If you mean that no other martial artist has had the influence and impact on promoting martial arts and martial arts movies to the collective world then, yes, I would agree with your statement. If you're talking impact on changing the progression of fighting systems then that's arguable as martial arts probably goes back to the first time one caveman attacked another and many martial artists - many of whom the average weekend warrior martial artist has never heard of - have made major contributions to fighting systems all around the world. Bruce Lee is the most well known strictly by media attention but there were a lot more. As big as an influence that Lee had upon me, perhaps you, and many others, I gotta be honest and say that I could name a dozen people alive today from whom I would rather learn pragmatic (practical) martial arts than a 1960's/70's era Bruce Lee because I believe practical fighting systems have come a long way since what even Bruce Lee envisioned because we have much bigger access to martial arts from all over the world. If we are talking martial arts philosophy then I think it would have been great to talk to him for hours on the martial arts.
@@assoverteakettle Well Bruce's philosophy was about constantly evolving, was never into stagnation. So, I bet money if he was still alive he would be up to date with today's fighting trend. After all, he made mix martial arts more popular.
DK Yoo doesnt deserve to be compared to Bruce Lee. Just imitating Bruce and using the same demonstrations from the 60's and not changing a damn thing = he wants to be seen as modern day Bruce Lee
Dk Yoo went 6 rounds with a professional fighter 10x bigger than him with 3 herniated discs, and the use of only one arm. What did Bruce Lee do? Act in movies? lol
@@Nattapong69 act in movies, real fights, and influenced martial arts globally . dk yoo asked for the fight with 3 herniated discs = built in excuses. as you must be aware of
@@voiceoverandmocapguy 1. Show me a real fight from Bruce Lee xD. 2. Xrays from doctors aren't excuses. 3. Brad and Joe were making excuses as soon as Dk Yoo accepted the fight. 4. If your teacher is fighting with 3 herniated discs, 10% use of his main arm, against someone 10x bigger than him, younger than him, and more experienced, would you want to know? 5. Why don't you guys ever mention the excuses from Brad and Joe before the fight started? I'll tell you exactly why. Because Brad is bigger and stronger. You guys are low level, and follow whoever you think is the biggest/strongest monkey. The big monkey makes an excuse, nobody notices. The small monkey makes an "excuse" which is actually true, and he gets endlessly bullied. Low level animal/social status stuff. 6. What's going on with Dk Yoo haters now is Crab stuff. When a Crab loses a fight, he puts his face in the dirt, won't talk to girls, gives up on life, and the other Crabs bully him. Dk Yoo is a meditator though, not a Crab. When he loses, he puts his head even higher, and keeps going up. More subs, better content, more confidence. He isn't following your Crab rules. And you guys can't stand it. Crabs mad.
@@Nattapong69 you're obsessed with DK Yoo! The excuses you've made for him are priceless. He called him out, props to him for showing up to fight. But he's not the modern Bruce Lee that he's trying to make himself to be
@@voiceoverandmocapguy "you're obsessed with Dk Yoo". Literally barely watched anything from him before the fight. And practice nothing he teaches. You people are obsessed with him lol. And he's not the modern Bruce Lee. He's better. Also xrays from doctors aren't excuses. You have nothing of substance to provide. Brad started talking about his shoulder injury 2 weeks before the fight. Buakaw won't accept challenge matches because he's 39 and out of his prime. Welcome to reality where injuries and old age are important.
I was just a young teenager when i first saw Bruce Lee perform that one inch punch, and even THEN i knew it was just a demonstration of how someone could channel their power with little space. It was NEVER about using it during actual combat, and Lee never claimed such a thing. Bruce Lee simply wanted to get people's attention to the potential of their inner strength, and how they could maximize it. Too many people are doing a disservice to Bruce Lee by spreading things they don't understand, which makes some people believe Bruce Lee was some sort of fraud.
Bruce Lee was smart enough to never have a real fight vs anyone good and have it on film. That way idiots 50 years after his death can say he was the best....and Lee never had to prove it!
@@johnmatonne7834 You're disrespectful douche throwing shade at a dead Asian icon not here to defend himself. Ok dumb smart ass because you're a dumb, present EVIDENCE Abdul Jabbar, Billy Cheung, Jesse Glover, Poteet, Linda Lee, Bustillo that testimonies regarding Bruce Lee is real deal are fabricating. You don't know about the time Bruce fought Youchi Nakachi and knocked him out under 15 seconds. Go home child help with the dishes.
I have to disagree with you about the inch punch being a party trick. The inch punch was merely used as a tool to demonstrate his ability to generate power from a short distance. It wasn't something he claimed as a punching technique that could be used in an actual fight. The first hand form of Wing Chun is Sil Lim Tau. It teaches proper exertion and release of energy through the arms while striking, rooting and centering of body weight, and the sixteen major hand techniques. Consistent practice of this form develops internal energy and also develop a strong root to prepare for the advance level of training. YEE JEE KIM YEUNG MA conditions the legs, and is the foundation for the concept of "rooting," or generating power from the ground up. Bruce merely used the inch punch to demonstrate the power one can generate by mastering rooting. The inch punch isn't "a party trick" at all.
Just to be clear... Whatever the mechanics of the strike I think a short distance, say a few inches from the target can certainly be "used in a fight"...and I think this was the intent of Bruce's demo to get people seeing that, which especially then was something less commonly discussed. To me DK is a grifter.
@@trondyne3513 I'm not saying it can't be used in a fight. I'm just sharing information I've learned from my research when I sought to find out more about the one inch punch and how one can learn to execute it. In an interview with Dan Inosanto, he mentioned that Bruce Lee used it solely to exhibit his ability to generate power in close quarters. Dan said Bruce never talked about it as an actual tool for fighting. This was also mentioned in the latest Bruce Lee biography by Matthew Polly "Bruce Lee A Life".
A real, "one inch punch" is not necessarily "punching" at all. It's as you say. It's power. A Wing Chun master can deliver remarkable power from any part of their body from a short distance. Many people would like to be called "master". But I've only met one such master in my life as I believe a true Wing Chun master is extremely few and far between... as in only a handful in the world. The master who I met and had the privilege to train under for four years could tap me with, say, a bong sau, a tan sau, a knee, a knuckle, and send me either flying across the room in the air, (I only weigh 150lbs), or with a charlie horse (using the knee) like no one else I've ever met. He did not have to settle into a stance first the way Bruce Lee does in the famous archival film. He could do it from any standing position and with hardly any movement. As for me, I'm no where near the level of my teacher. I've also met quite a few good Wing Chun people who are strong and in good shape, but no one who could demonstrate power like my teacher. Not even close. I practice for health and basic self defense. But this kind of thing, I would think, takes commitment like that of a disciple.
I'll give you that the 1 inch punch is a demonstration of the underlying whipping/snapping motion of wing chun and I'm sorry that you take the term "party trick" as a pejorative but it IS a party trick in that it's meant more for demo purposes than for practicality. It's something that is designed to impress viewers with some feats of strength or skill in a very static way but in itself is impractical for purposes that it is either trying to convey or imply to the audience. Like a magician's sleight of hand. The unbendable arm in aikido is another party trick, as are board breaking demonstrations. The problem with the one inch punch demo is like the ol' "Boards don't hit back" argument made by you-know-who. It is very unrealistic in its set up. The one inch punch demo typically requires the demonstration partner to stand upright, feet shoulder width apart, and holding a pad or telephone book to absorb the punch. Well, anyone who does martial arts knows that standing with your feet parallel is very unstable stance -- fore and aft. It is similar to how faith healers knock over their subjects by compromising their posture. Then it took Bruce Lee in his filmed demo, and DK Yoo, and anyone else attempting to demonstrate the one inch punch a good five seconds to set up by squaring up with the partner, cocking the fist, rooting their weight on their back leg... It's a static demo. Is it totally useless? I don't think so. I'm sure it does have practical applications in law enforcement or working security. I was watching an interview with a U.S. game warden on TV one time and he demonstrated to a trainee how to use non-lethal force on an aggressor getting in your space. He placed his palm by the trainee's chest with a relaxed arm and then he snapped his palm against the chest putting his weight behind him and knocked the demonstration partner back a few feet. A-ha. A one inch palm.
What Bruce Lee and DK Yoo are demonstrating is a party trick. Go back to where I say that short range/inch power is real. The people in those clips are my classmates and one of my best friends. What they're doing is real fajin. 👍
I have never thought of anyone as the "modern Bruce Lee". Bruce Lee, whatever you think of his fighting ability, was a living legend. He set out some goals that were seemingly impossible to accomplish... especially at that time... and accomplished literally every single one. His fighting ability is actually irrelevant. His impact on the fighting world is still felt all these years later and will be felt for long after DK Yoo is forgotten
To be a bit more fair to Bruce Lee, he didn’t actually get famous from the one inch punch. He was also a child actor. The demo definitely helped spread his name around as a martial artist though.
Good point. A lot of movie biographies like Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story portray him as some disadvantaged youth living and fighting in Hong Kong slums but the truth is that he had been an actor since 6 years old, came from a family of performers, and had a privileged life.
But Bruce did fought established fighters and proved he was ahead of his time. That's why tournament fighters wanted to learn his JKD. He fought but not in a tournament setting, he never wanted to be a tournament, to him that wasn't defining real fighters. He wanted to be the best street fighter.
@@Eikinkloster Not as famous when Bruce was grown adult because he was accomplishing many things in a big scale that the world recognized not just in Hong Kong community.
Bruce Lee knocked Gary Elms down with punches not "pushing and tripping". If you have evidence to the contrary I'd be happy to look at it. I'm most definitely not a fan boy but you're the first person I heard that from. "Stillness in movement" is old saying. Stillness is referring to mind. Peace from India.
@@sumaid2268 Gary was 17, fought and trained boxing and Bruce was 18. Bruce Lee was not a trained boxer/fighter like Elms and just because some people didn't understand what they were seeing or because Bruce was Chinese they tried to deny his clear victory by saying he was "pushing and tripping". It's just lame! Elms gets huge credit because he kept getting up but Bruce had the clear victory.
@@Nattapong69 The fact that you used 2 other ppl that are NOT BOXERS as your example says alot. Lol. Terrible choice of words. The clinching was excessive more than most fights I've ever seen in 30 years of boxing.
Bruce Lee's 1 inch punch was more than just a party trick. There's a video on TH-cam where James Coburn said Bruce hit him with the 1 inch punch and knock him backwards, down and he doubled over.
The only one I feel who can be compared to the way Bruce moved in modern times, is sifu Tommy Carruthers from the UK. Tommy studied with the original JDK students Gary Dill, Jesse Glover, and Ted Wong, who awarded Tommy his JKD instructor certification. DK is pretty good with what he does in his dept., but doesn't come close to Bruce in any way. Besides, DK studied the bogus style of Systema which was popularized in Russia. Systema is a sort of tai chi style of movement with strikes and takedowns. If you want to see and know someone who is an actual JKD practitioner who moves like Bruce, look up Tommy Carruthers who has a background in boxing, Wing Chun, karate, and JKD.
One party trick that I believe is true since it was in the book Linda Lee wrote about him... I hope it's true that he did his version of "snatch the pebbles from my hand" but he put a dime in the other person's hand and told them to close their hand before he could snatch it. The other person usually smiled because when their hand closed they could feel the coin in it. But when they opened their hand it was a penny and Bruce had the dime. LOL
Someone wrote a comment to a video saying that Bruce came to his family's shop and did the trick, but get this: He did it with 3 people at the same time. That's some party trick.
Awesome work, this is definately one of the most potent videos you've made when it comes to many different points you've touched & people you've mentioned, please explore & expand these subjects & give more details on these (for the westerners) lesser known martial artist and masters, their backgrounds, history & at least basic teachings. Keep up with great work 💪🏿🎩
I'm assuming your labelling of Wang Xiang Zhai as a "Street Thug" was for click bait purposes? He did lament the state of the Chinese martial arts "standards" not the arts themselves. He did face challenges and even sought some out but this is not uncommon in Chinese martial arts culture. Like so many stories of fighters in China throughout their history - the stories are pretty much the same just fill in a different name- he fought all who came and defeated them. Wang Xiang Zhai, I believe was Guo Yun Shen's Nephew, He trained with GYS for about 5 years before GYS died when WXZ was about 15 years old (ish). However GYS wanted WXZ to take the art forward as his successor though there were undoubtedly other students of GYS that would have been far more capable and further trained than WXZ. It's a little simplistic to say that he travelled around china challenging people, life in China wasn't so simple at that time (1st and 2nd Sino-Japanese wars). Gou Yun Shen was imprisoned for killing an opponent because the Judge felt as a skilled martial artist he should have been able to defeat the opponent without killing him - this is a matter of record. In prison he was said to have practiced Beng quan/ crushing fist up and down in his cell daily for hours which made him even more formidable. The standing postures you discuss (Zhan Zhuang - Pronounced JamJong) is a solid aspect of Xing Yi and I suspect internal alchemy by Taoists/ Chinese Shamen for centuries. Guo did not discover these he merely passed them on like many before and after him. Perhaps this might be useful: podtail.com/en/podcast/heretics-by-woven-energy/-66-yiquan/ To me your comment regarding Bruce Lee's quote on stillness - sounds like it comes from the Tao Te Ching. as for DK Yoo - "shrugs".
Pardon my ignorance, Goldenbell, but, WHO THE HELL IS DY WOO??!! The 1 inch 3 👊 is effective when a master knows when to apply in a moment in time . Back in Bruce's time , the 1inch 3 inch was a neat demo for those who behold it. Nowadays anyone with knowledge of it uses it for entertainment purposes. My tenant at that time did it & he didn't even studied it. A family friend showed him the move. Goldenbell, WC Master Adam of The Dragon House instructions does it & I'm pretty sure Sifu Alex Richter can apply the move.
I like DK Yoo and this video most definitely, but 6 rounds. Bruce would've said that was too long, but I get the point of what the video is trying to make. Thanks for your research and sharing, love the channel.
Forget about BRUCE LEE boxing competition winer in Hong-Kong let's talk about the reality of BRUCE LEE, ultimately BRUCE LEE is one of the best martial artists that ever happened in the whole till today he is still in the top
Stumbled on your videos today. Thanks for the stories and insight. 30 yr ago met a guy who used to rumbled the street of HK with Bruce. Said he was getting into a lot of fights when they were kids.
DK may get his speed but Bruce Lee's secret was his power. I have seen people as fast, but Bruce Lee had deadly speed and power. Bruce Lee was the strongest little guy I ever met, he was like a piece of steel wrapped in skin. My instructor said it was like hitting a piece of steel. People could not wrap there heads around the fact that Bruce Lee was the Strongest man I ever saw that was so small.
Thank you for the timely reminder that the best tactics (flawed tactics) are “Not the be all and end all” to anything .. ‘Never underestimate your opponent’ .. ;) .. Wishing All a happy & safe New Year from Australia
I went to a Yiquan seminar a few years ago and I must say that it is a very underrated Martial Art. I love how there are no forms in Yiquan but instead training practices based on developing power and a deeper mind, body connection but to make it more effective for modern times, Someone who truly knows and loves the art will have to cross train in MMA. Once that person does that they will be able take Yiquan to another and modify its techniques in ways that would confuse most MMA plus Street Fighters.
For "a man of true" you sure easy believe everything is said in the video. Seeing the fact that non of us was there at the time, or trained with people that are mentioned in the video, everything is actually presumption. I'm not saying that Goldenbell Training is talking nonsense, but it would really be more respectful to everyone if he says that "everything is just a presumption".
Truth, is Bruce studied and majored in Philosophy at the University in Seattle. I have books by D.T. Suzuki on Zen. In one of the book he talks of fighting without fighting. There are other things you will recognize that are attributed to Bruce. This doesn't take away from Bruce, but it is clear he learned and taught but people, not knowing, thought Bruce was genius for coming up with these ideas. Study and apply. Fact, it is easy to verify what I have said here.
Alot of people say wing chun doesn't work as well, depends on practitioner, who your fighting, how you can adjust you fighting skills with other disciplines for different ranges and area's! Has anyone been attacked in a small area like a phone box? Not must room for big movements!
*Exactly* and that's the thing about "styles" of fighting. It's not necessarily the "style" that wins a fight but how well you implement it. Just like all those adds that used to be in the back of comic books advertising for "karate" and "judo" making it seem all you had to do was learn the techniques and you would be whoopin' some azz. You could learn all the moves to a "t" but if you suck at applying them then "style" means nothing. The thing is not that you have all the moves and techniques down but how you actually apply them. 😟
DK Yoo is NOT Bruce Lee. It's an insult to Lee and his legacy to even suggest that. Not in any way shape or form does he look remotely in what Bruce Lee is. And don't give me the one inch punch. That's not enough.
DK Yoo Is Like Bruce Lee through their love of dance. Bruce may have danced the Cha Cha well but DK Yoo introduced the slow dance this year. DK Yoo's walk-out song should have been "Careless Whisper" or Heatwave's "Always and Forever". ;)
anyone with a little knowledge can pass down a knowledge, especially knowledge of separated idea and not have a system or method of teaching. i feel that what dk yoo has is separated ideas not a system. you can tell by the many things he has adding and probably these techniques doesn't support each other ? two years ago a asian man left me a message that i couldn't make out, the profile was to small and on top the words written was in chinese and on the bottom reads something like, you a carbon copycat, and since i couldn't make it out i left it alone. later i start it to think, could that been dk yoo? anyway, if anyone is a carbon copycat is him. my ideas and myself are older them him and his ideas.
DK yoo is like many of the masters in China who were forced to find out the hard way that a choreographed demo using your own students is completely different than a fight with someone who wants to smash your face in.
@@davealexanian No he isn't. His boxing coach is the former WBA (world boxing association) champion of south korea. He went 6 rounds against a professional fighter bigger than him, younger than him, with 3 herniated discs and 10% use of his main arm. He evaded 95% of every strike thrown at his face with crisp head movement, and walked out of the fight without a scratch. The teachers you are talking about, that got beat up by Xu Xiaodong, literally got knocked out in ten seconds, and couldn't defend themselves against a basic punch.
This guy is not Bruce Lee or the next Bruce Lee. I remember back in 1971 Bruce Lee wife talks about her husband in a martial arts karate magazine. She said Bruce had extra sensory perception abilities. He would watch boxing on TV and knew exactly the punches they would throw. He can watch a person walk and can tell how they will fight. The late martial artist Joe Lewis talk about Bruce ESP zen abilities.
