Welcome to my page about martial arts. Here I will try my best to explain differences between specific styles and techniques, critizing and complimenting them from my experiences. I also included a small table here talking a little bit about current martial artists on the silver screen. Do bear in mind what I say is only what I say so don't take my word for anything. Also, this page may be very old and the info in the table below may be outdated.
| Bruce Lee | Jackie Chan | Jet Li | Michelle Yeoh | Chuck Norris | Don "The Dragon" Wilson | Steven Seagal | Jean-Claude Van Damme | |
| Style | Jeet Kune do; a healthy knowledge of everything else | Beijing Opera-style Wushu; Northern Shaolin; Acrobatics | Traditional Wushu | Cinema Style (no traditional martial arts training) | Karate | Kickboxing; some kung fu | Aikido; menacing stares | Belgian Fu (he's allegedly a kickboxer, but little evidence to support this) |
| Last Seen | 1973's Enter the Dragon | 1997's Mr. Nice Guy | 1998 Lethal Weapon 4 | 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies | Walker, Texas Ranger (1993) | Who can tell?? | 1997's Fire Down Below | 1997's Double Team |
| Best Fight | The coliseum fight with Chuck Norris in 1972's Return of the Dragon, in which Bruce rips off a fistful of Chucky's chest hair. | The psycho ultimate brawl in 94's Drunken Master 2. You can watch it frame by frame and still not get it all. And remember, this guy is 44 years old! | The glorious conclusion to 94's Fist of Legend, in which Li displays everything in his repertoire, from Wing Chun to tai chi-inspired finger attacks. He's the only one of these guys who's brought real martial arts to the movies | The opening sequence in 1986 Royal Warriors, in which she foils a plane hijacking; puts die hard2 to shame. She is the real deal Emma Peet | The final duel in 1980's The Octagon, in which Norris plays a modern ninja. It's probably the best movie he's ever done. Even if he did have to use a sword to get the job done. | All of his fights are the same | The kitchen battle with William Forsythe in 1991's Out for Justice. Seagal just destroys him, everything Forsythe tries to do, Seagal turns it against him, and then he slams him with every cooking implement in the book. Like, the Spatula of Death. | Something from 1987's Bloodsport. He's pretentious, pathetically insecure. He's brought nothing at all to martial arts cinema |
| Signature Move | The Flying side kick | The Prop-fu. Jackie busts ass with everything in sight, from food to furniture | The No-Shadow Kick. A wire-assisted flying kick that drops about a dozen footprints on the unlucky victim's chest in the course of a single attack | The reverse face kick, an incredible display of ballet-fu in which Michelle goes to full extension while facing away from her opponent, whipping her foot up, over her shoulder and into the opponents teeth | The Roundhouse spin kick. Norris was the first to use this move in competition and continued to perform it with great effectiveness on camera. | Don doesn't have any. Wilson is the generic stuff. He's like stop and shop brand martial artist. The kind that comes in a white box and black lettering. | The Elbow snap, where Deagal grabs onrushing enemies and dislocates their forearms with a sickening crunch. | The slow-mo spin kick. Alternates this move with his patented ass-exposing leg split, a technique that showcases the delicate rondure of his Belgian booty. |
| On-Screen Combat Ability (1-10) | 10. Most of the other guys were just doing it for the movies. Bruce was a warrior | 9.5 He has agility and imagination, and there's no question that he could destroy any American screen martial artist. Plus, he could make you die laughing. | 9.5 If Jackie is Savion Glover, Li is Mikhail Baryshnikov. They're both great fighters, but one is a talented street kid and the other a classically trained artist. Jackie started learning his skills at 7, Jet started at 4. | 8 Michelle is really a dancer by training, so she has balance, flexibility, agility, and power. In a real fight, she'd leave it to her bodyguards. | 6.5 Chuck is the only big American martial arts star with competition props. The man's a 7 time world karate champion. Too bad that after 85's Code of Silence, he decided to take the cash and go lowball, Sidekicks, Top Dog... | 4 You may think what the hell is he doing, calling himself the Dragon, but he earned it, with 60 martial art championships. His big idea was to make fights look real, but nobody really wants that... | 3 Seagal used to be a very good martial artist-fast and deadly. But what happened? He's a pig now. He's always wearing these outfits to hide how big he is, and they make him look like couch. | 2 If he's a kickboxer, heck we all are then... |
| Prognosis | Dead, but still the king | The Energizer Bunny of martial arts cinema, he keeps going and going | Hasn't fully mastered English, but communicates impressively through sign language-groin punches, roundhouse kicks to the windpipe, etc. Hollywood, the Jet has landed | Because she is substantially more foxy than any of the other people on this list, her future seems bright. Watch as Yeoh burn-rushes the Hollywood show. | Has managed to keep his career going longer than any other American martial artist, well into his 50's. But nothing lasts forever... | Don gets no respect for his mostly straight fights. | To disguise the collapse of his physical skill, Seagal turned to spiritual enlightenment, claiming to be a resurrected Tibetan lama. Want to play Genghis Khan in his next move if he can find a horse that can carry him without snapping like a pretzel | His next film is about terrorists who threaten to implant explosives in designer jeans, .... |