Regarding Bruce Lees speed..... oh and wikipedia ;)

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The other day during school I got SERIOUSLY bored so I decided to go onto wikipedia. Half an hour later I was reading all about Bruce Lee, and I scrolled down to the facts and one stuck out for me. It said (quoted exactly from page):

"Bruce Lee's striking speed from 60cm (24 inches) away was five hundredths of a second."

Is that firstly even possible? And isn't that litterally an 100mph punch or faster?

What do you think?
 
That doesnt mean he could punch you in that time, thats from when he was already moving.

Bruce Lee is wildly over rated, there are many many ppl who are more skilled than he was. He was just famous cos he was the 1st.
 
R.Lewis said:
That doesnt mean he could punch you in that time, thats from when he was already moving.

Bruce Lee is wildly over rated, there are many many ppl who are more skilled than he was. He was just famous cos he was the 1st.
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:mad: Oh you didn't mean that... Bruce Lee is a legend much like Sean Connery ;)


There are no equals... well maybe Chuck Norris!!! His tears can cure cancer, too bad he doesn't cry. :cool:
 
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Bruce Lee was great, he could definately kick my ass. But people regard everything he said and did as pure gospel. Mainly in his philosophy of JKD and whatnot. It was revolutionary for that time, but now for people to keep quoting him and using his arguments is just tiresome. Most of his philosophy has been interwoven into the fabric of ALL ma.

For people to study JKD in the first place, is stupid. For one thing, they talk about it like it's the supreme style, which counters what Lee said. It's just hyped up kickboxing with trapping and internal WC stuff. Most of the students who study JKD would get thair asses handed to them by anyone with experience in just about any other MA, because JKD was based of multiple styles that Bruce Lee knew. The student, however, doesn't have this base.

But to answer the question, Bruce Lee was fast as lightning. His exact speed, however, means little. How was it measured? There's a lot of false information about Bruce Lee out there. He was fast as hell, and it doesn't really matter unless he came back to life and was fighting you. Just think of it this way: Was he faster than you are? If so, train harder.
 
Good work lei.

I used to be a Lee Freak when I was yong untill I started to learn few more things. I really feel that he just saw an open market an cashed in. Not that I blame him, anyone would do that same.

And another thing I never understood...
Everyone rave on about how damn strong he was. But he was always so very skinny. Where and when did he build up strength if he never had the calories to grow. Now ppl may disagree, so I'm just gonna thow this out there...

... Steroids????

We know he did every other drug, and had an obsesion with becomeing smaller and stronger.
 
R.Lewis said:
Good work lei.

I used to be a Lee Freak when I was yong untill I started to learn few more things. I really feel that he just saw an open market an cashed in. Not that I blame him, anyone would do that same.

And another thing I never understood...
Everyone rave on about how damn strong he was. But he was always so very skinny. Where and when did he build up strength if he never had the calories to grow. Now ppl may disagree, so I'm just gonna thow this out there...

... Steroids????

We know he did every other drug, and had an obsesion with becomeing smaller and stronger.
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Or he was just ripped to S*** through weights ect. But yes, maybe he did take steroids. Regarding Chuck Norris, didn't Lee fight him once and kick his ass?
 
Ha, only in a film! That would never happen in real life cos Chuck would have just smashed the stadium in to tiny bits.

Chuck is a Karate Man. Getting beat by Bruce Lee was kinda like a funny joke. You can see him holding back from laughing if you look real close.
Plus... If Chuck really did fight bruce Lee you would even be able to see it at 73 frames a second. Chuck Norris moves as about a billion frames a second.
Thats even faster than Ninja.
 
I think he just powerlifted. You could still get stronger on a reduced calorie diet, you just look really small and weak.

Hahahahha you're right, Norris would just pick up the earth and throw it into the sun. NO CONTEST
 
LeiYunFat said:
Hahahahha you're right, Norris would just pick up the earth and throw it into the sun. NO CONTEST
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LOL, yeah. do you remember the time when he spent all that time training up our cousin Logan for his war? that was funny. I think they made a film about it.
 
Aloha & Howzit!

In the late 1964, Ed Parker who is known as the founder of "modern day" Kempo and promoter of the Long Beach Martial arts Tounament brought Bruce Lee to Honolulu for a brief stay.
It there that my teacher was able to meet Bruce Lee (before his superstar status) and witness the power and speed this man possed.
Bruce Lee would breathe deep, shake his body and arms to loosen up, go through a few slow punching motions, breathe deep and start punching/striking backhand in the air and make "popping" sounds" like a whip.
Alothough I wasn't there, just by my teachers expression of explantation what he saw and heard, I as well as the other students knew he wasn't stretching out the truth. Believe It or Not.
For a fact, I have met other Martial Artist who possed the same transmission of energy impact and the most interesting was a teacher that teaches internal arts that could make the sound of a tree branch limb breaking from a tree by moving his hand as if to slap your palm. That's scary!

There are several key training factors about the deveopment of power, speed, positining, distance, timing and so on that coincides with Transcendental Energy pathways - Kinetic passage.
It is possible to achieve this but, the training goes very deep and extends very wide. Picture a huge tree as its roots go deep and branches extend wide.

Although Bruce Lee developed and possed unsual physical abilities and skills, he still had to train. He was a "master" of his art but much is to be said about his understanding regarding lifting weights. But that's another story.

Alrighty, that's it for now.!
AALOHA!
mikey q.
 
The fact that you have first hand witnesses to watch his speed and power means little to the fact there are measurements saying this and that. If I walked up to a group of people and started throwing punches as fast as I could, all they would know is, I'm fast. They wouldn't know how fast.

Transcendental Energy Pathways? What do you study? Kempo?
 
