Bruce Lee

[Max]

I just saw the History Channel Documentary of "Bruce Lee." I still cannot believe it. This guy, he was amazing. He wasn't like the other martial artists. He wasn't just a chinese man who knew Karate. He was one of the most amazing, one of the most intelligent, and even more, wise, people I have ever seen, or heard of. He was Confucious and Lennon, Jet Li and Jackie Chan, all rolled into one. He was brilliant, he was a philosopher, beyond the ability to learn, but able to adapt, able to create his own philosophy, and eventually create the most amazing and scientific and unbelievable Martial Art ever created, changing the martial art world forever, before renouncing it and tossing it out the window, disclaiming systems and types and styles. He did not discover truth and then recite it mindlessly for the rest of his life, allowing the next person to come along and discover more-he learned from his own discoveries, furthered himself in every possible way. 27 years after his death his wife still receives letters every day telling her what he has done to their life- people not even alive at his death. He taught that you cannot learn from manuals, you cannot learn simply from others. You can learn ultimately the truth from only yourself, for that is where all talent resides, and you must capitalize on that, to make yourself better, to learn, to become wiser. You cannot become geat simply from other's knowledge, but only from what you can teach yourself. Learn more about him.


P.S. If he were alive now, in the condition he was in before he died, he'd be able to wreck anyone alive today. Jet Li, Jackie chan, Steven Seagal, Evander friggin Holyfield, it doesn't matter.

[C.J.]

I don't know, man. If he were alive today, he'd be pretty old.

[whtouche]

I don't know, man. If he were alive today, he'd be pretty old.

haha.
That made me chuckle

[Aeric]

What's really cool about him, is that he based some of his godly style of martial arts off modern fencing.

[Max]

What's really cool about him, is that he based some of his godly style of martial arts off modern fencing.

Yeah, I know. All the Karate Tournaments back then were based on a system on how much the other person would probably be hurt if the fight were real. He looked at fencing on how to set up his own system.

[Inquartata]

Ah, yes, Bruce Lee! Greatest of all great men who have ever lived. He also laid golden eggs, I hear. And could speak to animals, like Dr. Doolittle.