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From his autobiography Prometheus: The George Dillman Story:
"Another time Bruce came out to my dojo. He came in and just took over my class, and I didn’t ask him to! He was saying, “You, change your stance! You, cover like this!” I didn’t know what to do. I mean, these were my people, but he was Bruce Lee, standing there with Ed Parker! So I just watched and listened. One of the main things I remember was that he told a few jokes. In fact that was when I first started to think it was okay to use humor in my classes. Bruce started laughing and joking and I realized that it made the students more relaxed. They were actually learning better, rather than with this mili-tary drill approach—“Don’t move until I tell you”—and things like that. That was why my first wife Sandy could never train with me— because she would poke fun in class. Bruce was the first one I saw to loosen his class up that way.
A lot of what Bruce said stayed in my mind, even when I trained with other people. I learned as much—or more—from him over a meal as I did in the dojo. For example, I remember sit-ting with Bruce and Danny at a Chinese restaurant once, listening to them talk about when to breathe in or out in fighting, but it wasn’t until much later that I was able to see the connection with kata Sanchin.
It was Bruce who first explained to me that martial arts pres-sure points were the same points and meridians that are used in acupuncture. Some are for healing, some are for hurting. This was over Chinese food—not in the dojo. I remember he said that he was planning on delving deeper into this when he returned to China. As it turned out he may have gone too deep.
Bruce wanted me to introduce him to Muhammad Ali. He called me once from California and once from China, asking me to arrange the meeting. Talking to Muhammad Ali—without discussing what Lee had asked—Ali told me, “There’s only one man I want to meet— Bruce Lee, and I think you can arrange it.” Unfortunately, Bruce died before it could ever happen."5 years, 1 month ago
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Bodybuilding champion Bolo Yeung, who appeared with Lee in Enter the Dragon, visited Lee at his house in Kowloon in 1973, during a break in filming.
When Yeung entered Lee's office, Lee was wearing a headset plugged into a machine containing various knobs and dials. He was also sweating profusely.
Through one side of his headphones were coming loud noises - car engines and horns - while the other side produced soft, tranquil sounds like raindrops hitting a pond. The idea, Lee explained to Yeung, was to train to separate both sides so he could focus only on the soft sounds.
"He told me fighting is mainly practiced with one's attention on one person," Yeung says. "But in the street, one might be attacked by four or more people, so I want to have my senses heightened to be receptive to the slightest sound."
"Bruce also devised a particularly difficult exercise he called 'The Flag,' Yeung says. While lying on a bench, he would grasp the uprights attached to the bench with both hands and raise himself off the bench, supported only by his shoulders. Then, with his knees locked straight and his lower back raised off the bench, he'd perform leg raises. He was able to keep himself perfectly vertical in midair. He was incredible. In a hundred years, there will never be another like him."5 years, 1 month ago
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