Bruce Lee's mind for martial arts was legendary. Much of the discussion gets stuck around how great of a fighter he was and his athleticism... but not enough time is spent discussing his mind. The principles he share are much more important than his own attributes as a fighter, and in this video we explore some of our favorites. Free Legendary Strategies: www.lawrencekenshin.com/
Glad you touched on this in detail, he was a big influence in eastern philosophy and metaphysics being introduced to the world through his martial arts approach. In many competitive arenas getting into flow state is a necessary skill, and in the case of hand to hand combat on the battle field, racing or fighter jet dog fights, it can literally be the difference between life and death. The methodology of an empty mind feeling the moment and being in the moment and interacting live with it is a peak state of expressing mastery, which he was conveying.
I noticed just now when I think I do poorly in sparring session but when I just move and react i do well..... This video put what I was feeling into words
his mind and philosophy is generic eastern delivered in his own unique style... his physical prowess, however, is something that has started alot physical things..like his playing with electric shock..there is an exercise too called dragon flag that's coined after him..not to mention that he formed a martial arts in its own rights....so, i don't think his physical prowess is his bonus .. which martial arts do you practice??
Passion and fluidity is the key to success in anything. Once you can do something with instant response and success you have achieved mastery. You can see it along with feeling it before it happens.
Thank you for this. Finally a good showing of the PRINCIPALS Bruce was all about.. we all find our own way.. yet we all move in a similar way the human way.
This man was ahead of his time, he showed the traditional martial artists that they should not remain alone in the tradition, if not they should put it to the test and adapt. This is the beauty of combat martial arts, boxing, mma, muay thai, jiu jitsu, wrestling, etc, martial arts will only change because people change.
Finally, the GOAT has arrived. I began with martial arts training with a guy who always preached the same principles after whipping our butts every session, since we would constantly be in street fights or brawls...once we learned the discipline, we didn't thirst for blood like before, we seeked tests of skill and experienced fighters, bouncers didn't do it after a couple months anyway ...
Me and 2 of my friends used to do a bit of training in the garden and one of my mates was obsessed with Bruce Lee and Tony Jaa (not sure on the spelling lol)... We used to laugh at him and think he was daft for trying spinning elbows and kicks, saying "it only works in the movies"... Now you see people getting flatlined by the same "spinning shit" every other week, little did we now 😂
Great video, I think it shows what made the real man Bruce Lee the true legend he is which is so much more interesting than the myth people made him into, I hope to see more stuff like this.
Machiavelli's art of war was that a soldier must know: when turn anywhere, to retreat, to stand guard, to advance. Bruce lee's respinse was: when to flow, to creep, to drip, to crash. Rumelt's responce was: when to broaden advantages, to increase demand for advantage, to isolate advantage, to deppening advantage. My response is: when to run, to ambush, to block, to hunt. It is the same principle throughout humankind history. My humble opinion.
It's also not just reacting. It's training countless hours to have the ability to react correctly. If you don't train like these "masters" you won't magically react like they do.
Something worth mentioning is that though Bruce Lee did not have a professional ring record, he spent time with and around plenty of people who did, and they were able to recognize that he was the real deal. Judge me not by the color of my actions, but by my content of character, and the company I keep :)
He certainly did associate with the top US point karate fighters of his era. I think he would have had been more validated if he had interacted more with the top boxers from the same time frame. Outside of Joe Lewis I don't recall him really training with that many 'contact' oriented fighters.
Glad you touched on this in detail, he was a big influence in eastern philosophy and metaphysics being introduced to the world through his martial arts approach. In many competitive arenas getting into flow state is a necessary skill, and in the case of racing or fighter jet dog fights, it can literally be the difference between life and death. The methodology of an empty mind feeling the moment and being in the moment and interacting live with it is a peak state of expressing mastery, which he was conveying.
What a really great video. Honestly Expressing Yourself. Being at peace, adaptive moving when you need to move flowing like water. Being effective, setting Intention, striking strong, crashing like waves. All martial artists are unique in that they are having to consistently face the truth about themselves. It makes them ready for challenging situations. Timeless lessons. Man. 😎💪🏾
This is the video that the typical Bruce Lee acolyte should be posting. This one short video perfectly captures the essence of what Bruce Lee was trying to say. If Kenshin could have worked with Longstreet instead of Lee I think things would have made sense to him quicker. As usual great job.
