Funny and insanely exaggerated Bruce Lee kick from Enter The Dragon.

(Yes I confirmed this scene actually occurs in the original movie exactly as shown below)



Chuck Norris has nothing on this guy, apart from still being alive :/

god that guy was good

I can kick dummys with full force as well :)

leg moves pretty darn quick hey, looks like the camera doesn't take fast enough frames or something

I can kick dummys with full force as well :)

You should see him kick a punching bag. He could easily do that to an actual head with one of his kicks. I think his kicks to the punching bag are in the special features of the spoken film DVD. If not its one of the other films of his I have in my collection.

I can kick dummys with full force as well :)

Well youre not on youtube so no one cares.

pfft, thats not a kick, this is a kick

You should see him kick a punching bag. He could easily do that to an actual head with one of his kicks. I think his kicks to the punching bag are in the special features of the spoken film DVD.

i saw one where he ran up to a kicking bag, fly kicked it and the bag hit the roof. (or was really close)

1" punch.. bitches

for a small lil' asian(165 lb at his biggest) he was pretty strong!(something like 25kg curls?) Had the right idea about martial arts too. Studied everything he could. He saw the benefits in western wrestling and boxing (someone thats trained a year in rastlin' and borxin' will kick the s*** out of most black belts). Trained judo with gene lebel... He was no joke.. Nothing compared to todays martial artists but a legend in his own right because he was the beginning..

Nothing compared to todays martial artists

Ahahhahahahahah

As for the one-inch punch. The guy is standing with his feet together. Whenever some Wing Chun "Grandmaster" does this parlour trick i laugh :)

Taking nothing away from BL, its still a good technique, but its always done in the most aweful way as a stunt.

As for comparing BL to today's martial artist, I think BL far exceeds them as a purist. But its a never-ending arguement :)

I think that in work ethic he wins. His life was martial arts. How do you mean plague? I think of him as not a purist as he was willing to take a step outside of his comfort zone(kung fu) and cross train and study MANY other martial arts and combat sports. A martial artist and martial art philosopher.

I just don't think compared to the words best light weights we see today, he has anything on them. Martial arts have evolved a lot since Bruce Lee was around. Take a look at the top MMA LW rankings. Guys like Sean Sherk, BJ Penn, Nick Diaz, Franca, Aoki etc.

Bruce Lee said that "Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.", the tao of JKD proves this, he studied everything. But it's 35 years since Bruce Lee's influence on the world of martial arts, and in the information age we live in, that is a lot. It has moved on. He was the beginning, but he isn't the end.

Two&eight: don't get me wrong, I think of bruce as a legend. Todays athletes have just evolved since then.

Plus, to prove Bruce was the best he should have just fought Muhammad Ali who was boxing around that time. Bruce would have to try to take him down with his wrestling/judo knowledge, would he be strong enough to take down the more athletic and much bigger Muhammad Ali? There is no way Bruce could stand with Muhammad Ali.

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Yeah but bruce lee is allowed to kick people in the nads so Ali didn't have a chance

Different Horses for different courses. The age-old arguement of whos better than who in a ring of rules is just verbal wanking.

By purist I don't mean to one particular style, I mean that he not only studied the physical but mental and spiritual side of things and looked to improve on what was already there.

In times where there are laws that govern fisticuffs, you cannot compare one style to another. One person, to another. Skill always defeats size, history has proved that.

So building a hypothetical around whether bruce lee would have beaten mohammad ali...? Who knows, we can throw as much opinion in there as we'd like, but at the end of the day, the fight didnt happen. And if it did, where was it held, under what conditions, was there rules? What are the variables.

My opinion is that Martial Arts are combat/war. And the conditions of war applies. Go read the Bing Fa (Art of War) to get a more thorough understanding of what I mean. We are not in an age where people are really tested martially. We train in static environments with rules and regulations, but that makes athletes, not combatants.

Meh, anyway :)