Martial Arts Instructor Reacts: Ninja: Ip Man 4 - Karate Champion Vs Bruce Lee 

Wait, are you telling me as a martial arts instructor that you and your students don’t walk the streets at night in karate uniforms looking to start trouble with gangs of wing chun nerds? I don’t know man… if that’s not normal, what am I doing with my life?

Fun fact: for the awesome people who've seen Stephen Chows movie, Shaolin Soccer, this is the same actor that was like a hilarious Bruce lee wannabe in the movie who was the goalie, also he was in Kung fu hustle as well who played the leader of the Axe gang, can't even tell its the same guy

Bruce was once asked during an interview how he would feel facing an opponent with a knife. He shook his head and said he would pity his opponent because a man with a weapon becomes fixated on the weapon and loses sight of the rest of his natural weapons. I've wondered if the shaking of his head when the nunchucks came out was a nod to that interview.

This guy has portrayed Bruce in a TV serie by the CCTV called The Legend of Bruce Lee. I personally think nobody has come as close to imitate Bruce Lee fighting style and plasticity as Danny Chan Kwok-Kwan. The guy is very talented.

Honestly wonder if that guy just camped out in that alley waiting for his opportunity to kick that light out. Still a great fight scene and a solid representation of Bruce.

Bruce Lee: *kicks the asses of the students* Champion-dude: TIME TO CAPTURE HIS ATTENTION! WHICH NEAR-BY OBJECT WILL MAKE THE MOST NOISE!?

THE DOJO WARS IN FULL EFFECT. Man back in the days where udd have you gi at the arcades, brought your tonfas at the laudromat, shit was SERIOUS then. Sometimes ud kick a light to start a fight intro sequence, other times you just called next at the arcade then didnt put a coin in. Shit - was - real. Karate, kung fu, ninja, psychic powers, those were the times.

The dude breaking the light bulb is a homage to Bruce's scene in "Marlowe"

I love how they used Bruce's favourite moves, the back fist , side kick finisher and offcourse the one inch punch when he got the nunchucks away from him , beautiful 👌

Legend has it this happened to Bruce everyday, all day, for his entire life. Truly incredible.

Just a little correction. Chris Collins actually doesn't appear in this scene. The actor that Danny Chan fights against is actually Mark Strange.

I noticed that "Bruce Lee" held his nunchuck close to the chain. That's how I was taught to hold them for better control, but the real Bruce Lee held nunchucks clear down at the bottom for more power. Half the fun of studying martial arts is watching films and finding every flaw in the fight choreography. :)

If I'm not mistaken, the guy who plays Bruce Lee here (Danny Kwok-Kwan Chan) is the same guy who plays Bruce Lee in the 2008 series 'The Legend of Bruce Lee', although the actor for Master Ip in that show is very different. Danny is obviously extremely good in the role

Cinematic-wise, I think this was one of the best fictitious portrayals of Bruce Lee. You can tell there was some visual effects added to his moves and speed, but I mean, not many can match Bruce’s speed to begin with. His strikes, backhands, and Pak Sao was on point tho.

Hey Max, thanks for all of the excellent videos. I watch all of your videos daily and I admire your knowledge.

This scene is literally just a cartoon in live action- it’s awesome 😆!

I respect how you have learnt the correct pronunciation of the master's name: Ip Man.

The light break was a nod to Bruce Lee only he could reach over 10 feet. Did it in Matlock and a few other sketches Love your reaction

Loved all the ip man films everyone delivers in those movies, you gotta be a beast urself to even hang in there with yen. Adkins is another favorite of mine, seing them face off at tje end of this was insane. Oh amd DO YHE DISTRICT B13 ULTIMATUM FIGHTS BRO!!! lol love ur show dude!🤘🏼

Thank you for reviewing BANSHEE as I have watched it up to the end of season 3 & super appreciate this awesome t.v. series!!! Peace & Love!

I wore my karate gi to a restaurant (slightly fancier than a diner but not much) once, and to corner shops a few times... but this was when I was a preteen karate student with Dad taking me to those places on the way home from lessons, not wearing it just to show off that I do karate. Also I didn't pick fights with other styles to try and prove mine was better. My approach was - and still is - trying to show my opponent concepts their art doesn't teach, and trying to see things in their moves that I wasn't learning at my dojo. Unless someone's actively trying to cause harm, the goal of a fight is to teach and learn, not to win or lose.

Hi that was a nice video. Thank you so much for the credits.

The dude in the blue Karate gi, i’m actually friends with him on Facebook! He’s definitely a cool guy

I recently found your channel and it has quickly become a favorite. Awesome videos/commentary.

