Is there any scientific proof that the destructive power of Bruce Lee's Chinese Kung Fu is real?

With his signature move, the "padded side kick," he sent a 200-pound man in body armor flying 20 meters into a swimming pool. The authoritative American magazine "Black Belt" once reported this incident, at least one clear point, the magazine published data is 22.875 meters, at that time is in a swimming pool next to the Bruce Lee back only a few steps, a pad step side kick will be the other party kicked into the water. I didn't believe it before, but with Bruce Lee's hands, speed plus weight kicking should be able to produce such an effect, and, at that time, the person who was kicked off to do is a flat throwing motion, not in the horizontal plane to complete the action, so it raises the likelihood. Bruce Lee in physical fitness is indeed superior, in the perseverance and patriotic aspect is worth learning!

1 With a weight of more than 130 pounds, he threw a 350-pound punch

2 With a nunchaku, he threw a 1,600-pound punch

3 With his signature move, the "Pad Side Kick," he kicked a 200-pound

strong man wearing body armor 20 meters away from his body and landed in a swimming pool!

4 Extending a 34-kilogram barbell with straight arms horizontally forward, retracting it, and holding it at rest for 20 seconds before extending it

5 Holding a 56-kilogram barbell flat and holding it for a few seconds

6 Taking a 32-kilogram dumbbell horizontally forward in one hand and then lifting it sideways to the shoulders and holding it there for a few seconds

7 Easily plunging his fingers into an unopened can of Coca-Cola

8 Side-kicking a 200-pound man in body armor 20 meters into a pool

9 p>8 Break a 45-kilogram sandbag with a side kick

9 Kick a 135-kilogram sack up to about the height of a one-story house

Bruce Lee's personal fitness secrets

Thirst for knowledge

Bruce Lee immediately subscribed to every health and fitness magazine he could find, including Joe Wade's "Mr. America" and "The New York Times". Wade's Mr. America and Bodybuilder & Strength. He cut out the valuable sections of this magazine and saved them, and while in Los Angeles he visited bookstores whenever he could in search of bodybuilding magazines, collecting books from a wide variety of strength-exercise magazines from the early part of the century through the 1960s, and his thirst for knowledge about the subject was almost insanity. From that time until his death in 1973, Lee amassed a huge collection of books on philosophy and martial arts, plus about 400 more on fitness and bodybuilding, athletic training, nutrition and lunch lifting, which he scrutinized, underlining the valuable parts and noting them in the margins.

Training Program

After drilling down into a large amount of material and information, Lee compiled a training program that suited him and maximized strength development with relatively no weight gain. Including 3 times a week training content, means of recovery and nutrition, especially the quality of practice and martial arts practice organically combined, so that its already very deep martial arts sublimation to the degree of almost perfect. The result proved that the effect of doing so was amazing.

Bruce Lee organized his strength training as if to make up for lost time and to change the way he viewed strength training in the past. In fact, he benefited so much from it that he taught the program to one of his most frequent students, Karim K. K. Abdul Rahman, who came to the gym to train. Abdul Jabbar. Jabbar. Jabbar once told a reporter for Muscle & Fitness magazine, "Bruce put me on a strength training program in the summer of 1970, and it was a three-times-a-week program, most of which Bruce practiced on a regular basis, and even though I was only able to do two sets of twelve reps each of each at the time, it did work!"

Bruce Lee was "crazy" about strength training. In addition to strength training three times a week, Bruce Lee also incorporated many similar exercises into his martial arts practice, recalls Irushanto. He said: "Bruce Lee in martial arts practice often holding dumbbells for boxing exercises, each exercise for 12 groups, each group of 100 times, each hand holding 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10 pounds of dumbbells for the 'pyramid' incremental increase of 6 groups, and then decreasing the weight of the order, for 6 groups of boxing! Mimicry. Lee had me practice with him once and wow, the deltoids and arms were so sore after the exercise!" But it wasn't just that. Lee used dumbbells to "vent" his excess energy outside of his three-day strength training days and unweighted workouts. "He's the dumbbells." Linda said. He was never idle. When there's a boxing match on TV, he's often watching and "mimicking" with the bells, and even when he's reading a book, it's amazing how he holds the book in one hand while doing dumbbell exercises with the other.

