#Art of war 2 bruce lee dragon logic series
Especially after a series of exchanging blows and kicks, all my theory of gentleness was gone. The moment I engaged in combat with an opponent, my mind was completely perturbed and unstable. It sounded simple, but in actual application it was difficult. All this must be done in calmness and without striving. “After four years of hard training in the art of gung fu (kung fu), I began to understand and felt the principle of gentleness - the art of neutralizing the effect of the opponent’s effort and minimizing expenditure of one’s energy. Miyagi/Daniel-San relationship in the film The Karate Kid, the boy would learn quickly from the master, ultimately going on to overshadow his fame. At that time, Lee was living with his parents in Hong Kong, had recently lost some fights with members of a rival gang, and was perhaps looking for revenge. When the CCP finally won in 1949, Ip fled to Hong Kong, where he found many disciples who wished to learn his style.Īmong these disciples was one Lee jun-fan, a 16-year-old young man who had been born in Chinatown, San Francisco.
4.36 avg rating 796 ratings published 1997 4 editions. Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way. During the Civil War, Ip fought on the side of the Kuomintang (the Nationalist party opposing the Communist party). 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. However, during the war itself (which began in 1937 following Japan’s invasion of the Chinese mainland and lasted until 1945), Ip Man went to live with a former student, Kwok Fu, resisting the Japanese as best he could.Īfter that war ended, the Chinese Civil War and Communist Party takeover of China followed hard on its heels.
In his early life in Foshan, both before and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (“Sino” simply refers to “China”), Ip worked as a policeman. Such a comparison illustrates the point about the mysterious, almost-spiritual quality of this form of Kung Fu: it is a question of mind over matter. In an interview conducted with Grandmaster Ip in the same year as his death (1972), Ip Man described the Wing Chun style as being similar to the precision required for a hammer to perfectly hit a nail on its head and drive it effortlessly home.