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Happy birthday🎉
My friend actor played Bruce Lee's father in the Dragon movie and he was fabulous! I did like the movie.
everything with the name of bruce lee will just go viral, honestly.
I only recently discovered this channel. All I can say is, I’m loving it a lot. Backed with facts and always open to feedback. A new fan from Singapore.
Cheers pal 👍
I saw Brandon Lee hong Kong film debut in HongKong because he was the son of bruce lee. love him too. he could have become like his dad.
Glad to hear that you enjoyed the holiday with your wife.
Wedding Anniversary on May 4th! 😎
I rewatched Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (25th Anniversary) on a massive Superscreen on that day. So many people dressed up in Star Wars costumes in the West End of London on that day.
May the 4th be with you.
Thanks Pal. That's why I chose the 4th of May. I can't believe The Phantom Menace is 25 years old (Geez i'm getting old) 😉👍
Happy birthday stripey. Hope you and your family have a great day.
Happy Birthday buddy! Once again great job!
Thank you Charlie 👍
@@StripeyR you’re very welcome brother. Have a great day and be well, my friend.
Happy Happy Birthday Stripey! have a great one. Thanks for the mention - much appreciated. Must check out ' Growing up with Bruce lee', it sounds great. I travelled miles once to see a Bruce Lee double bill. Missed the last bus home because I couldnt bear to miss the Bruce Lee vs Chuck Norris fight at the end of ' The Way of The Dragon'. Spent the rest of the evening thumbing a lift home. Hell, it was worth it though.
Happy Birthday Stripey! Hope you had a great day! Thank you for your videos sir!
Happy Birthday Stripey for tomorrow all the best.👍
I was 9 years old when I discovered Bruce Lee and I started to learn about Bruce and the martial arts which influenced me much and now I am a dance teacher and an actor.
Happy Anniversary, dude and May the 4th be with you! 👊🏽
Buh bum, ching... I'm here all week.
😆😅 That's the reason I chose the 4th 😉
Thanks Pal 👍
Happy Birthday Stripey, you're looking well after your holiday! Must check out the Growing Up With Bruce Lee book, just to see if it mirrors any of my own experiences during the 73/74 time period when we were all blown away by seeing Bruce's movies at the cinema. (Yeh, i'm that old!) LOL! Enjoy your day!
Truth be told, most of these people, I would say it’s as much as 99% of the people who talk about Bruce, have no idea about Bruce, how he trained, the name of any of his students, maybe “Inosanto” but no idea about Jesse Glover, Howard Williams, or Ted Wong. Most people don’t even know he only made the movies he is known for when he WENT BACK to Hong Kong in 1970 and only made movies for a year and a half.
People seem to think he spent all his life in America as a movie star or something. They have no context for anything, Bruce’s age, time line of events, the transition from wing chun, to jun fan gung fu, to jeet kune do. Most people have no idea what jeet kune do even is and don’t even know he took trapping and chi sao out the curriculum in 1971 and was moving away from it himself by 1968, maybe even sooner.
Bruce was trying to make ends meet most of the time he lived in America. I’ve even seen a comment by someone saying
Bruce’s “people” edited the footage at the long beach demonstration to show him in a “good light” 🤣 Bruce didn’t have any “people” or the money for something like that, the guy was mostly unknown outside of martial are circles until he made the green hornet 1966-1967 and even then the idea of him having a team of “people” editing footage to make him look good.. it’s just absurd.
When you show off your skills, you better be able to back them up when someone tries to get physical with you which absolutely happened more than a few times.
Most people just really have no idea who Bruce Lee was or what he actually did, and, as I’ve said before, they get their information from people like Joe Rogan, or other opinions about him from people who says things like “Bruce Lee influenced me to hold my mic like this” 🤦♂️ it’s absurd.
People love quoting him, not even understanding he didn’t even say some of these quotes, one example “absorb what is useful and discard what is useless” was never said by Bruce.
There is no mention of him saying this at any point.
This was said by Inosanto that has been falsely misattributed to Bruce to push the agenda and idea of mixing arts to form your own “style” which is absolutely not what JKD even is. JKD works because of the structure, footwork, body mechanics etc.
“The majority of people who practice
Jeet Kune Do are mixed up, they think it should be a part of Wing Chun, a part of MMA, a part of Thai boxing, a part of wrestling, you know, a part of Wing Chun, which this is completely incorrect. You don't go from style to style, you go from distance to target or target to distance. Longest weapon to the nearest target and the most direct and efficient route possible, that is Jeet Kune Do.” - Tommy Carruthers IFO JKD founder
The truth is most people aren’t interested enough about Bruce to learn any of this stuff or sift through all the bs that’s been pushed and spread about him over the last 50 years.
