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In my perception, athletic apparel company Champion, is kind of B-level.\u00a0 In the past, they used to be among the pinnacle of the industry, being the official uniform sponsor of the NBA, among other notable partnerships.\u00a0 But as time passed, I don\u2019t know who initiated the changes, but Champion kind of fell to the wayside; the NBA seemed to allow individual teams to make their own apparel partnerships, and in most cases, Nike was the brand making jerseys and other apparel.\u00a0 UnderArmour emerged, and the field began to get very crowded in athletic apparel.<\/span><\/p>\n Champion, kind of became a second-tier manufacturer in my eyes, and they weren\u2019t nearly as cool as the aforementioned Nike, UnderArmour, or Adidas, among others.\u00a0 When I went to Braves Spring Training for the first time, I always thought it was cool that their ST venue was called <\/span>Champion Stadium<\/em>, but didn\u2019t realize until I got there that that was on account of the Champion brand sponsoring it, with their wordmark being on the fa\u00e7ade of the building.<\/span><\/p>\n It made me tilt my head at the low-key lameness of it, in spite of the cool name.\u00a0 The Braves have since moved out of Orlando, and fleeced the people of Sarasota to build them a $175M facility, but the point remains that even they, abandoned Champion too.<\/span><\/p>\n When I saw the mass unveiling of Cobra Kai training gear in season 4 (<\/span>above image<\/em>), my jaw did a quarter drop, at just how fucking baller and awesome some of it looked.\u00a0 As much as I think the Kyler Park character is a total choad and a disgrace to Koreans, the shirt he and Kenny Payne and that rando white guy in the back are wearing, is a training shirt that I must have if\/when they become available to the public.\u00a0 And as the scene unfolds, you see that everyone is wearing some form of Cobra Kai gear, some more obvious than others, but they\u2019re all, straight fucking fire.<\/span><\/p>\n And then, I noticed the Champion logos on everything, and suddenly, I\u2019m like okay, okay\u2026\u00a0 If ever there was a way to climb out of mediocrity, associating themselves with a popular IP like Cobra Kai seems like as good of idea as any, if there ever was one.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, I\u2019m no longer thinking Champion is such a B-tier brand, and was actively googling to see if and when there was a chance that all this baller gear was ever going to be available to the public.\u00a0 And <\/span>if this link is accurate<\/a>, then yes, there will be.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, while I\u2019m on Cobra Kai, let\u2019s talk about season 4, and I think it\u2019s safe to say that there will probably be spoilers written out.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The show remains a guilty pleasure that\u2019s a combination of nostalgia for olds like me, and the cheese of the teen romance that has to be present as well in order to try and hook the youngs of the future.\u00a0 The plot remains as linear and predictable as the rest of the series has been, and there\u2019s practically no barrel the showrunners won\u2019t scrape in order to bring back a nostalgia act for the sake of progressing the plot.<\/span><\/p>\n To nobody\u2019s surprise the big revival of season 4 was Terry Silver, from <\/span>Karate Kid III<\/em>, and it doesn\u2019t take long for Kreese to mind fuck him into coming back to Cobra Kai, in order to reinforce their school against a supposed united front of Daniel and Johnny.\u00a0 Naturally, the latter partnership struggles throughout the season, with there being a lot of confusion with the kids themselves, not being able to comprehend who or how to train in karate.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s little secret that the show runners are big wrestling fans, because they utilize a lot of plot that reads like wrestling storylines, not to mention how often characters or background actors wear wrestling apparel, but there\u2019s a whole lot of kids of one parental figure, being influenced by another sensei\u2019s training.\u00a0 In fact, regardless of if there\u2019s karate involved or not, just about every key teenage character in the season has the same arc with being influenced by someone else, that isn\u2019t their primary influences.<\/span><\/p>\n But to cut to the chase, and the U-18 All-Valley Tournament that the season is building up towards, the real game of the season, is trying to predict who will be the winner of the whole thing in the end, because there are far more characters this season than there have been in prior.\u00a0 Obviously, the favorites are always Miguel, Robby, Sam and Tory, with there being some darkhorses like Hawk, but honestly I didn\u2019t think about it until about episode 4, when a friend of mine asked what my prediction was going to be for the end.<\/span><\/p>\n Naturally, this is derailed a little bit by them ultimately deciding to do boys and girls divisions, because it basically pares down the respective finals for both, but I was still able to nail them both, because the girls\u2019 side was so obviously going to be an inevitable Sam vs. Tory matchup, and some fuckface on YouTube just had to make a ANALYSIS OF THE COBRA KAI S4 FINALE video like 45 minutes after the show dropped, with a spoiler alert thumbnail of who was in the boys\u2019 final, so I was able to predict the outcome of that one, based on how I figured other characters would progress.<\/span><\/p>\n Overall, the season was still pretty entertaining, and wasn\u2019t too cringey or a chore to watch at any point; at least until the ending of the season, which led to a great bit wtf moment for me, but it\u2019s no real spoiler that there will be a season 5.\u00a0 I can already think of one character who hasn\u2019t been dusted off yet, that is pretty obviously going to be in S5, but then there\u2019s another character that I\u2019m wincing, even just thinking about how it ended, how it\u2019s going to be moving forward into the next season.<\/span><\/p>\n And I imagine the following year will be more time for the showrunners to keep in touch with Hilary Swank if they already haven\u2019t been, or maybe doing some MCU-Netflix like reveal by crossing the Cobra Kai universe with the Jaden Smith Kung-Fu Kid universe, seeing as how Will Smith is an executive producer of the show in the first place.\u00a0 Maybe see some Daniel LaRusso have a come to god moment when he meets Jackie Chan\u2019s Mr. Han character.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t that be some shit?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my perception, athletic apparel company Champion, is kind of B-level.\u00a0 In the past, they used to be among the pinnacle of the industry, being the official uniform sponsor of the NBA, among other notable partnerships.\u00a0 But as time passed, I don\u2019t know who initiated the changes, but Champion kind of fell to the wayside; … Continue reading Cobra Kai x Champion is straight 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