CHiPs - Ponch has a Karate battle with a gang leader from the old neighborhood

[@brazilchem]

Wow that was a hell of a fight. Boxing, kung fu, karate, you name it. What a time to be alive.

[@Trashman702]

Kindo sticks. Nunchucks. Billy clubs. Holy shit man

[@CD-yr8tw]

And nobody got shot.

[@sppjr]

Good ole Ponch, on nearly every episode, he takes one lesson at somthing and next thing ya know, he's an expert at it! Gotta love Chips!

[@safeandeffectivelol]

Quick learner

[@hellothere-b6q]

Jealous 😂

[@positivevibez73]

I actually remember watching this scene on TV. I was a huge fan of CHiP's

[@bethmckenzie6227]

I still am 🤠

[@andregodfrey3022]

Yep me too

[@YD-uq5fi]

That was a very well done fight. Even the A-Team, which was later than this, just featured punching, and then BA Baracus picking people up and throwing them. Ponch's skill with Nunchucks and poles means he found some spare time to go to the Valley and take lessons from Mr. Miyagi.

[@vendingdudes]

I love how from 1:10 to 1:12 Ponch changed from being a lefty to a righty, like, INSTANTLY

[@Jamestele1]

That was his secret weapon!

[@johnnywhite274]

It was mighty nice of the bandit to not finish off Ponch when he was down

[@capacola262743]

no fair! ponch was blinding andy massedon with the glare from his teeth.

[@melissasmith4254]

😂😂😂

[@ntnrocket1]

That smile was his secret weapon--all his life!!!!

[@generalzod7959]

The gang leader looks like a folk singer! 😄

[@Im-Iam]

And Andy looks like David Coverdale 🤣

[@jerryterwase9027]

My thoughts exactly. Some casting.

[@pradityapraditya28]

In 70s everyone looked like folk singer

[@minus148]

After the fight ponch went to the disco and ruled the floor then delivered a baby,,then expertly skateboarded home.

[@jimmy1154]

Baker's glowing brown leather jacket is the joint.

[@nightrider5109]

I remembers those karate episodes from when I was a kid I thought they were so cool now they're kinda silly But at the time they were cool

[@rl1800]

Dang, Ponch's stuntman put a beatdown on Andy Macedon. This show was freaking awesome. Glad they're showing these episodes again on MeTV.

[@audreymillard653]

I watch that station to it is awesome

[@gavinst.clairthedefiningmo9985]

No stuntman.. Erik actually has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do

[@jasperrasper2392]

Wish they could have slowed it down a bit... and see those lightening fast moves lol

[@valstanford3676]

On KZbin they have playback speed.

[@toservemen]

Barry Gibb vs Ponch.

[@jaylewis8862]

Punch was in the gang then turned chips

[@aviationnationhd3760]

That was Andy, not barry

[@charlespeakjr2168]

Definitely Barry. Besides Andy was coked up at the time.

[@anthonyx9481]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@joeancona2784]

Great episode. Seems like theres nothing that PONCH cant do AMAZING!!!

[@MrLeglamp]

Everybody was Kung Fu fighting!

[@YD-uq5fi]

Ponch went up to Reseda to spend his day off with Mr. Miyagi, I see.

[@ScotConway]

That's pretty impressive fight choreography for an age where the traditional thing was "tackle to the ground, roll three times one way, three times the other way, person on top punches" (seriously, watch most 80s television fights!)

[@gimarr]

Wow! I remember watching this as a kid and thinking it was so cool to see them use Karate but seeing it now, I can’t believe how cheesy the karate was. I still say it was my favorite CHIPS episode though.

[@capacola262743]

this gang wanted napoleon dynamite to join them because of his bo staff and numchuck skills.

[@ChristopherSaindon]

The guy Ponch is fighting would obliterate him in an actual fight. That dude is GOOD.

[@down4whateva665]

love it great post this was my favorite "chips" episode thank you

[@michaelquebec6653]

I see a few folks saying that the choreography is horrible, but considering that this was for television and during the early 1980's, I think the choreography and techniques are decent. The second Karate episode, which is the sequel to this, had even better choreography.

