Who is your favorite movie Martial Artist?

[Joshydavid25]

Bruce Lee

Jackie Chan

Jet Li

Jean Claude Van Damme

Donnie Yen

Scott Adkins

Michael Jai White

[DizzyDesii]

Jackie fine ass and Jet Li have always been a tie for me. Michael Jai White comes next for me. Then Jean but i can't stand seeing him hit splits. I also love seeing Chuck Norris, Wesley Snipes, Jason Statham, Tony Jaa, Steven Seagal, and Billy Blanks

[DizzyDesii]

I've also liked seeing Mark Dacascos— Hawaii Five 0, The Crow, Codename the Cleaner, Cradle 2 Da Grave, John Wick
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FBciUGhFB0M

[Joshydavid25]

Oooh yeah Mark Dascascos is pretty cold too.. A little slow on the choreography though.. Or maybe it's the choreographer..

[DizzyDesii]

he's always been fast in my opinion

[Joshydavid25]

https://youtu.be/WBR9iqupiqo?si=5yP7ZQIaBoT6jJMR

Okay, I was wrong.. I just watched a fight scene where he is going crazy.. Dude is crazy athletic..

[DizzyDesii]

Yea he was a villain all throughout Hawaii Five 0 and showed out as well

[Joshydavid25]

I can imagine.. LOL..

[7Phoenix7]

I used to have a little crush on Bruce Lee. Lol anyway I picked him I think he's the best

[Joshydavid25]

Bruce Lee FTW so far..

[The-Stud]

All of them are more of actors though
I think I'll take Donnie cause Ip man movies were quite fun even though not that realistic

[Joshydavid25]

I think Jai White actually competed in tournaments.. Same with Van Damme.. But nice choice..

[NathanDavis]

Jai White and its... seven belts? something like that

[Joshydavid25]

Yeah Michael is cold.. For a pretty big guy he moves like the wind..

[Joshydavid25]

I think it's seven black belts as well..

[DizzyDesii]

One of my fave movies of his is Blood and Bone with Rufio from Hook

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[Joshydavid25]

@DizzyDesii Yeah he is especially cold in Blood and Bone.. That's where I found out he could move as gracefully as a butterfly..

[NathanDavis]

@DizzyDesii I've actually seen this one.. lol

[NathanDavis]

@Joshydavid25 talking about swift... lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd2duQnrc4s

[Joshydavid25]

I remember seeing that video..

[DizzyDesii]

Love him

[IslaTheWitch]

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155392/

the one and only Tiger Hu Chen

[Joshydavid25]

Nice, he was in "Man of Tai Chi"..

[IslaTheWitch]

And in second Matrix

[Joshydavid25]

True, I never saw it.. But I know that he was also in John Wick 2? I think with the knives scene..

[IslaTheWitch]

I know they like each other with Keanu so it's possible

[Booboolove69]

Bruce Lee’s daughter was a good friend of mine in high school
She looked like him but sweet like her mom

[Joshydavid25]

Wow, that's crazy and nice.. What was she like?

[Julie4]

1) Bruce Lee 2 ) Bruce Lee 3 ) Bruce Lee.


I'm a huge Bruce Lee fan

[Joshydavid25]

I know Bruce Lee is beloved, but I didn't think he would still be eclipsing some of the other choices..

[Julie4]

Bruce Lee is a true legend, he's the one who made martial arts films profitable, and he was so charismatic. I also love Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen. But you can't compare them to Bruce

I share with you this video of Hayward Nishioka (American judo champion at the time of Bruce Lee and 5th in the world).

https://youtu.be/EVilU2bRN7w?si=WzrCxUi9fpj3xpTm

[Joshydavid25]

Aw yeah I agree Bruce Lee was something else.. He was pretty philosophical too.. And yeah definitely was powerful for a fairly small man..

[Julie4]

Absolutely. People don't realize how different this guy was. Look at all the ufc champions paying tribute to him today.