Where did Bruce "pen" that bit about stillness? The meaning seems to fit with things like jao sao / jip sao within Wing Chun... But honestly I don't think DK is worth even talking about... Of course that's up to you....and why do you call Bruce's boxing win "lack luster"? At least Bruce actually won his match...and later was much more active in sparring and interested in actual fighting.... Bruce created JKD because Ip refused his request to finish his training and because he needed a way to move ahead of his Sihings without that training.
I believe he used the word "lack luster" because although Bruce won the match, he didn't have the punching power or boxing skills necessary for him to have a more decisive win against his opponent.
Man it’s so refreshing to hear you relate all your diligent information on all these people both then and now for us who really care about it. Thanks brother
Do you know where DK Yoo was born? I think it was in Toronto. Some places say South Korea, He never swerved in the Korean military so that's why I think it was Toronto.
Kinda lacking in knowledge to simply refer to one inch as a party trick.. while yes he used it too demonstrate short power it has way more actual practical application. Dk yoo is not like bruce for many reasons. But i will give u a clear one.. Dk yoo.. goes out of his way to be compared to Bruce Lee... When Bruce Lee was alive he didnt want to be compared to any other martial artist.. he simply was himself... Creating baiting video titles just for views and content.. over time.. defeats its own purpose.. for informing..
Let DK fight with a strong opponent under MMA rules. Hypothetical statement may not suffice. Yes, demonstrations and real-time fightings are miles apart.
DK is no Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee training is Crazy like Kobe 8/24. Both Legends... Bruce constantly working on every inch of his human body. Bruce Lee is the Real Deal & DK is a Joke try to make quick money 💰.
Why would anyone think dk yoo is a modern day Bruce lee? Dk yoo is Korean! And as for one inch punch, you should be able to put the same concept and energy into other movements! That's one purpose of the one inch punch possibly!
I feel like I'm getting to know the real Bruce Lee more, thanks. As a past martial arts instructor it's easy to see how Bruce gavitated and befriended other martial artists. Also, it's clear there are 'demos' to showcase martial arts for commercial reasons, and then there's real fighting skills. I think reason for Musashi's success (swordsman) was because he went around challenging what were martial schools based on hierarchy and status, not based on skill or toughness. Of course Bruce Lee was an athlete and an actor, and wasn't a fighter (competitive fighter). Also, I think it's always a big mistake to confuse self defense and competitive fighting. In the end, though I'm not a fan of JKD, I think an attacker would rather face a petite woman with no training, than one that is highly trained in JKD and has the confidence to land alot of punches... even if she can't beat Mike Tyson in a boxing match.
The real inch power is Huan yuan strength which very few people can do...where you can issue power from any part of the body...William c c Chen said you have to make your body frictionless. This I believe would require a complete overhaul of your nervous system by being still a lot.Wang Xiang Zhai had fali exercises so I hear. He also had to stand for hours and hours when training under Guo Yun Shen. Cheers all.
To say that an INCH PUNCH has no power, and is merely a Party Trick... is Very misleading. Ive personally developed the ability to easily KO any fighter, with less than 3" of travel. Which again, goes against your characterization, that fast Wing Chun punches, have no real power. Either you really dont know.. OR.. you simply are not defining things properly. What Lee showed was mostly an Explosive PUSH, with the handshape of a Fist. Everyone knows, that the difference between a punch and a push, is that a push is momentum based... and a punch in IMPACT based. However, there can be a whole range in-between these two. A boxers punch, has some Impact.. but it also has some drilling PUSH as well. Lee tended to keep his demos as far skewed to momentum, as possible. Since power isnt visibly seen.. this type of demo appeals to the largely ignorant masses, whom thing that Massive power is when you see an OP flying several feet backwards, after getting hit. That said... Lee could and sometimes DID, use some actual Fajing (explosive power IMPACT). There is a report of one of his students asking Lee not to do the inch punch demo on him.. because his chest was in so much burning pain, that he had to call in sick from work the next day. That kind of pain, doesnt come from a typical "Push". Thats true Internal Power applied with some mid-level of Impact. Lee eventually developed true explosive inch impact power, and he only showed this to two of his students. One of those students was James DeMile. James said that Lee didnt want to be responsible for releasing that kind of knowledge to the general public. However, after Lee passed, DeMile said that he didnt thing it was that big of a deal, in the modern age of the Gun... and so he decided to reveal the actual technology. He published a book titled something like "Bruce Lee's 1, 2 and 3 inch power punches". The book is fairly small, and is only a handful of pages. In fact, I only recently found a video he made, related to the book, on youtube. I skimmed the book long after I had developed Fajing on my own (partially by Hints from Lees other books). From my brief skimming... I personally found the descriptions confusing and lacking, to the point where someone might not be able to get to the proper end result. That said.. if you are training for short range impact power.. eventually you start to figure out things over time... merely by comparison of the developed results. The main thing is, the sheer amount of effort that it will take, before one achieves any level of notable power, using this method. Most people would likely give up after a short period of time... well before they actually acquired the actual high level ability. As for WC... Wing Chun teaches the basic principle of how Fajing is executed, within its punches. HOWEVER... it is never really stressed in the teaching and training, in how to reach high levels of short range impact power. That comes down to a level of effort, that most WC practitioners, never spend the time and energy, developing. As such, their rabbit punches, are in fact... often very weak / pathetic. Many of them might be able to KO from a full 12 inches worth of space... but anything closer than that... and they would find it next to impossible to KO an OP... let alone, worse. While Fajing isnt really able to be SEEN with the eye... as its executed in a fraction of a second worth of time... You can see the video on youtube: "Glen Levy fajing hammerfist" Glen has two videos, where he demos the real IMPACT version of Fajing, on two different mens chests. The results are VERY different from Lee's push demos. These men drop instantly to the floor, in agonizing pains... rather than flying +8 feet backwards. The larger male, was barely able to breath... and it took quite a bit of time, before he was able to return to his feet. Glen greatly limited the amount of Fajing energy he released into them. That said... Glen was Far weaker with Fajing abilities, that myself. Glen needed a half circle runway, which would equate to something like 6 to 8 inches of actual travel. Where as I could produce double the power, with a much closer straight line strike. I also had weighed less than him, at time when I was at my peak, and had KO'd four different martial aritsts, with Vertical fist fajing hits to their foreheads. Also, a common ignorance about Wing Chun, is the idea that you should need more than two consecutive hits on an OP. I never needed more than ONE hit on an OP... and that was with a punch that moved less than 6" of travel, and I never used more than about 15% power levels to cause a KO. At that time, I was only 160 lbs, at 6ft tall (mostly skin and bones). Rolling fist, is not really designed as a main attack. Its mostly to teach the concept of Hand Replacement. The ability to transition from one hand tech, immediately to the other, without pauses / slowdown. The reality is that you should be able to END any OP, with a single WC strike. If you cant... then you have not trained your strikes to anywhere near their full potentials. The ONLY time I used even TWO consecutive WC punches in a row... was If I used the first one as a setup. Where as the first punch was a hair faster, and designed to cause the OPs head to be partially "rung" ...followed by the 2nd hit, which was where Id connect much more of my body mass into it. That said, I still never needed to use more than a single hit.. and never at full potentials. The difference in speed between a full mass strike, and a very mild quick strike, is still less than half a second. Maybe a quarter second, to a third of a second.. of difference. Barely enough for it to even matter. Especially since you should have long since disabled the OPs defenses before launching the strike anyway.
@@GoldenbellTraining You intentionally create confusion about what real short range power is... and when I try to clarify... you try to slam me?! You clearly have issues.
I like your comment. I had the privilege to train under a Wing Chun master for four years in the early 2000s. He could tap me with pretty much what seemed like any part of his body - bong, fook, tan, knee, knuckle. I'd either go flying about 10-15 feet or feel pain that by conventional thinking shouldn't happen from such a seemingly light tap and from such a small guy. He was not muscular but his bones were stronger than anyone that I personally had ever met before. And he was in his mid 60s at the time. When you talk about using just 15% of your power, I know what you're talking about. My teacher would say things like "that's only 1% of my power". I had the luxury of feeling and experiencing for myself what he was talking about and not just watching it on a video and then deciding if I believed it. When you say most Wing Chun practitioners give up before developing this kind of power I would have to agree. Unfortunately, this applies to me too. But this is what I've observed in the world of Wing Chun. I didn't actually give up, as I still practice regularly. But it's pretty much for health and basic self defense and at that level it works great. But to reach my teachers level, and the level you're talking about... that requires disciple like commitment. There's lots of bad Wing Chun out there.
Ha! I just watched your link to "Glen Levy fajing hammerfist" This is similar to what my teacher would do and the student's reaction. The only difference is this Glen Levy guy is a young man and my teacher is now in his 80s and can still do these things.
