was bruce lee superhuman?
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At least Chuck Norris fans know his "facts" are not real. Bruce Lee fan boys don't.
Good point. Do not believe the hype.
Watch the vid and he is doing some amazing stuff, the pushups amaze me, although him doing as many as stated is not shown
Some of the commentary does seem speculative and heresay now that your comment
causes me to rethink the hype I fell for.
Or, maybe
Maybe he was taught to control Chi.
You know , the Holy Grail that Indiana Jones was looking for, the source of all life force, the balance of Yin and Yang,
the positive and negative electromagnetic energy which flows through everything by some secret master living in a cave.
His workout routine does not hint of it but he would of been sworn to secrecy.
After all, he was oriental
The real Bruce Lee story where he meets the monk in the cave that teaches him this stuff will make
a classic Hollywood bullshit storey and solidify his legend
Strange women lying in ponds giving out swords is the only sound basis of government.
Once supreme executive power derives from a farcical aquatic ceremony things will be better
If some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at you, I'd accept you as my emperor without question.
Did you write that?
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There are no superhumans, he was a great kungfu/wingchun fighter no doubt but he was also an actor,
I loved his movies, all those moves and fights had been choreographed to death.
practice. muscle memory. conditioning. time.
when you live, eat sleep any activity you become a master. an apprenticeship takes approximately 10000hrs. bruce was training since childhood and throughout his life learning other martial arts. incorporating many styles to create his own and constantly improving his art.
super human, no. he was able to train his body and mind to achieve and break through his limitations.
when you live, eat sleep any activity you become a master. an apprenticeship takes approximately 10000hrs. bruce was training since childhood and throughout his life learning other martial arts. incorporating many styles to create his own and constantly improving his art.
super human, no. he was able to train his body and mind to achieve and break through his limitations.
I do not know about super humans, but I do know there are stupor humans living among us.
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He of course developed his own system....Jeet Kune Do.
I've followed him since before his death. Read the latest biography about him. Bruce Lee: A Life. Highly recommend.
Lee was about 125lb's at the time of his death. Extremely strong for his weight and like you stated obsessed with training and developing his maximal potential. He was completely open to all styles of fighting and not trapped by any paradigms. Unlike many of his peers at that time. Of course he was criticized heavily for his philosophy by the martial arts traditionalists at the time.
There's no doubt in my mind that had he been alive today with his reference to training and discipline he would be a star in MMA.
He was very overrated as a fighter.
He fought a few rounds in a boxing match in high school and based on the photos and the judgement of people who know a lot more of these thing than I ever will [The guy from the video I shared] he didn't even know how to throw a punch but he was declared the winner vs again another rando high school kid. So we can assume his street fights were not exactly ghetto hard core.
He fought Wong Jack-Man
His wife claimed it was because Bruce was teaching white people, but so was Wong, so that isn't true.
Although the Wong people say something different, according to Bruce Lee he dominated the fight so much that after a very short period of time he was chasing him around pounding on his from behind as Wong ran and was disappointed that he took that long.
He dominated the fight so much that Wong challenged him to a rematch which Bruce Lee refused
Bruce dominated the fight so much that he closed his school and left town
Bruce dominated the fight so much that he completely reevaluated his views on martial arts.
That is were the verifiable record stops. Sure he sparred a lot and trained a lot but all that goes to shit if you get into a real fight when someone is trying to rip your head off. Loads of traditional masters in China get the shit pounded out of them when they meet up with a dude who actually has experience. It takes multiple actual fights to get your feet solid, like 5 or 10. There is no record that his has happened.
Which is probably why when he fought a scripted fight vs Chuck Norris not only did he die soon after, even his son died early. [OK that's a joke]
I stole it from Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail. Denis the constitutional/oppressed peasant, except I made it pro monarchy.
He fought a few rounds in a boxing match in high school and based on the photos and the judgement of people who know a lot more of these thing than I ever will [The guy from the video I shared] he didn't even know how to throw a punch but he was declared the winner vs again another rando high school kid. So we can assume his street fights were not exactly ghetto hard core.
He fought Wong Jack-Man
His wife claimed it was because Bruce was teaching white people, but so was Wong, so that isn't true.
