It is absolutely amazing to listen to one of the great martial artists from my youth. Here he is, one of greatest of the martial arts world of the sixties and beyond. Thank you Bill. Thank you for the memories.
True wisdom from the man who has been there, played the game hard, proved himself time and time again and is still highly respected. I love you Bill Wallace. Respect
I believe fighting IQ and timing are the most important things for a fighter. It Doesn't matter how strong or fast you are if you don't know how to use that strength or speed it's pretty much useless.
You have a point there but the strength and speed are also mandatory for some martial arts/combat sports... I do like technique and fight IQ over brute force but that brute force can also take you places
Always good to see Bill. No one has ever been able to do it like him. He turned his foot into another hand. We were all part of a great time for karate in Indiana back in the day. Our school worked out with Bill's and Glenn Keeney's students and everyone benefited from the experience. I saw Bill beat the great Joe Lewis at the USKA Grand Nationals in 1970. That was the first time they ever fought. Bill's joking with you when he says he never lost. He didn't lose often, and when he did, it was to the best. To be clear, I'm referring to his tournament career before he started kick-boxing professionally.
Thank you for those last two sentences. I was started reading BB magazine in the spring of 1966. When Bill said he never lost I was thinking "Wait a minute I have I seem to remember he was in many tourneys but he was not always the Grand Champion so he must have lost some if not a lot. But for the PKA kickboxing, he was indeed undefeated.
Kickboxing has evolved. Low kicks and sweeps/dumps make It much harder for It to work as It did for Bill. Still, he was an innovator and a great fighter in his generation.
If Bill didn't have a bad knee and was at his prime during the time of UFC 1 he has a chance to win. He is knowledgeable in both striking and grappling. Though his bad knee is what forced him to think outside of the box (and what made him start striking) which made him into the special fighter that he is today. Truly an underrated living legend.
he would have had zero chance of winning,absolutely none because nobody trained for those rules except the gracies.You could kickbox and you might wrestle but it was unheard of to combine both while sparring.Bills commentary at UFC 1 was incredibly bad.Ive seen bill teach wrestling and he is clueless.
@@scarred10 *Combining striking and grappling was unheard of in America. Combat Sambo was already a thing before the UFC and there were some Proto MMA competitions in Japan and ofc Vale Tudo in which the Gracies participated in. Would you say that Bill would've more or less done as well as the Runner up Savate guy?
@@TheRubypokespe the savate guy was gordeaux, actually he was kyokushin trained but any kickboxer would have done as well as him because he was useless v any decent grapple.To reach the final he beat a pile of fat with no skills in Kevin rosier. Shamrock was the only real threat to Royce in that competition but that was his first real fight.
Go to his training videos, when he was wearing red,white and blue gi top, from early 80s . He demonstrates his side kick , hook, round kick, his speed and technique are amazing. Really impressive!
I remember “super foot” from a martial arts movie. I don’t remember the name of the movie but I remember seeing his fights. It may have been a movie against Jim Kelly. Mr. Wallace is a amazing man I would never want to confront.
I'd love if you would sit down with Scott Adkins. That guy is so underrated, deserves so much more attention and respect. The martial arts movies aren't like they were during the Schwarzenegger-Van Damme-Seagal era!
I didn't really like it when he criticized Bruce Lee though. When he's doing his demonstration the reason why he was saying I a lot was because that his style was personalized and he encouraged others to do the same with their martial art. Individuality was his legacy.
elenchus most of the so-called black belts that he was demonstrating in front of weren't actual Fighters because of the whole traditional nonsense and we're Point Fighters, excluding Bill himself of course. I think he just got salty because he criticized karate. And Bruce Lee himself wild never a professional fighter did have experience in street fighting before he moved to America.
