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Guangzhou ‘Kung Fu Master’ Fights Young Man On Bus

by on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 88 comments comments

From NetEase:

A bus rider is getting his thirty seconds of fame. This time, there’s not only the use of profanity, it’s gone straight to the fists. On noon of the day before yesterday, a video clip called “Guangzhou Bus Uncle” was posted on numerous popular websites. In the video, a Cantonese speaking “uncle” and a young man sitting next to him fight due to the lack of air conditioning in the bus.

In the moving bus, two men suddenly started to shout at each other. Within seconds it turned into a fight on board. Nicknamed “Bus Uncle” by netizens, an older man displayed kung fu moves akin to the Wing Chun style, gaining the upper hand on the younger man. Uncle’s moves are aggressive, and netizens comment that he must have been trained in martial arts. Fortunately they had only been fighting for less than 20 seconds before they were separated by passengers. But the Uncle’s rage was not appeased, and shouted at the younger man to “get off and fight”. The young man quickly got off the bus and fled.

“He was angry that the driver didn’t turn on the a/c, I tried to placate him and he hit me.” Afterward, the Bus Uncle was still angry and described his reason to fight to the rest of the passengers. According to the automated voiceovers in the video, the incident happened near “Zhoumen” Station.

The problem of buses’ a/c being turned off has kindled agreement among netizens. “We paid for air conditioned buses, why wouldn’t they turn it on?”

Reportedly this is due to a “Gas-Saving Prize”. Currently many transportation companies have this policy. If drivers consume over the gas usage limit, they are fined, otherwise, they are given bonuses. As a result, many drivers turn off the a/c to save gas. But according to policies, if the temperature is over 26 degrees Celsius and the driver doesn’t turn on a/c, passengers can dial 96900 to report him.

Comments from NetEase:

孤中一叶:

Seems like the younger one is very innocent. If it was a fight for real, the older one doesn’t stand a chance.

so__numb:

The kid looks rather honest, doesn’t seem like he’s been in a lot of fights. Should avoid meeting this kind of old people.

trbio:

Fuck Guangzhou. The city that I hate most.

jia.qingxu!:

If it was [up to] me, one of them has to die fighting. Then the buses in the entire country would turn on the a/c.

powerdongzi:

The old comrade’s kung fu is amazing! The young man has a strong build, but the old comrade took him out with only one hand. These kung fu skills are enough to make “Singapore’s Number One Master Jet Li” beg for mercy. Inspires admiration among us!

就爱看图:

The young guy is too weak, he’s so tall and can’t even win against an uncle…

*sunny:

Listen carefully it’s the younger guy who used expletives first. The older one attacked because he couldn’t stand it. Of course attacking was overreacting.

兴宁狂人:

I despise old guys from Guangzhou the most…

dong_ixi:

Those of you that don’t know Cantonese and “hate Guangzhou” stop your ignorant commenting. The young one complained that the a/c wasn’t cold enough. Uncle told him: don’t be so ill tempered, the driver has to drive. The guy started to use profane words, Uncle then started to hit him.
ps: I really hate all of those “hate Guangzhou” fucks.

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  • Idiotperson

    what does air conditioning have to do with gas

    as far as i know it only consumes the battery’s power

    • BIGLoser

      You idiot, it has everything to do with saving gas. Why else do you think that those electric bikes never turn on their lights at night? To save gas of course! You have so much to learn about how smart the Chinese are. It’s also why driver’s always drive with their high beams, because contrary to popular thought, it saves gas! Stupid Americans.

      • Jordan

        BigLoser, most high beams of any particular headlight that I know of is of a higher wattage than the low beams. Please explain to me how using high beams will save gas than using low beams.

        • Justin

          Pretty sure that was sarcasm there.

      • Philip

        Biglooser, one moron doen’t make the whole nation morons. Take you for example…

    • Justin

      although the ac consumes relatively little energy…

      - AC uses power from battery
      - Battery gets charged by the alternator
      - Alternator gets power from engine
      - Engine generates power using………[take a guess]

      • VeerLeft

        The A/C on an automobile (buses too)use a belt driven compressor with an electric engagement clutch (which is disengaged when off) that drives directly off the engines crankshaft.
        A/C uses extra gas… but heaters do not.

        Thus saith the lord

        • Justin

          i stand corrected then

    • Hyper

      The air conditioning compressor is a parasitic loss on the engine. It takes more fuel to overcome the additional loss. Air conditioners on buses can consume up to 1/3 of the available horsepower because of the large area in the bus, the number of people and the constantly opening doors. There is a smaller but measurable fuel consumption change in automobiles with the AC on.