Although the Wong people say something different, according to Bruce Lee he dominated the fight so much that after a very short period of time he was chasing him around pounding on his from behind as Wong ran and was disappointed that he took that long.
He dominated the fight so much that Wong challenged him to a rematch which Bruce Lee refused
Bruce dominated the fight so much that he closed his school and left town
Bruce dominated the fight so much that he completely reevaluated his views on martial arts.
That is were the verifiable record stops. Sure he sparred a lot and trained a lot but all that goes to shit if you get into a real fight when someone is trying to rip your head off. Loads of traditional masters in China get the shit pounded out of them when they meet up with a dude who actually has experience. It takes multiple actual fights to get your feet solid, like 5 or 10. There is no record that his has happened.
Which is probably why when he fought a scripted fight vs Chuck Norris not only did he die soon after, even his son died early. [OK that's a joke]
I stole it from Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail. Denis the constitutional/oppressed peasant, except I made it pro monarchy.
He got a lot of whining, but it was very realistic. The character he fought was a close combat specialist who during WWII was a 2 time medal of honour winner who killed more Japanese soldiers than anybody else "one of the deadliest guys alive.". He would have wrecked Bruce Lee considering what I mentioned above.
Also Bruce Lee is beloved, but he did have an attitude problem that comes clear if you watch his interviews carefully and read the accounts of both his Hong Kong years and the fight with Wong.
THat depection was spot on.
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THat depection was spot on.
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Evidently not. Tarantino wrote that scene even worse than it was eventually shot. Brad Pitt refused to do the scene as written because he was friends with Brandon Lee. The scene was toned down from the original script, but not totally to his liking.
To answer the original question, Bruce Lee was in top physical shape and trained every day. He was also young. ( died at age 32 ) He had the skill, speed, stamina and endurance of the top 1% of the top 1%.
THat depection was spot on.
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Evidently not. Tarantino wrote that scene even worse than it was eventually shot. Brad Pitt refused to do the scene as written because he was friends with Brandon Lee. The scene was toned down from the original script, but not totally to his liking.
To answer the original question, Bruce Lee was in top physical shape and trained every day. He was also young. ( died at age 32 ) He had the skill, speed, stamina and endurance of the top 1% of the top 1%.
Bruce Lee weight trained for functionality which was the opposite of his sparring partner Bolo Yung. Yung appeared in Enter the Dragon, he's always maintained that Bruce was obsessed, he saw himself as the Asiatic Muhammad Ali. When Brandon Lee decided to become a martial arts star, he turned to Bolo for training.
JC Van Damme became famous through working with Bolo on Bloodsport.
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story should have been a runaway success at the box-office. The film ended up being cursed due to the death of Brandon Lee. Malaysian actor Ong Soo Han was also trained by Bolo, they already made two Hong Kong films together before Ong played Luke Sun.
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story should have been a runaway success at the box-office. The film ended up being cursed due to the death of Brandon Lee. Malaysian actor Ong Soo Han was also trained by Bolo, they already made two Hong Kong films together before Ong played Luke Sun.
Speculation by people who have reasons to be nice/not want to come off as a Steven Seagal.
The actual evidence says otherwise. He has pretty much no actual fight experience, that would get you slaughtered in an actual fight. It's been shown over and over again, people who train and think they can't fight until reality smashes them in the face with a functioning opponent who doesn't move as you think they will.
Bruce Lee was a hero of mine growing up... I'm sure it's the case with many... But now that I'm older and virtually unimpressionable it's hard to know how much of his story is hype versus reality... And part of me doesn't even want to delve into it... But to relate to the post above, I saw a few interviews of him and he seemed incredibly arrogant... It's most likely he self-destructed because of that arrogance, hence his early death... To answer the question posed by the thread... No superhuman dies at a young age...enough said...
How dare you profane this thread by speaking ill of Steven Seagal, the man is invincible.
As a side note, Tommy Boy Cruise wants to make a Super Dave film. To promote Scientology, he's made himself look invincible in recent films...if you can call them that. Does he have the balls to pull off Super Dave's most death defying stunt?
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He was an actor, not a fighter. Being extremely fit doesn't make someone a good let alone great fighter.
It's like saying Arnie would be great at killing aliens from space because his character did it in the Predator movie.
It's like saying Arnie would be great at killing aliens from space because his character did it in the Predator movie.
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