Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, And Martial Arts In General Videos And Discussion

[mudwhistle]

Maybe the greatest martial arts actor, sure.

I don't know how one would measure the greatest martial artist, really. Maybe the greatest at a particular style/technique, or in a certain competition, but it seems like far too broad a range to try to claim someone is simply the greatest martial artist.

I don't believe in measuring dicks. I don't think it matters all that much who could win a fight. I think it's a matter of who influenced the direction martial arts took the most.

he definitely was the most influential martial artist there ever has been......

Based on what metrics? Martial arts have been practiced for thousands of years. I think it's hard to say that Lee was definitely the most influential. Better, perhaps, to say he's the most influential person in modern martial arts.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Maybe the greatest martial arts actor, sure.

I don't know how one would measure the greatest martial artist, really. Maybe the greatest at a particular style/technique, or in a certain competition, but it seems like far too broad a range to try to claim someone is simply the greatest martial artist.

I don't believe in measuring dicks. I don't think it matters all that much who could win a fight. I think it's a matter of who influenced the direction martial arts took the most.

he definitely was the most influential martial artist there ever has been......

Based on what metrics? Martial arts have been practiced for thousands of years. I think it's hard to say that Lee was definitely the most influential. Better, perhaps, to say he's the most influential person in modern martial arts.

based on name recognition....

 

[Natural Citizen]

 

[Natural Citizen]

Three great truths highlighted there, btw, see if yuns can find em.

 

[Erinwltr]

Holy cow, he is fast!

 

[mudwhistle]

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

I wish I could make my nunchaku sound like that.

 

[mudwhistle]

 

[mudwhistle]

I wish I could make my nunchaku sound like that.

I think those are sound-effects.

 

[22lcidw]

Years ago Danny Bonaduce from the Partridge Family who is into martial arts spewed some venom at Chuck Norris saying he could kick his azz. Bonaduce seemed not to like Norris.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I read at another forum yesterday that a Walker, Texas Ranger reboot is in the works with another actor playing the lead character. I would love to see Chuck Norris make an appearance for two.

God bless you and him always!!!

Holly

 

[mudwhistle]

Years ago Danny Bonaduce from the Partridge Family who is into martial arts spewed some venom at Chuck Norris saying he could kick his azz. Bonaduce seemed not to like Norris.

Well.....that's the strange thing about being a tough guy.....assholes always want to try you.

 

[mudwhistle]

 

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[mudwhistle]

 

[Likkmee]

Arguably the greatest martial artist in history, Bruce Lee is still the standard that all other martial artists are judged by. He's been gone since 1973 when I started studying various forms of self-defense. I had only been a student for less than 2 years when I discovered that Bruce had died under strange circumstances. Yet his pictures are still on the cover of Black Belt magazine among others.

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Bruce Jun Fan Lee (Lee Siu Loong) was born in 1940 in San Francisco, CA while his parents were on tour with the Chinese Opera. Ultimately raised in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee was a child actor appearing in more than 20 films. At the age of 13, Bruce took up the study of wing chun gung fu under renowned wing chun master, Yip Man.

Bruce left Hong Kong at the age of 18, came to the United States and made his way to Seattle, Washington where he worked in the restaurant of a family friend. He soon enrolled in the University of Washington where he pursued a degree in philosophy. Bruce began to teach gung fu in Seattle and soon opened his first school, the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute. Two more schools followed in Oakland and Los Angeles. Concurrently Bruce married his wife, Linda and had his two children, Brandon and Shannon. In the mid sixties, Bruce was discovered while doing an exhibition at the Long Beach Internationals and a role as Kato in the tv series The Green Hornet soon followed. During this time, Bruce was also developing his own martial art, which he ultimately named Jeet Kune Do (translated: the way of the intercepting fist).

Bruce's art was steeped in a philosophical foundation and did not follow long held martial traditions. Instead it had at its core the ideas of simplicity, directness and personal freedom. After The Green Hornet series was canceled, Bruce encountered resistance while working in Hollywood and so headed to Hong Kong to pursue a film career. In Hong Kong he made 3 films, which consecutively broke all box office records and showcased martial arts in an entirely new way. Hollywood took notice and soon Bruce was making the first Hollywood / Hong Kong coproduction with a film called Enter the Dragon. Unfortunately, Bruce Lee died in 1973 before this film was released. This film catapulted him to international fame. Today Bruce Lee’s legacy of self expression, equality, and pioneering innovation continues to inspire people all around the world.



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He was fair...

 

[Brick Gold]

Thats what they say but they should have said greatest movie karate guy ever. He is said to not be as awesome in real matches and probably mostly due to his need to not be injured to protect his film career. He is probably one of the greatest but surely not the absolute greatest who was probably an unknown soldier centuries ago.

 

[Brick Gold]

The all time greatest fight I ever saw was Jackie Chan fighting four guys with samurai swords simultaneously. Final fight of the movie set on an open grassland in broad daylight. Epic and intense it was a long brutal fight and kept me on the edge lf my seat. It was one of the Crane Shaolin Arts movies that isnt available in America and I randomly picked it up on VHS at the rental shop when I was a kid. No English and not formatted to the screen it was completely alien but all the fighting was in my opinion as good as or better than Bruce Lee.

This movie appears to be banned in America for no good reason except maybe some real bloodshed in it?

Theres a bunch of movies in this series I forgot which one it was, if it was one of the sequels.

 

[Unkotare]

Thats [sic] what they say but they should have said greatest movie karate guy ever. .....

Why would he be called any kind of "karate guy"?

 

[Harry Dresden]

Why would he be called any kind of "karate guy"?

yea Bruce would be shaking his head if he heard that....