Bruce Lee

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Aaron:
Nice followup post.

Bruce Lee was a great man and somebody that we all should be inspired by. The interview really shows his passion.

This man, Bruce Lee, is not only one of the greatest martial artists, but one of the greatest philosophers of our time.

His words and actions should be examples to all.

its funny how a fighter can demonstrate what he does & appear as nothing less than ferocious,but when he talks about what he does he sounds more like an artist painting or a poet

pity we have no fights of bruce lee recorded to see if he really could use his skills :(

Fighters and Martial Artist's are very different.

Martial ARTISTS -are- among all the aforementioned arts in grace and finesse.

Martial artists do not bring fury into their art. They bring with them intensity, as any painter should understand when crafting the finest details of the speckles of light dancing in an eye, as a martial artist twists and extends and snaps their movements all in one practiced motion.

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It's a true shame... We lose one who was considered a legend, purely because of his prowess in life. Whether it was un-founded or not he has and will continue to inspire people to take up Martial Arts.

However it's the degredation of that which was the true essence of martial arts in becoming nothing more than a sport to too many. We have lost whatever philosophy that came with any true instruction of Martial arts and instead it has been replaced with brutality... It's a true shame to see what should be considered a beautiful movement, thought of as nothing more than an attack or as a means to an end.

I agree with many of Bruce Lee's views on martial arts and philosophy... One in particular for which I will use as my closing statement... "Kung Fu is meant to be forgotten."

" novocaine 11. Jan

pity we have no fights of bruce lee recorded to see if he really could use his skills :("

Uh...every film he did, he did his own stunts and fight scenes. Capturing Bruce Lee's true abilities is impossible. In the interview above, Bruce later demonstrates his abilities by kicking next to the interviewer's head two feet in front of him. The camera cannot follow his movements. By the time he pulled of a punch or kick, he was in his original position. Bruce Lee had to fight off an entire Chinese gang by himself, what more proof do you need?

It was a shame that we lost such an revolutionist to the art of human combat so early. But if we still had an Old Bruce Lee, his great words would have not had as much impact as it does to most people of today.

yeah it sucks he died of a drug overdose!!

Bruce died from a congenital defect. He was not killed by a Chinese cartel for teaching martial arts without permission, by overdosing on heroin or any other shit.

Bruce was also hyper-focused and most of you commenters here probably would not have liked hanging out with him. He wanted to do martial arts all the time and it was his life. He was excellent at what he did, but he was not a great thinker outside of his art. He was not Jimmy Carter.

Bruce Lee's speed as a Martial Artist was so fast in the movies. They had to actually slow down the camera speed so the audience would be able to see him hit or kick someone. As a kid I meet Bruce Lee at a Clutch Artists Autorama when he played Katto in the Green Hornet. From what I remember he was a soft spoken person with a sound that just made you want to listen. He was not a tall person at all, but his stature of class and wisdom was 12 feet tall. Even to this day, if he were alive. He would still be the fastest, greatest, and most influential Martial Artist known to Mankind. He is greatly missed.

Four years of formal training + movies + hype = Bruce Lee

Four years?? Why would you every suggest 4 years. I have been training in Martial Arts for over 15 years, and I am no where near as fast or as good as Bruce lee. Bruce Lee THE best martial artist ever to live. He was a very fast and very good fighter, he was very spiritual and was a great philosopher. He didn't just say ok this is a kick, it kicks people, he worked out what actually makes a kick, how you can make the most effective kick, and then he used it. He would keep what was useful, discard what was useless, and keep something essentially his own. Some people would know what I am talking about.

I trained for 7 years with one of Bruce Lee's Teachers in Seattle. His name Fook Yueng. Bruce trained with Fook from about 1959 to about 1967 at various times, prior to that he trained in Hong Kong under Yip Man's Wing Chun for 18 months or more and you can see him doing moves as a young boy. Bruce's father was a Gung Fu man and was a Opera Brother to Fook.

Fook said of Bruce Lee that he had done more for martial arts in 30 years than anyone had done for it in the last 500. Bruce Lee was a driven gifted person, who had the ability to not only fight, but capture the imagination of almost an entire generation, not bad for living only into his thirties.

"Bruce Lee was certainly the fastest man i have ever seen...
and,pound for pound he was one of the world's strongest men"
-Chuck Norris

I believe that Bruce Lee was an ordinary man, with an extra-ordinary sense of vision.

He came from rough beginnings, and could have ended up dying on a street corner from alchohol overdose. However, he changed a negative into a positive, and took god given talents and used them to make his life have meaning.

He used martial art as a way to find meaning in life.

Just as every human being wants to find meaning in life.

You can still be a martial artist and find meaning... and still become famous. But most people who are famous, do not want to be, they just want to express themselves - you see these clebrities today, on the tv, and they are not really famous. They are just popular for a few years. To really become famous and repected worldwide, you have to just be yourself and become an expert in what you like to do most... and never give up.