How Cobra Kai Learning MiyagiDo Changes Karate Kids Rules

How Cobra Kai Learning Miyagi-Do Changes Karate Kid’s Rules

Cobra Kai season 4’s trailer reveals Robby teaches Kreese’s students Miyagi-Do karate, which is both a betrayal and a game-changer for the franchise.

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How Cobra Kai Learning MiyagiDo Changes Karate Kids Rules

The trailer for Cobra Kai season 4 shockingly reveals that John Kreese’s (Martin Kove) students are learning Miyagi-Do techniques, which changes the rules of The Karate Kid. In Cobra Kai season 4, Kreese is bound by an agreement he made with Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka): If Cobra Kai loses season 4’s All Valley tournament, Kreese would shut his dojo’s doors forever, but the same consequence would befall LaRusso’s Miyagi-Do and Lawrence’s Eagle Fang if they lost. Kreese also recruits his old friend Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) to even the odds in Cobra Kai season 4.

The Karate Kid introduced Cobra Kai as the antithesis of Miyagi-Do, which is the centuries-old legacy of Okinawan karate embodied by Mr. Miyagi (Noriyuki “Pat” Morita). The Karate Kid franchise has clearly delineated the fundamental differences between Miyagi and Kreese’s styles of karate. Cobra Kai is ‘the way of the fist,’ an offense-focused system that relies on striking first and showing no mercy. Miyagi-Do is a spiritual and philosophical lifestyle where karate is used for defense only and is structured around counterattacks designed to end fights quickly. In Cobra Kai, the disciples of each system, Johnny and Daniel, became senseis and believe that their specific style of karate is “the only way,” as does Kreese. Even after Johnny left Cobra Kai to found Eagle Fang, his karate is essentially Cobra Kai’s “badass” offense-based style with a few specific touches unique to Sensei Lawrence.

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In Cobra Kai season 4, Robby Keene (Tanner Buchanan) trains Cobra Kai in Miyagi-Do’s techniques after announcing, “To defeat the enemy, it helps to know the enemy’s playbook.” To get back at his father, Johnny, Robby became Daniel’s student and learned Miyagi-Do in Cobra Kai season 1. Robby bringing Mr. Miyagi’s system to Cobra Kai is not just a devastating betrayal but it’s also a game-changer for The Karate Kid franchise. Cobra Kai is often mocked by Miyagi-Do’s students like Daniel’s daughter Samantha LaRusso (Mary Mouser) for having no ability to block or counterattack, but learning Miyagi-Do gives Cobra Kai’s best like Tory Nichols (Peyton List) the perfect defense to compliment their furious offense. Indeed, Robby even shows Tory Mr. Miyagi’s “wax on, wax off” blocking technique, which means Cobra Kai now has all of the fundamentals necessary to win the All Valley Tournament.

Cobra Kai learning Miyagi-Do is a necessary response against Daniel and Johnny’s dojos aligning together. By combining Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang’s styles, LaRusso and Lawrence’s students like Sam, Miguel Diaz (Xolo Mariduena), Hawk (Jacob Bertrand), and Demetri (Gianni DeCenzo) are developing a hybrid style that combines Miyagi’s defensive tactics with Eagle Fang’s striking power. Incorporating Miyagi-Do into Cobra Kai’s system means Kreese and Silver’s team eliminates the advantage Daniel and Johnny’s students have going into the All Valley. Further, LaRusso may not even know that Robby gave up Mr. Miyagi’s secrets to Kreese, Daniel’s arch enemy.

The idea that Cobra Kai is melding Kreese’s style with Mr. Miyagi’s karate that was passed down from father to son for centuries is also a tragic insult to the memory of Daniel’s beloved mentor. Robby was aware of Mr. Miyagi through Daniel but he never knew the late sensei, and Keene may not care what delivering Miyagi-Do’s techniques to Kreese really means. Meanwhile, John has loathed Mr. Miyagi, who humiliated him in The Karate Kid movies, for 35 years so it must delight Kreese that he now holds the secret of Miyagi-Do in the palm of his hand.

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Cobra Kai learning Miyagi-Do while Daniel and Johnny’s students also train in two styles changes karate in The Karate Kid/Cobra Kai franchise going forward. Now, the teenagers won’t just learn one specific style but their karate will now be a hybrid of Miyagi and Kreese’s systems, just tailored specifically by their individual senseis. Cobra Kai season 4 blurs the line between Miyagi-Do and Cobra Kai’s karate styles and this means Miguel, Sam, Tory, Robby, and the others will become better fighters. But it could also mean the students may finally learn to respect the opposing dojos’ karate in Cobra Kai season 4 in a way their senseis, Daniel, Johnny, Kreese, and Silver, never did.

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