of course Bruce Lee is a legend in the world of martial arts no matter what other people say aboute him , i myself is a huge fan of him and his influence in MA . shamefully he only became 32 years old , may both Bruce and Brandon lee rest in peace.
Don't believe these idiots down playing Bruce Lee they're in many Bruce Lee threads trolling. These losers never met nor fought Bruce, so they have no idea, Just trolls.
@carlossmall5517 assholes like you keep that shit. It's been documented that Bruce Lee beat a lot of professional fighters when they all wanted to kill him look it up.
Wrong Carlos,real fights are rarely seen and recorded. You have no idea what you're talking about. Which means you're not a fighter ,if so show me your videos in the Ring lmao
@@carlossmall5517 Bruce Lee grew up acostumed to street fights every day, even the triad respected him, his childhood and youth was just that. Get informed.
Savage most of these folk who try to belittle Bruce are young and have no idea. They think what's seen in the movies is what Bruce was like. He was more deadlier in real life.
Perry Morris Media ofc he was wayyyyyyy infinity more deadly in real life because he get to be faster than flash in real life than his movies because he was too fast for cameras!!!
I studied Renbukai karate in the 80's and had the honor to train with this man. Come to find out,he and my father have been friends for a long time. I havent seen him or heard his name in years until I came across this video. Great memories.
This guy is so articulate and a joy to listen to. I also learned recently lee personally knew Jimi hendrix which is fully plausible. Same place same era.
Bruce....His skills and philosophy of martial arts and life.....way beyond the norm....was, is and will be # 1...no matter those who belittle him because he did not compete....he was even beyond that....no need to prove himself...BE LIKE WATER MY FRIEND.
Wake up, Bruce Lee was only an actor with zero real fight wins, fictional Kung Fu movies and demonstrations is not real fights. You have to be in a real fight competition to be judged, hearsay talk in fights wins is not good enough, the proof will always be in the pudding. I am surprised that you haven't said Superman is a better fighter, he is in the movies.
@@mrfatuchi A real fight is a fight that has been sanctioned by an Official Committee, where both fighters have been granted a licence to fight after being cleared by Doctors. During the fight Medical Doctors and an ambulance is on standby, in the event one of the fighters during the contest is seriously injured. Some Countries ban professional fighting. This is what a real fight is, both fighters don't go into the ring or cage to dance with one another or stage fight scenes., example fictional Kung Fu movies.
Actually the first person to blend European and Asian martial arts was Edward Willian Barton-Wright with Bartitsu in the 1890s thru 1902 which blended boxing savate stick fighting wrestling judo and jujitsu then there was Bruce Tegener with Jukado in 1963 which combined Judo aikido and Karate as well as some techniques from European arts
Nonsense, men have been fighting like this long before the ancient days of Rome. Bruce Lee passed away nearly 50 years ago, MMA and Cage fighting is only recent. What amazes me is how grown men believe Bruce Lee was a fighter, he was not, Bruce Lee was only an actor with zero real fight wins. Staged fighting, demonstrations and fictional kung Fu movies is not real fighting, they are well rehearsed and scripted for the star to win.
First of all Bruce Lee DID NOT do mma. The first televised mma match was fought between Judo Gene Lebell and a Boxer named "Savage". Lebell won. That was in 1963. Lee was primarily an actor
it's amazing how many ignorant people are out there. "he was an actor" one can't be an actor and a martial artist? jim brown was a great running back who became an actor does that mean he was fake? i said martial artist not a professional fighter, he was a phenominal martial artist.
@carlossmall5517 This guy didnt do a lick of research. Look up "Bruce Lee vs professional fighter's he could beat us all we had no stand a chance". They wanted to kill/hurt Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee was a great example of using the mind to overcome doubt, or obstacles. Everything he did, he believed he could do. The human brain is the most complex supercomputer on earth. We just don't use enough of it. Lee believed he could throw a punch from an inch away and make the recipient feel like they'd been hit with a sledgehammer. He did that 80% with his brain, 20% with his physical gifts. MLB is a great example to see this in action everyday. While they aren't thinking on Lee's level, the game is predominantly mental. If you lose your confidence, it doesn't matter how well you play the game physically. An extreme example of this is when a player gets what are known as the "yips". This is when they lose the ability to throw the ball, but there's nothing wrong physically, It's all in the mind. They hesitate and sometimes will pump more than 3 times before letting go and the ball is most often nowhere near the target. Bruce Lee was in many ways, a genius....Unfortunately, he didn't know enough about medications and what might happen if you mix two apposing drugs together. That's what caused his brain to swell and the aneurysm that killed him. It wasn't a murder as many want to believe.
to me Bruce Lee doesn't have any thing to prove, his skills can't be touched til this day they're trying to figure out or trying to match his status and here we are and can't be done! he was and still is the best martial artists of all time, and of course people going to talk negative because he's gone but from his grave he doesn't have to prove anything, to all those Bruce Lee haters, where are your movies, you're live demonstrations, your philosophies, your books, your techniques, your name, doesn't even comes to thought, Bruce Lee you are the best even in rest, Ali would say greatest of all time!
