Quote Originally Posted by Tabias Prime View Post
I never understood the whole breaking wood thing, I have never heard of a piece of wood attacking someone and what did the piece of wood ever do to anyone....
Heh, yeah. My favourite line from Karate Kid II is:
Daniel: "Do you think you could break a log like that?"
Miyagi: "Don't know. Never been attacked by tree."

I also once saw a newspaper cartoon where there's a Dojo full of Karate students, and outside the window is a UFO that's landed and the aliens coming out to attack are made of planks of wood. ;D

Quote Originally Posted by Tabias Prime
With the whole Karate Kid issue, Could they not of used the same story but set it in Japan instead of china, that way there would be no confusion
in regards to the whole karate/kung fu issue...
I don't mind the story being set in China, cos:
a) The original Karate Kid wasn't set in Japan, it was set in America.
b) Karate originated from Okinawa, not Japan. And in the original Karate Kid movies, Miyagi was an American of Okinawan (not Japanese) descent and instructed Daniel in Okinawan (not Japanese) Karate. There is a subtle but distinct differnce between Okinawan and Japanese Karate (e.g. Okinawan Karate has tighter blocks and isn't as rigid and jarring as Japanese Karate -- it's more similar to Fujian Kung Fu from which Karate was originally derived from).

I'm just unhappy that a movie called "Karate Kid" is completely devoid of any Karate.