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107 | Karate Kid with Darryl Vidal

Sep 2, 2020

Darryl Vidal has the incredible honor of being one of the people who competed on-screen in the 1984 "All Valley Karate Championship" in the movie The Karate Kid.  In fact, he went all the way to the semi-finals in the film where he faced off against Johnny Lawrence.  Well, Darryl played a much larger role than anyone really knew as he is also credited as the creator of the Crane Kick as we all now know it.

Join me and Chinese Kenpo Grandmaster Darryl Vidal as we hear his first hand account of working on this classic film.