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Avildsen shot hours of footage from multiple angles

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Decades after their 1984 All Valley Karate tournament match, middle-aged Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence are martial arts rivals once again. While filming The Karate Kid, the late director John G.

Ralph Macchio told Uproxx that there are three new angles of the famous crane kick

The team behind Cobra Kai dug through the studio archives and found tons of never-before-seen clips that they were able to incorporate into the series as flashbacks. One of them shows Zabka’s real mother from different angles in the stands, which remained unseen until 2018.

However, what’s also interesting is that the name given in Karate Kid II was not Miyagi’s original first name

Many people believe that Miyagi’s name on his tombstone is a continuity error, as in Karate Kid 4 (1994), his name is listed as Keisuke, but previously, a sign held up for him by Chozen in Karate Kid 2 (1986) listed Nariyoshi. This means that it was The Next Karate Kid that changed his name, while Cobra Kai kept the name it was previously given.

Ralph Macchio/Kiry Shabazz (2018)

In Karate Kid (1984), Miyagi’s first name is Hideo, which is briefly shown on Miyagi’s dog tag, which is attached to the keys to the 1948 Ford Daniel got for his birthday. This show is the perfect mix of nostalgia, great 80s music, and badass karate.

William Zabka puts on this show as Johnny Lawrence, he’s everything

The plots are interesting, the action scenes are well coordinated and everyone and their brother is coming back from the movies. It’s wonderful.