Bruce Lee is often called the daddy of martial arts in Hollywood. He was born in America and brought up in Hong Kong. Lee is taken into account one among the primary few people to take martial arts to movies and create a fanbase worldwide.
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Bruce Lee has trained distinguished figures in martial arts and kung fu, like- Taky Kimura and Ted Wong. Considered one of his other students includes the NBA star, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Jabbar once shared an incident that shocked his core physically and mentally.
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Bruce Lee’s astonishing demonstration
Jabbar played for UCLA and won the National Player of the Yr award. After realizing his potential in basketball, Jabbar went on to explore his interest in martial arts. A friend of Kareem suggested he meet Lee for the reason that two shared a love for acting and martial arts.
During their first meeting, Bruce Lee wanted to indicate Jabbar an indication of what he was going to learn. After Jabbar practiced a number of times on the punching bag, Lee called his wife Linda in. Lee told Jabbar to carry the bag in position while Linda kicked it.
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Jabbar, the 7’2″ basketball giant, did so unhesitantly and expected her kick to be light. As soon as Linda kicked the bag, Jabbar felt its force throughout his body. He said, “The impact rocked me backward a number of feet, readjusted my spine, and possibly rearranged the order of my teeth.”
The start of a bond
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Lee demonstrated that size had less to do with force and martial arts. The couple stood smiling while Jabbar recovered from her brute force kick. Jabbar claimed he was inspired by Lee’s wife and wanted to review with Bruce Lee.
Actor and martial artist Bruce Lee (1940 – 1973) in a publicity still for ‘Enter the Dragon’, directed by Robert Clouse, Hong Kong, 1973. Stichwort: Muskeln, Kampf, Kampfsport. (Photo by FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images)
Bruce and Jabbar didn’t know that the demonstration by Linda can be the beginning of their amazing bond. Bruce Lee and Kareem Abdul Jabbar trained together and starred together within the movie, Game of Death.
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