Cobra Kai

Eight senseis have learn bookman Miyagi - Do karate inCobra KaiandThe Karate Kidmovies . Along with Cobra Kai , Miyagi - Do is one of the two elemental dojos inThe Karate KidandCobra Kaisaga . Miyagi - Do is the form of karate taught and utilize by the enfranchisement ’s heroes , starting with Mr. Miyagi ( Noriyuki " Pat " Morita ) and Daniel LaRusso ( Ralph Macchio ) , as well as Julie Barnes ( Hilary Swank ) . uprise in Okinawa , Miyagi - Do is the Miyagi family ’s karate legacy punctuate ego - defence , spiritual nirvana , and ego - betterment .

Miyagi - Do is eternally remember for theunusual methods that Mr. Miyagi used to train Daniel LaRussoinThe Karate Kid . Miyagi ordered Daniel - san to perform workaday task like paint his fence , sanding his floor , and waxing his car . The mazed LaRusso was shock to learn that those task taught him muscle memory to perform counters and blocks . Miyagi - Do is also famed for the crane proficiency Daniel - san used inThe Karate Kid . Miyagi - Do has since evolved throughThe Karate Kidfilms andCobra Kaihas added new dimensionsas more senseis learn theMiyagi style of karate to a fresh genesis of students .

8Shimpo Miyagi

The First Miyagi-Do Sensei

Shimpo Miyagi is the first Miyagi - Do sensei and the originator of the Miyagi family ’s karate . As Mr. Miyagi explain to Daniel LaRusso inThe Karate Kid Part II , Shimpo was a fisherman from Okinawa . In 1625 , the compounding of"strong nothingness , strong sake , but no fish"caused Shimpo to fall asleep on his boat and heat up off the coast of China.10 days afterwards , Shimpo Miyagi returned to Okinawa with his married woman , two child , and the secret of Miyagi - Do karate .

Cobra Kai season 6 image the chief bunch head to Barcelona for the Sekai Taikai , where they face off against a novel bunch of fighters ( & their doer ) .

Sensei Shimpo Miyagi trained in Chinese matrimonial humanistic discipline , from which he derived Miyagi - Do’s"open hand"style karate . Shimpo established the Miyagi tradition of karate passed down from father to Word . Miyagi - Do ’s combat and defense styles admit thecrane bitch technique , the shot barrel technique , and the kata Tensho , which is where Mr. Miyagi’s"wax on , wax off"comes from . While Miyagi - Do is principally used for ego - United States Department of Defense , belated Miyagi - Do senseis produce a deadlier version to fight encroacher to Okinawa .

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7Mr. Miyagi’s Father

Miyagi’s Father Taught His Son And Sato

Mr. Miyagi ’s father ( Charlie Tanimoto ) was bring out inThe Karate Kid Part II.Miyagi return to Okinawa with Daniel LaRusso to see his dying father after 40 twelvemonth of voluntary deportee in the United States . Like many Miyagi before him , Mr. Miyagi ’s father was an Okinawan fisherman . As a boy , Mr. Miyagi begged his father to also train his good friend , Sato Toguchi , in the Miyagi family ’s karate , a break in custom that would have ramification inThe Karate Kid Part IIandCobra Kai .

" If I am dreaming , let me never awake . If I am alive , let me never sleep,“were the dying dustup of Mr. Miyagi ’s father

After Mr. Miyagi leave behind Okinawa to avoid a fight to the death against Sato ( Danny Kamekona ) over Yukie ( Nobu McCarthy ) , Sato bear on to learn Miyagi - Do karate from the older Miyagi . Out of respect for his sensei , Sato intermit his challenge to Mr. Miyagi so they could mourn him inThe Karate Kid Part II.Evidently , Mr. Miyagi ’s father and Yukie always hump how to contact his prodigal Logos , but refrain out of respect for his determination until Mr. Miyagi ’s father was on his deathbed .

Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, Daniel LaRusso in Cobra Kai, and Johnny Lawrence in Cobra Kai

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6Mr. Miyagi

Taught Daniel LaRusso And Julie Barnes

Mr. Miyagi , known as Nariyoshi Miyagi and by his alias , Keisuke Miyagi , is the sensei to Daniel LaRusso and Julie Barnes in the first fourKarate Kidmovies . Born in 1925 in Tomi Village , Okinawa , Mr. Miyagi was a adorn World War II hero with the 442nd Infantry regiment whose married woman and Logos die in childbirth . Much ofMr . Myagi ’s life story is a mystery . Mr. Miyagi was a maintenance man at the South Seas apartment complex in 1984 when he met Daniel LaRusso . Miyagi condition Daniel - san in Miyagi - Do karate so he could gain the regard of his Cobra Kai bullies as the All Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament .

Cobra Kai step by step decide all the mysteries surround what happened with Mr. Miyagi and the Sekai Taikai international tournament in the forties .

Mr. Miyagi continue to instruct his good protagonist , Daniel - san , inThe Karate Kid Part IIandIII , with LaRusso winning his second All Valley tournament in 1985 . In 1994’sThe Next Karate Kid , Mr. Miyagi went to Boston and met Julie Barnes , the granddaughter of his late wartime friend , Jack Barnes . Miyagi trained Julie in karate to help her have the best her anger and to defeat her bullies , the Alpha Elite . Mr. Miyagi go by away in 2011 before the events ofCobra Kai , but he is revered as the finest person , the best soldierlike artist , and the wisest sensei inThe Karate KidandCobra Kaisaga .

Daniel and Miyagi looking at Shimpo Sensei

5Sato Toguchi

Taught Chozen And Other Students In His Own Dojo

Sato Toguchi was the good booster and rival of Mr. Miyagi . The son of the wealthiest man in Okinawa , Sato followed in his father ’s footsteps to become a wealthy and powerful industrialist who owned much of Okinawa . When Sato was a boy , Mr. Miyagi begged his Father-God to also check Sato in karate . ButSato and Nariyoshi had a falling out because they both loved Yukie , but she was bethrothed to Sato . Rather than fight Sato to the death , Miyagi left Okinawa for the United States .

In 1972 , Sato met and became rival with Master Kim Sun - Yung ( C.S. Lee ) , the laminitis of Cobra Kai .

Sato did not see Mr. Miyagi again untilThe Karate Kid Part IIin 1985 . In the interim old age , Sato opened his own dojo and teach Miyagi - Do to American soldier as well as his nephew , Chozen Toguchi ( Yuji Okumoto).AfterSato reconciled with Miyagi and had a change of affection , he improved the go circumstance of Tomi Village in Okinawa . The redeemed Sato also aid Chozen recover his honor , prevented him from committing self-annihilation , and guided his nephew to become a better someone .

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4Daniel LaRusso

Opened Miyago-Do Dojo To Combat Cobra Kai

Daniel LaRusso officially became a Miyagi - Do sensei when he reopened the dojo to combat the spread of Cobra Kai in the San Fernando Valley . Although karate was fundamental to his teenaged eld , Daniel put fighting behind him as an adult . LaRusso has a crime syndicate and lives an loaded life running LaRusso Luxury Motors with his wife , Amanda ( Courtney Henggeler ) . But when Johnny Lawrence ( William Zabra ) boot Cobra Kai , Daniel matte up he need to open up Miyagi - Do to learn Mr. Miyagi ’s brand of karate to the Kyd of the Valley .

Daniel LaRusso is question everything he knew about Mr. Miyagi in Cobra Kai season 6 , part 2 , and his recent sensei has a dark lesson for him .

As a sensei , Daniel - san mixes the method he learned from Mr. Miyagi with his own forward-looking touches . LaRusso ’s finest student is his daughter , Samantha ( Mary Mouser ) , and his Logos , Anthony ( Griffin Santopietro ) , also became profiicent in Miyagi - Do . InCobra Kaiseason 6 , Miyagi - Do became a blend of Daniel ’s pupil and former students of Cobra Kai , and LaRusso shares sensei duties with Johnny as well as Chozen Toguchi . Daniel - san ’s focus is always keep up the essence of Mr. Miyagi ’s teachingseven as Miyagi - Do evolves .

Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso and Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi in Cobra Kai

3Chozen Toguchi

Continued Teaching Miyagi-Do In Okinawa

Chozen Toguchi became a successful Miyagi - Do senseiin Okinawa . Chozen was introduce inThe Karate Kid Part IIas Daniel LaRusso ’s Okinawan enemy . Chozen is also the nephew of Sato Toguchi , who prepare the untried fighter in Miyagi - Do karate . The teen Chozen was arrogant , prideful , and trigger-happy . Chozen feel he lost his honour when he refused to aid Daniel deliver villagers during a typhoon . Chozen was further disgrace when he challenged Daniel - san to a engagement at the O - Bon terpsichore and lose .

Cobra Kai season 6 , part 2 ends with a tragic decease that echo what could have happened to Chozen but did n’t in The Karate Kid Part II .

However , with the supporter of his Uncle Sato , Chozen redeemed himself in the age afterThe Karate Kid Part II.When Daniel met Chozen again in Cobra Kai season 3 , Toguchi was a changed man and successful sensei . Now wise , blue , andinfatuated with Kumiko(Tamlyn Tomita ) , Chozen became Daniel ’s trusted friend and fellow Miyagi - Do sensei . As a sensei , Chozen retains a hard - edged trend than LaRusso , and he likes to apply arm like his favorite sais . Chozen is arguably the best all - around fighter among Cobra Kai ’s current senseis .

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2Johnny Lawrence

Merged Eagle Fang Karate With Miyagi-Do

Perhaps the most unconvincing person to become a Miyagi - Do sensei , Johnny Lawrence has somehow reconcile his preferred"badass"fighting stylus with Miyagi - Do ’s virtue . Johnny Lawrence grew up as a disciple ofsensei John Kreese ( Martin Kove ) and Cobra Kai , but he precipitate out of karate after losing to Daniel LaRusso at the 1984 All Valley tourney . Decades later on , Johnny reopen the Cobra Kai dojo to change by reversal his life around and managed it successfully , turn Miguel Diaz ( Xolo Mariduena ) into an All Valley Champion .

If only Mr. Miyagi could have lived to see Johnny Lawrence proudly wearing the bonsai tree and orange sun emblem of Miyagi - Do .

When Kreese steal Cobra Kai from Johnny , Lawrence open his own dojo , Eagle Fang , before merging it with Miyagi - Do so that their combined students could vie in theSekai Taikai international tournament . Johnny is Daniel ’s diametric as a sensei , emphasizing offense and ultilzing offbeat and somewhat abusive grooming methods . But Johnny also cares deeply for his students , especially his son Robby Keene ( Tanner Buchanan ) and soon - to - be stepson , Miguel . If only Mr. Miyagi could have live to see Johnny Lawrence proudly wearing the bonsai tree and orange sun emblem of Miyagi - Do .

Chozen in The Karate Kid Part 2 (ending fight scene) and Kwon in Cobra Kai season 6

1Mike Barnes

Miyagi-Do Sensei For A Day In Cobra Kai Season 6

Mike Barnes is another unlikely Miyagi - Do sensei , but he did train Johnny and Daniel ’s students inCobra Kaiseason 6 . Introduced inThe Karate Kid Part III , Mike Barnes was known as"Karate ’s Bad Boy . “In the 1980s , Barnes was fear for his wild elan , and he was often banned from tournaments . Mike was hired byTerry Silver ( Thomas Ian Griffith)to be Cobra Kai ’s entry to the 1985 All Valley tournament and to get the better of Daniel LaRusso . Barnes was part of Silver ’s luxuriant plot to separate Daniel from Mr. Miyagi and break LaRusso ’s flavor .

Mike is still karate ’s bad son even as a impermanent Miyagi - Do sensei .

However , Daniel - san shoot down Mike Barnes in the All Valley finals , ending Mike ’s karate career . In the years before Barnes resurface inCobra Kaiseason 5 , Mike married and opened a successful article of furniture business . Yet Barnes determine himself embroil in Daniel and Johnny ’s war against Terry Silver . InCobra Kaiseason 6,Lawrence and LaRusso bring Mike Barnes into Miyagi - Do to be an impartial sensei for a mean solar day , with the delegacy of determining which student should compete in the Sekai Taikai . Barnes ' training method are creative , to say the least , turn up that Mike is still karate ’s big boy even as a temporary Miyagi - Do sensei .

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