Take people's words VERBATIM. "Don't' think. Feel." Ronda Rousey (any many MMA) fighters said in fighting you keep your emotions out of it. Your emotions will hinder your fighting. I consider chess the ultimate martial art. I am amazed that computers can play chess without emotions. Pure thought without emotions. We have created a fighter without emotions. Let me tell you a story. Newsies is a movie and a musical about the News Boys Strike. Very emotional stuff, very inspiring. One year after the News Boys Strike, they invented the newspaper vending machine. You drop in a quarter, the metal box opens up. That metal newspaper vending machines put a whole bunch of News Boys out of business. A metal box put an end to all that Newsies bullshit. Of course you won't see a musical about a metal box vending machine. And "be like water". That's way not original. It's in Sun Tzu The Art of War.
@@silveriver9 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei#:~:text=Wu%20wei%20(Chinese%3A%20%E7%84%A1%E7%82%BA%3B,in%20Chinese%20statecraft%20and%20Taoism. yes his philosophies were based on the daoist concept of wu wei
I can see from reading the comments that Bruce Lee's fighting technique, philosophy of life and martial arts mean so much and have resonated with so many. Allow me to share my thoughts and philosophy for a moment? While Bruce had no ring fights or any form of competitive professional fights. He was a master of Wing Chun and of course his own iteration of it, namely, Jeet Kune Do. For those uninitiated with the martial art, was directly translated to way of the intercepting fist. Jeet Kune Do allowed Bruce to develop and use incredibly painful and deadly techniques which, in no way shape or form could be used effectively in a competitive scenario. Bruce's ideology of combat was life or death, it was not designed for an arena where rules are involved. Jeet Kune Do is purely a form of martial arts used in life or death scenarios and therefore could never be tested in a competitive environment.
Man I wish Bruce never died. Why are so many people compelled to give him titles? He was a great callisthenics athlete and a pioneer. That's it! He wasn't a fighter as he never fought and as a martial artist he was just a beginner as he only finished Wing Chub school and then never had a chance to attend many other schools anymore. He was too busy with an actor career and then never had a chance to develop further due to his sudden death. I personally would not dare call him a martial artist or a martial arts philosopher second to NONE! Most of his ideas come from old texts written hundreds of years ago. He might have been a prodigy who came up with everything on his own without studying old knowledge from books or by ear from a teacher but there is no way to confirm now.
How would one translate the idea of being in the state of stiffness (to strike, dodge, etc) and calmness (swiftness of movement, fluidity, flow like water) into the realm of intellect? By intellect I mean knowledge and understanding of the world. Is it applicable?
Be like water is a philosophy of Miyamoto Musashi in the book of five rings. A Samurai, The Greatest Dualist of all time. Well, at least first to come up with it. Much respect to Bruce Lee.
Thank you for this video IT IS VERY INFORMATIVE ON A HIGH LEVEL, AND THIS VIDEO IS HONEST. WHEN IT COMES TO FIGHTING IT'S BEST TO KNOW THE TRUTH 🥊🥊. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. I'M NO FIGHTER AND DON'T CLAIM TO BE BUT I CAN SEE COMMON SENSE WISDOM IN YOUR WORDS. I BELIEVE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW SOME KIND OF SELF DEFENSE IT'S VITAL
I agree with a lot of what you said but MMA operates under certain rules for safety has a sport Bruce was very against developing a martial art around rules it's more towards self-defense that was his criticism of karate
I don't think it's fair too compare to sport , there are some accounts of him belonging to street gangs when he was a kid I mean I just believe in self-defense they use JKD for self-defense still here
Bruce Lee is a fighter... just not a modern professional fighter. He fought streets fights and trained in martial arts. 2) Random: Taking a 1960s basketball player and putting him against someone from 2020s, it's a completely different game. Better science, training, diet, etc should benefit the modern player bc his game is built on the history of others. Bruce isn't a professional fighter b/c he was promoting martial arts and making movies. He was dealing with racism as an Asian man in 1960s Hollywood while also battling Chinese culture in the states. The fact that we still discuss him 50 years after his death shows how great he truly is.
