Japanese Karate Sensei Reacts To "Cobra Kai Season 4 Episode 5" 

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When Daniel did Chozen's move, Johnny took Daniel down the same way Daniel took Johnny down on his 2nd point in the tournament in the Karate Kid movie. Also I'm glad someone finally noticed the random kids in the background talking at the end.

“Joonbi” and “kyung nae” are both commands used in Taekwondo (or Korean martial arts in general) which heavily influenced Cobra Kai’s style (from Tang soo do).

The Korean spoken by Terry Silver is reflective of Cobra Kai's style being based in Tang Soo Do. This was stated during one of the Vietnam War flashbacks when the officer who taught Kreese karate had learned it during the Korean War.

The highlander is an old film/ tv show. The slogan was, There can only be one. It's a hilarious line for them to use right there, imo. The writing is so good with the series.

I was laughing so hard at Johnny and Daniel going through a training montage literally the morning before their fight. As if they were going to get into fighting shape in a couple of hours.

Cobra Kai Season 5 in June!

Highlander is a classic action/fantasy movie series starring Christopher Lambert - the students are referring to Terry's appearance like him. If you ever watched Mortal Kombat (1995), he's the actor who played Raiden (but everybody mispronounces his name as Ray-den).

You should definitely watch the Highlander movies/series. The movies starred Christopher Lambert (Raiden in the Mortal Kombat movie) and the series starred Adrian Paul (the character that Terry Silver resembles). Both featured a lot of martial arts, 5hough the series made it more of a focus.

Hello Yusuke! Thank you for taking the time to do these reaction videos. Really appreciate hearing your input from your Karate/Japanese expertise. References you asked about: 1:01 Highlander is a 1986 fantasy film about immortal warriors battling each other until there is only one left. There was a popular television show (1992-1998) based on the movie where the main character had long hair in a ponytail just like Terry Silver. 4:25 Bayer is a pharmaceutical company in the United States mostly known for their aspirin. 5:20 Johnny is using a Sony Walkman cassette player. Probably the most popular personal music player in the 80s. 7:25 Cobra Kai is based on the Korean martial art Tang Soo Do. In Season 3 Episode 6, we see that Kreese and Silver studied under an Army captain (who learned Tang Soo Do from Master Kim Sun Yung during the Korean War). This same master was mentioned in Karate Kid 3. Behind the scenes, in Karate Kid (1984) film, Pat E. Johnson (who played the referee in the All Valley Tournament) was a Tang Soo Do black belt who trained all of the Cobra Kai actors. This is why they all stand, move, and use different techniques from Daniel during the tournament. All of the commands the you hear Johnny and Silver say are Korean: Joon-bee = Ready Position Chah-ryut = Attention Kyung-nae = Bow Nice observation about the slapping at the sides when standing at attention! Coming from a TaeKwonDo background I never realized that this isn’t done in Karate. Another interesting note is that we were taught to *not* make eye contact when bowing.

I still find it hard to believe that Ralph Macchio is older than Thomas Ian Griffiths. Great series btw, I really enjoy your insights and reactions.

Just so you know, Highlander is a series of films and tv shows based on immortal warriors that could only be killed if their heads are cut off, and Terry Silver with his ponytail looks like one of the protagonists Duncan McCleod.

In the 1980's the Sony Walkman was the best known wearable tape cassette player.

Ooh! Looks like Yusuke-sensei caught the quick crane kick. I don't know why, but I don't see many people talking about it being used mid-combat in this episode.

The way cobra kai stands when the teacher is adressing them is the way the air force and army stands. Which i believe is a nod at kreese and silvers military background

daniel is self righteous afffff

pretty sure Johnny is listening to a Sony Walkman cassette tape player since that was the state of the art in 1984 and he's very much still clinging to his high school idea of "cool".

Love your videos, I watched the whole season already but, watching it again with your insight and your love for the show is a joy. Keep up the good work. 👍🏾

Daniel is what we call a "Hypocrite"... In his defense though without his personal flaws there would probably be to little drama to drive the series forward.