elenchus I think when he was making those demonstrations at that time he had already developed his own unique style which is known as Jun fan gung fu. Which was Bruce Lee's personalized version of JKD right before he started teaching it as JKD which includes boxing mixed with Wing Chun. He had to learn this over his past experiences and violent confrontations and in fights because he eventually figured out much of the stuff that he had learned in Wing Chun was ineffective like a lot of stuff that was being taught in karate. And yes there is footage of him getting into violent confrontations with people from other come through schools and I'll send the link when I'm able to find it again. And it was because of this that he took a stance against traditional martial arts like he did. The major flaw with Eastern martial arts is the way that they teach people to be just like the other person and turns a fighting technique and doesn't encourage individuality much. I think Bruce Lee himself said that only 2% of what was being taught in Hong Kong in terms of fighting was actually practical and useful. And because of this it wasn't just Karate practitioners that criticized him and shamed him for this because many Kung Fu practitioners begrudged him for his teachings as well for similar reasons.
elenchus and I'm also not saying that he could take on Fighters like Conor McGregor Jon Bones Jones and come out on top either I'm just saying that he had enough experience to know what he was talking about.
Sounds like Jeet Kune Do. Learn it then do it your way that fits you. Feint then hit. Quick to the point. Don't project your strike. Yup, that's jeet kune do.
didn't we learn IQ is superior to power and speed in general? Hence why gorillas and lions n shit don't rule the world and get stuck in traffic like we do?
I see fighting IQ and speed + power like two legs of yours. You need both to function well, and you cannot have one super strong and one useless. Fighting IQ helps if your also have good speed & power, otherwise it is useless by its own.
True. But you're also forgetting a good sense of timing. Timing is important because it doesn't matter how strong or fast you are because if you don't have good timing it's all for not. At least when it's a trained Fighter versus a trained fighter.
GuitarsRockForever yeah but a sense of timing is more instinctual then it is intellectual. It's like a sense of Rhythm that can only be obtained through experience. Though I do agree they go hand-in-hand.
Hey, I have a question for you : You talk a lot of Wing Chun not being effective for self defense or for a mma fight but I am asking are you talking about traditional Wing Chun or the Wing Tsun of the EWTO? Because the EWTO is evolving Wing Tsun for self defense with stuff like blitz defense and they are talking about it is like the intelligent selfdefense. Mabey you could look into that kind of Wing Tsun?
Wing chun by it self it doesn't work but, if you have a boxing footwork and knows the basics of boxing in general you can make the chain punch, some blocks work, but it looks very diferent from the way it's trained.
What a legend this man is, seems like a top guy to just sit and chat with. Humble, like all true martial artists. Good interview
Love Mr Bill Wallace one of my idols!!
It is absolutely amazing to listen to one of the great martial artists from my youth. Here he is, one of greatest of the martial arts world of the sixties and beyond. Thank you Bill. Thank you for the memories.
True wisdom from the man who has been there, played the game hard, proved himself time and time again and is still highly respected. I love you Bill Wallace. Respect
Bill Superfoot Wallace total class act .
He truly is a Martial Arts Hero.
Holy shit, did this Aikido kid really just get to interview legendary Bill Wallace? Wow, amazing young man, good for you and keep it up 👏👍
The legend!!! Man your lucky you got to talk to him wow. What an honor.
Martial arts are so engrained in this man’s mind that he even punches the microphone.
What a legend. Thank you for letting him talk.
I believe fighting IQ and timing are the most important things for a fighter. It Doesn't matter how strong or fast you are if you don't know how to use that strength or speed it's pretty much useless.
You have a point there but the strength and speed are also mandatory for some martial arts/combat sports... I do like technique and fight IQ over brute force but that brute force can also take you places
@@sokol1213zip i agree
Always good to see Bill. No one has ever been able to do it like him. He turned his foot into another hand. We were all part of a great time for karate in Indiana back in the day. Our school worked out with Bill's and Glenn Keeney's students and everyone benefited from the experience. I saw Bill beat the great Joe Lewis at the USKA Grand Nationals in 1970. That was the first time they ever fought. Bill's joking with you when he says he never lost. He didn't lose often, and when he did, it was to the best. To be clear, I'm referring to his tournament career before he started kick-boxing professionally.
Thank you for those last two sentences. I was started reading BB magazine in the spring of 1966. When Bill said he never lost I was thinking "Wait a minute I have I seem to remember he was in many tourneys but he was not always the Grand Champion so he must have lost some if not a lot. But for the PKA kickboxing, he was indeed undefeated.
massive respect for the guys
Thank you for the interview
Met him in Ireland 4 years ago. Such a class man. Great interview
"Old age and treachery will always beat youth and speed."