I think its more than just taking what's useful from each style. What's useful for some might not be for others. He wanted people to train in a way that would transcend style and make the concept of style irrelevant. 'Style' is nothing but a social construct like race and borders.
Yes, style is conceptual and doesn't really exist. But race exists. Genders too. They are not conceptual and made in the mind. What does not exist about race is what we think it should mean. You can't modify reality.
He did have a documented boxing match & quite a bit of street fights under his belt in hong kong as a youth on the junction street tigers street gang as a youth tho. That was his base and reason 4 picking up wing chun. Did a ton of sparring & had some scuffles in adult years too.
No doubt Bruce Lee was a legend, but considering his lack of ring experience it's safe to say that he may not have been as great as cinema portrayed him to be. After all, film and acting is about dramatization. It's interesting to hear people call Bruce "a master of martial arts" when he never truly mastered a discipline, not even Wing Chun (which he only studied for a few years during his youth). A "combat philosopher" yes, but a "master" I'm not so sure. A true master of martial arts who also made his way to the big screen would be Jet Li...and yes, he would send Bruce to school. No disrespect to the great BL, just stating facts. Check out Li's impressive martial arts repertoire.
Fighting as a sport in a ring. Thats not a real fight. Real is no gloves no protection, no weight limit. Like 1995 vale tudo ie not Sean o mally doubting if hè could even go 25 min. Nowadays people who barely get injured are in fights? Lets call that entertainment-fighting.
He would get destroyed by anyone in UFC, anyone in Bellator, most people in sub-tier leagues. Lee had no ground game, few movies he used grappling, he would not pass more as blue belt... This isnt western 70s anymore when no full-contact stand-up was practiced, fighting styles have advanced significantly. Better fighting styles from other parts of world have come into play that Lee and other western MA's had 0 knowledge about - Sambo, BJJ, Vale Tudo, Muay Thai etc.
I don't understand this fascination for Bruce Lee. Lee was foremost a martial arts practitioner, but most important, he was an actor and made a living as such. He never actually fought in martial arts tournaments. He was an amazing athlete, there is no question about it, but his combat efficiency has yet to be demonstrated.
@@LawrenceKenshin are you talking about the footage available on TH-cam, such as this one? th-cam.com/video/rNp1p74bVkg/w-d-xo.html Quite honestly, technically speaking, these footage are quite embarrassing, they don't show any particular exceptionalism in Bruce Lee fighting technics, quite the contrary. Lee wouldn't last two minutes, facing any 16 yr, who train at the Tiger Gym in Thailand.
@@LawrenceKenshin I once pointed out to a Bruce Lee hater that he actually did win an amateur boxing match and instead of conceding that he was wrong, he straw manned me as claiming I said he was an unbeatable superhuman fighter when I never implied anything of the sort. Then it just turned into a personal flame war because he was butthurt. Last I heard from this fool, he sent me a video of some Kata claiming it was the only martial arts I cared about or some nonsense like that.. Ironically, although I haven't trained in a while as much as I'd like to, the primary discipline I've trained is shoot wrestling... There is obviously no Kata in shoot wrestling. Don't get me wrong, there's definitely an issue with some of the Bruce Lee cultists who blindly spread anything they hear and I tend to be anti-BS in general due to the harm it can cause but the Bruce Lee haters in my experience are even more irrational and dishonest at this point from what I've seen.
Bruce Lee's fighting principles were: a ton of charisma and good camera work. If anybody has seen any actual record of Bruce Lee fighting anybody who was anybody at all, you'd do the community a great service by sharing. It's not like video didn't exist when he was active...
No, far from it. He Trained to an extremely high level but he competed in pretty basic comps. compare his skills to a top tier K1 or MMA fighter he wouldn’t be much use. Bruce Lee is an icon but that’s pretty much it. If his fighting was actually that good people in MMA would be training it. All these people who spend their hole lives training in a martial art but not actually getting punched in the face for a living will never be good fighters.
