I am so tired of seeing these posts by people saying Bruce Lee this and Bruce Lee that. If he sucks so bad, why is it that Dan Inosanto trained with him for so long. Why is it that he still teaches JKD and holds anual seminars on it. Go to a JKD kwoon, and challenge someone there. That is the best way in my opinion to see if a style really “sucks”. Who cares what he learned and how much he charged, the fact of the matter is, he created a great fighting system. I have taken JKD for 4 years now. It has taught me alot. So I ask, if JKD is so bad, and Bruce Lee is so fake, why is it that the system works? There have been a few JKDers in the UFC. One was an idiot who kept using headbuts because it was his fav move, the other did real well, but his loss was his long hair, the other guy got ahold of it and wouldn’t let go. I’ve learned btis and pieces of about 15 different systems. I would honnedstly have to say that JKD is as good as any of these.
It must have taken one hell of an act of necromancy to bring this thread back to life.
Since I’m in the giving mood, I’m going to throw this zombie horse some deconsencrated troll-bits . . .
Bruce Lee was an excellent athlete with several poor habits, an average fighter, most of his books are not actually from his notes, and he suxors teh ballzors.
As far as the supreme levels a martial arts master can achieve, i would say bruce did not make it to the near tops…but he also died at 32.
at his age of 32, he was better than most of the people that talk all the smack about him.
people just like to talk smack, its human nature, and has been around since the time before time…
Bruce Lee was a man who dedicated himself to his lifes passions, much the same as you or I. To discount this is pure idiocy. Im not saying he was a martial arts god, but he had some skeelz.
This you cannot deny.
sure there is always someone better, but he was better than a lot of someones…
Well, let’s say I have my praises and my reservations about Bruce Lee as a human being. But who are we to judge? ‘for’, like the saying goes ‘let him without sin cast the first stone!’.
One thing is for sure, that if it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t be enjoying training in the martial arts. This is unquestionable in my mind; Bruce Lee’s approach to the martial arts was innovative beyond his years at the time that he was coming out with these theories. He was able to take, successfully I might add, traditionalism and fuse it with modern approaches to combat. And that my friends takes a very insightful mind to accomplish such a feat!
Bruce Lee is right there with Dr. Leung Jan and Wong Fei Hung as my martial arts heroes.
Bruce was an actor. Not a very good one either. As far as I can tell, there was no basis for the idea that he was an awesome martial artist aside from his movies, which were of questionable quality.
There is actually some pretty neat footage of bruce filmed home style.
I have several clips on my home comp.
Ill have to see about posting some of them.
I like the clip of him doing push up on one arm using only his index finger and his thumb, at a karate competition. Then there is a little sparring, with gear. I have some stuff of him in his back yard kicking a pad. and then some basic demo stuff.
his basic demo stuff make many people look sloppy, not to mention the power is shown when dude goes flying back from a sidekick.
I didnt know him. I cant say for a fact, but…there is actually quite a lot of documented evidence to show that bruce lee did love martial arts, and practiced alot.
Anyone who truly loves martial arts and practices a lot, will undoubtedly reach a level of competence.
I think we can all agree that bruce lee was at the very least a competent martial artist. Too many people who actually knew the man, and are themselves very good martial artists, will attest to the fact he knew his stuff. On the other hand we have many people who never met him, or were born after he died, that say he sucked.
I dont know what side one should be inclined to lean towards but i know which i do…
I have a book on him called “The Tao of the Dragon Warrior.”
He performs a Da Choy (CLF move) in one of the pictures in a twist stance.
Yes, he borrowed stuff from CLF.
Then he died.
Happy ending, isn’t it?
Oh yeah I used to love Bruce Lee too when I was 8. Then I discovered something called martial arts. After that I liked martial arts more than I did Bruce Lee.
i tried to up load this neat bruce lee tribute music video compilation. but when it reaches 100% on the upload to the video web site thing it just goes blank and dissapears…
I don’t think,I know he was years ahead of his time. He was a Great fighter, and a pretty good teacher.
If you say he sucked, then look at his students, like Jessie Glover, James DeMile,Joe Lewis, Ed Hart… each one of these men are some of the best fighters I’ve ever seen, and if asked, (I did) they all state they couldn’t hold a flame to Bruce.
I’ve heard James DeMile state, he has never seen another person that has everything ,that Bruce had, speed,power, timing, rhythm…
these men are now in there late 60’s and early 70’s (excpt Ed Hart, he passed away a few years ago) , But I can say,THAT I’ve never seen anyone, that could match them, and they say, they weren’t even close to Bruce lee’s ability.
that’s proof enough for me!
pictures and words can lie, the memories do fade, but skills and abilities that ones students have can only be learned from there teacher.
and for these gentleman, that teacher was Bruce Lee.
just me two cents.
Get as close to the source as you can.. ask Dan Inosanto, i did.. and i still respect BL’s contribution to MA as we know it.. The ego’s a funny thing, it gets real brave when the subject of its criticism passed away 30 years ago.. Let Dan give you a lesson on BL’s style, it’s as close as you can get to BL..
Who cares what people think about BL, how does that affect anyones training.. the only issue i see here, is envy.. people can’t compete with BL’s reputation so they tear it down.. let the man lay in peace and get on with your own journey..
