Q: How do you defeat Jet Li in a fight?

A: Knock his crane over.

What a poser.

I did have awesome as a tag, but having seen it several times, it does need the terrible too

In reply to this comment by Napalm:
Terrible? More like completely awesome!

In fact, Jacky Chan is a famous singer in Hong-Kong. He has done numerous soundtrack, as the one of "One upon a time in China" with Jet Li.

The original drunken master part two, released here as "legend of the drunken master" has what is, in my opinion, the greatest fight scene ever recorded. The last fight in the movie. It's the reason that I don't like most Jet Li movies.

Huge Jet Li fan. I also love his co-star in this, Bridget Fonda. Having said that, this was one of the WORST movies I've ever seen. Bad acting, bad plot, and only decent fight scenes. If you want to see Jet Li at his finest, check out the scene in "Fist Of Legend" where he fights a Japanese general to revenge the death of his sifu.

http://http://www.videosift.com/video/Ultimate-Kung-Fu-Movie-Fight

I love watching this sport, but I would never take part in it. Much like hockey, cause I cant skate.

The one thing that i do not like about the gracie dynasty is the lengths that they go to, to show how good their martial art is agianst other arts. Kenpo, and some other thing on GoogleVideo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naWEbPDz80w

Fistly bringing one art form and dueling another to prove that one is better than the other is foolish. "There are many styles of Wushu. One style is not better than the other, there is only difference in skill." -Jet Li's Character in Fearless.

There is a terrible stereotype that follows KickBoxing, MMA, and even my style of Martial Art is that we do the art in order to show our egos. In somecases we do just that, but in most cases its because we have no choice. Training to fight is one thing but training as a warrior in all your aspects of life is the way, only doing it halfway is foolish. The only certain thing in martial arts is that there is uncertainty.

This was a great vid! I think that submissions work from any angle, but I perfer to do my fighting from a distance behind Tachi!

I'm fairly confident that Jet Li can flex his balls.

I changed the tags to more accurately reflect that wushu comes from China, and is in fact not related stylistically with karate. Also, nowadays wushu has come to mean the acrobatic performances seen in this video, rather than a style accumulating actual fighting skills. The most famous practitioner of wushu right now is probably Jet Li.

Note this is not self promotion. Even if i was this good i could not take the shape of a east Asian person.

I posted this in response to something that happened to me today.

I was in a little grassy area about five paces from my apartment, and was practicing Hsing I Chaun. So i attract some attention, but most people just go on about their business. However today some one asked me if I was practicing "Ju Jitsu" and when I said that it was not he scoffed at the thought that some one might practice some other art than Ju Jutsu.

This attitude is wholly American, that martial arts is a test of testicular scale. "If one thinks that Kenjutsu is an art of banging sticks together does not know the true meaning of Kenjutsu." - Gaku Homma

This attitude taken by largely egotistical persons is that some one practicing a form is to be threatened and baited into a senseless fight. It clearly states in a translation of the samurai code, that one warrior should not engage in useless fights because said warrior could die, and that would be dishonorable to die over a cup of tea. This sort of thing happens to me all the time.

This attitude that states that Kung Fu or traditional martial arts will not work in a "real fight." I no longer believe that a fight can be fake, because you are still putting your life on the line. The difference between a one who knows the true meaning of Kung Fu, Wushu or any thing, is that they avoid all useless fights, meaning that the run away if they can. The American stereo type of martial arts is that grappling, judo, jiu justsu, and the such will always prevail over traditional martial arts, this is not the case. When a trained grappler is put against a trained person (lets say an actor) bruce lee, jet li, chan, Donny Yen, I would put my money on no one, because both skilled fighters will put up a good fight. So to say that one art, or countries art will win over another is foolish. This sterotype comes from Tae Kwan Do dojo that give you a belt after a couple weeks of training.

Until the practitioner can successfully solve conflict with out violence they are not a true master, even petty conflict.

