Hall of Fame: Chen Shi Xing - Wudang Kung Fu Master


Master Chen ShiXing (Chen Shi Xing) is a one of the real wudang kung fu heros left in time. Chen Shi Xing is an experienced Kung fu master in both wushu performance and martial art application. Master Chen ShiXing started learning with pugilism at the age of 7 and then studied under Wudang kungfu Master Zhong Yunlong. In 2007 Chen Shi Xing founded Wudang Taoist Kungfu School, which was his long time dream.

Do you feel that he us good enough for UFC to prove the strength of IMA (Internal Martial Arts, Internal Kung fu ). Unfortunately we seldom see any Chinese in UFC and other MMA events outside china.

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~ Wednesday, May 20, 2009 0 Kommentare

Anthony Johnson Injures Knee, Off TUF 9 Finale Bout With Matt Brown


Anthony Johnson will not be able to face Matt Brown as scheduled on June 20 during the live finale for the ninth season of The Ultimate Fighter.

BruceLeeStory.com learned of the news from multiple sources close to the fight on Monday afternoon.

Johnson, 7-2, apparently suffered a severe knee injury while preparing for his welterweight contest vs. Brown. There’s no word regarding how long he will be sidelined.
Additionally, immediate word was not available regarding whether Brown would remain on the card against a replacement.

Johnson was signed to a UFC contract just three fights into his pro career. Entering the Octagon with a perfect 3-0 record in his UFC debut vs. Chad Reiner at UFC Fight Night 10 in June of 2007, Johnson improved to 4-0 after requiring just 13 seconds into the fight to defeat Reiner.

He would sustain his first career loss in his very next fight at UFC 76 in September of the same year, submitting to Rich Clementi due to a guillotine choke at 3:05 of round 2. Since that time, Johnson has gone 3-1 and has boosted his stock with all three of his wins coming via KO or TKO.
Brown, 9-7, is an alumnus of the seventh season of The Ultimate Fighter. A talented and tough fighter, Brown entered the competition with a less than stellar record, based somewhat on the fact that he was held back by personal issues during the early stages of his career.

Since becoming a permanent member of the UFC roster, Brown has compiled a 3-1 record with wins over Matt Arroyo, Ryan Thomas, and Pete Sell. His only defeat was a split decision loss to Dong Hyun Kim at UFC 88 this past September.

The TUF 9 finale will take place in Las Vegas, Nevad
a at the Pearl at the Palms and will be headlined by a lightweight bout between Diego Sanchez and Clay Guida. In addition to the lightweight and welterweight finals of TUF 9, a lightweight bout between Nate Diaz and Joe Stevenson is also scheduled.

~ Tuesday, May 19, 2009 0 Kommentare

Fans under age 18 banned from attending UFC 99 in Germany on June 13


Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is once again fighting a major public relations battle prior to its first-ever show in Germany at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne on June 13.

Reports have circulated in recent weeks and months that city council members, as well as a groundswell of vocal local protesters, have lobbied hard to cancel the show because of the perceived violence and brutality of the sport.

And while those efforts have failed, a front-page article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung — one of the country’s biggest newspapers — on Sunday has led to a ban on anyone under the age of 18 from attending UFC 99, according to Yahoo!Sports.com.

It’s familiar territory for the promotion, which will apparently not deter UFC President Dana White on his quest for global mixed martial arts domination.

Here’s a snip:

“It’s the same thing we’ve battled everywhere. It was even worse when we started in the U.K. Television, politicians, venues, they were all against us. They tear it down. It takes time. It’s a long fight. We’re not allowed in New York. As big as we are in Canada, we’re not allowed in Toronto.”


The good news (for now) is that the article reveals that the ban should not affect too many fans, which generally trend in the age group of 25 to 40 years of age. However, there is more than likely a handful of the 7,200 ticket holders who will be none too happy with this latest news.

UFC 99 will be headlined by former middleweight champion Rich “Ace” Franklin taking on ex-PRIDE smashing machine Wanderlei Silva in a special 195-pound brawl. Two solid welterweight match ups — Mike Swick vs. Ben Saunders and Marcus Davis vs. Dan Hardy — will also receive main card billing.

In addition, heavyweights Heath Herring and Cain Velasquez are also slated to hook ‘em up in an interesting collision of heavyweights. Former Pride FC headhunter Mirko “Cro Cop” is also expected to return to the organization to seek a “Comeback” of his own against Mustapha Al-Turk.

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How Bruce Lee Changed The World HDTV.xViD

Bruce Lee is universally recognized for prying open the doors of ancient Chinese martial arts to the mass market. The history of Lee's life, and death at the age of only 32, is shrouded in mystery, but his influence on popular culture continues to be felt today. This special pieces together rare family archival footage owned by the Bruce Lee Foundation, together with in-depth interviews with individuals who have cited inspiration from Lee. Viewers will journey across the US, Asia and Europe exploring Lee's influence on popular culture worldwide--even joining Shannon Lee on a trip back to her father's roots in Hong Kong; nearly fifty years after Lee arrived to make his first kung fu film. Also features in-depth interviews with actor Jackie Chan, comedian Eddie Griffin, rappers LL Cool J and RZA, Marvel Comics' Stan Lee, and renowned film directors John Woo and Brett Ratner. Lee's friend and business partner famed Hong Kong film producer, Raymond Chow gives a rare interview.


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Ebook Martial Arts

A collection of the best Martial Arts Techniques.








~ Sunday, May 17, 2009 1 Kommentare

Bruce Lee Set Us Free

NOT JUST MOVIE STAR
IN my house, Bruce Lee is a god.

The love interest has a sort of shrine with his four movies (yes, he only made four) in VHS and DVD versions, an action figure and -- oh, yes -- the signed 8x10 glossy (which I think is a fake) in his den.

Once upon a time, I actually thought Bruce Lee was a human -- but I soon found out differently. It's a guy thing.

On Sunday night, History Channel will present a fantastically detailed special on what, at first, sounds insane, but is nonetheless true: "How Bruce Lee Changed the World." It's something untold millions of Bruce Lee fans have known for four decades.

So how did a martial arts guy, who died at age 32, change the world?

Lee, you'll learn, changed not only cinema -- remember, he produced the first martial arts movies without special effects and turned himself into the first ever Asian superstar -- but music, arts, fitness, martial arts, body building and, oh yes, philosophy.

Lee also invented mixed martial arts -- which is now a multi-multi million dollar industry. (The last pay-per-view Mixed Martial Arts Championship earned $50 million!)

His philosophy of form is gospel to millions of martial artists who say it's not just a way of fighting but a way of living.

An innovative body builder, Lee went for definition over bulk, an unknown thing then.

