"My father will kill Bruce Lee in the street", this is the world fighting champion "Chuck" Norris son said when asked by the host about his father and Bruce Lee, who will win, and Chakno Lisbon people did not deny this statement, I believe that most dragon fans are familiar with Norris, his martial arts are very deep, in the early years he won six American karate world championships, four times was selected for the black belt hall, and the first time was selected four years earlier than Bruce Lee, He is one of the few karate black belt nine-dan masters in the American martial arts world.
He has such achievements in martial arts, part of which can be said to be the credit of Bruce Lee, but after Bruce Lee's death, he clearly left his relationship with Bruce Lee and claimed that he taught Bruce Lee to kick high, does Bruce Lee really need him to teach? Today we're going to talk about the story of Chuck Norris.
Most of the masters in the martial arts world were born in a martial arts family, or learned martial arts from an early age, but Norris was different, he was only exposed to martial arts at the age of 16 to learn karate, and then learned judo and taekwondo, his martial arts talent is extremely high, the fighting style is also relatively simple and simple, one move and one style is simple and direct to defeat the enemy, this style makes him rare opponents in the martial arts world, not only was he selected for the Black Belt Group Hall at a young age, but also won the Ring Tough Award, and has become famous in the martial arts world, while Bruce Lee only filmed "Clear Bee Man" and cameo appearances at this time. Batman" and "Invincible Iron Detective", so strictly speaking, Norris became famous earlier than Bruce Lee.
In 1968, Norris defeated joe Lewis, the father of American kickboxing, by half a point in the National Karate Open Championship, and won the first world karate championship, when Bruce Lee was still a special guest, after he won the competition, the initiator introduced him to Bruce Lee, the two saw each other at the same time, and came to a sleepless all-night martial arts discussion in the hotel where they lived, after which Norris would often go to Bruce Lee's home to receive his guidance and training, and learn boxing, norris's strength was also rapidly improved.
It is worth mentioning that at that time, many martial artists and fighting champions would receive his training in the backyard of Bruce Lee's family, such as Joe Lewis, Maxstone, Lee Junjiu, etc. Bruce Lee also wrote down their teaching records in personal training notes, to some extent, these people were considered Bruce Lee's apprentices, this training continued until Bruce Lee went to Hong Kong to shoot a movie, in the two years after Bruce Lee left, Norris used the technique of boxing to win the world fighting championship again. As a result, he is highly respected in the martial arts community.
In 1972, Norris received a call from Bruce Lee, inviting him to play his opponent in the movie "Raptor Across the River", Norris played a karate master, the fight between the two in the Colosseum was not only rated as the first of the top ten textbook fights by Black Belt Magazine, but also known as the immortal classic shot of world cinema kung fu films, Norris became famous with the Raptor across the river, and even transformed from a martial artist to a martial arts superstar, starting a new journey of his own success in life, seeing here, I have to admit, Norris's success was indeed closely related to Bruce Lee, and several media and newspapers at the time reported that Norris had received Bruce Lee's personal training
But Norris, who has successfully transformed from a ring champion to a Hollywood superstar, does not want to admit that his success is related to Bruce Lee, and when asked by the media, "Are you a student of Bruce Lee", he always repeats his words, calling Bruce Lee a teacher in public, but privately he is unwilling to admit it, and when Bruce Lee died in July 1973, Norris once again faced the media questions and began to publicly deny it, saying that he and Bruce Lee only trained together, kicked sandbags every day to exchange kung fu experience, and did not specifically ask Bruce Lee for advice It is even claimed that Bruce Lee's kicks can only be kicked to the waist, saying that Bruce Lee firmly believes that high kicks are useless, and that he taught Bruce Lee the skill of high kicks, and Bruce Lee gave back to his Wing Chun hand.
For a long time afterwards, whenever a moderator asked him if he was a student of Bruce Lee, he would throw out this statement, emphasizing that he was only training with Bruce Lee, coupled with his repeated repetitions on various occasions, many people in the unknown often believed it, Norris obviously forgot to have other witnesses when training in Bruce Lee's backyard, and whether Bruce Lee's high kicks really needed him to teach, Norris and Bruce Lee met in 1968, and around 1967, Bruce Lee for "Bruce Lee Technique" When shooting technical photos, high kicks in different directions are shown, and Bruce Lee in the 1966 film "Green Bee Gorge" also has a fight scene with excessive high kicks.
Time went on, in 1964 Bruce Lee showed others his martial arts skills, his kick height was much higher than the waist, Bruce Lee did not exist in the case of only low kicks and not high kicks, all kinds of signs showed that Norris just did not want to admit that he was Bruce Lee's apprentice, and then there was a post from a foreign forum that published Norris's letter to Bruce Lee in 1973, in which he apologized to Bruce Lee, and also wrote, I told many people that I trained with you, I never felt ashamed, It is my honor to learn from you, I have never said that my kung fu can be compared with you, this letter caused an uproar after it was posted on the Internet, netizens have commented on the following comments.
One of the followers is also Bruce Lee's personal disciple Feng Tianlong in Auckland, he as a historical witness, undoubtedly made the most authoritative determination of this letter, has always claimed to be only communicating with Bruce Lee, Norris did not stand up to refute this time, the above several things can fully prove that Norris is Bruce Lee's student, but why would he change his mouth after Bruce Lee's death? Maybe it was because he was a world champion at the time, so famous that he didn't want to admit it because of his face, or maybe it was because of other unknown reasons.