The director of John Wick, Chad Stahelski, states that John uses and is proficient in Japanese jiu-jitsu, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, tactical 3-gun, and Standing Judo. It is pretty much a made up art that has been labeled Gun fu. It's a mixture of all the nuances of the best martial arts mixed with artful gun handling.
One of the martial arts seen throughout the John Wick franchise is judo, with John himself being its primary user. Founded by Kano Jigoro, judo is well-known for its throwing techniques. John is a highly skilled judoka, and throughout the franchise often relies on various judo throws to catch his opponents off-guard.
Keanu Reeves has extensive martial arts training in Judo, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, weapons, and stunt work. He has trained with the 8711 stunt team, Rigan Machado, and Nomura Tadahiro. Recently he was awarded an honorary black belt in Judo.
So, he needed to learn various martial art techniques to make it happen. As a result, Krav Maga, Japanese Jiu-Jitsu, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, standing Judo, Sambo, and Tactical 3-gun all make epic appearances in the John Wick franchise. Krav Maga is the sub-structure of all my self-defense courses.
For John Wick, Reeves focused his training and on-screen fighting style on something with a heavy emphasis on throwing and grappling techniques. The style is a blend of Aikido, BJJ, Judo, and Defensive Tactics Training classes offered by companies like Controlled F.O.R.C.E.
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How realistic is John Wick fighting style?
John Wick was never intended to be realistic. That said, parts of it are. His gun handling is technically correct and he spent weeks training with Taran Tactical. But although his specific individual moves may be realistic, stringing so many of them together so quickly and without error is not realistic.
John was born Jardani Jovonovich in a Padhorje village somewhere in the Byelorussian SSR of the Soviet Union to a Ruska Roma family on September 2, 1964. He was orphaned at a young age before being taken in by an old friend of his father, Winston, who would eventually become John's mentor.
His superior, Viggo Tarasov, promised to allow John to quit if he first completed an "impossible task": killing all of Tarasov's enemies in a single night. Having succeeded, John retired and lived peacefully for just over five years.
Both have their own strengths and weaknesses. Rambo is able to take down enemies quickly, but he is less durable than Wick. Wick is able to take down enemies with more precision, but he has a slower rate of fire.
Tom Cruise knows quite a few martial arts with wrestling being his most dominant. This is because he was a solid wrestler during his younger years which has aided his physicality in later life. Aside from wrestling, he's also decent at using the Keysi method and elements of Krav Maga.
From there, Bond's fighting style was a mix of Krav Maga, Kali, Kung Fu and Tai Chi, as these were the systems Daniel Craig learned to do his fight scenes. All my life I've wanted to learn Kung Fu.
And despite Batman having the better physicality and combat knowledge, Wick's more ruthless brutality approach was able to overwhelm him, being unlike any gun-wielder the Dark Knight has dealt with before.
He is a notorious Russian crime boss who is the head (or Pakhan) of the Tarasov Crime Family as well as Iosef Tarasov's father, Abram Tarasov's brother, and an enterprising businessman with questionable roots. He is also the former employer and the arch-nemesis of John Wick (the hero of the film).
The John Wick coins have no fixed dollar value, but their true worth lies in the trust and honor they represent within the mercenary world. The coins are made with real gold and would be worth around $2,000 each based on their gold content, but their value goes beyond monetary exchange.
His mother is English, originating from Essex. His American father is from Hawaii, and is of Native Hawaiian, Chinese, English, Irish, and Portuguese descent. Reeves's paternal grandmother is of Chinese and Hawaiian descent.
Kennedy's executive order (executive order 11111). JFK's executive order on June 11, 1963, provided "assistance for the removal of obstructions of justice and suppression of unlawful combinations within the state of Alabama." On November 22, 1963 (five months later), he was assassinated.
Reeves' martial arts training began in the 1980s when he started studying Karate. Reeves then moved on to study Judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ). In fact, Reeves has trained extensively with world-renowned BJJ black belt Rigan Machado, who is one of the top instructors in the world.
Keanu Reeves began his martial arts journey with The Matrix, but there would be no instant download of elite skills for John Wick. He spent four months learning Judo and Jiu-Jitsu for the first film. For the sequels, he embarked on a grueling boot camp with BJJ experts and mixed-martial artists the Machado brothers.