Understanding the ties between movement and music, he hired Lalo Schifrin (composer of the "Mission Impossible" theme, among others) to integrate urban beats with Asian melodies, overlaid with rock and disco beats, for "Enter The Dragon." That movie was released one month after Lee's death and won an Oscar for the music.

He was even a nutritional innovator.

Says one pal from those days, "He'd put raw beef, seven eggs and milk in a blender and gulp that thing down! We were terrified!" Today there are nutritional drinks based on his ideas.

The guy might not have been a god exactly, but he sure was a genius. Don't miss it.

"How Bruce Lee Changed the World" Sunday night at 8 on History
by New York Post

~ Saturday, May 16, 2009 0 Kommentare

Chin Na For Cops 2

Chin Na is the Helping Hand That Police Officers Need to Make Thier Jobs Less Deadly


1. The suspect grasps at the officer’s throat
2. The officer immediately pins the suspect’s hand to the shoulder.

3. The officer then raises the right hand high in a circular way up and across to bind/seize the suspect’s arm(s).
4. The officer then lifts the left hand and continues the path of the right hand, bringing the suspect down to the ground.

5. At this point, a strong grip is maintained
by the officer’s left hand while his right hand slips up to assist in
binding/seizing the suspect’s hand for a twist of his wrist for control.

Training for Cops

Defensive tactics is a broad subject and with limited amount of allotted training time, police officers need the most proficient and direct techniques for the street. According to Baird, “Officers should focus on the most common procedures in police work, not the least common,” says Baird.

Officers are often in a position where they need to escort or handcuff a suspect, all of which normally occurs from a standing position. This initial stage happens before drawing a weapon or groundfighting. It’s the area of self-defense that’s used the most, but trained the least. Chin na provides answers for these first-stage situations by using correct technique that keeps everyone’s safety in mind.

Instead of focusing on this area, many departments train only an advanced stage of street self-defense where an officer is dressed in a heavily padded suit with gear on his head and body. “They put officers in a frightening situation where they’re being attacked by a very aggressive trainer,” recalls Baird. “He pushes the cops around, resists arrest, possibly throws and hits them. In one department that I’m aware of, there were more injuries from the training than they had on the job.

“They’re taking amateur self-defenders, skipping important steps and placing them in a real-life training situation they’re most likely not prepared for,” adds Baird. Police officers have even retired on medical because of severe injuries from this kind of training. “It’s my opinion that departments need to have basic strikes, basic takedowns, basic locks and holds long before they are tested under such aggressive conditions.”

Through the principles of chin na, an officer learns how to: approach a suspect, close the distance and ready himself for the suspect’s response. Repetition and neural learning helps officers train self-defense and understand how the human body works. “If you put pressure here, pull here, push there, over and over, the officer learns how an opponent’s body responds,” notes Baird.

“From my experience, if the officer in the field has the tools and skills, as well as the confidence to use them, it’ll be less likely he’ll have to resort to deadly force,” says former Chief of Police Newsham. “And that’s what this is all about.”

By having the knowledge, skills and experience, an officer will be confident in his actions and capable of responding without using unnecessary violence on the suspect. The better trained the police officer, the safer the suspect, which in turn reduces a city’s liability. This also shows the community that police departments are doing everything possible to protect both the officer and the suspect.

“Chin na is an intelligent art that offers a ‘study’ for police officers,” insists Baird. “Chin na offers effective, tested techniques that will help police officers have an easier time doing a difficult job.”

~ Thursday, May 14, 2009 0 Kommentare

Chin Na For Cops

Chin Na is the Helping Hand That Police Officers Need to Make Thier Jobs Less Deadly

Sir, can you please step out of your vehicle?”

Every day police officers are making “hands-on” contact with thousands of individuals: field interviews, searches, domestic calls at 4 a.m. Each situation requires a response with the appropriate manner and appropriate amount of force.

“Too many times, officers are in a position to use deadly force, because they don’t have any tools available to them,” explains former Burbank Chief of Police, Dave Newsham, who in 1992 brought in kung-fu grandmaster Don Baird to head the department’s defensive tactics program. “Any opportunity, we try and give our officers another option.”

Chin na provides police officers just that, because it’s a system of seizing and catching joints, tendons, ligaments, allowing the user to control an opponent’s body. Often gentle although sometimes severe, these techniques can create immense pain when applied correctly. By manipulating a finger or arm in different ways, a police officer can use the suspect’s body as leverage to control or arrest him.

China’s Grappling Art

Chin na isn’t an individual style, but an aspect of nearly all kung-fu styles in China. The word “chin” means “to seize or trap” and “na” means “to lock or break.”

For over 1,000 years, shaolin monks have trained in chin na, perfecting and honing techniques to the quality they are today. “It’s one thing to have techniques that were made up yesterday; it’s another to have ones that withstood the test of time in the most violent situations,” says Baird.

Based on more than just techniques, this system teaches the student principles of body mechanics and patience. You learn how to capture different parts of the body and the correct force required to be effective. The distance between you and the opponent, spatial orientation, intuition, reading an opponent through muscle shifting and body movement are only a few things chin na focuses on.

“To this day, chin na is one of the most effective training methods for Chinese military and police officers,” notes Baird. What made this system appealing was the ability to disable opponents without causing unnecessary harm. Our bodies are only meant to bend or twist at certain angles before feeling discomfort and then pain. When you grab and then manipulate a part of a person’s body in the correct way, you gain control over the rest of the body.


1. The suspect tries to grab the officer’s gun from behind.
2. The officer turns and pins the suspect’s hand to the holstered gun,kinking the suspect’s wrist.

3. An inside shot of the parry and wrist pressure
4. This photo shows the officer’s hand slipping to a grab/seize.

5. The officer turns further and prepares to lock/break the suspect’s arm.
6. The officer locks/breaks the suspect’s arm (this move can also lead to a strong takedown).

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History tells us 'How Bruce Lee Changed the World'

To mark the 35th anniversary of Bruce Lee's death, the History Channel will air a new two-hour documentary, HOW BRUCE LEE CHANGED THE WORLD beginning May 17th at 8pm ET. Produced in cooperation with Lee's family, this documentary looks at how the actor and martial artist's legacy has shaped and influenced the world since his death.

The special includes in-depth interviews with Jackie Chan, John Woo, comedian Eddie Griffin, hip-hop artists LL Cool J and RZA, Marvel Comics' Stan Lee, Brett Ratner, and Randy Couture among many others. There is also a rare interview with producer and Golden Harvest co-founder Raymond Chow.

The press release to promote the documentary states that Lee was the first person to use kung fu skills on screen without the aid of special effects. That statement is false. Real kung fu forms devoid of special effects were being featured on screen by real kung fu practitioners in the WONG FEI HUNG film series as early as 1949, several years before Lee even began training in martial arts.

