This is something that the more I think about, the more contradictory it sounds. Sure, his movies got legions of people into Kung Fu. Sure, he became a symbol of strength for his ethnicity and transcended that for anyone else looking for it. However, this seems to overshadow what the man said and did in the minds of many TCMA people. Yes, Bruce Lee began his path in Wing Chun, but look at where he ended up. Outside his school, he had a tombstone that read, "in memory of a once fluid man crammed and distorted by the classical mess." I’m not going to post a lot of stuff about where his path took him, but when I hear him speak (and look at how he trained), he seems rabidly against TCMA (or TMA in general) to me. Before I quote Bullshido, let me say that I don’t agree with the analysis on Wing Chun, but there’s a quote about Wing Chun people who hold Bruce Lee on a pedestal that I feel is relevant to this thread. "It'd be like being a fan of Jared from Subway and then taking up competitive eating or liking the comedy of Yakov Smirnov so much you moved to the Soviet Union." I think this can apply to TCMA people in general. Am I the only one who feels this way about Bruce?