[@thfpt]

The sequel to this episode "a threat of war", is the one i want to see very much. I've only seen it once when it originally aired. Haven't been able to find it since!

[@artytoons]

Lewis Van Bergen as Andy Macedon. He later returned as a reformed good guy in another episode...helping Ponch battle Danny Bonaduce once again.

[@metalox88]

Danny Bonaduce. National menace

[@erinmsomers]

that was like the fight from anchorman, that really escallated quickly!! I think somebody had a trident and a granade at one point..

[@KingOfEmptyPromises]

For the longest time I thought his name was Andy Mastodon.

[@jamesdunn1935]

Me too

[@avalond1193]

They pulled out nearly every martial arts weapon 🤣

[@akapple3538]

It was even better than the fight between Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon lol

[@TheSaneHatter]

We've all heard of "karate chops," but, "karate CHIPS"?! They really brought out the whole karate & kobudo arsenal, too: empty hands, staff, sai, nunchaku, tonfa . . . whew!

[@vinny57ish]

And youse should see Ponch on thee old Disco dance floor.......Wait a minute ..... I think I hear Leo Sayers classic ...I feel like dancing.....Dancin the night away........OOooohh!!!!!

[@thfpt]

The sequel "a threat of war", is very hard to find, it appears. Jon has a straight up fight with this Andy guy, but it's in the ring instead, all legit-like. I haven't been able to find it, and i really want to see it again!

[@wesoblander3648]

Ponch has a war with the same guy when he gets out of prison after three years of learning how to be nice. He comes back and is actually on Ponch's side after their fight in the ring.

[@thfpt]

@@wesoblander3648 right, I remember all that, but I can't find clips or the episodes at all. Maybe I should look again...

[@capacola262743]

estrada is the spanish william shatner.

[@pumasgoya]

He's not Spanish.

[@capacola262743]

"Hispanic"...OKAY?? VATO!@@pumasgoya

[@wesoblander3648]

I think Puerto Rican is what Estrada has mentioned a few times. El Vato works for me :)

[@explorermike19]

Aiyaiyai, talk about third-drawer fight choreography. They could have borrowed some green belts from the local dojo for better fight scenes than this stuff. What I do like about CHiPs is that whatever was fashionable in the seventies was on the show: Disco, martial arts, roller skating, clothes. The show is a real time capsule.

[@handofgod1percent]

I started taking karate lessons at 8 after this episode came out😂😂. The good old 1980s. Karate was on chips and every Saturday night was the black belt special on regular TV. Everything is at everyone’s fingertips now and my daughter asked me what it was like back then. It was a lot of fun because you always had something to look forward to the next week when it was coming on and if you missed it you didn’t see it lol.

[@Smittyschannel]

wow I missed this episode as a kid.... pretty handy how everyone had their karate weapons with them.....

[@supertoyg]

It was the 70s, everybody was kung-fu fightin'...

[@kamily8288]

Those cats were fast as lightning

[@weswolever7477]

It was a little bit frightening

[@tommy3656]

The fight scenes at the time for the most part had to be made for T.V. They weren't like you would see Chuck Norris or Jackie Chan do. They were made for television.

[@samson9098]

The best fight screen of all time, even jet li or jacky chan cannot fight like this and the music was so katate kid. .

[@gern7535]

It was amazing that when the bad guy pulled out the 2 sai, Ponch grew about 5 inches and lost some weight! Ponch must have channeled his inner Chuck Norris!

[@Joe-eb8vc]

There's more violence in this scene than every other episode combined.

[@gomerhanger2285]

Haha! So true. They also never used their guns. Pew! Pew!

[@capacola262743]

hilarious!!! one of the greatest moments in tv history!! hahahahaha.

[@angrycharrua4999]

This is better than Captain Marvel.

