Every Dojo Owner In Cobra Kai And Karate Kid (So Far)
Every Dojo Owner In Cobra Kai And Karate Kid (So Far)
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The Karate Kid saga is centered around the war between two dojos, but Cobra Kai has undergone many owners — all of whom have fought Daniel LaRusso.
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Here’s every character who owned a dojo in The Karate Kid saga, which continues in Cobra Kai. Originally the story of Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Mr. Miyagi (Noriyuki “Pat” Morita), who headlined The Karate Kid movie trilogy from 1984-1989, Cobra Kai made Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) the co-lead of the continuation TV series. Cobra Kai chronicles Johnny’s resurrection of the Cobra Kai dojo with himself as sensei, which Daniel then countered by restarting Miyagi-Do Karate in the spirit of his late mentor.
The decades-old rivalry between Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do (and Daniel and Johnny) is at the heart of the entire Karate Kid/Cobra Kai saga. It was an uneven contest at first since, originally, it was just Daniel and his wise old sensei against the entire Cobra Kai school, which was owned by John Kreese (Martin Kove). The Karate Kid Part II moved past Cobra Kai, taking Daniel and Miyagi to Okinawa, where LaRusso learned his sensei had his own lifelong enemy in Sato Toguchi (Danny Kamekona), who was once Miyagi’s childhood best friend and owned his own dojo as well. When the duo returned to Los Angeles in The Karate Kid Part III, they unwittingly walked into an elaborate trap laid by Cobra Kai’s Kreese and his wealthy partner Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith). But Daniel and Miyagi beat them once again. In 1994, Mr. Miyagi took on a new student, Julie Pierce (Hilary Swank), in The Next Karate Kid.
Since the All Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament is the climactic event of The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid Part III, and Cobra Kai season 1, other karate dojos have also appeared in the universe — but very little is known about them or their owners. Cobra Kai season 1 mentioned Topanga Karate, whose top student, Xander Stone (Talin Chat), was the 2017 All Valley Karate Champion, but the show didn’t mention who owned that dojo. Regardless, The Karate Kid movies and Cobra Kai are primarily about the two main warring dojos, and both Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do Karate have seen their ownerships change hands throughout the course of the series.
John Kreese – Cobra Kai
After serving in Vietnam, John Kreese established the original Cobra Kai dojo in the San Fernando Valley sometime in the late 1970s. Cobra Kai was financed by Kreese’s war buddy Terry Silver. In 1979, the 12-year-old Johnny Lawrence discovered the Cobra Kai dojo and was captivated; he would soon join and become Kreese’s best student. Under Kreese’s tutelage, Johnny won back-t0-back All Valley Under 18 Karate Championships, and Lawrence didn’t give up a single point when he won his second title. The unethical methods Kreese instilled in his students didn’t hamper Cobra Kai, despite the negative reputation the dojo earned in the Valley.
Kreese’s Cobra Kai dojo went out of business soon after Daniel LaRusso defeated Johnny in the finals of the 1984 All Valley Tournament. An incensed Kreese attacked Johnny and his other students in the parking lot after the event. Daniel’s sensei Mr. Miyagi then humbled Kreese, who was disgraced by the incident. All of Kreese’s students quit Cobra Kai and he was forced to shutter his dojo.
Mr. Miyagi – Miyagi-Do Karate
Mr. Miyagi was the handyman at the South Seas apartment complex in Reseda, CA and he seemingly had no desire to train any students in karate, much less open a dojo, prior to meeting Daniel LaRusso. After Mr. Miyagi saved Daniel from a beating on Halloween 1984 and he learned of LaRusso’s problems with Cobra Kai, Miyagi agreed to train “Daniel-san” to compete in the All Valley Karate Tournament in hopes that a competitive showing by the boy would earn Cobra Kai’s respect. Even before LaRusso won the tournament, Miyagi’s mentorship of Daniel-san blossomed into a lifelong friendship and they continued to train together for years.
Daniel accompanied Miyagi home to Okinawa and learned some of the origins of Miyagi-Do karate in the summer of 1985. However, tensions between them stemming, in part, from Miyagi’s refusal to train Daniel to compete in the 1985 tournament led LaRusso to briefly join Cobra Kai — which was part of a scheme masterminded by Terry Silver. When Daniel learned he was tricked, Miyagi took him back and trained him to successfully defend his All Valley Championship.
However, Miyagi-Do karate in the 1980s was a dojo in name only; Mr. Miyagi only posed as a dojo owner in order to enter Daniel in the All Valley Tournament. Further, Mr. Miyagi only had one student in Daniel, whom he taught privately for free, and Miyagi-Do had no actual accreditation as an officially licensed karate dojo.
Sato Toguchi – Master Sato Karate
Master Sato Karate was a dojo in Okinawa owned by Sato Toguchi. Sato was Mr. Miyagi’s best friend in childhood and he was from the wealthiest family in their village. Miyagi’s father trained them both in karate but their friendship ended over Miyagi’s love for Yukie, who was promised to Sato. Sato challenged Miyagi to a fight to the death but Miyagi, instead, fled to America in the 1940s and he didn’t return until his father was on his deathbed in 1985.
Sato’s dojo was located near Kadena Air Base and was used to train United States soldiers and military police. The dojo was primarily run by Chozen (Yuji Okumoto), Sato’s nephew and top student. Master Sato Karate was only one of the multiple businesses owned by Sato, which included a construction company. Other than Cobra Kai, Master Sato Karate was the only other adversarial karate dojo shown in the original Karate Kid films but, by the end of The Karate Kid Part II, Sato and Miyagi had made amends and were friends once again.
