Added On October 18, 2011
Lessons From Bruce Lee
Lesson 1: Stay Calm
"No matter what you want to do, don't be nervous (you should not let your muscles nor your mind be effected by nerves).
Just keep calm. No illusion and no imagination, but to apprehend the actual situation you are in and find a way to deal with it. No excessive action is needed. Just keep your body and mind relaxed to deal with the outside emergency."
Lesson 2: Tai Chi Is Not a Form Of Self-Defense
Well, if you were there ......... you would be so embarrassed, so it is not even a free brawl .......where
a man who is capable of using his tools and who is very determined to be a savage legless attack whereas
those SOBs are cowards. Turning their heads and swinging punches and after the second round they are out
of breath. I mean they are really pathetic looking - very amateurish. I mean even a boxer because a boxer
when they concentrate on two hands, regardless of how amateurish they are, they do their thing, whereas
those guys haven't decided what the hell they are going to use. I mean before they contact each other they
do all the fancy stances and all the fancy movements, but the minute they contact they don't know what the
hell to do. I mean that's it. They fall on their arses and they .. and hold and grapple. I think the whole Hong
Kong - they call it Gong Sao Challenge Match in Hong Kong - can you imagine that, I mean even those guys see it that way. What do think of the appreciation of people here? So what I'm hoping to do in film is raise the level."
Lesson 3: Conditioning Is Just as important as skills
Practicing your skill in fighting is important, but so is maintaining your overall
physical condition. Actually both are needed to be successful in a real fight.
Training is a skill of disciplining your mind, developing your power and supplying
endurance to your body.
Lesson 4: Develop Your Inner Talents and Strengths
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Lesson 5: There are no limits
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Lesson 6: Keep it simple
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Lesson 7: You Should Always Be Open To New Ideas
Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.
Lesson 8: Don't Be Afraid of Change
Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.
Lesson 9: Consistency Is What Matters
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
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