I do not have access to the History Channel at the moment so maybe someone who ends up seeing this documentary can chime in with their thoughts on it. A DVD version from A&E Entertainment is slated for release on July 28th.

HOW BRUCE LEE CHANGED THE WORLD

Two-hour Special Presentation Premieres Sunday, May 10 at 8pm ET on HISTORY™

New York, April 2009 – Bruce Lee is universally recognized for prying open the doors of ancient Chinese martial arts to the mass market— defining a moment in an era when “everybody was kung fu fighting.” The history of Lee’s life, and death at the age of only 32, is shrouded in mystery, but his influence on popular culture continues to be felt today. HISTORY™ presents a special two-hour exploration of the Bruce Lee phenomenon. HOW BRUCE LEE CHANGED THE WORLD premieres Sunday, May 10 at 8pm ET on HISTORY™.

HOW BRUCE LEE CHANGED THE WORLD takes a detailed and unique look into Lee’s legacy— revealing the story of his rise from the backstreets of Hong Kong, while documenting Lee’s qualities, both physical and philosophical, that drove him to international stardom. More than just a biography, this special pieces together rare family archive and material owned by the Bruce Lee Foundation, together with in-depth interviews with individuals who continue to cite inspiration from Lee to this day.

Bruce Lee is known as one of the greatest martial artists of all time. His commitment to a principled approach of training, and an unparalleled skill and proficiency in all martial arts disciplines, resulted in the creation of one of the greatest physiques in modern history.

He was able to perform superhuman physical feats that have yet to be equaled, such as a two fingered push-up and a lethal blow called the one-inch punch, and was the first person to use kung fu skills on screen without the aid of special effects.

Since his death, Lee has been recognized as a visionary who changed not just action movies and martial arts, but an icon that created this very simple image that is endlessly reproducible to this day. From his role as Kato on television’s “Green Hornet” to his groundbreaking debut film “Enter the Dragon,” Lee blew up the stereotype of how Asian characters would be portrayed on screen forever. With no one able to fill the void after his death, a rash of Bruce Lee look-alikes and copycat films emerged inspiring a whole new film genre.

A cinematic journey, this special takes the viewer across the US, Asia and Europe exploring Lee’s influence on popular culture worldwide— even joining Shannon Lee on a trip back to her father’s roots in Hong Kong; nearly fifty years after Lee arrived to make his first kung fu film. HOW BRUCE LEE CHANGED THE WORLD also features in-depth interviews with actor Jackie Chan, comedian Eddie Griffin, rappers LL Cool J and RZA, Marvel Comics' Stan Lee, and renowned film directors John Woo and Brett Rattner among others. Lee’s friend and business partner famed Hong Kong film producer, Raymond Chow gives a rare interview.

HOW BRUCE LEE CHANGED THE WORLD is co-produced for HISTORY by Waddell Media and Leeway Productions. Executive producer for HISTORY is Dirk Hoogstra.


Update: History Channel has notified us that the premiere of HOW BRUCE LEE CHANGED THE WORLD has changed to May 17th, at 8pm ET.

~ Tuesday, May 12, 2009 0 Kommentare

Hall of Fame: Leo Fong

Throughout the decades, Leo Fong has worn many hats—actor, writer, director, producer, minister, social worker and fitness coach—but his most important role has been that of kung fu master.

Born in Guangzhou (formerly Canton), China, Fong moved to Arkansas at age 4. In his youth, he used his pugilistic skills to become an Amateur Athletic Union and Golden Gloves champion in Arkansas and Texas. He then enrolled at Hendrix College in Arkansas and later received a master’s degree in theology from Southern Methodist University. After beginning his career as a Methodist minister, he earned a master’s degree in social work from Sacramento State University.

Fong moved to Northern California, where he began training in a variety of martial arts. He attained master-level rank in taekwondo, jujutsu, sil lum kung fu, choy li fut kung fu and wing chun kung fu. He had the good fortune to train with three legends: choy li fut’s Lau Bun, sil lum’s T.Y. Wong and then-wing chun practitioner Bruce Lee. Fong often receives credit for inspiring Lee to develop his boxing skills and for helping him formulate jeet kune do.

But Fong opted not to spend his days promoting Lee’s art. Instead, he founded his own style, called wei kuen do, the “way of the integrated fist.” It’s a complete system based on boxing, kung fu and street self-defense, Fong says.

Fong’s impact on the American martial arts community dates back to the 1970s. First, he penned Sil Lum Kung-Fu and Choy Lay Fut Kung-Fu for Ohara Publications (now Black Belt Books). They were the first books about those arts written in English and aimed at the general public. Fong was recommended to draft the text by his friend and training partner, Bruce Lee.

During the 1970s and ’80s, Fong became one of the first people to produce and star in martial arts instructional films. He continued to inspire and educate through his books, which included Wei Kuen Do, Winning Strategies for Karate and Kung Fu, and Power Training in Kung Fu and Karate (co-authored with Ron Marchini).

In the mid-1970s, Fong started working in the film industry. He starred in Kill Point with Cameron Mitchell and Richard Roundtree, as well as more than 20 action and adventure movies.

While living in the Philippines making motion pictures, Fong began learning the stick arts. He studied under Remy Presas, founder of modern arnis. When Fong returned to California, he trained with Angel Cabales, founder of serrada escrima. Fong later assembled all that he’d learned into a new system called modern escrima.

In 1984 while visiting George Dillman, Fong was introduced to pressure-point fighting. Although the art was still in the developmental stage, Fong realized the self-defense value of being able to effortlessly strike vulnerable points. Over the next two decades, he watched Dillman refine his art, then incorporated parts of it into wei kuen do.

As a martial arts teacher, Fong integrated self-defense principles and techniques with spiritual lessons, and the result inspired and educated thousands. He was one of the first people to create a martial arts program at a church and to develop a youth program based on the arts. With help from Marchini, he ran a successful chain of schools in Stockton, California, and together they promoted hundreds of tournaments, attracting the likes of Chuck Norris, Mike Stone, Howard Jackson, Joe Lewis, Bob Wall, Steve “Nasty” Anderson, Billy Banks, Steve Sanders, Cynthia Rothrock and John Chung.

After retiring from the church, Fong dedicated himself to mastering the arts of healing and energy. By combining fitness training, psychology, spirituality and the martial arts, he created chi fung, a complete mind-body-spirit workout. He teaches it 10 times a week to hundreds of followers.

~ Monday, May 11, 2009 0 Kommentare

Bruce Lee vs. Iron Man

Sometimes, you just have to let a video speak for itself. Enjoy.

