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I realize that in the literature of martial artists, there are endless references to Bruce Lee and countless examples using Jackie Chan. This is not another of these. What I'm doing here is pointing simply by the most fundamental difference between these martial arts film stars and their styles.

This difference is real compared to Hollywood.

Both Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan are great fighters on screen and physical amazing on the big screen as they move, jump, punch and fight. Jackie Chan is a masterpiece of physical athletics for both flexibility and control while Bruce Lee was a masterpiece of physical athleticism of both strength and speed. Both are unmatched on the big screen.

Jackie Chan, however, admits that although he practices martial arts, it is especially so for his performance on screen. It is not a street fighter, fighter competition, or traditional practitioner of martial arts he studies. This lack of a better term, is a dancer talented.

Bruce Lee, at the same time, the martial arts as practiced for use on screen. He has worked hard to turn its first training in Wing Chun in a career of television and film. To do this, he had to flashy, more flamboyant and less deadly.

Unlike to Jackie Chan, though, Bruce Lee has also studied martial arts as a tool for self-defense and put most of his personal efforts to find the most effective fighting techniques for the real world. The result was Jeet Kune Do, who unfortunately died before being able to show the world correctly.

The lessons he has compiled in his book, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, have not lost, however. Self-defense martial arts as I have taken ideas presented by Master Lee and used these ideas to broaden our perspective on the struggle for the defense.

Fights street is very different from movies or the dojo. In the introduction to his book, Bruce Lee wrote:

"Some martial arts are very popular to real crowd pleasing, because they look good, have smooth techniques. But beware. They are like a wine that has been watered. A diluted wine is not a real wine, not a good wine, hardly the genuine article.

"Some martial arts do not look so good, but you know that they have a kick, flavor, taste authentic. They are like olives. The taste may be strong and bittersweet. The flavor lasts. You cultivate a taste for them. Nobody never developed a taste for the bene – wine.

In the formative years, I found this to be true. Some martial arts People such as Tai Kwon Do, are almost always taught that the movements and styles were pretty and very little real fighting in them. Others, like Pencak Silat are brutal, ugly looking, but can be extremely effective in the real world.

This does not mean that one martial art is intrinsically better than another. Having studied for more than a dozen of them, I can tell you that everyone has strengths and weaknesses. The teacher and students are the important parts, not the art itself.

I met with the street fighters who have been extremely effective and have very little formal training. I met several decades, long masters of Kung Fu which were unnecessary in a street fight. And I met with mixed martial artists who have eight or ten styles and are extremely effective fighters in the streets.

In fact, I saw a fight between a belt black boxer West and saw the boxer, who has no idea how to give a blow effectively, yet easily defeated the karate expert.

He returned to the air combat experience in the real struggle (against the ring or mat), and type of training received to prepare them this situation, the street fight.

There is room in the world for both the Jackie Chans and Bruce Lee, martial arts. The question is what you as a student, I want to know how to do: look impressive and extremely relevant in a scenario or a specific situation, or be more effective in all situations you are presented?

Over there is nothing wrong with either approach, provided they understand the strengths and weaknesses of your chosen path.

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