Video came out 10 minutes ago. Video length... 9 minutes This comment... 6 minutes ago. Bro.. did you even watch any of it? Or just started typing away before watching like I am now. Bruce lee would have been a Champ in Muay Thai or mma. If he had a good gym to learn and train. He basically trained himself
@@austin3789 he was the toughest Chinese man alive since everyone else was doing tai chi..so that is impressive because at that time and soon after there was too much superstition in the martial arts with semi contact fighting..full contact was very rare.
I don't get you guys. I don't. BL never fought. He was an actor. He wrote books and by his own accounts hated tradition. He thought biting was an answer to grapplers. You all make him into a martial arts god when he never proved anything. Move on. The pioneers were Kano, the Gracies, etcv etc. Not this fool.
"Let me tell you what fighting is REALLY about" - Actor with 0 professional fights, no police record and maybe 1 amateur boxing event with no witnesses or documentation peddling his home-brewed martial arts system
this is perhaps the worst video of this channel and ironically andvery sadly, it's about one of the god level martial artist of all time.. ..lack of ring experience, so you can't tell if he is a good fighter or whatever.. what lazy shiz was that? edit: by the way does anybody know what martial arts lawrence kenshin practices??
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei#:~:text=Wu%20wei%20(Chinese%3A%20%E7%84%A1%E7%82%BA%3B,in%20Chinese%20statecraft%20and%20Taoism A lot of his concepts are based on the taoist concept of wu wei. His ideas were already very old he was able to communicate these ideas to the west and made them understandable in English.
Bruce Lee's mind for martial arts was legendary.
Much of the discussion gets stuck around how great of a fighter he was and his athleticism... but not enough time is spent discussing his mind.
The principles he share are much more important than his own attributes as a fighter, and in this video we explore some of our favorites.
Free Legendary Strategies: www.lawrencekenshin.com/
Glad you touched on this in detail, he was a big influence in eastern philosophy and metaphysics being introduced to the world through his martial arts approach. In many competitive arenas getting into flow state is a necessary skill, and in the case of hand to hand combat on the battle field, racing or fighter jet dog fights, it can literally be the difference between life and death. The methodology of an empty mind feeling the moment and being in the moment and interacting live with it is a peak state of expressing mastery, which he was conveying.
Birthed the concept of mma, Bruce Lee. Well done Kenshin on explaining his philosophical perspective on Martial Arts
I definitely have paid attention to his philosophies for years.
WELL SAID!
Some of the greats of then and now say Bruce Lee could fight. That’s enough for me!
"Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." - Bruce Lee
Modern MMA in a nutshell
Only if you look at kashido non tap.
@@definitelynotanAIchatbot he basically invented the concept of MMA
@@RodieLEE I know
@@definitelynotanAIchatbot u know
I noticed just now when I think I do poorly in sparring session but when I just move and react i do well..... This video put what I was feeling into words
thanks for watching!
Same.
Lee's true gifts really were his mind and philosophy. His physical prowess was a bonus.
Great vid, Lawrence.
his mind and philosophy is generic eastern delivered in his own unique style... his physical prowess, however, is something that has started alot physical things..like his playing with electric shock..there is an exercise too called dragon flag that's coined after him..not to mention that he formed a martial arts in its own rights....so, i don't think his physical prowess is his bonus
.. which martial arts do you practice??
I think his spirit trumps that
Passion and fluidity is the key to success in anything. Once you can do something with instant response and success you have achieved mastery. You can see it along with feeling it before it happens.
yes true!
Thank you for this. Finally a good showing of the PRINCIPALS Bruce was all about.. we all find our own way.. yet we all move in a similar way the human way.
By far the best martial arts philosophy channel on TH-cam......like by an order of magnitude
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This man was ahead of his time, he showed the traditional martial artists that they should not remain alone in the tradition, if not they should put it to the test and adapt. This is the beauty of combat martial arts, boxing, mma, muay thai, jiu jitsu, wrestling, etc, martial arts will only change because people change.
Finally, the GOAT has arrived. I began with martial arts training with a guy who always preached the same principles after whipping our butts every session, since we would constantly be in street fights or brawls...once we learned the discipline, we didn't thirst for blood like before, we seeked tests of skill and experienced fighters, bouncers didn't do it after a couple months anyway ...
To me Fighting is dance and I wanna dance with the best!