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Bruce Lee Convention Coming to Tinseltown

The 2009 Bruce Lee Foundation Event has been scheduled for November 13 - 15, 2009 and will take place at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, California. The Event will include JKD seminars, a Bruce Lee Action Museum exhibit, a JKD summit, fun group activities, a silent auction, a banquet, special BLF merchandise and much, much more. More details will be made available shortly.

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The Message of Bruce Lee: 11 Masters Reveal the Most Important Lessons of the "Little Dragon"

Bruce Lee used to begin his jeet kune do classes with a short story to encourage his students to open their mind:

“A learned man once went to a Zen teacher to inquire about Zen. As the teacher explained, the learned man would frequently interrupt him with remarks like, ‘Oh yes, we have that too,’ and so on.

Finally the Zen teacher stopped talking and began to serve tea to the learned man. He poured the cup full, then kept pouring until the cup overflowed.

‘Enough!’ the learned man once more interrupted. ‘No more can go into the cup!’
‘Indeed, I see,’ answered the Zen teacher. ‘If you do not first empty your cup, how can you taste my cup of tea?’”

Lee believed that a martial artist could not learn anything new if he was already full of traditional and classical teachings. Claiming that the usefulness of the cup is in its emptiness, he encouraged his students to spill their cup so it could be refilled with his new and liberating approach to the martial arts.

Because of the enigmatic nature of Lee’s teachings and the ever-changing way he viewed combat, however, practically everyone in the modern jeet kune do (JKD) community has a different bit of Bruce in his cup. Black Belt decided to look up 11 of the most prominent first-generation Bruce Lee students and second- and third-generation JKD instructors to ask what they think the “Little Dragon” was really trying to say.

Finally the Zen teacher stopped talking and began to serve tea to the learned man. He poured the cup full, then kept pouring until the cup overflowed.

‘Enough!’ the learned man once more interrupted. ‘No more can go into the cup!’
‘Indeed, I see,’ answered the Zen teacher. ‘If you do not first empty your cup, how can you taste my cup of tea?’”

Lee believed that a martial artist could not learn anything new if he was already full of traditional and classical teachings. Claiming that the usefulness of the cup is in its emptiness, he encouraged his students to spill their cup so it could be refilled with his new and liberating approach to the martial arts.

Because of the enigmatic nature of Lee’s teachings and the ever-changing way he viewed combat, however, practically everyone in the modern jeet kune do (JKD) community has a different bit of Bruce in his cup. Black Belt decided to look up 11 of the most prominent first-generation Bruce Lee students and second- and third-generation JKD instructors to ask what they think the “Little Dragon” was really trying to say.


Richard Bustillo

“What originated as one man’s intuition of some sort of personal fluidity has been transformed into solidified, fixed knowledge, complete with organized, classified responses presented in a logical order. This knowledge is a holy shrine, but also a tomb in which they have buried the founder’s wisdom.”
—Bruce Lee

At age 24, Richard Bustillo began studying JKD under Lee at the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute in Los Angeles’ Chinatown area. Lee continuously emphasized the limitations of following a single established style, Bustillo says. Not only are those styles confining, or tomb-like, but they “keep men apart from each other, rather than unite them,” Lee would often preach.

Bustillo says Lee disliked labeling any kind of fighting as a specific style. Instead, when a person trains to fight, he should prepare himself to handle any kind of opponent, no matter what his style may be.

“From Bruce’s beliefs regarding established styles, I learned to train with an open mind,” Bustillo says. “Essentially, he allowed me to be free from being closed into one particular style.”

Lee used to tell his students that if they wanted to be able to defend themselves, they must examine other arts, Bustillo says. He remembers how the students in Lee’s academy would test their skills in the sparring ring. It was anything-goes: Techniques from boxing and muay Thai, as well as ground grappling, wrestling and long-range weapons, were allowed. By honing their skills in each art, the students learned how to effectively apply defensive techniques in real-life fighting scenarios, Bustillo says.

Gary Dill

“I don’t know what you will do, but do it quick."
—Bruce Lee

Gary Dill is a second-generation student who trained under James Yimm Lee at the Oakland Jeet Kune Do School. He has taught JKD for more than 27 years and now serves as the chief instructor of the Jeet Kune Do Association.

Lee’s speed and power seldom go unmentioned, Dill says, and for good reason: The importance of those two attributes was ingrained in Dill’s head from day one. And fortunately for martial artists with less than Lee’s natural ability, both are learned skills.

Because Lee’s JKD was developed for street combat, speed always received the lion’s share of emphasis in the classes Dill attended. “A marital artist can be an excellent technician and can have perfect form, but if he cannot get a strike to hit its target, what good is he?” Dill asks.

Lee taught that knowing proper technique was not enough to become a successful marital artist, Dill says. Everyone should have the ability to expediently deliver strikes; and to develop that ability, the body must learn to relax.

Relaxation is essential for faster and more powerful punching, Lee wrote, and Dill agrees. That’s why he teaches his students to concentrate on keeping their upper-body muscles relaxed while executing techniques. If the chest and arm muscles remain loose when a punch is thrown, Dill says, the student is better able to focus on the impact. Tightening the muscles while punching is counter-productive because the muscles that would retract the arm must fight against the muscles that are extending it, Dill explains.


Ted Wong

“Leading with the forward hand, guarding with the rear hand, while moving to the side, makes negligible any opening that ordinarily results from a straight forward lead with the hand.”
—Bruce Lee
(Tao of Jeet Kune Do, Ohara Publications)

Ted Wong met Lee in 1967, when the JKD founder was opening his school in Los Angeles. Wong was impressed with Lee’s demonstration of JKD and grateful for the opportunity to enroll in his first class.
Wong says the most important fighting technique he learned is the leading straight punch. “It is absolutely crucial to jeet kune do because it is fast, easy to deliver and extremely accurate,” he says.

“Bruce would say that the leading straight punch is the backbone of all punching in jeet kune do,” Wong says. Although it is not the end-all of combat, the technique is essential to developing effective skills in any type of fighting, he says. And because the fist follows a straight path to its target, it stands a better chance of avoiding detection than do many other hand techniques.

Jerry Beasley

“At best, styles are merely parts dissected from a unitary whole.”
—Bruce Lee

Jerry Beasley, Ed.D., began practicing the marital arts in 1966. Like Lee, he studied philosophy as well as fighting strategies and techniques. In 1982, Beasley started training with a former student of Lee’s, ex-full-contact karate champ and Black Belt Hall of Fame member Joe Lewis.

Beasley, who teaches a JKD course at Radford University in Radford, Virginia, claims Lewis did not emphasize any specific technique that he had learned from Lee; instead, Lewis focused on the importance of being free to choose whichever style works best for the student. Lewis encouraged Beasley to experiment with various styles to discover the most effective techniques of each one.

