"One of the more fascinating and honest elements of the series' depiction of martial arts is its respect and appreciation for the value of the old-school training methods and teachings, both the positive aspects taught my Mister Miyagi (Pat Morita), Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Choze Toguchi (Yuji Okamoto) and the negative ones, as taught by Kim Sun Young (portrayed by C.S. Lee and Don Lee), John Kreese (Martin Kove), and Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith)."
"The story involves how their students need to take the positive elements from their old-school training without succumbing to modern society's pressures that undermine many old-school principles and favor the negative ones. Impressive short-cut success with modern methods, as exemplified by Lewis Tan's Wolf antagonist, eventually loses out to old-school training that synthesizes the range of positive elements while eschewing the negative ones, as demonstrated by Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), who lost the tournament in the first film nearly four decades ago."
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The popular Netflix series revived The Karate Kid film franchise and expanded established and new characters. The series values old-school martial arts training while acknowledging harmful elements within traditional teachings. Students must extract positive principles from past training while resisting modern societal pressures that encourage negative shortcuts. Short-term success from modern methods, exemplified by a powerful antagonist, ultimately fails against synthesized old-school training that keeps positive elements and discards harmful ones. The piece parallels this to investing, noting YieldMax ETFs attracted young investors with ultra-high dividends by leveraging volatile tech stocks and covered-call premiums for compounding strategies.
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