bruce lee vs mike tyson
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Actually Bruce Lee made his Jeet Kune Do "style" mostly out of Chinese kungfu style called Wing Chun. Bruce Lee wasn't giving any props to Karate or any other hard Japanese styles. He knew his kungfu was superior, and in almost every Bruce Lee movie he was showing how much better Chinese kungfu was compared to any Japanese style.
But you're right. Bruce Lee definetly wasn't just an actor. He was the best martial artist alive and practically didn't do nothing but trained all day long. And that training and all those pain killer pills he toke was the thing that killed him at the end. He just trained too hard. He wanted to see just how far a human body can be taken.
An interesting thing is that Bruce Lee said that Muhammad Ali was the only fighter in the world he looked up to. That don't mean that Ali would been better fighter than Bruce Lee, but Lee knew that Ali had something that Lee could learn of. For example if you watch how Bruce Lee moves there's a lot of similarities whit Ali's moving.
But you're right. Bruce Lee definetly wasn't just an actor. He was the best martial artist alive and practically didn't do nothing but trained all day long. And that training and all those pain killer pills he toke was the thing that killed him at the end. He just trained too hard. He wanted to see just how far a human body can be taken.
An interesting thing is that Bruce Lee said that Muhammad Ali was the only fighter in the world he looked up to. That don't mean that Ali would been better fighter than Bruce Lee, but Lee knew that Ali had something that Lee could learn of. For example if you watch how Bruce Lee moves there's a lot of similarities whit Ali's moving.
Sure he started as an actor, his parents were actors, that doesn't mean he had no martial arts background. If you knew anything about his history you would know that he studied Wing Chun (Kung Fu) and learned from Master Yip Man. He then went on to create his own style focusing on the strong points of Wing Chun, Boxing and Fencing which he called Jun Fan Gung Fu, which later he renamed and is now known as Jeet Kune Do or JKD. Bruce Lee is a legend in Martial Arts, and Martial Arts on Film.
