Warning: Steven Seagal is DANGEROUS!

I'm in Dubai with Steven Seagal, and in the previous episode, he taught me and my brother some amazing techniques. Time for session number two with Sensei Seagal. But before training starts, he wants to give me a very special gift. In Japanese, we call it a makiwara. And this is yours, the brand new one. Wow. Just like the old samurai practiced by hitting wood, Sensei Seagal hits the makiwara because he uses his body just like a sword. I can hold this for you, and you can do your first punch. Okay, okay. Thank you. So I hold it like this? Yeah, don't knock it out of your hand. Okay, okay. And I go. That's right. Is that okay? Yes. Yeah. Ha ha, I hit it wrong. Well, see, that's where this comes in. Yeah, exactly. Wow. Amazing. Thank you so much for this precious gift. This is one of a kind. Only one in the world. Thank you so much. Yeah. It's kind of going like this with him. Yeah, yeah. Let's talk about this punch. So we're here, and you're gonna turn, okay? I'm gonna turn. Right? Yeah. If you'll notice, if I have my hands up and this goes to turn, it's bigger. Yes. And it can get blocked easier. Yeah. Okay? And stand strong. Yeah. Pay attention. You paying attention? Oliver, you sure? Yes, sir. Watch this. Okay, see, here's what's happening. It's going here and here because he's good, so he knows how to turn his toe in, and he knows how to make it come here also, but it's also going into his shoulder. Right. Now watch this. Yeah. It's completely different. If I hit him like this, there's a lot of shock. Yeah. You know? But when I hit him like this, you can feel a different penetration. Imagine we're here, and we do this kind of thing, you can even do this. Now I've trapped his hands, okay? This is the kind of thing I want you to learn. So we're here, we do this kind of thing, look at the hand again, look at the feet again. Now in my style, I would just take this and go into something like that, but you can't do that, but you'll still have both of his hands down. Yeah. And from here, you certainly can hit him. You wanna try? Yeah. This is being trapped. And don't think, from here we can't hurt you, because from here we can do a really great uppercut, really great punch in the face, which I'm not hunting any of the face now, but I just want you to feel what I can do. Do you have a certain type of footwork to achieve this? In my footwork, it's always like a triangle, and I'm always sliding. Right. I don't do this thing that you guys are doing. Right. Jumping around. No bouncing. I don't do that ever. Yeah. I will just stand here. Stand here, stand here. In your style, you're gonna move. Right. As you're moving, don't jump around a lot. Don't do this stuff. Right. If you move, just move like this, and from here, take your shot. Yeah. You notice how I waited for the right body position? Yeah. Everybody in boxing, in karate, they'll say, get the right body position, but they never say, get his right body position and your body position together. So, let's talk about kicks now. When you do my Geddy, for example. Okay. Yep. Okay. You all right? Yeah, I'm good. So, when you kick, this is sword. Same idea. When you kick, this is sword. Yep. Try that. Okay. And then, up. Mm. Wow. That's pretty smart. That was a new one. You wanna try it? You're way too late, Oliver. Okay. Way too late. You gotta move in much sooner. Move in much sooner. No, you're standing back and waiting. Now, that's it. Ah, right, you're meeting him. Yeah, you can't stand back there. Right, right, right. How would that work for a Mawashi Geddy? So, Mawashi Geddy, there's a thousand ways to do it, but as you come. Right. Wow. This is one of the ones that I like. That was also a new one. Yeah. So, as you come. And I'm hitting you nicely without my knuckles. Yes, yes. To try to not hurt you. But you hit the exact right spot both times. Where the knee is. That precision is like right there. You can see it's already starting to bruise. You see that? Yeah, right here. At the top of the kneecap. Like this. And I'm not hitting him here. I'm just hitting him here so I don't hurt him. Because if I were to hit you here, you'd be hurt. Wow. That's insane, you gotta feel that. Yeah. Okay. So, as you come to kick, I'll turn. I'm covering this much distance. There are stupid people saying, you can never do that, this punch. Yeah. I've done it a thousand times. Yeah. And I just did it. I guess it's like with everything. You just need to practice. If you just try it out once, of course you're not gonna get it to work. Right. You need to do it hundreds, thousands of times. Yeah. Let's take a little break. Yes, thank you very much. In Okinawa and different parts of Japan, you'll hear karate masters say, karate begins with kata and ends with kata. Yeah. I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. No. My teachers told me, learn waza from the master. Yeah. Fight, perfect your waza, and go back to the master and learn more waza. Yeah. I'm trying to spend 60, 70% giving you guys spirituality, philosophy, because the technique, even though you might be amazed or you might be interested, that's not the most important thing. Yeah. My master used to say, little finger can make a big man cry. What he meant by that is, you have really 10 weapons. Exactly, yeah. One time somebody pulled a knife on me and he said, okay, now what are you gonna do? And I said, I have 10 weapons, you have one. Because he was concentrating on this. Yeah. That was all he knew. Yeah. I was concentrating on one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, five, 