Charles Murray
Me and Mark Murray (no relation) started teaching Isshinryu Karate when we were 2nd degree Brown Belts. We taught in his garage to a handful of fellow High School students.
Among then was Jimmy Mears (in white in this video). Jimmy was one of those amazing students that seemed a natural and took to Karate like a duck to water. Proof being in the pudding, three weeks after he began training, he entered a big tournament and took third place in a division with, as I remember it, 300 others in it.
Some of these had been studying as much as three years and were
mostly adults. We were pretty much still kids. Jimmy passed away a few years
ago and I recently sent this video to one of his sons, who himself is a fighter
of note. Anyway this is a self defense demo we did together in 1972 or 73.
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