I am aware that this is an old post but at the same time, I feel like must reply to the ignorance that is in this thread. I have done nothing but martial arts my entire life and studied martial arts and people of martial arts background. Yes, Jackie Chan did learn the martial arts during theater training, "which was a kung fu style" but besides that, he learned many styles of kung fu including Wan Chun and was a master of Hapkido which both he took very seriously. To say that he is just doing movie Jitsu or whatever you call it is plain ignorant! Yes some of the stuff he does on the silver screen is not used in basic combat but the point of the matter is, it's all based off of a martial arts style which in fact is very very hard to replicate unless you know the martial arts in which it comes from. He is an icon of the martial arts world and there's not one person on this forum who could touch him in a competition even at his age now nor is there another actor of his caliber of martial arts. He is not just a movie star he is also an accomplished martial artist and people need to respect him for that. He also still does all his own stunts. I am a sixth degree black belt in TWD, second degree black belt in hapkido and have advanced far in Krav maga "which I teach at well as TKD" and I'm now studying different forms of Kung fu and I would never try to go rounds with Jackie. Just saying. I am a state and national champ too. Give him more credit then you are going him. He deserves it.
You can cite your sources for saying this? It's understandable that people admire him but to make statements as you have about his skill you really need to prove it I'm afraid. Just saying it doesn't make it so.