Japanese Karate Sensei Reacts & Breaks Down Bruce Lee's ONLY Fight!

I would love to be able to do your online classes. but at my age right now 68 and limited use of my legs due to arthritis in my keens and being completely out of shape get winded it would not be worth my while, beside online classes are not as effective as in person in a dojo.

His counter punching speed and reflexes were incredible

Yeah, like a young Karate 'expert' can 'analyse' Jeet Kune Do.

Most people here don't take into account that anyone can look amazing against a lesser opponent. Here Bruce is sparring one of his students. Overall there's nothing here that isn't amateurish. AND, it isn't a "fight" it's a demo sparring match.

Dude you're the real life Kaede Rukawa from Slam Dunk

i love this, 2 trained martial artists going at it. both disciplined to hell and back! i love it love it love it. but these guys are nothing if they try to use this in an un disciplined street fight, theyd be on the floor faster than a fat guy who sat down to fast

Dan and Paul taught my Sifu. Bruce was already incorporating more Filipino style going to the outside in addition to his wing chun. Alot of what he did, especially with the legs was Savate and fencing.

JKD Concepts is where I'm at home. Includes everything that works, but main components are western boxing, Wing Chun, Kali, Muay Thai, Savat, Kina Mutai, Gracie Brazilian JiuJitsu, and more.

Also have a belt in Ed Parkers American Kenpo Karate, Taekwondo, Japanese Ju-jitsu, and Kajakenbo.

I've dabbled in Shotokan Karate, Tai Chi Chuan, Ninjitsu, Capoeira, Black Ops techniques, Aikido, Hapkido

JKD is great because it's not a style, it's a way of life and constantly improving everything you lack in. Fits everyone. It teaches fighting as not a step by step, but combat as a conceptual thing.

People forget Bruce didn't have just one style. He took from many on what worked best for HIS style.

Bruce Lee made his own martial art consisting of fencing , and how he keeps his distance, boxing, and other styles of American sports mixed with wang chun and judo

I was expecting a more offensive approach, interesting. I tend to go for a defensive approach because I like to get close, I have to get close my arms are short. it's always been easier to let an opponent get close and try to hit me, than me trying to get close and hit them. helps conserve my energy not making unnecessary movements and I'm far less predictable. I like various types of karate, I'm just not very good at it. I tend to pick and choose things I feel I can use. I've been interested in aikido of late, I feel it gets underestimated and it's so elegant.

Similar to fencing stance, but not. In fencing the rear foot is perpendicular to the direction of motion and the lead foot is pointed in the direction of motion. His feet are too close together and his center of gravity is too high for fencing. His feet aren't perpendicular because it's easier to maintain balance when he takes a hit. This is easy to demonstrate. Have a friend take the fencing en garde position. He will be able to maintain that stance if he gets hit head-on, however a hit coming from the side will cause him to lose balance. I fenced all 3 weapons for 12+ years as a USFA member.

With someone like Bruce you have to draw the counter with feints and counter the counter, his opponent is also telegraphing their strikes far, far too much. It feels very choreographed.

You could not because Bruce's punches were so fast you could not see them :-)

there is a grainy video of Bruce playing ping pong ( table tennis ) with nunchaku against 2 players using normal paddles , at the end of this video he glues a single strip of sand paper on the ends and lights thrown matches. Would love to see your reaction to this video.

Do you believe that if Bruce Lee had lived a couple of decades longer that he would have changed a lot of what he did then?

I've just become aware of your channel in the past 2 days. I really enjoy your commentary, and I would like to hear your thoughts on the Blade trilogy with Wesley Snipes

This is only the beginning of what he evolved to later,he would fight differently later

Using only countermoves is really the best way to fight for two very good reasons.
1: you can see the attack coming and therefore deflect it and land any number of attacks of your own.
2: legally speaking, you didnt strike first which means that you are protected by law from a charge of assault since you are merely defending yourself.

Bruce wasn't a good fighter by today's standards. At all

Just a suggestion but id like you to watch Lyoto Machida highlights would like your opinion being he proved karate can be affective in real fights good conversation for another tine

Earlier in Bruce Lee's training he didn't believe in kicking above the waist, he felt it was a "waste of time" he seen it as the equivalent of bending down and punching your toe. That all changed after he filmed the Way of the Dragon with Chuck Norris. Chuck demonstrated and convinced him of the effectiveness of high kicks.

