The Truth About Bruce Lee

When you go on the internet and see how many are trying to make a living ( and some a fortune ) off of martial arts and self defense we realize that they too are doing it with ulterior motives. So many believe that “they” are superior to other practitioners ….in many cases this is strictly ego driven. I for one believe strongly in CQC / Navy Seal training and the Self Defense Company is by far the best I have seen in coming up with an organized practical method of learning. But each of us need to respect ( not agree) with others who love the ART and benefits of all the forms but realize we all have our own preference. Bruce Lee has at least done more for promoting self defense then most people ever will. My opinion. Dave

I have not seen anything better than the SDC if “easy to learn, practical, effective, comprehensive, adaptable, and cost effective self-defense is the goal, with tactics proven by guys like William Fairbairn and others who faced many life and death situations! My opinion is based on readings of military related close combat history and my past instruction in six different formal martial arts at different stages of my life, from age 18 to my latter-50s when I dropped out of Aikido. Now at age 69, I adapt and depend on what works for me. The SDC gives me what I need and more, including the bullet proof jackets, LOL! I also just added a couple of stun guns (legal to carry in my state) to my personal security options. REAL self-defense requires REAL solutions to REAL threats!

I trained w Ted Wong (Bruce Lee protege’. I started in 1960’s and 70’s. I also trained with Parker acolytes Jimmy Woo “San Soo” huge influence on Am. Kenpo) I am a JKD Practitioner, Kempo, Silat Kali, and Combat Judo Via Force Recon father who was in Viet Nam. I will say to the things posted here.
I have seen the Movie, and I encourage people to look up an article written by Charles Russo. I know Dan Inosanto students, I know Parker First Generation Students, and it is and was nothing like what everyone is trying to push to the forefront.
Jun Fan, (Bruce Lee’s real name); was born in San Francisco. He grew up on the mean streets of Hong Kong and liked to fight. Parker A Hawaiian, who also grew up on the mean streets of Hawaii when the Haolies were viewed poorly by locals and was almost the self same position.
The influences are truthfully Filipino in derivation. Dan Inosanto was already trained in Kali when he joined Parker, Parker had already been influenced by the Emperado’s (kali) of (Kajukenbo) where he incorporated the 6, 12 count into Okazaki Danzan Ryu and Mitose Kempo and Hawaiian Kapu Kuialua.
In fact Inosanto was a student of both Parker and Lee Fan, but he probably had more influence over both of these two men than the other way around (Mind you I am not an Inosanto acolyte).
At the time Willie Chow not Parker’s first instructor a different Chow (Tong Member) born in Oakland (an American) lived in Canton, Bruce born in San Francisco (an American) lived in Hong Kong, these “Death Matches” LOL! Were gang fights.
Parker, Chow,Lee Fan, had many many street confrontations which were deadly, but not “Death Matches” if that were so I could claim to have fought in “Death Matches”, but they all had in common and was the catalyst to get away from the “Classical Mess”.
Such was the way day 1960’s 70’s and time of the ERA. But Parker introduced Lee Fan to the World, and he was more friend than foe unlike as was shown in the movie.
Parker and Lee saw eye to eye on the “Hey we need to make this street ready” Get rid of the classical stand in a horse stance for 3 years then I can teach you something.
Fact is there was never a “Mc Q” person other than Steve Mc Queen who did train with Lee Fan but much later. Lee’s School was mainly in OAKLAND not Frisco which at the time was an operation of the Hawaiian Kenpo KAJUKENBO Crew of I believe Ray Arquilla. Which I believe was how Lee Fan was introduced to Parker.
As for the fight scene PURE FANTASY. Though I actually Liked the movie. My only Problem is they made this Mc Q fantasy figure “White Guy” in love with Chinese Girl the main theme more Fantasy

He died on the same day at the age of 32 year. He died on July 20, 1973 using painkiller allergic reaction lapsed into coma and died on the same day. This become a secret matter how did bruce lee die murder or death? The funeral ceremony was held in Hong Kong where fan attend the funeral ceremony with 25000 people.

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You could think of Bruce as a philosophical Corona virus. Whether or not he was real, the ideas attributed to him irrevocably changed the timeline.

