There’s a PAL/R4 box set available in Australia. Other countries sometimes get special edition DVDs faster than the U.S., so maybe there’s hope??
His opponent saw the first movie and worked out a defense. 
:smack:
I don’t know why I didn’t think of that.
The Crane is like the Picard Maneuver; it only works once.
Terry Silver is my hero. Also, Snake and Dennis.
Can anybody point me to some relatively current non-IMDb images of Ralph Macchio online? (For some reason, the full-sized images in the IMDb galleries do not load for me. Can anybody help me with that? Damn annoying. :mad: )
Anyhoo…
Yeah, but I bet you were totally awesome at blocking the low-kick.
This got to me a little. But, then I realized that he was using it on a guy from Okinawa – a guy who had obviously seen it before.
Of course the guy wasn’t too aware of the “swinging drum”, so I could be wrong.
I also think that versions of the crane were used in Shrek and maybe Matrix.
stalker
That was a hysterically bad movie.
The most ridiculous part was the one where Pat Morita comes into the dojo, kicks three guys’ butts… and then has to stand there as the guys he’s just beaten up laugh at him!
You wouldn’t think 3 guys who’d just been pushed around by a senior citizen could still do such maniacally villainous laughs!
Pardon my total ignorance of martial arts, but is “The Crane Technique” an actual manouver at all, or is it based on a real manouver? I’m not talking about the “impossible to defend” part, just does it have any basis in reality.
I’m guessing no, because a) like I said I don’t know any martial arts, but it looks rather easy to defend b) it seems you would start out in a very vulnerable position (on one tip-toe) and end up in a very vulnerable position, and c) it doesn’t look like a very powerful kick. I’ve just always been curious and would like to know for sure.
Thanks.
While there is a Crane style of kung fu, it bears little resemblance to the Crane technique of Karate Kid. Your hands are formed like Ralph Macchios, but you use them for striking, like the beak of a crane.
You could do a kick like that, I suppose, but you’d do it all at once, not just stand there on one foot, with your arms out of position to defend, and hope your opponent ran into your foot.
And “impossible to defend”? ::snort:: I think circling around behind the doofus on one leg would be sufficient.
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Justin
No, I think the whole thing with it not working on the second guy was that he was way off balance. I remember, he set it up really quickly without getting prepared first, and almost tipped over while he was doing it. I think Miyagi tells him in the first one that balance is the most important part of it.
The Crane technique is also one of the twelve basic techniques of hsing-i, and there you do kick that way. From what I’ve seen, it’s pretty close to the Karate Kid technique.