I can't learn, but I can fight, and I'll get ahead of it.
Bruce Lee was born in 1940 in the Year of the Dragon and the Dragon In San Francisco, USA, parents all over the world want their children to become mature, his mother He Aiyu named him Li Zhenfan, and his father changed it to ZhenFan, which means: echo, reverberation and fame.
When Li Zhenfan was a teenager, he was in trouble every day, and his family called him "unable to sit still." In elementary school, he did not like to read and fight, liked to use force to solve problems, came home from school and ripped off his school uniform, changed into civilian clothes, and ran to the street to find someone to talk to.
Fights have lost and won, Li Zhenfan wins more and loses less, beats the opponent to the nose and blue face, parents take their children to the door to discuss the saying is commonplace, father Li Haiquan apologized to people every day, and drank five pounds of tea in half a year.
After the guests left, Li Haiquan let his son kneel down, took a rattan in his hand and smoked a tiger on him, just like this did not make Li Zhenfan change, he said at that time: "I can't study, I can fight, I will get ahead." ”
This detail comes from Bruce Lee: Myth and Truth, where author Matthew Polly wanted to find out what exactly came into being about Bruce Lee's upbringing, interviewed hundreds of people who came into contact with Bruce Lee, and collected hundreds of rare photographs to put together in Bruce Lee: Myth and Truth.
The book closely links the characters' growth experiences with the background of the times, and describes the growth and transformation of Bruce Lee in a large number of life details, as well as how to achieve extraordinary and great hardships.
In 1950, the 10-year-old Li Zhenfan starred in "The Road to The Road", which tells the story of the rich who are not pulled out, who are not kind to the rich, and who lack sympathy in society. Li Zhenfan plays the protagonist Hosoru Xiang in the play. Hosoru Is a street boy who wanders the streets all day, hovering between good and evil. Although Xiao Luxiang is only an orphan, he does not have inferiority and self-pity, but is good at fighting unevenly and never bows his head.
Uncle He, who lives with Xiao Luxiang, is a teacher, and when Teacher He demonstrates to others, he used to bluff his shoulders and scrape his nose with his thumb. Li Zhenfan not only imitated Uncle He's movements, but also became one of the iconic movements of his future actor's career.
"Thin Road Xiang" made him "Bruce Lee", his father Li Haiquan was a famous horn, and others called him Xiao Haiquan. Because of his surname Li, born in the Year of the Dragon, the opening letter of the movie reads "Li Long", and the director sees that he is small and small, and simply changes "Bruce Lee" for him.
Bruce Lee liked the name very much, and when he returned home, he told his friends about his new name and let everyone call him Bruce Lee in the future.
In the same year, Bruce Lee and Hu Yi only bought a movie ticket and wanted to go in to see the movie, only to be scolded by the ticket inspector, and Hu Yi was beaten on the head. Bruce Lee was angry, but rushed over to try to rescue his brother, the 10-year-old boy was the opponent of the adult, and the two were naturally picked up by the ticket inspector.
Bruce Lee and Hu Yi were unwilling and planned a revenge plan. First went to buy fragrant grilled squid, put laxatives on the squid, with a sincere face to the ticket inspector bowed to him to admit his mistake, and when the ticket inspector accepted the squid and let them into the movie theater, the two prepared a 13 cm long firecracker in the toilet waiting for the arrival of the ticket inspector.
The ticket inspector ate the squid with the ingredients, his stomach grunted, he covered his stomach with one hand and covered his ass with the other, and ran to the toilet at a speed of 100 meters sprint, and bruce Lee secretly threw the firecracker into the dung bucket. The dung bucket directly exploded, the feces goddess scattered flowers, and the ticket inspector became a dung person, carrying the smell of feces. Bruce Lee was therefore fined by the cinema manager for not being able to enter the cinema for half a year.
Knowing the son Mo Ruo's father, acting is Bruce Lee's hobby, Li Haiquan saw his son becoming more and more lawless, and "banned" his hobby in one breath for two years.
In 1952-1955, bruce Lee, who was only 14 years old, starred in dozens of movies, averaging $2,000 per film, which is not to say that in that year, it is also a huge amount of money.
