- Oh! - Ooh.
(upbeat music)
- Hey, I am Mary.
- I'm Xolo. - And I'm Peyton.
- I'm Gianni DeCenzo.
- And I'm Jacob Bertrand.
- And we're gonna be watching
and reacting Corridor Crew's "Punch 4 Punch Cobra Kai."
- "Cobra Kai!"
(Jacob laughs)
I could have killed him just now.
I didn't. - I would've eaten that punch.
(upbeat electronic music)
- Yeah, we're both familiar with the Corridor Crew.
- Yeah, I'm subscribed.
- I don't know if I am,
but I definitely watch their videos,
so I'm sorry if I'm in that like 60% of people
that watch the videos,
but aren't subscribed. - You're a fake fan.
- I love Corridor Digital.
Put my name in there.
Guys, Jacob and I
need to be on for your "React to Stunts."
- [Producer] You guys ready to watch Corridor Crew?
- Let's do it. - Let's do it.
- So you got an amazing actor
and you wanna film this sick fight scene,
but there's just- - Oh, that guy's Gui.
He's a famous stuntman.
He's Black Panther.
He's one of the Black Panthers.
- What? - Yeah.
- "Cobra Kai" does this perfectly.
- Oh! - They have their main actors
kicking and punching in some of the most fun
and convincing fight scenes.
- I'm Niko. - I'm Gui.
I was a former Avenger, Ninja Turtle, and Transformer.
- Wow. - And Ninja Turtle.
- Yeah, Gui's a stunt pro.
Me on the other hand,
I've shot a lot of YouTube videos
and I've watched a lot of movies.
- I haven't seen that Minecraft video.
- All this YouTube- - Oh, that one's sick.
- [Niko] Is by doing it yourself.
- And that's why we're gonna put Niko into the fire.
We're gonna see-
- Oh, shoot. - If we can turn him
into an action hero.
- Oh, that's cool. - Oh.
- See if Niko has what it takes
to go punch for punch with Hollywood's best.
- This is literally me and Peyton joining "Cobra Kai."
(Peyton and Mary laugh)
"Let's just throw you into the fire
and see if you can kick and punch."
- Yeah.
(intense electronic music)
(fighters grunt)
- So in this fight scene,
how much of it do you think is the actual actors doing it,
and how much of a stuntman?
- This looks like it's 85 to 90% actors.
- Yeah.
- There's a ton of like emotion
in their faces- - Yes!
- Which is great.
- It's more so about your performance
than just the moves that-
- I'm trying to think.
I don't think they really put in stunt doubles at all
for that fight.
- No. - Not that I remember.
Like not even this.
- They really only put in stunt doubles
for the falls,
just for like safety.
- Oh, that was Thomas in there.
- When do you swap to a double?
- You usually swap to a double
if you don't see their face,
(Mary laughs) so usually when they're doing
coverage on one of the- - There's Selkie.
- Oh, they knew.
- That was Selkie. That's Selkie.
I can always tell 'cause of the pigtails.
They're like a little bit thinner on Selkie's.
So if I go through and I pause enough times,
I can spot Selkie.
- How do they know that though?
How do they have such a good eye with that?
- Because they're like, "Well, this person
looks like they know what they're doing.
It's clearly not Mary."
(Xolo snorts) (Mary laughs)
That's not it. - That's not
what they're thinking. - I'm teasing.
- I remember one thing
that I was kind of shocked to learn,
that most stunt guys would say,
is they're like, "Hey, when we're fighting,
if you go to hit me,
and you like pull it back
and it looks really bad,
it's kind of annoying to like have to do that
over and over and over again.
Like, just give a...
Do it once good." - Oh, yeah.
- "And then we can use that take."
- Yeah. - Cause let's say it's like,
oh, it's a punch,
and then I throw you down the stairs,
if that punch doesn't look good,
and I'm just throwing you down the stairs all the time,
they're like, "All right, buddy,
can you get it?" - "Can you stop throwing us
down the stairs?" - "Just punch me."
