Some interesting facts about Bruce Lee's life.

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1. Bruce Lee was born in Chinatown, San Francisco on November 27, 1940.

According to the Chinese zodiac, he was born in the hour as well as the year of the Dragon, which is considered a rare omen.

Even though Lee was born in the US, he was brought up in Hong Kong. His parents left the US when Lee was just three months old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#Early_life

2. His father was a famous Cantonese opera and film actor.

It was his father who introduced him to the film industry, and Lee appeared in many plays and movies as a child actor. He appeared in the movie My Son A-Chang when he was just 9-years-old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#Family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ABruce_Lee%2FArchive_4#Chinese

3. Lee’s father was also responsible for introducing him to martial arts and was his first teacher.

Lee had a habit of getting into numerous street fights, so his dad thought it was time to teach him martial arts!

Lee’s involvement in street fights was also the reason he was compelled to leave Hong Kong. Apparently, he got into a fight with a member of an organized crime family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#Family

4. Ip Man was responsible for turning street-fighter Lee into a gentleman. He taught Lee Wing Chun kung-fu.

Lee wanted Ip Man all to himself so much that one afternoon, he told all the students that the master had cancelled the class so that he could train with Ip Man alone.

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2186246/me-and-my-uncle-ip-man-taught-bruce-lee-wing-chun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_Man

5. His physical feats were out of this world! In 1962, Bruce Lee landed 15 punches and a kick and knocked out his opponent in a fight that lasted only 11 seconds.

The time keeper, Ed Hart, later recalled, “The fight lasted exactly 11 seconds – I know because I was the time keeper – and Bruce had hit the guy something like 15 times and kicked him once. I thought he'd killed him.”

6. Bruce Lee’s one kick takes only about 300 milliseconds, including return time. This means that he could land three to four kicks easily in a second!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9NAps17C9I

His kicks were so fast that they almost look like a glitch on the screen! During one scene in Enter the Dragon, the crew had to re- shoot the scene in slow motion so that it wouldn’t look fake.

Jackie Chan worked as Lee’s stuntman in Enter the Dragon. He was Lee’s favorite and later recalled that all people on set used to treat Lee like a God.
https://inshorts.com/en/news/bruce-lees-kicks-had-to-be-shot-in-slow-motion-1469037497362
https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2154384/jackie-chan-working-bruce-lee-everyone-thought-he-was-god

7. Bruce Lee could perform push ups with just two fingers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljdPchYHLhE


8. Bruce Lee’s iconic “One-Inch Punch” involved a punch with the extended fingers of his fist, just one inch away from the opponent’s chest.

The punch had so much force that the opponent was sent backwards. Lee, on the other hand, did not even bulge from his position.

The volunteer on whom Bruce demonstrated the punch recalled, “I had to stay home from work because the pain in my chest was unbearable.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee#Long_Beach_International_Karate_Championships
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re0xcvnJN8U

9. Lee was a master at multitasking. It was reported that Bruce Lee, while at home, would watch television or read a book, and do dumb-bell curls and leg stretching – all at the same time!

https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-t-Hol4QP5ACJmEKX/The+Art+Of+Expressing+The+Human+Body_djvu.txt


10. Apart from martial arts, Bruce Lee was a national dance champion who won the 1958 Cha-Cha Championship in Hong Kong.

And that’s not all of his hidden talents. He was a poet too and wrote any poems that reflected his emotions at a later stage of his life. Many of his works have been edited and later published.

He was also an amazingly talented sketch artist and was seen sketching on movie sets.
http://hongwrong.com/bruce-lee-dancing-cha-cha/