10 reasons why Master Jackie Chan is Awesome!

VIDEO: Jackie Chan’s best fight ever!

Would you like to know the alternate exercise my martial-arts students practice?

In the past, I have forced my students to practice balancing on bowling balls. (Yes, you read that correctly.)  One criteria for progressing to the next level in my system was to be able to punch
100 times while balancing on a bowling ball.  Every student managed to learn the task — with some coaching from me.

With both balancing on one foot for such an extending time and learning to punch so long on a bowling ball, you are ‘over-training.’  You become so comfortable balancing for long periods of time,
that the short amount of actual balance required for kicks seems like nothing at all.  Now, imagine applying this idea to your other martial arts training.

Useful Over training

Don’t train so hard that you injure yourself.

In the list of Jackie Chan stunts, the incredible movie star has come close to death more times than you can count. Still, he keeps going, making some of the best martial arts movies in the history of cinema. Here are seven Jackie Chan Films in which he nearly died, or at least suffered serious injuries.

One of his first movies, a real breakthrough movie, was Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow. During this movie he didn’t quite avoid a sword which should have been blunted. The result was a spray of real blood, and the screams you hear are of his actual pain.

In Police Story he was nearly paralyzed by a tremendous fall. He slid down a pole in one scene, exploding lights and ripping electrical wires and falling through a glass cover. In this scene he broke the seventh and eighth vertebra in his spine, and dislocated his pelvis.

During the filming of Crime Story Jackie had a scene in which he was caught between two cars which were crashing together. Either his timing, or the drivers’ timing was not quite what it should have been. The sequence resulted in one Jackie Chan stunt, and a star with two crushed legs.

He has injured his knees more times than he can count, and doubts that he has much cartilage left in them. One of the worst knee injuries he ever suffered was during, of all things, a skateboard scene. The film was City Hunter.

Jackie and JCCF donated RMB$1 million (USD$160,000) for the aid relief kits, and Jackie previously donated SGD$100,000 (USD$74,400) when the earthquake hit Nepal in April.
Nepal was struck by a disastrous magnitude 7.8 earthquake on April 25, 2015. More than 8,000 people have been killed and over 23,000 injured.