5:18, knowing Johnny... it was probably an old Sony Walkman that had a radio and cassette player. He mentioned in an earlier season, when he first learned about the internet and was making that commercial, he made the comment about his cassette for the song he wanted played in the commercial was in his car. So is his Walkman with cassette and radio from the 80's.

Does anyone else find the fact that Daniel used the "life or death moves" that Chozen taught him in this mock tournament crazy? I guess Chozen was right: "Mr. Miyagi might have thought you were not able to or not ready"...

0:58 In some backstage photos, it was revealed Hawk's hair is actually just something they attached to his head.

Make Karate Great again!!!!! Hell yeah...

After you finish Cobra Kai, I would love for you to react to Avatar the Last Airbender. It's a bit different in the martial arts as it's A. Used for bending rather than (with exceptions) physical hand to hand combat, and B. Has a number of different martial art styles incorporated. I'd still love to see your reaction to that show and hear your opinion on the episodes and all.

5:12 that's a Sony Walkman cassette player. Very popular in the US in the 1980s. I for one also hope that this is the last time Daniel and Johnny fight for real. Time for them to get along for good!

4:18 To answer your question Bayer (pronounced bear/bare) is a brand name of standard over-the-counter aspirin.

"I hope Daniel grows up" My favorite take on this series thus far.

Loved the Highlander reference. They could've also said that he resembled a John Carpenter's Vampire, a movie which Thomas Ian Griffith played the main antagonist.

Daniel's problem is that he's trying to be Mr Miyagi. He wants to be passive and non-confrontational, but that just isn't who he is. He can't live up to his own standards, so he projects his insecurities onto others. And when they don't live up to his standards as well, he takes his anger at himself, out on them.

Bayer is just a simple headache medicine. It's either aspirin or acetaminophen. I think aspirin.

Dude.. “ the highlander “ is a legend.. there can only be one

The Highlander is an awesome 80's action/fantasy movie about a scotsman by the name of Connor MacLeod.

FYI after you said "they're getting along now" after seeing Demetri and Hawk talking, i just wanted to remind you that Hawk and Demetri were best friends before Hawk got corrupted by Cobra Kai so that's why it seems that they get along so well. No offence just wanted to let you know!

"I hope Daniel grows up" lmao Sam is perfectly right

Johnny was using an audio cassette tape player from the 80's and early 90's. Right before the portable CD players :)

4:16 -Bayer is a pharmaceutical company best known for Aspirin. In America, many people associate “Bayer” with “Aspirin” the same way we associate “Kleenex” with “facial tissues.” Aspirin used to be the go-to hangover cure (Don’t know for sure if that’s still true, haven’t been drinking for a long time 😀)

Johnny is playing his music on a walkman...a portable tape cassette player.

In the '80s maybe even '70s up until the mid-90s was a device called a Walkman, which allowed you to play your cassette tapes on the go before CD version of this device emerged

Tonight’s the first time I’ve seen any of your videos, I think you’re brilliant man. I watched about 6 videos in succession, but I have to go to sleep now but I’m definitely catching the rest of them tomorrow. Nice work 🥋🥋🥋

There is the watermark here a tip because of Copyright two options 1 make the screen smaller with the watermark in the corner 2 have the watermark in the corner small

15:47 that's the face I was waiting for when I watched this season the day it dropped I knew this was going to happen

The Highlander is from The Highlander movie from the 80s.

Loved how Silver knows japanese but uses korean names for the positions (like Chumbi, Chae ruyt, etc) because he started in Tang Soo Do before transitioning to Karate.

It's so funny seeing the replay because there is no music. Just two dudes knocking each other down.

Can’t wait!

Love your videos breakdowns of karate in Cobra Kai

Joonbi/chimbi is a common Korean term for going to ready stance similar to yoi in Japanese. Joonbi/chimbi is usually used in TSD/TKD/Hapkido.