Forceful forearms

Bruce Lee paid particular attention to forearm training to enhance his grip and punching power. His wife, Linda, said he was almost "obsessed" with forearm exercises, and as long as anyone adopted any new forearm exercise method, he had to find a way to get it, and he even asked an old friend of his in San Francisco, Li Hongxin, to make him a few kinds of grip strength exercisers. Li Hongxin said, "Xiaolong often gave me sketches of designs and then asked me to fulfill them according to the requirements and specifications, but of course I'm not stupid." He smiled and then went on to say, "I know that these devices designed by Xiao Long are very effective in practicing muscles, so I often send him one while keeping one at home to practice on myself." Bob B. Wall was another friend of Bruce Lee's who also played roles in three other movies starring Bruce Lee, including "Dragon Warrior", "Dragon Warrior" and "Game of Death". He said Bruce Lee's powerful forearms featured prominently in his kung fu. He said, "Bruce had the largest forearm-to-body ratio of anyone I've ever seen, and not only did he have unusually well-developed forearms, but he also had a pair of iron fists and ten steel fingers, which were simply terrifying." Mr. Olympia Bodybuilder Dorian B. Yates had this to say about Bruce Lee: "Every muscle in his body is so strong, and the power of his strikes is so terrifying, he is an incredible man." Bruce Lee's punches were so formidable that he once "cratered" a helmet made of steel wire strips, which had in fact withstood several hits!

In 1965, while playing the second lead role of Kato in the CBS series "The Green Hornet," Lee became good friends with Hollywood movie star Van Damme, who played the Green Hornet. Williams, who played the Green Hornet, became a good friend. Both men have thick forearms, but the way of obtaining them is different, Bruce Lee is through the practice of kung fu training with a purpose, while the latter through years of "riding bison" rodeo and motocross and developed. The height of 1.86 meters (6 feet 1 inch), weighing 95 kilograms (210 pounds) of the big man was the only one and Bruce Lee "arm wrestling" competition, and now think of these things he was embarrassed to say: "He (Lee) is really incredible, between us is not a level of Competition, I exceeded him 40 pounds, but his forearms are the thickest I've ever seen in the same weight." Bruce Lee always won the "arm wrestling" matches.

Herb Jackson recalled that Lee used to joke that he was the best arm wrestler in the world. Jackson recalled that Lee once joked that he was ready to be "the world champion in this sport. Another good friend of Lee's, Takeyuki Kimura, said that if you grabbed Lee's forearm, it would feel like you were grabbing "a strong baseball bat". Lee practiced his forearms every day, believing that they were so dense that they had to be given a certain amount of stimulation every day in order to be strong. Van B. Williams recalls, "Bruce always drove Linda and Brandon (Lee) over to my house for the weekends back then, and even when he came to my place he never forgot to practice and always had his practice gadgets with him. He never smoked or drank, and was a really good guy who kept his hands clean. When I saw them about a month before he died he looked really great, his body was as hard as a rock." He said, "Bruce respected me and whenever we were together the atmosphere was alive and he joked around a lot, once he stuck a sticker in the back window of my car that said 'The Green Hornet protects this car'." When the TV series "The Green Hornet" aired, Lee's reputation exploded, and he trained harder and modified parts of his program by increasing the weight of the machines, decreasing the number of reps and adding two sets of each exercise accordingly. Incredible strength

