In 1968, I fought and won the world middleweight karate championship by defeating the world's top fighters. I then held that title until 1974, when I retired undefeated.
I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.
I started doing karate when I was 11.
I used my Karate footwork to control the distance, and I use is as a penetration drill that I do, this is my speciality, the way I penetrate on people, the explosiveness and the timing. It all started with Kyokoshin and Sports Karate.
I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.
'The Karate Kid' was just lightning in a bottle. The second movie is a very worthy sequel, because you got to explore the Okinawan culture and learned about Miyagi's life. The third, as is always the case, was made because the second one made a lot of money.
I took karate classes for a few years. Taekwondo. I'd love to do a movie role where I could do some karate.
I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
Kyokoshin I've done most, but I competed in Sports Karate also, that's my style that I come from, and mixed with the wrestling that's how I got the takedowns.
I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!
I don't know karate, but I know crazy.
I've done karate quite a lot growing up so I did do a kind of quite long karate scene.
I did a bit of karate - I'm a blackbelt - so I know how to move.
I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.
My karate skills are very limited. I'm a green belt.
My father is a Japanese Shotokan karate master, so I have been training karate with my family since I was three years old. I got my black belt in karate at 13 and got introduced to judo and sumo shortly after.
You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.
People never believe it when they find out I'm a karate world champion. They don't see me as the type because I'm small and blonde.
Omigawa is moving forward like a karate robot
From 1964 to 1968, I won many state, national and international amateur karate titles.
