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isshinryu5toforever
Black Belt
Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 2358
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Styles: Isshin-Ryu Karate, Jidokwon Taekwondo, Kyokushinkan
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My sensei, of course.
Jet Li: I met him, and he seems like a wonderful person. He was very friendly and willing to take time to talk. Pretty down to earth.
Park Dong Geun: He was the all-Korea champion in Taekwondo for like 7 years in the 1960s, became the first coach of the US Olympic Taekwondo Team in 1988, and is probably the sole reason why I found an interest in Taekwondo while I was at university. He's a very intelligent, thoughtful man who would do anything for his students, but would tear you in half if you attacked him. I spent a lot of time hearing stories about him from my coach, and of course, met him a few times.
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Tao Te Ching
"Move as swift as a wind, stay as silent as forest, attack as fierce as fire, undefeatable defense like a mountain."
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Athena
Orange Belt
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
Posts: 141
Styles: Tai chi, and my own strange mix
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Bruce lee - for the obvious reason that he is awesome
and Pat Morita - though I don't think he really knew/knows karate XD still, mr. Miyagi is awesome and was one of my early inspirations to try out martial arts.
no offence to jet Li and jackie chan, who are also awesome, but these two are the ones that I think of first 
....oh... *went back to read previous posts* ...i already posted..dang it's been so long i don't even remember where it was that I posted in XD
so if anyone has the power to delete posts, you may do so to this one. thank you 
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Strike first. 'Til then i will not fight you.
Everytime someone calls JKD a style, Bruce turns over.
Why do I love Bruce Lee? Not because he was an awesome martial artist- but because his train of thought overlapped with mine even before I knew about him.
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Kuma
Black Belt
Joined: 03 Dec 2008
Posts: 1092
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In no particular order:
(1) Mas Oyama
(2) Morio Higaonna
(3) Masahiko Kimura
(4) Bas Rutten
(5) Jon Bluming
(6) Andy Hug
(7) Joko Ninomiya
( Hajime Kazumi |
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KarateGeorge
Brown Belt
Joined: 21 Oct 2009
Posts: 646
Styles: Shuri-te Karate, Wing Chun
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1) Bruce Lee
2) Chuck Norris
3) Tony Jaa |
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ElShaft
Yellow Belt
Joined: 23 Oct 2009
Posts: 40
Location: Glasgow
Styles: Shoto-Budo
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Bruce Li was an inspiration when i was younger however recently ive been reading the teaching of Egami and other Japanese masters attempting to get a better grasp on the philosophy of karate
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wanderingbudoka
White Belt
Joined: 01 Feb 2009
Posts: 8
Location: Kodiak, AK by way of Ontario, CA
Styles: Shotokan, JKD and hopefully Aikdio soon
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Gichin Funakoshi
Bruce Lee
Gozo Shioda
Jigoro Kano
Aldo Nadi
Wally Jay
Mas Oyama
William Fairbairn
Col. Rex Applegate
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bushido_man96
KF Sensei
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Posts: 30188
Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo, Combat Hapkido, Aikido, GRACIE, Police Krav Maga, SPEAR
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KarateOx
White Belt
Joined: 24 Jun 2009
Posts: 22
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Miyamoto Musashi and Choki Motobu. Two misunderstood warriors who thoroughly followed the Bushi way of life.
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ninjachamp8
White Belt
Joined: 28 Dec 2009
Posts: 10
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I would say Bruce Lee is my hero of Martial Arts. I was only in my teens when I saw the movie "Enter the Dragon" and I was totally in awe of what I saw.
Bruce Lee always considered himself a martial artist first and an actor second. As a martial artist, he was way ahead of his time in developing his own style of martial arts he called jeet kune do. His martial arts incorporated the most practical techniques from various combative disciplines as he moved away from the traditional and classical techniques.
Of course Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme came in later but Bruce Lee was by far a class of his own. 
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quinteros1963
Green Belt
Joined: 22 Jan 2009
Posts: 394
Location: Spring, Texas
Styles: Okinawan Martial Arts (Goju Ryu & Shotokan)
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Yip man
Seiko Higa - The forgotten Master of Goju Ryu!
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