Bruce Lee's strength qualities were superb, according to Junjiu Lee, who is known as the father of American taekwondo, who fought with Bruce Lee and was y overwhelmed by his martial arts, speed and strength. He said, "Bruce Lee was truly a man of genius, I have never seen such a strong man, he could do push-ups with one hand using one index finger, while I struggled to hold up with all four fingers." The 2.23-meter-tall basketball player Karim K. Abdul Rahman, who was once Bruce Lee's protégé, is the most powerful man in the world. Abdul Jabbar recalled that Lee was very strong. Jabbar recalled that Lee was very powerful and lean. He was always exceptionally fast and moved with the agility of a cat. Lee also invented a method of lower abdominal exercises that he called "flag raising," and Joe Lewis, a proponent of American free sparring in the '70s, used it. Joe Lewis, an advocate of American free sparring in the 1970s, studied under Bruce Lee. Joe recalled that Lee had incredible strength for a man of his size and weight. He could hold a 34-kilogram barbell with straight arms horizontally forward, retract them, and then hold them out at rest for 20 seconds in a "lockout! This is unbelievable for a man weighing 62 kilograms, and even a 90-kilogram man may not be able to do it. And Iru Sandow said more "mysterious" than that, he said he had witnessed Lee put 56 kg barbell horizontal front lift and stay a moment. Bruce Lee's first disciple in the United States, Jesse Glover, also recalled that his master was a very good fighter. Glover also recalled that the master often do this kind of exercise: a hand holding 32 kg dumbbell horizontal front lift with a smooth back swing, and then side lift to shoulder level and adhere to a few seconds, the weight of the average person to lift the pendulum is still difficult, not to mention the action.

In addition, Bruce Lee also has a lot of "small stunts", such as can easily insert the finger into an unopened can of "Coca-Cola", or a side kick to make a 45-kilogram sandbag rupture. The famous American jiu-jitsu master Willy Jay (Welly Jay) recalled. Welly Jay recalled that the last time he saw Bruce Lee was when he was living in Hollywood. "Lee had just moved his family from Culver City to Bel Air Harbor in Los Angeles. In the yard of Bruce Lee's new home, there were two very heavy sandbags hanging, weighing about 135 pounds, and I could barely move them, yet Lee said to me, 'Hey, Willie, watch!' The next thing I know, he's flying up and kicking it leisurely so high it almost touches the ceiling, and then bounces back down hard, and Lee's strength is unbelievable."

Bruce Lee's best moves included his "inch punch". His "inch power" could knock a man weighing more than 45 kilograms a considerable distance. Pan-American judo champion Hayward B. Little Ben had learned this kind of punch. Little Ben had been taught the taste of this kind of boxing, and whenever he mentioned this incident, he said with sadness, how could not expect Lee's fist is so powerful. At that time he held Lee from behind, thought Lee could not move, I did not expect Lee only twitched his body, turned back is a punch, small Ben only feel their own flight after a section of the wall and then fell to the ground, on this punch so that the small Ben lay down for a long time before recovering. And Bruce Lee and the same period of martial arts masters talk about Lee have a sense of fear, especially Bruce Lee's speed. They **** the same feeling is to find that Bruce Lee is surprisingly fast, and can detect the opponent's intentions in advance, even if it is the same time and the opponent's strikes is also Lee first to hit each other. Another disciple of Bruce Lee, Doug Palmer, said this about his master. Another disciple of Bruce Lee, Doug Palmer, said of his master: "Bruce's heyday was like Michael Jordan and Mohammed S. Kennedy's. He was a great fighter. In his prime, Bruce was as dominant in his field as Michael Jordan and Mohammed Ali. He dominated his field like Michael Jordan and Mohammad Ali, not that the others couldn't, but he was just too good."

Iron Man Bruce Lee's First Step Program

Despite his extraordinary qualities of talent, Bruce Lee still admired competitors with similarly superior qualities, and once wrote: "Training not only improves physical fitness, but also develops the spirit and the feelings, which require a high degree of combination of intellect and talent in order to achieve perfection. " (From Bruce Lee's posthumous book, The Way of the Interceptor) Physiologically, great strength comes from the thickening of muscle fibers and a highly developed nervous system. Bruce Lee's wife, Linda, said that during his lifetime, Bruce had a penchant for collecting pictures and information on bodybuilding stars, including Larry L. Scott, David L. Kennedy, and David L. Kennedy. Scott, David B. Draper and the then lesser known youngster, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the course of his collection, Bruce Lee "cut and pasted" these famous fighters into special notebooks with training content and programs that suited him. Iru Santo recalls, "Bruce brought back a stack of bodybuilding magazines from outside the gym every time he went back to the 'Chinatown' gym, and then selected from them, and when he was done, he said to me, 'Dan, all three of these guys say that this is the best way to develop muscle definition, and it's just great. , it's just fantastic.' And then he would experience it for himself." That's where Bruce Lee was in 1969, but how did he become interested in bodybuilding and strength training? One speculation may be that it was due to Yan's influence after he and Yan Jinghai met in Oakland, California. Yan had a lot of "background" and "connections", having worked with famous bodybuilders of the day such as Steve Reeves, Clarice Reeves, and Clarice Reeves. Reeves, Clancy Ross, Jack Ross Ross, Jack Lalanne and famous Japanese weightlifters. He had trained for a long time with the then famous bodybuilders Steve Reeves, Clancy Ross, Jack Lalanne and the famous Japanese weightlifter and Olympic champion Tommy Katsuoka. Katsuoka trained with him for a long time and accumulated a wealth of training methods. Shortly after Bruce and Linda were married, they moved from Seattle to Oakland to live with the Yim family, so Bruce had the opportunity to practice with Yim.

