


If you look among the pictures of famous Miyagi ancestors on Miyagi's wall, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, you can spot a photograph of Chojun Miyagi. Goju-Ryu is based on two kata, Sanchin and Tensho, formalizing the "Hard" and "Soft" aspects of Goju-Ryu respectively. In Cobra Kai: Daniel mentions that kata is the foundation of his karate.
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There's a few scattered hints of what karate styles Miyagi-do and Cobra Kai are intended to represent: Miyagi-Do seems to be based on Goju-ryu due Miyagi's parallels with Goju-ryu's founder, teaching Daniel one of their core kata (or at least a Hollywood version of it) and many of its principles, and, most importantly, Chozen (whose teacher was trained in Miyagi-do) wearing a Goju-ryu patch on his gi. On his official website, DeClemente still maintains the claim that he is the inspiration for screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen of the films that bears his registered nationally trademarked name, "The Karate Kid". The court viewed the films did not damage the plaintiff, DeClemente, in a legal sense and that his public personality as the Karate Kid was not notorious enough that the public identified him exclusively with this persona as well as no evidence adduced that the defendants knew the plaintiff, until the year 1990.

DeClement's case was dismissed, ruling in favor of the defendants. This led to DeClemente suing Columbia Pictures Industries, Jerry Weintraub Productions, and Jerry Weintraub on Jfor trademark infringement, violation of his right of publicity claims, and seeking damages for three Karate Kid films. However, Kamen refused to acknowledge DeClemente as the basis of the karate kid character, in which DeClemente is the owner of the registered nationally trademark name "The Karate Kid" since the mid-1960s and was known locally in Queens, Brooklyn, and Florida and to his business associates. Miyagi after Okinawan karate legend Chojun Miyagi. DeClemente also said Kamen probably based Mr. Kamen has acknowledged in a sworn deposition that the tough ex-marine he depicted as John Kreese in the film was patterned after Ed McGrath, who was also a friend of DeClemente. Kamen came to watch DeClemente teach in 1965 before enrolling at a karate school in Queens taught by Ed McGrath. He was 17 years old when he started training in karate in 1963 in Queens, New York, the same neighborhood where screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen started training in karate in 1965. DeClemente in "Black Belt" magazine dated May 1994, DeClemente believed he was the inspiration for Малюк-каратист (1984) character. According to black belt karate instructor William (Bill) J.
