05-28-2010, 07:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-28-2010, 11:59 AM by bornoffire.)
I talked to a guy who owns his on dojo. He told me that someone teaching kung-fu in a movie named karate kid is politically correct. The reasoning is Karate and Kung-fu are generic terms and are used loosely. I can't go into detail about it cause I'm not an expert but he was saying kung-fu is typically soft while karate is more hard. So when a big guy comes out you, you wouldn't use typical kung-fu because you can not out strengthen him. So if a big dude comes at you full speed, using his speed and weight you can counter him which is considered soft. But there is soft kung-fu and soft karate and those two terms are too general of words. Hope that helps :/ I really doubt jackie chan would make a movie that wasn't true to the history of kung-fu and karate.