A truth that borders on the absolute ... although grammatically speaking it could more correctly be written with "and/or" rather than "and". 😎
Bill Wallace's side stance is a must for everyone's game!
Kickboxing has evolved. Low kicks and sweeps/dumps make It much harder for It to work as It did for Bill. Still, he was an innovator and a great fighter in his generation.
Superfoot....The man is a legend!
Bill is a Legend. So much knowledge, he's probably forgotten more than most of us will ever learn OSU.
@Rokas thanks again for a great vid
love this guy.
Cool interview! Thank you.
If Bill didn't have a bad knee and was at his prime during the time of UFC 1 he has a chance to win. He is knowledgeable in both striking and grappling. Though his bad knee is what forced him to think outside of the box (and what made him start striking) which made him into the special fighter that he is today. Truly an underrated living legend.
he would have had zero chance of winning,absolutely none because nobody trained for those rules except the gracies.You could kickbox and you might wrestle but it was unheard of to combine both while sparring.Bills commentary at UFC 1 was incredibly bad.Ive seen bill teach wrestling and he is clueless.
@@scarred10 *Combining striking and grappling was unheard of in America. Combat Sambo was already a thing before the UFC and there were some Proto MMA competitions in Japan and ofc Vale Tudo in which the Gracies participated in. Would you say that Bill would've more or less done as well as the Runner up Savate guy?
@@TheRubypokespe the savate guy was gordeaux, actually he was kyokushin trained but any kickboxer would have done as well as him because he was useless v any decent grapple.To reach the final he beat a pile of fat with no skills in Kevin rosier. Shamrock was the only real threat to Royce in that competition but that was his first real fight.
SQUEEEEE ... Superfoot is an awesome guy. A legend. 😁
Go to his training videos, when he was wearing red,white and blue gi top, from early 80s . He demonstrates his side kick , hook, round kick, his speed and technique are amazing. Really impressive!
Believe to achieve, first believe it can be done, then believe it can be done by you
Legend !
What a character (:
great channle, your a lucky man. you have interviewd some amazing masters in all form of martial arts styles.. great stuff man. cheers
I wouldn't necessarily call it luck, but I'm definitely humbled by having a chance to talk to these people ☺️
👏👏👏 Awesome, man! So nice!
I remember “super foot” from a martial arts movie. I don’t remember the name of the movie but I remember seeing his fights. It may have been a movie against Jim Kelly. Mr. Wallace is a amazing man I would never want to confront.
Love Bill Wallace.
Bill still drinking the full fat coke lol. I respect that.
Yup! He was quite sad there were no burgers and fries around tbh 😁
For his age Bill looks amazing
Always liked Bill, his kicking was amazing.So fluid
I'd love if you would sit down with Scott Adkins. That guy is so underrated, deserves so much more attention and respect. The martial arts movies aren't like they were during the Schwarzenegger-Van Damme-Seagal era!
Today is a new chance to do better than yesterday
Great interview!!!!
Awesome video I really like the info you share keep up the great work
And opponents that thought Superfoot was only about kicking... got frequent reminders to the contrary! 🤜💥
Sveikinimai. Su tokiu žmogum prisėst garbė :)
you should ask more people about Bruce Lee, that was quite the unexpected answer
This reminds me of your don't trust authority video.
That's Bill "Superfoot" Wallace to you sir! :)~
Bruce Lee's legacy is definitely doing well. He is probably the most well known, and recreated martial artist in history and in pop culture.
Knowing what to do is way more important than pure athletic skill
I didn't really like it when he criticized Bruce Lee though. When he's doing his demonstration the reason why he was saying I a lot was because that his style was personalized and he encouraged others to do the same with their martial art. Individuality was his legacy.
elenchus most of the so-called black belts that he was demonstrating in front of weren't actual Fighters because of the whole traditional nonsense and we're Point Fighters, excluding Bill himself of course. I think he just got salty because he criticized karate.
