hail to the king, baby
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hail to the king, baby
ghostexorcist,you are right about the way bruce is protrayed.whether or not he would like this is up to debate,but one thing i think that has realy,realy added to it, is the public at large,who know nothing of real kung fu,ask any of them and them all being experts on fighting will not hesitate to tell you,"bruce lee was the best that ever lived", they might even tell you he was the strongest in history also. funny thing he adimted himslef,the way he fought in the movies is nothing like he would in real life. he had distilled it down to just a few techniques he relied upon,according to what i have read. funny thing is,one of his favorites was biu gee technique,right from wing chun. part of the "classical mess". LOL
read about 3/4 of it today, i'll try and get the rest tomorrow. Pretty interesting, really puts him on a "human" level and deplores the "god" like image a lot have for him. He was charasmatic I will give him that and had the ego to boot with it, but on the other hand so was Hitler.
I finished reading it a couple of nights ago before I went to bed. I'm glad I printed it out because I could just lay it aside instead of turning on my laptop.
I really liked it. I like the way chapter 15 explained how his image was created through marketing. I was a bit confuse at the end, though. So the boyhood friend/butler (who we haven't heard from for the past 30 years) poisoned him?
I would love for people who think he was an invincible god to read this. The book kind of reminds me of a paper I once read on Yue Fei. Like the book, the paper casts the general as a human. He was an alcoholic who was worried about his public image and was constantly being demoted for running his mouth.
Joe Lewis
Chuck Norris
Benny "The Jet" Urquidez
Jim Maloney
Bill Wallace
Howard Jackson
Dolemite
Sho'Nuff
you put chuck on the list! lol
danny inosanto mentioned the two sparring and bruce just kept slapping chuck and he had no defense for it at all
bruce lee can suck my bawls
I guess we need to define what we mean by a "fight" in which Bruce Lee would supposedly win or lose to x,y,z, before we theorize on the result.
Are people here talking about a street fight, in which it seems Bruce Lee had a lot of experience in, or are we talking about sports tournaments?
I ask, because the setting and the context can often effect the result......
Oooooooo.:eek: Look, I found the actual footage of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBqa5BUQmvM
But if we're looking for apocryphal stories there's this one.
Quote:
WIKIPEDIA:
Lee had repeatedly humiliated Norris during a mock sparring session in the hotel hallway at the Long Beach International Karate Championships. Norris had offended Lee when he publicly claimed to be a better fighter than Lee. When word got back to Lee, he called Norris and openly challenged him, threatening to drive to his school to fight (Norris was teaching his black belt class at that time). According to eye witnesses, Lee made Norris hold the phone receiver up and shout in front of his black belts, “Bruce Lee is a better fighter than me!” Later, Norris wrote an Apologetic Letter to Lee; the original is currently in the care of Lee’s student, Dan Inosanto.
Maybe the man himself tells a more truthful story...
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=Mcl8...eature=related
being that chuck was a glorified point fighter i have no doubt lee or anyone slightly skilled could have went through him with ease:D