Steve Ho Teaches Conan To Fight Like Bruce Lee | CONAN on TBS

[Applause] ladies and gentlemen uh we have a very special treat for you this evening our good friend stephen ho has been here many times and he always instructs me in the art of combat and i flourish in those arts tonight knock it off tonight he's back to teach me some iconic moves from the father of modern martial arts the great bruce lee stephen ho thank you for being here that's amazing now stephen uh you and i have worked together a lot over the years i understand bruce lee was your main inspiration for getting into what it is you do yeah i think bruce lee was the most iconic martial arts in history okay he was a huge influence for me and the entire martial arts community all right we actually just to familiarize anyone who hasn't seen it recently we have a clip here uh from a classic bruce lee film game of death to familiarize ourselves with the master let's take a look [Music] okay i got it yeah all i had to do was see that and i think i memorized it all i am ready to go do you think i can pull this off yeah let's experience the essence of bruce okay first i'm going to warm up and really get into the bruce lee mode right here now as you saw in the as you saw in the clip yes yes bruce was very fluid fluid and he believed in in life and in fighting to be like water to clean water you must be like water many people have told me i'm a lot like water well you're not as uh coordinated or graceful probably as bruce was but you you have long i'm sorry what a dicky thing to say right here up top when i look like this you will pay for your words what's the first thing i have to know let's get warmed up yeah okay what do i have to learn start on a fighting session let's just open up our hips open up our hips kind of like that okay i'm pretty good at that if you know what i mean so now that he's now that you kind of have that let's extend her i look like a banana having a seizure that's what i what how is this doing okay what do i do let's extend our this is called a crescent kick so same thing but you extend your leg and you go out and around in a circle it looks like a dance kick but if you put some some torque on whoa that was incredible it becomes very dense did you i felt and i felt myself go back in time i met lincoln for a second that wasn't you want to try it yeah what do i have to do to go that show me one more time how do you do it you go go from here up and around up and around so you you bring the knee up and then around now right okay okay so now the only thing oh wow you got you gotta you gotta make sure you're hitting me four you gotta keep going what are you hitting me for you gotta keep your guard up you didn't say anything about keeping my guard up we did at the last show we talked about that okay okay so let's do the same thing guys so but keep your guard up there okay my guard's up and up good look at that good perfect perfect perfect okay that's good how come we have [Applause] i am like water okay so keep that in mind okay and now let's work on footwork okay footwork okay so so bruce in the 60s was one of the few martial artists that actually was inspired by western boxing okay so in the 60s most martial artists had really traditional stances yeah and bruce believed in doing that but also staying light like a cat like a cat so he was very much like a cat like a cat or like a bull in a very strong stance so you i would move between being a cat right and being a bull so that's our drill we're gonna do so why are they here seriously i thought they were from the audience for a second i've noticed in the past when we've done drills like this you would often hide behind your desk yeah so these gentlemen will say that it's also a great bruce lee technique [Applause] uh when he's been doing office work yeah uh so wait they're here if i try to run away they're going to do what they're going to hit you okay yeah all right so you stay here with me okay we didn't discuss any of this at rehearsal all right and what do you want i'll use my hall counts this is not a standard fighting scenario bruce lee i've seen all the movies he never encountered a guy with large green hulk hands okay so when i when i say cat right do your bruce lee cats they let him there you go more coordination more coordination more coordination what's wrong with one another now boom boom boom get in the bowl stance fighting stance guys coming tighter tighter tighter let's bring it in okay okay here we go this here we go and tat tap tap tap tap tap tap tap ball ball strike the ball freeze cat cat dab down wait a minute wait a minute hey what kind of crappy exercise was that i learned nothing there you should have learned to be more like water you got to go with the flow yeah with what's around you where are they going they're going to renew their gym membership they'll be back i'm like water and then i lose my breath easily okay here we go okay what's the most iconic bruce lee move uh one inch punch for sure one inch one each punch so one inch punch brews did this in 1964 at the long beach uh international quality tournament and it's a technique not a fighting technique but a technique to show that you can generate power with speed and technique if you're only one inch away correct as opposed to having big mass or having to wind