@@johnhan1205 If you flew backwards, then he greatly reduced the impact power, and used more push power. That, and or, you had a very poor level of "Grounding". I met one of the very few JKD guys that actually knew the Real deal. His inch punch to my chest, didnt move me more than a half step back... and that was only because the pain was so bad, that I lost all ability to maintain focus. Felt like a cannon ball the size of a basketball, hit my chest. The pain was as if someone poured gasoline on my chest, and lit it on fire... and the burning pains lasted for FOUR HOURS long. When he hit me, I felt a shockwave of force rocket through my body.. and I felt the impact hit the inside front fact of my SPINE. My spine was forced outwards, causing my entire body to bow... and for the first moment in my entire career, I was TERRIFIED.. as it felt like my spine was going to break out of my back / crack in half... and there was literally Nothing I could do about it. Fajing is not just applied to a strike... as you noted. I once used a very mild Jut Sao (downward deflection), and it nearly shattered an MMA fighters wristbone. I used less than 10% on that one... but, the MMA fighter decided to use full power, full speed... (against our agreed upon Medium safe levels) and it vastly amplified the impact power potentials. Within about an hours time... his injury swelled up nearly double in size. As for Self Defense... the problem with Casual type of training.. is that your level of development will be far more likely to Fail, under actual combat conditions. For example.. if you never developed KO power in your punch... and the OP managed to get almost to Grapple distance... and you punched him... he might simply just chuckle, as it didnt really effect him. But even before that point... simply things like hand deflections may also easily fail, due to being sloppy, and applied improperly. This happens due to both flaws in the techs, as well as not having hardcore sparring experience. This is why most WC practitioners tend to look like sloppy kickboxers when they TRY to spar. They never can maintain traditional form, under combat pressure. And it only seems to get worse, when the WC practitioner is put against a much larder and stronger OP. While in THEORY, the art is designed for such challenges... but in sparring matches.. such WC practitioners tend to be destroyed by very low level artists, that are the same mass and strength... let alone, much greater size, mass, and strength. Then you have issues with the fact that almost no WC practitioners do full body Iron-Body conditioning... so even a very mild level hit, is too painful, and too damaging... and they end up curling into the fetal position. I used to train for actual combat, which is what "Self Defense" actually means. I used to train 7 days a week, in and outside of the class. I cross trained in other arts, to best understand them. I did full iron body conditioning. I sparred after the first year... against other artists from various arts (every weekend). I used to spar fighters that were up to, or over 2x my own mass and strength, regularly. When I first started sparring... I was completely destroyed, and all of my techs fell apart. However... after quite a lot more Mastery, as well as the experience.. I was finally able to maintain proper form under heavy contact sparring matches. I also because virtually untouchable to typical sportized arts fighters. This is not to brag. Its simply to say what is possible, when you actually train with full combat level Mastery, as your goal. And that, as much as many WC students want to BELIEVE they are good enough for "Self Defense"... most of such people would get dropped by an untrained drunken thug, at the local pub, with fair ease, and lightning speed. These actual combat level experiences are VERY different from the mild and often unrealistic DRILLS that are used in WC training. While the drills do have a valid use and purpose... they are not a total replacement for actual hardcore sparring / combat experience. Both are needed. (Which is how things USED to be, back in the Ancient days of China) Anyways, hope this information helps. Its not what most people want to hear... and the fact is that most people will never even need combat abilities their entire life.. but this is the reality of what it takes to be capable of repeatable, safe, combat level abilities.
Jackie Chan became a star getting away from the image of Bruce Lee. As much as I understood Bruce Lee's teachings from his writing, he said anyone needs to be him or herself, we won't get the most out of ourselves imitating blindly anyone else. Best thing he could do is getting away from that Bruce Lee image. He has become the messiah of a twisted religion.
Now I’m just expressing myself and nothing personal. But all of the so called Bruce Lee fans or fanatics are people who recognize that nobody comes close to Bruce and that’s a fact. So their not hanging onto their hero and pretending that he was superman but recognizing how incredible he was. And Beerdy seems to think that he needs to make up stories to get more views or to make Bruce look better but he doesn’t have to. You show me someone that’s better then Bruce and I’ll buy everything on the guy. You don’t realize how good Bruce was. Quicker then a blink of an eye he could take his fingers and punksure your stomach and that’s the end of it. That’s just one choice in case he needs it.
Why bother comparing? Why can he be himself? No one can be compared to Bruce Lee ever anyway. Just the name Bruce Lee people already have wild imagination about his martial style, his charisma, his appearance etc...whatever one can think of the great fighter, actor, teacher, leader etc
It's almost 50 years since Bruce Lee died and people still talk about his speed power and skill If he hadn't been as good you wouldn't have had chuck norris Bob Wall joe Lewis and a lot of a star celebrates going to his house and training with him tarritiono should have a bit more respect for him
He has a lot of fighting experience. Just because you have fighting experience doesn't mean you can beat a 300 pound professional fighter in a boxing match.
Great work bro, l said it before we need to see these martial arts practioners who do their fancy demonstrations prove themselves in the ring or octagon, now l really wonder how Bruce Lee would have done in the octagon.
I think a more fair match up would be against a contemporary like Masatsu Oyama, Helio Gracie or Benny Urquidez. Modern cage fighting involves a level of athleticism and well roundness that I'm not sure Bruce can match, especially when considering that his career kept him from reaching the level necessary for professional fighting. We also have to consider that, since Bruce's JKD was a work in progress, it's possible that many of the strategies he developed would not fare well in a modern mixed martial arts fight.
@@krishnan-resurrection714 Bruce Lee was not a fighter. He did not fight competitively. He was a martial artist with good ideas for his time. But we evolved since then. Bruce Lee even admitted Muhammad Ali could take him.
@@anti1training You say Bruce Lee was not a fighter. That's true, in the sense that he didn't participate in competition fighting. Does this also mean that you believe that HE WASN'T GOOD AT FIGHTING?
i don't think there's anyone even close to being bruce lee.
If you mean that no other martial artist has had the influence and impact on promoting martial arts and martial arts movies to the collective world then, yes, I would agree with your statement. If you're talking impact on changing the progression of fighting systems then that's arguable as martial arts probably goes back to the first time one caveman attacked another and many martial artists - many of whom the average weekend warrior martial artist has never heard of - have made major contributions to fighting systems all around the world. Bruce Lee is the most well known strictly by media attention but there were a lot more.
As big as an influence that Lee had upon me, perhaps you, and many others, I gotta be honest and say that I could name a dozen people alive today from whom I would rather learn pragmatic (practical) martial arts than a 1960's/70's era Bruce Lee because I believe practical fighting systems have come a long way since what even Bruce Lee envisioned because we have much bigger access to martial arts from all over the world.
If we are talking martial arts philosophy then I think it would have been great to talk to him for hours on the martial arts.
@@assoverteakettle Well Bruce's philosophy was about constantly evolving, was never into stagnation.
So, I bet money if he was still alive he would be up to date with today's fighting trend. After all, he made mix martial arts more popular.
@@assoverteakettle Bruce himself said that he did not invent any thing,there isno other ways of fighting.Human being have two arms and 2 legs..
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@@assoverteakettle bruce lee was one of kind. just imagine if he would of lived.
DK Yoo doesnt deserve to be compared to Bruce Lee. Just imitating Bruce and using the same demonstrations from the 60's and not changing a damn thing = he wants to be seen as modern day Bruce Lee
Dk Yoo went 6 rounds with a professional fighter 10x bigger than him with 3 herniated discs, and the use of only one arm. What did Bruce Lee do? Act in movies? lol
@@Nattapong69 act in movies, real fights, and influenced martial arts globally . dk yoo asked for the fight with 3 herniated discs = built in excuses. as you must be aware of
@@voiceoverandmocapguy 1. Show me a real fight from Bruce Lee xD.
2. Xrays from doctors aren't excuses.
3. Brad and Joe were making excuses as soon as Dk Yoo accepted the fight.
4. If your teacher is fighting with 3 herniated discs, 10% use of his main arm, against someone 10x bigger than him, younger than him, and more experienced, would you want to know?
5. Why don't you guys ever mention the excuses from Brad and Joe before the fight started? I'll tell you exactly why. Because Brad is bigger and stronger. You guys are low level, and follow whoever you think is the biggest/strongest monkey. The big monkey makes an excuse, nobody notices. The small monkey makes an "excuse" which is actually true, and he gets endlessly bullied. Low level animal/social status stuff.
6. What's going on with Dk Yoo haters now is Crab stuff. When a Crab loses a fight, he puts his face in the dirt, won't talk to girls, gives up on life, and the other Crabs bully him. Dk Yoo is a meditator though, not a Crab. When he loses, he puts his head even higher, and keeps going up. More subs, better content, more confidence. He isn't following your Crab rules. And you guys can't stand it. Crabs mad.
@@Nattapong69 you're obsessed with DK Yoo! The excuses you've made for him are priceless. He called him out, props to him for showing up to fight. But he's not the modern Bruce Lee that he's trying to make himself to be
@@voiceoverandmocapguy "you're obsessed with Dk Yoo". Literally barely watched anything from him before the fight. And practice nothing he teaches. You people are obsessed with him lol. And he's not the modern Bruce Lee. He's better. Also xrays from doctors aren't excuses. You have nothing of substance to provide. Brad started talking about his shoulder injury 2 weeks before the fight. Buakaw won't accept challenge matches because he's 39 and out of his prime. Welcome to reality where injuries and old age are important.
Here are my 3 ways DK is like Bruce: He's male; he's Asian; he has all his limbs. That's about it for me.
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Randal Wung...I couldn't agree with you More!
Cracked me up, man.
Exactly! Not even close to Bruce Lee in terms of skills, philosophy and intelligence. And to add, charisma
bruce is not 100% asian his grandma, i think is half German , so the asian part is wrong, just limbs and male,lol
You're Awesome, Randal!!
I was just a young teenager when i first saw Bruce Lee perform that one inch punch, and even THEN i knew it was just a demonstration of how someone could channel their power with little space. It was NEVER about using it during actual combat, and Lee never claimed such a thing.