10. But also the fingers are a part of the hand, so if you wanna sever your spinal column, we can hit you right there and that's it. We don't do that with the fingers, we do that really, we hit here, I don't know if the camera can see that. Yeah. Get it here and then here. Yeah. And you notice when I do this, it turns it into a very thin knife. Yeah. When I do this, it becomes thick. So this is more like a blunt weapon and this is more sharp. That's right, that's exactly right. If you wanna show mercy, you do that. Mercy is for after they're sleeping. Okay. Yeah. Because everybody's life is precious, but when somebody steps outside of normal parameters of human behavior to the point where they become a danger to humanity, it's our job as Bagesha to neutralize them. Don't you agree? Yeah. So let's do little fingers now, you ready? Okay. Yeah, let's do it. Come in here like that, this in the eyes. Yeah. You know? Exactly. Or this. That was right on the spot. Let's say Oliver is fighting and he wants to try to use some of the finger techniques. My favorite would be to come here and then here. Ooh. And then here. Yeah. And this is a break. Yeah. This is a break. Yeah. You know? Yeah. He's really finished here. Yeah. Can you feel that? Yeah. But I mean, we do have him. Yeah, why are you here? Get to work. For me, that was quite a battle. So he has his hands up here, I come into the eyes. I take this down here and I bring this up into this. Yeah. This is called sankyo. And if I want to break it, I snap it back very hard and fast and it's broken. Yes. Otherwise, I come into here. Yeah. I control him. Yeah. Where I come into here. Ah. Yeah. So when we're here, any time like this, it's that down movement. Ah. Yeah. Any time his fingers are anywhere, anywhere, that's all I need. Yep. You would try to- Don't do this. Okay. It's like sword. Oh, okay. It's like sword. Yes. Stand strong. Okay. Can't do it very easily. Watch what happens when I back up and lead you. And I'm leading you into my knee or my foot to kick you. When you're here, stand strong. Yeah. Stand strong. Yeah. And the cool thing is, this is legal in MMA. It is legal. It is. Nobody does it. Most of all, understand when I punch, for example, don't do this kind of thing. Yeah. Boom. Yeah, from your hip. When you watch a bird who's sitting there and he takes off, do you see him go like this? You don't see nothing. So this is how a good punch is. Just like a bird taking off into flight. Immediate. Just do it. It's effortless. Yes. You don't see it. Yep. One minute he's here, the next minute he's in the air. Watch, watch, watch. Don't move. Did you see that? You don't see it? It's 6%. Okay, I'll change battery. Sensei Seagal said that there are thousands of amazing martial artists in America, including Daddy No Santo, Tadashi Yamashita, Fumio Demura, Ed Parker, and many more. But perhaps the most famous one was Bruce Lee. I get asked about Bruce Lee all the time and I think Bruce Lee was very unique. Like any other human being, he was human. One of my students was a guy called James Coburn. And when I'd go up to his house in Nevada, Bruce Lee was there a lot. Did I know Bruce, talk to him, learn from him, be in there, nothing like that. But I did get to see him and watch him and talk to him. And I can tell you that his sidekick, his yoko geri, was spectacular. Yeah. The best I've ever seen to this day. Much better than me ever was, ever will be, ever could be. His stuff with Uraken and punching the front stuff like that, yes, he was very fast, but I know other people also just as fast. Yeah. I'm speaking my opinion. Yeah, sure. When you have people talking about how, oh, you know, Gene LeBell used to teach Bruce Lee and Gene LeBell beat him up and choked him out. If Gene LeBell said that, and he probably did, he is a pitiful liar. Yeah. And in my opinion, and this is based on the way I know the Lee family, and how close I am with Daniel Osanto, who I think is one of the closest to Bruce Lee, I can guarantee you they never fought. I can guarantee you Gene LeBell never beat up Bruce Lee or anything like that. Never did, never could. So how about the fact that a lot of people seem to exaggerate Bruce Lee's abilities? What do you think that is? Why do they put him on such a high pedestal? I mean, people love to have a hero. They love to have this mythical, you know, idea of someone larger than life and bigger than life. In many ways, he probably was. He was amazing. Yeah, yeah. He was amazing. Yeah. How would you like Steven Seagal to be known and remembered? Most important thing to me is to be able to impart a spiritual philosophy to my students that they understand never to use what I've taught them unless they have to. But conversely, that my stuff is tremendously dangerous. I was wondering, do you have any kind of final piece of advice for people out there who are watching this? What do you think should be their main takeaway from all that we've said today? Main takeaway is, rather than practice with 50 different people for 10 years, spend time to find one good teacher who can teach you the spirituality, the philosophy, the theory, and learn from that master. Take your time, don't be in a hurry. Learn the basics. Practice hard one great master. Yeah. That's my basic advice. Yeah. And with those wise words, it was time to visit the world's tallest building for an unforgettable Japanese dinner. Turns out Sensei Seagal likes his food just like his martial arts because you only live once. And if you do it right, once is enough.