A few words about Bruce Lee
Creator of Jeet Kune Do or Hong Lung Chuan.
If you haven't been living under a rock and are in any degree interested in the oriental martial arts, then you must have heard of the actor, martial arts practitioner and teacher, great philosopher and last, but not least, a great mathematician !
Bruce Lee was born under the sign of the dragon, and originally, meaning in chinese, he was called Lee Shi Long, meaning, little dragon. He deserved completely his name, since the dragon represents for most of the chinese people or at least is synonim with martial arts, and Bruce Lee surely was a living exemple of martial arts extreme.
As a little kid, he was pretty weak up
until the age of 13 (there's gotta be something in this, since almost all
new martial arts creators were the same ! weak until around the age of
13/14, then developement started, and in the end , booom ! a new martial
art was born ! think about it !), when he started studying with the last
grand master of wing chun, Yip Man. Bruce Lee was so devoted to training
and perfecting himself, that he even went to the dojo sometimes much
sooner than he should have, and waited for his fellow students in front of
the gym and when they arrived, he told them that the masters couldn't make
it that day, and the class is not going to be kept. Of course, after
everyone left, the master came and Lee studied alone with the master,
learning much more than the others.
There's no word or writing to describe what Bruce Lee was alike, his movies, the fights in his movies speak a lot more about the man, the martial art, and the perfection he reached in the field of martial arts and fighting. As they say, a picture speaks as much as a thousand words, anyone who saw his movies, saw a great man, a great fighter, a great martial artist.
According to Bruce Lee, every technique is a brick in a building reaching from below the surface of the earth and up to the clowds, and the multitude of techniques has its place in the building. But he also was the one who noted once that it's useless to know a thousand techniques and exercises, if you cannot use them properly in realtime, one-on-one, or one-on-many fight, so you'd better stick with a few techniques only, but master those few so that you can use them on anyone.
Bruce Lee passed away at the early age of 33, in 1973, and more than 10000 people mourned him. Apart from the fact that many so-called karateka today - mostly of japanese styles - do not recognise his merits, Bruce Lee was, and still remains for most of us the greatest martial artist of the millenium