Bruce Lee Playing Ping Pong with Numchucks.....?

[JasonC]

There seems to be debate over whether or not this is real. Some things do not add up, but it looks real.... Idk.. still a cool vid to watch nonetheless.

 

[dannno]

Fake.. Very well made tho.. incidentally made by a Korean company, probably subsidised by the U.S.

 

[JasonC]

Yeah, it looks very real considering it is over ten years old (I think). I am a big Bruce Lee fan, and I wouldn't doubt him being capable of doing that.

 

[Romulus]

Looks fake and doesn't look like Bruce Lee.... but he was and still is the Man.

If Chuck Norris endorses someone else, we need to make a Bruce Lee movie endorsing RP.

 

[Nate-ForLiberty]

numchuck?

 

[brushfire]

Pedro offers his protection

 

[heavenlyboy34]

This is an edited version of the original video. There's also at least one more video of him doing this on youtube. It is in fact real. Pretty awesome, too.

 

[BlackTerrel]

Looks pretty real to me. Bad ass regardless.

 

[Ray]

It's a commercial, and it was made after he died.

 

[JasonC]

I spent maybe ten-fifteen minutes tryign to find out if it is real. I can't seem to find anything definitive. I've seen comments on websites of people saying they remember seeing that video in 1976 (forget the exact year quoted) and it is definitely real but edited some. Then, I see others who say Bruce Lee is digitally imposed into the video, the ping Pong ball is digitally imposed, etc. Idk... I don't know how anyone can say that video looks fake, though ***Points at Romulus**, because it looks quite real to me.

 

[Nate-ForLiberty]

I can't believe some of you think it's real? The ping pong ball defies the laws of physics (it's digital). Watch it closely. Not to mention that the handle on a nunchuku is round. Playing ping pong at the level displayed in the video is difficult enough with a FLAT paddle. It would be near impossible to do it with a round object, and beyond super human to do it with a nunchuku.

Seriously people, it's the internetz.

This video is an example of wonderful live action/cgi integration. I bet you can find Lee's weapons demonstration somewhere with out the ping pong going on.

 

[JasonC]

The commercial is for a Bruce Lee edition of a Nokia camera or phone (I forget). That does not mean they didn't use an original video of Bruce Lee doing this to promote the product. Bruce Lee was the type of guy who seemingly did anything to showcase his style and make some money. I find it likely he did this for some sort of promotion back in the 70s. The phone/camera (whatever the product is, again, I apologize) is even named after Bruce Lee and the family is supposedly getting royalties. Just some stuff I've found out....

 

[JasonC]

I can't believe some of you think it's real? The ping pong ball defies the laws of physics (it's digital). Watch it closely. Not to mention that the handle on a nunchuku is round. Playing ping pong at the level displayed in the video is difficult enough with a FLAT paddle. It would be near impossible to do it with a round object, and beyond super human to do it with a nunchuku.

Seriously people, it's the internetz.

This video is an example of wonderful live action/cgi integration. I bet you can find Lee's weapons demonstration somewhere with out the ping pong going on.

I lean towards it being fake, but I don't totally dismiss it as being impossible to be real, mainly because I am certain Lee was capable of doing what is done in the vid.

 

[TheViper]

It's fake. The marketing team had a well known Bruce Lee stand impersonator stand in for Lee. They played audio of a real ping pong match for the audio cues for the 2 actors and then edited in the ping pong ball in post processing.

 

[JasonC]

It's fake. The marketing team had a well known Bruce Lee stand impersonator stand in for Lee. They played audio of a real ping pong match for the audio cues for the 2 actors and then edited in the ping pong ball in post processing.

That seems most likely. Thanks. It would help if Nokia let people know what they did, because I don't believe they have. Good marketing idea I guess...

 

[BlackTerrel]

That seems most likely. Thanks. It would help if Nokia let people know what they did, because I don't believe they have. Good marketing idea I guess...

Good marketing to have us here discussing it rather than ten years later.

Sounds like they knew what they were doing

 

[Zippyjuan]

They have still been pretty quiet about how exactly it was done but did have this to say about the Nokia ad campaign for their Asian market:
http://www.zerzle.com/zarticle.php?mbid=239&find=bruce lee

“Yes, we discussed with the director how to make it look like a never-seen-before secret footage of Bruce Lee. The director took a great effort to study Bruce Lee and found the right talent. We used an up and coming local Chinese director whose passion could be seen in every second of the film.”

http://www.postchronicle.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=108&num=189869

On first look, you are really going to think that Bruce Lee is is playing Ping Pong by using his nunchuks. After all it's very believable because it is the unbelievable Bruce Lee doing something never seen before. The actual footage is for the new Nokia N96 phone that digitally places Bruce Lee into a Ping Pong match. This makes for some pretty cool looking but impossible moves.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

I stand corrected. I saw it many moons ago, and thought it was real. I'm not familiar enough with Lee's work to know better. /facepalm

 

[JasonC]

Bruce Lee the Philosopher

Most people do not know about the great philosophical insight Lee provided and his interest in philosophy. Here are some quotes:

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." (Us Paultards probably know the truth in this one )

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it."

"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."

 

[Mitt Romneys sideburns]

Oh god. How can anyone think this is real? You people disappoint me.

And Bruce Lee really wasn't that good. He had piss-poor technique and underdeveloped legs.