Love these reaction videos. I would love to see your reaction to more martial arts movies for example the final fight in drunken Master 2 with Jackie Chan

Wen I hear him saying jumbi I recognised the term from my Taekwondo classes back in the 90ths. Looks like in the series they are pointing cobra kai towards the korean martial arts that were labelled as korean Karate wen it arrived in the USA. In Karate Kid 3 Silver talks about his korean sensei. It makes sense with the movie's lore.

"Highlander" is a movie about immortals that can only be killed by beheading. They secretly face off throughout the ages and claim the stored power from their slain foes. Eventually, only one will be left wielding phenomenal power that may be used to bring harmony or despair, depending the one that wields it. The movie was centered around a 1000 year old immortal that was from the highlands of Scotland.

Highlander won an academy award for the best move ever made.

“The Highlander” was a series of movies and television shows about a group of people who could only die from beheading, and these “immortals” would be drawn to one another to fight each other like the how the stand users in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure are said to be drawn together. “There can be only one” is a catchphrase from the series.

Highlander was movie from the 80s where there were immortal ppl living among regular ppl. The only way these immortals could die is losing their head. Over the centuries they would meet each other in battle with swords until there would be only one left. There was later a TV show based on the movie, starring an actor named Adrian Paul. Terry Silver's hairstyle was a little reminiscent of Adrian Paul's in Highlander, though not sure the resemblance is as strong nowadays. And I don't think kids nowadays would have seen that show - only the movie. Anyway, that's the reference.

The highlander is a movie about scottish people beheading eachother lol

Yeah remember in season 3 in the Vietnam flash back the green beret guy that trained Kreese said he was trained by a Korean Martial artist. So Cobra Kai has roots in Korean Martial arts and US Army tactical philosophy. But fun fact in real life the US Army combatives system is heavily based in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, Royce Gracie personally taught the US Army Rangers Gracie Jiu-Jitsu and the Rangers added some techniques that apply to modern warfare and it became the US Army Combatives program. But the way they teach it is very similar to Cobra Kai, it's very aggressive and fast paced. "Violence of Action" is a US military concept that mirrors "Strike first, Strike hard"

Highlander has 2 movies in the 80s and a Series in the 90s. Historical sword fighting show

cant wait till you see the finale of this. it's really good

1:07 The Highlander were a series of movies and a TV show about a Scottish immortal (I believe he is specifically Scottish) who is immortal because he is "the highlander." If someone manages to kill him then they become the Highlander, alas Hawk saying "there can be only one" which is a kind of slogan for the character. I have never seen the movies but was a huge fan of the show. If you google "the highlander" there is lots of info about it.

Hey waKu , youtube algorithms lead me to this channel to watch you enjoy the cobra Kai series, coming from a really tough boxing discipline, I have gotten into karate from flicking through your videos, another discipline was a really nice touch and you have taught a few Japanese facts, thanks for the content

i studied "Okinawan karate" growing up and have been loving your channel, both the reacts and demos. Its nice to have that insight from where both my teachings and the shows display differs from authenticity!

Johnny is always listening to his walkman/cassette tape player. Way before an mp3 player or ipod.

The Highlander is a movie, It's about some immortals that hunt each other down for power, only way to kill them is to take off their heads, so they mostly fight with swords, when one kills another they absorb the power or the other. In the end there can only be one left. To obtain all the power.

Before the MP3 player and CD player, we has the Walkman. If Johnny were being true to his era, that's what he'd be listening to. It played a cassette tape, that would notoriously tangle in the machine. This, is how i learned the fine art of re-spooling a tape with a #2 Pencil.

Tattoos became extremely popular about 15 years ago and youth get many tattoos easily covering entire body. Very trendy for people now ages 28 to 40 today.

