I Am Bruce Lee Page #6

I think once everybody

started to learn jiujitsu

and then people started to do

more stand-up in there...

My goodness!

Then I think they started talking

about Bruce Lee.

Oh, man.

That is the Karate Kid.

And when you're talking about combat...

Well, I mean, if it is a sport,

now you're talking about something else.

You have regulations. You have rules.

But when you're talking about fighting

as it is...

- No rules?

- With no rules.

Real fighting.

Well, then, baby, you'd better train

every part of your body.

Mixed martial art in the cage

is for a contest. It's a sport.

I don't know that I would call him

exactly the father of mixed martial arts

because, again, it is still sport,

there are still rules.

Bruce Lee was strictly for the street,

taking guys out, not for competition.

When they had these Vale Tudo fights

in Brazil, there were barely any rules.

You could head-butt, you could kick

in the groin, all kinds of things.

Bruce's favourite weapon

in the street fight was the fingerjab.

This hand would block the vision,

so when he came up, like that.

If you do that, it could be very serious

damage to his vision for life.

Mixed martial art

is the purest form of combat

that you can possibly have

in civilisation.

Oh! With a kick.

I just always felt like it was

such a real raw sport

and that it was gonna

overtake boxing one day.

It seems like that day's here.

Let's fight!

It's the most hardcore real form of

competition and honesty I could find,

and that's the kind of thing I crave.

Carano, a big-time puncher.

There is fear.

Sometimes you don't wanna go in there.

It just teaches you to face the music,

that fear's something

that needs to be devoured.

My biggest fear

is not that I'm gonna get hurt.

Carano getting pounded!

My biggest fear is that I'm not going

to be able to make it authentic

and honestly express myself.

You're not trying to express yourself in

real fighting. You're trying to survive.

And you ask yourself

how can you honestly express yourself

at that moment?

If I want to punch, I'm gonna do it,

man, and I'm gonna do it.

Not you want to punch because

you're trying to avoid getting hit

but to really be in with it

and express yourself.

So that is the type of thing

you have to train yourself into it,

to become one with the...

This might sound different.

I feel as if I'm helping people

as I'm punching them in the face.

- Shogun's badly hurt.

- Jon Jones!

I'm beating weakness out of them,

making them a better person.

In my opinion

it's the highest art of expression

and that's what

honestly expressing yourself is.

To the body.

And it is all over!

Jon Jones, look, guys like this,

it's important for them

to have this kind of confidence.

I don't look at it

as if I'm hurting my opponent, my enemy.

It's like we're brothers

painting this picture together.

It helps them,

until, of course, it doesn't,

which, as we know historically,

always happens,

where they run into that guy

where, "Oh, this isn't fun. "

"This is reality.

You can get hurt in there. "

What happens

is after several years of that,

it takes its effect, you know?

Like when I had to go take

my neurological

and my hands were going,

and I couldn't remember

where I parked my car in the morning.

It should be regulated. There should be

judges and medical staff there.

You don't wanna see people get injured.

I think my father,

from a pure martial arts interest

and combat interest standpoint,

would have loved to watch the UFC.

I believe that Bruce Lee

was a huge fight fan.

He'd have been jumping out of his seat,

getting as excited as any of us.

I think he'd have been proud to be

called the father of mixed martial arts.

OK, there's people out there,

they got it.

They say that Bruce Lee

was the father of mixed martial arts.

That bothers me.

If he's the father

of mixed martial arts,

I'm the grandfather

of mixed martial arts,

And if you don't believe me,

I'll choke you,

cos you got a nice neck for choking.

When you get into

this whole martial arts thing

and you start talking about Bruce Lee,

a lot of people get offended.

People get pissed off and bombed out

and everything else.

But Bruce Lee is 100 percent

the father of mixed martial arts.

He was so directed and so concrete

about his thoughts and his beliefs

that he actually went out

and had his friend George

make a little miniature tombstone.

It's really heavy and it says,

"In memory of a once fluid man

crammed and distorted

by the classical mess. "

The classical mess meant that all these

traditions were a classical mess.

"Right punch comes.

I'll move out to a 30-degree angle. "

"Then I'll bend my... "

It's too complicated.

It's not gonna work in real life.

So here was

this tombstone he created

to essentially remind himself

to go back to fluidity.

Bruce had a vast library

of motivational books

and wrote motivational thoughts

every day

and had a little diary

that he kept every day.

Always they would say you've got to

have the plan and work the plan

and write down your goals,

which he did.

You know, his famous paper he wrote,

My Definite Chief Aim.

A lot of things

were going through his life.

As I recall, money was short.

Bruce was very traditionalist and very

ashamed that I had to go to work.

This was not in his way of thinking.

He contemplated maybe going back

to Hong Kong at that time period.

And then in the summer of '69

these horrific murders happened.

We have a weird homicide.

When the Manson murders happened,

it was horrible, it was horrifying.

The scene described

by one investigator

as reminiscent

of a weird religious rite.

Bruce was a very good friend

of Jay Sebring and of Sharon Tate.

Five persons, including

actress Sharon Tate, were found dead

at the home of Miss Tate and her

husband, screen director Roman Polanski.

My father worked with Sharon Tate

the summer before the murders

on the film The Wrecking Crew.

Miss Tate

was eight months pregnant.

Among the other victims were

Hollywood hair stylist Jay Sebring...

Jay Sebring introduced my father

to William Dozier,

who was the producer of Batman

and also produced The Green Hornet.

The murders were then followed up

the very next night by more murders.

It was just a nightmare

and very scary for Bruce, too,

because Bruce's whole mentality

was protection, to take care of us.

One officer summed up the murders:

"In all my years I have never seen

anything like this before. "

Those were tough times,

going out of the '60s and into the '70s.

And every day, I practise martial arts.

We were really struggling financially

to make it,

and we had bought our first house which

we ended up not being able to afford.

And right in the middle of that

he hurt his back.

He was doing a good morning stretch

exercise which can be very dangerous.

Chiropractors like that exercise.

- You see?

- Watch out.

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