I’m not sure about the timing of that “classical mess” statement, rogue.
I don’t think Lee spent much time with Yip after returning to HK.
I asked Master Sun about him and I heard the exact same words come out of Pan Qing Fu’s mouth and I suspect that there is a general consensus amoung CMA Masters.
“Bruce Lee’s contribution to the CMA was opening it to the west, for promoting it etc.”
When pushed the interviewer asked Master Pan if bruce had kung fu power and Master Pan said something to the effect of, “Yes, he was good.”
Let me ask you something? If you were athletic, good looking and charasmatic, (and I’m not saying that you aren’t) and came to the US in the 70’s when everyone though karate was IT. What would you do? I know what I’d do, I’d try to make myself look like a damn genious with all the new technology. He did claim kung fu’s superiority unill he was giving other people spotlight and then there was the “classical mess” and JKD was born. He spouted off about “Become water my friend” in that interview where he looked like a damn nutcase. Now zen/karate/judo was what was going on so he could get away with chinese cliches and people thought he was “The King of Kung FU” “A Kung Fu Master.” Well last time I checked being a Kung Fu Master meant that you had mastered a system of kung fu. IN the TKD sense of the word he was a master becasue he had good punches and kicks. With that much of a lead, he ran with it, but then ran too fast and died prematurely. Perhaps he should have applied all the Taoism he was talking about to his own life. If he had then maybe he would costarring with David Caradine on Kung Fu. It makes me wonder what would have happened if he was still alive.
I seriously doubt Bruce Lee would’ve been costarring with Carradine on “Kung Fu”.
The general consensus, including from Carradine himself, is that 1960s Hollywood considered Lee “too Chinese” for the part Lee wrote for himself.
When did Lee ever claim to be a “master?”
And NO, 8stepsifu, Bruce Lee was no master from a TKD perspective.
TKD is far more than kicking and punching anyway!
Just what I heard
“According to Yip Man’s son, Lee wanted to take videos of Yip Man - which Yip Man denied”
I have been told that Yip Man THREW Bruce out
of his house because he was against teaching
non-chinese. :eek: