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Bruce Lee

Born in San Francisco under the name, Lee Jun Fan (meaning "to go back"), was a phenomonal person from the start of his life. Appearing in his first movie at the age of six months, Bruce would go on to appear in over twenty films as a child actor. In his teen years, Bruce was a rebellious adolecent, his favorite after school activity beating up British boys, he began studing wing chun kung-fu under Yip Man in Hong Kong at the age of fifteen. At the age of 18 he was crowned cha-cha king of Hong Kong, and in the same year, due to his rebellous nature, his father sent him to San Fransisco, "where all the kids are impossible". Arriving in San Fransisco with just one-hundred dollars in his ...

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his schools or he would face the consequences. He refused and had to fight one of their gradmasters in order to continue teaching. He won the fight, but was discouraged at the time it took him, so he decided to device his own style of martial arts. He called it Jeet Kune Do or"the way of the intercepting fist".This style of fighting resembled many styles due to the fact that it incorporated many techniques from many styles of martial arts from throughout the world. Even fencing, the art of sword play was tied into this style to teach a different way of using the fist in order to intercept the attack instead of blocking it.
Through this system taught not only how to fight and defend one's self, but also how to express one's self a a human being. Following the refinement of his martial arts system, he made five movies which grossed over twenty million dollars to date. But, following shooting the last scene for the movie "Enter the Dragon", Bruce took medicine for a headache and ...

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