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[Bruce Lee]

behold greatest on and off screen fighter captured in time

[Stefen]

Now we can all make out own!

http://www.skop.com/brucelee/

[Myxo]

Awesome..

[Ravi]

Now we can all make out

Okay.

[Stefen]

Now we can all make out

Okay.

Please stop sending me PM's. No I will not kiss you, it was a typo.

[pete]

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10643386^13780,00.html

Bosnians to honour Bruce Lee
By Samir Krilic in Sarajevo
September 2, 2004

IN Bosnia, where one man's hero is often another man's villain, citizens have decided to honour someone Serbs, Croats and Muslims can all look up to - kung fu great Bruce Lee.

Lee is best remembered for single-handedly taking on dozens of bad guys in a series of kung fu flicks.

But the statue of the Chinese action hero in the ethnically-divided city of Mostar is intended to remind people of Lee's lesser known values - "loyalty, friendship, skill and justice", said Veselin Gatalo, a writer who helped come up with the idea.

Lee acted in a series of Hong Kong films in the early 1970s that propelled him to stardom first in Asia, then Europe and eventually the US.

His Hollywood debut came in 1973 with the hugely popular Enter the Dragon, a box office success Lee never lived to witness. He died a month before the film hit US theatres of a swelling of the brain, aged 32.

But can a monument to a karate-chopping, high-kicking B-movie star unite Mostar, a town that was both physically and psychologically scarred in Bosnia's 1992-95 war?

Even now, Roman Catholic Croats and Muslims still live apart, sending their children to different schools, watching their own television stations and cheering for rival soccer teams.

"Lee is a true international hero and is a hero to all ethnicities in Bosnia and that's why we picked him," Mr Gatalo said.

Bosnia's war killed hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Croats and Muslims and left the country divided into a Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat federation.

In Mostar at least, Gatalo, an ethnic Croat, hopes a statue to Lee will help erase the city's tarnished image as a place of bitter ethnic rivalries.

"We want that people, when you say Mostar, respond: 'That's the city that has a monument to Bruce Lee,'" Mr Gatalo said.

Mr Gatalo and a friend, Nino Raspudic, grew up on Bruce Lee movies. They persuaded Boris Jovanovic, a sculptor from Mostar, to create the statue of Lee "as if he was alive and kicking".

They hope to install the statue by November this year and invite Lee's wife, Linda Lee to the opening ceremony, Mr Gatalo said.

The site picked for the statue is symbolic - the Spanish Square, in the centre of the divided city some 70km south of the capital Sarajevo.

The Associated Press

[Bruce Lee]

But can a monument to a karate-chopping

last time i heard Bruce was against all things Karate so this guy is talking out of his rectal region.
....heard about this a while back, but thanks for posting anyways

[pete]

dude, Bruce was never against all things karate.  He was friends with Ed Parker wasn't he?
And once a karate dude wrote him in Blackbelt magazine about how Bruce was a phony and this was what Bruce wrote in response:

"First, I am commenting on classical Chinese kungfu--not karate.  If your particular style is not of the 'fancy stuff' or crammed with 'deadly' (in the sense of a corpse) techniques, you need not grunt and be upset."

Wasn't it Bruce that always talked about the debate of style vs. style is meaningless because human beings are more important than style?  Then wouldn't you think it to be a bit hypocritical if he was against "all things karate"?

[Ravi]

He used what he thought to be good from all the martial arts.

[Bruce Lee]

I believe when Bruce attended the 1964 Long Beach Karate Tournament and various other karate organisations he sat and he laughed refering to karate as ''dry land swimming'' and ''organised despair''


look how un-impressed he looks there...lol

[Ravi]

http://www.karateconnection.com/blee.htm

excerpt

He said that from his observations of Karate and Kung Fu in the United States it was all Bullshit. That was his word, not mine. He said, in Hong Kong however, only ninety five percent was Bullshit. His claim was that he had been able to go places and see things that we as Occidentals would never have been allowed. In fact, we wouldn't have made it half way down some of the alleys they were located in. According to his mathematics, of the five percent of the Hong Kong schools that were not Bullshit, about half were sincerely trying but missing the mark and only the other half, was truly there. So according to Bruce Lee in the year 1962 when he was twenty one years of age only about two and a half percent of the worlds Martial Arts facilities were on the mark which didn't make any difference to us because we couldn't go there anyway. Obviously the Japanese and Korean's didn't even count. At least they never came up in his assessments.

[pete]

I believe when Bruce attended the 1964 Long Beach Karate Tournament and various other karate organisations he sat and he laughed refering to karate as ''dry land swimming'' and ''organised despair''

again, that had less to do with karate in general but more to do with how it was taught.  he was fiercely against traditions for the sake of and gimmicks like breaking the boards, but he never went against "all things karate."  he didn't believe in systems (thus the organized dispair comment) and believed that fighters should be alive, but I have never heard Bruce Lee trashing karate.

As to Ravi's quote--accounts of Bruce Lee saying whatever outrageous things are dime a dozen.  He was much more open-minded than "karate is bullshit, man."

I mean for a man who founded (or "re-founded") and modernized the idea of an art that absorbs everything is useful but not caught trapped in a system, wouldn't you think a conviction against "all things karate"/ "all things kungfu"/ "All things hapkido" to be a bit hypocritical?

Didn't Bruce train Chuck Norris and Joe Lewis?  Weren't they karate guys?  Did they denounce their "karateship"?  

Do either of you even train in martial arts?  What does "all things karate" even entail?  Karate contains punches and kicks--does that mean Bruce couldn't punch and kick?  Or Bruce couldn't fight empty-handed?

[Bruce Lee]

Karate is very wooden with its pre-rehersed moves.....move, move, stop, grab, stop, throw......Bruce didn't like how it wasn't fluent in movemet, he didn't say it was useless but its not the best in effectiveness.
He also didn't like the whole belt ranking system saying that ''all a belts good for is holding your pants up'

Chuck, Joe Lewis once seeing what Bruce was all about asked if he would teach them, so soon followed a few $200 p/h sessions. But Bruce wasn't that interested and didn't have that much patience to re-show a move.
He knew it was impossible to teach some one in a few lessons or even years what it has taken him a life time to reach.

[pete]

you obviously know very little about martial arts to come up with something as ignorant as "karate is very wooden...chop chop move" or whatever.  have you seen the k-1 fighters fight?  How about Benny the Jet Urquidez?  Your idea of karate comes from simplified stereotypes in movies coupled with memorized but barely understood sentiments of Bruce Lee.  All you know is hype.
And what do you mean Bruce wasn't interested in teaching Chuck and Joe Lewis.  He freaking trained them and they went on to become champions.

[shinwa]

f00 wasn't the best screen fighter.