RON VAN CLIEF DISCUSSES BRUCE LEE, BLACK DRAGON, MICHAEL JAI WHITE

[@dexterbrown8332]

He is one of the best martial Arts ever! One of my best friends trained under him for many years. We both got our black belts in Japanese Goju Ryu under Aaron Banks and then he left and started training under Professor Ron Van Clief, the Chief Instructor of Chinese Goju in America, and I went to train under Professor Ronald Duncan, the Father of American Ninjitsu! I followed his career for years and without question he is one of the best to ever do it in this country!

[@BxCortez2050]

I was there that day and met him too .he was very approachable and took a picture with me .he a good dude

[@ShootTheFivewithXavierPorter]

this was a great event to be in attendance at; so many skills martial artists, so many skilled African-American black belts and greatness in one room

[@johndavis6334]

Ron Van clief is so cool and upstanding

[@mozfonky]

yup, wonderful guy.

[@elandeol1969]

Grandmaster, Great Honor.

[@warrenhenderson2717]

Sensei Ron Van Clief. The real deal 🥊🥊

[@April-tm7uv]

This man caused me to skip school and go to the movie everyday who remembered the Hippodrome, scrumpy dump, the embassy here in Cleveland those were the days😊

[@channaqueen]

Beautiful. ❤🖤💚✊🏾

[@charlesdorsey7594]

What a humble man! This man almost got lynched in the 60's!!!!

[@Petroglyph1]

Awesomeness...!!!

[@titusbell8152]

I definitely agree.

[@captainobvious5993]

That's right this man competed in the ufc @51 more than I can say for michael jai white

[@Petroglyph1]

Where does your impulse to diss Michael Jai White come from? Ron endorsed him, unreservedly.

[@captainobvious5993]

@@Petroglyph1 Michael is not a sacred cow c'mon facts

[@francoisnel5253]

@@Petroglyph1 His inflated ego and talking down other martial artists such as Bruce Lee.

[@cuzz63]

@@francoisnel5253 facts arent talking down.

[@francoisnel5253]

@@cuzz63 It's his opinion. Difference between being big and able to kick and punch and winning in a fight.

[@umojainternational8541]

Blessings, Guidance and Protection Sifu

[@aaroncace]

The Man!

[@gurufitness1984]

What a decent man.

[@5l0van]

Chi’en Shidoshi!

[@axelstone3131]

Didn’t really say anything about Bruce. Misleading title for views

[@i.t.jmusic6931]

He said bruce lee gave him the name "the black dragon" in 1971

[@TrichsRUs]

Why he bring up the left broke ankle though? Lol

[@julioramos5615]

Because with all the arts he study he can't believe he got beat up that easily.

[@cebuperry]

Or perhaps it was true (?) ... Just sayin...

[@anthonybaker7433]

@@Mandy-Bee-k7k i watched his old movies if this was him back in the days competing in that mma match then it would of been a whole different story

[@axelstone3131]

“Black heroes of the martial arts” I swear you guys go out of your way to segregate yourself from everyone else

[@dexterbrown8332]

That’s not it. The problems was, has been and even now is that black martial arts didn’t get there due for over 60 years. The reason he made the distinction is that he has seen it, lived it and knows that it has not changed at all. I remember when me instructor bought Ninjitsu into this country The last O’Sensei Ronald Duncan. He was the first ever Koga Ryu Ninjitsu GrandMaster in the USA in the 1960’s and then in the 1980, Steve Hayes contacted him and he referred Hayes to the Masters in Japan and in least then a year he came back claiming to to a fifth or sixth degree black belt Master and claims to be the father of American Ninjitsu. What a joke! Duncan was teaching and training others in Ninjitsu before Hayes was even heard of. He was featured in martial art magazines in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s way before Hayes and that fake Masaaki Hatsumi who supportedly taught Hayes was even in this country! I performed in the Oriental World of Martial Arts with him before Hayes was even heard of! Ronald Duncan is the true Father of American Ninjitsu but did he get his due? No because of the color of his skin. I saw the same thing happen with Ron Van Cleif, because I am from New York, and witnessed all this first hand, this is GrandMaster Dexter Brown, 9th degree Black Belt, Ryukyu Kempo Karate, 6th degree Ninjitsu, 6th degree Goju Ryu, 2nd degree Ve/Arnis Jitsu! I’ve got receipts!

[@phillipsuell4138]

R u serious? Y’all are the creators of anything segregated. Y’all are separatists by nature

[@axelstone3131]

@@phillipsuell4138 how long are you going to keep pushing that attitude? It’s been 150+ years already. You never went through what they did. You have no idea what real slavery is. 200 years? 500? 1000? You’ll still be hitching about it then. I’ll tell you something. Black American are only 13.6% of the American population. Not 15, not even 20%. And you go on and on and on about being treated fairly and representing when you’re not even a quarter of the population! smh. One day you’re all going to have to grow up and stop blaming other for the shit choices you make now. Non of these guys would even be here if they were never brought over to the west to begin with. For all the negative you moan about, your life abs the life’s of countless western black people have never been as good. You guys are obsessed with skin colour. You see life through the filter of “being black” and unless you’re able to get over that you’re always going to feel like you’re down trodden because of the bullshit you’ve been fed growing up. You are not oppressed. You never have truly even been oppressed, you started treating each other with decency and respect you wouldn’t have all the crap you guys complain about everyday. Be better.