Stop worshipping Bruce

[johnnyada1]

yo lizard guy do you know what that yellow suit represented or have you read any of his works

[Thai Bri]

What dooes the yellow suit represent? To yeild in the face of force? Like a banana?


Game of Death was thie biggest, most self indulgent piece of horse shit ever to be put up on film. All this "Bruce's Way beats all the others, here it is, and Bruce choreographed the fights himself" nonsense. It was, and still is, an embarrassment.

[RickMan]

i believe that bruce lee was and is the greatest martial artist of all time. no i dont Worship him, but i do hold him in very high regard. no there is no way he could punch 1000 times/second.

[usmc55555]

my thoughts exactly rickman...

thai bri since you are obviously not a bruce lee fan i was wondering what martial artist in any movie is acceptable by your standards

[Thai Bri]

Actually I am a Bruce Lee fan. I just don't worship the guy.

I don't understand your question. can you re-phrase it?

[usmc55555]

thai bri i was just asking who in your oppinion made beter martial arts movies than bruce lee since don't worship him like many others in this forum

[sherwinc]

here, is my comment

Originally posted by Thai Bri
Actually I am a Bruce Lee fan. I just don't worship the guy.

I don't understand your question. can you re-phrase it?

Actually, Bruce Lee's System or Art of Martial Arts is fitted to all standard size martial arts practitioner, what i mean is, he is the one best example of a small and thin fighter to overcome big strong enemy who relies only in strength and size, most of fighter of or most who engage in martial arts is in a standard size human body....

[robertlee]

Bruce to some has been over rated. They here of him see a movie and believe the movie. Then buy a book or two. self train in there aspect of what theythink is JKD. Many of these are younger people. and some older. Soon he could beat all comers to them in thought. But people like to have some one or something to look up to. If we could look at Bruce and just train in the method he set down. Understand it is a good non classical gung fu. JKD will thrive and grow. Not that it is not now. But several misconceptions lie in the path of learning. JKD is this JKD is that. First its the method modified wing chun , american boxing. namley Ali type. and fencing foot work along with the hand being the sword of the strike. Put together as a decent m/a. Then the freedom after learning the foundation which is JKD to be free to find how it will work for you. Bruces JKD was differnt then how his students would do. Even though they wre trained by him. There JKD was how they did and do. JUst as any art or any thing really. Bruce was perhaps made larger then life. By the great fight seens in his movies. And a sudden loss of his life at a young age. I have took the time to learn what I could and can in JKD . And know it has a decent set of tools that will work as well today as it did over thirty years ago. Its choice to learn any art. Im glad to have had the chance to train in JKD. But I know bruce was just a man. But what he left behind is worth learning. Its hard to tell some one that believes to much in what he could do. That he was not the top of the mountain. But made a good path to follow.

[Rudolphuss]

Good explanation of JKD .

[m.artist]

What dooes the yellow suit represent? To yeild in the face of force? Like a banana?


Game of Death was thie biggest, most self indulgent piece of horse shit ever to be put up on film. All this "Bruce's Way beats all the others, here it is, and Bruce choreographed the fights himself" nonsense. It was, and still is, an embarrassment.

the yellow jump suit represents fluidity and simplicity as well as freedom.....notice how everyone else had on some sort of gi...and got killed.....then he fights karreem...he also is not wearing a gi....this shows no affiliation to ne modern martial art....he takes all the unnnesescarry(sp wrong)
out and uses what works....get it?...it's the whole concept of jkd...did u notice ne of his philosophy when he fought....." how does ur rehearesd routine match up with.......broken rythm"or like in the one movie where he is at the island...at the very begining...he shows the 2 trees.....one is hard and rigid...the wind is blowing....and it knocks over the hard stiff tree...tehn it pans to a willow tree....the wind blows it...adn the wooping willow just goes with it.....swaying aide to side......get it?....if ur hard and rigid.....it will be too easy to break....if u are able to ADAPT like the wooping willow....u will survive....he had all kinds of things like that....that's why his fav weapon was the nunchaku......it represented his art

[Ryu (JKD?)]

I just don't understand people's obsession (whether for or against) Bruce's martial art skill.

The respect and admiration I have for Bruce has absolutely nothing to do with his martial art or his fighting skill. None.

Ryu

[brokenelbow]

I wish Lee were alive and the stupidy surrounding JKD was dead and not the other way around.

[JKD-Escrima]

I don't think he is literally being worshipped, but he is certainly idolized.
I don't see why a revolutionary, open minded martial artist who brought much support and interest to a sport he loved is a bad thing.
JKD is an intersting martial art, and takes a little bit from everything.
In my study of it, I have found references to Escrima, Silat, BJJ, Boxing, fencing, and TKD.
He was great, and the fact that people offered to pay him millions to be in movies does not take away from his martial abilities.

[m.artist]

I don't think he is literally being worshipped, but he is certainly idolized.
I don't see why a revolutionary, open minded martial artist who brought much support and interest to a sport he loved is a bad thing.
JKD is an intersting martial art, and takes a little bit from everything.
In my study of it, I have found references to Escrima, Silat, BJJ, Boxing, fencing, and TKD.
He was great, and the fact that people offered to pay him millions to be in movies does not take away from his martial abilities.

my thoughts exactly

[m.artist]

bush is not an asshole, and i hope he get's re-elected