Me and 2 of my friends used to do a bit of training in the garden and one of my mates was obsessed with Bruce Lee and Tony Jaa (not sure on the spelling lol)...
We used to laugh at him and think he was daft for trying spinning elbows and kicks, saying "it only works in the movies"...
Now you see people getting flatlined by the same "spinning shit" every other week, little did we now 😂
spinning things work once the fundamentals are mastered!
Great video, I think it shows what made the real man Bruce Lee the true legend he is which is so much more interesting than the myth people made him into, I hope to see more stuff like this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Bruce was Albert Einstein of martial arts 🧠
Machiavelli's art of war was that a soldier must know: when turn anywhere, to retreat, to stand guard, to advance.
Bruce lee's respinse was:
when to flow, to creep, to drip, to crash.
Rumelt's responce was: when to broaden advantages, to increase demand for advantage, to isolate advantage, to deppening advantage.
My response is: when to run, to ambush, to block, to hunt.
It is the same principle throughout humankind history. My humble opinion.
It's also not just reacting. It's training countless hours to have the ability to react correctly. If you don't train like these "masters" you won't magically react like they do.
It even more of a response than reaction.
UNBELIEVABLE. THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO! OUTSTANDING
Wow, thank you for support!
Something worth mentioning is that though Bruce Lee did not have a professional ring record, he spent time with and around plenty of people who did, and they were able to recognize that he was the real deal.
Judge me not by the color of my actions, but by my content of character, and the company I keep
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He certainly did associate with the top US point karate fighters of his era. I think he would have had been more validated if he had interacted more with the top boxers from the same time frame. Outside of Joe Lewis I don't recall him really training with that many 'contact' oriented fighters.
Glad you touched on this in detail, he was a big influence in eastern philosophy and metaphysics being introduced to the world through his martial arts approach. In many competitive arenas getting into flow state is a necessary skill, and in the case of racing or fighter jet dog fights, it can literally be the difference between life and death. The methodology of an empty mind feeling the moment and being in the moment and interacting live with it is a peak state of expressing mastery, which he was conveying.
What a really great video. Honestly Expressing Yourself. Being at peace, adaptive moving when you need to move flowing like water. Being effective, setting Intention, striking strong, crashing like waves. All martial artists are unique in that they are having to consistently face the truth about themselves. It makes them ready for challenging situations. Timeless lessons. Man. 😎💪🏾
This is what shuts down the "oh he was just an actor" crap. The man knew what he was talking about.
Keep up the good work! The way is in training 🤜🤝🤛
thank you for supporting!
one hell of a video/breakdown 😍
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This is the video that the typical Bruce Lee acolyte should be posting. This one short video perfectly captures the essence of what Bruce Lee was trying to say. If Kenshin could have worked with Longstreet instead of Lee I think things would have made sense to him quicker. As usual great job.
thanks man! who is long street?
@@LawrenceKenshin that was the James Franciscus character that Bruce Lee was training in that 1970s TV show footage you had in your video
Great explanation 🔥🔥🙏🏾
Glad you think so!
One of the best videos I've seen on TH-cam
thank you
Take people's words VERBATIM.
"Don't' think. Feel."
Ronda Rousey (any many MMA) fighters said in fighting you keep your emotions out of it. Your emotions will hinder your fighting.
I consider chess the ultimate martial art. I am amazed that computers can play chess without emotions. Pure thought without emotions. We have created a fighter without emotions.
Let me tell you a story. Newsies is a movie and a musical about the News Boys Strike. Very emotional stuff, very inspiring. One year after the News Boys Strike, they invented the newspaper vending machine. You drop in a quarter, the metal box opens up. That metal newspaper vending machines put a whole bunch of News Boys out of business. A metal box put an end to all that Newsies bullshit.
Of course you won't see a musical about a metal box vending machine.
And "be like water". That's way not original. It's in Sun Tzu The Art of War.
Love this. The mental is the key to martial arts. You have to be able to let go, flow and react.
His spirit and genius lives on
Bruce Lee understood Ultra Instinct before Goku did.
Total legend
totally, what is your favorite part to bruce?
@@LawrenceKenshin his mind!