Bruce Lee simply wanted to get people's attention to the potential of their inner strength, and how they could maximize it. Too many people are doing a disservice to Bruce Lee by spreading things they don't understand, which makes some people believe Bruce Lee was some sort of fraud.
Very well said I agree
Bruce Lee was smart enough to never have a real fight vs anyone good and have it on film. That way idiots 50 years after his death can say he was the best....and Lee never had to prove it!
@@johnmatonne7834 You're disrespectful douche throwing shade at a dead Asian icon not here to defend himself. Ok dumb smart ass because you're a dumb, present EVIDENCE Abdul Jabbar, Billy Cheung, Jesse Glover, Poteet, Linda Lee, Bustillo that testimonies regarding Bruce Lee is real deal are fabricating. You don't know about the time Bruce fought Youchi Nakachi and knocked him out under 15 seconds. Go home child help with the dishes.
@@johnmatonne7834. Absolutely True 👍🏻 bruce lee never fought a trained fighter.
@@sumaid2268 Be careful telling the truth around some of these Lee worshipers. They will declare you a heretic and try to burn you at the stake. :-)
There's only one Bruce Lee,no one can replace him.🥰❤❤
He is handsome
Don’t listen to that crap Chuck Damiano feeds you sweetheart, pretty soon you’ll start believing anything.
@@Furkan-xn3vz yes he is 🥰😍❤❤❤
@@lashellhenry-maivia4464 your hairs cool
Is this gay chat?
I have to disagree with you about the inch punch being a party trick.
The inch punch was merely used as a tool to demonstrate his ability to generate power from a short distance. It wasn't something he claimed as a punching technique that could be used in an actual fight.
The first hand form of Wing Chun is Sil Lim Tau. It teaches proper exertion and release of energy through the arms while striking, rooting and centering of body weight, and the sixteen major hand techniques. Consistent practice of this form develops internal energy and also develop a strong root to prepare for the advance level of training.
YEE JEE KIM YEUNG MA conditions the legs, and is the foundation for the concept of "rooting," or generating power from the ground up.
Bruce merely used the inch punch to demonstrate the power one can generate by mastering rooting.
The inch punch isn't "a party trick" at all.
Just to be clear... Whatever the mechanics of the strike I think a short distance, say a few inches from the target can certainly be "used in a fight"...and I think this was the intent of Bruce's demo to get people seeing that, which especially then was something less commonly discussed. To me DK is a grifter.
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I'm not saying it can't be used in a fight. I'm just sharing information I've learned from my research when I sought to find out more about the one inch punch and how one can learn to execute it.
In an interview with Dan Inosanto, he mentioned that Bruce Lee used it solely to exhibit his ability to generate power in close quarters. Dan said Bruce never talked about it as an actual tool for fighting.
This was also mentioned in the latest Bruce Lee biography by Matthew Polly "Bruce Lee A Life".
A real, "one inch punch" is not necessarily "punching" at all. It's as you say. It's power. A Wing Chun master can deliver remarkable power from any part of their body from a short distance. Many people would like to be called "master". But I've only met one such master in my life as I believe a true Wing Chun master is extremely few and far between... as in only a handful in the world.
The master who I met and had the privilege to train under for four years could tap me with, say, a bong sau, a tan sau, a knee, a knuckle, and send me either flying across the room in the air, (I only weigh 150lbs), or with a charlie horse (using the knee) like no one else I've ever met. He did not have to settle into a stance first the way Bruce Lee does in the famous archival film. He could do it from any standing position and with hardly any movement. As for me, I'm no where near the level of my teacher. I've also met quite a few good Wing Chun people who are strong and in good shape, but no one who could demonstrate power like my teacher. Not even close. I practice for health and basic self defense. But this kind of thing, I would think, takes commitment like that of a disciple.
I'll give you that the 1 inch punch is a demonstration of the underlying whipping/snapping motion of wing chun and I'm sorry that you take the term "party trick" as a pejorative but it IS a party trick in that it's meant more for demo purposes than for practicality. It's something that is designed to impress viewers with some feats of strength or skill in a very static way but in itself is impractical for purposes that it is either trying to convey or imply to the audience. Like a magician's sleight of hand. The unbendable arm in aikido is another party trick, as are board breaking demonstrations.
The problem with the one inch punch demo is like the ol' "Boards don't hit back" argument made by you-know-who. It is very unrealistic in its set up. The one inch punch demo typically requires the demonstration partner to stand upright, feet shoulder width apart, and holding a pad or telephone book to absorb the punch. Well, anyone who does martial arts knows that standing with your feet parallel is very unstable stance -- fore and aft. It is similar to how faith healers knock over their subjects by compromising their posture.
Then it took Bruce Lee in his filmed demo, and DK Yoo, and anyone else attempting to demonstrate the one inch punch a good five seconds to set up by squaring up with the partner, cocking the fist, rooting their weight on their back leg... It's a static demo.
Is it totally useless? I don't think so. I'm sure it does have practical applications in law enforcement or working security.
I was watching an interview with a U.S. game warden on TV one time and he demonstrated to a trainee how to use non-lethal force on an aggressor getting in your space. He placed his palm by the trainee's chest with a relaxed arm and then he snapped his palm against the chest putting his weight behind him and knocked the demonstration partner back a few feet. A-ha. A one inch palm.
What Bruce Lee and DK Yoo are demonstrating is a party trick.
Go back to where I say that short range/inch power is real.
The people in those clips are my classmates and one of my best friends. What they're doing is real fajin. 👍
There will NEVER be another Bruce lee
Oh I'm sure we'll see another actor like him
I have never thought of anyone as the "modern Bruce Lee". Bruce Lee, whatever you think of his fighting ability, was a living legend. He set out some goals that were seemingly impossible to accomplish... especially at that time... and accomplished literally every single one.
His fighting ability is actually irrelevant. His impact on the fighting world is still felt all these years later and will be felt for long after DK Yoo is forgotten
Agree. Bruce Lee is an inspiration for martial artists.
Yes, Bruce already proven his ability to established fighters in his era.
To be a bit more fair to Bruce Lee, he didn’t actually get famous from the one inch punch. He was also a child actor. The demo definitely helped spread his name around as a martial artist though.
Good point. A lot of movie biographies like Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story portray him as some disadvantaged youth living and fighting in Hong Kong slums but the truth is that he had been an actor since 6 years old, came from a family of performers, and had a privileged life.
Plus he was a Hong Kong boxing champion 🏆
But Bruce did fought established fighters and proved he was ahead of his time. That's why tournament fighters wanted to learn his JKD. He fought but not in a tournament setting, he never wanted to be a tournament, to him that wasn't defining real fighters. He wanted to be the best street fighter.
Was he a famous child actor though?
@@Eikinkloster Not as famous when Bruce was grown adult because he was accomplishing many things in a big scale that the world recognized not just in Hong Kong community.
Biggest difference... Bruce could actually fight🫂
Bruce Lee knocked Gary Elms down with punches not "pushing and tripping". If you have evidence to the contrary I'd be happy to look at it. I'm most definitely not a fan boy but you're the first person I heard that from. "Stillness in movement" is old saying. Stillness is referring to mind. Peace from India.
Gary Elms was 16 years old teenage school boy not a professional fighter.
@@sumaid2268 Gary was 17, fought and trained boxing and Bruce was 18. Bruce Lee was not a trained boxer/fighter like Elms and just because some people didn't understand what they were seeing or because Bruce was Chinese they tried to deny his clear victory by saying he was "pushing and tripping". It's just lame! Elms gets huge credit because he kept getting up but Bruce had the clear victory.
His knockdowns were not counted and he was not given points for his knockdowns because those were leg trips.
@@sumaid2268 Wrong. Are you just going to keep countering with untruths everytime I put a fact down? 🙄
I just cannot imagine Bruce gassing out and hugging his opponent.
There was much more clinching in the Jake Paul vs Tyrone Woodley fight. Clinching is a part of boxing.
@@Nattapong69 we don't hug period during boxing!
@@Nattapong69 The fact that you used 2 other ppl that are NOT BOXERS as your example says alot. Lol. Terrible choice of words. The clinching was excessive more than most fights I've ever seen in 30 years of boxing.
Bruce Lee's 1 inch punch was more than just a party trick. There's a video on TH-cam where James Coburn said Bruce hit him with the 1 inch punch and knock him backwards, down and he doubled over.
The only one I feel who can be compared to the way Bruce moved in modern times, is sifu Tommy Carruthers from the UK. Tommy studied with the original JDK students Gary Dill, Jesse Glover, and Ted Wong, who awarded Tommy his JKD instructor certification.
DK is pretty good with what he does in his dept., but doesn't come close to Bruce in any way. Besides, DK studied the bogus style of Systema which was popularized in Russia. Systema is a sort of tai chi style of movement with strikes and takedowns.
If you want to see and know someone who is an actual JKD practitioner who moves like Bruce, look up Tommy Carruthers who has a background in boxing, Wing Chun, karate, and JKD.
DK Yoo got more fans that ever now! This is insane. To be fair though, Yoo did good asf for someone who's never fought until his 40s
One party trick that I believe is true since it was in the book Linda Lee wrote about him... I hope it's true that he did his version of "snatch the pebbles from my hand" but he put a dime in the other person's hand and told them to close their hand before he could snatch it. The other person usually smiled because when their hand closed they could feel the coin in it. But when they opened their hand it was a penny and Bruce had the dime. LOL
Someone wrote a comment to a video saying that Bruce came to his family's shop and did the trick, but get this: He did it with 3 people at the same time. That's some party trick.