Beasley learned to think like a fighter, rather than think in one particular style. “I have learned to constantly change my strategy,” he says. “It evolves as I spar. I have learned to win by acquiring a superior mentality.”

Lee insisted that the opponent’s knowledge was also the martial artist’s knowledge, Beasley claims. On numerous occasions Beasley has applied this element in sparring sessions. “I was able to absorb my opponent’s energy to the extent that whatever he knew, I also knew,” he says. “You need to become your opponent. That is how you can best absorb the opponent’s energy, expression and tension.”

Herb Jackson

“Please do not take the finger to be the moon or fix your gaze so intently on the finger as to miss all the beautiful sights of heaven. After all, the usefulness of the finger is in pointing away from itself to the light which illumines finger and all.”
—Bruce Lee

“Bruce Lee always sought excellence in whatever he was trying to accomplish,” says Herb Jackson, who met the master in Los Angeles’ Chinatown in December 1967 and became a student and close friend.

“For the last five years of Bruce’s life, he was not absorbed in individual techniques or in forming a set pattern of reactions to a situation,” Jackson says. That’s why he says the most important lesson Lee taught was to utilize the mind and body in an efficient manner.

Jackson learned that if a martial artist purposefully thinks about his kicks and punches, he controls his body’s actions and limits his self-expression. In essence, he restricts his own freedom.

Instead of restricting their freedom, Lee encouraged his students to condition their muscle pathways to ensure they could operate properly and apply energy efficiently during each phase of progressive expression and aggressive acceleration, Jackson says. In that way, they used exercise, training, visualization and intellectual and emotional input to achieve a sophisticated level of expression.

“That is quite an accomplishment,” he concludes. “It is a great feeling—almost an out-of-body experience because you are able to observe your own body in action.”

Christophe Clugston

“In the eyes of combat there is no set course but the totality of action, and in this totality of action there is nothing to choose and nothing better or worse.”
—Bruce Lee

Third-generation JKD practitioner Christophe Clugston studied under Mike Sanmin and Carl James. The most important thing Clugston learned from them was the concept of totality. In other words, it is useless to analyze specific techniques because no single technique guarantees victory in a fight.

It is far superior to view a battle in its entirety, Clugston says. “The beauty of Lee’s teachings will not be unraveled until students stop looking at each technique as a part.”

Lee wrote: “To try to define JKD in terms of a distinct style—be it kung fu, karate, street fighting, Bruce Lee’s martial art, etc.—is to completely miss its meaning. Its teaching simply cannot be confined within a system. Since JKD is at once ‘this’ and ‘not this,’ it neither opposes nor adheres to any style. To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of ‘for’ and ‘against’ into one organic unity, which is without distinctions. Understanding JKD is direct intuition of this unity.” (Black Belt, September 1971)

From those words, Clugston has learned to see a fight as a whole, rather than as a sequence of individual techniques. “Looking at each part encourages too much analysis of what you are doing, instead of just flowing with whatever technique comes naturally,” he says.

Larry Hartsell

“Style screws a guy up because he thinks he has to throw his punches and kicks at an exact path and rhythm. There’s no tested or practical theory behind the delivery. Just because someone centuries ago said that this is how it should be done, it may not necessarily be the best way. A style should never be gospel truth, the laws and principles of which can never be violated.”
—Bruce Lee
(Bruce Lee: The Incomparable Fighter, Ohara Publications)

Larry Hartsell trained with Lee from 1967 to 1970. “I learned that a person should not be bound by one martial art,” Hartsell says. “Instead, an individual needs to find his own truth as a martial artist.”

To help his students discover their own truth and develop their ability to implement it, Lee constantly changed his martial arts curriculum, Hartsell says. “He was always adding and deleting methods of cross-training.”

Hartsell learned that the key to freeing himself from a specific style was to build his speed and strength through plyometrics and fitness exercises. Speed and strength enable a martial artist to fight effectively against any opponent in any situation, he says.

Lamar Davis

“The leading finger jab is the longest of all hand weapons as well as the fastest because of the little force needed. You do not need power to jab at an opponent’s eyes. Rather, the ability to seize an opportunity with accuracy and speed is the main thing in the efficient use of the finger jab. Like a cobra, your finger jab should be felt and not seen.”
—Bruce Lee
(Tao of Jeet Kune Do)

Lamar Davis is a second-generation JKD practitioner who trained under Steve Golden and Jerry Poteet from the Los Angeles Chinatown period, Leo Fong from the Oakland period and Patrick Strong and Joseph Cowles from the Seattle period. A 41-year veteran of the martial arts, Davis says the mandate to use the longest weapon to reach the opponent's nearest target is among the most important lessons of Lee.

That’s why Davis identifies the finger jab as the best JKD self-defense technique for the street. It puts the assailant at your mercy by completely disorienting him, he says.

The idea behind the finger jab is not to shove the attacker’s eye back into its socket, Davis insists, but to quickly tap it, which causes his eyes to water and his vision to blur.

Daniel Lee

“Look at any tool as an art. Remember, for a single tool to be a masterpiece, it must have totality, accuracy, speed and power. Until you have the ability to move your body and adapt to whatever the object happens to be in front of you as well as punch and kick from any angle, you still haven’t gotten your total efficiency.”
—Bruce Lee
(private conversation with Daniel Lee)

It has been 33 years since Daniel Lee trained with Bruce at the Chinatown school. “Studying with Bruce Lee was a life-changing experience,” Daniel Lee recalls. He says Bruce freed him from blindly following fixed fighting routines and from believing that traditional styles would actually protect him in a real combat situation.

Instead of letting his student continue along his traditional path, Bruce urged Daniel Lee to concentrate on boosting the quality of his punches and kicks—and his ability to combine them.


Taky Kimura

“The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.”
—Bruce Lee

Although Taky Kimura learned numerous physical techniques from Lee, he prefers to talk about the philosophical concepts Lee imparted. “I was introduced to Bruce at a very low point in my own life, and he was the person that was best able to help me,” Kimura says.

Lee taught Kimura to understand who he was as a human being. “Bruce encouraged me to conquer the insecurity within myself and to realize that I am a person, [that] I am no better or worse than anyone else” he says. “Having gone through other trials and tribulations, Lee was able to rekindle the fires in my belly, so to speak. I was finally able to realize that I needed to speak for myself.”

Lee taught Kimura that knowing himself and being comfortable with his self-image were essential to discovering the truth of the martial arts and the truth of life. “When you get up in the morning and you are shaving or brushing your teeth, that is where the truth emits itself,” Kimura says. “You have to be honest with yourself.”