But Bruce Lee was a human being, and he had his dark side too.

[Joshydavid25]

He basically did for Martials what Dragon Ball did for anime bring the East and the West closer..

Aw yeah most definitely.. Cheated on his wife, and took a lot of pain meds..

[Joshydavid25]

Martial Arts

[Julie4]

Exactly. Like I said I'm a big Bruce Lee fan but some fans are a bit too sensitive about Bruce and consider him a god.

But Bruce Lee was a human being and like all of us he had his failings. He was also apparently a very arrogant person, and hard to stand, not a very pleasant personality. But does that change what he achieved? Of course not.

[Julie4]

Besides it's funny to see his daughter trying to reinvent Bruce's image or she presents her father as a feminist , gentle and sensitive 🤣 but WTF. Bruce was macho , he was arrogant , angry etc.

[Joshydavid25]

Yeah, they mythicized him.. I heard he would try and fight people on set and whatnot.. And injure people maybe for going a bit too hard.. And in the end fell because he was training too hard all the time overworking his muscles and got addicted to certain drugs..

[Julie4]

Bruce Lee was a training fanatic, Chuck Norris himself had told Bruce to give his body a rest, physical training and martial arts were his life for him. He lived for it. In my opinion at that level it was almost a Psychological problem. 🤣

I share with you this statement by Joey Orbillo ( former professional heavyweight boxer )

" " Joe Lewis took me to a tournament that he was fighting in and Bruce Lee was sitting there. And I had this nice-looking girl - God bless her - anyway, and Bruce looked at me and said: "Joey Orbillo!" And I looked and said, "Kato!" And he said, "Hey!" And I left my girl and we went walking. We went outside, and I don't even know who won the tournament... it was at the Holiday Inn in Long Beach, and, to make a long story short, we went out and we [sparred]. We were in the parking lot. Everybody was I mean, the place was about 3,000 people that were there, and Bruce Lee and I are out in the parking lot — sparring. Now you have to understand this was my first encounter with the man. And to me, fast was fast, but when you cannot see [the punches], what can you say? I mean, fast is fast, right? But if you're not seeing them he was hitting me all over - I said "Wow!"

[Joshydavid25]

Damn, seems to me that Bruce Lee had a blessing and a curse of a competitive spirit.. Even had a heavy weight boxer saying "Wow".. I guess I don't blame Bruce Lee though.. Once you find something that you are really good at, it gives you some sort of purpose and you become addicted to continuously progressing..

[Julie4]

Exactly. As a result, in addition to his physical training, he played the lead role in his films, he also did the choreography, promotion and so on. With all this, Bruce's drug-taking can be explained quite easily. I think that unfortunately, because of all the strain he put on his body between training, films etc., he was bound to die at a young age. No human being, no matter how great, can do so many things at once.

[Joshydavid25]

Aw yeah that guy was a trooper.. He probably was going to die young or be like Ali and have some crippling body problems as he aged.. You're right he was only human and could only take on so much..

[LiamJHayden]

Steven Seagal, because he is (unwittingly) comedy gold.

[Joshydavid25]

Lmao, I mean I guess so..

[abc3643]

Where's Chuck Norris?

[Joshydavid25]

He's on another list..

[Chayce]

Jet Li. His style is so aggressive

[Joshydavid25]

Aw yeah Jet Li was cold especially in his younger years..

[Iron_Man]

Bruce Lee is the best

[Iron_Man]

What happened to Chuck Norris?

[Joshydavid25]

I would've added him, but I had him in my last question..

[Iron_Man]

Oh ok

[dolemite58]

michael jai white and ray park

[Joshydavid25]

Jai White FTW.. And yeah Ray Park is pretty cold..

[Anonymous]

Bruce Lee, hands down.

[Joshydavid25]

Bruce Lee FTW..

[exitseven]

Chuck Norris

[Joshydavid25]

He was in my last question..