Chuck Norris

If Chuck Norris is so good, how come he lost to Bruce Lee?

bruce lee pulled his man chest off.

he lost a lot of power.

I was rooting for the cat but w/e. I just love the waaaa's and yaaaaa's XD.

Why would anyone compare someone to Chuck Norris? That's simply stupid ^^

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Originally Posted by Solitude

Why would anyone compare someone to Chuck Norris? That's simply stupid ^^

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Cause if you compare it to Bruce "Pure Awesomeness" Lee, he falls short.

If you type Chuck Norris, that text will turn into an advertisement while when you type Bruce Lee, is none. So who is awesome now?

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Originally Posted by Solitude

If you type Chuck Norris, that text will turn into an advertisement while when you type Bruce Lee, is none. So who is awesome now?

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I tried google

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/3359/23yk4.png

you must have a virus or something roku and i searched chuck norris and found his jokes :O

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Originally Posted by Phr0zen

I beg to differ. Bruce had a different philosphy than most martial artists at the time. Others tended to stick to one style and praise that style as if it were the best. Bruce on the other hand knew much better than this and instead wanted to study or promote if you will a more diverse style, a style that isn't a style. Anywho, here is a snippet from Bruce

I have not invented a "new style," composite, modified or otherwise that is set within distinct form as apart from "this" method or "that" method. On the contrary, I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns, or molds. Remember that Jeet Kune Do is merely a name used, a mirror in which to see "ourselves". . . Jeet Kune Do is not an organized institution that one can be a member of. Either you understand or you don't, and that is that. There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way. Jeet Kune-Do is simply the direct expression of one's feelings with the minimum of movements and energy. The closer to the true way of Kung Fu, the less wastage of expression there is. Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He is still hung up on his self-closing resistance, in this case anchored down to reactionary pattern, and naturally is still bound by another modified pattern and can move within its limits. He has not digested the simple fact that truth exists outside all molds; pattern and awareness is never exclusive. Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.

I think Bruce broke the mold with his philosophy and teachings much more than most(all?) martial artists of his time.

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It doesn't matter how much you beg to differ because it's incorrect. I have both the Tao of Jeet kune do, and Bruce Lee's commentaires on the Martial Way, first written by him, the latter a compilation of what he wrote and said. I know for a fact that most of his philosophies were almost exactly the same(I'm willing to bet he practically copied them) as Miyamoto Musashi who lived 400 years before him, and several of his most known quotes are more or less direct quotations of martial artists from both china and japan who lived long before him as I have these texts as well.

In fact, almost any martial artist from the feudal ages said exactly the same as him. Even in Karate you're supposed to surpass form and go beyond "style". The forms of any given martial art is only the beginning, to teach students the physics of martial arts, the "learning to walk before you learn to run" principle. That people obsess over form and styles, and never move beyond is the fault of practitioners, not the styles themseles, since almost any ancient text of almost any asian martial art says as much.

Even one of Bruce Lee's most famous quote, the "being like water", was said by Miyamoto Musashi, and recorded in his book, 400 years before Bruce Lee said it.

Bruce Lee being formless is also quite non-sensical, as Bruce had a very destinct way of fighting, favourite techniques, and also learned his so-called "formlessness" by first studying the classical martial art - and in that sense his way of martial art is no different than even the most known styles such as Tae Kwondo and Karate.
After all Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune do is pretty buildt on the principles of Boxing, Wing-Chun, and western fencing.

The only martial artists for whom his philosophy seemed new and different was for the western martial artists who until then had only been feed with the basic doctrination of the most common martial arts at that time and had not yet penetrated the essence of martial arts.

I can garantee you that there was not a single thing Bruce Lee said or did, that other martial artists had not said or done before him, and I can provide you sources as well if you wish. The only reason he has gained credit for saying and doing what he did, is becuase he was the first movie star to say it. No more, no less.

No one fights like that in real life.....

And cameras don't zoom into little kittens... well most.




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But its always fun learning martial arts

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Originally Posted by Kyoteki

I will call none of them a god unless I see a Hadoken from one of them.

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Thats what im saying! :p

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Originally Posted by Joker™

No one fights like that in real life.....

And cameras don't zoom into little kittens... well most.




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But its always fun learning martial arts

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LOL thats a /thread!

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Originally Posted by Synthaz

Thats what im saying! :p



LOL thats a /thread!

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what is /thread?

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Originally Posted by Joker™

what is /thread?

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That means the post was so good that it essentially ends the thread (topic).

awsome

so its over?

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Originally Posted by Joker™

awsome

so its over?

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Doesn't have to be over.

It is generally used as a quicker way to say "this post was so awesome, that I don't think anyone else needs to post anything as it covered it all"

Usually it is kind of a light-hearted kinda joke.

3-4 is nothing...i dont think cause he took wing chung =O and i saw this guy do 11punches in like 1.78 secs it was on youtube.

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Originally Posted by †Ð£MØц

You said chuck norris jokes twice.

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That was needed for emphasis.