Martial Arts Instructor Reacts: Game Of Death - Bruce Lee Vs Dan Inosanto (Full Version) 

In the early 80's after watching all of the Bruce Lee movies I bought a pair of nunchucks and hit myself in the nuts so hard I was in tears.

I met Dan Inosanto 26 years ago at a seminar. He taught one of my instructors. Very cool man!!

In '74, I was stationed at Camp Pendleton....when I saw 'Fists of Fury' for the first time. There was a little theater in the neighboring town of Oceanside, that used to run double-features all the time....of kung-fu movies. There was always at least one Bruce Lee film. The place was often packed with rowdy Marines. I had a couple of roommates at the time & one of them had a pair of nunchucks. Of course we were usually just cracking ourselves in the head with them.

I've had the opportunity to train with Sifu Dan a couple times. Hes a really nice guy, and incredibly knowledgeable. He taught my master who's a full instructor under him. They are times I look back on and remember quite fondly.

I met Dan Inosanto at a tournament one time and asked for an autograph. He graciously agreed, but when I asked him to write "Take it easy on me next time", he just laughed and said "no way!". A cool dude, but that would have made a great keepsake. :)

If Bruce had made Game of Death the way he originally envisioned it, 🤔 would have been one of the greatest Martial Arts movies of all time

When learning nunchucks a beginner should hold their weapon close to the chain until they become VERY comfortable with the motion and the various striking techniques. They're much easier to control that way, and the inevitable training accidents are somewhat less painful.

The Best Documentary Ever A Warrior's Journey! The Real Footage of "The Game Of Death" is so incredible!

There is a really cool fight between Dan Inosanto and one of Lee’s friends before the battle begins.

You should buy the Criterion Collection of the Bruce Lee Boxset. Fun fact : they remastered this version so now during the "missing dialogue" scene, he says "Do you understand, this bamboo becomes a sword." There are also other videos were there is additional scenes here on youtube before the remaster 👍

The look on Bruce’s face when Dan busted out the nunchucks is the same look I get when I’m playing a fighting game as my secondary character and the opponent thinks they can beat me by switching their character, not knowing they just picked my main.

Really love the commentary you're doing 👌🏿

Some people are so willing to test another till their willing to lose it all to the game of death Bruce Lee was just fantastic

you are correct, they shot movies in Hong Kong at that time without sound. The dialog you hear is not by Bruce, as it was added much later and they did not have Bruce's recordings, mind you that he did not finish "Game of Death", except he did release a teaser trailer back when "The Way of the Dragon" was out in cinemas in Hong Kong... By the way, many thought it was Dan Inosanto who taught Bruce the nunchakus, but it was actually another Los Angeles students, Steve Golden (who is still alive by the way).

I will tell you the most valuable technique of all martial arts - "missing dialogue..."

small note: the guy in the light blue shirt is not bruce's student in the real version of the movie. he and the other guy are both members of a gang that force bruce's character to climb this pagoda. bruce had written this character to be more antagonistic towards to him to make for a more interesting dynamic in the group. you can tell by his body language that the guy can't stand bruce but has to put up with him to get to the top. you can see more of this relationship in the fight after this one. no words are exchanged but you can see that they aren't friends. very good visual story telling from bruce.

Maximum range, maximum power and speed is what you get while holding it away from the chain end...but a the cost of more difficult handling and control. For using Nanchucks as a weapon during a fight, how will you like to use it? If just for show/ kata/ Taolu/ shadow boxing, holding near the chain end will have better control, less strain to the wrist. For a fight, what Bruce Lee is showing is what it should be.

When I learned a little nunchucks all those years ago, I held them close to the chain too. Everything I can find suggests that a grip closer to the chain makes it a little easier to control and less likely to hit yourself, as often as I still did XD I guess holding them further down means you get more reach and power and stuff but hitting yourself hurts WAY more as a result XD

Honestly the climax of this fight scene is almost like watching a boxer similar to Muhammad Ali just dance around his flat footed opponent while he just works the jab waiting for that big punch.

