😢😮😢🎉😢TO THE ULTIMATE:BRUCE LEE the One and Only one, The god of Martial Art's and Wishing you All the Best Stripey and Thank you for you're Love of Bruce Lee and all his genuine Admirers Happy New Year 🎉🐲🌟✌❤🐉🙏😔
I used to think Bruce Lee was just an actor who was quite good at martial arts but after much research, it would appear he was a genuine martial arts master. Lee sparred with several of the world champions of his day & was considered great by all accounts, in fact revered world karate champion Joe Lewis regarded Bruce Lee as the leading candidate for being the greatest martial artist that ever lived & described Lee as the fastest man to have stood in front of him & was incredibly powerful, hitting as hard as a heavyweight. Lewis would often joke with his students saying he knew what real Jeet Kune Do was & how hard Bruce Lee hit as Lee nailed him. Joe Lewis was the only world champion who would refer to himself as a student of Bruce Lee & admit he was trained by him & there we have it, cheers for the informative video Stripey 🤛🤜
There is a lot of people judging Bruce Lee I see, saying he's fake, I think there is a bit of jealousy here, Bruce Lee was special, the things that Bruce Lee can do was just amazing and there will never be another man like him, end of story.
John little book is amazing , Bruce was a real fighter it’s so plain to see the way he moves , his speed ,technique is still beyond anyone in MMA or any other combat sport, nice job stripey
Happy New Year Stripey The comments …you will always get Wind Up Merchants Just download the audiobook version of “The Wrath of the Dragon “ by John Little Keep the Bruce going Always enjoy the videos Best wishes Ian
🥂🍾🥂🍾 Happy New Year 🥂🍾🥂🍾 Your the best new channel i have become a member. I hope that you will crowe with your channel and a lot of Bruce Lee and good music 🤗 Greetings from the Netherlands
i will say this, if we all loved and agreed on the same thing it would be one boring place, personally for me he was the best of the best and still to this today unrivalled, happy new stripey,
Happy New year to you and your family!! I for one absolutely enjoy your Bruce Lee content, more please😊 I've loved Bruce since I was a little kid and always will. Everyone has an opinion about him and that's ok but for me he will always be the most charismatic, amazing and talented individual! People like Steve Kerridge and John Little wouldn't be researching and writing books about him 50 years later if he wasn't!! Oh Stripey, I have some drawings I would like to show you, is there an email I could send them to. Thanks again Stripey x
Hi mate Like I said the last time, I am not that much into Bruce Lee. But I am glad you made a full come back to RU-vid. I wish you and your family all the best for 2024. Take care.
Happy new year Stripey 🎉 There is a lot of idiots about 😂 I guess it helps with the algorithm. Looking forward to more Bruce content this year. All the best - Antony
I just dont think we can make comparisons with todays martial artists. Youre also right in saying theres limited material of Bruce. I also dont think you put him on a pedestal, mate - hes become iconic in the way James Dean or Marilyn Munroe have. But it is important to remember that what was filmed was genuine. The camera never lies. Personally? I dont think anyone has choreographed fight scenes as well as Bruce and not one single actor has attempted to push out a message while doing so. Think Way, think GOD. Happy new year mate. Look forwards to next years content. 😊
Cool video mate thoroughly enjoyed it looking forward to more in 2024 have a great New Year.all the best Pete.ps Bruce is the boss always will be in my opinion this coming from fan and collector for 50 years
I got "Wrath of the Dragon" for Christmas. Can't wait to read it, but I got "A Life" as well and have started that one first. Happy New Year, Mr Stripe.
@@StripeyR I'm only 22 pages in, but the level of detail already is amazing. All that info about his parents and grandparents, I never had a clue about, apart from a few basics mentioned in the documentaries.
Keep up the good work on the Bruce Lee. Also next year is the year of the Dragon so a perfect reason to do EVEN MORE on Lee. All naysayers can go to another channel.
Happy New Year to you and yours Stripey. Great video to end the year on. Whatever people's opinions are on Bruce, the one thing that people have to agree on and cannot deny, is his cultural importance and the fact that if it was not for him, we would still be doing just Judo and Karate in the West...