@@sonnystormg You should read more on Daoism, as bruce lee was greatly influenced by it. ☯️
@@silveriver9 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei#:~:text=Wu%20wei%20(Chinese%3A%20%E7%84%A1%E7%82%BA%3B,in%20Chinese%20statecraft%20and%20Taoism. yes his philosophies were based on the daoist concept of wu wei
Thank You Operator
Could you make a video about andy hug?
That was an awesome video perspective and great to watch. Good job! 👊😎
Glad you enjoyed it!
I can see from reading the comments that Bruce Lee's fighting technique, philosophy of life and martial arts mean so much and have resonated with so many. Allow me to share my thoughts and philosophy for a moment? While Bruce had no ring fights or any form of competitive professional fights. He was a master of Wing Chun and of course his own iteration of it, namely, Jeet Kune Do. For those uninitiated with the martial art, was directly translated to way of the intercepting fist. Jeet Kune Do allowed Bruce to develop and use incredibly painful and deadly techniques which, in no way shape or form could be used effectively in a competitive scenario. Bruce's ideology of combat was life or death, it was not designed for an arena where rules are involved. Jeet Kune Do is purely a form of martial arts used in life or death scenarios and therefore could never be tested in a competitive environment.
Brilliant video
03:12
Omg it's Eddie Abasolo!
Thank you.
This was a really good one
Man I wish Bruce never died. Why are so many people compelled to give him titles? He was a great callisthenics athlete and a pioneer. That's it! He wasn't a fighter as he never fought and as a martial artist he was just a beginner as he only finished Wing Chub school and then never had a chance to attend many other schools anymore. He was too busy with an actor career and then never had a chance to develop further due to his sudden death.
I personally would not dare call him a martial artist or a martial arts philosopher second to NONE! Most of his ideas come from old texts written hundreds of years ago. He might have been a prodigy who came up with everything on his own without studying old knowledge from books or by ear from a teacher but there is no way to confirm now.
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Fantastic 👍
Excellent video
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How would one translate the idea of being in the state of stiffness (to strike, dodge, etc) and calmness (swiftness of movement, fluidity, flow like water) into the realm of intellect? By intellect I mean knowledge and understanding of the world. Is it applicable?
nice extrapolation.
Be like water is a philosophy of Miyamoto Musashi in the book of five rings. A Samurai, The Greatest Dualist of all time. Well, at least first to come up with it. Much respect to Bruce Lee.
What is this music?
Would also like to know this! 👍
Thank you for this video IT IS VERY INFORMATIVE ON A HIGH LEVEL, AND THIS VIDEO IS HONEST. WHEN IT COMES TO FIGHTING IT'S BEST TO KNOW THE TRUTH 🥊🥊. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. I'M NO FIGHTER AND DON'T CLAIM TO BE BUT I CAN SEE COMMON SENSE WISDOM IN YOUR WORDS. I BELIEVE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW SOME KIND OF SELF DEFENSE IT'S VITAL
will you do a breakdown of Tenshin vs Takeru. I can find you a quality video of it if you need it
I love Bruce lee
Does the general of an army have to be able to defeat every one of his soldiers in hand to hand combat in order to be a great leader?
Martial artist? Most definitely
Fighter? Probably not
His effect on martial arts and fighting? Legendary
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Great vid
thank you!
amen
This flow state also translates to gaming. I have a harder time nowadays getting into it when doing martial arts.
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I agree with a lot of what you said but MMA operates under certain rules for safety has a sport Bruce was very against developing a martial art around rules it's more towards self-defense that was his criticism of karate
His mind for life and for fighting was just like water
I think he fought alot growing up into 20s alot went down when he was young
do Benny Urquidez
Bruce Lee is the REAL DEAL a true master no one can top him. My big Teacher
If this was your Big Teacher you bought into a lot of BS. I suggest getting your anterior from your posterior.
"Due to his lack of ring experience, that is something we'll never know." Finally someone speaking the truth
:) thank you for supporting!
Chuck Norris found out the hard way from Bruce Lee that ring exp is no measure of how great a fighter is.
@@silveriver9 and when was that?
