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artyon: Has anyone out there read the book by Tom Bleeker? The title of the book is unsettled matters.
artyon: Has anyone out there read the book by Tom Bleeker? The title of the book is unsettled matters.On an unrelated note...tonight at the bookstore I was fliiping through this book:
The Dragon and the Tiger: The Birth of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, the Oakland Years by Greglon Yimm Lee and Sid Campbell
It discusses a fight Bruce Lee had with a Karate practitioner named Uechi who challenged him. The description of the fight refers to Uechi taking a forward stance, and also a few other things that make it sound like Japanese (not Okinawan) Karate. Yet I can't help but wonder: Could he have been a Uechi-ryu practitioner? Does anyone know?
The Dragon and the Tiger: The Birth of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, the Oakland Years by Greglon Yimm Lee and Sid Campbell
It discusses a fight Bruce Lee had with a Karate practitioner named Uechi who challenged him. The description of the fight refers to Uechi taking a forward stance, and also a few other things that make it sound like Japanese (not Okinawan) Karate. Yet I can't help but wonder: Could he have been a Uechi-ryu practitioner? Does anyone know?
I think I read an account of this fight in a Bruce Lee biography entitled "Fighting Spirit"...I think the author was Bruce Thomas, but I'm too lazy to walk to my bookshelf to verify.
If I remember correctly, the fight ended with Lee straight punching the guy the length of a racquetball court or something, after deflecting a kick from the karateka.
I don't think the biography specified what system of karate the man represented...maybe it was never actually known by the respective writers. And I think in that time period, karate was just karate to many people.
Cthulhu
If I remember correctly, the fight ended with Lee straight punching the guy the length of a racquetball court or something, after deflecting a kick from the karateka.
I don't think the biography specified what system of karate the man represented...maybe it was never actually known by the respective writers. And I think in that time period, karate was just karate to many people.
Cthulhu
