Asociatia Shorin Ryu Karate Do Romania, Târgovişte

The Romanian Shorin Ryu Karate Do Association was founded/(set up) in 1992 in Targoviste city, Dambovita district/(county) by Alexandru Dumitru Sensei (6 Dan), in order to train youngsters, theoretically and practically, to participate in interns and internationals sportive competitions, to spread Shorin Ryu and Kobudo
a mass sport and to promote talented youngsters in Romanian performance sport .
The Romanian Shorin Ryu Karate Do Association is affiliated to F.R.A.M. (Romanian Martial Arts Federation), Dumitru Sensei being a founder member of this organization since 1990 and to USKK Europe having the center in Peoria Illinois, USA.
During these years The Romanian Shorin Ryu Karate Do Association has obtained many titles in national and international competitions at kobudo, kata and kumite alike.
Before 1989, Karate had carried on illegally for a long period of time. That is the reason why this disturbance wasn't united. It is difficult to establish the veracity of these events, as there are no official documents which can give us the exact chronology of the evolution of Karate in Romania. There is a possibility that the circulated information from a generation to another, to be true or not. In the totalitarian regime, this discipline took place only in a few powerful centres, in the country. Nowadays this is spread almost in every district. From the beginning, Karate met the harsh opposition of the police, security and even of public opinion. The last one considered that Karate meant street fight and hooliganism.
In 1982, The National Council of Sportive Education forbade, by law, the practice of Karate in Romania.
The ones who were devoted to this disturbance continued their trainings and found methods by which they "fooled" the law, or they were continually changing their training places, or they even pretended that they were doing gymnastic, self-defence, judo, or modern dance.