He even wrote a letter to one is his students, called XYZ telling him to STOP mixing karate with JKD.
Bruce on JKD: "Only one of 10,000 can handle it. It is complete martial art. Complete offensive attacks. It is silly to think almost anyone can learn it."
Even Chuck Norris tried telling people he wasn’t a student of Bruce, trying to claim they were just “exchanging ideas” but when Bruce got wind of this it pissed him off enough for Chuck Norris to write an apology letter which you can find by looking it up.
For people interested in finding out the real truth about Bruce you should look up John Little’s interviews on here, especially with the kung fu genius. John knew most of Bruce’s students, friends and family for decades and had access to many documents, footage, photos and various other things other people never have.
He was friends with Bruce’s first student Jesse Glover who will teach you more about Bruce and the direction Bruce was taking his art (fencing with hands and feet) than any other student of Bruce.
I suggest for anyone interested look up Jesse’s book, between wing chun and JKD. It is currently out of print but you can’t find it and read it online.
Also look into Tommy Carruthers, Tommy was close with Jesse for 20 years, as well as Ted Wong and was asked by Bruce’s own family to demonstrate JKD at two of his birthday celebrations. If you want to know what JKD is look into what Tommy does, anyone else is a waste of time in my opinion, stuck in the past teaching things either Bruce moved away from or abandoned for more streamlined methods: Simplicity, directness, and economy of motion are the principals and very very few JKD people actually follow the principles.
Look up John Paul Daily JKD and Thomas Marx JKD on here also.
Even the idea of him never having a fight. How tf can the most renowned martial artist of the last century have this sort of reputation by having never having a fight? Oh yeh, by making a few movies over the course of a year and a half 🤦♂️ it’s ridiculous.
Everyone seems to be unaware of the stuff that really went on behind the scenes in Bruce’s life. Many people have slandered and lied about him over the years, including people like Chuck Norris.
CZcams is full of uneducated idiots unwilling to put the time in and learn about the real Bruce Lee.
Definately one of the best comments I've ever read so far. I wouldnt say 90%, but many posters on YT, that's for sure. There are many who knows about most of what you pointed out, but there are indeed some clowns who dont even know a timeline and what he did at which point.
The major reason for this is I guess the comments of Joe Rogan. He has the biggest podcast in the world, and he reaches many people.
I am a German, and of course I know much about Adolf Hitler. And Hitler's minister of propaganda was a guy named Joseph Goebbels.
One of the most famous quotes of Goebbels is:
"If you tell a lie over and over again, at some point people will believe it's the truth."
And guys like Gene LeBell, Joe Rogan etc prove it works!
In the past 1-2 years, not just by John Little but many others (Stripey includes, Goldenbell Training, The Kung Fu Genius Alex Richter), so many things Rogan and LeBell say or said were cross checked, and if you do this properly, you only can come to the conclusion LeBell's statements are weak, too many contradictions, be it his stories about Bruce but also Steven Seagal.
But it all doesnt matter to people. They just ignore it.
Funny is when they are mentioning Matt Polly as source (some haters), taking his words out of context, they totally misquote him. Polly stated:
"Bruce Lee was probably the world’s greatest martial artist, he was a genius. It [martial arts] was his religion."
And in other podcasts he said Bruce was "a pretty good actor, a fantasitc martial artist, one of the greateast martial artits of all time and a deadly street fighter".
If you put several of Matt’s accounts together, his opinion about Bruce is like this:
- Probably the world’s greatest martial artist,
- a deadly street fighter („he could have been beaten by some people, but not by many“)
- a good but not great actor
- an overrated philosopher
That’s Polly’s standpoint.
So if you judge it like medals, gold, silver, bronze and wood (wood is 4th place), he ranks Bruce like this:
- Gold medal in martial arts and street fighting
- Silver medal in acting
- Bronze medal in screenwriting and directing
- Wodden medal in philosophy
And something interesting from John LIttle's book "Wrath of the Dragon":
In Lee's day, various Hollywood legends such as Steve McQueen paid him 275 US dollars = 256 euros per hour (45 minutes) for private martial arts lessons with him. Anyone who wanted lessons from him overseas had to pay 1000 US dollars = 930 euros.
According to the calender year 2022 inflation, the prices would be as follows:
1 hour private lesson with Bruce: 2,330 US dollars = 2,166 euros
One week training overseas: 8,474 US dollars = 7,878 euros + expenses, and of course still 2,330 US dollars per single hour.
