One spectator, Tai Chi master William Chen, said that the fight — which lasted around minutes — had no definitive winner. He described the outcome as a tie, but noted that Wong kept a promise he made before the fight not to use his Northern Shaolin kicks, feeling that they were too dangerous. In contrast to Wong, Lee was against traditional kung fu because he felt it was too restrictive. He fully supported combining styles and moves for a more practical way of fighting.
The people that came with him tried to stop the fight when they saw how badly Wong was faring. Caldwell says Lee had him beaten in under three minutes. She did concede though, that Lee did have some difficulties in defeating him.
Lee hurt his hand fighting Wong, and it was because of this fight that he turned away from Wing Chun kung fu. Wong himself got this impression as well, and this pushed him to offer his own version of the event.
Wong says that when they approached each other, Lee faked a friendly handshake in order to score a cheap poke to the eyes. According to Wong, things only escalated from there, with Lee executing numerous attacks with an aim to kill. Wong said that he genuinely felt Lee did intend to kill him. Not unlike what Chen said, Wong alleges that the fight raged on for over 20 minutes. In the aftermath, Lee allegedly told Wong that neither of them should openly discuss the fight, because that would only create debate over who really won.
Lee did not respond to the invitation despite his reputation for violently responding to every provocation, and there were no further public announcements by either, though Lee continued to teach white people. Bruce Lee vs. Wong Jack Man is perhaps the most famous fight in Kung Fu martial arts history. Wong Jack Man proposed a fight with Lee with the ultimatum that, should Brue Lee lose, he would have to close down his studio.
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Biu Ji. Wooden Dummy. Long Pole. Concepts and Strategies. Maxims of Wing Chun. Bruce Lee VS. Watch The Video Below!!! Wing Chun News. Related Posts. By the start of , Bruce began to double-down on his earlier criticism of "ineffective" styles and techniques, and began given lecture-heavy demonstrations featuring stinging rebukes towards "dry-land swimmers" practicing the "classical mess.
One of the styles he liked to perform and then dismiss was Northern Shaolin, and he began to air these viewpoints to some very large and qualified audiences. At Ed Parker's inaugural Long Beach Tournament in August, Bruce delivered a scathing lecture that disparaged many existing practices, including such common techniques as the horse stance. Although Bruce's showing at Long Beach is often painted in glossy terms, many of those in attendance corroborate the polarizing nature of his demonstration, in which half the crowd perceived him as brash and condescending.
As longtime karate teacher Clarence Lee remembers it: ""Guys were practically lining up to fight Bruce Lee after his performance at Long Beach. A few weeks later before a capacity crowd at the Sun Sing Theater in the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown, Bruce gave a similar demonstration, and even went as far as to criticize the likes of Lau Bun and TY Wong by declaring "these old tigers have no teeth.
At this point, a confrontation wasn't surprising…it was logically inevitable, especially when considering that Bruce had been challenged for similar reasons in Seattle a few years earlier on far less provocation. That fight was also predicated on the content of Bruce's demonstrations at the time, when local karate practitioner Yoichi Nakachi took issue with Bruce's martial arts worldview and loudly issued a challenge.
Yoichi pursued him for weeks. When the two finally fought, Bruce obliterated Yoichi with a rapid series of perfectly places punches and a knockout kick in an second fight that left him unconscious with a fractured skull.
Oddly enough, the entire affair tends to get shrugged off as meaningless; when really, it should be seen as a case study. One of the most enduring questions that still remains difficult to answer, is—"Why Wong Jack Man?
There are two main theories on this. The first is that because Wong Jack Man was poised to open his own martial arts school in Chinatown, he stepped forward in an opportunistic moment to generate some publicity. Local tai chi practitioner David Chin asserts that Wong said as much when he signed a challenge note to be delivered to Bruce. Yet a more popular theory professed by many local sources from that era is that Wong Jack Man was duped into fighting Bruce, essentially the new kid on the scene goaded into a schoolyard brawl without grasping the stakes.
But who were those five people that drove over to Oakland with Wong Jack Man? In the back seat, were a trio of hanger-on troublemaker types, with no strong connections to the neighborhood's martial arts scene: Ronald "Ya Ya" Wu whose nickname reflected his constantly yammering mouth , Martin Wong, and Raymond Fong.
As Wong Jack Man would later put it, this group was "only there to see the hubbub. In fact, Lau Bun's senior student Sam Louie remembers his school mates abiding by Lau Bun's code of conduct and admonishing this crew as they riled themselves up that day prior to the fight: "We said, 'It has nothing to do with Hung Sing. Whether you win or lose…it's no good.
In Oakland, Bruce would only have two witnesses: his recent bride Linda Lee who was 8 months pregnant at the time and his close colleague James Lee who had a loaded handgun nearby in case things spiraled out of control. This made for a total of nine people in the room, only three of whom are alive today.
With a couple of very rare exceptions, Wong Jack Man has stayed perennially quiet on the matter. Linda Lee and David Chin, who were on opposing sides of the conflict, give a generally similar account: the fight was fast and furious, spilling wildly around the room. The exchange was crude, and far from cinematic. After landing an opening blow on Wong's temple, Bruce struggled to decisively put away his evasive opponent like he had in Seattle a few years earlier, and quickly found himself heavily winded by the encounter.
Eventually Bruce's relentless advance caused Wong to stumble over a small step, into an untenable position on the floor where Bruce hollered "Do you yield? Having lost his footing, Wong had no choice but to concede. As with any good schoolyard fight, the exaggeration soon took on epic proportions. Storylines of Bruce slamming Wong's head through a wall, or of Wong having Bruce in a headlock and ready to knock him out when the cops arrived, are just a couple among many. Perhaps the most absurd of the hyperbole, which is now a regular storyline in the press surrounding the upcoming release of Birth of the Dragon , is that the fight lasted for 20 minutes, a notion which is not only wholly inconsistent to the accounts of all proven eyewitnesses, but contrary to all basic sense for the nature of a street fight.
In the fight's aftermath a war of words took place in local Chinese newspapers, in which both Bruce and Wong denied starting or losing the fight. In time, the urban mythology surrounding the incident would cite that Wong issued a call for a rematch in his article, though the exact wording suggests otherwise: "[Wong] says that in the future he will not argue his case again in the newspaper, and if he is made to fight again, he will instead hold a public exhibition so that everyone can see with their own eyes.
What is generally agreed upon is that Bruce Lee's messy victory—light years from his precise second win over Yoichi in Seattle—was a catalyst for him to finally overhaul his approach.
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