- Right here. - They connected.
Some people in the stunt game call it positive contact.
- A lot of stunt people
will want you to like actually...
Like you were saying- - Yeah, propel them back.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- I always feel so bad doing it.
- I can feel and give the proper reaction to it.
- I feel so bad though. - You're not really like
hittin' 'em. - No, you're just pushing them
with your foot, basically.
- The stunt performers make us look good.
- Yeah. - That's really what it is.
- Yeah, we have an awesome stunt team.
- Well, 'cause I basically throw a punch,
and then they'll do like a flip.
- Yeah, make us look way better than we actually do.
(intense music)
(fighters grunt)
- Do you think costume and hairstyles
also play a big part in that?
'Cause I can't help but notice that every single person
here has a very significantly different and statement
kind of hairstyle. - Yes.
It allows you the fully see who's who in this fight,
the chaos that's happening in this action-
- Oh, that's a good point they make.
- I mean, the hairstyles is such a good...
I always say that,
I'm like my hairstyle's like 50% of my moves,
like of my hits and everything,
'cause it moves around. - Uh-huh, uh-huh.
- Hairography. - Mm-hmm.
- The characters are still easily apparent.
- Exactly.
- Let's head over to Travis Wong's gym.
- Oh. - Dang, I can't believe
he's gonna- - Fight coordinator.
- He's gonna do it.
- I am excited.
- I see we have our friends with us,
Travis Wong and Freddie Wong.
We have two Wongs. - Not related.
- We're gonna make a right.
(group laughs)
- We have to get him
to look like he's been doing three years of training
in only one day.
- So what we're gonna do at first
is take you through my Actor Training 101,
which is basically a full gamut of assessment of-
- This is pretty much what we do.
- An assessment? - Yeah, we have like
this first assessment. - Yeah.
- Where they're like "All right,
let's see where you're at.
Let's see what you can do.
This is how you throw a kick.
This is how you throw punch,
run around, do some jumping jacks."
- I think you picked it up pretty quickly.
You're just like naturally like flexible.
- Yeah. - Yeah, I'm very strong,
and so that holds me back,
'cause I'm like really...
It's a lot of muscles,
so there's a lot to move. - He's too powerful.
Yeah, there's too much muscle to move.
- Let's see where you're at. - I like the idea
that he's kind of Mr. Miyaging him right now.
- I was thinking that.
I feel like Selkie and Olivia do stuff
like this to us. - Yes.
- All right, Niko, so one of the things
we're gonna work on first
is one of the most fundamental, foundational things,
and it kind of is often overlooked by a lot of people,
but to me and Gui, it's super important,
and that is footwork.
- Footwork is very important.
It's really easy to tell
if you know what you're doing or not
just off of that,
I would say. - Yeah.
- Footwork is...
I mean, there's a lot of tells, right,
when it comes to being able to tell
if someone is legit or not,
and I think footwork is definitely one of them.
Balance is another big one, right?
- Yeah. - They tell you,
"You want your feet in the right position.
You want your feet planted,"
because you see it in UFC,
you see it in real fights, right?
Like, being in an awkward position on your foot
means you could lose a fight immediately.
If you're on one foot,
if your feet are crossed,
someone could push you over,
someone could knock you out of your balance really quickly.
So footwork is very important.
- How you feeling?
- Good, learning, memorizing the in-between moves
is proving to be very challenging.
- Yes. Hell, yeah.
- Yes, it really is.
- [Niko] Yeah, but you need to wind up and twist your hips-
- There's so much.
And then you have to pretend like you don't have it
already in your head,
and you're not like anticipating a punch,
'cause then it just looks bad.
- But once you do it a lot,
I will say it gets easier
to like pick up stuff. - Yeah, yeah.
- So what we're gonna do right now
is we're gonna start to set up our previous stage.
