Bruce Lee

[Saman]

"Bruce Lee on the Pierre Berton Show"

Part one:
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXOtmhA6Nvw

Part two:
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRdTJi0v3fQ&NR=1

Part three:
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcSGa-TbN6U&NR=1

It's a three part video stream that is great to watch for anyone who only knows the illusion of the man through his moives and not the real man behind the Hollywood illusions.

After watching and listening to what Bruce Lee had to say on the interview about martial arts, etc, you really begin to understand why he was a nuisance to the controlling forces of our world and thus was taken out.

I think these amazing clips below are perhaps a demonstration of what he is talking about in the interview about the fusion of one's control with their instincts.

Bruce Lee playing ping pong part 1
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eni79KmP0l0

Bruce Lee playing ping pong part 2
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-fZ6tJGJ6g&NR=1

 

[T.C.]

Those bottom two vids are adverts for a cell phone.

 

[Buddy]

Re: Bruce Lee

After watching and listening to what Bruce Lee had to say on the interview about martial arts, etc, you really begin to understand why he was a nuisance to the controlling forces of our world and thus was taken out.

Hi Rain Tree. Could you give an example of why you think he would have been considered 'a nuisance to the controlling forces of our world?' I'm not saying he couldn't have been, I was just wondering what you got from the interviews.

I think these amazing clips below are perhaps a demonstration of what he is talking about in the interview about the fusion of one's control with their instincts.

Bruce Lee was a very physically and mentally disciplined person in my view, and he had the time and support to develop it.

I think the demonstrations reveal that he has a well-tuned, well-trained nervous system, for his art, and that he is able to 'let go' and allow the body-mind's grooved in reflexes to anticipate and react. Other than that, I don't see any metaphysical importance, but I could be wrong.

 

[Saman]

Re: Bruce Lee

Those bottom two vids are adverts for a cell phone.

My bad. Apparently it is not even the real Bruce Lee but a look a like according to some comments on youtube. How embarrasing hehehe Anyways, I wonder if it was still real though, the ping pong playing, but it might be just some camera tricks, I don't know for sure.

 

[Saman]

Re: Bruce Lee

After watching and listening to what Bruce Lee had to say on the interview about martial arts, etc, you really begin to understand why he was a nuisance to the controlling forces of our world and thus was taken out.

Hi Rain Tree. Could you give an example of why you think he would have been considered 'a nuisance to the controlling forces of our world?' I'm not saying he couldn't have been, I was just wondering what you got from the interviews.

Hi Buddy. I don't have an example that I can refer to. I am just starting to get to know the man and I don't mean through his movies; however, based on what he said on the video about his life philosophy and having many apparently well known students that he was teaching to, I thought that this would make him a threat to the status quo of the controlling forces. He was and still is a very well known actor and martial artists that people would most likely listen to, and if he was actually teaching methods to fuse ones control and instincts together so that one can learn to be less and less mechanical and more in tune with their being, his whole doing by not doing philosophy or so I think, then that would surely make him a nuisance to the controlling forces. Perhaps this is why they killed him just like they seem to kill any celebrity or artist who might potentially, or in actuality, be a threat to their control. Some such celeberties that come to mind are John Lennon and the recently deceased Michael Jackson, or so I think.

 

[Saman]

Re: Bruce Lee

Here is some more info on Bruce Lee for anyone interested:

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeet_Kune_Do

Jeet Kune Do (JKD) is the name Bruce Lee gave to his combat system and philosophy in 1967. Originally, when Lee began researching various fighting styles, he gave his martial art his own name of Jun Fan Gung Fu. However not wanting to create another style that would share the limitations that all styles have, he instead gave us the process that created it.

Bruce Lee said:

I have not invented a "new style," composite, modified or otherwise that is set within distinct form as apart from "this" method or "that" method. On the contrary, I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns, or molds. Remember that Jeet Kune Do is merely a name used, a mirror in which to see "ourselves". . . Jeet Kune Do is not an organized institution that one can be a member of. Either you understand or you don't, and that is that. There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way. Jeet Kune-Do is simply the direct expression of one's feelings with the minimum of movements and energy. The closer to the true way of Kung Fu, the less wastage of expression there is. Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He is still hung up on his self-closing resistance, in this case anchored down to reactionary pattern, and naturally is still bound by another modified pattern and can move within its limits. He has not digested the simple fact that truth exists outside all molds; pattern and awareness is never exclusive. Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.'

– Bruce Lee[3]

 

[Christopher]

"Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey is a documentary about Lee’s life, career, and untimely death, which uses rare behind-the-scenes footage to paint a portrait of both the star the world knew and the man behind the image."

About 1.5 hours long. I know there's at least one other person around here that grew up admiring Bruce Lee ;)
Very good docu that goes into his personal philosophy and you get to see some of the movie he wasn't able to finish, due to his death.

_http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/bruce-lee-warriors-journey/

 

[Jacques]

Hi Christopher,

I merged your thread with an existing one about Bruce Lee.

