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This past weekend, I bought and watched the DVD "Billy Jack" with my son, who's been involved in martial arts for a little over a year and a half...and it resonated with him. He loved it.

When I was kid growing up, we watched in awe at the coming of age of martial arts films...we went and saw everything we could.

Bruce Lee, who was pretty much single handedly responsible for the surge in popularity of martial arts in the U.S. from the 1970s on..was a god...a legend.
Lee had starred as Kato in the "Green Hornet" series, and soon after, exploded onto the martial arts scene not only in Chinese exported films, but also his own productions..
Lee died suddenly in 1973..and it saddened us.

And then the popular series, "Kung Fu" starring David Carradine suddenly burst onto the scene and kept the hope alive, again, and brought the whole thing to television..

But before most of that influence, there was Billy Jack...
Tom Laughlin starred as the title character in a low budget film about a half-breed Indian, and a former Green Beret, who came home from Vietnam, sad & disillusioned, and became a loner...but at the same time, a hero to a group of kids at a school for troubled kids..and the woman who ran it.

We loved it..its theme, its lesson.. resonated with us..

Billy Jack was an an ex-soldier, a proud Native American...
Someone who lived by his own rules, but didn't take injustice sitting down..he stood up to the locals and did what he thought was right....and, I might add.. he had wickedly cool spin kick.

Pretty much everything a twelve year old who loved martial arts admired, at a time when the war was un-winnable, bodies were coming home in bags, daily.. and we all yearned for the return of someone who we could call...a hero.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v325wdgoFH4&feature=fvw

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The particular martial arts style in Billy Jack, which is Hapkido,
and taught on the set by Master Han Bong-Soo(who passed on in 2007)can best be seen here, by Grand Master Lee Chang Soo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrWCY...eature=related
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I remember seeing that movie at the theatre. Billy Jack was my hero. I never realized what he did was any particular type of martial arts. I just thought he was the mightier of the mightiest.
 
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