The legendary Jim Kelly wearing his Okinawa Te Karate patch and sparring in a 1972 movie.
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Listen people the man was a 4 time champion regardless if you think the fight scenes were bad the man is a legend and black hero.
@terryevans98995 жыл бұрын
Dark skinned brother was the old school actor from the 70s he played a tough guy and a lot of blacks exploitation and his name was Dan Lockhart. He played a semi bad guy in the movie call Uptown Saturday night with a younger Bill Cosby and a younger Sidney Poitier.
@realtalk91694 жыл бұрын
@@realtalk9169 Calvin Lockhart.
@mrc3022 жыл бұрын
Karate champion & Martial arts 🎬 movies star
@lloydkline15182 жыл бұрын
Two great legends Calvin Lockhart and Jim Kelly. May both Rest In Peace.
@Carlparishhonda4 жыл бұрын
Jim Kelly is a legend
@denroynicholas99276 жыл бұрын
RIP Jim Kelly and RIP Calvin Lockhart
@cooper4820114 жыл бұрын
thats when you know you are getting old ,when all the stars when you were a kid start to pass. I was born in 1964 and all our hero and stars are falling by the way side. And I guess I wont be far behind ? It all went by so fast, this experience we go through called life.
@goldnrulejoe3 жыл бұрын
Silky Slim vs Black Belt Jones = Priceless. love those guys.
@kingemerald14 жыл бұрын
Jim Kelly and Calvin Lockhart. RIP to two fine brothers!
@otisbeck53274 жыл бұрын
😆 i was thinking the same shit
@MuhammadAli-Lateef3 жыл бұрын
LAMO!!!
@kelvendyson15082 жыл бұрын
"Never have so few owed so much to so many."
@azlaroc122 жыл бұрын
Biggie Smalls vs Jackson
@chriso8193 Жыл бұрын
Rip Jim Kelly,Bruce lee, John Saxon and Calvin Lockhart
@christopherwashington24173 жыл бұрын
John saxon actually died from Covid-19
@5822huron3 жыл бұрын
@@5822huron Me too
@williamwest70083 жыл бұрын
@@5822huron actually?
@chriso8193 Жыл бұрын
I always did love Jim Kelly, AKA. BLACK Belt Jones!!
@johnnyconley26337 жыл бұрын
he was cool alright :D
@AdamRangiaho7 жыл бұрын
Jim Kelly is Awesome
@khadijahsams83698 жыл бұрын
Denny Nicholas you hit the nail on the head Jim Kelly is a legend indeed
@norvelwhite38115 жыл бұрын
I remember going to see this movie at the drive in as a child thought it was the hottest thing since sliced bread then tried to emulate on the playground lol this was Melinda memories memories man
@norvelwhite38115 жыл бұрын
I like when Jim kelly said oi oi each hit
@bobtaylor39453 жыл бұрын
Definitely one of my black hero’s a picture poster up on the wall.
@corp96554 жыл бұрын
he was a great martial artist and a sad loss
@briancox11243 жыл бұрын
Legend indeed Jim Kelly
@superflyyeddie9403 жыл бұрын
definitely a classic
@karatefox5 жыл бұрын
It's the combat that he enjoys!
@JENDALL7146 жыл бұрын
"Bullshit Mr Handman"!😂
@vincentsmith48105 жыл бұрын
The winning
@marvelsucksnow6424 Жыл бұрын
never saw this before - thanks for uploading. saw this guy one time years ago at a martial arts gathering - martial art celebrities - he was a cool cat and a gentleman - couldn't do enough for his fans - rip Mr Kelly.
@gomergilligan43746 жыл бұрын
You're welcome.
@AdamRangiaho6 жыл бұрын
gomergilligan Melinda (1972) my birth year
@cooper4820114 жыл бұрын
"You better come with somethin' heavy"? Who talks to their instructor like that lol
@ChinWah775 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I said. Hahahaha
@thedarksideoftheforce66584 жыл бұрын
Only the type of fools who are looking to get their asses whooped! Just like he did by the Legendary Jim Kelly! LMAO!