[@abitoutside1973]

I like how alot of the villians have new york accents...lol

[@joeemick1891]

You just happen to have Sai swords a Bo and nunchuck at the burrito stand

[@eastleford20]

For my money, Andy Macedon was the greatest TV bad guy ever

[@jamesdunn1935]

Eric Estrada should love his stuntman

[@StevieL1111]

Eric Clapton has really turned nasty 🧔🎸

[@esseen100]

Where'd the Okinawan weapons come from???

[@JasonMBroyles]

Okinawa! 😁

[@esseen100]

@@JasonMBroyles 🙄someone else please raise their hand...🤣

[@JasonMBroyles]

@@esseen100 😄

[@Dan-uv5lw]

This one is the episode where Baricza actually pulls out his gun on Danny Bonaduce. The first and ONLY time Baricza pulled out his gun.

[@andregodfrey3022]

Yep, I remember

[@Mike_The_1950s_Historian]

Loved this episode. Actually, there were three episodes of CHiPs that featured martial-arts. This one, it's sequel, and a proposed spinoff series called "Force Seven." Fun stuff.

[@the-anti-theist]

This is the best karate match ever seen!

[@johnetheridge5833]

Eric Estrada had a stunt double in parts of this scene. The man who played andy masadon was a real black belt.

[@gomerhanger2285]

Thank you. id never would had noticed lol

[@billyshane3804]

Poncherello delivers yet another SMACKDOWN!!! RIGHT ON PONCH !!!!

[@carolbradley2639]

They originally start out Karate fighting, but Ponch resorts to good ol' street fighting to finish the guy off.

[@imaninternettroll1660]

A Mexican doing karate lmao. Homeboy said I want my 3.99 a minute back from the psychic friends network

[@Im-Iam]

Your description was perfect! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@abc33944]

ponchos double denim acted like knights armour

[@prayingmantis6777]

That was a very good realistic scene they filmed.

[@760jjsole8]

Ahhh, Ponch wearing good ole Nike Cortez's....that's old skool...

[@The_KLF]

Glorious 70s tv 'fight'! Denims, big hair, bad music, obvious stunt double, instant facial bruising, sai and nunchaku pulled out of nowhere all topped off with blindingly bright white teeth I loved it!

[@StukInBuf]

Even though the moustached dude was the bad guy, he was classy... allowing Ponch to get fully up before taking another shot at him.

[@supertoyg]

And when he gets knives out, he chivalrously waits for Pinch to slowly pick up the stick. Clearly Macedon-sensei did not want to dishonour his family.

[@edwardbliss8931]

Ponch could've confused him by square dancing.

[@reesepacker7983]

John was like Ponch is the one unarmed badass cop that does not need a partner backing him up against a trained fighter WITH weapons ..lol

[@ldavis5734]

My God ! Ponch could have killed him with those savage karate moves !

[@jerrijames2224]

The 70’s street fight, sticks, knives, numbchucks , fists and roundhouses. Kick a..

[@jeffdude6088]

Odd how easy Ponch was to knock down at first only to rally back in the end.

[@waitaminute7257]

Wow that was a very serious beat down! 😮😮 Ponch could kick your ass in the 70s.

[@copndonuts]

this was better then a 60's karate movie

[@andy42x]

wow.. that might have been the worst/best scene from CHiPs ever. Who knew Ponch was a weapons expert/ninja.

[@johntothejackson]

funny

[@cat-lw6kq]

I read recently that he did take lessons, looks look he did a lot of his own stunt-work. on of my favorite episodes, his first meeting with the guy he walked away and the kids didn't like it. But finally it was time to stand up to this creep, he was a friend that had gone bad.

[@gavinst.clairthedefiningmo9985]

@@cat-lw6kq , Erik Estrada actually has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

[@cat-lw6kq]

The close ups are Estrada but when his back is to the camera it's a stunt double. I don't doubt he did take lessons and got awarded a black belt. But it looks like they had a stunt double do some of this. When his back is to the camera you can't see his face. This was well done and I liked this episode.