Joe Lewis

“The most pitiful sight is to see sincere students earnestly repeating those imitative drills, listening to their own screams and spiritual yells…. These poor souls have unwittingly become trapped in the miasma of classical martial arts training.”
—Bruce Lee

Former heavyweight champion Joe Lewis is one of the few martial artists to have exchanged punches with Lee. Nevertheless, Lewis chooses to focus on the visions Lee was able to create within all his students.

“Bruce Lee was very keen about integrating a sense of philosophy into training,” Lewis says. “This, coupled with his ability to provide students with a philosophy about life, created a sense of spirituality. I find that aspect lacking in other systems.”

Lewis says training with Lee was a unique experience because Lee helped him unleash the abilities that lay within. “He allowed me to gain an inner awareness and to be able to completely express my innermost feelings,” Lewis says. He also taught Lewis how to conceptualize his fighting tactics so he could meet the challenge defeating superior opponents.

“Without such a philosophy, there is no way you can control your execution of martial arts techniques,” Lewis adds. “Bruce Lee had a unique way of expressing that while being entertaining at the same time. There are instructors who are brilliant at times, and there are instructors who are on the cutting edge, but Bruce Lee had all that and more. His uniqueness was a rare gift in the martial arts.”

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About Jeet Kune Do

Jeet Kune Do

About Jeet Kune Do

JKD has long since been known as the style of no style, but this term has been overused and to a great extent exaggerated to "allow" others to teach JKD without using actual Jeet Kune Do techniques under the guise of defining the art as anything you want to make it. The art, which was formed by Lee in various stages, was finally named in the late 60's. While continuing to deny that JKD was a "style" he began to show his system to the public with great skepticism from the martial arts community and various Chinese individual who found his teachings to be discourteous to tradition. While it is nothing in the martial arts for a founder of a martial art style to be young (most founders / grandmasters of famous Chinese and Japanese systems were in their 20's) Lee's instruction of non-Chinese had the elders in an uproar. He was a pioneer in many different aspects in the martial arts. One of his famous quotes was Jeet Kune Do is only a name so don't fuss over it, but if he gave so little importance to the name why would he want it on his grave marker. This act would certainly lead one to believe that this name was important, and that it had significant meaning to him and the style known as Jeet Kune D

The art of JKD is difficult for many to grasp if it is taught in a manner shrouded in mystery, as is the case in most situations. For this reason the World Jeet Kune Do Federation was formed to clear up the mess and allow each and every individual to practice and learn the real art, and to gain legitimate martial art rankings for their hard work and dedication. There have been many attempts to bring the styles instructors and associations together as one, none of which has ever succeeded. Today there are two basic JKD systems to choose from. The original JKD, and JKD concepts. The original JKD is as its name implies the core art as founded. The concepts rely on other arts in an attempt to improve Lee?s system. Neither is better than the other, only different.

The original art itself is a modification of Lee's first martial art style of Wing Chun Kung Fu. So many modifications in fact that it is very hard to see some of the similarities of the two systems. The blocks and hand manoeuvres such as grabbing, sticking, and energy techniques have their roots in Wing Chun but the finished product is pure JKD. JKD has had such an influence in the martial art word the even the core art of Wing Chun has adopted JKD sparring techniques. The second of the three arts in the core of original JKD is French Fencing. Who can deny the speed and agility in the art of fencing? The footwork is a combining and modifying of fencing, Wing Chun, boxing movements, placements and displacements. And the final art of Western or American Boxing for the Muhammad Ali hand manoeuvres and punches.


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About Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee



1940 November 27
San Francisco- In the The Year of the Dragon between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. (the hour of the dragon), Lee Jun Fan (meaning return again Lee), Bruce Lee is born at the Jackson Street Hospital in San Francisco?s Chinatown. Lee Hoi Chuen, Bruce's father, was performing with the Cantonese Opera Company in America.
At three months old, Bruce debuts in "Golden Gate Girl" in San Francisco.
He plays role of a female baby, carried by his father.

1941 (Age 1)
Hong Kong - Bruce and his parents return to Kowloon, their family home. They move into an apartment at 218 Nathan Road, Kowloon district. The apartment is located on the second floor of a building containing a store on the first floor.

1946 (Age 6)
Hong Kong - Bruce makes his first major childhood movie in The Beginning of a Boy. He also performs in The Birth of Mankind, and My Son, Ah Cheun. During the later years of his childhood, Bruce appears in 20 more films. At this time Lee also becomes nearsighted and starts to wear glasses. (He will later wear contacts, suggested to him by a friend who is an optometrist.)

1952 (Age 12)
Hong Kong - Lee begins attending La Salle College, a Catholic Boys school.

1953 (Age 13)
Attended St. Xavier College- a high school. Hong Kong - After being beaten up in a street gang altercation, Bruce begins to take Gung-Fu lessons. He begins to train under Yip Man, master of the Wing Chun system of Gung-Fu.

1954 (Age 14)
Hong Kong - Bruce takes up cha-cha dancing.

1958 (Age 18)
Studied Wing Chun with Wong Shun Leung.
Hong Kong - Bruce wins the Crown Colony Cha-Cha Championship. Bruce has a leading role in the film The Orphan. This is the last movie Bruce makes as a child actor. This is the only movie where Bruce does not fight. Hong Kong - Bruce enters the 1958 Boxing Championships and defeats the reigning three year champion, Gary Elms.

1959 (Age 19)
Hong Kong - Bruce's street fighting was becoming a problem. Bruce's father and mother decide that Bruce should take a three week voyage to the United States. San Francisco California, Chinatown. Lee returns to his birth-place to claim his American Citizenship. San Francisco - Seattle - With $15 from his father, and $100 from his mother, Bruce arrives in the United States, living with an old friend of his father. He works odd jobs around the various Chinese communities. Moved to Seattle to work for Ruby Chow, another friend of his father. He lives in a room above her restaurant while working as a waiter downstairs. He eventually enrolls in Edison Technical School and earns his high school diploma. Bruce begins to teach his Martial Arts.

1961 (Age 21)
Seattle- Bruce enrolls at the University of Washington, studying Philosophy. He teaches Gung-Fu to students at school.

1963 Summer (Age 23)
Hong Kong - Bruce proposes to Amy Sanbo but is turned down. Bruce returns to Hong Kong with friend Doug Palmer for the first time since his arrival in the U.S. to visit family. He then returns to Seattle at the end of summer to continue his education.

1963 October 25 (Age 23)
Seattle - Bruce takes out Linda Emery (his future wife) for their first date. They have dinner at the Space Needle. Bruce gives notice to Ruby Chow and leaves her restaurant. He starts the first Jun Fan Gung-Fu Institute.