That party trick was a lot more cooler! Wish I had the ability to do these tricks.
@@randalwung8715 "did it with 3 people at the same time"??? No way, Bruce Lee only had 2 hand
@@emhgarlyyeung The effort to be that charming says a lot about him that I really admire.
As always, very insightful my friend. Respect
The new Bruce lee ? Why wasn’t the OG good enough ? 🤔
It has a question mark,and its for giving the benefit of the doubt,he is not bruce lee,but there are 3 things from him that are alike from Bruce Lee
Awesome work, this is definately one of the most potent videos you've made when it comes to many different points you've touched & people you've mentioned, please explore & expand these subjects & give more details on these (for the westerners) lesser known martial artist and masters, their backgrounds, history & at least basic teachings. Keep up with great work 💪🏿🎩
Bruce Lee was the best, he done more to promote martial arts than any other fighter.
More like "Bruised Lee"
I'm assuming your labelling of Wang Xiang Zhai as a "Street Thug" was for click bait purposes? He did lament the state of the Chinese martial arts "standards" not the arts themselves. He did face challenges and even sought some out but this is not uncommon in Chinese martial arts culture. Like so many stories of fighters in China throughout their history - the stories are pretty much the same just fill in a different name- he fought all who came and defeated them. Wang Xiang Zhai, I believe was Guo Yun Shen's Nephew, He trained with GYS for about 5 years before GYS died when WXZ was about 15 years old (ish). However GYS wanted WXZ to take the art forward as his successor though there were undoubtedly other students of GYS that would have been far more capable and further trained than WXZ. It's a little simplistic to say that he travelled around china challenging people, life in China wasn't so simple at that time (1st and 2nd Sino-Japanese wars).
Gou Yun Shen was imprisoned for killing an opponent because the Judge felt as a skilled martial artist he should have been able to defeat the opponent without killing him - this is a matter of record. In prison he was said to have practiced Beng quan/ crushing fist up and down in his cell daily for hours which made him even more formidable. The standing postures you discuss (Zhan Zhuang - Pronounced JamJong) is a solid aspect of Xing Yi and I suspect internal alchemy by Taoists/ Chinese Shamen for centuries. Guo did not discover these he merely passed them on like many before and after him. Perhaps this might be useful: podtail.com/en/podcast/heretics-by-woven-energy/-66-yiquan/
To me your comment regarding Bruce Lee's quote on stillness - sounds like it comes from the Tao Te Ching.
as for DK Yoo - "shrugs".
Pardon my ignorance, Goldenbell, but, WHO THE HELL IS DY WOO??!! The 1 inch 3 👊 is effective when a master knows when to apply in a moment in time . Back in Bruce's time , the 1inch 3 inch was a neat demo for those who behold it. Nowadays anyone with knowledge of it uses it for entertainment purposes. My tenant at that time did it & he didn't even studied it. A family friend showed him the move. Goldenbell, WC Master Adam of The Dragon House instructions does it & I'm pretty sure Sifu Alex Richter can apply the move.
There is only one me and you, no one can replace me and you
Sifu i really enjoy when you post videos sir!
I like DK Yoo and this video most definitely, but 6 rounds. Bruce would've said that was too long, but I get the point of what the video is trying to make. Thanks for your research and sharing, love the channel.
The unfortunate truth is the one inch punch, like the six handed strike is for training only.
Forget about BRUCE LEE boxing competition winer in Hong-Kong let's talk about the reality of BRUCE LEE, ultimately BRUCE LEE is one of the best martial artists that ever happened in the whole till today he is still in the top
Stumbled on your videos today. Thanks for the stories and insight.
30 yr ago met a guy who used to rumbled the street of HK with Bruce. Said he was getting into a lot of fights when they were kids.
DK may get his speed but Bruce Lee's secret was his power. I have seen people as fast, but Bruce Lee had deadly speed and power. Bruce Lee was the strongest little guy I ever met, he was like a piece of steel wrapped in skin. My instructor said it was like hitting a piece of steel. People could not wrap there heads around the fact that Bruce Lee was the Strongest man I ever saw that was so small.
People who saw The Mighty Atom might beg to differ.
DK Yoo should never be talked about in the same light as Bruce Lee ever again he is just a bad imitation of Bruce & always will be....
He's better than Bruce Lee
@@Nattapong69 Seen him fight not impressed at all, Bruce would side kick this clown into oblivion....🤦♂️
@@Saiyan4eva , agree. Don’t ever compare DKyoo with Bruce Lee
Anderson Silva is probably the best representation of jkd nowadays
Thank you for the timely reminder that the best tactics (flawed tactics) are “Not the be all and end all” to anything .. ‘Never underestimate your opponent’ .. ;) .. Wishing All a happy & safe New Year from Australia
I went to a Yiquan seminar a few years ago and I must say that it is a very underrated Martial Art. I love how there are no forms in Yiquan but instead training practices based on developing power and a deeper mind, body connection but to make it more effective for modern times, Someone who truly knows and loves the art will have to cross train in MMA. Once that person does that they will be able take Yiquan to another and modify its techniques in ways that would confuse most MMA plus Street Fighters.
That's not necessary for the majority of the people who are most likely to study Yiquan as long as they actually spar regularly.
As a man of truth it's refreshing to hear the ring of truth and not all the hype. Keep up the great work👌
For "a man of true" you sure easy believe everything is said in the video. Seeing the fact that non of us was there at the time, or trained with people that are mentioned in the video, everything is actually presumption. I'm not saying that Goldenbell Training is talking nonsense, but it would really be more respectful to everyone if he says that "everything is just a presumption".
I give you props sir. This what I talk about. You did your research. A lot of people don't understand.
There's only one there's been thousands tried to be him. No one compares
I didn't think of Bruce as a hugger.
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Every boxer clinches.
@@Nattapong69 Clinching is fine. That was cuddling. He didnt do anything but hug the entire fight. He cant fight. Period
This guy is hardly a comparison
with Bruce lee
Truth, is Bruce studied and majored in Philosophy at the University in Seattle. I have books by D.T. Suzuki on Zen. In one of the book he talks of fighting without fighting. There are other things you will recognize that are attributed to Bruce. This doesn't take away from Bruce, but it is clear he learned and taught but people, not knowing, thought Bruce was genius for coming up with these ideas. Study and apply. Fact, it is easy to verify what I have said here.
But isn't that how we ALL learn? It still doesn't subtract from his
Intelligence and Maturity!
Bruce Lee did not major in Philosophy. He was not a Philosophy major at The University of Washington. Nope.
Are you still going to do the Vic Moore video?
Alot of people say wing chun doesn't work as well, depends on practitioner, who your fighting, how you can adjust you fighting skills with other disciplines for different ranges and area's! Has anyone been attacked in a small area like a phone box? Not must room for big movements!
*Exactly* and that's the thing about "styles" of fighting. It's not necessarily the "style" that wins a fight but how well you implement it. Just like all those adds that used to be in the back of comic books advertising for "karate" and "judo" making it seem all you had to do was learn the techniques and you would be whoopin' some azz. You could learn all the moves to a "t" but if you suck at applying them then "style" means nothing. The thing is not that you have all the moves and techniques down but how you actually apply them. 😟
Bruce at least had real champions give him props (Joe Lewis, Chuck Norris, etc.)
Dk Yoo literally has professional fighters on his new talk show talking about how great he is, and how they can't hit him in sparring lol.
@@Nattapong69 examples?
@@Nattapong69 Are they the fighter World Champions?
@@javiersoriano671 Hyun-man Myung. He's on Dk Yoos new martial arts talk show. Check it out.
Great post!!! Love it.
Manny Pac uses wing chun in his fights.
Hell no
Manny Pacquiao looks up to Papa Bruce.
Nothing like Bruce.
DK Yoo is NOT Bruce Lee. It's an insult to Lee and his legacy to even suggest that. Not in any way shape or form does he look remotely in what Bruce Lee is. And don't give me the one inch punch. That's not enough.
DK Yoo Is Like Bruce Lee through their love of dance. Bruce may have danced the Cha Cha well but DK Yoo introduced the slow dance this year. DK Yoo's walk-out song should have been "Careless Whisper" or Heatwave's "Always and Forever". ;)
AWESOME INFO. LOVE IT AND THANKS.
"Way too much time playing Tekken"
Lol😂
DK YOO clearly has knowledge, he could train a world champion but I do believe he should apply that with real fighters.
anyone with a little knowledge can pass down a knowledge, especially knowledge of separated idea and not have a system or method of teaching. i feel that what dk yoo has is separated ideas not a system. you can tell by the many things he has adding and probably these techniques doesn't support each other ?
two years ago a asian man left me a message that i couldn't make out, the profile was to small and on top the words written was in chinese and on the bottom reads something like, you a carbon copycat, and since i couldn't make it out i left it alone. later i start it to think, could that been dk yoo? anyway, if anyone is a carbon copycat is him. my ideas and myself are older them him and his ideas.
DK yoo is like many of the masters in China who were forced to find out the hard way that a choreographed demo using your own students is completely different than a fight with someone who wants to smash your face in.