[@IRON5]

It's so bad that is actually good hell they made a trilogy with these two!

[@daretospeak00]

After getting beaten he should have said,..."Your Shaolin technique is very good" Lol

[@MisterZero71]

There are many words in the English language. Absolute and Shite are the only ones that spring to mind.

[@JamesLaumand]

What’s a tape deck

[@joestewart8914]

2:35 with his back to the camera, that's a double for Estrada.

[@valstanford3676]

How can you tell?

[@rickyb007]

This seemed a lot better when I was 6 years old

[@reynaldoflores4522]

Ponch looked so cool swinging those nunchucks.

[@mariebaca2467]

That's why I never liked gangs, always had to bring a weapon into a fight. Ponch through his weapon down & fought like a man 😉. Really liked that part ponch jumped over the stick & kicked the guy. Don't think I've ever seen that before 🤯

[@ΙΩΑΝΝΑΧΡΗΣΤΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ]

Eric Estrada a gift from god....Pure beauty!!!!Hello.Gianna from sunny Greece...

[@StukInBuf]

"I hate to hit a beaten man."

[@capacola262743]

i think the glare from ponch's teeth blinded his opponent.

[@dolam]

Andy should have done some ground and pound when ponch was down.

[@rossstewart9994]

Love Chips and crew great series

[@jamesdunn1935]

The show was so silly.

[@HippieBuddah]

Ponch was also secretly a Ninja in his spare time, little known fact.

[@bladder1010]

Watch out! He's got karate!

[@jimmyju76]

Do all LA street fights involve sais and nunchucks?

[@stevel5334]

"Ponch" got "punched" a hell of a lot in that scene. Now 35 years later... "Ponch" has an actually belly "Paunch" from eating many Taco's and corn "Chips".... Eric "Ate" Strada!...lol... Fight Choreographer must have been away that week... All we needed was some "Bamm... Whap.. and Kapow and would swear it was a scene from the 60's Batman show" A great show it was though for it's time though... Loved it...bring back my childhood heroes.. :( 😁😁

[@erikbunty2016]

Chuck Norris should have been a guest on this show (especially the season Clarence Gilyard was on it), and Estrada on Walker, Texas Ranger.

[@mws755]

You can tell most of Ponch fighting is a stuntman and the other dude is a real fighter

[@preciousjey]

Ponch for President!

[@franciscogomez4045]

Ponch’s Nike shoes 💯💗

[@CycolacFan]

Ponch ‘Punch’ Poncherello, he should have done this to everyone they ever pulled over. 😂

[@DracIsBack]

I don't think so. Those two episodes are quite honestly the only two episodes where I remember Ponch or John doing any physical combat at all. Actually - I kind of remember John throwing a guy off his car once.

[@krypton7676]

Ponch better know how to kick ass, he gave up his gang being Nicky Cruz in NYC.

[@randycain313]

Ever wonder why ponch has his back to the camera most of the time?

[@plutoplatters]

I have never sprung such awesome wood !!

[@mogie02]

Ponch is a star at everything he doe's!

[@rivernelsonmusic]

My favorite chips episode!!!!

[@dolam]

I guess the moral of this episode is not to solve problems with your fists : /

[@sharonjackson268]

I thought Ponch was the 👨 man. I love CHiPS

[@tracker1515]

Best TV show of all time

[@mrpeabody7684]

clearly the shows budget could not afford a fight choreographer

[@MaharlikaAWA]

A jump spinning crescent kick to the arm is the ultimate knockout! Why didn't Ponch use his Karate skills in other episodes?

[@DracIsBack]

There's at best, three or four episodes where there is any kind of physical fight between the CHiPS and the baddies in the entire show hehehe. CHiPs is possibly the least violent action show in prime time history

[@MaharlikaAWA]

They just had tons of car crashes almost every episode.

[@jimthompson973]

Oops! @ the 3:29 mark, you see an umbrella opened underneath the overhead. Somebody was not doing their job.

[@preciousjey]

Ponch Pu Pighting.