Hi Stripey :). Since you brought the "Wrath of the Dragon" book in this clip, here is something to add: I give you Little's account from a new podcast about the subject Lee vs Muhammad Ali. He wrote that chapter for his Wrath of the Dragon book, but in the end took it out since it was not about a sparring or fight, only about rumors. Here: „The first time the notion of what would have happened had Bruce Lee duked it out with Muhammad Ali appeared in Linda [Lee-Cadwell]s first book, entitled „The Life and tragic Death of Bruce Lee“, published in England in 1975. In that book Linda presented the following statement: „One critic wrote those who watched him would bet on Lee to render Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) sensless if they were put in a room and told that anything goes.“ It’s true that Linda is quoting a reporter’s opinion in this passage, but 76 pages later in that same book, Linda writes, not quoting anybody, „it has often being argued that if Bruce were locked in a room with Muhammad, and both were allowed to fight in their usual styles, then Bruce was bound to have been the winner.“ Both of these two statements make the same point. That Bruce Lee would have defeated Muhammad Ali had they fought for real. Linda didnt need to include these two sentiments in her book, but the fact remains that she did. The question is if Lee didnt believe this to be the case, then why did she seek out the first quote above and then add a second one of her own? After all, Linda s book has no shortage of praise for martial artists of every stripe and discipline, each thestifying to her late husband’s martial prowess, and she could have left it at that. Clearly the reporter s quote appeard in Linda s book for a reason, and the reason was as her seconding of the reporer sentiment indicates that she, as the representative of Bruce Lee, concurred with the opinion he expressed. But what did Bruce Lee himself said about the matter? Did anyone get a quote directly from him? One man attemted, the Hong Kong journalist John Hardy, who in November 1971 interviewed Lee in an article for the Hong Kong Star Newspaper. Hardy: „How did he fancy himself in the ring against Cassius Clay? Said Mr Lee: Lee: „If you put on a glove, you are dealing with rules. You must now the rules to survive. But in the street you have more tools in your favor, the kick, the throw, the punch.“ Lee clearly had no interest in fighting Ali in a boxing ring, as that would have required him to leave the majority of his weapons behind. His answer suggests that in the street, the advantave and thus the chances of winning, would fall to the man who brought the most weapons to the fight. As Lee with an arsenal of kicks, throws and punches, would have had more weapons than Ali, who only had his two fists. The reader is free to connect the dots here. As this quote of Lee was published two years prior to his death, and there is no eveidence, such as a letter to the editor to suggest that he believed he was misquoted in the matter, then this quote can stand as indicating Lee s opinion on how he believed he would have fared against Ali. It is also, and this is imprtant to note, the only quote attributed to Lee on the matter [him fighting Ali] that was published during his lifetime. (all others, like „my small chinese hands, Ali would kill me“ by Robert Clouse, or Bolo Yeung, or John Saxon, were published after his death). And then there was an other fellow named Bob Bremer, who was one of Lee’s students, who said: Bremer: „Yes I heard it from Bruce’s own mouth“. Lee: „If we were in the street, i would beat the cr..ap out of him [Ali]. But in the ring, not so good.“ Bremer: „He [Bruce] believed it, and i believed it.“ Little: „I do know that he had gone out for dinner with Senator John Tunney, who was the son Gene Tunney, who defeated Jack Dempsey, the famous long count fight, heavyweight championship fight. And John Tunney asked Bruce: „You know what do you think of my dad? You know anything about my dad Gene Tunney? And Bruce said: „Yeah. I dont just know him, i have two books about him.“ John Tunney: „Cool. How do you think you would have done against my dad?“ Lee: „Well, if i stood there and he hit me, forget it. But the question is could he ever get close to me?“ John Tunney: „So you think you could beat him?“ Lee: „To tell you the truth, i could beat anyone in the world [in a street fight].“ Little: „Ali was big and and strong, and Bruce was smart enough to recognize that if you went into Ali s backyard, a boxing ring, and there were rules, he would be a smudge. But on the street it’s something else. Here is an other interesting thing that speaks to that for anyone who says: „Well, Ali in the street would have done something to Lee.