This is insane! Jackie has been my favorite action hero since I was a little kid. I also started training in hapkido from age 6 to my early 20’s. I had no idea he trained in hapkido and even has a black belt! Thanks for taking the time to make this video :)
Bruce was doing martial arts on TV and movies in the 60s. The Big Boss also came out in 1971. The world already knew Bruce Lee before the US had gotten on the Bruce Lee train.
@@r.jackson7162 I know Lee was showing Americans Asian martial arts, before 1971. But nobody took him seriously, because Americans thought non European martial arts were nonsense. Which is why he wasn't able to get ahead in Hollywood.
@@slothmaster101 Asian martial arts had been in American films for years. Every spy American and British at that time knew the dreaded "Karatty Chop" and a kick or two. Including Bruce's student James Coburn. TV detectives also knew the Asian arts. William Dozier took him seriously enough to alter the presentation of Kato on the Green Hornet. That paid off big time. People are still talking about his portrayal. The problem was the racists who didn't allow Asian lead actors in TV shows and movies. Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto were still being played by non Asians in the 1960s. Story goes that's why Bruce left Hollywood and went back to Hong Kong. But his influence was still felt here even though he was overseas. Syndication helped out a lot. Lee also had acting chops too. He appears in TV shows in the 60s and 70s as well with no martial action.
I learned Sin Moo Hapkido Ji Han Jae lineage and it’s an all around art. Kicks , joint locks and judo techniques. Weakness is in punches but went to boxing gym for few years to complement hapkido
I always get ticked off with people who contend that Jackie isn't "a real marshal artist"... It's annoying. Why do they have to think that he can ONLY be an actor or performer?? It's absurd.
It's because some people don't understsnd the difference between doing martial arts for films and theater and doing martial arts for self defense. They think the first one is "fake" because it doesn't work in a real life scenario. Jackie IS a real martial artist, otherwise he would not be able to do what he does. He just never trained to be a fighter.
But some how you missed Master Hwang Jang Lee who is Korean and was doing Kung fu movies in the mid 70s. He was a featured villian who is a Korean stylist and has written martial arts books.
Yet Jackie Chan only promoted Chinese Kung fu in films. Never promoted Korean Hapkido. Kung Fu also has superior kicks and Hapkido kicks came from Northern Chinese Kung fu styles that were exported to Korea and practised there as Tangsoodo & Taekwondo. Later Ji Han Jae and other Hapkido instructors incorporated Taekwondo kicks into Hapkido because Original Hapkido has only 10 low kicking techniques. It's an Art derived from Aiki Jujutsu.
