Some people may have been wondering if Muidokan Karate Kenkyukai is related to the excellent traditional martial arts school run by Dan Djurdjevic in Australia, of which the karate division name is also Muidokan. The relationship can be better explained by Samir Berardo's own words.
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In this video we used footage from regular training with sensei Samir Berardo to demonstrate and break down a few essential historical principles of the Toude from the Ryuukyuu Kingdom.
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Muidokan Karate Kenkyukai and the Puro Karate blog promoted the Old Style Karate Seminar: The Effectiveness of Historic Self-Defense Applications, with support from the Associação Karate-Do Tanaka.
...Founded by researcher and bunkai expert Samir Berardo, Muidokan Karate Kenkyukai is a society of people passionate about karate, with the purpose of researching, practicing, preserving and promoting this art in its original form (ie non-sport, competitive or merely aesthetic, but instead as a complete system of training and fighting for the preserving of life…
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The martial art we today call karate was originally developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom (located at an archipelago between southeast Japan and southeast China), based on the traditions and fighting knowledge of that area’s natives, plus the influences coming from arts and masters from other Asian regions (with some prominence to the arts from the…
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Father, husband and citizen. Translator with various published works, chief instructor of Muidokan Karate Kenkyukai and old style karate (toude) researcher, with emphasis on bunkai (the study of the meaning of kata movements – focus on the Shurite/Suidi kata branch). Samir is a black belt in Shotokan karate and Kukkiwon taekwondo, and has practiced Shorin-ryu…
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