Street fighting moves: Bruce Lee was a fool
Whenever someone says Bruce Lee in any martial arts circle, heads bow and knees kneel as you hear a heavenly chorus of angels sing softly in the background. We are talking about an icon here. We are talking about someone more than a man and a little less than a deity. Yeah right! Bruce Lee was not that good. Oh oh, I see some of you blush at the audacity of my statement, and I know trash talking about Bruce Lee is the closest anyone can come to committing martial arts sacrilege, but there are 5 facts. why Bruce Lee wasn’t all that and a bag of chips.
Fact # 1 – Squeaked – Aaarrr! Wooo. Woooo! What the hell is that? Oh yeah, I guess making those sounds really scares me.
Fact # 2 – He always fought 20 (fantasy) attackers who surrounded him with weapons – Hey, give me 20 extras in a movie, give them all the nunchucks, bo staff and clubs, give them a script and tell them to pretend Getting hit by me while the camera rolls and as I move calmly and all, kicking and knocking everyone out with one punch, I guess it would make me look like the greatest martial artist that ever lived.
Fact # 3 – He used too many high kicks – Although as spectacular and impressive as the audience may have seemed, wide-eyed, open-mouthed, he exclaimed, “Wow!” as he did his flying high kicks, this is exactly the kind of kick you should NOT do in a real street fight. High and aerial kicks are the most ineffective for real life street combat for many reasons. If you are too close inside your opponent’s body, the high kick becomes totally ineffective and can easily be caught leaving you jumping on one leg and vulnerable to the attacker’s kick to the only leg that supports you, either breaking it or hitting you. the land. How many times do you find yourself in real life fighting situations that are closed spaces? In reality, you are not going to kick high without hitting your legs against furniture or other objects in your environment.
Fact # 4 – He made too many weird faces while fighting – Who do you know who fights like they’re constipated or about to pass gas? Have you ever seen the way Bruce Lee twisted and contorted his face every time he was face to face with an opponent? (Opponent! Yeah right! Rather, the scripted actors in front of him with all the choreographed does it move.)
Fact # 5 – Lick his own blood to get angry – Remember that scene in Enter The Dragon where the other kung fu kid hits him in the chest with these artificial bear claws. Bruce Lee runs his hand over his slightly bleeding chest and licks it. This is not martial art. This is. This is. Well … just weird!
Look, answer me this. What makes you believe that Bruce Lee is qualified to be called the greatest fighter that ever lived? Before you started making movies, did you ever work as a janitor? Did you have extensive bodyguard experience? I have you Have you ever seen him in a street fight, or has someone you know seen him? No I dont think so.
If you want to praise the great kung fu artists, you don’t have to go to the past to look for an over-glorified movie actor, and a bad one at that, to find kung fu masters, you can’t find them on the movie screen, but in kung fu schools around the world. There are two that I know personally that could pull Bruce Lee out of the water, you may have heard of them. One is Sifu Armando Sainz from Florida who specializes in Wing Chung kung fu and Sifu Ken Gullete from Illinois. I’m sure there are many more, but we never heard of them.
Just remember one thing, Bruce Lee was primarily an actor, and all the bad guys I’ve seen him fight were actors too. Do I still need to say more? Oh, you’re still mad, aren’t you? Because I’m say-Are you going to the immortal Bruce Lee? Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee can kiss me … love Bruce Lee?