@sergeantb.r35753 жыл бұрын
You may not be aware but that is Calvin Lockhart, the original Biggie Smalls, aka Silky Slim. He's a legend in 70's films. So to answer your question, Silky Slim talks to his instructor like that.
@aprodutube3 жыл бұрын
"... and packed with dynamite ..." sheesh
@DW012 жыл бұрын
He had a strange way of kicking,thanks for vid..
@rontate77196 жыл бұрын
He had an unorthodox fighting style... which was why Bruce Lee was interested in him...
@csmith33215 жыл бұрын
Jim Kelly Calvin Lockout💙😇
@reginaldstyles31295 жыл бұрын
It's a shame JK never got much recognition other than being the "black guy" in Enter The Dragon. To be in Bruce's films he had to be qualified. (John Sasxon being an exception...there for his acting credentials). I like the flavour of 70's martial arts films Bruce made and others. Especially when they included actual name martial artists like Jim Kelly, Joe Lewis (though his I think were all done in the early 80's), Chuck Norris, "Billy Jack"...Not the JCVD "flappy flashy show kicks" he did in his films.
@AGC8286 жыл бұрын
jim kelly and joe lewis were the best the world had to offer back in their day.....they were both world title holders with joe lewis being the first full contact champion fighter and first professional fighting champ...great achievements
@AdamRangiaho6 жыл бұрын
Anderson C it truly is a shame but with JIM Kelly and JOE Lewis it was the quick rise in fame the fell prey to all that goes with being famous studios wanted him just to much of the sex, drugs, rock and roll lifestyle. He was an amazing athlete.
@pitbulllaw77726 жыл бұрын
Anderson C That's part of being black into the 1970's. To some extent with Michael Jai White the same thing is happening to him in 2018.
@realtalk50525 жыл бұрын
John Saxon was credited with being a brown belt at the time of ‘Enter the Dragon’ I believe but I maybe wrong.
@jujitusuka4 жыл бұрын
The same people that produce Enter the Dragon are the same that produced Black belt Jones & Hot Potato for Jim Kelly & Truck Turner for Isaac Hayes. You'd be amazed at how many movies are under the Blaxploitation era.
@chriso8193 Жыл бұрын
Jim kelly is too good
@phongthanhluuderhurensohn69353 жыл бұрын
Kelly's first film. Melinda.
@mrc3028 жыл бұрын
A classic example of blackspoitation movies :) a unique genre beautifully parodied in Black Dynamite :) one of my all time fav movies.
@AdamRangiaho8 жыл бұрын
Student talking back to the master haha
@thedarksideoftheforce66584 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1968 in Okinawa. Kadeena Air Force Base. I was just a little late to know about Jim Kelly, I did study under some great Teachers because I had to learn to fight the way those I went to school with in Japan faught. Martial Arts is very different there, more dissaplplined, more techniques that take opponents out quickly. Then the weapon training begins. Basic farmers tools are very effective weapons. A lond stick, a sickle, an ax, a long chain. 2 simple sticks...
@armoniqfields80164 ай бұрын
Fantastic
@denroynicholas99276 жыл бұрын
Jim Kelly and Calvin Lockhart
@otisbeck53274 жыл бұрын
Classic. Adam you rock! It was more fun to train than that - He's only showing the basics in the fight sequence. We didn't always have such a hardcore class.
@tongsau8 жыл бұрын
Cheers Charles :) great to hear from you :) hope all is well and you're fit and healthy, training hard. :) I'd have loved to train with Jim Kelly et al :) the classic American karate period heheheh....nice one :) good to hear from you buddy :)
@AdamRangiaho8 жыл бұрын
Jimmy is a world champion too.
@yangbe17606 жыл бұрын
What? I think, he was maybe yellow belt, not more...i m wanted if he learn really a martial art, no flexible, very dirty style, lol.
@nopoliticanti-beaufsmythos30375 жыл бұрын
@@nopoliticanti-beaufsmythos3037, Get real and grow up, he studied and competed in the 1960s in the USA not in Asia.