Admit it bro! He is the closest one with the actual Bruce Lee ❤️

Thing is, this isn't Chris Collins that Bruce is fighting. That comes later on. So, totally do a review on the ending scenes with Donnie Yen vs Chris Collins as well as Donnie vs Scott Adkins.

if this was real life bruce was holding back, a full force swing with chucks can break bones no problem. its a baseball bat with more leverage.

Love your videos, keep up the amazing work

just a minor fact: Ip Man has never been to the USA, actually after a while master Ip didn't even want to hear about Bruce Lee….but still this is a great movie

The light kick was originally done by Bruce Lee in a television series. The series was The Green Hornet, Bruce wore a mask and was the Green Hornet's driver. There was going to be a fight scene in a basement or warehouse and Bruce improvised the overhead light kick just as the fight was going to start. I enjoyed the first 2 Ip Man movies more than the follow on. Have you done anything on Sonny Chiba? He was Japanese, practiced a "hard" style karate, and was one of the first martial artist in movies. Later he was an adviser and choreographer for many U.S. movies.

I still hear stories from my parents about how all americans tried to kill them with karate. I'm glad that this movie shows how it really was back then.

I watched this scene and felt it was goofy too. So cathartic to see your reaction.

Kicking the light was one of the most wtf scenes I've seen lol.

"they should be snapping their fingers and walking in time" FUCK MAN, NOW I'M THINKING OF A VERSION OF WEST SIDE STORY WITH DIFFERENT DOJOS! HELLYEAH!

6:18 "I wonder if there are any outtakes of him hitting himself." I learned a few tricks with nunchuks 40 years ago. What's the most common injury while learning? I never hit myself in the head. It took me a while to learn to not hit the backs of my elbows (funny bone). Once I figured that out, I never hit myself again.

really enjoy the video you have a new sub

About time for your reaction. 👍👍🥋😊

I’ve seen all three of the movies and they are good. The actor almost looks like Bruce Lee. I’ve enjoyed the fight seen, need to see Ip Man 4.

Really nice review, I loved this one. :)

Enjoyed as always.

I also, thought it was hilarious to see the lead karate instructor come out with the flying kick to the light pole as well! 😂😂😂 EPIC!

It’s funny movies always make bullies seem like they are in martial arts but there’s so much respect involved been doing it for 8 years and it’s one of the most important rules.

This actor was also a Bruce Lee tribute in one of my favorites: Shaolin Soccer! He has the best Bruce Lee impersonation ever!

3:10 He's entrance reminds of that one Pokemon for some reason and it's damn hilarious every single time.

Loved this movie. This fight scene was great. Showed how JKD was a mix of styles.

Alternate timeline: No one engages with the karate guys and all sit in the restaurant eating while that guy in the alley continues to wait lolx

That fight was comically bad, and I did used to wear my Gi to and from class, though I'd often wear a jacket over the top or on hot days wear a t-shirt and carry to top of the Gi. I may catch heat for this but as a Karate guy we always found kickboxers to be the jerks :)

6:08 the smug on his face when he's about to show who is the boss at nunchucks lol

Great review as always! Also... The ally fighter breaking the lamp is (I believe) a call back to when Bruce Lee's character broke a similar hanging light in the office of James Garner's character in "Marlowe". Here's the scene: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LhXF0z9L6fA.html

The Marine character has the same name as Lee Ermey's character in Full Metal Jacket - Hartman. Ermey's Hartman is one rank higher, though - Gunnery Sergeant as opposed to Staff Sergeant.

That's not Chris Collins. That's Mark Strange, who actually got into his film debut in a Hong Kong movie called "The Twins Effect" directed by Donnie Yen and Dante Lam. Chris Collins appears later as the actual US Marine Corps "Kyokutan" (?) Karate instructor fighting Donnie Yen. Both Strange and Collins are actually Wing Chun practitioners and instructors. Collins teaches in Hong Kong, and Strange in Lancashire.

Hope you hit 100K asap.

Honestly I always am so entertained but bewildered when, in movies like these, entire groups of martial arts students just go out in their gi (and then start causing trouble). I practised Aikido for a time and I dont think Ive ever worn my gi outside of the dojo XD and that kicking a lamp for no reason.. hillarious

The they guys behave in the scene is so corny I love it for the reason lol

Best react video I've seen ❤️

Love the vid. Shame that it wasn’t actually Chris Collins 😂😂 RU-vid did you dirty 😂😂

The only reason I can see why those guys were still in their uniforms at the beginning is because the scene takes place right after a Karate Tournament that Bruce Lee and his school participated in alongside other schools. It would still make sense that folks would have changed back into some casual clothes by the end of it, (Bruce Lee certainly took the time to change) but I’m guessing these guys wanted to quickly find and pick a fight before Bruce Lee went home for the evening.

