Wushu was pretty much invented for chairman MAO as a way incorporating and innovating traditional opera into modern 20th century film. Mao was fascinated with hollywood and wanted to direct his own motion picture derived from traditional chinese opera.
So martial arts films had been around long before Bruce Lee. But if you watch any of them from the 50s n 60s you'll notice they're all about fluid movements...but fighters would parry each other endlessly for about 10-20 mins. Impossible and impractical in real life.
What is it with everyone on here wanting proof! This forum is becoming boring when people get told then they go Prove It, for god's sake if he fought he fought, ffs i fought and won money but you not find that on the internet you want proof?
Oh **** me, are you serious?
There was NEVER ANY PROOF. nothing to do with the internet. NO ONE can say he fought for sure they all just have hearsay stories. Hell don't you think his own students and friends would have said it?
NO. They always said he would have been a great fighter or "was" one but NEVER SAID HE FOUGHT. That's awesome. But useless.
Also like how you ducked my response to Jet LI being a FIGHTER since you came in here all hard talking about him.
no expert but i liked it as a kid. i like every combat sport. boxing , kickboxing , muay thai , sambo , judo , bjj , etc. reading about it and watching it.
took tae kwon do and later karate as a kid (who didn't?)
then i had a buddy who was all-city wrestling in high school and i use to go hit the mat with him and his buddies , a few of which studied bjj when they made a grappling club in college.
never studied seriously though. just wanted to learn a few moves here in there i can use when i get into fights.
Still glad you don't believe hype and actually research and THINK. Martial Arts are full of a LOT OF illusion and bull****.
I'm pretty impressed by your actual knowledge of martial arts history. Kudos on actually researching stuff and not just buying into myths and legends.
no expert but i liked it as a kid. i like every combat sport. boxing , kickboxing , muay thai , sambo , judo , bjj , etc. reading about it and watching it.
took tae kwon do and later karate as a kid (who didn't?)
then i had a buddy who was all-city wrestling in high school and i use to go hit the mat with him and his buddies , a few of which studied bjj when they made a grappling club in college.
never studied seriously though. just wanted to learn a few moves here in there i can use when i get into fights.
doing fingertip pushups are amazing, no doubt. takes an unbelievable amount of strength to do it.
but Paul Lynch was able to do 124 one finger pushups in 1992. makes a freak of nature when it comes to strength...doesnt make him an unstoppable fighter.
There was NEVER ANY PROOF. nothing to do with the internet. NO ONE can say he fought for sure they all just have hearsay stories. Hell don't you think his own students and friends would have said it?
NO. They always said he would have been a great fighter or "was" one but NEVER SAID HE FOUGHT. That's awesome. But useless.
Also like how you ducked my response to Jet LI being a FIGHTER since you came in here all hard talking about him.
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