The Karate Kid (2010) - October 5th

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Originally Posted by Headphone Czar

Still more believable then that matrix kung fu crap.. Ralphs flaws made it more authentic. He wasn't a fighter. That was the point. He was a over achiever.. That rose beyond his lack of skills with will & his guts.. & maybe his stance was bad, cause the director wanted it that way?

lol, nah, the director wasn't trying to get his stance that way. The referee in the film's tournament is one of the 3 founders of my personal style that I've trained in for 15 years. He has many stories of the making of the Karate kid that, some including how poor Ralph just couldn't athletically do what they wanted him to do and just had to make the best of it.

Amateurs like that don't make it through guts and will power with lack of skills. they get obliterated in one or two rounds, believe me I've seen enough good and bad technique and enough under trained fighters in a tournament. Guts and willpower are great among two evenly matched or nearly evenly matched fighters but a rookie against a skilled opponent.... it' can only get you so far.