Yeah maybe a world championship like mr.Satan from Dragonball z
@@davealexanian No he isn't. His boxing coach is the former WBA (world boxing association) champion of south korea. He went 6 rounds against a professional fighter bigger than him, younger than him, with 3 herniated discs and 10% use of his main arm. He evaded 95% of every strike thrown at his face with crisp head movement, and walked out of the fight without a scratch. The teachers you are talking about, that got beat up by Xu Xiaodong, literally got knocked out in ten seconds, and couldn't defend themselves against a basic punch.
More videos on Wang Xiangzai please!
Solid truth about Wang XiangZhai. Spot on
DK Yoo didn't feel pain before until he was in that ring.
Don't you dare release those videos until you release the Vic Moore video! LOL!!
This guy is not Bruce Lee or the next Bruce Lee. I remember back in 1971 Bruce Lee wife talks about her husband in a martial arts karate magazine. She said Bruce had extra sensory perception abilities. He would watch boxing on TV and knew exactly the punches they would throw. He can watch a person walk and can tell how they will fight. The late martial artist Joe Lewis talk about Bruce ESP zen abilities.
Bruce Lee isn't the only person who can do that
Where did Bruce "pen" that bit about stillness? The meaning seems to fit with things like jao sao / jip sao within Wing Chun... But honestly I don't think DK is worth even talking about... Of course that's up to you....and why do you call Bruce's boxing win "lack luster"? At least Bruce actually won his match...and later was much more active in sparring and interested in actual fighting.... Bruce created JKD because Ip refused his request to finish his training and because he needed a way to move ahead of his Sihings without that training.
I believe he used the word "lack luster" because although Bruce won the match, he didn't have the punching power or boxing skills necessary for him to have a more decisive win against his opponent.
Nice video. Please do some more stuff on this Wong Chan Chai or whatnot, interesting 👍
My friends grandpa was Bruce Lee's first student in Seattle. I've seen him take out 8 dudes in a bar once.
Man it’s so refreshing to hear you relate all your diligent information on all these people both then and now for us who really care about it. Thanks brother
Thanks for watching 👍
Do you know where DK Yoo was born? I think it was in Toronto. Some places say South Korea, He never swerved in the Korean military so that's why I think it was Toronto.
@@krishnan-resurrection714 Because I need a break from all the crap I'm dealing with, :-)
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It's the new Bruce Lee wannabe
Never be another like the Dragon Lee Rip Bruce Lee u the Goat 🐐 n my book 💯✊🏾
I like the morpheus matrix dojo in the back ground. Looks clean, for it to be a actual martial arts school 🏫
Kinda lacking in knowledge to simply refer to one inch as a party trick.. while yes he used it too demonstrate short power it has way more actual practical application.
Dk yoo is not like bruce for many reasons.
But i will give u a clear one..
Dk yoo.. goes out of his way to be compared to Bruce Lee...
When Bruce Lee was alive he didnt want to be compared to any other martial artist.. he simply was himself...
Creating baiting video titles just for views and content.. over time.. defeats its own purpose.. for informing..
The demonstration is a party trick.
Holy s***, you sound like that Richard Torres idiot, or is it that KFTwit Alex Dickter. Either way give it a rest mate.
Let DK fight with a strong opponent under MMA rules.
Hypothetical statement may not suffice.
Yes, demonstrations and real-time fightings are miles apart.
My guy. Your content is Gold.
Good video. Good info and presentation. Nice work.
Peace and High things where are you located i was looking for information on you personal training
Cuz only one Master Lee don't ever forget it or insult him God Rest his soul
DK is no Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee training is Crazy like Kobe 8/24. Both Legends... Bruce constantly working on every inch of his human body. Bruce Lee is the Real Deal & DK is a Joke try to make quick money 💰.
Why would anyone think dk yoo is a modern day Bruce lee? Dk yoo is Korean! And as for one inch punch, you should be able to put the same concept and energy into other movements! That's one purpose of the one inch punch possibly!
I feel like I'm getting to know the real Bruce Lee more, thanks. As a past martial arts instructor it's easy to see how Bruce gavitated and befriended other martial artists. Also, it's clear there are 'demos' to showcase martial arts for commercial reasons, and then there's real fighting skills. I think reason for Musashi's success (swordsman) was because he went around challenging what were martial schools based on hierarchy and status, not based on skill or toughness. Of course Bruce Lee was an athlete and an actor, and wasn't a fighter (competitive fighter). Also, I think it's always a big mistake to confuse self defense and competitive fighting. In the end, though I'm not a fan of JKD, I think an attacker would rather face a petite woman with no training, than one that is highly trained in JKD and has the confidence to land alot of punches... even if she can't beat Mike Tyson in a boxing match.
RiP Bruce We Miss you brother
There was only ONE Bruce lee and there will never be another like him period NO ONE will ever be to the level he was and that's a fact
Hahaha Guy is Master of Hug-Fu 🤦🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
Dk Yoo was running in the fight. I mean he literally turned his whole back and ran when he got in tight situations.
Wang Xiangzhai was good but he luckily missed Li Shuwen now that would have been a good match
Lucky for whom? 🤔
Thank you for the WISDOM
The real inch power is Huan yuan strength which very few people can do...where you can issue power from any part of the body...William c c Chen said you have to make your body frictionless. This I believe would require a complete overhaul of your nervous system by being still a lot.Wang Xiang Zhai had fali exercises so I hear. He also had to stand for hours and hours when training under Guo Yun Shen. Cheers all.
i showed book i learned taichi from to my taichi teacher and he said "i wonder where he got those pictures from". now i know
Why is he the "New Bruce Lee " and not just DK Yoo ?
To say that an INCH PUNCH has no power, and is merely a Party Trick... is Very misleading. Ive personally developed the ability to easily KO any fighter, with less than 3" of travel. Which again, goes against your characterization, that fast Wing Chun punches, have no real power. Either you really dont know.. OR.. you simply are not defining things properly.
What Lee showed was mostly an Explosive PUSH, with the handshape of a Fist. Everyone knows, that the difference between a punch and a push, is that a push is momentum based... and a punch in IMPACT based. However, there can be a whole range in-between these two. A boxers punch, has some Impact.. but it also has some drilling PUSH as well.
Lee tended to keep his demos as far skewed to momentum, as possible. Since power isnt visibly seen.. this type of demo appeals to the largely ignorant masses, whom thing that Massive power is when you see an OP flying several feet backwards, after getting hit. That said... Lee could and sometimes DID, use some actual Fajing (explosive power IMPACT). There is a report of one of his students asking Lee not to do the inch punch demo on him.. because his chest was in so much burning pain, that he had to call in sick from work the next day. That kind of pain, doesnt come from a typical "Push". Thats true Internal Power applied with some mid-level of Impact.
Lee eventually developed true explosive inch impact power, and he only showed this to two of his students. One of those students was James DeMile. James said that Lee didnt want to be responsible for releasing that kind of knowledge to the general public. However, after Lee passed, DeMile said that he didnt thing it was that big of a deal, in the modern age of the Gun... and so he decided to reveal the actual technology. He published a book titled something like "Bruce Lee's 1, 2 and 3 inch power punches". The book is fairly small, and is only a handful of pages. In fact, I only recently found a video he made, related to the book, on youtube.
I skimmed the book long after I had developed Fajing on my own (partially by Hints from Lees other books). From my brief skimming... I personally found the descriptions confusing and lacking, to the point where someone might not be able to get to the proper end result. That said.. if you are training for short range impact power.. eventually you start to figure out things over time... merely by comparison of the developed results. The main thing is, the sheer amount of effort that it will take, before one achieves any level of notable power, using this method. Most people would likely give up after a short period of time... well before they actually acquired the actual high level ability.
As for WC... Wing Chun teaches the basic principle of how Fajing is executed, within its punches. HOWEVER... it is never really stressed in the teaching and training, in how to reach high levels of short range impact power. That comes down to a level of effort, that most WC practitioners, never spend the time and energy, developing. As such, their rabbit punches, are in fact... often very weak / pathetic. Many of them might be able to KO from a full 12 inches worth of space... but anything closer than that... and they would find it next to impossible to KO an OP... let alone, worse.
While Fajing isnt really able to be SEEN with the eye... as its executed in a fraction of a second worth of time... You can see the video on youtube: "Glen Levy fajing hammerfist" Glen has two videos, where he demos the real IMPACT version of Fajing, on two different mens chests. The results are VERY different from Lee's push demos. These men drop instantly to the floor, in agonizing pains... rather than flying +8 feet backwards. The larger male, was barely able to breath... and it took quite a bit of time, before he was able to return to his feet. Glen greatly limited the amount of Fajing energy he released into them. That said... Glen was Far weaker with Fajing abilities, that myself. Glen needed a half circle runway, which would equate to something like 6 to 8 inches of actual travel. Where as I could produce double the power, with a much closer straight line strike. I also had weighed less than him, at time when I was at my peak, and had KO'd four different martial aritsts, with Vertical fist fajing hits to their foreheads.
Also, a common ignorance about Wing Chun, is the idea that you should need more than two consecutive hits on an OP. I never needed more than ONE hit on an OP... and that was with a punch that moved less than 6" of travel, and I never used more than about 15% power levels to cause a KO. At that time, I was only 160 lbs, at 6ft tall (mostly skin and bones). Rolling fist, is not really designed as a main attack. Its mostly to teach the concept of Hand Replacement. The ability to transition from one hand tech, immediately to the other, without pauses / slowdown. The reality is that you should be able to END any OP, with a single WC strike. If you cant... then you have not trained your strikes to anywhere near their full potentials.