WTF? Aloha & Howzit! - Where do you get this stuff from?

The poping sound is pretty easy, I know people who have been training for less that 5 years who can make that sound.
 
Aloha Gang!

Thank you for your asking.

There are certain things in life that can not be measured.
Love, deisre, kindness, passion, freedom, to name a few, that are energy related.
Tanscendental Energy Pathways (TEP) is what we learn here in the islands as "Mana" or Chinese "Qi" or Japanese "Ki"...simply put "Air." The life force.
It is the substance of the "essential core."
The word "aloha" has serveral meanings but its roots take to the word "ha" which is breathe - alo-ha. It is the actual expression and not the word that is significant.
In all forms of martial arts and conditioning exercises, breathing is the nature of its action. There is always relationship..no issues.
When we observe closely progressive resistance exerises or lifting weights, it is no different from practicing Tai Chi, Yoga, Pilates, going for walk, taking out the rubbish because we need to breath to pertpetuate our activities.
Transcendental Energy Pathways is simple an intuitive pracitce of breathing-posture-awareness throughout our awaken active hours.
Of course we must be made aware of this to bring attention to it.
What I have studied has always been centered around one thing - inner/innate/inborn human health that we already have.
Why we use it and why and how we renew it.
Combined with the learning the Martial Arts of Hawaii, being active in Hawaii's nature - ocean surfing, bodysurfing, mountain retreats and teaching, these things have help me with understanding the practice of being "grounded".
And when your aware of this you know you are in the "grip-of something-right.
When we look at the word "earth", take the letter "h" and put it front of "e"...
you will have "heart." This is the base/foundation of TEP.
What it is I study now is what it is I teach - the Yin Exercise System (YES).
"The Health-In-Exercise which is the EXERCISER."

Now as for the "popping sound", there is pop and there is POP!
But the reality is what is behind the "pop" that is devasting.
It's like passsing gas. It is what follows that grabs your attention.

I Have Witness the power of TEP with minimal sound but awesome power.
A Chinese martial arts teacher from Taiwan had one of our students place the striking pad against his chest and have another student stand behind him holding and pressing against is back a sheet of writing paper.
When the Taiwan teacher hit the pad, there was a no great sound but a gentle-muffed contact to the pad.
What was trippy, in a few seconds, the paper the other student was pressing against the back of the guy getting hit started ripping in the middle.
Okay, the one thing I know is that we all need to see it with our own eyes.
It's like watching Chris Angel.
The bottomline it all relates to energy pathways or what scientist refer to as Kinetic-Chain effect.
When we take to physical condition exercises, no matter what type, form, method, its source of living active energyarises from and through one thing - an open and sensitive live human body.

Oh by the way, the inforamtion i do recieved comes from a "greater source" of learning but there is a booklet called - The Offering:
By a Nature Of Learning From Natural Teachings.
Question? Where did the observation and studying of early marital arts begin
and "who" is its master teacher?
Alrighty, that's it for now Gang...

AAALooooHA!
mikey q.
 
Geeze. sorry man, but I only asked where you get all this and you wrote a tonne of blurge.

Do you just make this stuff up as you go along?
 
Howzit Mr. Lewis!

TMI - Too Much Information. My wife says it's because of "ways" of teaching.
There is much information out there but there is not enough "good" communicators that can make a personal impact on each individual.

Here in the Hawaiian Islands where I did much of my teachings, a very wise and respectable Huna (person of secretive wisdom) came up to me after a lecture/workshop I just presented and told me "you have Ka Mana O Ka Hanu...The Power Of the Breath." Ever since then once I start...
Yeah I can talk but I'm also known to back up what it is I teach. I have too because I am responsible for peoples health/lives for what ever time I share with them.
There are already those who live in a "lets pretend world."

My teachings are not mystical, secretive or esoteric...just natural.
We don't necessarily see what is "true" in the same way. Sometimes that doesn't matter and can be enriching and sometimes we find it disturbing and annoying.
I do not try to change how people think but try to understand what they think. It helps with the education and learning process.

Much of my teachings do not come out of no where. It comes from a blend of ancient healing wisdom, modern scientic/medical studies and a lot of observation-research and most of all, practice.
It is sometimes difficult for me to explain something "new" with old words, yet I must use ordinary words.
I cannot invent a new language, I can give a new and fresh interpretation to the words I am using.
If you use the right words as a bridge so that understanding is established, the words have a very definte value.
Words are only of value if they convey the true significance of the idea behind the word and finally the understanding of its action.
Example: Health is not an idea or word. It is an activity like love.
We shouldn't "think" we are healthy but feel to be healthy.

If you wish to discuss more, I do not mind sharing with you.
The one thing I do tell every one I talk with, what ever it is that I do share with you, it is not absolute for our realities are different.

Sorry sir, TMI again.
HAve a Merry Christmas and Healthy New Year and AAAALOHAA!
mikey q.
 
As many of you should know there were people like bruce lee and so on that were never heard of in the world for hundreds upon hundreds of years. If any of you know about history most karate schools were based on underworld kind of level too keep the schools on the down low as much as they could such as nin jitsu, over time karate followers people leaked it out to one or two people starting teaching friends family and so on were it then started to reach the public. You see bruce lee went about to show there style. So you guys I see keep talking about one person too so he sounded like a branch cracking, although thats amazing and I mean AMAZING as in thats skill but you gotta realize he isn't the best and only one that was like this. Mas Oyama a very skilled person went around the world challenged anybody from bouncers to boxers to martial artist and he beat every person that challenged him. He even fought against a bulls and once broke off a bulls horn killing it right then and there. Just decide to say that to open your mind a little bit.
 
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