In karate, the skills include punching, kicking, defending, and all the moves you see throughout The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai. Karate and martial arts, like nearly all sports, require a certain mix of skills and general abilities. Firstly, you first have to understand the role of a trainer like myself, compared to the job of the sensei, and where they overlap. Trainers and strength coaches love to argue about “sports specific training.” Some call it bullshit, while others assert the necessity to tailor the training to the sport. Or rather, if I had to take Miguel or Robby, Johnny and Daniel’s respective star students, and train them for the All Valley Karate Championships, what would their training look like? Training For The All Valley Karate Championships: The Myth And Truth of Sports Specific Training If Daniel and Johnny hired me to run supplemental workouts for Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do, how would I train them? How Can I Train Like a Cobra Kai or Miyagi-Do Student?.Because Daniel and Johnny have distinct teaching and personality differences, the Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do students find themselves with different issues to work through.Winning the championships doesn’t actually matter to any of these main characters.Where The Trainer Should Specialize: All-Around Development.It’s the Trainer’s Job To Do the General Training.It’s The Sensei’s Job To Do the Specialized Training.

The Job of the Trainer: General Development.

The Job of the Sensei: Skill Development.

Training For The All Valley Karate Championships: The Myth And Truth of Sports Specific Training.

If Daniel and Johnny hired me to run supplemental workouts for Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do, how would I train them?.

Oh look, a neat little table of contents. We can debate all day which approach is better (maybe I’ll write another article about it), not only for karate training but also for the development of these young karate students as human beings.īut the question I found myself asking is: Lawrence and the Cobra Kai dojo instead opt for an approach based on discipline and hard work. LaRusso runs Miyagi-Do with patience and attention to detail, noting even the way the students wash windows. Miyagi (played by the late, great Pat Morita), and the easy-to-hate attitude of Lawrence’s sensei, John Kreese (Martin Kove) in the original films.Īlthough there’s no clear “good guy” in Cobra Kai, LaRusso and Lawrence remain adamantly opposed in their karate training philosophies. There are moral ambiguities and imperfections all around, unlike the near-perfect mentorship of Mr. Both LaRusso and Lawrence showcase moments of success and failure, of wisdom and brash stupidity. While it’s a redemption story for Johnny Lawrence, but he’s no hero either. Lawrence and LaRusso, played once again by William Zabka and Ralph Macchio, find themselves sensei’s in their own right, in the hit Netflix show Cobra Kai.īut in Cobra Kia, unlike The Karate Kid, there is no good versus evil. More than thirty years later, though, the story doesn’t end. Against all odds, LaRusso defeats Johnny Lawrence from the Cobra Kai dojo. The boy from Newark hobbles back into the karate circle after injuring his leg. “Daniel LaRusso’s gonna fight? Daniel LaRusso’s gonna fight!”

Cobra kai miyagi do