It was absolutely fantastic.

loved the one inch punch to steal the nunchucks

this scene is funny for many reasons

Bruce Lee is not doing wing Chun, he is doing jkd.

The real Bruce Lee would be very proud of Danny Chan for living up to his legacy

That was a great fight scene

3:13 Legit a boss introduction in a combat game.

I purchased this on high definition DVD and my personal opinion IP man 4 is the best one compared to the other 3 yip man movies.

Excellent action I mean reaction.

the final combat this Ip Man 4 is incredible......

Where did you get the clips from?

Epic! That karate school ain't no joke.👍👍🥋

Martial arts isn't about proving oneself but to exchange the arts with your opponent.

It ain't Chris Collins though!!! Aside from that, all your Chris info was spot on and I must say that the kid playing Bruce Lee really did nail it. Nice to be reminded of Bruce. I'm well into my 60s now and I vividly remember going to see all four of Bruce's films back in the early 70s. Inspired me to take up martial arts aged 14, I've been studying and practicing Shotokan now for a little over 50 years. I have attained the level of 1st kyu brown with 2 white stripes. As I always tell the newcomer, it's practice not instant perfection. Great channel. Keep up the good work.

I was sooo confused by this sudden alley man 😂

Can someone confirm the following: Bruce incorporated the 'dancing' during a fight after watching boxers....timeline wise that was much later then portrayed here... Thoughts?

Remember Bruce Lee's famous quote. "The best style is no style." Once you use a style you confine yourself to it and your opponent will be able to read you. "Be like water" Shape yourself to the task at hand. If the moment requires a haymaker punch then do it. Knowing as much as possible is good. But practice makes perfect and knowing to much will slow down the process of learning the important things. Jeet Kune Do is the basis of what is important to learn first. "Fear not the man who has practiced 10000 kicks once. Fear the man who has practiced one kick 10000 times" Striking a balance between these two methods is the key to mastering martial arts.

Can you react to Ip man vs 10 black belts

Lol showing off infront of Bruce Lee with nunchaku is like showing off with a football infront of Ronaldo/ Messi. Idk but that part was really funny 😝

How come those Chinese movies never have any decent, competent karate people?

4:47 love that back fist

Exactly buddy in the alleyway kicking lightbulb out

I strongly urge you to watch the fights in Once Upon a Time in Shanghai. It stars Phillip Ng (who played as Bruce Lee in Birth of The Dragon) and Andy On (he fought Donnie Yen in Special ID). This movie is apparently a remake of the Shaw Bros. movie The Boxer From Shantung, just like how the movie Hero is (the 1997 movie not Jet Li’s Hero) the fight scenes were choreographed by Sammo Hung last I checked (he also stars in the movie too)

I WISH I could enter any scene as remarkably as the Blue Gi Karate Instructor 🤣🤣🤣

I would love to see you react to some of the fight scenes that take place in the woods in Re:Born.

Because the storyline talks about them meeting each others after the long beach karate event at a nearby restaurant. That's why they wear their gears.

At my older age and knowing the world and my life Id love to be young again if I could study with IP.

The best fight of the movie

Karate Masters game plan: Get in his range and stay there.

Wow...he is very simple in fight...

That diner looks just like the diner in Edward Hopper's painting "Nighthawks".

Want to preface this with "as always you're making great content and I appreciate the reactions to wing chun films!" just in case you don't care about the Wing Chun nerd crap spiel I'm about to go into :p Leung Ting was a great-grandstudent of Yip Man. He learned from Cheung Pak who learned from Leung Sheung (who was Yip Man's senior-most disciple). Leung Ting did study with Yip Man, but much later, so even if he had been a direct student, he still wouldn't be anywhere near the most senior by around 20 years. That said, this is dumb wing chun drama that no one else cares about, Leung Sifu is an accomplished instructor regardless of where he falls on the tree, and I do wanna say as always you're making great content and I appreciate the reactions to wing chun films!

Ninja with Scott Adkins is a fun one. Man of Tai Chi is an interesting, somewhat obscure martial arts movie.

I love that fight

yes some of thise punches were haymakers but around this time when Bruce had his own school he did study both boxing and fencing for technique and style. So I like nod to that.

i did not know there was a 4. I shall need to watch this... but yes the very theatrical entrance of karate gang is a bit much XD

In my head this fight is Cobra Kai American karate vs The goalie from Shaolin Soccer, and nobody can ever convince me otherwise.

I didn't know there was an Ip Man 4 O_O

I’d love for you to review some fights from Warrior season 1 & 2.

karate dude got his aSs handed to him says GG after the fight massive respec

3:09 interesting "scene"....its reminds me in that movie scene where Bruce enter in an office, and start to break everything ;)

3:18 I'd headbutt a watermelon to introduce myself 🤣

You gotta react to all time favourite Kirk VS Gorn.