“: Ali studied a little bit Taekwondo for a short time under Jhoongoo „Jhoon“ Rhee, and Jhoon was a friend of Bruce. And Jhoon often said: Rhee: „Sparring Bruce was a waste of time, because he couldnt get out of the first gear, and Bruce taught me this punch, which was so fast and so direct, that I couldnt, there is nothing i couldnt get out of the way of it, I couldnt bock it, and I asked him to show it to me and he did. And i shared it with Ali, and it was called „the accu punch“ Ali called it.“ Little: „And Jhoon Rhee said the same, Ali couldnt block it, and Rhee was able to hit Ali with it, and Ali was so impressed with it, that he used it in one of his fights (against Richard Dunn), and i think he knocked the guy out with it. But here is the thing: Jhoon Rhee was not as fast as Bruce Lee, he did not hit as hard as Bruce Lee, and he was able to hit Muhammad Ali. So could Bruce have hit Ali? Yes. Could he have hit harder as Jhoon Rhee? Yes. Was Bruce s technique in a real fight to bob and weave and throw jabs? No. It was to go for the eyes or the throat, or the lead shin. And if you take someone s eyes away, I mean Bruce‘ s closing speed was insane. He practised finger jabs like eye jabs repeatedly, like thousnds of repetitions, to geht the neural muscular pathways down, so he could do it effortlessly. So yeah, in a boxing ring, Ali all day. In the street, i think Lee is the favorite. PS: And this is from me (Chris): Of course the final line is J. Little s opinion. Nobody has to agree. But as you can read in the complete text, during Lee's lifetime, he only spoke one time about this subject in front of a journalist, and this was in November 1971. All these claims later by Robert Clouse, Bolo Yeung, John Saxon etc., among the quotes is the famous "look my small hands, Ali would kill me", were published after Lee was gone. Same of course with the quote of his student Bob Bremer, that Lee told him he would beat the cr..ap out of Ali in a street fight. You can find the whole podcast (John Little Randy Roach)
Hey Bud. It's been OK, but it has slowed down a bit, but it's not gone backwards. The views have dropped off a little, but that's youtube, I guess. I'm sure it's just a glitch, mate. Keep up the excellent work, Charles 👍
@@StripeyR thanks for sharing the information. Glad your moving forward. As we know it will take a little time to build our momentum back again. But as long as we stay consistent with what we love doing it will all work out! Thanks again!
Stripey ive said it before and I will say it again listen to the people who knew and trained with bruce they know how fast and how much power he had these clowns who say he was just an actor are delusional im rambling on now😂. Take care and Happy new year pal.
Stripey , the negative ones are the younger generation that didn't experience the golden days first hand . They can hardly spell or get a point over without grammatical error ! As for the real fights book ..... it's a half empty glass for me . Simple fact is Bruce didn't compete because he pulled no punches and hated the tap tap point fighting but the ignorant do not see that ! Have a good new year !
Hi Stripy i was watching a Bob Wall interview the other day and he said Bruce wasn't a fighter he was more an actor and wouldn't stand a chance against someone like Gene Lebell what do u make of that?
John Jones, Dana White, Conor McGregor. Never met Bruce Lee or saw him fight...so what do their opinions mean? The only reason Dana said Bruce was the "Father of MMA" is to hype his image in a video game, anyone that knows the history knows this isnt true.
the reason Dana's praising Bruce is because the ufc have a contract with the Lee estate. i dotn disagree with dana's comment btw. i thought i throw tht bit of info out there
I used to know Alan Minter, the undisputed middleweight world champion boxer, and I saw him land a short punch [very short indeed] that push the recipient across a room. It was done in jest - the receiver asked for a display - and it was every bit as effective as any short punch Lee ever landed. All the mystique around Bruce is tiresome, to be honest. He was an average actor and driven sportsman who caught a wave… He did it very effectively but the inscrutability that gets poured all over him is erroneous at best, and cultish at worst. Let’s not forget his prodigious drug use, which probably had a role to play in his death.
Bruce was a driven martial artist & actor, but I don't think he caught a wave, I think he started the wave. I intend to make a video on the drug letters in due course, which, like you said, could have played a role in his death. Happy New Year fella