You should watch the full 39 minute Pagoda clip. The 2nd fight with the Gold belt master is a great fight too when it's unedited.

The storyline of The Game of Death had to do with Bruce Lee being in undefeated martial Arts champion, whose sister was kidnapped so that he would help gangsters get what was on top of the Pagoda. The two guys were sent along to help Bruce Lee as well as keep an eye on him, but Bruce Lee ended up using them as Crash Test Dummies.

Dan the man. My old MMA/Kali instructor trained under Dan with Paul Vunak and Jeff Imada

Grandmaster William Cheung, my teacher's teacher, told us once that Bruce Lee called him in Australia to ask him to appear in Game of Death as the last opponent on the top floor. But William couldn't make it back to Hong Kong to help Bruce because William couldn't leave his job at that time. So Bruce had to choose someone else. Bruce really respected Wong Shong Leung and William Cheung, and considered William Cheung to be the best street fighter he had ever met. Bruce mentioned this to his students in California; including Dan Inosanto. Dan Inosanto mentions this on the first few pages of William Cheungs book "Wing Chun Bil Jee: The Art of Thrusting Fingers". I show Inosanto's quote in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jZ9eR3IsphM.html

Although Bruce Lee was working on this before he got the called to do Enter The Dragon, I’m pretty sure it’s not the finished product. I’m pretty sure it would’ve been another masterpiece from the martial arts legend Bruce Lee.

I was taught a long time ago holding near it end you have more whipping power and u keep some distance away from your opponent. Things may have changed over the past 35 years when i started. FYI BL was trained in fencing too therefore the quick in and out movements

Wish they made a version of Game of Death based on Bruce's notes

The fight with Kareem Abdul Jabar has some big differences.

holding them near the top is for flashy tricks, and easier control. holding them lower means more leverage and momentum.

i have been training in the art's for 52yrs. while this means by no means, that i am a master. i started training in ki-kaju-kenpo and from the beggining we were taught to hold them about an inch from the bottom. holding them near the rope or chain is for fancy tricks. most people i see now do really cool tricks with them and the nunchucku are very thin and light. not for combat but for entertainment...

Worth the view wish they would put the remastered version with all the extended scenes

Glad you did this version and not the theatrical release fight. Also Bruce was a proponent of western fencing do it's smaller movements.

The DBZ boxset in the background thou

A fun reaction in this series would be the Bruce Lee fight scenes in “Ip Man 4.” So many great little callbacks to his movies.

Loved the reaction! This was really a great fight! If you’re looking for some good fights to react to, here are a few I enjoyed: Popular choice, but still a good fight, but the hallway fight in the first season of Daredevil was excellent! Obscure choice, but there was an episode of a show called The Closer in season six titled Old Money that had a surprisingly good fight at the beginning of it. Surprising because the show didn’t normally do fights.

I was trained to hold them near the bottom, I was told holding them near the chain of cord is easier but not the proper way.

It's amazing

love your observations! to answer your excellent nunchucku-question, when you "choke-up" on them is a recommended way to hold them for beginners. their easier to control i.e. less of a chance of bopping the rear of your head and/or elbows, lol!

It's a real shame Bruce never got to film the first two fights before Dan. Would've been real testament to his last work and accomplishments.

Bruce studied fencing, boxing, and wrestling as well as eastern martial arts

There's another more complete version where on the missing dialog he tells Dan this Bamboo becomes a sword..

Like your reaction

Really love the Warriors Journey Footage

Dan trained me from 1981 to 94, undefeated, than my health took a downfall, Massive stroke, with a brain bleed.. Dan was a very gental sweet person!! we trained hard!!

Now you got it

Holding a nunchuck near the chain makes it easier to build momentum for it to spin. It’s also easier to control. But holding it at the end, at least in my experience makes the movement slower, but it feels a bit more practical since the speed is easier to gauge so you don’t hit yourself

In The Way of the Dragon, Bruce holds the chuks a little higher than in this scene, but in that movie he was using two at once.

