You should be practicing.
I am practicing.
What you're doing you won't need these.
What's your problem?
Yeah!
What do you learn here?
No Weakness! No Pain! No Mercy!
What do you learn here?
No Weakness! No Pain! No Mercy!
Begin!
Hi, guys. Gather around here.
As the emperor was considered to be divine,
no mere mortal was permitted access.
Hence the name
the Forbidden City.
The floors of the palace were reinforced with brick 15 layers deep
to prevent anyone from tunneling in.
Even if an outsider managed to get in...
He's had enough.
Don't you remember what we learned?
No weakness! No pain!
No mercy!
Cheng, stop!
Go home.
You think only with your eyes, so you are easy to fool.
Ancient Chinese healing.
When fighting angry, blind men,
best to just stay out of the way.
Best fights are the ones we avoid.
Kung fu is for knowledge, defense. Not to make war, but create peace.
Good idea.
You'll get beat up anyway.
For you. Bad idea for me.
What are you doing?
Why did you stop?
Finish!
Come here!
We do not stop when our enemy is down.
No mercy...
No mercy in the studio...
No mercy in competition...
No mercy in life!
Our enemies deserve pain.
What are you looking at?
He's the one that attacked me.
We are here to make peace.
Let your little thing mind himself.
One to one, no problem...
...six to one, too much to ask of anyone.
I see...
Prepare for match.
We are not here to fight.
You attack my students and disrespect my studio?!
You want to leave? Not so easy!
Master Li...
You both came here.
One of you fights now.
The boy will fight there.
We accept your challenge.
Please instruct your students to leave my boy alone to train.
Attention!
From now on, this little thing is to be left alone...
...until the tournament.
Understood?
If he does not show up for the competition...
...I will bring pain to him and to you.
There's good news and bad news.
Good news is they promise to leave you alone.
While you prepare.
Tournament.
You'll fight them all one-on-one.
That's not kung fu.
That's a bad man teach them very bad things.
More good news.
I will teach you real kung fu.
Pick up your jacket.
Hang it up.
Take it down.
Put it on.
Take it off.
Hang it up.
Take it down.
Put it on the ground.
Pick it up.
Hang up.
Take it down.
Put it on.
Take it off.
Put it on the ground.
Pick it up.
Hang it up.
Take it down.
Put it on.
Take it off.
Hang it up.
No street parking.
Are you going to the Qi Xi Festival?
Go to the Shadow Theater.
Tomorrow. Show starts at 7:00.
See you tomorrow.
Festival.
Where's your jacket?
Yes. All the way back to where you hide it.
Something's missing.
You forgot this.
Attitude.
Jacket off.
Attitude.
Yes. That's it.
Put it on the ground.
I don't go.
Chinese Valentine's Day.
Xiao Dre making progress.
Yeah. Chinese for "little."
Including Xiao Dre?
It's a story of a goddess and the boy she loves.
I love this story.
Her mother does not approve of him.
So she cuts a wide river in the sky
to separate them forever.
But once a year,
all the birds in the sky
feel sad for them and they form a bridge
so the two of them may be together for a single night.
And I promise to cheer bigger than anyone else when you win.
Did I say, "Come in?"
Come here.
Jacket on.
Be strong.
Jacket on.
Firm.
Jacket off.
Remember, always strong.
Jacket off.
Strong.
Left foot back.
Right foot back. Left foot back! Pick up your jacket!
Focus!
Always concentrate.
Left back. Right foot back! Pick up your jacket!
Stay.
Pick up your jacket.
Be strong. Hang it up.
Hang it up.
Hang up. And attitude.
Strike.
Hang up, and attitude.
Harder! Harder!
Good.
But no face.
Jacket off!
Kung fu lives in everything we do, Xiao Dre.
It lives in how we put on a jacket, how we take off the jacket.
And lives in how we treat people.
Everything is kung fu.
I don't drive the Scirocco.
Please be quiet.
Do you always ask this many questions?
So, what are we learning today?
Chi.
Internal energy.
The essence of life.
It moves inside of us, it flows through our bodies.
Give us power from within.
Everything good about me was born here.