  • Chris

    Has nothing to do with WingChun. Don’t watch movies guys go to a Sifu yourself.

  • Peye

    LOL Hair trigger emotions. Sc

  • FYIADragoon

    lol southern Chinese.

  • Patience is a Virtue

    Uncle was competing in jean shorts, and one hand rendered useless with the weight of a bag. The kick did not connect however. If you look closely Uncle also uses an open palm thrust.

    The young man doesn’t look so young. He is even sporting a flat top, which possibly suggests he was in the military. He should have been able to defend himself.

    Question
    Has anyone actually seen police arrest people for fighting in China?
    From my experience the policeman/men are gawking just like everyone else.

  • J

    The young guy was either a) too fuckin’ scared or b) trying to respect the older guy and holding back.

    Either way, he’s a pussy. Old people like this DO NOT deserve respect in any shape or form. I don’t like China’s rule of respecting all old people just because of their age. There good people and bad people on this planet of ALL AGES. Some of the worst people that I’ve met here in China are old people.

  • Rick in China

    There is no martial arts involved in the old man’s “style” – he just swung his arm back and forth, windmill punch style, using the weight of whatever he was carrying in his left to stabilize his balance each swing. He didn’t seem to connect very well either.

    Silly video.

  • LexXx

    Classic… Still shows how uneducated some chinese are.. ^^

    • GL

      and you are such a highly educated foreigner who has time for this uneducated entertainment… ^ ^

      Klasick

  • chabuduoxiansheng

    ROFL!!! All these posts from Chinese netizens praising this old guy’s martial arts skills! And for what? That old dude was all tensed up swinging his fist in windmill punches like a gorilla. No one trained in the martial arts properly would fight like this. A disgrace. The young guy was just a straight up puss. Watch closely as he tries to connect body shots and still fails. Pathetic. If that old dude started throwing blows at me I’d straight up Roy Jones style merc his old ass. One shot to the chin and he’d be eaten out a straw for the next few months.

    • whichone

      oh wow, internet bravado, we are all impressed

    • Justin

      His martial arts was probably so incredibly well trained that he wanted to mask it…perhaps he thought the young man to be a worthy adversary and thought that hiding his true skill in Kung Fu was needed in order to catch the young man off guard. The young guy noticed the old man’s “inability” and backed off, as he was trained only to use his deadly warrior skill only when absolutely necessary. Had they both used the skill they definitely had (but successfully hid) the entire bus probably would have inexplicably burst into flames.

  • the great yellow master race’s coming out

    and he started hitting him only because the guy complained or called him names? what a fucking douche.

    If you look closely at his profile, you can see the old one is clearly a monkey in a shirt.

  • Michael

    Has anyone actually seen a real street fight where people have used kung fu etc?

    This old guy uses it for the first five seconds to deflect the punches and then just starts swinging like in a regular fight. Even in Asia I have never seen a fight using martial arts.

  • ZeroStarLouhu

    the young guy made a simple mistake. He talked shit ad he could not back it up. Uncle could not accept it. Uncle taught him a lesson.

  • Tokyo Dan

    A Martial Arts expert who’s never been in a real fight would lose to a tough but untrained street fighter. But an untrained street fighter would lose to a Martial Arts expert who has experience as a street fighter. Here in Japan I’ve been to many dojos where I knew I could beat many of the never-been-in-a-real-fight blackbelts, except for the students of one dojo that is, the Kyokushinkai where every training session was like getting in a knock-down, drug-out street fight. Even the green belts could kick ass big time. It took 5 years of four 2.5 hour training sessions a week to even qualify for the Shodan (Black belt 1st level) test.

  • fireworks

    I prefer the old buses where it squeaks and creaks and the windows can be slide open. Newer buses have fixed windows with a/c. the a/c has to be turned on in summer. nobody wants to deal with some old irritable man.

  • Ron

    OMG got owned by an old man….

  • VeerLeft

    Wow… the old dude is a bit aggro-douche no?

  • http://www.yahoo.com tung

    cantonese swear word
    diu
    chow hai
    diu chak lei
    diu lei lo mo

  • 12meeeeeee

    WING CHUN???

    chinese at overselling their shit again.

    thats just mad swining with a shopping bag.

    god how do idiots come up with this shit?

    • hey, you!

      same way idiots like you comment with ignorance

  • Ted

    That’s not Wing Chun, but the old guy definitely knows how to fight. He was still holding onto his bag with his left hand!

