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'Everyone was doing the crane kick': Ralph Macchio on making The Karate Kid

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calendar_month2023-09-18
corporate_fareGuardian News & Media

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Gilbert, Ben. (2023-09-18). 'Everyone was doing the crane kick': Ralph Macchio on making The Karate Kid

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Ralph Macchio
1961 · Huntington

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Guardian 'How we made' interviews on The Karate Kid (1984). Ralph Macchio states firsthand that apart from four childhood jiu-jitsu lessons he had no martial arts experience, and that before filming he was trained in Okinawan Goju-ryu karate by Pat E. Johnson. Screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen describes his own Goju-ryu background tracing to Chojun Miyagi as the basis for the film's training content.

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). 'Everyone was doing the crane kick': Ralph Macchio on making The Karate Kid. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M0TT32BH0QE6JZXCCY9S5WQR - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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