i don’t know if anyone was there but david carradine was at, the big apple comic book convention(where i work) over this bitter cold weekend. It was pretty cool he answered questions about kill bill and about the old kung fu series. he’s a cool guy he let everyone take pix and he gave autographs for free.
The guy even sang two songs to my surprise(and to everyone else for that matter)he could sing and play the guitar(considering it was out of toon) but the guy droped f bombs like nobodies buisness, he also talked about his martial arts traing on the second day and about his traing for kill bill even, about the fight betwenn him and micheal jai white and uma thruman. i had the “honor” of getting his lunch (a burger and fries)anyway he’s coming back to the convention on april 3rd and 4th. you guys can tell me some of the questions you would like to ask him and i could relay them back to my boss.
Why did you write those books, have ghost written for you, on Tai Chi especially when a) you said you did it for the money and it was a job and b) you don’t know anything about Tai Chi?
Why is it his video on Tai Chi is egregious to the highest order?
Why is it he has bugger all martial art skills yet still when with an avid audience carries on bullsh1tting about how he knows loads of stuff, and not “puzzy sh1t”?
Ask him why he makes Bruce Frantzis seem like a humble Taoist monk on the ego front?
Ask him did he have to train hard to become a sheister, or has he a natural flair for it?
The martial arts illustrated issue of Kill Bill, inadvertedly, painted a picture very accurately of him being an egotistical, money grabbing, don’t know-all, which I think sums him up
i’ll be sure to ask him some if not all of those questions!(i might get fired thou he’s ass buddies with my boss) whats he gonna do he can’t beat my ass!!!
i asked him that personally! and he said the part was never mean’t for bruce cause he did the green hornet and it made him look like a joke! so that how he was treated plus he was asian and the then racist (and even now) hollywood didn’t wanna see an asian on t.v.( sh!t they barely had blacks on t.v.) so the part went david.
I don’t the man and have never net the man, but from interviews and having seen a video of his before I just can’t see how he can verbally, as he does, back up his claims as he is at most a near out of work actor and not a serious or at least skilled and knowledgable martial artist. Well not at least in Taiji anyway. I used to love watching Kung-fu and it did give a particularly good message in it too, sometimes some very good Taoist messages, but that was it, it was just a TV program nothing more. Sometimes I still feel that he never really left the series in his own mind!!!
I’d like to meet Carradine some day. I read his book, “Spirit of Shaolin. A Kung Fu Philosophy.” It was one of the best martial arts books I have ever read. The guy is brilliant. He has been honest about his struggles, and that he was a pretty much of a dancer when he started the series. I respect that kind of honesty. He has been studying the martial arts in a serious way for years, and is a legitimate martial artist. He also seems to have learned to keep some of his demons in abeyance, and tried to improve himself as a human being.
When I think of the people who have been springboards for the popularity of the martial arts, I think of him, Bruce Lee and Count Dante.
Ask him what he might have done differently if he could go back to 1972 and begin again.
I loved the old Kung Fu series. I was quite young when it was out. It was probably one of my most earliest martial art influences and sparked my interest from karate to CMA, particularly Shaolin.
David Carradine has had constant struggles from what I understand. He is honest and open about them. I watched a special on him one night on “E” television. They did a biography on him. He has had some problems and at one point he was too caught up in the character he played in the Kung Fu series.
I did read some articles that he was studying martial arts now even though he never really had a martial arts background.
Originally posted by Dim Wit Mak When I think of the people who have been springboards for the popularity of the martial arts, I think of him, Bruce Lee and Count Dante.
Count Dante? Sheeesh. :rolleyes:
MasterKiller: I can certainly understand your “Sheeesh”. John Keehan certainly had some problems, and will always be infamous for the Chicago Dojo Wars where he got one of his best friends killed. But the fact of the matter is, the guy could really fight. Thousands of kids joined the Black Dragon Fighting Society and learned stuff like “Monkey steals a peach.” He was a pioneer in mixing martial arts, and is a legend to some. Anytime a person has to deal with a talented, aggressive person who perhaps has a few loose screws, they have a major problem on their hands. He has had a major impact on the martial arts.
meh carradines a ****ing poser. he had only heard the term kung fu twice when he started on that kung fu series. ask him how he feels about being a twat faced chump.