Bruce Lee had many books about different marshal arts. Including fensing for leg work.
When I was a teenager and my friends and I were unto marshal arts we imagined how we would fight in a free fight with Bruce Lee. I said I would first immitate a typical karate guy. Than surprise him with a fast technique. 😂🤣

His speed was amazingly fast, even with all that gear on.. He knew what he had and so did many of the champion fighters who studied with him such as Joe Lewis, Chick Norris. Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Many were champions themselves, downy did they study with him? because no matter what some have said after his passing they knew he was better than them.. He was the real deal and worked out constantly. You did a good job going thru the fights. Some of his kicks were so fast Thant it's hard to see them. Keep going with your channel.Look up on you tube what Jim Kelly said about Bruce Lee fighting (sparring) with his students and what happened even time.

Bruce Lee is useless

😂😂😂😂

Fun commentary. JKD was a first step towards an actual martial art. Karate has a ways to go. I remain amazed that there are still people signing up for karate.

NOT his only fight

Fight or demo? Was that not one of his own students?

Ussss

In Bruce Lees day, Martial artists were very secretive of their art and there was a lot of flashy moves that were never proven in real fights. Bruce Lee was a pioneer of mix martial arts and discarding anything that was not efficient in fighting. Martial arts have gone through a revolution since Bruce Lees day, mainly due to the UFC and the mixing of martial arts. We now have a better understanding of what works and what doesn't in a real fight.
By today's standards there may be some weaknesses in Bruce Lees style, but in his time he was the revolution.

Gonna be hard to move faster than Bruce! Subbed.

The title of this video is very misleading. It should be called only recorded match or sparing. Because there are still many people alive that did spar him and tell stories of real fights that Bruce had.

i fought bruce in the late late 60's, i think it was 68 or 69, not sure. i didn't think much of his style he was just one of those talkers with no preservable power to any of his attacks or defenses. we fought 3 rounds and i unquestionably won all 3. afterwards several men approached me and offered opportunities and money. i laughed in their faces.
a few months later several lawyers contacted me in a threating way. they didn't want me to talk about the match. in my opinion, bruce was a fraud.

I've been a bouncer for a little over 33 years. I'm 198cm tall, and have disproportionately long arms. My fingertip to fingertip span is a hair over 215 cm. So keeping range is really easy for me. I am extremely durable. My trim fighting weight in my early 20s was 140kg. Now that I'm almost 50, I'm around 250kg. Definitely a fat guy, but with a lifetime of weight lifting and fight training, no one guesses I'm that heavy until they hit me. I consider myself having failed a situation if it comes to an actual fight. I am really good at talking people down, calming them with humor and being non-confrontational… and also being the biggest guy they ever met helps with that. Usually, legit tough guys don't start trouble, but one guy who went off on me was blindingly fast.

One moment in particular, he threw a right jab, I tried to do an outward block, but he hit me and snapped his hand back before my block crossed the line of his arm, and as soon as my arm passed where his arm had been, he snapped out a second jab. He was literally more than twice as quick as I was. I only got him because he got too close, and I was able to grab his shirt, twist it tight, pull him in, and land a couple head-butts. In that time, he must have punshed me 10 or 15 times. It was like he was using me as a speed bag. I have fast hands. but that was the closest I think I've ever been to tangling with a guy with close-to-Bruce-Lee speed.

The next day, when all the bruises started to bloom, I had over a dozen black fist-prints on my body and face.

I'm really glad that genuine badasses almost never start trouble. …because when they do, it's a rough ride.

Very good. Bruce was a fencer

Motion requires energy, so minimal motion reduces your fatigue. I think one aspect of Kung Fu that people tend to miss is that it's not designed for 1 on 1 combat over extended periods of time, it's really designed to counter a single move and strike back with lethal force. Once your opponent is hit, you don't step back.

Just watching Bruce walk demonstrated a balance that insinuated menace.

Yeah, 99.6 percent of the best couldn't understand his technique

Did Bruce Lee lose the second match? That was a good kick to his head. The guy was starting to figure out how to attack and used his much longer leg reach.

I have an early edition Tao of Jeet Kun Do. A great tutorial series written I believe while he was in traction for a broken back.
I did Shotokan, and Aikido when I was in my early 20's, I entered competitions as a 4th Kyu, beating some 1st Kyu to reach the quarters finals in UK nationwide tournaments. Many of the stance, movement and ranging techniques in Lee's brilliant book were invaluable in real combat situations.

a master say in this video that bruce was good figther but people still not belive it ui think i belive af master he schould know

Dude appreciate your insight but your presentation is super boring

That lead strike is called an interception "stop hit" in JKD, the attack interrupts the adversary by using their own forward force against them.

Jeet Kune Do is a Chinese American material art.

Opponent was a karate practitioner??

Who cares

Bruce was 100 years ahead of his time, legendary ❤