Dan was my sifu in the mid 70’s.

If you like Bruce's fight scenes, I recommend reacting to HBO's "Warriors" with Ah Sahm's (Andrew Koji) fight scenes. He's not full Bruce in the show, but you can tell he drew a lot of inspiration from it.

holding them at the top gives you much more control but at the bottom like you said more whip and more power.

Just wait til you watch the full & original fights of Bruce on the next 2 levels from this movie.

Bruce Lee🙇huge respect🙏

I would imagine getting hit in the face with those nunchucks would probably break your cheekbone or jaw if you got hit in the face,not mention the probability of getting some teeth knocked out.

You should type in the search Bruce Lee real fight, he was to do a demonstration at a martial arts tournament and ended up do some sparring with a karate champion.

Not sure if this comment is too late, but holding near the top is faster and you have more control. Holding near the bottom provides more force if you have the ability to stabilize them. Longer distance to the end provides a greater moment and more force.

how uncut version came about I have several HK BL magazines in English by HK & US journalist's 1 says his ex wife sold off box of BL's what she thought was junk notes & useless sketching's etc were original drafts of Game of Deaths movie script dialog notes & Fight choreography stick figures drawn by Bruce & I think guy who brought it had some film footage that matched those notes that was not used originally as sound & script for those scenes were thought lost 4-evea but luckily got Remastered into what we see just saw along with other footage studio did have but too incomplete to use. about 15 yrs ago while on holiday I meet up & briefly trained with an old friend of Brandon Lee & he had trained Shaolin (in China) & was one of toughest Martial artist I ever trained with = to most of my past Instructors (& few were actual-Champions) & said Brandon was cool fun guy to hang around town with & of course a great Martial-artist & spared hard-out but with good control & fluid but powerful kicks I think he was truthful as always brightened up talking about Brandon.

They might hold the Chucks on the low end so that they are forced to go slower for the cameras

Hiting Myself with Nunchucks, is what Made Me switch to Escrama, and The QuaterStaff. Like You, Bruce Lee I wasn't.

I saw a master once use nunchuku against three opponents coming at him katanas. The 80 year old never swung them but deflected and hit pressure point which dropped them immediately. This was an auditorium in North Dakota and it was Master Oyata...my Master's Master. He came to do a demonstration but half the people walked out when they saw how he turned studs half purple because of loss of blood flow. He knew how to kill with a flick of his will. He also knew how to heal them with strikes to pressure points that let the blood flow again. He was 10th degree from Okinawa in Gojo Ryu. He wore a denim GI and was old. Seriously, people were about to throw up because they didn't understand what they were seeing. He was the kindest and most humble man ever. When you see a true Master...you never forget. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zs9dmw-i4M4.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8N0u-2pVIU0.html

A fight to the death! Bruce Lee: groovy! Everyone: now those are the words of a master

I’m not professionally trained with the nunchaku, but my neighbor that got me into Taekwondo as a kid, he gave me a pair when I was 12-13 years old. He taught me the basics and the rest I just learned from mimicking Bruce Lee. For showing off, I choked up on them nearer to the chain. However, if I were to use them in a fight, I’d probably switch between the 2. Holding it near the bottom gives it more length & power. You also have to consider that Lee and Inosanto are using the Filipino version of a nunchaku (Tabak Toyok). The chain’s longer and the handles are typically shorter, so it feels different than the Okinawan type.

Kempo taught us to hold at the base, it's a matter of leverage and trapping.

4:17 he was basically saying the bamboo stick becomes a sword

I might recommend a recent film called "Paper Tigers". I does focus on some real martial arts while being a touch humorous. Check the trailer first if you're interested.

The footage you just showed between Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto, I believe that was from the warriors journey DVD. It is a good fight between the two of them.

For those who don't know I can't remember where I learned this but when they first fought Danny isanto gave Bruce nunchuck to train with because Bruce wasn't very good he trained for a month then came back to set and was a expert with them like he had been training for years even Danny was amazed

Bruce Lee licks his nunchuks the way I slap a tri-tip before grilling it

You should check out the Game of Death outtakes.