In 1957, Cha-Cha-cha-dancing swept the world, like a storm quickly swept throughout Hong Kong, others were in tea shops, nightclubs with people to learn to dance, Bruce Lee specially found a Filipino who specializes in teaching rich women to dance to teach himself to dance Cha-cha-
He has a notebook that records hundreds of dance steps, and even combines kung fu and cha-cha to invent several dance steps of his own, creating a fresh and relaxed style that is unique to him.
In 1958, Bruce Lee went to participate in the "Hong Kong Cha-Cha Open", the opponents were carefully selected dance partners, but Bruce Lee was worried about having too many female dance partners, and after careful consideration, he decided to choose his younger brother Lee Chun-fai, who was 8 years younger than him, as his dance partner.
It is Bruce Lee's competitive spirit, but also 10-year-old Li Zhenhui has a good memory and is soft, the brothers practice hard at home every day, only practice for two months, they went to participate in the competition, and also won the championship.
This year, Bruce Lee injured the son of a big man, and the big man personally went to the school to find someone, and Mr. and Mrs. Li Haiquan often woke up in the middle of the night because they dreamed of their son being beaten and bleeding, and decided to send him to the United States.
In order to grind his son's temperament, Li Haiquan only gave him the fare. Bruce Lee took $100 in his pocket and boarded the President Wilson cruise bound for San Francisco. After going to the United States, I borrowed the stair utility room of the restaurant opened by my father's friend, went to school during the day, worked part-time in my spare time, and worked as a waiter in my father's friend's restaurant to serve dishes, which was three years.
By the time he left the restaurant, he had gone from a spoiled street thug to a young man bent on getting ahead.
In Hong Kong, Bruce Lee didn't figure out subtraction until he was 10 years old; in the United States, he forced himself to study mathematics and physics, and in the end he found himself preferring history and philosophy.
Interest is the best teacher, learning scum Bruce Lee evil supplement knowledge, in 18 months to obtain high Chinese, and because of his Chinese kung fu once again became a prominent figure, with followers, set up their own team.
Bruce Lee loved going to Chinatown with friends, and when a group of people talked about their dreams, Bruce Lee said, "I want to be rich, famous, and the best kung fu person in the world." ”
Bruce Lee in the United States taught people to jump just to earn pocket money, he felt that since teaching people to jump just can make pocket money, why not teach kung fu? Not only can you make money, but you can also make your kung fu progress, and get more in one fell swoop. When all was said and done, Bruce Lee and his friends rented a two-story storefront at 651 South Wai Qin Street in the dilapidated area of Chinatown, and less than a year later, the 19-year-old Bruce Lee started his own boxing gym and began a kung fu tour.
In 1961, Bruce Lee, who had experienced repetition and was expelled from school, was admitted to the University of Washington. During college, students are worried about writing papers, Bruce Lee is writing poetry on the grass of the playground, but also majoring in theater performance, drama, designing stage, writing scripts, during the school, there have been scripts by American directors to see, Bruce Lee has been worried about the transformation of kung fu, trying to integrate choreography and kung fu.
In 1963, Yan Jinghai, who had connections in the San Francisco Bay Area, approached Bruce Lee, and the two collaborated to establish Chinese kung fu as a foothold in the United States, and soon after opened the Zhen Fan Martial Arts Branch in Oakland.
Bruce Lee was exposed to a large number of traditional martial arts, found that they were not innovative, and began to challenge traditional martial arts after being harassed by their martial arts predecessors in the process of studying, he always believed in his heart: teachers should never impose their favorite models on students, they should find out what is useful to students, what is not useful to students, and the individual is more important than style.
So there is the most famous scene in the history of kung fu, the traditional martial art Huang Zemin's north leg against Bruce Lee's southern fist, Huang Zemin stood in unison, bowed to Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee posed the pile of Wing Chun, Huang Zemin took a step forward and held out his right hand, trying to shake hands with Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee kicked him in the knee, two fingers into his eyes, Huang Zemin retreated one after another, raised his arms in defense, and Bruce Lee rushed straight through. Bruce Lee kicked Huang Zemin in the crotch again, but was blocked by Huang Zemin's knee.
