Karate Kid Fan Documentary (Part 3 of 5)

Part 3 - Martin Kove & The Black Belt: A documentary chronicling the impact of the film "The Karate Kid".

Part 1 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xltJGnzOdA8
Part 2 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fELLiNOSGKM
Part 3 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iogdYnBbrYk
Part 4 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qmOg3Oa18Y
Part 5 of 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBjsG45Oi44

Written & Directed by Sean Cunningham
The Karate Kid Fan Documentary

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[Vindusmekk]

Wow man truely great, i love this part of your documentary. Very inspiring

[Dworkingham]

Thank you so much for watching!

[richard4120]

i swear that boy was doing taekwondo not karate still a great story anyway

[Dworkingham]

Yes, you are correct.

[kiridoku]

who did the songs? "Mr.Miyagi I gotta learn karate..." and the girl singing "paint the fence, sand the floor..."

Anyone know?

[Dworkingham]

The song info with links to the bands is listed over in the info section for each clip. Thanks for watching!

[SuperMike82]

@sabum1 No.... you have me confused with some else. I studied at Martial Arts World in Burbank, CA, and I only trained for free for a month because of a voucher I got while attending the first Yellow Belt graduation ceremony at the Do Jang. I've never had any complaints from ANYONE about bad hygene or anything else. Please don't make assumptions that you know who I am. I wasn't having financial difficulties until AFTER I left the Do Jang. I'm in no way being condescending, okay?

[sabum1]

@SuperMike82 I don't usually point respond to negative comments but I will point out that you trained free for over 6 months at our studio because we were helping you through a tough time with your career. I also vouched for you and tried to get you employment. You were asked to leave class 3 times because of smelly feet and the final straw was the complaints from female students that you were creeping out. I'm still here changing lives after 25 years. Best wishes to you

[JasonHoneycutt]

@richard4120 Exactly, yeah, it's Tae Kwon Do (plus you can see the Korean flag in the background and on the patches). Hell, the remake of Karate Kid was with Kung Fu so this is much closer.

(This is truly inspirational and I don't want to sound like an ass -- I was in Tae Kwon Do from ages 6-18, but, with the boards he was "breaking," the half boards were broken by the holders (super easy) and the full ones just need the inward pressure of the holder with a little 'pop' to break it.)

[RonaldReaganRocks1]

@THEORYZ1 I understand it was in Elizabeth, NJ. That is what they said in the audio commentary in the Karate Kid-the rereleased version. Listen to the audio commentary-it tells you all of these things.

[SuperMike82]

That Tae Kwon Do instructor, Keith Winkle is my former Master. Personally, I think he was more concerned with his own financial gain than in the wellbeing of his students. Several of my friends who are former students of his all feel he plays "personal favorites" with the people he likes the most. But I will say one good thing about him: one of my best friends has cerebral palsy and he taught her how to defend herself well. She is almost as bad off as this kid in the chair and she can do a lot

[BigOperaguy]

Likening KK to Rocky is hilarious!!!!

[THEORYZ1]

Does anyone know the street in Kearny NJ where they filmed the opening scene? I can't find it ANYWHERE.

[sw33n3ybill]

its truley beautiful that people treated that man with ceribal pausy just the same as any other human being and martial artist, the fact they built devices and made effort to help and adjust for him to benefit more and more shows effort for adaptation, and to me, thats what martial arts is truley about, being adaptable, as bruce lee once said, "be water my friend" :) im billy sweeney, im a karate student, and i love the movie the karate kid :)

[Roper122]

Great to see Martin Kove... although saying that ROCKY doesn't have the longevity of the Karate Kid is a bit of a stretch.

ROCKY is one of the few films that has easily as much cultural impact as The Karate Kid.

Having said that... The Karate Kid has aspects to it that ROCKY doesn't.