1963 Fall (Age 23)
Seattle - Bruce moves his Jun Fan Gung-Fu Institute into a building (4750 University Way) near the university campus. Wrote the book Chinese Gung Fu: The philosophical art of self defense. Lee teaches anyone of any race, (Asian Martial Arts schools would only teach people of their own race) At Garfield High School, Bruce demonstrates the "One-Inch Punch". This is the punch he would later make famous at the 64' Long Beach Internationals.

1964(Age 24)
Bruce meets Jhoon Rhee at the International Karate Championships. The two would remain good friends and Lee would use the high flashy kicks that Rhee taught him in the Green Hornet series and in the rest of his movies. While he believed that kicking a man in the head was like punching him in the foot, he knew the kicks looked good on film even if they were impractical for real self defense.
(Jhoon Rhee will invite Bruce to Washington, D.C. to appear at tournaments.)

1964 June (Age 24)
Oakland - Bruce discusses with James Yimm Lee plans to open a second Jun Fan Gung-Fu Institute in Oakland, CA.

1964 Summer (Age 24)
Oakland - Plans are finalized, and Bruce leaves Seattle to start a second Jun Fan Gung-Fu school in Oakland.
James Yimm Lee is Co Instructor, the only person who ever received equal with Bruce Lee teaching status.

1964 August 2 (Age 24)
Long Beach, CA - Ed Parker, known as the Father of American Kenpo and also Elvis Presley?s body-guard and karate teacher, invites Bruce to give a demonstration. Bruce shows off his "one-inch punch," and his two-finger push-ups. At his first International Karate Championships, Jay Sebring, the hair stylist for Batman, William Dozier, a producer, who is looking to cast a part in a TV series he was developing. Sebring then gives a film of Bruce's demo to Dozier who is impressed with Bruce?s abilities. Bruce flies down to Los Angeles for a screen test.

1964 August 4 (Age 24)
Oakland - Bruce leaves for Seattle. He will propose to Linda.

1964 August 17 (Age 24)
Bruce returns to Seattle to marry Linda. They soon move to Oakland, living with his good friend and Co Instructor at the Oakland school James Lee.

1965 (Age 24)
Oakland - Several months after he begins teaching, he is challenged by, Wong Jack Man, a Gung-Fu practitioner in the Chinatown Community. They agree: If Bruce looses, he will, either close his school, or stop teaching non Asians or white ghosts; and if Jack looses, he will stop teaching all together. Jack Man thinking Lee is a blow hard, feels he will back down and delays the match. Bruce becomes angered and insists that they not wait. Wong then tries to put limitations on techniques. Bruce refuses "rules" and the two go no holds barred. Bruce begins to pound his opponent in only a couple of seconds. As Bruce pounds him, Wong attempts to run, but is caught by Bruce.
Bruce begins to beat him on the ground. Students of the other teacher attempted to step in and help their teacher, James Lee, Bruce's good friend and body builder prevents this. Later he is bothered on why the fight took so long and begins to re-evaluate his style. He is determined to fix the problems with gung fu. Jeet Kune Do (JKD), "The art of the intercepting fist" is born. JKD is an art including techniques from American Boxing, Wing Chun, and French Fencing. Bruce is signed to a one-year option for The Green Hornet. He is paid an $1800 retainer.

1965 February 1 (Age 25)
Oakland, CA - Brandon Bruce Lee is born.

1965 February 8 (Age 25)
Hong Kong - Bruce's father passes away in Hong Kong. Bruce returns to Hong Kong for his father?s funeral. As tradition dictates, in order to obtain forgiveness for not being present when his father died, Bruce crawls on his knees across the floor of the funeral home towards the casket wailing loudly and crying.

1965 May (Age 25)
Bruce uses the retainer money from the Green Hornet and flies himself, Linda, and Brandon back to Hong Kong in order to settle his father's estate affairs. While in Hong Kong, Bruce takes Brandon to see Yip Man to persuade him to perform on tape. Bruce wants to take the footage back to Seattle and show his students what the man looks like in action. Yip man declines the offer.

1965 September (Age 25)
Seattle - Bruce, Linda, Brandon return to Seattle.

1966 (Age 26)
Los Angeles - Bruce and family move to Los Angeles to an apartment on Wilshire and Gayley in Westwood.
This is where he begins working on a new TV series called The Green Hornet as Kato. The Green Hornet series starts filming and Bruce is Paid $400 per episode, where Lee perfects his famous flashy kicks taught to him by Jhoon Rhee. Bruce buys a 1966 blue Chevy Nova.
He later opens third branch of the Jun Fan Gung-Fu Institute in Los Angeles' Chinatown.

1966 September 9 (Age 26)
Los Angeles - The Green Hornet series premiers. 1967-1971 (Age 27-31) Hollywood - During this time, Bruce lands bit parts in various films and T.V. series. He also gives private lessons for up to $250 an hour to personalities Steve McQueen, James Coburn, James Garner, Lee Marvin, Roman Polanski, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Bruce meets Chuck Norris in New York at the All American Karate Championships in Washington D.C. Chuck fights Joe Lewis and wins.

1967 (Age 27)
Washington, D.C. - Bruce meets Joe Lewis at The Mayflower Hotel while both were guests at the 67' National Karate Championships. Joe is competing in the tournament and Bruce is making special appearances as Kato.

1967 February (Age 27)
Los Angeles - Bruce opens a 3rd school at 628 College Street, Los Angeles, CA. Dan Inosanto serves as assistant instructor.

1967 July 14 (Age 27)
Los Angeles - The last episode of The Green Hornet Series airs.

1969 April 19 (Age 29)
Santa Monica, CA Shannon Lee is born.

1969 (Age 29)
A scriptwriter is hired and paid $12K by Stirling Silliphant and James Coburn to write a script for the Silent Flute. (Later to be played by David Caradine) The script produced is unacceptable, and no other scriptwriter could seen to do the job. They then decide to write it themselves. 1970 (Age 30) Los Angeles - Bruce injures his sacral nerve lifting weights and experiences severe muscle spasms in his back.. Doctors told him that he would never kick again. They were wrong, but Lee suffered pain almost constantly. During the months of recovery he starts to document his training methods and his philosophy of Jeet Kune Do. Later published as The Tao of Jeet Kune Do.

1970 (Age 30)
Hong Kong - Bruce and Brandon fly to Hong Kong and are welcomed by fans of The Green Hornet Show.
Bruce sends Unicorn to talk to Run Run Shaw on his behalf and inform Shaw that he would be willing to do a movie for him for $10K. Shaw makes counter-offer of a seven year contract and $2K per film which Bruce declines.

1971 February (Age 31)
India - Bruce, James Coburn, Stirling Silliphant fly to India to scout locations for The Silent Flute. They spend one month searching but are forced to call off the search as Coburn backs out of the project. This trip gives Bruce the idea for Game of Death, where a fighter, mastering in several techniques, will go from one level to the next in a temple: the first level (the level of weaponry), the second level (the level of the nine degree black belt), and the third level ( "The level of the unknown.")

