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Friday, 8 June 2018

"Waachaa" Wing Chung " Bruce Lee

BRUCE LEE BIOGRAPHY




Bruce lee was known as the greatest Hong Kong martial artist and actor and also a historical person in the 1970’s. He founded the style of jeet kune do and in the same time Bruce Lee studied wing chun under Yip Man.


Bruce Lee was born in 1940 in a town called Chinatown, San Francisco November the 27.
In one year later Bruce and his family returned to Kowloon in Hong Kong at the age of five. At the age of 12 Bruce attend La Salle College. A few weeks later after school Bruce was beaten up by a street gang, which inspired him to become a martial  training under tutelage of “ Sifu Yip Man” who taught Bruce Wing Chun Kung Fu for a period of approximately for five years.


In the age of 18 Bruce participate in the cha cha dancing competition and won the championship in Hong Kong.  In the 1966 or 67 Lee starred in the TV series called the Green Hornet and after one year he became a major box office draw in Chinese connection and fist of fury. At the short period of time of his film enter “ Enter the dragon”, he died at the age of 32 on July 20, 1973.


In 2013 he was listed in Time Magazines as most 100 influential( As most great 100 on those days) of the  20th century. He was also conferred with the founders awards at Asian awards and in the same year, a statue of himself was built in “ Los Angeles ‘ Chinatown. The statue was 7 foot tall,  was made in Guangzhou, China and some people appreciate that not anyone has the same future as this young men.


While studying at the University of Washington, and there he met Linda Emery, and in 1964 he tied the knot in August and they were both blessed with two children, Brandon Lee( Brandon Lee has become a famous actor) and Shannon Lee( And she continues her father's legacy .


And in those year as the time has finally come he died and his last movie was “ Enter The Dragon”.


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By Vaughan Stowers