I had to pay homage to the actor who played Wong Fei-Hung in this, and 76 other Wong fei-hung films. He is the man, more than nearly any other who set the stage for what we round-eyes think of as Kung-fu Movies. Both Jackie Chan and Jet Li have played Wong Fei-hung, but this guy defined the "character". Wong Fei-hung was a real man, but cinema took some liberties with his stories, and thus the "character" of wong fei-hung was born.
http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=164

This is the most practical video i have seen of Hsing I Chuan. This in my opinion proves that all the arts can be used practically but some more so than others. This is a school of chinese martial arts, and is as old as tai chi and pa kua (ba qua) and is the polar opposite.

See the movie Jet Li's The One, for a better view on how different the straight line fighting of Hsing I Chuan and the circular movements of Pa Kua differ.

Its so amazing how he is still an unknown martial artist. The man is at least on par with Jet Li, maybe better. He's also been around hong kong cinema for a long time.

From Everything2 comes *SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!*: How not to beat Jet Li's kung-fu style in "Fist of Legend"

"Sound strange? The most I can offer is some quick advice. You want to take on his righteous wrath, go for it. But there are some things you should know first. Bear with me now, and fast forward to the point in the film after he returns to Shanghai and discovers that his teacher and adoptive father, the Fist of Legend, is dead. Ok, now he's walking out of the kung fu school with That Look on his face.

Great. Ok, so he walks into the Japanese dojo. Now all the students there are getting angry at him. Our lessons can begin.

NEVER be the first guy to run up to Jet Li and slug him. He was waiting for that one since he walked in the door. You'll just end up getting your arm twisted around and then he'll probably throw you into a big crowd of your classmates.

Oh, man, did you see that guy? There's another important lesson. Flying jump kicks don't really work all that well on this hombre. You try to pull something like that, don't plan on having children. Now, you might think that just because you've got 40 or 50 of your classmates hanging around with you, you can just rush him. As you can plainly see, that isn't going to work. Don't feel bad - It's not that you're a bunch of pansies or anything. You just have to consider the mathematics at work against you here. Note the following formula.

Kung Fu Ass Beating Formula: Jet Li
V = S(17R)^2 + (X)

See, V is the total volume of ass, S is the scene number in the movie, 17 squared is Jet's own personal Kung Fu Style Coefficient, and R is the number of guys he beat the snot out of in the very first scene. Add X for the number of dead relatives. In this case, it's scene number 15 or so, and he slapped about a dozen guys silly in the very beginning of the movie - remember? When the Japanese supremacists came to his classroom? - So we add one for his dead teacher, and we're talking about a HUGE volume of ass. This equation also explains how Jackie Chan could pull of the Enormous Satanic Monk-Beating bit during the last 45 minutes of Armor of God. Clearly, this gang-up idea is just not gonna work out.

Anyhow. We can fast forward to the part where Jet has to fight his old pal, Orange Headband, for control of the kung fu academy. Lesson Three. You are NEVER, EVER going to beat this guy with an old school formal one-on-one duel. Not even if you're his childhood friend, and especially not if you're trying to force him out of your school because you resent his new teachings and influence. In this situation, he doesn't really want to make you look like a bop bag in front of everyone, but he's not going to sit there and take your punishment for long. And those selfsame new teachings are going to be the reason why your head breaks through all those potted plants and rafters. Bad, bad, bad.

The last lesson I have to offer is that you should try your hardest not to be the bad guy. The bad guy usually does pretty well during the first hour and ten minutes of the movie, but he always ends up with Jet Li's toes wiggling around in whatever he ate for lunch. You want to take on Jet Li? For crying out loud, DON'T poison his old teacher, don't kidnap his lover, kill his best friend or make fun of his shoes. The point is that you don't want to make the kung-fu warrior as angry as possible before you fight with him. You want him to think you're just playing around until you get a chance to shove your No Shadow Kick in his ear. And pick neutral surroundings, like a Wal-Mart. Good luck."