However, the author of the "Bruce Lee Biography," New York-based George W. Tain said Bruce had records of strength exercises and photographs of his naked upper body muscles when he was in Hong Kong a few years before he met Yan Jinghai. According to Thain, Bruce Lee's older sister, Li Qiuyuan, once brought her boyfriend, Robert Chan, a bodybuilder, home. Chan, who was a bodybuilder and physically strong, brought him home, and although Bruce Lee was returning to the United States, where he was born, he told Chan that he would arrange to train with him again when he returned to Hong Kong. Regardless of who was Bruce Lee's first bodybuilding initiator, all of Bruce Lee's biographers agree that Bruce Lee did very little strength training before 1965, and that he primarily practiced traditional Chinese kung fu such as Wing Chun at that time. Jesse B. Glover recalls that when Bruce arrived in Seattle at the age of 18, his training consisted of hitting teakwood "copycat targets," some single and double bar exercises, aerobics and flexibility. But before long, Bruce was doing strength exercises such as pulling weighted pulleys and "wrist curls" with 30 kilogram dumbbells on a short baton rope to work on his forearms. Glover added that Bruce paid particular attention to joint strength training because it was believed that the first step to making power was to make the joints strong and transmit the powerful force of the blow.

The Turning Point

These seemingly simple yet effective strength exercises, combined with martial arts kung fu training, led to Bruce Lee's rise to fame in the early 1960s. But it wasn't until 1964 that he was able to develop a deeper understanding of strength and other qualities, as he had been teaching martial arts at his "martial arts school" in San Francisco, and in the latter part of 1964 he became involved in the "Great Competition", which had a powerful physical and psychological impact on him. In late 1964, he was involved in a "big fight" that had a powerful impact on his mind and body. Bruce Lee was preparing to teach his students when the door was suddenly kicked in by a group of Chinese martial arts masters who were "representatives" of the local Chinese community. According to Linda, she was there and was eight months pregnant with their offspring, Li Guohao. The "representatives" approached Bruce Lee and gave him an ultimatum: "Either stop teaching martial arts to non-Easterners or fight us!"

"I'll teach anyone who wants to learn!" Bruce Lee replied, "I don't care about the color of their skin, as long as it's done with sincerity, I'll teach!" (At that time Bruce's students included people from countries other than the "United Nations" and people of all races and creeds around the world.) But in 1964, in San Francisco's "Chinatown", teaching the secrets of Chinese martial arts to Westerners was considered an act of betrayal by the local Chinese martial arts community. Naturally, the attitudes of both sides led to a "competition". Before the match began, the Chinese martial arts masters said Li had better close down the "Sokan" or else they would be ．．．．．．

According to those who know and have trained with Bruce Lee, who is known for his fiery nature and has never been "challenged" or "fooled," he slowly put on his gloves, controlled his emotions, and after a fierce exchange of blows, took the man who was "fighting" with him to the ground. And he competed with the "kung fu master" beat away. Although Bruce Lee's kung fu skills conquered the "challenger", he was physically exhausted during the fight. Linda recalled that Bruce was really tired, he thought that this "fight" time should not be so long, all because of his "killing power" is not enough due to, he was really sad. Through this fight, Bruce Lee realized that the real "martial arts" is not only a move of a posture of the fists and feet, but also must have superhuman physical and strength qualities, he saw this incident as a starting point, and since then, he was more specialized in collecting and burying the hard work of training, which is the turning point in Bruce Lee's understanding of the strength of the exercise.