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Best karate movie? Are we talking pure entertainment value or realism in technique? (Just to make it even tougher...) :brow:

Here's one for you: I just saw "Fighter in the Wind," which is a Korean movie loosely based on the life of Mas Oyama, and the fight scenes in it are pretty solid. People who take a big hit go down; there's none of this invincible/impervious to harm stuff, and despite that, the combat is still fun to watch.

If you want a martial arts movie that's a bit more fanciful, but is a straight-up blast, check out "Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior." Tony Ja's athletic ability is truly, truly sick...

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Best of the Best is largely Taekwondo based

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

- Tao Te Ching


"Move as swift as a wind, stay as silent as forest, attack as fierce as fire, undefeatable defense like a mountain."

- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

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it's tkd based, but is the "us national karate team" and, isn't everyone on the US team except for tommy a karate exponent? alex, sonny and travis definitely are. I'm not sure about virgil. Team korea is all tkd though.

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The first karate kid film as far as the ideas behind the art. Fighting is a bit fake but I think it does a great job in showing why you train and when you should and should not use karate.

I don't recall the name but the film where the US TKD teams fights the North Korean TKD team. I think the fighting is very realistic and Im not sure but I think it is based on a trus story. Someone else may know for sure.

(General George S. Patton Jr.) "It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory."

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G95champ: I believe its "the best of the best".

really cool movie.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence thus, is not an act, but a habit. --- Aristotle

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Best karate movie? Are we talking pure entertainment value or realism in technique? (Just to make it even tougher...) :brow:

Here's one for you: I just saw "Fighter in the Wind," which is a Korean movie loosely based on the life of Mas Oyama, and the fight scenes in it are pretty solid. People who take a big hit go down; there's none of this invincible/impervious to harm stuff, and despite that, the combat is still fun to watch.

If you want a martial arts movie that's a bit more fanciful, but is a straight-up blast, check out "Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior." Tony Ja's athletic ability is truly, truly sick...

Ong Bak is anything but Karate, it's still good, but not Karate.

Fighter in the wind is very good, yes.

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