Bruce rediscovered concepts that were lost to a modern society. He had the insight to understand and extract the useful, while tossing the superflous. His concepts really do work in street fights, as I have used them and they are devastating if you have the natural ability, already. Remember Bruce said "Not one man in 10,000 can do JKD". *The other 9,999 are either clueless or jealous*
Bruce Lee was so fast all you could see on the camera was a blur. The guy has an incredible amount of conditioning and he is crazy fast. Nobody could even block his punches nor his kicks. If Bruce Lee competed in a match, he would destroy his opponents with his speed, power and his techniques.
Horse crap. He and Norris trained quite a bit. At one point Norris scored on like 6 straight kicks that Lee could not block. Afterwards, Lee asked Chuck why he couldn't block them, and Chuck told him. He wasn't so fast that nobody could see what he was doing, that's a load of bull. He was definitely fast, and definitely strong for his size, but there are lots of fast guys and lots of strong guys.
It wasn't his abilities that he would want to be the central discussion, but his intercepting and destroying concepts, which go all the way back to SunTzu. The problem we have here is that Bruce said "Not one man in 10,000 can do JKD" *He was right, and the other 9,999 are either clueless or jealous*
Bruce Lee will beat any MMA steroid fighters any day. Bruce didn't need steroids to make him strong and fast, he worked 10 times harder than MMA fighters today, there were no limits with Bruce lees training. He is the father, the founder of MMA, he was way ahead of his time in martial arts. Legend! Still lives on!
JAK 31 No offense, but Bruce DID use steroids, especially the last few years of his life. He was continuously trying new things to improve himself. You can see how small he was between Enter the Dragon & the scenes he filmed for Game of Death. He was in between cycles and was taking a ton of diuretics to not retain water, so he wouldn’t look bloated on film. You can also see the acne breakout it gave him, both well know side effects for the relatively primitive cocktails they used back then. He trained like none other, but he wasn’t as clean as people make him out to be. He was human. I have been and will remain a fan of his, however too many people have made him nearly a Deity, mostly due to the actions his wife took to ensure only good press and positive articles were printed about him, to ride on his successes long after he passed.
Bruce definitely reached a high level in hard style martial arts. but I never heard anything about Bruce learning the internal arts. does anyone know about that?
I hear you Scotland flash elites lightweight champ that held reign champion for 10years even Roberto Duran looked up to flash elorde..cerfino garcia middleweight who had two great fights with sugar rAy robinson..didn't get to see much fights from him on RU-vid though wish they had more fights of him
Dan Williams I met Ochiai in 1973 at University of Toronto. He was a Wado Ryu stylist at that time, the head instructor of the school at U of T was Burt Konzack.
The man's the real deal! I've studied formally, several 'styles', from Grecko-Roman wrestling, kickboxing, tae kwon do, karate, wing chun, and finally after all that I understood what Jeet Kune Do was, and now I think I've finally STARTED my REAL journey in martial arts as a spiritual path.
My spiritual development started as a child learning Zazen Meditation. I find that looking within yourself and developing within aids in developing your physical abilities. You have no limits within the spiritual, it's like a virtual world, but it helps you attain physical goals that you set for yourself. I think Bruce Lee even said something to the effect of "If you attempt something and fail, at least you tried." I was told that, "you don't learn a Martial Art, you find it within yourself." Enjoy your journey.
Here are some recorded facts for all of you haters: - Bruce Lee's punches measured at 350lbs in strength. This is equal to World Champion Heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali, who was 260lbs, while Lee was only 130lbs. - Bruce Lee could complete 9 punches in under 1 second, and 6 kicks in under 1 second. - Bruce Lee kicked a 220lb fighter off the ground and into the air. - Bruce Lee was legitimately so fast that he was untouchable by grandmasters. - Bruce Lee was a "fighter"; he wasn't a karate master, taekwondo master, wingchun master, etc. His entire philosophy was based on becoming the ultimate fighter. This is why he didn't compete in traditional tournaments. He disliked the fact that there existed rules and point systems in the fights. Why? Because Bruce trained to severely maim or kill. His fighting styles adapted to counter his opponents, and fighting in a traditional tournament essentially goes against his philosophy (to adapt as a fighter). That being said, I guarantee you that nobody on planet earth would beat Bruce Lee in an actual no holds barred fight. This is because Bruce Lee is the ultimate "fighter".
Tserings Not if you talk to people that know him. After his loss to Wong Jakman (Idk how to spell it) He left to change his entire style, and came up with his own. And your talking out your ass for the most part. You sound like you're in junior high. Bill Wallace couldn't even do six kicks in under a second.
@0John0Frusciante0 What you don't realise is he films long segments then splits then into small videos only 1-2minutes long at times :) But yes he does do alot.
Bruce was on another level. People always bring up him and chuck norris. I love chuck. In a tournament setting he might of been able to take bruce. Thing was bruce fought in the streets. No rules. That gives him the edge.
