He did a form?
In the beginning, he fights kempo, then he gives a lesson in one kick to a kid. single chamber front kick, generic shaolin really.
the only thing that would be formish would be the cave fight scene where he plays with the nunchakus. Which aren’t chinese and aren’t part of kung fu training except in styles that have brought them in following that movie actually. lol
He does a classic BSL triple kick in his room
There’s a scene just before when he’s going to go out for some ninja-action. Lee is in his room and throws some moves. I’m not sure that’s a traditional form, but it’s surely moves extrapolated from one.
Is this our first Enter the Dragon thread?:o
Gene,
Precisely. I read in a Chinese magazine, that part is from a form or practice drill and I believe is from the north quite popular. The problem is that I can not find this thread somewhere. And you are right “enter the dragon” instead of the rabbit.
Thanks,
Mig
I couldn’t find one either, mig
You got to remember, this forum only dates back a decade and we only started posting on film buzz over the last few years. ETD was 1973. A lot of the classics that predate this forum don’t have threads yet, but we’ll get them filled out as questions like yours pop up. ETD is one of the truly groundbreaking films of the genre, so it’s due time. I reference it a lot; even referenced it in my latest Tiger Claw blog : Biters vs. Fighters.
When I was living in Taiwan, I saw a lot of old-school northern Chang Chuan (Long Fist) styles, and even practiced some for a couple of years, and saw a similar kicking combination as the one Lee did in his room in ETD (just before Bob Wall knocks on his door). I don’t know if it was used as a particular drill, but it was commonly seen at some point in many sets. There were differences, though; the Chang Chuan/Changquan combo usually consisted of a right jumping front snap kick (slapping the instep), followed by the left sole of foot slap, then the tornado kick, all more or less going towards the front. Lee altered the directions a bit.
Greetings,
That kick combination can be found in the Five Leopard Fist of Eagle Claw. I remember reading somewhere on the net that Bruce Lee got that sequence from that form. I do not know the facts about that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXbEmrSunpk
mickey
We are almost getting there and I think I may have seen the same thing in Youtube and it was published in a martial arts magazine about this sequence from someone in Hong Kong that practiced a style unknown to me.
Thanks again.
Indeed I found a reference in the WULIN 2003 11pp10 but unfortunately the graphic is not clear to read. Maybe someone may have a copy. Thanks everybody.
Mig
Last weekend at Wondercon
We went up primarily to interview Saoirse Ronan and Joe Wright for our recent review HANNA: The Girl Who Kicked Ass. Much to my delight, I got a chance to meet two of the original stars of ETD, Jim Kelly and Bob Wall
Bob still looks like Bob, but what happened to Jim ??
he’ll be 66 in may…he cut his hair…old jim kelly would have been perfect for live action afro samurai… 
[QUOTE=Lucas;1088642]he’ll be 66 in may…he cut his hair…old jim kelly would have been perfect for live action afro samurai… :([/QUOTE]
He looks real thin…last time I saw him was in undercover brother, I don’t remember him looking so…frail…
OH…your right that movie was funny as hell too…hmm…maybe he got sick, i sure hope it isnt the big C…
It’s just the shot
Actually, Kelly looked pretty good. He was skeptical of me because he thought at first that I was from some other magazine, one that published an article that was critical of him and he hasn’t forgiven that. He was very engaging, once he realized I was from Kung Fu Tai Chi. Kelly probably looks thin in that shot because I look so fat. :o
Wall was friendly too, although his booth was right in between Elvira’s, and she drew a huge line of fans, and Lee Meriweather’s, who also had large following (both ladies are still fine lookers, btw). Wall was fawning to me over what a great person Bruce Lee was, and I called him on it, asking about that old controversy about the bottle breaking fight scene in ETD. Wall then gave me a blow-by-blow of what happened. In fact, that’s exactly what he’s describing in this photo:
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Wall was friendly too, although his booth was right in between Elvira’s, and she drew a huge line of fans, and Lee Meriweather’s, who also had large following (both ladies are still fine lookers, btw). Wall was fawning to me over what a great person Bruce Lee was, and I called him on it, asking about that old controversy about the bottle breaking fight scene in ETD. Wall then gave me a blow-by-blow of what happened. In fact, that’s exactly what he’s describing in this photo:
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I’ve never heard of this. Anywhere I can get the low down on this story?
[QUOTE=mig;1070536]Maybe one of you can remember the form Bruce Lee performed in the movie Enter the dragon? It seems to be a form from a north style that was common in Hong Kong. I think I saw a thread in this forum but can not find it. Thanks a bunch.
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In the following clip, Bruce Lee did a 3 jumping kick combo at 0.26.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SxXBMt-YTQ (at 0.26)
That kicking combo is called (San Bu Luo Di) or (Wu Feng Qi Fei) in the (Hua Quan) 3rd Road.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avn8dVzZ_b8 (at 0.18)
The reason it’s called (San Bu Luo Di) because you jump 3 times. In all 3 jumps one of your feet is always in the air.
It’s also called (Wu Feng Qi Fei) because you make 5 slap sounds in this combo (Bruce Lee didn’t do the slap sound).
Bruce Lee ended this kicking combo with inside crescent kick. The outside crescent kick is more commonly used. Not sure about the combat value for this kicking combo but if you can still do this combo when you are 80 years old, you body should still be in good shape. IMO, it’s a good “exercise for health” for your daily training.
Just search “Bob Wall Bruce Lee” on the web and you’ll find it. In a nutshell, there was an accident in the fight scene and rumors flew about who got hurt, how badly, and so on. Lee is such an icon that any fight mishap causes controversy. When I spoke to Wall last Friday, he said it was just an accident, that they had done 5 or 6 takes and on the last one, Lee cut himself on the broken bottle because he closed to quickly. Wall was very courteous about it all. Most would blame the media for blowing the controversy up out of proportion, which was the way of print publishing back then perhaps, but Wall sort of shrugged it all off to me. He was quite the gentleman during our little chat.
the five sounds kicking is also a common drill used in Chinese Opera. Bruce Lee’s dad was an opera star, so he probably learned it from him when he was younger.
Many of the so-called “Bruce Lee-isms” were actually drawn from opera-the flashing eyes glare, the head snap is called Mein, or the face, which all opera players learn.
Other “Bruce Lee mannerisms” in the movies were heavily borrowed from Japanese samurai movies. You can see that he adapted stuff, for example, quickly striking opponents, and then he freezes before the opponents slowly fall down in a delayed reaction. He simply changed the Japanese cinematic sword fighting style to cinematic empty-hand/nunchaku/stick fighting.
BL was known to have been a fan of samurai movies early on; he even copied Zatoichi poses/expressions during a Shaw Brothers photo session. It’s clear he got the basic idea for the Kung Fu series from the Zatoichi series.
I used to train that kick combination in my younger days. Ark Wong taught something similar to it in his 5 Animals Style.