Bruce Lee's Most Interesting Fight Challenge
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Photo Credit: Vitaly Mironenko
Intro:
I am very excited to share two videos I made from the photo stills of one of Bruce Lee’s most talked about real fight challenges. This encounter happened when a group of extras were on a break on top of a wall in Han’s compound on the set of Enter The Dragon. While watching Bruce below, one extra began shouting to Bruce doubts about his true Kung Fu skills and real fighting abilities. After awhile, Bruce felt he couldn’t ignore the disrespect anymore and invited him down. As these photos emerged, I sequenced all of them in a way that I believe shows a logical and possible progression of the fight’s action.
This fight fascinates me because it shows Bruce in a real and hostile confrontation. This was no staged movie fight or playful sparring session, but a defining, everything on the line moment. IMAGINE WHAT WAS AT STAKE! To lose face in front of his peers, fellow actors, producers and directors on the set of his first major big screen production, would have had enormous consequences. Having said all of that, the real Bruce Lee emerges here; squarely in his moment, facing an opponent that can really fight. Bruce shows his preternatural confidence, calmness, laser like focus (his eyes never leave his opponent) and strategy. You can see the feints that open up the smallest moment of opportunity for his strikes, in which he only needs a microsecond to connect. Matthew Polly in his excellent biography stated, “Bruce’s whole body was one fast twitch muscle”. It’s hard to say it any better.
To wrap up: Bruce Lee has become an immortal icon that continues to inspire and motivate millions of people. There are a quite a few reasons for that. One is that he had an unbelievable commitment to train and get better, to adapt and learn, and to define and achieve his goals with incredible emotion and intensity. So that approach can be admirable on it’s own and is at the core of his statements about “ expressing yourself.” I would like to cement the above challenge scenario in Bruce’s legacy as being at least as important and certainly more interesting than the Wong Jack Man fight because of the existing photo documentation. Considering what was at stake personally for Bruce and what can be actually seen, this challenge in Bruce Lee history is unique and another defining example that Bruce was indisputably authentic. To me, he demonstrated that he truly was that “toughest guy in the room” and the one who feared no opponent. Who on Earth does not aspire to or at least admire that kind of achievement to some degree?
There are two versions of the video. The first one is set at a 1 second interval to mimic a continuous video. The second follows and is set to 4-second intervals to allow for some savoring of the moments.
Enjoy folks.
Jeff Harker
Видео Bruce Lee's Most Interesting Fight Challenge канала jharker1000
Photo Credit: Vitaly Mironenko
Intro:
I am very excited to share two videos I made from the photo stills of one of Bruce Lee’s most talked about real fight challenges. This encounter happened when a group of extras were on a break on top of a wall in Han’s compound on the set of Enter The Dragon. While watching Bruce below, one extra began shouting to Bruce doubts about his true Kung Fu skills and real fighting abilities. After awhile, Bruce felt he couldn’t ignore the disrespect anymore and invited him down. As these photos emerged, I sequenced all of them in a way that I believe shows a logical and possible progression of the fight’s action.
This fight fascinates me because it shows Bruce in a real and hostile confrontation. This was no staged movie fight or playful sparring session, but a defining, everything on the line moment. IMAGINE WHAT WAS AT STAKE! To lose face in front of his peers, fellow actors, producers and directors on the set of his first major big screen production, would have had enormous consequences. Having said all of that, the real Bruce Lee emerges here; squarely in his moment, facing an opponent that can really fight. Bruce shows his preternatural confidence, calmness, laser like focus (his eyes never leave his opponent) and strategy. You can see the feints that open up the smallest moment of opportunity for his strikes, in which he only needs a microsecond to connect. Matthew Polly in his excellent biography stated, “Bruce’s whole body was one fast twitch muscle”. It’s hard to say it any better.
To wrap up: Bruce Lee has become an immortal icon that continues to inspire and motivate millions of people. There are a quite a few reasons for that. One is that he had an unbelievable commitment to train and get better, to adapt and learn, and to define and achieve his goals with incredible emotion and intensity. So that approach can be admirable on it’s own and is at the core of his statements about “ expressing yourself.” I would like to cement the above challenge scenario in Bruce’s legacy as being at least as important and certainly more interesting than the Wong Jack Man fight because of the existing photo documentation. Considering what was at stake personally for Bruce and what can be actually seen, this challenge in Bruce Lee history is unique and another defining example that Bruce was indisputably authentic. To me, he demonstrated that he truly was that “toughest guy in the room” and the one who feared no opponent. Who on Earth does not aspire to or at least admire that kind of achievement to some degree?
There are two versions of the video. The first one is set at a 1 second interval to mimic a continuous video. The second follows and is set to 4-second intervals to allow for some savoring of the moments.
Enjoy folks.
Jeff Harker
Видео Bruce Lee's Most Interesting Fight Challenge канала jharker1000
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