@@sergioshkrob2637 if that helps you sleep at night. People that have actually done their research on bruce know that he did indeed have alot of street fights growing up. He has also fought an extra on the set of one of his movies and there is the infamous fight he had to get the rights to teach.
Bruce dislocated a man's shoulder once and when he was told about it he seemed bewildered and didn't understand because according to him it was just a slap.
Just like Elvis or Sinatra, Bruce Lee had the "it" factor that can't be trained for. He was a sex symbol to women and someone men wanted to be. Charisma is the right word to describe him. It's why he will always stay at the top. The "emotional content" he brought to his fight scenes are unsurpassed. Haters like to call him a paper tiger but I'd dare any of them to face off against him while he was alive. I know the listed cause of death was cerebral edema caused by an allergic reaction to medication but sometimes I think he just trained himself to death. Such a shame when you think how much bigger a star he would have become. The success of Enter the Dragon which came after his death would have propelled him to even greater heights. The film budgets would have gotten much higher, the scripts better, and the fight scenes would all have been iconic. I can imagine him as an Asian James Bond.
Mr. JINKS . I am sharing Your View ~ alltogether ~ Bruce Lee was as well my Teenage Idol ~ and I was having his Poster ~ in my Room ~ RIP ~ You wonderful Man 🤍🤍🤍🤍🌹🐉🌹🤍🤍🤍🤍
I don't understand some things here. Bruce Lee dies at the age of 32 years old...if this guy met him for the first time at 20 years old and he died 12 years later...how the hell did this guy know him for 16 years?
The title is misleading, if I understand to story well than Bruce Lee just demonstrated his 'unstoppable punch' on the NFL player, this was a punch he demonstrated on all the karate tournaments just before he got in to the movies so the title sounds more like he really hit somebody like in a real fight but that's not the case
Linda speaks about her martial arts in terms of techniques and in a very dry, mundane and distanced manner. Linda may have accomplished a beginner level of martial arts but does not seem to radiate the spiritual infusion of martial arts spirit and awareness that Leo Fong describes.
@@brownholecharles No, he said "he was good", after essentially confirming that Lee wasn't a pro and he was better. But Chuck has been mostly pretty diligent at helping to maintain the mystique of Lee, like the rest of his friends and pupils have. Rather than just being blunt and saying "Well, he DID lose in sparring sometimes, too. He didn't win every time". Which you know damn well would be the truth.
better than Bruce Lee? hahahahaha oh that's to funny, that was a joke right, or were you being sarcastic? Bruce Lee is the greatest martial artist ever! most of his movie scene were slowed down, he was that fast!
Bruce Lee's skills should not be in question. He was amazingly fit, trained with some of the greatest martial artists of his day, and feared no one. The only aspect of Bruce that should be in question was his chin. How many blows could he absorb in an actual fight?
I kno Scott trust me it makes me sick when most our own people don't kno who elorde is or garcia some of them don't even kno who pancho villa is or lusito espinosa
Bruce Lee was one of the most successful marketing product without any solid base more that a few movies. One example of what magical thinking can do to the masses. Martial arts are like religion, magic and cults. People need to belive in extraordinary things as our minds are programmed that way.
Bruce Lee once said a man that is fat & overweight is a man not proud of himself, Saying the guy Bustamante looks like the only thing he could tear into is a big bag of Pork Rinds! If you are what you eat then he must be a pig and a sore excuse for anybody portraying a martial artist. Truth is truth. I'm 67 and I still fight Polynesian/Chinese & Thai box in fighting weight and I see discussing fat people this goes for all the Pot belly Martial art Black belt Refs who should be disqualified from being a black Belt especially being a referee! If you can't fight because all the lard then what good is saying you are Black Belt. I know because I also studied Bruce Lee's books and style System of Freestyle not being stuck into a unchanging system, I visited a new school and spared with the Owner 2nd in the nation 4th degree Middle Weight Black Belt and I dropped him. He asked how I did that! I said Polynesian Chinese is more advanced than the Japanese style! He was angry and challenged me to full contact to the head bout. Seeing he was angry I told him he better watch his temper and he held himself back because of my stealth-fast hands made him worry... {Anyone who fights with anger is with an disadvantage being out of control.} He did not move on me because I was ready to knock him out and he knew it. It is not the Belt it is the athletic ability and soul of the art. Truth is Truth.
Bruce was born and lived in a timeeee farrrrrrr behind hisss he wasss wayyyyyyyy ahead his own timeeee !! Unfortunately te world cudnt get a chance to truely understand what this man truely was and cud have been!!!
I'm wondering if the nfl player was actually James DeMile, and NOT an nfl player. it sounds very much like the story James told in which he was the person who got hit in the forehead.
The thing is all these hard core MMA fans don't believe Bruce Lee was legit because he chose movies instead of fighting in a cage to prove he can fight, which cages didn't exist back then, you have to be blind as a bat, to not see how Bruce would perform in the octagon, he trained day and night, his speed was unheard of, his timing and precision made him unnormally strong for his weight, with those impressive traits and the right training camp, he would be a long stable champion in his weight class with out a doubt.