The ONLY time I used even TWO consecutive WC punches in a row... was If I used the first one as a setup. Where as the first punch was a hair faster, and designed to cause the OPs head to be partially "rung" ...followed by the 2nd hit, which was where Id connect much more of my body mass into it. That said, I still never needed to use more than a single hit.. and never at full potentials. The difference in speed between a full mass strike, and a very mild quick strike, is still less than half a second. Maybe a quarter second, to a third of a second.. of difference. Barely enough for it to even matter. Especially since you should have long since disabled the OPs defenses before launching the strike anyway.
While you were busy typing all of that, I showed my classmates and my best friend as examples of real short range power. 👍
@@GoldenbellTraining You intentionally create confusion about what real short range power is... and when I try to clarify... you try to slam me?! You clearly have issues.
I like your comment. I had the privilege to train under a Wing Chun master for four years in the early 2000s. He could tap me with pretty much what seemed like any part of his body - bong, fook, tan, knee, knuckle. I'd either go flying about 10-15 feet or feel pain that by conventional thinking shouldn't happen from such a seemingly light tap and from such a small guy. He was not muscular but his bones were stronger than anyone that I personally had ever met before. And he was in his mid 60s at the time. When you talk about using just 15% of your power, I know what you're talking about. My teacher would say things like "that's only 1% of my power". I had the luxury of feeling and experiencing for myself what he was talking about and not just watching it on a video and then deciding if I believed it.
When you say most Wing Chun practitioners give up before developing this kind of power I would have to agree. Unfortunately, this applies to me too. But this is what I've observed in the world of Wing Chun. I didn't actually give up, as I still practice regularly. But it's pretty much for health and basic self defense and at that level it works great. But to reach my teachers level, and the level you're talking about... that requires disciple like commitment. There's lots of bad Wing Chun out there.
Ha! I just watched your link to "Glen Levy fajing hammerfist" This is similar to what my teacher would do and the student's reaction. The only difference is this Glen Levy guy is a young man and my teacher is now in his 80s and can still do these things.
@@johnhan1205 If you flew backwards, then he greatly reduced the impact power, and used more push power. That, and or, you had a very poor level of "Grounding".
I met one of the very few JKD guys that actually knew the Real deal. His inch punch to my chest, didnt move me more than a half step back... and that was only because the pain was so bad, that I lost all ability to maintain focus. Felt like a cannon ball the size of a basketball, hit my chest. The pain was as if someone poured gasoline on my chest, and lit it on fire... and the burning pains lasted for FOUR HOURS long. When he hit me, I felt a shockwave of force rocket through my body.. and I felt the impact hit the inside front fact of my SPINE. My spine was forced outwards, causing my entire body to bow... and for the first moment in my entire career, I was TERRIFIED.. as it felt like my spine was going to break out of my back / crack in half... and there was literally Nothing I could do about it.
Fajing is not just applied to a strike... as you noted. I once used a very mild Jut Sao (downward deflection), and it nearly shattered an MMA fighters wristbone. I used less than 10% on that one... but, the MMA fighter decided to use full power, full speed... (against our agreed upon Medium safe levels) and it vastly amplified the impact power potentials. Within about an hours time... his injury swelled up nearly double in size.
As for Self Defense... the problem with Casual type of training.. is that your level of development will be far more likely to Fail, under actual combat conditions. For example.. if you never developed KO power in your punch... and the OP managed to get almost to Grapple distance... and you punched him... he might simply just chuckle, as it didnt really effect him.
But even before that point... simply things like hand deflections may also easily fail, due to being sloppy, and applied improperly. This happens due to both flaws in the techs, as well as not having hardcore sparring experience. This is why most WC practitioners tend to look like sloppy kickboxers when they TRY to spar. They never can maintain traditional form, under combat pressure. And it only seems to get worse, when the WC practitioner is put against a much larder and stronger OP. While in THEORY, the art is designed for such challenges... but in sparring matches.. such WC practitioners tend to be destroyed by very low level artists, that are the same mass and strength... let alone, much greater size, mass, and strength.
Then you have issues with the fact that almost no WC practitioners do full body Iron-Body conditioning... so even a very mild level hit, is too painful, and too damaging... and they end up curling into the fetal position.
I used to train for actual combat, which is what "Self Defense" actually means.
I used to train 7 days a week, in and outside of the class. I cross trained in other arts, to best understand them. I did full iron body conditioning. I sparred after the first year... against other artists from various arts (every weekend). I used to spar fighters that were up to, or over 2x my own mass and strength, regularly. When I first started sparring... I was completely destroyed, and all of my techs fell apart. However... after quite a lot more Mastery, as well as the experience.. I was finally able to maintain proper form under heavy contact sparring matches. I also because virtually untouchable to typical sportized arts fighters.
This is not to brag. Its simply to say what is possible, when you actually train with full combat level Mastery, as your goal.
And that, as much as many WC students want to BELIEVE they are good enough for "Self Defense"... most of such people would get dropped by an untrained drunken thug, at the local pub, with fair ease, and lightning speed.
These actual combat level experiences are VERY different from the mild and often unrealistic DRILLS that are used in WC training. While the drills do have a valid use and purpose... they are not a total replacement for actual hardcore sparring / combat experience. Both are needed. (Which is how things USED to be, back in the Ancient days of China)
Anyways, hope this information helps. Its not what most people want to hear... and the fact is that most people will never even need combat abilities their entire life.. but this is the reality of what it takes to be capable of repeatable, safe, combat level abilities.
Jackie Chan became a star getting away from the image of Bruce Lee. As much as I understood Bruce Lee's teachings from his writing, he said anyone needs to be him or herself, we won't get the most out of ourselves imitating blindly anyone else. Best thing he could do is getting away from that Bruce Lee image. He has become the messiah of a twisted religion.
Interesting video. Thank you
Now I’m just expressing myself and nothing personal. But all of the so called Bruce Lee fans or fanatics are people who recognize that nobody comes close to Bruce and that’s a fact. So their not hanging onto their hero and pretending that he was superman but recognizing how incredible he was. And Beerdy seems to think that he needs to make up stories to get more views or to make Bruce look better but he doesn’t have to. You show me someone that’s better then Bruce and I’ll buy everything on the guy. You don’t realize how good Bruce was. Quicker then a blink of an eye he could take his fingers and punksure your stomach and that’s the end of it. That’s just one choice in case he needs it.
well done sir, and thank you very much
Why bother comparing? Why can he be himself? No one can be compared to Bruce Lee ever anyway. Just the name Bruce Lee people already have wild imagination about his martial style, his charisma, his appearance etc...whatever one can think of the great fighter, actor, teacher, leader etc
It's almost 50 years since Bruce Lee died and people still talk about his speed power and skill If he hadn't been as good you wouldn't have had chuck norris Bob Wall joe Lewis and a lot of a star celebrates going to his house and training with him tarritiono should have a bit more respect for him
The problem is ,you can be a good martial artist,but not be able to fight,you need to train under pressure,with a resisting partner,
Dk Yoo does train under pressure, and spar. You can spar all you want. Doesn't mean you can destroy a professional fighter in a boxing match.
Bruce Lee was good at punching but he was never a boxer. But yeah and DK Is modeling a lot of his moves after Bruce Lee.
Dk yoo is pushing the one inch punch not like bruce lee
The demonstrations are both parlor tricks. That's the only thing being said here.
Very well done video.
I wish someone do something on Wong Shun Leung was the real Talking Hands of Wing Chun and most of those Ip man movie was really based on
It’s simple DK Yoo has zero fight experience. He’s a performer not a martial artist or a fighter....
He has a lot of fighting experience. Just because you have fighting experience doesn't mean you can beat a 300 pound professional fighter in a boxing match.
@@Nattapong69 there is no proof of him fighting other people. Keep being gullible.
I dont think you need to be high as a kite to say something like that. Iv said plenty of things like that throughout my life
LOL....Ill name the 3 ways for you....... 1. arms 2. legs 3. hair
Their was only one Bruce lee and can never be another one most people don't have the drive and determination Bruce lee had.
DK Yoo and Bruce Lee exactly the same would be beaten by anyone with a few months of training
Great work bro, l said it before we need to see these martial arts practioners who do their fancy demonstrations prove themselves in the ring or octagon, now l really wonder how Bruce Lee would have done in the octagon.
Better than this
@@krishnan-resurrection714 Not true at all. Bruce Lee was not a fighter. The way people fight nowadays is different
I think a more fair match up would be against a contemporary like Masatsu Oyama, Helio Gracie or Benny Urquidez. Modern cage fighting involves a level of athleticism and well roundness that I'm not sure Bruce can match, especially when considering that his career kept him from reaching the level necessary for professional fighting. We also have to consider that, since Bruce's JKD was a work in progress, it's possible that many of the strategies he developed would not fare well in a modern mixed martial arts fight.
@@krishnan-resurrection714 Bruce Lee was not a fighter. He did not fight competitively. He was a martial artist with good ideas for his time. But we evolved since then. Bruce Lee even admitted Muhammad Ali could take him.
@@anti1training
You say Bruce Lee was not a fighter. That's true, in the sense that he didn't participate in competition fighting.
Does this also mean that you believe that HE WASN'T GOOD AT FIGHTING?