Did Bruce Lee really break his back?

[xombi]

is his life in any way similar to the way it is in the movie "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story"?

Did he get his back broken, and who was that guy he fought that did it?

[Chief Fox]

Bruce hurt his back lifting weights. He was doing good mornings with close to his body weight.

That movie "Dragon" is an entertaining movie but it is mostly fictional.

[cerebus]

Yeah, what Chief Fox said. "Dragon" was a fictional movie "based" on the life of Bruce Lee, not a biography.

[Vash]

He injured his lower back doing Good Mornings with bodyweight without warming up. There's a lesson in there, somewhere . . .

Don't warm up and you'll die.

[Aikia]

Interesting point. According to Linda Lee when Bruce was resting after the back injury in the summer of 1970 he began a study of Indian guru Jiddu Krishnamurti. Much of the JKD after 1970 was influenced by Bruce's conversion to Krishnamurti thought. The September 1971 article "Liberate yourself from classical Karate" was based on the Krishnamurti philosophy of gaining freedom from classical thought. Lee closed his JKD school in 1971 and JKD became a philosophy based very much on the way of Jiddu Krishnamurti (JKD). The back injury in 1970 marks the transition from original art to the beginnings of the JKD concept. Some could argue that had it not been for the back injury Bruce would never have had so much down time in which to read, study, interpret and adapt J.Krishnamurti "do" to JKD and JKD would still be represented by what is now called the "Original art".

[Vash]

Thanks very much for the information!

[bonetone]

Interesting point. According to Linda Lee when Bruce was resting after the back injury in the summer of 1970 he began a study of Indian guru Jiddu Krishnamurti. Much of the JKD after 1970 was influenced by Bruce's conversion to Krishnamurti thought. The September 1971 article "Liberate yourself from classical Karate" was based on the Krishnamurti philosophy of gaining freedom from classical thought. Lee closed his JKD school in 1971 and JKD became a philosophy based very much on the way of Jiddu Krishnamurti (JKD). The back injury in 1970 marks the transition from original art to the beginnings of the JKD concept. Some could argue that had it not been for the back injury Bruce would never have had so much down time in which to read, study, interpret and adapt J.Krishnamurti "do" to JKD and JKD would still be represented by what is now called the "Original art".

"Liberate yourself..." is just as much Alan Watts and Taoism as Krishnamurti.