Gichin Funakoship-Historical video of his art

Gichin Funakoshi is known as the modern day father of Karate

He was a small man, with great knowledge and power in his art of Shotokan Karate

Gichin Funakoshi /Historical video of his art

Outtakes from Bruce Lee's Game of Death

Outtakes from Bruce Lee's Game of Death

Game of Death was Bruce Lee's last film, which was not completed due to his untimely death. It is 

still however a great piece of martial arts history, and i love to see the making of any of his films. I am sure that you will enjoy this piece as well. Thank you for watching.

Bruce Lee with Linda and Brandon Lee

Bruce Lee with Linda and Brandon Lee in a beautiful rare picture

Bruce Lee and Gene LaBell in a movie scene

Bruce Lee and Judo's Gene LaBell 

It has been rumored in time past and even in more recent years, that Judo man Gene

LaBell taught Bruce Lee and even could have beaten the legendary dragon, but 

here you see them in a training session. What do you think about the contrast of these

two great men?

Bruce Lee and Gene LaBell in a movie scene

OLD STYLE TAE-KWON-DO FIGHT

OLD STYLE TAE-KWON-DO FIGHTS

Notice how Olympic Style Tae-Kwon-Do fight don't use hand strikes

but kicks only. I started early in Tae- Kwon-Do and TangSoo-Do and as

i have aged, i believe that hand techniques are equally as important from

a practical street standpoint. What do you think?

Olympic Tae Kwon Do Sparring-Defensive

Olympic Tae Kwon Do Sparring

from a Defensive Standpoint

Did Chuck Norris Teach Bruce Lee his high Kicks as he said in interviews: I think not...

DID CHUCK NORRIS TEACH BRUCE LEE HIGH KICKS?

Some time ago, i posted a video saying that Chuck Norris did not respect Bruce Lee.

For some reason it was not taken the right way, so let me attempt to add some 

clarity to it. Let me first began by saying again, that it is not my intent to ever

discredit nor even attempt to discredit anyone either in entertainment in general, or

in the martial arts community.

I simply offer my viewpoint (like anyone else) on various subjects, that i

know about personally and that i have also studied. It is just that simple.

As a matter of fact, i have a great deal of respect for what Chuck Norris has

accomplished both with his martial arts schools, and also with his successes

in the film industry.

Now to bring it home, what i said was that Chuck Norris did not respect Bruce Lee,

meaning that he always avoided direct questions about whether he and Bruce ever

fought, who was better, could Bruce beat him etc. and he would always insert

 the fact that he was World champion at the time, Bruce and i trained together and 

Bruce only kicked below the waste because of his Wing Chun, and that he encouraged

Bruce Lee to start kicking high.

This could be no further from the truth. Please understand that i know in Hong Kong 

as well as Asian cinema, high kicks are more crowd pleasing, but we must remember

who Bruce Lee was. He was headstrong, an innovator, a pioneer and creator who

 coined the phrase Classical Mess as it relates to his evolution of martial arts.

He amassed over two thousand books on virtually every martial arts known to 

man and he absorbed himself into his craft, So his Wing Chun was not the same

Wing Chun of his late instructor Yip Man, it instead was what became parts

of his synthesis of development, so yes he did use high kicks. Not just on film 

but as he felt it necessary for himself.

With all due respect to Chuck Norris, he said that he was basically responsible for 

Bruce Lee kicking high, but Lee has a body of film work, both in screen and 

on television that refutes this claim. Yes, Lee was kicking high way before he

ever met Chuck Norris and there are video clips to prove it. Please start with 

the first one of Norris, being interviewed by Arsenio Hall in 1991. He stated that

Bruce Lee, at the time he knew him, didn't believe in kicking above the waist, 

and i do not believe this at all.

Please leave your comments,  i appreciate your watching and please follow...

-brother teacher

AND HE KEEPS ON KICKING AND KICKING. 

MAY HE REST IN PEACE

THE AFGHAN BRUCE LEE

Meet the Afghan Bruce Lee

I found a video of a young man on Youtube that bears an awesome resemblance t 

the late great martial arts master Bruce Lee. He is very talented and he is from the 

country of Afghanistan. The #AfghanBruceLee has promise.

I will let you see for yourself, how talented he is, Please watch the video

-brother teacher