Timeline for What is the dominant martial arts style in Bruce Lee's on-screen fighting?
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| Dec 6, 2020 at 17:06 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Nov 6, 2020 at 16:13 | answer | added | Waterman | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 3, 2020 at 20:31 | comment | added | Steve Weigand | Probably a mix. White Crane kung-fu is reportedly his primary "influence", though I'm not sure he had any formal training in it. He is reported to have studied a bunch of martial arts from books, movie clips, photos, etc. His trademark noises "Wazaaa!" are supposed to be from white crane as well. As is his trademark wings flapping move he does. | |
| Nov 3, 2020 at 12:56 | comment | added | Macaco Branco | Regarding him actually hitting people, my understanding is that that's still much more common in Asian fight choreography, where stunt extras specifically get paid to get hit full force, which is actually a deal for them because normally they only get paid if the footage they're in is used. | |
| Nov 3, 2020 at 8:33 | comment | added | Philip Klöcking | I think I remember some people being mad at him because he actually hit them in a documentary, maybe even including Jackie Chan. Which was to highlight that he wanted to show real fighting in his later films. That being said, another point there was that Lee had no style. It was "fighting with what is effective". Which is why he studied fencing and latin dance to improve his footwork, for example. So I'd question some premises of the question. | |
| Nov 3, 2020 at 5:12 | history | asked | DukeZhou | CC BY-SA 4.0 |