Terry Silver – Cobra Kai
Terry Silver was the multimillionaire owner of DynaTox Industries and he was the benefactor of the Cobra Kai dojo. John Kreese was his close friend who saved Terry’s life during the Vietnam War. To pay him back, Silver financed Cobra Kai for Kreese to run. After Kreese was disgraced by all of his students quitting, which left him destitute, Silver came to the rescue and he sent Kreese to vacation in Tahiti while he personally reopened the Cobra Kai dojo. Terry planned a massive expansion, with ambitions to open Cobra Kai dojos all over San Fernando Valley — but Silver’s true goal was revenge on Daniel LaRusso.
Silver engineered the circumstances where Daniel left Mr. Miyagi’s tutelage to become his student at Cobra Kai. Meanwhile, Terry handpicked “karate’s bad boy” Mike Barnes (Sean Kanan) and hired him to beat LaRusso in the 1985 All Valley Tournament. Silver and Kreese instructed Barnes to purposefully injure LaRusso during the competition, in full view of the audience and judges. When Daniel still beat Barnes and won, Silver and Kreese’s plans to resurrect Cobra Kai went up in flames. The city council voted to enact a lifetime ban on Cobra Kai participating in the All Valley Tournament and, with no students willing to join, the Cobra Kai dojo died its second death after The Karate Kid Part III.
Johnny Lawrence – Cobra Kai
In 2018, a down-on-his-luck Johnny Lawrence decided to resurrect the Cobra Kai dojo in Reseda, California in order to give himself both an income and a new direction in his life. Although he was eager to instill Cobra Kai’s “badass” philosophy into some new students, he reluctantly accepted his nerdy neighbor Miguel Diaz (Xolo Mariduena) as his inaugural pupil. After weeks of training, Miguel was able to beat the bullies in West Valley High in full view of the other students; this led to a surge of new applicants to Cobra Kai, including Eli Moskowitz (Jacob Bertrand), who reinvented himself as Hawk, and Aisha Robinson (Nichole Brown), Cobra Kai’s first-ever female student.
After Johnny was able to persuade the city council to end the lifetime ban on Cobra Kai, Lawrence’s black and yellow dojo made a triumphant return to the All Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament. Miguel won the competition and became All Valley Champion, which led to another jump in students eager to join Cobra Kai, including Tory Nichols (Peyton List), the dojo’s second female pupil, and Raymond (Paul Walter Hauser), Cobra Kai’s oldest student who rebooted himself as Stingray. However, Johnny’s success also led to John Kreese resurfacing; Lawrence’s old mentor ended up being a poisonous influence who deliberately undermined the progressive new direction Johnny intended to take Cobra Kai.
Daniel LaRusso – Miyagi-Do Karate
Daniel LaRusso reopened Miyagi-Do Karate with himself as sensei because he was horrified at the return of Cobra Kai under Johnny Lawrence. Although LaRusso still indulged in his reputation as a high school karate champion (he even included it in the branding of his company, LaRusso Luxury Motors), by 2018, Daniel hadn’t practiced karate in years. (Mr. Miyagi died in 2011.) After trying a series of underhanded tricks to sabotage Johnny’s dojo, Daniel finally decided to counter the Cobra Kai style of karate by showing prospective students “a better way” so he reopened Miyagi-Do Karate, using Mr. Miyagi’s house as his new dojo.
Daniel’s first student was Robby Keene (Tanner Buchanan), Johnny’s estranged son who lost to Miguel Diaz in the finals of the All Valley Tournament. Daniel’s daughter Samantha (Mary Mouser) became Miyagi-Do’s next student and the dojo gained more pupils — mostly ex-Cobra Kai students who were dejected by Johnny and Kreese’s brand of karate — in the summer of 2019. Unfortunately, Daniel’s business and marriage began to suffer, and he also found that the unorthodox methods Mr. Miyagi used to teach him karate in the 1980s didn’t translate to Gen Z teenagers.
Still, thanks to Daniel’s mentorship, Miyagi-Do’s students managed to win the all-out brawl against Cobra Kai that erupted at West Valley High on the first day of school. But Robby went too far when Miguel tried to show him mercy and Keene ended up causing a terrible accident that left Diaz in critical condition. Because of this tragedy, Daniel believed he failed as a sensei as well as failing the memory of Mr. Miyagi.
John Kreese – Cobra Kai
By the end of Cobra Kai season 2, John Kreese is once again the sole sensei of Cobra Kai after he stole the dojo from Johnny. Despite Lawrence’s (well-founded) suspicions, Kreese manipulated Johnny’s sympathies to allow him to remain part of Cobra Kai. But Kreese silently balked at Johnny’s ambitions to move Cobra Kai away from its core “strike first, strike hard, no mercy” credo and he undermined Lawrence while biding his time to strike.
While Johnny was out of town for the death and funeral of his high school buddy Tommy (Rob Garrison), Kreese moved to legally make himself the owner of Cobra Kai and cut Lawrence out of the dojo, as well as scoring the loyalty of Johnny’s remaining students. When Cobra Kai season 3 begins, Johnny Lawrence is no longer a sensei and the future of Daniel LaRusso’s Miyagi-D0 Karate is questionable — which leaves John Kreese as the dominant dojo owner in the San Fernando Valley.
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