Xiao Dre, you can leave your backpack and skateboard here.
We journey to the top of the mountain.
Drink from the Dragon Well.
Water on top of the mountain.
Xiao Dre.
The journey is complete.
I stood here
with my father when I was your age.
He told me it's magic kung fu water.
You drink, and nothing can defeat you.
You did not watch closely enough, Xiao Dre.
The snake was copying the woman.
Look.
What do you see?
Now what do you see?
The woman was like still water.
Quiet, calm.
In here and in here.
So, the snake reflects her action, like still water.
Being still and doing nothing are two very different things.
There's only one person you need to learn how to control.
Empty your mind.
Flow with my movement. Connect to the energy around you.
Cobra takes a lifetime.
Requires great focus.
Your focus needs more focus.
Up.
Anticipation.
Don't see it, feel it.
What?
Concentrate. Okay?
Turn. Kick.
Xiao Dre, we are not training tomorrow.
Means, "Too much something is not good. " You train a lot. You need rest.
My audition is tomorrow at 6:00.
Yes, of course.
What if they don't pick me?
I have to practice.
Where are we going?
I have to go! No!
You're a dance machine. That was pretty good.
Here comes Round 2.
You're hot!
The audition, it was changed to today.
Something happened.
It's in 20 minutes.
My father is coming to get me.
We can no longer be friends.
You are bad for my life.
See you at the tournament.
Don't be late for that.
We no train today.
It's June 8th.
His name was Gong Gong.
Xiao Dre, how old are you?
He was 10.
He was so beautiful.
Her name was Zhang.
She was a singer.
Not professional.
She sang only for me.
It was a steep hill.
Lots of rain.
The car just...
I was driving.
We argue about something.
I was so angry.
I lost control.
I try to remember.
I cannot remember what we argue about.
I hope it was something important.
Every year,
I fix the car.
Still fix nothing.
Punch.
Good.
Look at me.
Down!
Faster!
One more.
Come here.
Win or lose, doesn't matter.
Fight hard.
Earn respect. Boys leave you alone.
Have present for you.
You have taught me a very important lesson, Xiao Dre.
Life will knock us down.
But we can choose whether or not to get back up.
Sir...
...my name is Dre Parker.
My actions have brought...
...dishonor to your family.
Your daughter has been a great friend to me.
And from her, I have learned...
...that a true friend...
...is a person who makes your life better.
But, if you give me a second chance...
...I promise that I will be...
...the best friend your daughter has ever had.
My daughter told me that she made a promise to be at your tournament.
In our family, we do not break our promises.
Good luck.
Rock and roll.
Let the tournament begin!
We're up.
Rulebook.
Of course I know the rules.
Simple. You hit him, don't let him hit you.
Two points to win.
Go. Hit him two times. Focus, focus. Come on.
That's a warning. You cannot run out of the mat.
Next time, you lose a point.
Go. Hey, be strong.
Good job. Next time, no face.
Next point, winner.
Go.
Dre Parker advances to the semi-finals!
From now on, semi-final matches. Three points to win.
Be kind of hot if you focus.
And now the first semi-final of the evening...
Next semi-final introducing Fighting Dragon, Liang...
...and the surprise finalist, Dre Parker.
But, I can beat him.
I do not want him beaten.
I want him broken.
Empty your mind.
Focus.
You're disqualified!
Be still. Xiao Dre.
You okay?
Don't move. Don't move.
He's done.
I'm sorry, you should not continue.
You've brought honor to your family.
Doctor says you did great.
Dre Parker has 2 minutes to return to the match.
If he is unable to return...
...the Fighting Dragons win by default.
Win or lose doesn't matter, Xiao Dre.
Yes. I think you had a good chance.
You don't need to fight anymore.
You have proven everything you need to prove.
Because I cannot watch you get hurt anymore.
Just tell me, Xiao Dre, why?
Why you need to go back out there so badly?
Since Dre Parker has not returned to the ring...
Dre Parker will fight!
Xiao Dre.
You okay?
I want you...
...to break his leg.
No mercy.
The score is tied, the next point wins!
Can you continue?
Finish him!
You won!
Good.