 

[Christopher]

Hi Christopher,

I merged your thread with an existing one about Bruce Lee.

Ok, cool. Just wanted to mention there are scenes of killing in that documentary for those that don't wish to see such things.

After watching and listening to what Bruce Lee had to say on the interview about martial arts, etc, you really begin to understand why he was a nuisance to the controlling forces of our world and thus was taken out.

I had similar thoughts while watching A Warrior's Journey.

based on what he said on the video about his life philosophy and having many apparently well known students that he was teaching to, I thought that this would make him a threat to the status quo of the controlling forces. He was and still is a very well known actor and martial artists that people would most likely listen to, and if he was actually teaching methods to fuse ones control and instincts together so that one can learn to be less and less mechanical and more in tune with their being, his whole doing by not doing philosophy or so I think, then that would surely make him a nuisance to the controlling forces. Perhaps this is why they killed him just like they seem to kill any celebrity or artist who might potentially, or in actuality, be a threat to their control. Some such celeberties that come to mind are John Lennon and the recently deceased Michael Jackson, or so I think.

I'll second that, and add that it seems he was sensitive to race and cultural stereotypes as well. Refusing to work in stereotypical chinese roles for hollywood and teaching students of all races and nationalities when he did begin teaching.

 

[Saman]

"Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey is a documentary about Lee’s life, career, and untimely death, which uses rare behind-the-scenes footage to paint a portrait of both the star the world knew and the man behind the image."

About 1.5 hours long. I know there's at least one other person around here that grew up admiring Bruce Lee ;)
Very good docu that goes into his personal philosophy and you get to see some of the movie he wasn't able to finish, due to his death.

_http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/bruce-lee-warriors-journey/

Hey Christopher. Thanks for the link man. I just finished watching the documentary and overall it was great. I loved watching that scene from "Enter the Dragon" again where Bruce fooled the guy into getting into the boat and avoided having to fight him

It's very sad that Bruce Lee never got the chance to actually finish his movie "The Game of Death". Just like it was sort of explained or hinted at in the documentary, I think the sum of those fighting scenes of the latter movie don't give a just and full glimpse of what could had been the overall essence of the complete and polished movie - fuller clarity of Mr. Lee's Philosophy portrayed in the movie.

 

[Christopher]

Np, I'm glad you liked it. It added some more dimension to the man for me. And from what I saw in the documentary I think his movies would've been a lot of fun to watch, I'm assuming he wanted to make more than one of course.

I loved watching that scene from "Enter the Dragon" again where Bruce fooled the guy into getting into the boat and avoided having to fight him

Yeah, I thought he might do that. :)
Fighting without fighting. :) Very cool.

 

[Sodajaxon]

Re: Bruce Lee's Teacher - GrandMaster IP Man (2008)

For all of us martial arts fans, i have to recommend this movie, IP Man (2008).

Bruce lee trained under Yip Man, who is the grand master of the kung-fu style, Wing-Chun.

Its a great movie to watch, based on his life in the 30's when the Japenese invaded China.

There is history and emotion tied together with life, when countries are at war with each other.

im not sure i have the vocabulary to express my understanding of ' how to be' from watching this movie.

i want to be able to embody the idea of integrity, that i saw in this film.

to grow towards that, in my spirit.

watching it in english subtitles may be part of why it had a profound effect on me. im not sure.

its a great film.

here is a review from IMDB _http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1220719/

and a youtube clip _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK0Mw3vKTmI

and a place to watch on line _http://www.icefilms.info/ip.php?v=7056&

Enjoy and Happy New Year to all!

thanx

 

[Stevie Argyl]

Thanks for this, I never knew this existed. I did some training under Yip Mans student Samuel Kwok about 10 years ago. Win Chun is a fascinating art I look forward to watching this.

 

[StrangeCaptain]

I am pretty sure those ping-pong videos were a commercial for Chinese television, and that is a Bruce lee look-a-like. One easy trick for making this effect would be for "Bruce Lee" to be a professional ping pong player using a neon green paddle. The one bright color is then easy to remove from the footage and then anything can be added in its place, for example, a pair of nunchuks ;)

Having said that, hats off to Bruce Lee for challenging martial arts dogma. I don't remember a lot about his official cause of death, but I have heard quite a bit of speculation that he died from training too hard, which caused swelling of the brain.

 

[Bar Kochba]

There are different accounts of his death. The 2 most repeated are: that he died from edema swelling of the brain as an allergic reaction to hashish, and that he died from edema swelling of the brain as an allergic reaction to aspirin. Whatever the reason, the guy was a great martial arts innovator. As a human being, he was, well, human. He was an actor for one thing. That he courted hollywood says that all was not zen in his mind. Gurdjieff talked about actors and musicians and their reasons for choosing those professions. I admired Bruce Lee when I used to box and train mixed martial arts. There was and is no one else like him in the combat arts.