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One of the key, if not the sole, peer of bringing to the world the viewpoint of fighting as a science. From this he found ways of cutting through a lot of bullshit in the martial arts world and got to the core of street fighting. One of the first real cross trainers (flexibility, strength training, cardio - all from his trails and errors and experiences) A great althelete too. a lot of ppl no doubt in the MMA world these days owe most of their training regime to him. So yeah.
One of the key, if not the sole, peer of bringing to the world the viewpoint of fighting as a science. From this he found ways of cutting through a lot of bullshit in the martial arts world and got to the core of street fighting. One of the first real cross trainers (flexibility, strength training, cardio - all from his trails and errors and experiences) A great althelete too. a lot of ppl no doubt in the MMA world these days owe most of their training regime to him. So yeah.
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It could be argued that Jigoro Kano had a world wide impact on the science. Many of the worlds military forces borrowed heavily from his slamming art and training methods. BL was also fond of Judo. The old school H2H instructors were fond of Atemiwaza. Does the name Faribairn ring any bells? He is known as the (*Grand) father of modern SRT and one of the first scientific close quarters combat experts. (see *Double Tap) BL gets credit for popularizing MA by his work in film and TV. He was an actor, choreographer and an inspirational teacher. Except for his viewpoint on handguns I admire his contributions to the MA world.
Brandon Lee, the son of Bruce Lee, was shot and killed by a prop .44 Magnum while filming the movie The Crow. The scene involved the firing of a full-powder blank (full charge of gunpowder, but no bullet) at Brandon's character. However, unknown to the film crew/firearms technician, a bullet was already lodged in the barrel. The gun had previously been fired with a dummy round that had had all its gunpowder removed, but its primer charge left intact in error. The firing of the 'squib' lodged the bullet inside the barrel. When the full powder blank round was later fired, the bullet already in the barrel shot out and fatally wounded Lee.
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