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I don’t know, but I thought this was pretty bad ass.From Billy Jack - Wikiquote:[Billy Jack is surrounded by several men that work for Posner]Mr. Posner: You really think those Green Beret Karate tricks are gonna help you against all these boys?Billy Jack: Well, it doesn't look to me like I really have any choice now, does it?Mr. Posner: [laughing] That's right, you don't.Billy Jack: You know what I think I'm gonna do then? Just for the hell of it?Mr. Posner: Tell me.Billy Jack: I'm gonna take this right foot, and I'm gonna whop you on that side of your face...[points to Posner's right cheek]Billy Jack: ...and you wanna know something? There's not a damn thing you're gonna be able to do about it.Mr. Posner: Really?Billy Jack: Really.[kicks Posner on the right side of his head, knocking him off his feet]Billy Jack puts up a good fight and then proceeds to get his ass stomped. But we know, in the same circumstances he would do it again, only harder.

Less than memorable. But maybe because of where I saw it.The one that got my eyeballs rolling was a Golden Oldie entitled Billy Jack. The epic is talky, choppy, and contains a paltry number of action scenes. I won’t call the film “amateurish”, but using that adjective would elicit no argument from me.I saw the feature while serving aboard a destroyer in the Pacific. But maybe it’s not as bad as I remember, since we were watching it on the mess deck, the seas were rough, and somebody had to hang onto a leg of the projection stand to keep the projector upright.So maybe it was the tossing deck that made me queasy. At the time, however, it seemed as though it was the film.

I was taking goju ryu, an Okinawan style of karate. This was in the late 1960’s and karate wasn’t well known in America. There hadn’t been any Bruce Lee movies yet and most karate seen in movies was of the fake stuff like Elvis would use, a knee to the belly and a chop to the neck. Billy Jack hadn’t come out yet, though it did while I was still taking goju ryu. (It had one of the best martial arts fight scenes ever. I recall our instructor saying it was a good example of the most likely outcome of a highly skilled martial artist taking on a dozen men; he’d hurt a few and then the rest would beat the hell out of him.)The karate school didn’t take kids under 16, unlike the schools today that will take any student old enough to walk and whose parents can pay. And our instructor didn’t allow non-students inside once class began. He would lock the door and the windows were covered.My sensei had earned his second degree black belt while stationed in Japan and was working on his next degree at another dojo. When the aforementioned Billy Jack movie came out, he showed he was able to do the inside-crescent kick that the title character does to open the park fight; “I’m going to take this foot… and whop you on that side of your face”. (Youtube it if you haven’t seen it).My father had been a boxer; a Golden Gloves regional champion, fought on a military boxing team and did some fighting after leaving the military. But I was more impressed by my sensei and bragged about him to my dad after classes.One night after class, when the door was unlocked and most students had left, my father came inside to pick me up. My sensei was working with a brown belt student on some techniques he needed to learn for his next rank and I was thinking, “seeing this will impress him!”.On the way home he said, “So that’s the guy you think is unbeatable? I could whip his ass.”After the next class I told my sensei what he said, thinking he would laugh at it like I did. But instead he asked what did I think made my dad so confident. I told him about his boxing background of about 10 years. Then came the eye-opener.“He would beat me,” he said.“What! How could he beat you with your training and skills?”“He was a boxer for 10 years. He’s used to bouts where he might take 100 punches to the face and body and still keep fighting. I couldn’t hurt him enough to keep him off me. And I couldn’t take 10 punches to the head and body from a trained boxer.”“But you’re a black belt! You’ve been training in karate for years.”He smiled and said, “Someone who’s done something 100 times can always beat someone who’s trained to do something 100 times.”