Archive for September, 2005

Thinking of South Mississippi and New Orleans

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

The last post (Sept. 2nd, Fumio Demura) mentioned Long Beach, Mississippi and the Junior High gymnasium. At the beginning of my karate career I attended several training camps in this area, including Mobile, Alabama. And also a tournament in New Orleans, Louisiana.

After I finished the last post, I searched for information about how the town has been affected by Hurricane Katrina. I hope the school weathered Monday night’s hurricane, but I suspect it didn’t. Follow this link to an article written about what a meteorologist and his crew saw as they watched the storm move into the coastal town of Long Beach, Mississippi.

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Karate Masters, History – Fumio Demura

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

I stumbled onto this page while cruising the net. Seeing this man’s picture and name brought back memories of my college karate days at Auburn University, when we would attend quarterly training camps. After sifting through old papers and notes I found the handout listing Mr. F. Demura as the special guest instructor for the camp at Long Beach Junior High School Gym, Long Beach, Mississippi. The date was June 7th, 8th and 9th, 1985. No A/C – think heat and humidity!

I remember him being a very happy, jovial man, and his teaching style certainly reflected this. What a living legend this man is. I guess I had been training for about a year at the time of this camp, maybe a few months more. Fun times! (Younger times!)

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