Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee “Emotional content,” Bruce Lee tells a student practicing a side kick in Enter the Dragon. Martial artists strive to re-channel emotions, like anger, fear and frustration, to amplify the power of a strike or kick, or when breaking a brick or throwing an attacker. The kiai or “spirit shout,” for example, is a [...]
It’s ironic. On the same day that the celluloid Shaolin master, David Carradine, died, an authentic kung fu master and Hong Kong film legend, Shek Kin, passed away. Although martial artists and film goers may know him as Han, Bruce Lee’s evil nemesis in Enter the Dragon, Shek Kin was a pioneer of early kung [...]
Theorizing Bruce Lee: For thoughtful martial artists. We’ve been writing about Bruce Lee in some of our posts. I came across a very well written article, “Theorizing Bruce Lee” by Paul Bowman on Bruce Lee’s JKD. Lee was a popularizer, innovator and is now an international icon. Yet so much written about him is distorted [...]
Did you watch How Bruce Lee Changed the World on the History Channel? For fans, seeing a compilation of this charismatic master of movement is always awesome. However, the very title of the documentary, provocative and grandiose, and the fact that it was on the History Channel, set up intellectual expectations that were quickly dashed [...]
Meeting Bruce Lee A hero dies, time flies. It’s been thirty six years since on a visit to Hong Kong, I stopped Bruce Lee as he came out of a restaurant. We talked for a few minutes as movie executives waited for him in a limo. Several months later in Boston Chinatown as I went [...]