@OakleyANDSittingBull4 жыл бұрын
@@OakleyANDSittingBull He was really not clever, sorry...
@nopoliticanti-beaufsmythos30374 жыл бұрын
the man is real with lack of good fight collagraphs.
@joemed3957 жыл бұрын
This is how I'd love to train.
@rhysnichols86085 жыл бұрын
Very good actor of Martials arts !!!
@rudycolas48547 жыл бұрын
sounds like u sayin he wasn't a real martial artist. if u are u wrong. pull up his tournament fights u wouldn't believe his speed. n real competition he's da fastest martial artist i ever seen.
@Sharif_Mustafa-Salaam Жыл бұрын
The fight scene the guy just stands there hahahahahah
@Ninja-iu4gg2 жыл бұрын
Jim Kelly was a great fighter in just as good as any one else that why he got notice especially for a black man in he was a decent actor that's simply why he got pick in his movie unfortunately he didn't get the high respect like he should because Hollywood gave him a hard time because he was black I love the dude he will always be one of my favorite r I p jk
@timothybrown44385 жыл бұрын
It's called "Melinda". Jim Kelly taught the star martial arts 4 his role.
@ryangriggs75410 ай бұрын
Does it matter if his technique it's not what you thought it would be as long as his effective That's The Way of the World when it comes to fighting do whatever you got to do to make it work
@haroldtrimuel92335 жыл бұрын
Front backhand 🤚 ❤️
@Dr.Serbian2 жыл бұрын
Lol awesome
@DONTHATETHEPLAYA3217 жыл бұрын
🙌🙌
@buttercup59206 жыл бұрын
@hthtv34405 жыл бұрын
Always loved Jim Kelly (RIP), but the brotha always had terrible fight choreography in his movies, even ETD. None the less, love the blacksploitation genre.
@cvn416 жыл бұрын
james carr The tattoo connection had the best choreography out of all of his movies in my opinion
@kemetfirst3156 жыл бұрын
No way his scenes in ETD are great. The show his speed and his coordination really well. Look at his final seen vs Han and his goons. Great stuff
@TheRogueSquid4 жыл бұрын
Bruce Lee allowed Jim Kelly to choreograph his own fight scene in the courtyard of ETD. Tbh his choreography was not in Bruce's class.
@johncarroll772 Жыл бұрын
UFC material definitely
@gunnerhiro3943 жыл бұрын
Ufc acabou com essas gracinhas
@paisano372 жыл бұрын
that guy he sparred with, is king Willie from predator 2, I think. Calvin?
@telliastacticalfirearmsand20397 жыл бұрын
Calvin Lockhart !
@chriscurtis83446 жыл бұрын
Fred Williamson guyz
@csmith33215 жыл бұрын
@Dong Longslapum oh... yea.. you're right... I should have known... I even met him once... 😎
@csmith33215 жыл бұрын
What kick like like? He kicks uunal.
@yangbe17606 жыл бұрын
Toda esta porquería de Hollywood es lo que desvirtuó el verdadero Karate.
@TheReverb1 Жыл бұрын
Does anyone know the name of Jim Kelly's book ?
@truthhitman74735 жыл бұрын
I could only find this.... My Life, My Story, My Father - Martial Artist Jim Kelly, is a personal reflection of the 1970’s movie icon and martial artist. His daughter Sabrena dips deep into her spirit and shares her personal feelings as she revisits her feelings of rejection, isolation, and tough times she experienced during her youth due to an absentee parent.
@AdamRangiaho5 жыл бұрын
WATCH JIM KELLY'S SIDE KICK BETTER OR FILMED BETTER IN ENTER THE DRAGON IT'S OKINAWA TE TRADE MARK JUST LIKE JOE LEWIS AND MANY MORE
@pitbulllaw77726 жыл бұрын
There's a good shot of him kicking a guy 2 feet off the ground with a side thrust kick at the '72 long each world champs. A good fast kick with plenty of power
@AdamRangiaho5 жыл бұрын
@@AdamRangiaho This man did really a martial art? Lol 😂
@nopoliticanti-beaufsmythos30375 жыл бұрын
@@nopoliticanti-beaufsmythos3037, Why are you so disrespectful?