Take what’s useful, dispense with what’s not useful. So many things that I already had concluded, I read on the Tao of Jeet June Do. I was right handed but southpaw. The fencing footwork, which is similar to basketball footwork.

The fencing footwork is the drop step, btw.

I agree with Napoleon that “history is a lie agreed upon” — maybe even including the fact that Napoleon said that. So, I’ve learned not to make idols of anyone since all my childhood ones have literally turned out to be frauds over the years. Without exception.

But philosophical points and ideas are self validating, and so I’m careful to focus on the ideas themselves. Like I had a saying, “think like a sociopath,” but obviously you don’t want to idolize sociopaths and psychopaths. But you can apply their ruthless mindset to high moral ideals, rather than to narcissistic emptiness.

So anyways, the character known as Bruce Lee was a huge influence on me because of the ideas and the philosophy attributed to him.

The character MacGuyver was also a huge influence on me as a kid. As an idea — solutions can always be found around you.

Or, The Saint, from before my time, but still a great show. It almost doesn’t even matter if these people are real or not, because ideas are what they are.

If Bruce Lee had just been an action movie star, I wouldn’t even remember him, cuz he didn’t make that many movies, and only one was good. And there were interesting philosophical points in that one, one of the most notable to me being Bruce explaining to a student that he was “merely a finger pointing the way to all that heavenly glory.” And not that actual heavenly glory itself. That’s brilliant material there.

People keep thinking they can find someone to hand them all the heavenly glory. Self defense and violence is no different. The heavenly glory is a bloodbath in which you are the last man standing.

Foundationally, my approach to people is philosophical and, as you can see with the character known as Bruce Lee, philosophers live on long after death. Carl Cestari was similar in this regard and in his approach.

A brilliant guy named Rich Grannon was explaining the fraud of psychology and the fact that what people need is not psychology but philosophy. Foundational beliefs and a moral code.

Without these you’re a leaf in the wind. How are you going to fight anything without having determined a proper moral threshold for doing so, and your own rules of engagement?

These are philosophical. I see this with self defense. People don’t really need self defense — what they need is a philosophical foundation to stand on. People have vague notions of core principles and thus have already surrendered any potential fights. All that’s left to fight over is feelings and ego, both of which have already weakened them.

Like a yard with no boundary markers. How to think is more important than what to think. So listening to great ideas and philosophies triggers even more great ideas and philosophies in your own mind, merely because of the approach being modeled.

So Bruce Lee lives on as a great philosopher and not really as a great fighter or athlete. Jackie Chan’s made more and better movies but nobody gives a shit about that guy.

Brilliant philosophy is where it’s at. It’s really what people need. People think they need self defense because in reality they have weak core principles which creates weak intent.

The principles are what trigger the violence — for the good and for the evil. And the level of intent determines the level of violence. The more sharply defined the principles then the stronger and more powerful the intent.

We’ve all heard of mother lifting cars off their children. Maybe these stories are bullshit — I haven’t personally vetted them — but they illustrate the point. In the case of a mother and child, there isn’t even a hint of wavering on principle and thus absolutely psychotic intent.

The modern man and woman are unprincipled whose core principles consist of whatever their emotions are one second to the next.

This is also how violent criminals act except the ones who have embraced their own pathology to the point of premeditation, rather than just lack of impulse.

So essentially, I’m surrounded by weak fuckin criminals. Psychologically. So it’s no wonder that these people are scared of actual criminals.

There’s no one who doesn’t know how to really hurt someone if they really need to. Absolutely no one. Sure, I can make it a little more efficient, but give me a break.

The real question is what are your principles, and what is your intent?

These are philosophical questions. It’s ideas that remain throughout history, whoever they are attributed to.

So in that sense of enduring, you want to fight as if you yourself ARE a philosophy. I AM.. an idea. And I cannot be destroyed.

“The way of the samurai is in desperateness. Against such a man ten men cannot prevail.” — Hagakure: Book of the Samurai.

This is the kind of shit I wouldn’t be thinking without Bruce Lee lighting the fuse. So whoever the guy was, he will live in literally forever.