![]() ![]() Of course, whether or not she makes it back is an entirely different matter. Who else could be joining the party for Cobra Kai season 4? Fans are definitely keen to see Hilary Swank coming back to play Julie Pierce again, the main character from The Next Karate Kid. ![]() Taking both styles of karate and incorporating them into "her way" is what every student in Cobra Kai needs to do going forward, not just Sam.As with everyone else in this universe, Silver is a karate expert and will probably make Kreese even more ruthless. "For now we’ll say we’ve been looking forward to working with Thomas Ian Griffith for a long time and we were very patient with ourselves to find the right moment, and season 4 is that moment," co-creator Hayden Schlossberg told Deadline. It was Samatha who fully understood that she didn't have to hold on to her dad or Johnny's bullheaded viewpoints and that she needed to forge her own path. Sam's journey is the true theme of Cobra Kai season 4, where even Daniel and Johnny eventually realized that their stubborn belief that their way was "the only way" wasn't true. A hothead like her father, Sam was intrigued by Johnny preaching "striking first like an eagle" and LaRusso correctly realized the best way forward as a karate student was to learn both Daniel and Johnny's styles. After numerous altercations with Tory and Cobra Kai outside of the tournament, Samantha was frustrated and felt limited by Miyagi-Do's tenets of karate only being used for self-defense. Sam merging Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang, which is really just Johnny's version of Cobra Kai, into her own system brought LaRusso's Cobra Kai season 4 arc to fruition. Tory won the fight but Samantha technically beat her by scoring a point that the corrupt official ruled was out of bounds. What neither Sam nor Tory knew was that Terry Silver paid off the referee to score in Cobra Kai's favor. But Sam's arch-enemy Tory is also a formidable fighter and she used her own hybrid of Miyagi-Do's blocks and Cobra Kai strikes. Miyagi's katas with Johnny's "badass" offense, she scored her first point against Tory by unleashing the flying tornado kick that Sensei Lawrence taught her, unbeknownst to Daniel. Sam was well-aware that Tory knew Miyagi-Do's counter moves so, with both Daniel and Johnny's blessings, LaRusso finally fought the way she wanted to fight. ![]() In her All Valley final against Tory, Sam combined both Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang's styles into "Miyagi-Fang," a hybrid mode of fighting that was uniquely her own. Related: Cobra Kai: Why Daniel's Daughter Needed To Win The All Valley Tournament In Cobra Kai season 4, Robby taught his Cobra Kai cohorts Miyagi-Do's defensive style, negating the advantage Sam and her friends had by learning both Miyagi-Do and the offense-based Eagle Fang karate system of Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) after Daniel and Johnny agreed to combine their dojos. Daniel's daughter is a natural karate kid and Sam became one of Miyagi-Do's best students, along with Robby Keene (Tanner Buchanan), who eventually quit Miyagi-Do and defected to Cobra Kai. In Cobra Kai season 2, Sam joined Daniel's rebooted Miyagi-Do dojo. Miyagi when she was 8 but she stopped training until she became a teenager. The favorite child of Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) learned her first karate moves from Mr. Miyagi's (Noriyuki "Pat" Morita) last karate student. ![]()
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