@OakleyANDSittingBull4 жыл бұрын
Black Dynamite himself. 🏴☠️
@maestrodiogenesbillionaire8702 жыл бұрын
👀 olhai viu muito sério isso mesmo
@josecarlosoficial82072 ай бұрын
Rockne tarninkton was original Williams
@Dartanian9995 жыл бұрын
falling leaf kata, sword n hammer, bear ECT.....
@pitbulllaw77726 жыл бұрын
Old school uncle frank
@TheMugenmunster3 жыл бұрын
Ed Parker´s Kenpo Karate.
@josealbertodiazgomez87436 жыл бұрын
There's a close connection between OT and Ed Parker's kempo and that is they both come off the same parent style and/or instructors. Both styles originate from James Mitose's Hawaiian Island martial arts club where he taught in the 1945-50's. Then moved to LA, then jail. OT founder moved in the mid 50's and started teaching karate with Ed Parker, then left and made his own style based on his own version of Mitose's and other Hawaiian teachers of that era. Kempo and OT are not that similar to eachother. Forms quite different tho some have similar names, ie sword and hammer.
@AdamRangiaho5 жыл бұрын
That's some really racist shit to call a legend "black belt jones" Jim kelly was actually a champion martial artist I think some of his best moves were in the tattoo connection
@les5363 жыл бұрын
Whack fight scene🥵🥵🥵
@sergemartinez58432 жыл бұрын
Jim Kelly...well black folks embraced Kelly because of Enter of the Dragon. But most of us back in the day, knew that Jim was...well posing. I was blown away to see Jim Kelly on that classic poster, standing behind Bruce with his signature Nunchucks pose. That very same pose we all did as kids, and teens in front of a mirror. That bad ass stance...Bruce owned it. But Jim..he lacked finesse, hell Bruce had more swagger and even Ali's footwork. But, I saw all of his films especially after Lee's death. Kinda hoped Jim would've become the next big action star..nope. Hollywood was creating a ton of bad mofo cinema for black audiences, Jim didn't represent like Jim Brown or Fred Williamson. Bad acting, and sloppy choreography. But in the end, Jim is enshrined on that classic poster, and that's good enough for me.
@simmiewilliams59706 жыл бұрын
Simmie Williams 🙌🙌
@buttercup59206 жыл бұрын
A very complete and accurate analysis. Jim Kelly did his thing, and did well for that time period. Now Ron Van Cleef, he was the real deal.
@gtw0302595 жыл бұрын
I never knew Asian Caucasian Bruce Lee to have swagger always thought that was a Black Man's thing for Life Soul-Power Justice.
@arealhebrew5 жыл бұрын
@@arealhebrew seriously? Bruce Lee was cooler than a mutha$%#?@! From the kung fu shoes to the war wounds on his face and body! Dude moved like a cobra c'mon man!😕
@vincentsmith48105 жыл бұрын
@@vincentsmith4810 @Vincent Smith I don't deny that Asian Caucasian or Eurasian Bruce Lee was a beautiful fighter to watch on the screen, I'm talking about as a person in terms of having Soul Cool Characteristics Naturally without practice, and no one out shines the Black men in the SOUL SWAG RHYTHM DEPARTMENT which is just most natural with Black men internationally around the world where all of those others tend to imitate a game imvented by them from the Beginning. Jim Kelly wins when it comes to that versus Bruce Lee.
@arealhebrew5 жыл бұрын
In retrospect, Jim's technique's were limited when it comes to kicking, he didn't have the flexibility of many of today's top kickers. his roundhouse kicks are knee low flip flop kicks.
@WellingtonNZdojo5 жыл бұрын
variety of technique is commendable but not required
@bigmember59085 жыл бұрын
Kicks above waist are for ShOw. Body loses balance with high kicks. The distance and time to kick above waist, plus lack of balance, not practical, instead, theatrical.
@miket10244 жыл бұрын
@@miket1024 well said sir!!