And Bruce Lee himself wild never a professional fighter did have experience in street fighting before he moved to America.
elenchus I think when he was making those demonstrations at that time he had already developed his own unique style which is known as Jun fan gung fu. Which was Bruce Lee's personalized version of JKD right before he started teaching it as JKD which includes boxing mixed with Wing Chun.
He had to learn this over his past experiences and violent confrontations and in fights because he eventually figured out much of the stuff that he had learned in Wing Chun was ineffective like a lot of stuff that was being taught in karate.
And yes there is footage of him getting into violent confrontations with people from other come through schools and I'll send the link when I'm able to find it again.
And it was because of this that he took a stance against traditional martial arts like he did. The major flaw with Eastern martial arts is the way that they teach people to be just like the other person and turns a fighting technique and doesn't encourage individuality much.
I think Bruce Lee himself said that only 2% of what was being taught in Hong Kong in terms of fighting was actually practical and useful.
And because of this it wasn't just Karate practitioners that criticized him and shamed him for this because many Kung Fu practitioners begrudged him for his teachings as well for similar reasons.
elenchus and I'm also not saying that he could take on Fighters like Conor McGregor Jon Bones Jones and come out on top either I'm just saying that he had enough experience to know what he was talking about.
"Bruce lee was arrogant"
Bill said
"no two people are built the same, no matter how much i teach you you still are not going do it the way i do it"
I have this strange urge to watch UFC 1...
Yup 😁
lol :-D I already watched it few weeks ago :-) Go on :-)
That and the movie "A Force of One" where he played a villain opposite his friend Chuck Norris. A silver screem glimpe of the man in/near his prime. 😎
HEY, I've met him. Pointsparring is pure fight IQ
Sounds like Jeet Kune Do. Learn it then do it your way that fits you. Feint then hit. Quick to the point. Don't project your strike. Yup, that's jeet kune do.
Rokas what did you think of KNX? Do you like our techniques?bough geri (kicks) and tsuki (punches)
It truly fun and funny kicking people.
Would you do a video with Michelle Waterson
didn't we learn IQ is superior to power and speed in general? Hence why gorillas and lions n shit don't rule the world and get stuck in traffic like we do?
Haha. Great comment
@@MartialArtsJourney Thanks! Great video btw.
Do a video with Ninja Nate
I see fighting IQ and speed + power like two legs of yours. You need both to function well, and you cannot have one super strong and one useless.
Fighting IQ helps if your also have good speed & power, otherwise it is useless by its own.
True. But you're also forgetting a good sense of timing. Timing is important because it doesn't matter how strong or fast you are because if you don't have good timing it's all for not. At least when it's a trained Fighter versus a trained fighter.
@@Helltown66
Timing can be part of IQ (since fighting IQ is what to do and when to do it).
GuitarsRockForever yeah but a sense of timing is more instinctual then it is intellectual. It's like a sense of Rhythm that can only be obtained through experience. Though I do agree they go hand-in-hand.
Intelligence , Timing , Positioning , Accuracy , Power and Speed are all important for all fighters in Combat Sports .
It is so hard to pay attention to what he’s saying with all this mic scuffle and distortion! Jesus!
Hey, I have a question for you : You talk a lot of Wing Chun not being effective for self defense or for a mma fight but I am asking are you talking about traditional Wing Chun or the Wing Tsun of the EWTO? Because the EWTO is evolving Wing Tsun for self defense with stuff like blitz defense and they are talking about it is like the intelligent selfdefense. Mabey you could look into that kind of Wing Tsun?
Wing chun by it self it doesn't work but, if you have a boxing footwork and knows the basics of boxing in general you can make the chain punch, some blocks work, but it looks very diferent from the way it's trained.
What you guys eating?
"What happens when the "I" goes away?"
Yes, what happens?
I'm not really sure... A Q stays...?
@@MartialArtsJourney That makes sense to me 🤝
Not only is it fun kicking people, but drinking Coca-Cola with rice and fish. Yum.
So why do weight classes exist then? 🤔
omg his hobby is kickin people LOL
How is this dude drinking coke tho :')
Wtf White Mayweather