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schema:description "American actor best known as Johnny Lawrence in The Karate Kid (1984), its sequels, and Cobra Kai (2018-2025), which he also co-executive produced. He had no martial arts training before being cast in The Karate Kid - he was a high-school wrestler - and was trained for the film by Pat E. Johnson, Chuck Norris's chief instructor. He continued training with Johnson after the film ended and returned to karate and taekwondo training to prepare for Cobra Kai, crediting karate conditioning with healing a wrestling back injury."@en ;
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ns2:researchNote "No rank entry: no authoritative source records any dan grade for Zabka; claims of a black belt circulate only on social media and SEO content farms, contradicting each other. His Cobra Kai-era (2018+) karate/taekwondo conditioning is not attributed to any teacher in available sources and is therefore not a separate interaction." ;
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ns2:quotation "In the Sports Illustrated piece, Zabka said he \"got the attitude for my character from Pat. I used his Ki-yahs. I used the way he stood with his hands in his belt.\"" ;
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ns2:quotation "He's a legend in martial arts. He built me up from nothing. I didn't know anything about it when I first started. I was a wrestler in high school and very limber and athletic. The discipline that he gave physically, mentally and technically was incredible; so much so, that I trained with him after the film was over." ;
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