@jonathanarcher71274 жыл бұрын
@@miket1024 yeah sure . Thats why I seen quite a few knock outs with kicks to the head. Kicks to the throat would also be damaging
@jerrywoods40662 жыл бұрын
@@miket1024 lot of high kicks thrown in MMA
@johncarroll772 Жыл бұрын
Whack!!!
@sergemartinez58432 жыл бұрын
world champions are not whack.....especially when they are making their first ever foray into the movie industry and persevere to become stars in their own right.....
@AdamRangiaho2 жыл бұрын
bottom.line if this was Bruce Lee fight would have ended long ago
@angelojrichetti55657 жыл бұрын
bruce lee, jim Kelly and his OT classmates all trained with each other. Jim and Joe who were both world champs and had the same instructor often talked about shared lessons with both Bruce Lee and Doversola. Jim Lewis taught Bruce Lee how to do the cross step side thrust kick which he learnt from Doversola. Jim, Joe and Bruce all sparred with each other by no-one would say who was better than who...... BUT they would have known..their lips were sealed.
@AdamRangiaho7 жыл бұрын
Correction, joe Lewis taught BL his cross step side thrust.
@AdamRangiaho6 жыл бұрын
I loved Jim Kelly, but I have to say that he didn't have the charisma to make it on the big screen. It's a shame he had god awful chirography in his fight scenes. Where he REALLY shined was the last 15 years of his life when he went to conventions talking about Bruce Lee.
@blockmasterscott5 жыл бұрын
That was ugly fighting in those days
@brunojm72823 жыл бұрын
....and he lost to Mr Han.
@toshikosugi6 жыл бұрын
Awful
@5822huron5 жыл бұрын
It wasn’t the flashiest of movies, nor was this scene that well choreographed,..., however Jim will always be a legend in the ring and on film.... this was the start of his film career,....as bad as it is, I love it!
@AdamRangiaho5 жыл бұрын
@Alvin Jay huh? My family has been in martial arts all my entire life. There is African martial arts. Martial arts is not from where you think it is. It's definitely not from white people.
@5822huron3 жыл бұрын
@Alvin Jay kzhead.info/sun/nrd8oM2xeKuHkmg/bejne.html
@5822huron3 жыл бұрын
Never thought Jim Kelly was all that good. His Karate was mediocre his acting sucked.
@Dante-fk3ku6 жыл бұрын
mediocre enough to be world champion in his day.....
@AdamRangiaho6 жыл бұрын
Adam Rangiaho Still think his skill was not all that great. Champion or not.
@Dante-fk3ku6 жыл бұрын
@@AdamRangiaho Not looking to be disrespectful here, but world champion of what I have to ask? They do have a habit in the states of awarding themselves 'world' championships. Kelly's technique does look pretty poor.
@MrT675 жыл бұрын
@@MrT67 "Man You come right out of a comicbook!
@vincentsmith48105 жыл бұрын
@@vincentsmith4810 Hey dude relax. I'm just making a personal observation.
Listen people the man was a 4 time champion regardless if you think the fight scenes were bad the man is a legend and black hero.
Dark skinned brother was the old school actor from the 70s he played a tough guy and a lot of blacks exploitation and his name was Dan Lockhart. He played a semi bad guy in the movie call Uptown Saturday night with a younger Bill Cosby and a younger Sidney Poitier.
@@realtalk9169 Calvin Lockhart.
Karate champion & Martial arts 🎬 movies star
Two great legends Calvin Lockhart and Jim Kelly. May both Rest In Peace.
Jim Kelly is a legend
RIP Jim Kelly and RIP Calvin Lockhart
thats when you know you are getting old ,when all the stars when you were a kid start to pass. I was born in 1964 and all our hero and stars are falling by the way side. And I guess I wont be far behind ? It all went by so fast, this experience we go through called life.
Silky Slim vs Black Belt Jones = Priceless. love those guys.
Jim Kelly and Calvin Lockhart. RIP to two fine brothers!
😆 i was thinking the same shit
LAMO!!!