  • lmao

    if that’s supposed to be kung fu, then… kung fu sucks. Simply wow @ some chinese netizens praising that guys fighting gskills…

  • krdr

    I think this style is called “Wing Swung” :D Maybe “young” guy didn’t want to engage in fight with old man. If guy hit the “uncle”, “uncle” would be in KO.

  • Frazzle Dazzle

    Kung Fu doesn’t work. Chinese people are weak as hell. Look at how poorly they do in Olympic wrestling, Boxing, Taekwondo and Judo. Name at least one decent Chinese boxer? Can you name at least one relevant Chinese MMA fighter? Bruce Lee was a movie star with 1/4th German ancestry. Jackie Chan and Jet Li are actors. They have yet to fight in a single sanctioned event. They would get destroyed by even C-level MMA fighter.

    Look at China’s history. They lost all the time to smaller countries who did not use Kung Fu.
    If Kung Fu was so effective, they should have beaten everyone. Especially when they outnumbered everyone by a significant margin. The only time China has ever won in a war was when they outnumbered the enemy 100 to 1. Ive experienced Chinese “kung fu” personally.

    A few months ago, I got into a fight with 4 Chinese fruitcakes. I wasnt the least bit scared. They were all scrawny as hell, although one of them was 1-2 inches taller than me. But he must have weighed 150 pounds at the most. A fucking toothpick.

    The fight went as followed. The tall coward who seemed to be the leader threw the first punch and missed. How the hell do you miss a cheap shot? I didnt even have my hands up or was expecting anything. I then punched the tall guy square on the jaw and knocked him out cold. One punch was all that it took. The moment I knocked him out, his 3 friends started fled. They didnt even bother to grab their unconscious friend. They just hightailed it out of there like a bunch of cowards.

    Typical Chinese mentality.

    1. Cowardice
    2. Cheap shots
    3. Gang up on a single guy with your friends.
    4. Run at the first sign of danger.
    5. Bullying people.
    6. No loyalty, no honor. If your friend is in danger, its best to run rather than to fight.

    Ive never ever in all my time here or in New York city saw a Chinese person fight by himself. Its always the Chinese guy with ten of his friends against a single person.

    • Billy Joel

      Man, you got any more essay long life stories to share with us?

    • 12meeeeeee

      nailed it man.
      kungfu is gaaaar-BAD-ge

    • Michael

      No form of hand to hand, weaponless combat has anything to do with winning wars. China may have lost some wars, but China got to be so large by winning wars against other countries. (although even when they lost, they ultimately ended up winning, absorbing the conquerors)

    • Jordan

      Kung Fu is just like any other martial art style, it is not the style, it’s how good and fit you are and how hard you train in that style.

    • whichone

      Your argument doesn’t make any sense.

      [quote]Kung Fu doesn’t work…Look at how poorly [Chinese] do in Olympic wrestling, Boxing, Taekwondo and Judo.[/quote]

      So…if Kung Fu does work, its proof would be Chinese people doing better in other martial arts competitions??

      No, I can’t name any Chinese MMA fighter, nor can I name MMA fighter of any other nationality, perhaps you are right there are very few Chinese, or perhaps you are pulling crap out of your ass, I wouldn’t know either way.

      After challenging people to name MMA fighters, you then proceeded to name three actors, then pointed out they are actors and have not participated in sanctioned fights. That’s like me saying “can you name a famous boxer? and don’t say Silvester Stallone he is an actor”.

      If Bruce Lee is only a movie star and not a fighter what does his ethnicity have to do with anything? Besides, his mom is 1/4 German 3/4 Chinese, his dad is Chinese, your grasp of fractions is about as impressive as your logic.

      Martial arts relates to wars about as well as bonsai to horticulture.

      Finally the story how you managed to beat up one scrawny Chinese guy and scared away his three friends. Even if this courageous internet tale is true, any cognizant person with a speck of common sense would know one isolated incident doesn’t say anything about Chinese people in general. However you managed to use these four peeople to work up a profile on 1.3 billion people, statistically that’s about as reliable as me taking you as an example and declare all Americans are retards.

      • GuateChino

        Jajajaja…. awesome reply, much props!

    • Jordan

      If you said Jackie Chan and Jet Li haven’t fought in a sanctioned event, you are right. If you included that thought with Bruce Lee, then you are dead wrong.

      Bruce Lee entered the Long Beach Karate tournament, and kicked everybody’s ass, that’s why the following year they invited him back for demonstration, you don’t ask someone to do that if they are just an actor.

      If you think Kung Fu is weak, fight someone who is about the same level in terms of fitness and skill as yourself. It doesn’t take much to beat up children.

