Bruce Lee at the 1967 Long Beach Tournament.

he regards himself as an ambassador for Chinese martial art teaching all who will listen about the ways of the Chinese masters it's bad to say the best but in my opinion I think boom foo is pretty good welcome foo is originated in China it is the ancestor of karate and jujitsu it's more of a complete system and it's more fluid by that I mean it's more flowing there is continually movement instead of one movement to movement and install a karate bun just like an iron bar what a go punch is like an iron chain with an iron ball attached to the end there it go black and it hurt in something li has studied a system of Chinese gun foo for the past nine years called Wing Chun and is considered one of the arts most talented and articulate exponents his teacher in this art has been an elderly Hong Kong Chinese master by the name of Yip mom despite his proficiency in this style of gung foo his study of philosophy has caused him to question and now he begins to question why most martial artists Chinese and otherwise seem more concerned with preserving tradition then was looking more deeply into the matter to penetrate through to the ultimate rule of martial art moreover Li's begun to develop his own method of gung foo which he describes as non classical in nature and which takes as its core the principles of economy of motion simplicity and directness all right for instance you will read it in a magazine and everything that when somebody grabs you you will first do this and then this and then and then and then and then thousands of steps before you do a single thing of course these kind of magazine would teach you to be fear by your enemies and admired by your friends and everything but in food in always in bomb a very fast motion like poison a guy grabbing your hand it's not the idea to do so many step standby on there instead do let go this is what we mean by sympathy same thing in striking it in everything it has to be based on a very minimum motion so that everything would be directly expressed one motion and he's gone doing it gracefully not go ah yelling and jumping all the way both the American and Chinese martial art communities resent his iconoclasm for such a young man to stand up against thousands of years of tradition and venerated Authority is considered a direct threat to the status quo and its entrenched power base prior to Bruce's coming to this country you know the young foo was was alive and most on the Chinese community but there was nothing taught to outsiders basically and Bruce came along and and with that basis of trying to create equal equality amongst all people regardless of race he chose to you know to let anybody into his school regardless of what color race they were as long as he knew what was what was in their heart was good and positive why he he took them in and like when he was down in San Francisco where the Chinese committee was much more like being in China they they took exception to it and he had to fight his way out of it in Oakland he received a challenge from the San Francisco Chinese martial arts community and the challenge read that Bruce if he were to be defeated in this challenge would have to cease teaching Caucasian or non Chinese students and the Chinese martial artist who came over from San Francisco to Bruce's studio in Oakland and a very formal challenge took place I was present there in fact I was eight months pregnant with Brandon and James Lee was there and this fight with this Chinese martial artist lasted about three minutes consisted of a lot of running where the Chinese martial artist took off and started running around the room and Bruce was pursuing him before Bruce finally he got a hold of him and took him down to the floor and made him give up well after the challenge ended and with the Chinese martial artist being soundly defeated and they all went away Bruce won the right to teach anyone he wanted to by February 1967 Lee has three schools operating in Seattle Oakland and Los Angeles that teach his own interpretation of kungfu based on his own investigations into the ultimate truth of unarmed combat however by now the young man is openly critical of the traditions and limitations he sees as inherent in the martial arts as they're currently being practiced to America he believes they lack a solid grounding in reality consisting for Hearst self-defense routines that are employed and predictable his rhythms he notes that real combat is spontaneous not rehearsed and is made up of irregular or broken rhythm that a martial artist cannot anticipate only respond to even the championship karate tournaments of the era are non-contact Affairs settled not on knockouts but on an accumulation of points awarded for blows that never touch an opponent a victory is determined by a team of judges who conclude which combatant would probably have hurt the other combatant the most had contact been allowed Lee has no use for such styles of pseudo fighting which he calls organized despair and dryland swimming Lee's criticism of the arts can be attributed in part to his background in Hong Kong which consisted not of non-contact karate tournaments but full-contact street fights and challenged matches when not fighting against proponents of different style of food rooftops Lee had also fought frequently against knives changes in such a real world encounters referees and judges were not necessary rather than participating in non-contact karate which he considers little more [Music] and the instead devotes himself to devising a more scientific approach to on our economy his research leads him to the science of Newtonian physics and the techniques and principles of European Benson and Western boxing worth efficiency not traditional are the touchstones of both disciplines please research causes him to understand that the only litmus test of a combative techniques worth is whether or not it can be landed effectively on an opponent anything that's ornamental is discarded from his style he retains only those techniques that he himself has determined to be practical in real self-defense situations Lee is the first martial artist in North America if not in the world to have his students gone boxing gloves headgear and body projectors and spar all out nothing is rehearsed no punches are poor and full contact reality based martial art is the order of the day in 1967 Lee introduces the concept of full-contact sparring at the International karate tournament in Long Beach California

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Published: Wed Dec 12 2018

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[u/allahs_rotting_pussy]

This was oddly hypnotic - the combination of the music, voiceover and visuals.

[u/ableseacat14]

Bruce Lee was the man