Bruce Lee's four-and-a-half-film films have established his unshakable position in the kung fu industry, and the national spirit revealed in his fighting style and interpretation in the movies has transcended the times, inspired many people, and gained many fans at home and abroad. Quality Author Certification Recruitment
Just when Bruce Lee's career was in full swing, the sudden accidental death shocked fans around the world, followed by various speculations and doubts, and over time, whether Bruce Lee, with the cultural symbol of "Chinese Kung Fu", has real fighting skills and whether it has been over-mythologized This series of doubts has recently been broken by the well-known record **tapology.
According to Tapology**, Bruce Lee represented St. Francis College in the 1958 "Intercollegiate Individual Boxing Championship" against Gary Elms, a three-time boxing champion representing King George V School, and eventually Bruce Lee defeated his opponent under boxing rules and won the gold medal.
Gary Elms has a 0-1-0 record in the record, but in reality he has participated in quite a few boxing matches, although most of them are amateur bouts, and Bruce Lee has no ring experience other than this one. The only "battle record" is the experience gained from street fights.
According to the recollections of the on-site personnel at the time, in the first round, Bruce Lee, who had no experience in the ring, fought very hard, and Gary Elmes, who was experienced in the ring, forced Bruce Lee into the corner of the rope several times, trying to finish Bruce Lee with a strong attack. Bruce Lee, who had experienced fierce street battles, naturally refused to admit defeat, and after Bruce Lee figured out his opponent's consistent boxing moves, he saw the opportunity to quickly strike the opponent by surprise, and those present had never seen this kind of move at all (later learned that it was Wing Chun). Despite Gary Elms' constant defense and Bruce Lee's constant offense, Bruce Lee knocked his opponent down three times in three rounds, and Elms had to declare a surrender and abstain.
Both looked frustrated after the fight, with Gary Elms failing to win a second boxing title and Bruce Lee feeling it took too long to defeat him and failing to knock out his opponent to end the fight quickly.
After this competition, Bruce Lee found that it was not as easy as fighting on the street, and there were various rules restrictions, some moves could not be played, and Bruce Lee, who hated the restrictions of traditional rules, studied and learned all kinds Xi of martial arts after painstaking research and learning, and created a practical fighting system with the strengths of hundreds of schools, which was called "Jew Fist" at the beginning.
When Bruce Lee entered the university and began to study philosophy, under the influence of philosophy, he regretted his previous childish behavior of being brave and ruthless and liking to solve problems with his fists, thinking that defeating others would mean victory, but ignoring the truth that winning by force is not really victory.
Tracing the history of Chinese martial arts and delving into Taoist thought led Bruce Lee to ask: now each Chinese kung fu has its own fixed routines and styles, but are these really in line with the original intentions of the founder?Bruce Lee's answer was no, and form would hinder progress. Bruce Lee eventually named the kung fu system he founded as Jeet Kune Do.
Bruce Lee once commented on Jeet Kune Do: It is the art of the quiet soul, as quiet as the moonlight shining on a deep lake. (Bruce Lee often referred to the martial arts he founded as JKD).
For a period of time, Bruce Lee was tormented by the pain of his back and was unable to train, during which Bruce Lee thought that if he could not exercise his body, he would exercise his mind, and he took this opportunity to dabble in various books, think deeply about the various conditions of people, and begin to understand the various ways of human behavior, including the reasons for fighting, the motivation and purpose of people, and how people evolve, grow and develop. After understanding the ultimate cause and purpose of human daily activities, he concluded that various systems and methods in actual combat have inherent limitations, including the Jeet Kune Do, which he created. He began to wonder if he could create a "method of lawlessness" and a "move without moves".In this way, people who practice Xi martial arts can be free from the shackles of people and dogma in sports, and achieve spiritual freedom. At this point, the fighting concept of "taking the impossible as the law, and the infinite as the finite" was born. (The author believes that Jeet Kune Do is the art of thinking in the form of the human body).
In Bruce Lee's ideological cognition,The ultimate goal of Jeet Kune Do is not to be an effective opponent, but to effectively restrain oneself, trying to understand and overcome personal emotional barriers, uneasiness and suppressed emotions, simply put, to achieve a complete self-expression, from others can not get any help in their own favor, only themselves can save themselves.
I can't teach you, I can only help you study yourself, nothing special. -Bruce lee.If you like it, you can like and follow, and leave your views in the comment area