- Yeah, we do previses all the time.
- It's a video
created by, usually, fully stunt people
or majority stunt people
to give the directors
and the producers, writers, whoever,
an idea of what shots you need for a fight.
- A previs is the best way
to show a fight scene. - Yeah.
They'll give us the phone,
and we'll watch the previs,
and they'll like do the fight in front of us.
And then we'll hop in there and do it.
Sometimes, if we're lucky enough,
we get to be the people in the previs.
I like doing that,
'cause you just have more time
to work with the choreo.
- When the time performers come in for a fight scene,
just to watch everyone give them the floor,
they just demand respect,
and I think that's one of the cool things,
is everyone just lets 'em do their thing,
because no one really understands it.
- The previs that we do
also sometimes serve as the ability to, you know,
show the first version of a fight.
And then we've had times where then things
get drastically changed from the first previs
to the second one they'll go through,
because it'll be...
You know, the producers are like, "Actually,
we're gonna have a completely
different person win this fight,
or, "This actually, you know, now story-wise,
it needs to be told this way,
you know, this has to change."
So they serve a lot of purposes.
- Texas Switch.
- Oh, there it is, Texas Switch.
- Oh, hey, yeah, that's what we were talking about.
- Stunt double. - Familiar with those.
- What's a Texas Switch? - Without cutting-
- So- - So they swap people-
- I mean, they're describing it right now,
but you basically...
Like when we were filming the Season Two finale
in the hallway fight,
we're doing a oner,
so I was in fighting Mary,
and then I ducked down,
crawled out of there,
and my stunt double Jahnel popped back up,
and took the rest of the fight on,
and filled in for me.
So we did an old fashioned Texas Switch.
- Yo, and it is the day that, Niko,
you have to be a badass.
- Well, you guys are gonna help me.
We got some tricks up our sleeves.
I mean, I got a really cool stunt double here.
Look at this. - Hey.
- Can't even tell us apart.
- My stunt double is Selkie Hom,
and she is a literal superhuman, I am convinced.
- Olivia Jaye Brown,
I owe her so much, she's amazing.
- Craig Henningsen, my dog.
- Shout out to Lance.
He taught me a lot.
He was a double when we were doing our fight,
Season Two. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah.
- Hey, Lance, I hope you're doing good.
He's a zombie on Walking Dead. - Hey, he looks pretty good.
- Oh, really? - Yeah.
- Oh, shoot, he's flipping people.
- [Freddie] Let's slow it down just a little bit.
Let's get a little cleaner slow down, okay?
- I know that one a lot. - That's the note.
- "Slow it down." - Slow down
is always the note. - "Slow it down."
- Damn, yeah, it's really easy
to get sloppy. - Yeah.
- I think a lot of people wanna like speed through it,
but it ends up looking just like a big flurry
of just thing, you know?
- It's okay. - I like when we go through
our first rehearsal,
and they're like, "Oh, give 25% speed.
Never mind, give me 10% speed."
- Yeah. - "Can you give me 10?"
- We have to credit Niko
for putting in the time training outside of here.
And I mean, not to pat myself on the back,
but he had a pretty good instructor too.
- Oh my God.
(Niko laughs)
- We're having Justin step in-
- Are they gonna- - Oh!
- Oh! - I love breaking bottles.
It's so much fun. - I never got to do that.
- Oh, for a second- - Oh my God!
- I was like, "Where the hell did that come from?"
(Gianni laughs)
- [Crew Member] Ooh!
- [Freddie] Cut, cut, cut.
- You okay? You okay? - Are you okay?
Did I kick you in the face? - Yeah.
- Oh, wait, how did he- - Oh, wait, what?
He got him? - He kicked himself?
- Landing a little bit,
I covered where his feet needed to go
with the side of my nose.
- Oh!
- In a movement- - Oh!
- Oof.
(stunt team chattering)
- Man.
- Yeah, we can't use that take.
