Bruce Lee
In Enter the Dragon, a karateka (Bob Wall) shatters a wooden board with his punch to intimidate Bruce Lee before a fight. Lee gives his famous retort, “Boards don’t hit back.” A somewhat similar comment was made regarding the animal and TDH strikes on our loyal training dummy, Big Wang, who endures punishment without complaint [...]
Phony Fights Are Fun Rocky vs. Apollo Creed, Luke Skywalker vs. Dearth Vadar, Achilles vs. Hector. Martial artists are thrilled by movie duels…brawny mano y mano encounters between armed or unarmed fighters engaged in a deadly dance. Awesome. Then there’s the legendary martial art duel between Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris. Here hand-to-hand combat is [...]
In our TanDao System we combine JKD and Shaolin animal styles to create practical techniques for extreme self-defense. This week’s video introduces the TanDao intercepting claw. It is inspired by Bruce Lee’s straight lead punch and the Shaolin tiger claw. The intercepting claw exemplifies TanDao’s approach to bridging traditional art and modern fight science. The [...]
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Imagine: having the opportunity to spend a year working with the master who taught Bruce Lee kung fu. Awesome! In 1982, I wrote and directed the first video on Wing Chun – The Science of In Fighting, with Wong Shun Leung. He was one of Grandmaster Yip Man’s inner circle disciples and who’s fighting abilities [...]
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