org. and it’s affiliates, and a different teacher would need to do belt gradings AND be paid for that.
old school karate was cool
