Great

@Kayden Sylas Shut up scammers.

No can defend how dare you go against the word of the great miyagi the great Mr miyagi

KARATE KID 1984 🐉

yes, but also for another reason...Chozen uses the drum more linearly, while Daniel is more circular, so Daniel's drum goes out of the fire line while striking

Being a musician and understanding tempo and timing has made martial arts irl, in film, and in fighting games so much easier to understand for me. The drum technique made it all click.

Negative, Chosen is not using the technique, he was never taught it. You can see from his stance before he begins his attack, he is just forward punching while Danny has him trapped in the drum technique, sorry he is NOT using it like Danny.

@Right To Censor Exactly. To Miayagi and Daniel, the drumming was a signal and reminder. To everyone else, the drums were an encouragement & support (a ganbatte 頑張って）to Daniel that was done following from Miayagi's action. Chozen, unfortunately, got confused and felt more shamed as he saw everyone rallying behind Daniel. It was as simple as that.

@Right To Censor agreed, during the movie even even insulted the drum as a "baby rattle"...he didn't know the significance.

No it wasn't for dramatic purposes. The 80s were a simpler time.

It's from a real martial art concept in Lions Roar kung fu. Though the way they use it isn't accurate....

So did he block then hold his hands together as a drum?

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No that is just jumping front kick

He sure did

that he did and he looks like Ryu

@@tarikbegic8580 thank you! Everyone keeps saying it was a crane kick when its noy

Agreed.

very good analysis

Exactly.

It was probably more that his master was actually doing it and supporting Daniel. He was 100% demoralized.

@@Blendercage no demoralization in those eyes when Chozen turns back to face Daniel, it's more anger and hatred.

Actually both Chozen and Sato forgot about the first rule of karate which is "karate is for defence only". Both of them are not a good karate men.

Wasn't Johnny also two time champ? What made Daniel's more important 🤔

@@jamesestelle7260 I think it was he wast the last 2 time champ or that he was the only one in his dojo so it would make it harder for him to win

@@glorycartagena3355 I'm just pointing out 30 years later he is still a hero for the same accolade. Just seems like an oversight on the creation of the story. I realize Cobra Kai was banned but even other sports recognize players no longer allowed to participate. Otherwise I think the show and movies are American masterpieces and the first movie should have received more awards. To this day I watch it and find the lessons of life to apply in some way.

@Meena Ramakrishnan Not the point. Champions can lose and still hold titles. I just saw it as a plot hole. Especially if No one other then the 2 of them won 2 years in a row.

@Meena Ramakrishnan like I said it's a Plot Hole. Also Johnny went 4 times lost the first in the final, won 2 times in a row, and lost to LaRusso in the 4th. LaRusso won 2. I know it's fiction but Rocky (another movie of the same lines) people often forget Apollo Creed won.

Yeah if he actually did the crane kick right he wouldn’t have even needed his other leg.

Always wanted to try goju ryu. Will look into shito ryu.

The best martial art is the one in which the student trains the longest.

Generally it is a pretty bad idea, lol.

It could be a good technique for confusing the opponent or to taunt them.

Do that in front of Rocky Balboa. Rocky will just say Arrrrrrugh! With uppercut at the same time

​@@ninthkaikan1544 Are you allowed to taunt your opponent in a Karate match? I'm not that familiar with Karate, but I do Kendo, and in Kendo "taunting" (with the exception of Kiai/Kakegoe) would get you a penalty point (Hansoku) or even disqualified. It's not good sportsmanship.

@@dermaniac5205 Sport Karate matches have some rules many would call stupid but I believe there is no rule against it in your average karate tournament. Maybe people will see it as bad sportsmanship but I don’t believe you get penalty points.

yes, is a great way of karate - also a Goju ryu paractioner here :)

That's true for Kata in general. Whether it's Karate, or Wing Chun, or Kendo, or Taekwondo, ...

Kata is not in wing chun

@@yvngmidoryia6762 Sil Lum Tao is a form.

Mike ..."WTF???"

Yup. Cobra Kai later re-represents it as an illegal move, but Danny doen't have a flip to give.

@@tttITA10 its an illegal move now. Not at the time when it was film

Depends on what competition circuit you fight on. Some circuits allow kicks to the head. Also, having recently re-watched the trilogy, the comment of the Ref about it being illegal to kick to the head wasn't in the first Karate Kid. It was from the Ref to Daniel and Barnes in the championship match in Karate Kid 3. I think because of Daniel's Crane Kick and other headshots delivered in the first tournament that the officials updated the rules for safety in the time between the two tournaments.

