Ho Lee Crap!

This is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen:

What's really amazing is not just that he is beating two guys in ping pong using nunchucks, but that the people he is beating are actually pretty good themselves.  When I was in college, I routinely played ping pong against most of the basketball team.  They were all pretty good.  By the end of my time there, I was pretty darn good myself, and was able to beat about half of them.

I also know my way around nunchucks.  When I was in high school, I was really into martial arts.  I got good enough to win a silver medal in the Illinois state championships in free-style sparring.  Of course that was all empty-hand, but over the years I've put a lot of hours into swordsmanship, nunchucks, and other martial weaponry.  I may be way out of practice today, but I still know what I'm looking at.

So while I am far from an expert, I know enough to know that I couldn't beat either of those two opponents with a paddle, let alone take them both on, let alone with nunchucks, let alone with behind the back action and spinning jumps.

Bruce Lee died 35 years ago last summer.  I was too young to know who he was then.  But I can certainly say there has been no one like him since.  He could have been the best in the world at virtually any physical sport or art.  And, he was a great showman, able to make the extraordinary look easy with a laugh and a smile.

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[petdefense]

Is that really Brue Lee in that film?

[editor: YES!]