Top and bottom it protect the entire body when fighting a group of fighter's

I find it mind blowing any serious martial artist hasn't seen all of Bruce Lees movies ...

You should be checking the way of the dragon fight scene with chuck norris.

This was the recovered footage of what Bruce had filmed before he passed. Before this version of Bruce's work (as he intended it) was released, you only had the edited version tacked on to the rest of the movie. The movie that was released was heavily edited and left the guys that came in with Bruce out. Then they filmed another guy in Bruce's role for like 3/4ths of the movie. You could call that the first Brucesploitation movie. It was a decent movie otherwise, but disappointing if you were expecting Bruce. The first time I saw it though, I got goosebumps when the real Bruce finally made it on screen.

I transition from both high and low with nunchucks

Use nunchucks like a jab bro. Actually perfected effectively striking with them watching Bruce. Period 😤😂

The difference between Bruce & Dan is while 1 is fluid & flexible while the other is Ridgid and more into the technique of the weapon

Hello!! Love your channel and reacts!! You analysis is on point as Game of Death was to showcase Bruce's philosophy on adaptation to your opponent!! There a clip of Bruce Lee doing full contact sparring in 1967. It's pretty damn good. As you are a Martial Arts instructor I would really love to hear your analysis of him sparring and your opinion of his fighting skills!! Looking forward to it!! Cheers mate🍺🍺!

It was back in the 60s. The video is in black and white

Bruce was borned in San Francisco. He only went to Hong Kong when he was older.

He did flinch ,,in the uncut version dan head went up ,after bruce hit him with the bamboo stick

Chucks I hold near the chain. It's for recoil

OK Instructor!! You forgot to point out the 3 other notable future martial artist/actor stars in the film. Sammo Hung, Bruce Li, and Bolo Yeung. I know this clip was to focus on Bruce Lee but I had to mention the other 3 noteworthy future stars.

Of course Bruce isn't afraid much. It's a MOVIE! xD

A moving target is much harder to get focus on & launch an offense on.

I think it's easier to change it from hand to hand when you grab the nunchuks by the ends, at least it's easier for me, but not sure if there is any real reason, I guess it depends from people's preference

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Their different styles were qoriagraghed Danny was supposed to have trained bruce on the chucks.iv always been an big Inisonto fan growing up. Never met him he lived in Los Angeles but he was one of my dads best friends when they wete young i have highschool pictures of him back when he was a standout football,baseball, and basketball player in the mean streets of Stockton California

I hold my nunchuck with my thumb and index finger at the chain .......... better control.

The crazy part is they don't kill each other accidently.

Seeing that you enjoy Bruce Lee using num-chuks, you should watch him playing ping pong using the num-chuks as his paddles. It's quite the show.

Very difficult to fight with nunchaku with one people also.nunchaku have no block as stick fight.just move from hitting and should quick hitting then other opponent

So hold the nunchucks at the top

Bruce was born in San Francisco, fun fact:) THATS hwy his English is good

You can see how much Bruce used fencing when developing JKD

Slow down the footage you will be able to see how the nunchaku bends that they are foam.

Have you scene the RU-vid footage of Bruce playing table tennis with nunchucks?

I had limited 'chuck training, and every move defensive! No striking, just locks, blocks and 'area denial'; swing it around like mad, the other guy stays back! Then again, Tae Kwon Do isn't big on weapons.

Yeah, little known fact, Bruce grew up in San Francisco and graduated from University of Washington. His younger brother Robert Lee's English is arguably better.

Because when you're a beginner closer to the chain is easier, and safer. And it's better for some showboat demo moves.

Not trained in Nunchucks, but I feel like holding closer to the chain would offer more control no?

I found out that all the yelling Bruce did was dubbed in, he did t really yell like that.

4:52 I'm sure the questioned have been answered already, but here's quick explanation. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-djj6QAn-Ifw.html