- [Niko] So this is why I have a stunt double.
(Niko laughs)
- If somebody's gonna get hit in the face,
it's gonna be me.
I'll take it.
It's my job and I'm more than happy to do it.
- I did almost kick Ralph Macchio in the head.
I mean, I basically did. - Dang,
that looked freaking gnarly.
- All right, dogs!
Corridor, Freddie, Niko, Gui,
let's see what you guys did.
I'm so excited.
- All right, here we go. - Okay.
Let's see if they can
steal our jobs. - The final fight, yeah.
- Please don't be better than us.
- Fight scene we did, you guys tell me,
do I look like a badass fighter?
- I mean, it's Freddy Wong.
I feel like it'll be pretty good.
- Yeah? Oh God, I'm scared.
- First of all, this looks like a Red Bull commercial.
- Yeah, it does (Mary laughs).
- Should've been a Coors, man.
Should've been a Coors.
- Wait, these shots are pretty.
- It's so sultry. - Yeah.
- Yeah, that's good?
That's a lot of Red Bull, you sure?
- I like a lot of Red Bull.
- [Gui] Okay, all right.
- Oh, so they've created their own like little story
to get into the fight, okay. - Oh.
- Niko! - I'm so sorry.
- Come on. - 10% off.
- Dude, no. - It's not a big deal.
- I like the story.
- I like the story too. - Oh!
Oh, I think that
was a Texas Switch. - Yeah,
that was the Texas Switch. - Right?
That was a good. - That was, yeah, pretty good.
- Ooh, this face.
(intense music)
(fighters grunt)
(Mary grunts)
- That was the double.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
I can't tell. - That looked great.
Yeah. Oh, your favorite.
- Yeah.
(intense music)
(Mary and Peyton laugh)
- That's cute.
- Oh, this is the thing they were drilling a lot.
- Oh, okay.
- That looked great. - Yeah.
- Ooh, double? - That looked like the double.
Yeah. - That was pretty rapid fire.
- Niko! Hit 'em with it!
(Niko pants)
- Thanks, man.
(intense music)
(Xolo and Mary laughs)
- Oh, no.
(Peyton laughs)
(fighter grunts)
(glass shatters) (Mary gasps)
- Ooh. - Oh God.
That's Season Five right there.
- That was cool. - That was good.
- That was good.
- Ooh, little clothes line. - Yeah.
Okay! - Oh!
- All right, all right. - Yes!
Let's go, Niko!
Who taught you karate?
- You know, this little place up in the Valley
I've been going to.
- "Place up in the Valley."
- Oh!
(intense music) - What?
(foot smacks) (Gui screams)
- Damn.
- That's a you moment.
(Jacob chuckles)
- That was a sick.
- Yeah, so, I mean, all right,
the trick is you gotta use the fat of your thumb
and put it right there,
then you squeeze and you flex.
- Oh!
- What? I actually wanna know that trick.
- I do too. - Wait a minute.
That's the stunt I wanna learn.
(actors clap and cheer)
- Yeah, Niko. - Nice job.
- That was awesome.
- That was a cool short.
- That was really cool.
I liked that they had like an actual story
with it. - Yeah, that was sick.
- That was, and like the moment
that stood out to me too is,
I feel like, when other people are around,
it's always so hard to not
look like they're like waiting for you.
- Yeah. - And I felt like
I didn't really see that moment.
- Yeah. - Yeah, that was pretty great.
- Yeah, Corridor Crew, that's awesome.
Thanks so much for getting inspiration from "Cobra Kai."
That's pretty sick. - Yeah.
Thank you for not saying we were terrible at karate.
- I know. - I appreciate it.
- Well, that was incredible.
Now go watch the original Corridor Crew video
on Still Watching Netflix YouTube channel.
- And also check out "Cobra Kai" Season Five,
only on Netflix.
- Thanks, guys.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- Thank you. Thank you.
(upbeat electronic music)