I Am Bruce Lee

Depending, OK? Now, as a fighter, Steve McQueen, that son of a gun, 509 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,128 got the toughness in him. 510 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,487 Now, James Coburn is a peace-loving man. 511 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,961 - (interviewer) I've met him. - You've met him. 512 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,769 He's really, really nice. 513 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,287 Super mellow and all that, you know what I mean? 514 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,170 Now, he appreciates the philosophical part of it, 515 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,130 therefore his understanding of it is deeper than Steve's. 516 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,646 He often told me, "I would like to see Steve McQueen 517 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,370 be a little bit more like Coburn 518 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,091 and Coburn to be a little bit more like Steve McQueen." 519 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,891 Actually, you see, it's a combination of both. 520 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:14,443 I mean, here is the natural instinct and here is control. 521 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,922 You are to combine the two in harmony. 522 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,685 Not if you have one to the extreme, 523 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,922 you will be very unscientific. 524 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,082 If you have another to the extreme, 525 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,448 you become all of a sudden a mechanical man. 526 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:36,210 All the big, big names in tournament fighting came to Bruce 527 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,487 because they wanted to refine their skills. 528 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,881 Joe Lewis, Bob Wall, Chuck Norris. 529 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,407 (Robert) Chuck Norris was probably the greatest kicker I've ever seen. 530 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:48,007 - Chuck Norris is unbelievable. - Bruce didn't want to teach beginners. 531 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:49,969 He did have some in his own schools. 532 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,487 But he took the top martial artists and he felt he could make them better. 533 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,404 "One more time. You don't get it, we move to something else." 534 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,642 "You gonna get it?" That's how he would teach. 535 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,927 He knew a lot. He taught me gung fu. 536 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,810 (Dan) Joe Lewis was highly influenced by Bruce Lee. 537 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,167 Joe Lewis was a world champion when he met Bruce, 538 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,323 but it was a lot more of Bruce being the instructor to Joe. 539 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,961 (Dan) I don't think he had boxing hands until he met Bruce Lee, 540 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:14,804 but his side kick was phenomenal. 541 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:16,848 Joe would throw 1,000 side kicks a day. 542 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,970 Listen, Joe Lewis, in today's world, he would have learned all that shit 543 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,647 and been just as bad as he was back in the day. 544 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,088 Bruce didn't think point karate, point martial arts competition, 545 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,811 was valuable at all, and I totally disagreed with him. 546 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,087 Bruce watched it but didn't believe in it. 547 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,561 He always advocated full-contact sparring. 548 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,849 Bruce Lee looked at all of that and said, "This is not martial arts." 549 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,287 "This is nonsense. Let's get rid of these rules." 550 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,204 I respect that he didn't feel like he wanted to compete 551 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:45,805 because it wasn't real combat. 552 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,487 He says you're not fighting for yourself or expressing yourself. 553 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,404 You're fighting for the judges, the referee, the rules. 554 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:56,371 What's the reality of combat? There's someone who wants to beat you down. 555 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,808 He said to learn to swim, you cannot swim on land. 556 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:01,166 You gotta get in the water. 557 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,129 To learn to fight, you gotta fight. 558 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,209 Can you break five or six pieces of wood with your hand or your foot? 559 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,045 Boards don't hit back. 560 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,248 I'll probably break my hand and foot. 561 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,130 He had high regard for those martial artists of the day 562 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,770 that were winning tournaments. 563 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:22,244 He just had a different philosophy about martial arts and actual fighting. 564 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,211 I do not believe in styles any more. 565 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:32,046 I mean, I do not believe that there is