"Never have so few owed so much to so many."
Biggie Smalls vs Jackson
Rip Jim Kelly,Bruce lee, John Saxon and Calvin Lockhart
John saxon actually died from Covid-19
@@5822huron Me too
@@5822huron actually?
I always did love Jim Kelly, AKA. BLACK Belt Jones!!
he was cool alright :D
Jim Kelly is Awesome
Denny Nicholas you hit the nail on the head Jim Kelly is a legend indeed
I remember going to see this movie at the drive in as a child thought it was the hottest thing since sliced bread then tried to emulate on the playground lol this was Melinda memories memories man
I like when Jim kelly said oi oi each hit
Definitely one of my black hero’s a picture poster up on the wall.
he was a great martial artist and a sad loss
Legend indeed Jim Kelly
definitely a classic
It's the combat that he enjoys!
"Bullshit Mr Handman"!😂
The winning
never saw this before - thanks for uploading. saw this guy one time years ago at a martial arts gathering - martial art celebrities - he was a cool cat and a gentleman - couldn't do enough for his fans - rip Mr Kelly.
You're welcome.
gomergilligan Melinda (1972) my birth year
"You better come with somethin' heavy"? Who talks to their instructor like that lol
Exactly what I said. Hahahaha
Only the type of fools who are looking to get their asses whooped! Just like he did by the Legendary Jim Kelly! LMAO!
You may not be aware but that is Calvin Lockhart, the original Biggie Smalls, aka Silky Slim. He's a legend in 70's films. So to answer your question, Silky Slim talks to his instructor like that.
"... and packed with dynamite ..." sheesh
He had a strange way of kicking,thanks for vid..
He had an unorthodox fighting style... which was why Bruce Lee was interested in him...
Jim Kelly Calvin Lockout💙😇
It's a shame JK never got much recognition other than being the "black guy" in Enter The Dragon. To be in Bruce's films he had to be qualified. (John Sasxon being an exception...there for his acting credentials). I like the flavour of 70's martial arts films Bruce made and others. Especially when they included actual name martial artists like Jim Kelly, Joe Lewis (though his I think were all done in the early 80's), Chuck Norris, "Billy Jack"...Not the JCVD "flappy flashy show kicks" he did in his films.
jim kelly and joe lewis were the best the world had to offer back in their day.....they were both world title holders with joe lewis being the first full contact champion fighter and first professional fighting champ...great achievements
Anderson C it truly is a shame but with JIM Kelly and JOE Lewis it was the quick rise in fame the fell prey to all that goes with being famous studios wanted him just to much of the sex, drugs, rock and roll lifestyle. He was an amazing athlete.
Anderson C That's part of being black into the 1970's. To some extent with Michael Jai White the same thing is happening to him in 2018.
John Saxon was credited with being a brown belt at the time of ‘Enter the Dragon’ I believe but I maybe wrong.
The same people that produce Enter the Dragon are the same that produced Black belt Jones & Hot Potato for Jim Kelly & Truck Turner for Isaac Hayes. You'd be amazed at how many movies are under the Blaxploitation era.
Jim kelly is too good
Kelly's first film. Melinda.
A classic example of blackspoitation movies :) a unique genre beautifully parodied in Black Dynamite :) one of my all time fav movies.
Student talking back to the master haha
I was born in 1968 in Okinawa. Kadeena Air Force Base. I was just a little late to know about Jim Kelly, I did study under some great Teachers because I had to learn to fight the way those I went to school with in Japan faught. Martial Arts is very different there, more dissaplplined, more techniques that take opponents out quickly. Then the weapon training begins. Basic farmers tools are very effective weapons. A lond stick, a sickle, an ax, a long chain. 2 simple sticks...
Fantastic
Jim Kelly and Calvin Lockhart
Classic. Adam you rock! It was more fun to train than that - He's only showing the basics in the fight sequence. We didn't always have such a hardcore class.
Cheers Charles :) great to hear from you :) hope all is well and you're fit and healthy, training hard. :) I'd have loved to train with Jim Kelly et al :) the classic American karate period heheheh....nice one :) good to hear from you buddy :)
Jimmy is a world champion too.