7:25 I am so glad you caught that. Him saying junbi and all the other korean words is more to reference to the Tang Soo Do roots of the Cobra kai martial art as stated in season 3. I also believe Terry Silver's actor is a real black belt in teakwondo or some korean martial art

The Highlander is a movie/TV series about Immortals who have to cut off each others' heads to steal their power. They are destined to fight and kill each other until only one is left alive.

Highlander was a movie and then a TV series. The Highlander on the TV series had long hair like Silver on kk3, was played by Adrien Paul, he was immortal, could only be killed if his head was cut off

I'm a recent subscriber and I enjoy your comments. Have you ever reacted to Jean-Claude Van Damme? Pretty sure Bloodsport is his first movie after arriving in America where he fights in an underground kumite.

Highlander was one Off the best films of the 80s With Sean Connery. It's about swordplay and fantasy , give it a watch

I see Terry Silver added many TKD to the Kyokushin training style of Cobra Kai. That’s really interesting.

Highlander refers to a 1984 Movie starring a Katana wielding Frenchman playing a Scottish Highlander who then finds himself discovering that he didn't die on the battlefield in the dark ages. He gets banished from his village and walks around the earth for centuries and the movie takes place in our time where immortals seek each other out into a bloody showdown until there can be “only one”.

Highlander was a popular TV show that had immortals fighting each other, and the only way they can kill each other is by chopping off their opponents head. So there was a lot Sword fighting and saying "there can be only one."

When it comes to portable music, Johnny Lawrence is probably going old school Sony Walkman. That's a pre-digital cassette tape player. It fits the character.

Highlander was a film from 1985, which also had a spin off tv series.

Not only is it not a Mini-Disc player, its not even a CD player as CD's only came out in the 80's and while there were portable ones in the 80's most peoples experience of CD's was in stereo systems as portable players were just so expensive back then (and really poor, while by the 90's they had started being able to spin the cd quicker so it could read ahead and store the data in a buffer in the 80's ever little bump would cause the disc to skip so you certainly couldn't use it when you went running. So back in the 80's it was cassette tapes that were the most common, especially for portable players

Hey Yusuke, could you make a video on how/!why Keio has a Version of Goju-Ryus Tensho even though it's Shotokan? And if they have more "shotokanised" kata of other styles? That would be sooo interesting!

As Cobra Kai is based on a Korean Martial Art that adopbted Shotokan as its base, their ready stance is call choonbei where the feet and the legs are apart a bit.

10:00 Most Americans don’t take tattoos lightly, and put thought into them first. Although, they’re relatively easy to get. It’s just part of Hawk’s character that he’d do such a thing.

The headphones Jonny is listening to is Walkman cassette player. Old school

01:02: "Highlander," 1986, starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery, with Clancy Brown as "The Kurgan," the main bad guy. Immortals who fight to the death with swords, because decapitating them is the only way to kill them, fighting until only one remains ("There can be only one") and that one gains the unlimited power of The Prize. That might make a very interesting reaction for you, Sensei. All the main "Highlanders" use katanas, despite being from Clan MacLeod in the highlands of Scotland (hence, "Highlander," from the Scottish Highlands). And Duncan MacLeod, main character of the series, uses a lot of martial arts, ends up owning a dojo for most of the series, and I believe the actor, Adrian Paul, actually studied martial arts intensely. The episode "The Samurai" does a lot with Japanese culture in the past, and explains where Duncan got the katana he favors. Most of the fighting in the movies and series is sword-based, but there are quite a few hand-to-hand fights in the series you might enjoy looking at from your perspective. 01:50: Again, very little training myself, but I think this is "speed work," the idea being less to practice delivering force and more to strike as rapidly as possible. In theory, practice speed, practice force, then use both lessons to hit with speed and force. No idea if it actually works or not, but I think that's the idea. 05:21: Nah, Johnny's not even up to CDs. He's rocking a Sony Walkman, a portable cassette player. See, way back in the dark ages of my youth and Johnny teen years, the most advanced portable recording medium was spools of magnetic tape. True story.