Normal martial arts instructors today earn around 2.600 US dollars per month. Bruce already earned 2.166 euros per single hour.
This shows what a reputation Bruce had as an MA instructor. He earned almost as much in a single lesson as normal MA instructors earn in one month.
So one hour private martial arts training with Bruce in 2022 considering the inflation:
2.330 US$ = 2.166 Euro = 1.860 pound sterling
The point karate clowns (Norris etc) were light years away from such a level, same with LeBell.
But some people are simply so incredible dumb that you dont find words anymore for it. Lee wasnt a demi god or what ever, he was mortal, but he wasnt just some tomato can what some young jokesters believe today. You would find people who would tell you Jake Paul would beat Bruce Lee in a street fight since Jake is a "real fighter" and Bruce was "only an actor".
BTW: Point karate was an amateur sport. So when Chuck Norris always said: "I was a professional fighter" he lied. He was never a pro fighter, not for one second.
The only pro fighters in the 1960s in the USA were boxers, like Muhammad Ali, Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson, etc.. Bruce knew and sparred one of the heavyweight guys back then, Joey Orbillo, who was the boxing coach of Joe Lewis and KOed him with a kidney shot. Orbillo admitted he couldnt do anything against Lee. And then you have a gyu who was the nr. 5 judoka in 1965 and 1967, Hayward Nishioka, who also said he knew and sparred Bruce, and admitted he couldnt do anything against him too.
Take an "only an actor" type of guy like David "Kung Fu" Carradine, and let him sparr against Nishioka and Orbillo. Carradine would get destroyed by both.
And yes you are right about the other things. I dont know why there is still the believe he was the father of MMA. But it seems that's what many Americans believe today.
And it's also true that so many never heard of the people you mentioned, like Jesse Glover. The guy won the Pacific North West judo championships 14 times in a row, studied judo under Fred Sato, both brought Bruce to judo around 1960, but yet Rogan and all these guys say LeBell brought him to judo in 1966, etc.
PS: Of course such clowns like Beerdy are not help too. The guy is such an insult to Bruce and acts like he is a super fan.
@@chrisbach1533 thanks for the positive reply Chris. I think it’s clear, Bruce wasn’t just good, or very good, he was absolutely exceptional. Of course anyone can be beaten, because we can all be hurt, but Bruce movement, fencing footwork, his ability to not telegraph, his speed and power, I believe would make him a significant problem for any man of any size or background.
Thanks for providing more information for people to read in your comment. Obviously I’m fed up trying to educate people about Bruce just as much as I’m sure you are.
@axelstone3131 @chrisbach1533 You both, write excellent comments & know you're Bruce Lee. I did enjoy reading these & I have pinned this. Thanks guys 👍
@@StripeyR no worries man 👍🏻 thanks for pinning my comment
I can recommend a channel for real info on Bruce Lee and his students. ;)
Happy Birthday Dude, have a great day 🎊🎉🍹🍹🍰🎂🎁
Lots of super interesting info regarding the voice actors used for dubbing in The Way of the Dragon on the dubbing wikia site.
In the Mandarin dub: Chang Pei-Shan, Bruce Lee (Grunts and one line)
In the English dub (2nd one): Barry Haigh
Are the voice actors who were used for Bruce Lee.
Interesting, mate. Is this on the martial arts wiki? could you share a link plz?
Cheers Pal 👍
Jet Li's unleashed was made in Glasgow, actually really nearly where I lived at the time 😊
Happy birthday, you absolute legend. 🥳😊
Cheers Pal 👍
Dragons live for a very long time but legends live for ever. Good show mr stripey lets have more of the same. Lov that t shirrt
Hi Stripey Rambles. Happy Anniversary & Birthday & Glad you enjoyed your Hols. Love to see Anything on Brandon. For me, I'd rather see fight choreography from Brandon than the Bruceploitation choreography. Glad you're back!!!
Happy birthday stripey enjoy your day. Once again thank you for the video. You spoke about laser disc, I have all the Bruce Lee movies on laser disc and the laser disc player from pioneer still work. Also I have enter the dragon on super 8mm with my bell & Howell projector. Again enjoy your day my friend
Thanks buddy, well done for holding on to the laserdiscs (wish I did) & the 8mm ETD 👍
Yes please. Would love to hear your views on Dragon The Bruce Lee Story and The Crow. FYI, the 1994 edition of The Crow is releasing in cinemas on 31 May.
Great show as always.
I don't think a good biopic about Bruce Lee exists yet. But two films really do not do badly, as far in their way of treating the subject cinematographically, one closer to reality "Bruce Lee my Brother" and the other more distant, Hollywood fantasy but respectful of the myth "Dragon The Bruce Lee Story"
Despite their flaws, these two essays managed to capture the essence of the character and convey it to the big screen. I highly recommend them.