What? I think, he was maybe yellow belt, not more...i m wanted if he learn really a martial art, no flexible, very dirty style, lol.
@@nopoliticanti-beaufsmythos3037, Get real and grow up, he studied and competed in the 1960s in the USA not in Asia.
@@OakleyANDSittingBull He was really not clever, sorry...
the man is real with lack of good fight collagraphs.
This is how I'd love to train.
Very good actor of Martials arts !!!
sounds like u sayin he wasn't a real martial artist. if u are u wrong. pull up his tournament fights u wouldn't believe his speed. n real competition he's da fastest martial artist i ever seen.
The fight scene the guy just stands there hahahahahah
Jim Kelly was a great fighter in just as good as any one else that why he got notice especially for a black man in he was a decent actor that's simply why he got pick in his movie unfortunately he didn't get the high respect like he should because Hollywood gave him a hard time because he was black I love the dude he will always be one of my favorite r I p jk
It's called "Melinda". Jim Kelly taught the star martial arts 4 his role.
Does it matter if his technique it's not what you thought it would be as long as his effective That's The Way of the World when it comes to fighting do whatever you got to do to make it work
Front backhand 🤚 ❤️
Lol awesome
🙌🙌
Always loved Jim Kelly (RIP), but the brotha always had terrible fight choreography in his movies, even ETD. None the less, love the blacksploitation genre.
james carr The tattoo connection had the best choreography out of all of his movies in my opinion
No way his scenes in ETD are great. The show his speed and his coordination really well. Look at his final seen vs Han and his goons. Great stuff
Bruce Lee allowed Jim Kelly to choreograph his own fight scene in the courtyard of ETD. Tbh his choreography was not in Bruce's class.
UFC material definitely
Ufc acabou com essas gracinhas
that guy he sparred with, is king Willie from predator 2, I think. Calvin?
Calvin Lockhart !
Fred Williamson guyz
@Dong Longslapum oh... yea.. you're right... I should have known... I even met him once... 😎
What kick like like? He kicks uunal.
Toda esta porquería de Hollywood es lo que desvirtuó el verdadero Karate.
Does anyone know the name of Jim Kelly's book ?
I could only find this.... My Life, My Story, My Father - Martial Artist Jim Kelly, is a personal reflection of the 1970’s movie icon and martial artist. His daughter Sabrena dips deep into her spirit and shares her personal feelings as she revisits her feelings of rejection, isolation, and tough times she experienced during her youth due to an absentee parent.
WATCH JIM KELLY'S SIDE KICK BETTER OR FILMED BETTER IN ENTER THE DRAGON IT'S OKINAWA TE TRADE MARK JUST LIKE JOE LEWIS AND MANY MORE
There's a good shot of him kicking a guy 2 feet off the ground with a side thrust kick at the '72 long each world champs. A good fast kick with plenty of power
@@AdamRangiaho This man did really a martial art? Lol 😂
@@nopoliticanti-beaufsmythos3037, Why are you so disrespectful?
Black Dynamite himself. 🏴☠️
👀 olhai viu muito sério isso mesmo
Rockne tarninkton was original Williams
falling leaf kata, sword n hammer, bear ECT.....
Old school uncle frank
Ed Parker´s Kenpo Karate.
There's a close connection between OT and Ed Parker's kempo and that is they both come off the same parent style and/or instructors. Both styles originate from James Mitose's Hawaiian Island martial arts club where he taught in the 1945-50's. Then moved to LA, then jail. OT founder moved in the mid 50's and started teaching karate with Ed Parker, then left and made his own style based on his own version of Mitose's and other Hawaiian teachers of that era. Kempo and OT are not that similar to eachother. Forms quite different tho some have similar names, ie sword and hammer.