It's not illegal, Miguel did it too and got a point without hesitation from the referee

@@AshNorton FIrst, thanks for the respectful commentary. I have made my points on other videos and have been berated as not knowing what I am talking about, insulted, and basically told to shut up. All for stating my opinion based on what I watched and my own tournament experience. Now as to your point, yes, Ali did say taht to Daniel but she was not a certified Ref, Judge or Coach and thereby has a spectator's knowledge of the events. We never saw similar instructions given by officials until the third movie. Watch this video of the tournament - You will see instances of other head shots that got points in the tournament mainly by Cobra Kais. They were not penalized for illegal techniques. SO if these shots were legal than how is the Crane Technique illegal? Johnny himself was one of the perpetrators with a kick that could not be misconstrued as targeting another point but being aimed for the face.

Thanks! Actually, I was just watching your latest video on Cobra Kai. I've been a fan of your channel for a while. Keep up the great content!

Seems to me the Cobra Kai kids are doing more Tang Soo Do techniques.

Agreed. Bravo StoryDive! You, sir, are worthy of KZfaq.

Excellent analysis 👏👏👏

But you need to get closer to punch his mouth and when you do Daniel would do his technique.

The secret is that there is no secret. A drum technique doesn't exist. What does exist is a principle of movement. In karate you should always move like the drum. It's essentially the marriage of chinkuchi and gamaku and not that different from what is called Fa jin in chinese martial arts.

I read that one of the consultants for karate kid was a famous Shito ryu practitioner Fumio Demura. Demura taught an interpretation of kata where the postures were used as jumping off points. So a block might apply as a block, but then your counterstrike combo is your own imagination but based on your body position as shown in the kata. Looking at it that way, the technique Daniel uses in KK3 makes sense. If the hi-lo block position from the kata is seen as a trap (obvious opening), then one might visualise themselves catching the obvious attack that you are inviting, then throwing the opponent. Daniel centred himself with the kata movement, then laid the trap he'd visualised in over the years of kata training, returning to the source, internal reflection and control of balance and rhythm.

Thank you for creating the Crane Kick Darryl! Is it true they tried to get you to do a jump kick that starts standing on one leg, then kicks with that leg and lands on the same leg? Sounds almost impossible.

@@StoryDive Yes - that's how the director and writer described it to me...but I told them it wouldn't work....so I convinced them the double-jump kick would have to be it.

@@darrylvidal3399 Yes, when I heard they had written it that way I tried to do that kick myself. I didn't work so well, haha. Thanks for commenting!

If you look closely you can see Chozen attacking in some shots but they did obscure it. Maybe because Ralph wasn't performing it well. Maybe because they didnt have a real technique that made sense. I'm not sure. Chozen seems to attack but is stopped either by Daniel's strike or by a parry. I think it's a parry because Daniel appears to be swinging both arms. It is difficult to tell though. This is just my theory.

@@StoryDive I suppose they wanted close ups on the actors' faces. As you mentioned, in this case it's less about the science and more about the art. We all know in our [John G. Avildsen] hearts that Daniel will win; it's not how that matters, it's when and why. He prevails after the Crane Kick failed, after his other techniques didn’t amount to much, only after he's spent. His victory is assured because his will (chi) is strong and pure, fortified by his friends [and HollywoodJuice]. In contrast, Chozen has lost his love for life. His revenge is barbaric attention seeking. His audience rejects his wish in dramatic solidarity. The drum isn’t just to inspire Daniel. It’s to remind Chozen that all his sins upon them, previously swished away, do indeed have tethers and will come hurling back to him the moment they (the villagers) decide to pivot. Thus, his pride (as you mentioned) stupefies him; he plunges forward in defiance, as any man-brat would. (I fantasize that Daniel is face slapping Chozen, tiger claw style!) The rebuke is holistic: spiritual defeat, moral rejection, emotional punishment, and physical chastisement. It was more important for the filmmakers to tell of the characters exhaustion and resolution than Daniel's parry. (Though, I agree a "husband and wife" parry with counter strike is most likely what the filmmakers intended us to imagine.) Camera work from farther away would have diminished the climax as it required intense study of the actors faces.

Acording to the scroll you opponenet will expect you will kick him in your left leg but then you will kick hiom in your right leg.

It's a tragedy someone took the drum technique from Lions Roar and dumbed it down to this

@@knoxvalleskey1636 Haha I know. Who knew the secret Miyagi technique was drunken left right punches!