up right so i'm going to do this on you but i have to warn you that it can cause internal damage it could cause your heart to explode let's crack a sternum so i have this then why do it at all well i have this pad for you this is going to protect me it'll i'm not going to go full power okay okay this is like a foam ritz cracker all right this is just to give you an idea so very slowly from here one inch punch and then i torque in like that okay so not a big you didn't really do it really do it well let me take this off okay let me show you this wait no no no oh ow okay okay i didn't do it i didn't yeah but you went low why'd you do that because i want to avoid your heart you mean you could stop my heart from beating i don't know we could try okay we're okay let me try it on you for a second okay okay pretty like that it seems to have no effect on you you have to remember you need to oh you need to torque make sure you torque make sure you turn okay it's going again all right that's incredible that's incredibly powerful yeah you can get a lot of you can get a lot of power off that you can get a lot of power out of one inch i know that okay don't do that don't let's not do that now now that was low i shouldn't have done that i apologize you know they encouraged me that's the problem it didn't work on me but maybe we'll try it on the board okay what's on the board what is this oh okay okay so we're going to do the same thing i actually when i was in south korea they taught me this so i did work on this a little bit with the board so one inch just make sure if you hit it incorrectly you're going to break a finger so be aware of that okay okay from here remember our breathing that we've done we did a few years ago yeah inhale exhale and then on the exhale power through [Applause] we're killing the bruce lee brown right now all right what's happening here so before bruce lee this looks like a [Applause] i'm gonna leave it alone okay this one you can write the joke for this at home okay before bruce film fighting was mostly john wayne punches yes big round right yeah and now bruce introduced the kicks yes so this is a roundhouse kick because you know kicks are obviously a little bit more difficult since we're not using our you know our hands we use more often yes so i'll show you the power of a kick and then we'll we'll practice with you okay okay are you ready how'd you do that you take this foot back this foot goes back right what happens well let's try it okay what do i do bruce bruce also believed that boards don't hit back he didn't okay i've been training with wood so right would you like to try a kick on a person yes i would love to do it okay so let's come over here oh it's not you why isn't it you it'll be my cousin okay all right let's get in here kale this is kale yeah the guy over there that looking pretty good to you huh sir yeah okay so this is called a power side kick it's bruce's favorite kick power sidekick our side kick so this is how it starts just a quick refresher we've done this before okay left leg steps behind you or you can skip up if you're more comfortable yeah pick up your right knee and then it kicks out and then you go out like that and you want to get them away you got to lift your knee lift your knee knee okay it's tearing there's a carrying in the groin let's come closer to the whole groin area just turn the kill okay right here so slide walk through uh and then bang that's a little low right you want me to go up higher i could also go lower okay all right so up high and then right there you go and push through okay all right so be like water flowing keep energy okay you ready okay here we go ready yeah let's start with your right foot right here okay okay there you go focus look there look there why are you looking down all right okay yeah i got constructed because i was thinking about a movie uh okay transformers it was bad there we go three two one go [Music] i don't know okay okay so i completely miss him i completely miss him let's try that again okay okay [Applause] okay so better more twerk more torque so meaning when you're using your leg right now you're just using your leg right yeah right you use your upper body and torque into it okay right okay right i almost thought of the same thing oh lovers okay here we go okay and three two one go okay [Applause] that was bruce lee also channeling a chicken uh i could tell he helped me out a bit there that's okay a little bit a little bit okay yeah so now we're gonna recreate a scene from return of the dragon where bruce lee kicked a bad guy into um a box wall oh i remember that one bruce lee versus the wall of boxes exactly yeah so now you have four five people to kick against okay so we're just gonna go in in succession we'll go sidekick bounce back sidekick bounce back and all the way through okay all the way through so this is imagine i'm in a i'm in an alleyway made of cardboard and five guys with foam and then a six guy who looks like he's a hitter for the boston red sox show up out of nowhere to attack me okay it's perfect that's my motivation you give me a q1 let's start right here okay and action [Applause] stephen hall ladies and gentlemen

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Length: 12min 46sec (766 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 18 2021