That's some really racist shit to call a legend "black belt jones" Jim kelly was actually a champion martial artist I think some of his best moves were in the tattoo connection
Whack fight scene🥵🥵🥵
Jim Kelly...well black folks embraced Kelly because of Enter of the Dragon. But most of us back in the day, knew that Jim was...well posing. I was blown away to see Jim Kelly on that classic poster, standing behind Bruce with his signature Nunchucks pose. That very same pose we all did as kids, and teens in front of a mirror. That bad ass stance...Bruce owned it. But Jim..he lacked finesse, hell Bruce had more swagger and even Ali's footwork. But, I saw all of his films especially after Lee's death. Kinda hoped Jim would've become the next big action star..nope. Hollywood was creating a ton of bad mofo cinema for black audiences, Jim didn't represent like Jim Brown or Fred Williamson. Bad acting, and sloppy choreography. But in the end, Jim is enshrined on that classic poster, and that's good enough for me.
Simmie Williams 🙌🙌
A very complete and accurate analysis. Jim Kelly did his thing, and did well for that time period. Now Ron Van Cleef, he was the real deal.
I never knew Asian Caucasian Bruce Lee to have swagger always thought that was a Black Man's thing for Life Soul-Power Justice.
@@arealhebrew seriously? Bruce Lee was cooler than a mutha$%#?@! From the kung fu shoes to the war wounds on his face and body! Dude moved like a cobra c'mon man!😕
@@vincentsmith4810 @Vincent Smith I don't deny that Asian Caucasian or Eurasian Bruce Lee was a beautiful fighter to watch on the screen, I'm talking about as a person in terms of having Soul Cool Characteristics Naturally without practice, and no one out shines the Black men in the SOUL SWAG RHYTHM DEPARTMENT which is just most natural with Black men internationally around the world where all of those others tend to imitate a game imvented by them from the Beginning. Jim Kelly wins when it comes to that versus Bruce Lee.
In retrospect, Jim's technique's were limited when it comes to kicking, he didn't have the flexibility of many of today's top kickers. his roundhouse kicks are knee low flip flop kicks.
variety of technique is commendable but not required
Kicks above waist are for ShOw. Body loses balance with high kicks. The distance and time to kick above waist, plus lack of balance, not practical, instead, theatrical.
@@miket1024 well said sir!!
@@miket1024 yeah sure . Thats why I seen quite a few knock outs with kicks to the head. Kicks to the throat would also be damaging
@@miket1024 lot of high kicks thrown in MMA
Whack!!!
world champions are not whack.....especially when they are making their first ever foray into the movie industry and persevere to become stars in their own right.....
bottom.line if this was Bruce Lee fight would have ended long ago
bruce lee, jim Kelly and his OT classmates all trained with each other. Jim and Joe who were both world champs and had the same instructor often talked about shared lessons with both Bruce Lee and Doversola. Jim Lewis taught Bruce Lee how to do the cross step side thrust kick which he learnt from Doversola. Jim, Joe and Bruce all sparred with each other by no-one would say who was better than who...... BUT they would have known..their lips were sealed.
Correction, joe Lewis taught BL his cross step side thrust.
I loved Jim Kelly, but I have to say that he didn't have the charisma to make it on the big screen. It's a shame he had god awful chirography in his fight scenes. Where he REALLY shined was the last 15 years of his life when he went to conventions talking about Bruce Lee.
That was ugly fighting in those days
....and he lost to Mr Han.
Awful
It wasn’t the flashiest of movies, nor was this scene that well choreographed,..., however Jim will always be a legend in the ring and on film.... this was the start of his film career,....as bad as it is, I love it!
@Alvin Jay huh? My family has been in martial arts all my entire life. There is African martial arts. Martial arts is not from where you think it is. It's definitely not from white people.
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Never thought Jim Kelly was all that good. His Karate was mediocre his acting sucked.
mediocre enough to be world champion in his day.....
Adam Rangiaho Still think his skill was not all that great. Champion or not.
@@AdamRangiaho Not looking to be disrespectful here, but world champion of what I have to ask? They do have a habit in the states of awarding themselves 'world' championships. Kelly's technique does look pretty poor.
@@MrT67 "Man You come right out of a comicbook!
@@vincentsmith4810 Hey dude relax. I'm just making a personal observation.