Re: More on Kung Fu

On Mar 7, 2:18 pm, xiaou2 <xia...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No other human being had ever trained the way Bruce trained -
fanatically. He lived and breathed it from the time he got up at six o'
clock in the morning until he went to bed at night. He was either working
out or thinking about it. His mind was always active, never resting. He
was always thinking about what he could do to improve himself or what new
inventions were possible. His mind was constantly active."

Chuck Norris

Whether or not Bruce Lee was a fighter, is no longer relevant to
anything tangible. As for the above quote, and most of the others,
it's patently false. Plenty of people trained just as hard as bruce
lee did, and many trained even harder because they didn't need to be
movie stars, even for only a short time. And they also lived a lot
longer so gained more experience.

His development of Jeet Kune Do came partially out of an incident with
his school.

There is some debate about the challenge theory. Some say Lee visited
a liu he ba fa school and picked up some of it's ecclectic concepts
from there. The principled of JKD were actually not new. It is
actually more plausible to state that bruce's classical mess referred
to wushu and the gangster-run schools which didn't have a lineage
behind them anyways.


Lee knocked-out Chung, a Choy Li Fut fighter, in Hong Kong in a 1958
Full-Contact match. The match was refereed by Wong Shun-Leung.

There are plenty of stories from the late fifties of full contact,
international matches. I'm not suprised, nor am I impressed, by bruce
lee's participation in that event though. As lee's tournament success
in the ring only grew in the sixties so did his rep, and it was well
earned. But I don't see the big deal about making him into an idol. He
was a martial artist, yes, but he was a man. If you put him on a
pedistal you are really placing him in a place you can never reach,
and this may affect your own practice. Don't lose hope.

I could tell you plenty of stories about people who train just as hard
as bruce :) In fact this was a topic of a recent post of mine, check
out the video:

http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.martial-arts/browse_frm/thread/133ef3ccb2e20293/?hl=en#

In the sixties a friend of mine rigged a timer to test Bruce's speed. We
setup a pad for him to hit with a cut off switch behind some padding. We
had a clock that timed in 100's of a second. From eighteen inches away
bruce had to react to a light that went off and started the clock. When
he hit the pad it stopped the clock. Bruce's quickest time was 5
hundredths of a second. His slowest time was 8 hundredths of a second.

Personally, and this is just me, I would be more interested in finding
out what he did to get to this point, not what he told others to do
after he got there ;)

Anyways, nice collection of quotes - an interesting read.

-

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