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Thank you Charles Siheng for starting this Thread. :-)
I was wondering why you did not include Jet Li as part of the poll. I once read that Bruce Lee reigned on the 70s, Jackie on the 80s and Jet Li on the 90s.
I personally love Jackie Chan but I have also enjoyed very much many of the Jet Li movies. :-)
Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee was an easy choice for me...( I voted Jackie Chan)..But JC and Jet Li is a whole nother can of worms...HMMMM
I shall wait till the poll as this will take some pondering. I have heard more personal stories about Jet Li actually than JC. I trained with Jet Li's
early teacher once and heard some cool stories. He was a hard working prodigy who actually performed at the White house while only like 8yrs
old.
Best of both worlds was the movie on the monkey king they did together...awesome. The more i think back on all the movies they've done
the more difficult it gets..JC is tough as nails, Jet is fast.....HMMMMMM
Thanks for starting this though, it's fun...Warmly Gusty
Once I asked Sifu something along the line of " Who's more combat efficient or relaxed or able to learn Shaolin Wahnam Kungfu better : Bruce Lee , Jackie Chan or Jet Li ? "
.....but can't recall the answer now , except that each actor has a positive feature .
I voted Jackie due to personal criteria
Played in his movie Dragon Blade while I was in China last spring.
It was pretty fun. Actually, you can spot me for around a second
And probably would´t recognize me due to Roman Empire armor and a fake beard
hahaha
Engage and maintain joyful practice!
May all of you get the best benefits from what you do.
In terms of martial arts, I think Bruce Lee was the best fighter. He popularised Wing Chun, and Kungfu in general, for which I, like Andrea, am grateful. He also started or inspired his own style, JKD, which those who have trained with Tai Siheng Kai's former students tell me is very effective! (And it looks good on youtube.)
Whereas I don't even know which style, if any, Jackie Chan does?
In terms of movies, well I don't like the modern, comedy type films that Jackie Chan does much, though I haven't seen them all for that reason, but I do love his earlier ones, especially those that involve him learning Kungfu under a master such as Drunken Master or Fearless Hyena.
However I don't love them as much as Enter the Dragon or The Big Boss.
And I am of the age that usually see Bruce Li, Jet Li etc all as just very pale imitations of Bruce Lee! In fact I would put Jean Claude Van Damme, as a fighter and for his movies, well above Jackie and Jet Li too, sorry guys! Kickboxer, AWOL, Bloodsport - all fantastic!
But looks like my side is losing badly in this poll!
Once I asked Sifu something along the line of " Who's more combat efficient or relaxed or able to learn Shaolin Wahnam Kungfu better : Bruce Lee , Jackie Chan or Jet Li ? "
.....but can't recall the answer now , except that each actor has a positive feature .
Now I recall something about Sifu's answer : Speedy Bruce Lee good fighter , comical Chinese opera background Jackie Chan is relaxed and many times wushu ( genuine kungfu forms )champion Jet Li will do SW KF easier
To further share the gist of what Sifu told me :
" ....who would learn our Shaolin Wahnam kungfu or genuine kungfu better ? : Jet Li, Jacky Chan and Bruce Lee in that order.
Jet Li's kungfu is wushu, which is genuine Shaolin Kungfu in form. All he needs to do is to develop internal force and learn combat application of what he already knows. Indeed, from his many years of excellent action, he would have developed internal force and acquire combat application without his conscious knowing.
Jacky Chan has a lot of opera tricks, which may deter him from his learning of genuine kungfu when compared to Jack Li.
Bruce Lee, despite being a very good fighter, had a prejudiced concept against genuine kungfu . His mind set was such that it would be very difficult for him to learn genuine kungfu if he wanted to ..."
Anyway , personally I like all the movie fight choreographies of all 3 actors , who are all Masters in their own right
But if pushed , I'll vote in descending preference : Jet , Jackie , Bruce
Definitely Jackie Chan for me. "Legend of Drunken Master" was the first kung fu movie I watched in the theaters and I was hooked from then on out (though I had no idea how people used "those weird hand and wrist movements" in actual fighting, fast forward a decade or two and some things make sense, haha).
I actually didn't see a Bruce Lee film until just a few years ago, go figure. Very intense for sure, but I didn't see much that I resonated with.
Jet Li is probably still my favorite "kung fu movie" star, though. His agility and high flying moves definitely inspired me to want to be even half as agile as he was! Doubt I'm going to get to the point of horizontal triple spinning flying kicks to the face, though!
I like making silly videos (including kung fu ones!) every so often on YouTube and taking pictures of weird things on Instagram.
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