Bravo for the good work happy birthday and hope you're doin well Stripey.
Welcome back Stripey🙂
Pleased you had some time to yourself with Mrs Stripey.
Happy anniversary and have a happy birthday tomorrow 😊 yes a sad day regards Bruce but it's still your birthday 🎉🎂 😊
I have that book too, can't wait to read it!
Think a video on the Bruce documentaries would be great, I know there's loads but would like to know the best ones to purchase.
Thanks Stripey, great tan by the way 😀✌️
Thank you for the anniversary & birthday wishes (58 years old 😲)
I enjoyed Martin Schell's book, it's an easy but fun read.
Like I said, I have done a documentaries video before czcams.com/video/kqLhtY3TFvw/video.html
but maybe I could do an updated video.
Thanks again, as always 👍
Apologies Stripey, it slipped my mind I'd actually seen your documentaries video x
Great show stripey, yes you should do the reviews, as i love watching yr bruce lee content and i love yr reviews on the bruce lee 4K , flims
Happy birthday Stripey. Great to see you back. Have a great birthday and time with the family. Looking forward to more Bruce vids.
Love Derek and Nicola 🥋
Happy Anniversary Stripey!
Hello! Welcome back. AND as always, (slight zoom in) I hope you’re doin’ well
😉
And we've got Bamboo and Dragons to look forward to with hopefully some interesting Bruce and Enter footage , have you heard when its due for release? Also like the idea of a separate Saturday video for answering comments! Keep up the Bruce videos, always look forward to them dropping 👍
Thanks Pal. I've not heard a release date yet for Bamboo & Dragons, but I'm really looking forward to watching it 👍
Mate. Really glad you had a decent break. You deserve quality time away from YT. You always put in 110% and you're now officially THE only Bruce Lee channel I recommend to friends. Keep up the Sterling work. Absolutely dig your content, Stripey! Top man.
Thank you, bud. I appreciate it 👍
Welcome back Stripey, we've missed you 😊 Thanks for referencing my two book books (available from Amazon), and I'm really glad you enjoyed them.
Thanks, mate. You're welcome bud 👍
Happy Anniversary and happy birthday 😁
Thank you 👍
Glad your back stripey
Cheers Pal 👍
I’d love to see your review of all of the Bruce Lee Docudramas.
Great video as always … looking forward to the next lot of vids .. doing a video on dragon the Bruce lee story and the other would be cool and interesting I think.. loads of facts on these. Will have to look up your documentary video reviews.. maybe a new one would be good . Anyway enjoy your weekend mate
Happy Birthday Stripey! Please do a video on Raymond Chow: you know what I think of him from 'Bruce Lee the nearly man: a 1964 to 1973 timeline'.
That could be an interesting/controversial subject. Cheers mate 👍
Happy anniversary stripey ,great stuff and info as usual mate .
Thank you 👍
Great video as always mate and happy birthday stripey havd a great day 🎉🎉
Thank you, mate 👍
Happykungfuday❤
My 4k crow just got here it’s great
Making CZcams comment videos more often would be worthwhile as some contain really good information. Also, reviewing/discussing any Bruce Lee documentary would be welcomed too.
Somewhere in the 1990s I travelled over 330km (each way) to specifically watch a Bruce documentary that was released in special cinemas at the time. Surprisingly I was the only one in the audience; it was like a private viewing. A very special memory.
Agreed, I think YT comments videos could be good 👍
Great video Stripey. In a world of clickbait and Bruce bs on youtube, your channel stands head and shoulders above the nonsense and long may it continue. Have a great Birthday 👍🏻👍🏻...
Thank you, mate 👍
Happy Birthday for tomorrow Bud.
🎂 🎁 🥳
Thanks for reading me out Stripey. Have a great day tomorrow and a Happy Birthday. By the way, the Wall at the back Is beginning to take shape. Keep Going Mate.
Thanks bud, and you're very welcome 👍
Another cool and interesting video mate yes do a vid on the bio pics would definitely watch that . happy anniversary and have a great birthday old yin all the best Pete
Thanks, mate. I will have to do some bio reviews, I think. Cheers Pate 👍
Great video update as usual Stripey, and thank you for reading out my comment. Have you seen the Hong Kong legends DVD that shows the prosses of how they transformed bruce lee movies from poor quality to hd. Just thought you might be interested in this, keep up the great work Stripey.