Hi Sensei, "Highlander" was a movie that came in the 80's. This person the highlander is immortal. He lives through the ages, thousands of years. Christopher Lambert (who also acted in Mortal Kombat) plays the protagonist the highlander. Here what the kids mean to say is just that this guy Terry resembles Christopher Lambert from that movie and yeah they are right. :)

Highlander is a famous movie from the 80's and also during the 90's a long TV series. The main character of this series was Duncan McCloud played by Adrian Paul, an actor particular similar to Terry Silver

Highlander was an 1986 film starring Christopher Lambert as an immortal Scottish warrior hence the title.

5:15 those were called "Sony Walkman" and it was an analog cassette player, long before a CD player.

Bayer is a brand name of a form of Aspirin, a painkiller. Daniel was taking it for the hangover of him and Johnny Drinking the night before.

Now you got to watch Highlander. It won an award. For what you ask? For being the greatest movie of all time. If you ain't first, you're last.

The Highlander aka Adrian Paul is trained in several martial arts ie: Taekwondo, Choy Li Fut, and Hung Gar Kung Fu but is best known as a swordsman

It was probably a cassette player ("walkman") for Johnny. That's very 80's. Then CD players in the 90's/early 2000's. Then mp3s. Then just phones.

I too also had that ipod nano, i always wanted the visual screen but it was nice to have some music.

There's one thing I know about storytelling and big victories. Before the big win, for it to impact the viewer/reader, the heroes have to hit rock bottom first as if everything is lost and there is no hope. Then, the little innovation, a thing they missed, or something the villain didn't see, pops up, and the heroes grab it. Then comes the fightback and clawing your way back, and then sticking it to the villain with that one little thing when he thinks he has it all won.

Highlander was an American tv series based around I believe it was Celt legends of "immortal" beings, the only way to destroy an immortal was to lop off their head. The tv series didn't do so well so then they rebranded the same thing but released it as movies following the character "Duncan Mcloud" who bears a striking resemblance to Terry Silver, Most of the comments will probably only mention the Highlander movies and not the series.

Highlander is one of the greatest movies ever made starring Christopher Lambert. You should DEFINITELY review that movie!

The device Johnny was listening to was called a Walkman. Which was a portable cassette player introduced by Sony (a Japanese electronics company) in the late 1970s. Music cassettes consisted of a magnetic tape playing from a plastic container which were put in cassette players to reproduce the sound recorded on them. You could also record on cassette from other sources such as vinyl records (also known as LPs) or compact discs (known as CDs) but the Walkman could only play back music. They were hugely popular in the 1980s.

5:12 wow, you said MD player... I first went to Japan in 1999, and I recall the mini-discs and how there were even shops where people could _rent_ physical copies of music. My impressions of Japan before going was that they got technology first, and then we in the United States would get it months or years later. The mini discs for music didn't reach the US so that was an early lesson for me that not all technology from Japan gets here. What Johnny was listening to was a *walkman* that plays cassettes. Cassettes were very popular in the 80s and came after albums and 8tracks, but were before CDs.

The Highlander was a movie from the 80s where a race of people called Highlanders were essentially immoryal but were driven to fight for "the prize" with only one being able to claim it. The only way to stop the immortals from claiming that prize was to decapitate the opponent (only way to kill one). The expression there can be only one comes from only one immortal being able to survive and claim the prize

The Highlander is a cheesy but classic 80s movie about a secret immortal race of people who secretly have to battle with swords throughout history until one day, the last one will finally win. "There can be only one".

The Highlander is an immortal Scotsman who faces other immortals in one on one combat! They can only kill each other by decapitation. They fight until only two remain, and then, there can be only one.

Highlander was a 80's movie about immortal warriors fighting through the centuries... good film actually watch it if you get the chance

Johnny is so cool he even took Daniel's super move as if it were but an inconvenience

Highlander is a tv show about immortals who have to kill each other for an ultimate prize. The common saying is, There can be only one.