      • Goodness

        Bruce Lee never fought anyone at the long beach tournament. He just gave some demonstrations like the one inch punch and two finger push ups. There are a couple of good documentaries on the subject.

        • Amon

          He did spar at long beach.

    • GL

      so you mean if kungfu was effective, China should have initiated wars with other nations?

      your speech has suggested that you are representing the ABM – association for the barbarian morons. to be specific, what is your IQ?

    • Silque

      Ha ha. What a sad loser who stereotypes 1.5 billion people based on sad personal (make believe/fantsised) experiences. Did I mention that I knocked out Machida, GSP, Coutre, Brock Lesnar and Fedor with a single withering look? Look out of the window and watch a few pigs fly by….

    • Amon

      Many people don’t know how to fight this includes people from China but many people know how to generalize.

  • Yin

    The real question is, why would anyone think that the average Chinese person knows Kung Fu? It’s like you were raised by Hollywood… Oh wait.

  • http://www.martialdevelopment.com/blog/ Martial Arts Articles

    FYI, Wing Chun favors the straight punch. This old guy is throwing nothing but hooks.

  • yangrouchuan(r)

    Why was the site down? Did some kids from Tsinghua not like something someone said on one of the posts and decide to hack the site?

    I didn’t see no Kungfu. I love Cantonese ppl though. Most Chinese are jealous of them because they got all the money and they make cool movies. The whole world knows China because of Cantonese people.

  • Joe

    Good for him. Any Chinese person who stands up and DOES something about ANYTHING is better than the other 1.3 billion, who seem very happy to get shat on by all around them.
    Kick as much ass as you like GZ man, you rock.
    And i’ve lived in GZ for 2 years and SH for 2 years, and without a doubt the GZ folk are way friendlier and way more human than the obscene SH people.

  • Alan

    Joe, I definitely agree GZ and indeed guangdong ren are more friendlier and easy going than SH’ers.

    To me the cantonese are like the italians of china, whereas Shanghainese are like the stuffy uptight yuppies in New york or London, who think they are better than others.

  • specter

    lol fucking crazy old bastard.

  • TheTravellingMan

    If this was in Shanghai the old man would have just shouted at the top of his lungs in revolting Shanghai language pig squeals and everyone else on bus would just look at the floor. At least in GZ something intersting happens. Cantonese people and southerners just wipe the floor with those over arrogant Shanghainese pricks

    • http://cnreviews.com Kai

      Yes, the stereotype is that Shanghainese men are all hot air, big on talk, not on action. However, I’m not so sure we should be praising the Cantonese given some of their less desirable stereotypes include having massive gang fights, stripping girls of their clothes, and then humiliating them by beating them on camera (as chinaSMACK has so wonderfully revealed to us all).

      • lol

        why is any of those things you listed bad?

  • Alan

    Kai said:

    However, I’m not so sure we should be praising the Cantonese given some of their less desirable stereotypes include having massive gang fights, stripping girls of their clothes, and then humiliating them by beating them on camera

    Then what “desirable” traits do Shanghai ren have that makes them that much better? Just curious?

    • http://cnreviews.com Kai

      Alan, I wasn’t making any point about who is better or worse, much less that Shanghainese have “‘desireable’ traits” that “makes them that much better”, just that I’m not too sure we should be praising the Cantonese. What did I say made you think that? Just curious?

      • TheTravellingMan

        北京人愛國
        廣東出國
        上海人賣國

        The old saying is true, Beijingers are fiercely patriotic, Cantonese people are entrepenuerial in seeking new pastures, Shanghainese would sell their own country/mother to get a sliver of profit.

        Shanghainese and the cesspit that is Shanghai just sucks big hairy balls…

        • GL

          my balls are huge and hairy but i dont wish them to be sucked by the SHese

  • Jin

    I am a northner
    the difference between south and north chinese is
    when fights happened northen by standers dont give a shit and just watch
    but there south chinese like cantonese by standers would actuatually try to stop them

  • kkkk

    i need to corret you a bit
    the uncle didnt say the young man hit him
    the young man kept using vulgar language on him so he hit him

  • The_NDN

    I do not know or speak Chinese, but I think the elder was upset, because the younger man did not offer his seat to another elder passenger.

    Peace, I love China

  • http://hi Kane

    This doesn’t look like Kung fu….

  • ThanksMonica

    The old man may not exactly be doing perfect kung fu but he does look like he knows how to fight. He is very likely to be ex-triad or convict type

    • GuateChino

      So according to you:

      Senior citizen + knowledge to fight = Ex-triad/Convict

      Don’t stereotype old people in such negative light, your logic does not follow. Even though the elderly can sometimes be difficult, i believe they merit cordial respect and tolerance from more “exuberant” citizens.

