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What type of martial arts does Jack do?

posted 15 years ago by grady-allstar
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We all have to agree that it really looks cool and I would like to learn more about it.

He has a green belt in Kempo Karate

You must be colorblind because in the episode where his parents (dad being either Henry his real dad, or being Edward pretending to be Henry, lol) watch him competed against the other guy his belt is red, not green. Do you mean the actor being a green belt?

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[–] horror_recidivist 14 years ago

It looked a lot like the the Bourne fighting style... very militaristic and efficient. Lot of influence from the Israeli fighting style known as krav maga.

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[–] kyzasoze2003 13 years ago

It looked a lot like the the Bourne fighting style

I don't know what fighting style it is for this series, but I know that the Bourne fighting style is actually Jeet Kune Do concepts with Filipino Kali for the knife fights and not really Krav Maga, though it can sometimes look similar. Matt Damon was trained by Jeff Imada (who did the choreography) who was a student of Dan Inosanto, who was an original student of Bruce Lee.