My favourite Fighter

                                         

                                                 My Favourite Fighter

                     

                              My favourite fighter is Bruce Lee.He is very brave man in my life.Born in San Francisco and raised in British Hong Kong, Lee was introduced to the Hong Kong film industry as a child actor by his father. However, these were not martial arts films. His early martial arts experience included Wing Chun , tai chi, boxing (winning a Hong Kong boxing tournament), and apparently frequent street fighting. In 1959, Lee, having U.S. citizenship due to his birth, was able to move to Seattle. In 1961, he enrolled in the University of Washington.It was during this time in the United States that he began considering making money by teaching martial arts, even though he aspired to have a career in acting.

                              He opened his first martial arts school, operated out of home in Seattle. After later adding a second school in Oakland, California, he once drew significant attention at the 1964 Long Beach International Karate Championships of California by making demonstrations and speaking. He subsequently moved to Los Angeles to teach, where his students included Chuck Norris, Sharon Tate, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In the 1970s, his Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films elevated the Hong Kong martial arts films to a new level of popularity and acclaim, sparking a surge of Western interest in Chinese martial arts

. The direction and tone of his films dramatically influenced and changed martial arts and martial arts films worldwide.

                      

                             Bruce Lee's father Lee Hoi-chuen was a famous Cantonese opera singer based in Hong Kong. In December 1939, his parents went to Chinatown, San Francisco in California for an international opera tour.He was born there on November 27, 1940, making him a dual Hong Kong and United States citizen by birth. At four months old (April 1941), the Lee family returned to Hong Kong.Soon after, the Lee family experienced unexpected hardships over the next four years as Japan, in the midst of World War II, launched a surprise attack on Hong Kong in December 1941 and ruled the city for the next four years.I follow his fighting styles and I can his fighting skills litle bit.

   

               Thank you everyone...                                                       

    Blog by :- Oshan Dissanayake     
                            

            (Mu / 21/ 241)

    

 (Undergraduate at University of the Visual and Performing Arts)

                         ( Faculty of Music )