Pump you Up (Pushups)

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You're reading the wrong sources. He's enormously respected in the martial arts world, and trained the top competitors -- Mike Stone, Joe Lewis, Chuck Norris, and others. There is an enormous amount of material written by his students and well-respected martial artists who knew him as to the level of his skill. Wally Jay, Bob Wall, Jhoon Rhee, and Ed Parker are are a few of the ones we commonly know here in this country. Parker said something about Lee I always thought was funny and interesting: "Bruce had the biggest mouth in the world. And he could back up absolutely every single thing he said."

Bruce was never described as being less than an absolute fitness fanatic.

Bruce grew up fighting, a lot. Real fights, and serious ones. He had a lot of streetfighting experience, and some of the guys he fought were instructors in other styles. The guy he trained the most under, Wong Shung Leung, was a local celebrity who even at a weight of 100 pounds was never defeated in over 100 streetfights, some with weapons, some against multiple assailants. When Bruce came to America, he almost immediately drew the attention of hardened streetfighters and accomplished martial artists and boxers -- much larger than himself -- and wound up with them as his students. As Jesse Glover remarked in his book "Bruce Lee: Between Wing Chun and Jeet Kune Do," Bruce insisted that students try to go all out on him when he took them in, to eliminate any unspoken questions about who was boss.

I don't know how you are chosing to call a fight "official," but the one with Wong Jack Man was a challenge match he accepted on the spot. If he lost, the conditions were that Bruce would close his school. Lee, a man with a quick temper and an enormous ego, was furious that he was insulted in front of his wife and students, and upon seeing Wong Jack Man's long list of proposed rules, retorted that his conditions were that there would be no rules.

Lee's school stayed open.

Twenty years later an article about Wong Jack Man cropped up in Black Belt Magazine in which he claimed to be able to put out candles from across the room by with his internal chi power.