      Maybe this old man has served his country when he was young, maybe he does taichi everyday at the park, or maybe he lifts blocks of cement as a construction worker to teach Mr. “Big mouth-No Balls” a behavioral lesson the hard way. The elderly have been through enough in life to get even more crap from younger over-confident adults.

      So, i leave you with 3 words: you never know…

      “BIG UPS, RESPECT” – Ali G

  • http://soundcloud.com/ggoodei-mc/tracks GGooDeiMC

    Whoa! Turn on the a/c for the people that is riding public transportation. If they are paying their full fare to ride then they should have the right to have a/c…this can never happen here in Chicago. The passengers would have it out with the bus driver.

  • conan

    According to bus uncle, the young man said “Fuck you” to him.

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  • Tai

    Here’s a rough translation:

    Old man: Get off the bus. I will tell your ‘elders’ (‘yee see hing’ could be referring to an elder or an upperclassmen of sorts–basically someone in a position of authority over the young man) to change your bad behavior. Get off! Get off! I’m telling you to get off the bus now!

    Young man: I don’t want to get off the bus to argue with you.

    –Young man gets up because the old man kept incessantly pestering the young man to get off the bus. Now, old man gets up and starts pointing fingers–

    Old man: You, you, you…what did you say?

    –Young man pushes old man away. Old man responds by punching young man–

    Old man: You better not hit me!

    –Young man is blocking and continues to push old man away. Old man is now punching and kneeing the shit out of the young man–

    Old man: I will kick (or stomp) you to death!

    –Old man continues pummeling the young man until the crowd steps in to stop the old man from beating the young man–

    Afterward, the old man basically explains to the crowd ‘his’ side of the story. If you’ve watched the video closely enough, you’ll notice that this didn’t start at the beginning. It probably started halfway through the argument or whatever that had upset the old man.

    No matter how you look at it, the old man hitting the young man seems unjustified even if the young man made a crude comment or an expletive to the old man.

  • Master C

    Go fight a kangaroo, not fellow Chinese.

  • Annoymous

    Why is this titled as “kung fu master” From the video i did not see at all any moves classed as “kung fu moves”. The title of this article takes the piss! Just because the man is chinese the refer the man in the title as “kung fu master” =.=

  • Chimerican

    The old Kung Fu master did not use Wing Chun, he used bak hawk or white crane style of Kung Fu. His punches are hook, not Wing Chun straight punches. I saw the same kind of moves during the legendary fight between chen hak Fu, white crane master VS Ng kong Yee, the tai chi master which took place in Hong Kong decades ago. Cheers mate. hehehe…..I remember vividly all the movements.

  • Chimerican

    GL, huge and hairy balls can mean only one thing. They are diseased, need medical attention immediately before they fall off when you walking to work. hehe

  • Chimerican

    Old bak hawk (white crane) kung fu master used “lin siu dai da” one hand method, was simply awesome. He was blocking and punching at the same time using one hand. This guy is a trained assasin. I won’t want to mess with Uncle Bus. hehehehe…..young punk got 9 punches on the head, look dazed and dumb and couldn’t do nothing. He was all mouth, but nothing to back up. He deserved worse in my opinion.

  • Andy

    In the words of the original Bus Uncle… 我鍾意屌，唔屌你老母就屌邊嗰？

  • Andy

    GZ bus uncle is sooo funny 佢屌我，我話”唔好屌哥哥”

  • pirateking

    Obviously the old man didn’t know WingChun. However, the old man was pissed off so he fought with rage, thus, got the upper hand while the young guy who provoked the old man in the first place was stunned by the old man’s unexpected rage. Anyway, the term “wingchun” was used just to catch your attention and generating more hits. It worked, haha.

  • yoyo

    lol, diu diu diu diu diu diu me diu you diu everyone

  • Fman

    Kung fu master? The old bastard was throwing weak ass hay makers… Looks like someone forgot to change his diaper that morning crank old sob…

  • mark

    if thats kung fu then the chinese have allot to learn from what ‘wag guo ren’ say kung fu is about…..

    that just swinging out as much as you can, if the young man wanted to figh the could have won easily (grab the old mans wrist abd pulled him forwards, that little movement would have made the old man fall over the seat with only his left hand holding on)
    if your gunna say its kung fu, learn some then say it is.. watching people fight it out in the street and saying, ooohh the older man is using kungfu as the younger man hides his head and runs away is the same sort of crap (note in that fictional scenario the olderman is just punching while the younger man covers the blows and takes them without much retaliation)

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