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Is that real? :eek: If so, insane. Think about it, this guy could have been pro at so many things. A dart champion for funsies.
 
No, it's not real. It was faked for a Nokia advertising campaign a couple of years ago.
 
jwpretd said:
No, it's not real. It was faked for a Nokia advertising campaign a couple of years ago.
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I don't think it was faked, but it looks like they are lobbing him soft balls. And, we don't know how many takes it took.
 
Without question faked, but still a cool video.

If Bruce had taken up pool instead of martial arts he would have been a beast! With his intelligence and dedication I think he could have excelled at just about anything he wanted to.

Here's a student of the man himself showing his skills with a cue...in a fashion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMu2xNBpyQc
 
Very neat, but obviously faked. A ping pong ball would be easily destroyed by one hit of the nunchaku.
 
Very cool video but faked. If Bruce hit a ping pong ball with the power he was hitting it with the nunchakas, it would absolutely crush the ball every time.
I still have several pairs of nunchaks and believe me, with the power Bruce was using he would have crushed a human skull easily.

Terry - who learned very quickly not to practice with real nunchuks.


Here's a student of the man himself
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Bruce Lee combined several styles into his own which he called Jeet Kune Do.

Steven Segal is a Shihan, a teachers teacher. 100% Aikido.
The scary part of what you watched Steven do in the video is, that is exactly what he is capable of doing in real life.
Steven is serious scary and a very capable man. I love the part where the tough guy got a taste of a cue ball wrapped in a bar wipe and was spitting chicklets onto the pool table.

Funny story, my brother ran the Aikido dojo where I live before his passing. I learned not to ask him to show me things because the end result was me going home with a sore arm, wrist etc. One day I asked him to show me the move in which Steven sends a guy one way and redirects his motion in another. My bro said come at me. So I made my move towards my brother and the next thing I knew, I was giving the refrigerator a kiss. My bro looked at me and said,"like that"?
 
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DangerousDave said:
Without question faked, but still a cool video.

If Bruce had taken up pool instead of martial arts he would have been a beast! With his intelligence and dedication I think he could have excelled at just about anything he wanted to.

Here's a student of the man himself showing his skills with a cue...in a fashion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMu2xNBpyQc
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Steven was a police officer here in our local parish/county for a while. He has gone on to bigger and badder things. :wink:
 
Was he the guy they called Sticks?
I remember when Enter the Dragon first came out. If you weren't taking karate classes at the time, you were directly after seeing the movie. I'd bet that Bruces movie was directly proportional to heavy enrollment in martial arts classes all over North America.
 
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Not Bruce Lee

Blue Hog ridr said:
Very cool video but faked. If Bruce hit a ping pong ball with the power he was hitting it with the nunchakas, it would absolutely crush the ball every time.
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I don't disagree with your general statement. However, that's not Bruce Lee in the video. They go to some effort to hide the actor's face, but if you go through the video carefully it's visible several times.

As for hitting a ping pong ball with nunchakas, I believe that may be possible, at least some of the time, but not with the directional and spin control shown. Carefully examining the video shows ball behavior that doesn't always seem to be consistent with the actor's motions. This was hashed out extensively on the web when the video first appeared (late 2008).

Also, if it were possible, at least a few of the martial arts types would have videos on YouTube demonstrating it, would be giving exhibitions at table tennis matches and in malls (it'd be great advertising for your dojo), etc, etc. I can find no indication that anybody has ever done such things.
 
Bob Jewett said:
I don't think it was faked...
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Bob, Bob, Bob. You know, for me you've always had this aura of invincibility when it concerns the realm of science/physics in this forum. :bow-down:

After this last post of yours, my faith in you has been completely shaken. :shocked2:
 
jsp said:
Bob, Bob, Bob. You know, for me you've always had this aura of invincibility when it concerns the realm of science/physics in this forum. :bow-down:

After this last post of yours, my faith in you has been completely shaken. :shocked2:
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OK, mark me down as too trusting. But tell me this: if someone said he could play against a weak ping-pong player as in the video, would you bet against?
 
JB Cases said:
This is probably the most incredible thing I have ever seen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tSDd9sR1tc&feature=related

We have no excuse for missing a ball in pool ever :-)
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John, that may be fake but I had the pleasure of seeing Don Willis play ping pong with a coke bottle once, and he was the real deal. It was at the American Legion Hall in L.A. in the early 70's and the World Championship 14.1 was going on there. Don was there visiting some of his buddies, and next to the practice room was another room with two ping pong tables.

I wander in there early one day (I was a ref at the pool tourney) and Don Willis is playing some guy ping pong using a coke bottle. They both looked like they played good, with some long rallies. I couldn't stay that long because I had to ref a match, but I never forgot seeing Willis with that coke bottle in his hand. He held it kind of sideways and whacked that ball just as hard, if not harder, than the guy with the paddle.

I saw him a couple of times later but never had the nerve to ask him anything about that game, whether he won or ??. He was way above me in the pool firmament of that era and one thing I learned was to keep my mouth shut. Now I can blab! :D
 
Jay, I have a feeling I read something long ago about Willis using a bottle at ping pong fairly often. Possibly in connection with a story told about or by Bobby Riggs, or in connection with Trevino beating people at golf using a coke bottle.

There's a considerable difference between a rigid bottle and a couple of octagonal (or round) sticks 14 inches (or so) long, 1.25 inches (or so) in diameter at the base, and connected by three to four inches of cord (or chain). They're usually used as in the video: hold one stick and swing it to whack things with the other stick.

In any case, playing ping pong with nunchaku must be difficult or Nokia wouldn't have used that commercial to introduce their "Bruce Lee" telephone. If the video is real, then it means at least one person (who isn't Bruce Lee) can play ping pong with nunchaku but has chosen to remain hidden for the two-plus years since the commercial appeared. That doesn't seem very likely to me; it seems much more likely that the whole commercial was faked.
 
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