Is This Really Bruce Lee Sparring?

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Has anyone seen this clip before. Its the first time Ive seen it.

http://homepage.mac.com/stevefarrell/images/bruce_lee_sparring.mpg

I thought it was interesting.

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Thanks,

Who is he fighting. It looks like a TKd Stylist.

I thought it must be pretty early in his development. You can see his tradeMark showmanship even then.

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Hi,

That film clip is from Ed Parker's 1964 Tourney. Bruce Lee put on that Demo and he took turns sparring both Dan Inosanto, and Taky Kimura.

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Frankly, if you look at it now, it's not impressive (although a couple of things do stand out).

However, when you realize that he was sparring like this even before full-contact kickboxing in the USA even existed, he was quite ahead of his time.

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Hi,

I may have the year wrong. There was two Parker tourney's that Bruce Demo'ed at...64 & 67.

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Ive always liked the fighting method series. I think it still covers the basics most stand up fighters are using today. Does anyone have any other footage of BL. I'd love to see some more.

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