Unable to stop Bruce Lee, Huang Zemin turned and pulled his leg and ran, rushing to the master bedroom that was used as a storage room attached to the martial arts hall. When he first arrived at the door, Bruce Lee chased after him and punched Huang Zemin in the back of the head. The two men sped through the narrow room and returned through the second door to the master bedroom.
When Huang Zemin rushed out of the storage room and Bruce Lee was chasing after him, Huang Zemin suddenly stopped, turned around and struck a karate hand knife at Bruce Lee's neck. Split it. This blow made Bruce Lee a little hesitant.
Before the competition, the despicable Huang Zemin secretly put on a pair of leather wristbands inlaid with metal nails, and carefully covered them with long sleeves so that no one could see them. When Bruce Lee felt blood in his neck, he realized that he had been deceived, and immediately jumped like a thunderbolt and rushed over.
Throwing his fist at Huang Zemin, he stepped back, step by step, and he retreated to a dangerous place in the hall. Bruce Lee's martial arts hall was formerly an interior decoration shop with two windows and a raised platform to display mannequins. Huang Zemin was preoccupied with defense and gradually retreated towards the raised platform. Unaware of his surroundings, he tripped at the platform, crashed into the window, and fell down, and Huang Zemin was trapped, unable to stand up or roll away.
Bruce Lee became famous in one battle, and it was also because of this game that he discovered the flaws of his kung fu and began to build his own martial arts system - cut boxing. According to this, a new concept of boxing was proposed: "The law of the impossible is the law, and the infinite is the limit." ”
Bruce Lee is very obsessed with training, but any free time he has will be used to train to continue to improve himself. From Monday to Sunday, he did the same thing every day: jogging in the morning and then starting to hone his attack style repeatedly, 500 punches, 500 markers, 500 kicks; in the afternoon, he would spend time in his library, reading philosophy books, or talking on the phone with his agent and friends; in the evening, he would do weight training three times a week.
Even if he is not in a fixed training period, he has the habit of maintaining training. For example, he would do dumbbell curling while watching TV, and he would incorporate every daily activity into the martial arts trait training: "When I wear pants, I'm doing balance exercises. ”
However, such intense, high-intensity training put enormous pressure on his body. He spends hours a week practicing quick side kicks, even with knee injuries, and his knee joints clatter when he kicks out. He was often sweating profusely, as if he had been in a state of heat all the time. Mito Uehara once recalled: "Bruce Lee always seems to be wet deer, even in the air-conditioned room, as long as he makes a move, he will sweat quickly." One night, he rode the exercise bike for 45 minutes non-stop, and when he got out of the bike, he was soaking wet, and the sweat wet the floor below, and he had to clean it up and wipe it clean immediately. ”
To help the body recover quickly, he began using the Electrical Stimulation Muscle Trainer, a mild shock therapy that brings constant stimulation and vibration when the patch is placed on the muscle. The Bulls use electrical stimulation for muscle rehabilitation. Bruce Lee thought it would improve his skills and functionality. But the intensity he used was too great. The intensity of the stimulation is divided into ten levels, and he will always adjust to seven or eight levels, which is enough to make his hair start to curl. "Bruce Lee continued to use the electrical stimulation muscle trainer in later training.
Some people say that people now call Bruce Lee too mythical, and he simply does not have the ability of the characters in the movie;
Some people say that Bruce Lee has no strength at all, otherwise how could he not have seen him participate in actual combat?
In fact, in my eyes, Bruce Lee is a martial fool, just as the saying goes, three hundred and sixty-five lines, the line of action out of the yuan.
When my father wanted him to be a reader, he said: I can't study, but I can fight, and I will get ahead of it.
As we were wrapped up in life, he wrote his own life script. From a problem teenager to a global idol, he is really famous for fighting, and even famous.
If you want to understand what kind of person Bruce Lee really is, check out Bruce Lee: Myth and Truth.
Bruce Lee created an era of kung fu, to become the brightest star, to be the law of the impossible, to be limited.