Ring experience? This old man will explain.
th-cam.com/video/_Yf-Cpvvucs/w-d-xo.html
If you are a 7time heavyweight world karate champion, you can dispute this old man.
th-cam.com/video/AXdG577px94/w-d-xo.html
I don't think it's fair too compare to sport , there are some accounts of him belonging to street gangs when he was a kid I mean I just believe in self-defense they use JKD for self-defense still here
This is about learning Ultra Instinct
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thanks for watching!
I believe he was fighter. He will be talked about throughout history like how we talk about Alexander the Great. Young Man who became a Legend.
Bruce Lee is a fighter...
just not a modern professional fighter. He fought streets fights and trained in martial arts.
2) Random: Taking a 1960s basketball player and putting him against someone from 2020s, it's a completely different game. Better science, training, diet, etc should benefit the modern player bc his game is built on the history of others.
Bruce isn't a professional fighter b/c he was promoting martial arts and making movies. He was dealing with racism as an Asian man in 1960s Hollywood while also battling Chinese culture in the states. The fact that we still discuss him 50 years after his death shows how great he truly is.
@@jlui21 🙏
Flow (like water)
Yup!
my exp is: dont think about urself. think about ur opponent
So, Ultrainstinct.
I’m sure Bruce was beaten many times in his younger years, he had to train twice as hard as anyone else, he made sure that wouldn’t happen again.
I think its more than just taking what's useful from each style. What's useful for some might not be for others. He wanted people to train in a way that would transcend style and make the concept of style irrelevant. 'Style' is nothing but a social construct like race and borders.
Yes, style is conceptual and doesn't really exist. But race exists. Genders too. They are not conceptual and made in the mind. What does not exist about race is what we think it should mean. You can't modify reality.
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thank you
My favorite idea from bruce lee is his rejection of the concept of style
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thank you!
He did have a documented boxing match & quite a bit of street fights under his belt in hong kong as a youth on the junction street tigers street gang as a youth tho. That was his base and reason 4 picking up wing chun. Did a ton of sparring & had some scuffles in adult years too.
That kid got a million dollar lesson from Bruce Lee.
To be considered "peaceful" one must first be capable of great violence otherwise you're not peaceful, you're harmless.
Life is the REAL fight.
Linda Lee lived longer than Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee COMBINED.
Now, that is a person who "went the distance."
Guys, only Hollywood!😂😂😂😂🙏
No doubt Bruce Lee was a legend, but considering his lack of ring experience it's safe to say that he may not have been as great as cinema portrayed him to be. After all, film and acting is about dramatization. It's interesting to hear people call Bruce "a master of martial arts" when he never truly mastered a discipline, not even Wing Chun (which he only studied for a few years during his youth). A "combat philosopher" yes, but a "master" I'm not so sure. A true master of martial arts who also made his way to the big screen would be Jet Li...and yes, he would send Bruce to school. No disrespect to the great BL, just stating facts. Check out Li's impressive martial arts repertoire.
This is why I hate math, it's need to think
Ring experience = no real world experience.
Don't fink! Feeeeeeeel.
Fighting as a sport in a ring. Thats not a real fight. Real is no gloves no protection, no weight limit. Like 1995 vale tudo ie not Sean o mally doubting if hè could even go 25 min. Nowadays people who barely get injured are in fights? Lets call that entertainment-fighting.
fk water, be muay thai my friend
Wait. Bruce had many fights in the streets and competitively
One of the most overhyped martial artists. The craze with which people take his words at gospel without even trying out any art is astonishing
He would be the king of any weight in UFC...
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He would get destroyed by anyone in UFC, anyone in Bellator, most people in sub-tier leagues. Lee had no ground game, few movies he used grappling, he would not pass more as blue belt... This isnt western 70s anymore when no full-contact stand-up was practiced, fighting styles have advanced significantly. Better fighting styles from other parts of world have come into play that Lee and other western MA's had 0 knowledge about - Sambo, BJJ, Vale Tudo, Muay Thai etc.
I don't understand this fascination for Bruce Lee. Lee was foremost a martial arts practitioner, but most important, he was an actor and made a living as such. He never actually fought in martial arts tournaments. He was an amazing athlete, there is no question about it, but his combat efficiency has yet to be demonstrated.
