Bruce Lee
was one of great Action Actor of Holly-Wood. May be he is dead now. But his fan
he is one of greatest Celebrity of a century. Read to know something unknown
facts about him.
1. Bruce
Lee had the ability to snatch a dime off a person’s open palm before they could
close it, and leave a penny behind.
2. In
1962, Bruce lee landed 15 punches, a kick and knocked out his opponent in a
fight that lasted only 11 seconds.
3. Bruce
Lee’s kicks were so fast that while filming for one scene in Enter the Dragon,
they had to re-film it in slow motion (34 frames) so that it wouldn’t appear
fake.
4. Bruce
Lee was a fan of The Great Gama, the only undefeated wrestler in the world.
Great Gama’s career spanned 50 years.
5. Bruce
Lee was known to be a great Cha-Cha dancer. He had won the Hong Kong Cha-Cha
Championship in 1958.
6. A
statue of Bruce Lee was placed in Mostar, Bosnia because he was something that
all ethnicity liked and could agree on. The statue was later vandalized and
destroyed.
7. Bruce
Lee’s speed in terms of reacting + punching from a distance of three feet away
was found to be around five hundredths of a second (0.05 second).
8. Bruce
Lee was a big Muhammad Ali fan and used to would watch his fights on film
obsessively.
9. The
San Francisco Giants eradicated their Seagull problem with a Red Tailed Hawk
named “Bruce Lee”
10. Yip
Man who taught Bruce Lee opened his own martial arts school so that he could afford
opium.
11. Bruce
Lee had the ability to catch a grain of rice in mid-air with chopsticks.
12. Bruce
Lee kicked a man so hard that it broke a bystander’s arm when the man fell into
him.
13. Bruce
Lee’s last movie (Game of Death) contains footage of his actual funeral with
close ups of Lee in his coffin.
14. When
asked who would win in a fight to the death, Chuck Norris once said “Bruce
[Lee] of course, nobody can beat him.”
15. Bruce
Lee was able to perform 50 reps of one-arm chin-ups and it has been said that
he performed pushups with upto 125lb of weight on his back. He only weighed
approx. 130lbs.
16.
Jackie Chan began his film career as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films, Fist of
Fury and Enter the Dragon.
17. Bruce
Lee’s first notable film (Golden Gate Girl) was shot in the USA, but wasn’t
released in the USA until 5 years after it was released in China. He was just 1
at that time.
18. Bruce
Lee was part German (his mother is half German).
19. Bruce
Lee was taught “wing chun” by Grandmaster “Y”Ip Man when Bruce was 13.
20. Bruce
Lee was one of Hong Kong’s most prominent child actors, with 20 movies to his
name by the time he was 18.
21. There
was a cultural phenomenon called Bruce ploitation, in which numerous Bruce Lee
look-alikes starred in cheap knock-off movies to cash in on the obsession with
Lee after he died.
22. Bruce
Lee’s secret hobby was writing poetry, and he was actually pretty good at
it.
23.JEET-KUNE-DO
is his special martial art technique, which was invented by him.
24.He was
so fast he could take a coin from your open hand and replace it by another
before you had time to close it.
25. Bruce
Lee, s father sent him to San Francisco at 18 from Hong-Kong, because he
would always get in trouble with Hong-Kong police for being known as well known
street fighter.
26.He had
capable to make a hole in a soda-can by punching with his finger and at that
time soda can were made with freaking steal.
27.He
also had capable to do push-ups by his single hand ,thumb and by index finger
only.