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Originally Posted by nomilkforsanta
You are right about the learning knife fighting from video tapes.
however,
I think bruce lee is an overrated action star with limited fighting skill. He never tested his skills in a real fight that we can see (i.e. on video); i've read his books and bio's and heard about all his "fights" but they are all hearsay.
I don't respect anybody with a bruce lee "shrine" unless they trained directly under him, for many years. I'm stick if people with bruce lee syndrome....
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So what you're saying is beacuse there are no videos of Bruce Lee's fights they never existed. He won the 1958 Hong Kong boxing championship but there is no video so it never happened. Correct?
Is there video of Kano Jigoro, founder of Judo? Is there video of Nai Khanom Tom (Muay Thai)? Is there video of John L Sullivan (Boxing)? What you're saying is because there is no video just spoken word and historical record of these and other fighters that they never fought before.
People with tributes to Bruce are revering what he did to benefit martial arts which was developing his style "using no way as way". Using as many techniques and styles necessary to fit what he deemed as usable for himself in combat. He revolutionized the martial arts by encouraging people to look outside the box and try new styles rather than stick to one style and consider it as the ultimate style. Without his free thinking you wouldn't be training in MMA today. That is why people pay tribute to him not because of the legend or the films.