Great information as always Stripey. Glad you had a nice holiday. How about doing a video on Bruce Lee's death and it's surrounding controversial stuff that came out since then. Thank you once again Stripey take care always 😁
That was a fun video .look forward videos on doc etc
Cheers bud 👍
I'd love to hear your thoughts on Dragon The Bruce Lee Story, I actually really enjoy it. As for The Crow, there's only one person who has ever done the character any justice & that's Brandon Lee.
I just sent away for the Arrow blu ray of "WAY" "FIST" and "BOSS". Can't wait to see them 😄 Stephen Scotland.
Nice one, mate 👍
Much love man you bring a good time to my household
Thank you 👍
Congratulations on your wedding anniversary Stripey.
Thank you, mate 👍
Fun fact : The movie Unleashed ! Jet Li's Character was the most Brutal role he's played in his entire move Career ! So much so that when it was completed he had to take a full year off just to get the Character Danny out of his Psyche because he got so much over immersed in the Role ! Welcome back ! And all the best for tomorrow Son ! 🎉❤🙏🇬🇧
Good tan Stripey
Enjoyed the video and yes do more comments videos
Have a great Birthday pal
Ian
Thanks bud.
I think I will do comment videos from now on 👍
Happy Anniversary & Birthday Stripey 😊
I think we looked at it and saw the same .... :) And also some guy purported to be Bruce Lee in a certain film footage, was actually a black man :)
I would be interested in seeing you review Dragon : The Bruce Lee Story.
Hi there i love watching your CZcams channel and i have been a Bruce Lee Collector since the late 1970s.... just a question..will we ever see Fist of Fury on bluray with the same complete English Audio dub as the Rank Video version of Fist of Fury which was the original UK cinema version ..it has original war cries/fight yells and no Mike Remeidos soundtrack and in my opinion the best English Dubbed version out there..its also a better than the US version as in different War Cries Fight yells ..I was really disappointed when Arrow never picked up on this especially on the Export Print of Fist of Fury..all the best Patrick
Definitely do Dragon....and why a lot of facts are wrong....keep the videos coming mate, have a great weekend mate.....
Yes please Stripey, it would be great if you reviewed some Biopics. On censorship, I still have my 1980 letter from James Firman about the treatment of Bruce films. I think it's a generic letter rather than an individual response, but at least it's something I've held onto from the old days. I've just finished reading Carl Fox's 50th anniversary Enter the Dragon book (overpriced, but well worth having) and there's a great section about censorship in the UK, and also about where ETD outtakes have been used. It seems there are some in GOD II (I must watch it). Apparently, if they were reinserted into ETD, and the Mai Ling scenes were re-edited to where they actually belong, it would do a lot for the storyline and continuity. I had no idea that Mai Ling had a fight scene with one of the cavern guards before releasing the prisoners, but there are photos in the book.
I've not picked up Carl Fox's book...Yet. I didn't know Mai Ling had a fight either, interesting 👍
I was trying to think about Bruce Lee topics that people don't go in-depth about, in hoping you can consider it for the future. It is all the places Bruce Lee has travelled.
Interesting idea mate 👍
@@StripeyR I'm sure if Bruce was alive for the promotion of Enter of the Dragon he would of visited London for series of interviews.
Thank you Pal.
Cheers bud 👍
It’s50legecy❤
Congrats- that’s a nice little tan you’ve picked up.
Speaking of videos, just a suggestion for a possible future one. We know G.O.D2 is often added into collections even though Bruce wasn’t involved. How about your take on the other sequels in their respective franchises such as Fist of Fury 2. I remember watching Way of the Dragon 2 back in the day, but can't recall now if it was actually related or just a cash grab on the name. 😆
Thanks. That could well be interesting topics for future vids. Cheers Pal 👍
Speaking of fake videos - have you already discussed the Bruce Lee ping pong video? And another Q - if your gonna talk Brandon stuff maybe also give us your take on the Warrior TV show
I haven't discussed the ping pong yet (it's on my list of things to do)
I love Warrior, I'm hoping we get a season 4 👍
When I heard you say “I wish I had all my old Rank videos…” lol I totally thought I heard something else 😂
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A question please ! Mr Strpey Rambles
I need to know !
Do You Like/Collect Any Bruce Lee Stuffs ?
Anything Bruce Lee Related ?
Memorabilia ?
I do, mate 👍
@@StripeyR
Great 😁
Have You Got/Need Any Of Bruce Lees 12" Vinyl Records ?
X2
The "Dragon" Album
(Tribute To Bruce Lee)
By The JKD BAND ?
The ORIGINAL Enter The Dragon Album ? (original Warner Brothers Lable)
I'm sure you've heard seen them!