Learning from the Master Bruce Lee

 Picture was taken when I was 62.

HK Snob

20 July 2013, Remembering Bruce Lee

Let's pay some respect to the Master of Kung Fu who changed the World.
Bruce Lee was borne in 1940 in San Franscico and he Died on 20 July 1973 in HK.
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Bruce Lee's movie

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually was to S-L-O-W film down. So you could see his moves. That is Opposite of the Norm.
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Bruce Lee's One inch Punch

The Science
Previous studies have shown that the forces generated in a karate punch is not determined by muscular strength but by the brain & nervous system.
In this recent study, researchers looked for differences in brain structure between 12 karate practitioners with a black belt rank and an average of 13.8 years’ karate experience, and 12 control subjects of similar age who exercised regularly but did not have any martial arts experience.
In the first part of the study, the researchers measure the short range (5 cm) punching power of all 24 test subjects by means of infrared markers on their arms & torsos. As expected, the karate masters punched harder than the control subjects.
Analysis of punch biomechanics and brain function revealed the reasons for the difference in punching power.

• The researchers found that punching power depends on timing.
• Specifically, punching force correlated with how well the movement of the wrists and shoulders were synchronized.
• In short, technique + muscular power = Bruce Lee kicking your butt.

• To test brain function, they used diffusion tensor imaging to scan the grey matter (main body of nerve cells) and white matter (bundles of fibres that carry signals from one region of the brain to another) of the test subjects’ brains.

And what they found is that there were major structural differences in the white matter of the cerebellums and primary motor cortex of the karate masters.
It was these differences in the cerebellum that correlated with the synchronicity of the subjects’ wrist and shoulder movements that produced the larger punching forces.

Ref, Cerebral Cortex

Bruce Lee at Star Avenue, Tsim Sha Tsui

Taken by Canon 5D by Photographer KF. The Stature of Bruce Lee at Star Avenue, Tsim Sha Tsui.
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Bruce Lee and His Jeet Kune Do

I have found one of the magazines printed in 1977 about Bruce Lee and his Jeet Kune Do, it was printed 4 years after his Death. It Contains a lot of pictures and his Theory and script on how to practise Kung Fu, What is the ten Commandments on Jeet June Do. I will translate in English later...

This is some of the cut off from the 46 pages Magazine. It was sold in for HKD$3.00 only in 1977.

This is a treasure for those people who wants to underatand Bruce Lee Kung Fu as there includes an interview with bruce Lee about Kung Fu, how to practise, how to Learn Jeet Kune Do...

HK Snob

Remembering Bruce Lee

In 1972, there was one interview on Bruce Lee, who used to make some jokes and then showed a bit Kung Fu to all the people watching on the TV hottest programme EYT (Enjoy Yourself Tonight) ...Some time he brought his 6 years old son Brandon Lee as well.
Bruce started the story with his funny action in front of us.
Well there is there men who happened in one day to meet in a place for discussion on their Kung Fu, shooting and Japanese sword.

There was an American dressed up like a cowboy, who put up a pistol and shot at a Fly, The fly was killed!
Then came a Samurai who pulledl out his Sword and chopped onto a flying fly, the fly was cut off into two pieces! Dead of course!
People applaused!
Then came a Chinese thin man, who used his Chinese Sword and swung onto a fly I the air...in less than half a second, but the fly still managed to fly away! Though look a bit slower!
And people was shocked!!! Simply because it seemed the Chinese man had missed to kill the fly... Bruce Lee grinned, "Well! In fact, It has been just castrated!

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Bruce Lee's Quotation

The Jeet Kune Do created by Bruce Lee has a registered trademark held by the Bruce Lee Estate. The Chinese characters around the Taijitu symbol read: "Using no way as way" and "Having no limitation as limitation" The arrows represent the endless interaction between yang and yin.
His Major quotation reflects his fighting philosophy of this best known Martial Artist:
"Be formless... shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You pour water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow, or creep or drip or crash! Be water, my friend..."
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