1971 (Age 31)
Hong Kong. - Bruce takes a short trip back to Hong Kong to arrange for his mother to live in the U.S. Unknowingly to him, he had become a superstar for The Green Hornet was one of the most popular TV shows in Hong Kong. Later, he is approached by Raymond Chow, owner of a new production company, and offered the lead role in a new film called The Big Boss. Bruce accepts. Bruce is supplied with small apartment at 2 Man Wan Road - Kowloon, HK. Brandon attends La Salle College. The same school Bruce attended only 15 years before. Bruce is interviewed by Canadian talk show host Pierre Berton for a TV program being filmed in Hong Kong.

1971 July (Age 31) Thailand - Filming begins for The Big Boss (released in the U.S. as Fists of Fury). The Big Boss opens in Hong Kong to great reviews and mobs of fans. Proceeds to gross more than $3.5 million in little than three weeks.

1971 December 7 (Age 31)
Hong Kong - Bruce receives telegram, notifying him that he had not been chosen for the part in the upcoming series, The Warrior. This series was later released as Kung-Fu, staring David Caradine, as the studios felt that the American public would not accept an Asian in a leading role on television. Kung Fu aired as ABC-TVs Movie of the Week on February 21, 1972.

1972 (Age 32)
Hong Kong - Fist of Fury (released in the U.S. as The Chinese Connection) is released. It grosses more than The Big Boss and further establishes Bruce as a Hong Kong superstar. Bruce gets a larger budget, a larger salary, and more power of directing in this film. Bruce begins work on Game of Death and films several fight scenes including Dan Inosanto and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Bruce appears on Hong Kong's TVB channel for a hurricane disaster relief benefit. In a demo Bruce performs, he breaks 4 out of 5 boards, one of which is hanging in the air with a line of string. Brandon even performs and breaks a board with a sidekick!

1972 (Age 32)
Rome, Italy - Location shots are made for Bruce's third film The Way of the Dragon (released in the U.S. as The Return of the Dragon). This time Bruce gets almost complete control the movie, which he writes, directs, and stars. Chuck Norris is Bruce's adversary in the final fight scene. Again, this film surpasses all records set by his previous two films.

1972 December 30 (Age 32)
Oakland ? James Yimm Lee, dies of Black Lung disease from his years of welding.

1973 February (Age 33)
Hong Kong - Bruce gets his chance at American stardom as filming of Enter the Dragon begins while Game of Death is put on hold. It is the first-ever production between the U.S. and Hong Kong film industries. On February 20, Bruce is guest of honor at St. Francis Xavier's school for Sports Day ceremonies.

1973(Age 33)
Bruce orders all three of his Jeet Kune Do schools closed in six months. He did not approve of some teaching methods in his absence and he felt others were taking advantage of him in some way. Hong Kong - Filming of Enter the Dragon is completed. Bruce is at Golden Harvest Studios in Hong Kong dubbing his voice for "Enter The Dragon". The air conditioners had been turned off, so the microphones won't pick them up. The temperature soared. Bruce takes a break looping lines to go to the bathroom and splash water on his face.
In he bathroom, he passes out on the bathroom floor. He revives twenty minutes later just as assistant sent to find out what was keeping him walks in and discovers him on the ground. He tries to conceal his collapse by acting as though he has dropped his glasses on the floor and is searching for them and is helped up by the assistant. As they are walking back to the dubbing room, Bruce collapses again and is rushed to a nearby hospital.

1973 July 10 (Age 33)
Hong Kong - Bruce Lee is walking through the Golden Harvest Studios and overhears Lo Wei in a nearby room bad mouthing him. He confronts Lo Wei who retreats and summons the local police. When the police arrive Lo Wei falsely accuses Bruce of threatened him with a knife concealed in his belt buckle. He further insists that Bruce sign a statement that he will not harm him. Bruce signs the statement to get Lo Wei off his back although Lo Wei lied to the police and Bruce never had a knife nor threatened to kill him. That same day, Bruce appears on the Hong Kong TV show, Enjoy Yourself Tonight with host Ho Sho Shin. Bruce alludes to his problems with director Lo Wei, but does not mention him by name. Bruce is asked to display his physical prowess and demonstrates his abilities. Bruce demonstrates a technique and Shin is knocked across the stage.

1973 July 16 (Age 33)
Hong Kong - Heavy rains fall caused by a typhoon off the coast of Hong Kong. Bruce makes a $200 phone call to speak to Unicorn in his hotel room, who is filming a movie in Manila. Bruce tells Unicorn that he is worried about the many headaches he is experiencing.

1973 July 20 (Age 33)
Hong Kong - Early that morning Bruce types a letter to his attorney, Adrian Marshall, detailing business ventures he wants to discuss on his upcoming trip to Los Angeles. Bruce had tickets already set to return to the US for a publicity tour and was scheduled to appear on the Johnny Carson show. Raymond Chow goes by Bruce's house and the two discuss plans for their upcoming movie Game of Death. Linda kisses Bruce good-bye and says she is going out to run some errands and will see him later that night. Raymond and Bruce visit Betty Ting Pei at her apartment to discuss her role in Game of Death. That evening plans had been made for them all to meet George Lazenby over dinner and enlist him for a part. Bruce explains that he has a headache, takes a prescription pain killer offered by Betty, and lies down on her bed to rest prior to dinner. Raymond Chow departs and says that he will meet them later. Raymond Chow and George Lazenby meet at a restaurant and await Bruce and Betty's arrival, but the two never show up. At 9:00 p.m. Chow receives a call from Betty; she said that she has tried to wake Bruce up but he won't come to. Betty summons her personal physician who fails to revive Bruce and who has Bruce taken to the hospital. Bruce does not revive and is pronounced dead. Bruce Lee dies in Hong Kong of an apparent cerebral edema (swelling of the brain). Doctors declared the death of Bruce Lee as "death by misadventure." The premier of Enter the Dragon was pushed back by four days due to the actors death.

1973 July 25(Age 33)
Hong Kong - A funeral ceremony is held for in Hong Kong over 25,000 people were in attendance.
Bruce is dressed in the Hifu he wore in Enter the Dragon.

1973 July 30 (Age 32)
After a smaller second ceremony in Seattle, Washington at Butterworth Funeral Home on East Pine Street, Bruce Lee is buried at Lake View Cemetery. His pallbearers included Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Dan Inosanto, Taky Kimura, Peter Chin, and Robert Lee his brother.

1973 August 24
Hollywood California- Enter The Dragon premiers at Graumann's Chinese Theater.


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