He fought in some competitions early in life
@@LawrenceKenshin are you talking about the footage available on TH-cam, such as this one? th-cam.com/video/rNp1p74bVkg/w-d-xo.html
Quite honestly, technically speaking, these footage are quite embarrassing, they don't show any particular exceptionalism in Bruce Lee fighting technics, quite the contrary. Lee wouldn't last two minutes, facing any 16 yr, who train at the Tiger Gym in Thailand.
@@LawrenceKenshin I once pointed out to a Bruce Lee hater that he actually did win an amateur boxing match and instead of conceding that he was wrong, he straw manned me as claiming I said he was an unbeatable superhuman fighter when I never implied anything of the sort. Then it just turned into a personal flame war because he was butthurt. Last I heard from this fool, he sent me a video of some Kata claiming it was the only martial arts I cared about or some nonsense like that..
Ironically, although I haven't trained in a while as much as I'd like to, the primary discipline I've trained is shoot wrestling... There is obviously no Kata in shoot wrestling.
Don't get me wrong, there's definitely an issue with some of the Bruce Lee cultists who blindly spread anything they hear and I tend to be anti-BS in general due to the harm it can cause but the Bruce Lee haters in my experience are even more irrational and dishonest at this point from what I've seen.
@@LawrenceKenshin I fought my brother, does that count?
Bruce Lee's fighting principles were: a ton of charisma and good camera work.
If anybody has seen any actual record of Bruce Lee fighting anybody who was anybody at all, you'd do the community a great service by sharing. It's not like video didn't exist when he was active...
No, far from it. He Trained to an extremely high level but he competed in pretty basic comps. compare his skills to a top tier K1 or MMA fighter he wouldn’t be much use. Bruce Lee is an icon but that’s pretty much it. If his fighting was actually that good people in MMA would be training it. All these people who spend their hole lives training in a martial art but not actually getting punched in the face for a living will never be good fighters.
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Bro.. did you even watch any of it? Or just started typing away before watching like I am now.
Bruce lee would have been a Champ in Muay Thai or mma. If he had a good gym to learn and train.
He basically trained himself
Clinic in how to say he didn't watch the video without saying he didn't watch the video.
@@gillbates1511 I can imagine him being like a Dominick Cruz or a Conor McGregor or even better for his era because he was so innovative.
@@austin3789 he was the toughest Chinese man alive since everyone else was doing tai chi..so that is impressive because at that time and soon after there was too much superstition in the martial arts with semi contact fighting..full contact was very rare.
I don't get you guys. I don't. BL never fought. He was an actor. He wrote books and by his own accounts hated tradition. He thought biting was an answer to grapplers. You all make him into a martial arts god when he never proved anything. Move on. The pioneers were Kano, the Gracies, etcv etc. Not this fool.
Cry Chicano
Nice photoshop lol Hollywood actor nothing more nothing less.......
Cry Chicano
"Let me tell you what fighting is REALLY about" - Actor with 0 professional fights, no police record and maybe 1 amateur boxing event with no witnesses or documentation peddling his home-brewed martial arts system
Fighting is fighting. It does not have to be on TV to be what it is.
Bruce Lee was a short guy weighing 55 kg.
TLDR: no, he absolutely was NOT a great fighter LOL. he wasn't even a great actor, they win academy awards =/
Like Will Smith he's ace. Remember After Earth. Wow what a movie 💩
Nooo Lawrence don’t ruin all your credibility with Bruce Lee clickbait nooo
actually i get much less views in a bruce lee video
be watah mah fwend
Bruce Lee no joke people talk to much
@@LawrenceKenshin that’s for the best
Why are you here then? 🤦♂️. The awkward moment when the hater realizes he is the no.1 fan.
It the famous word's of mister chale sonnen BRUCE LEE WAS A BUM.
this is perhaps the worst video of this channel and ironically andvery sadly, it's about one of the god level martial artist of all time..
..lack of ring experience, so you can't tell if he is a good fighter or whatever.. what lazy shiz was that?
edit: by the way does anybody know what martial arts lawrence kenshin practices??
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei#:~:text=Wu%20wei%20(Chinese%3A%20%E7%84%A1%E7%82%BA%3B,in%20Chinese%20statecraft%20and%20Taoism A lot of his concepts are based on the taoist concept of wu wei. His ideas were already very old he was able to communicate these ideas to the west and made them understandable in English.