Charles Russo

Striking Distance (eBook, PDF)

Bruce Lee and the Dawn of Martial Arts in America

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Produktbeschreibung

In the spring of 1959, eighteen year-old Bruce Lee returned to San Francisco, the city of his birth. Although the martial arts were widely unknown in America, Bruce encountered a robust fight culture in the Bay Area, populated with talented and trailblazing practitioners such as Lau Bun, Chinatown's aging kung fu patriarch; Wally Jay, the innovative Hawaiian jujitsu master; and James Lee, the Oakland street fighter. Regarded by some as a brash loudmouth and by others as a dynamic visionary, Bruce spent his first few years back in America advocating for a modern approach to the martial arts, and showing little regard for the damaged egos left in his wake. The year of 1964 would be an eventful one for Bruce, in which he would broadcast his dissenting worldview before the first great international martial arts gathering, and then defend it by facing down Wong Jack Man-Chinatown's young kung fu ace-in a legendary behind-closed-doors showdown. These events were a catalyst to the dawn of martial arts in America and a prelude to an icon. Based on over one hundred original interviews, Striking Distance chronicles Bruce Lee's formative days amid the heated martial arts proving ground that thrived on San Francisco Bay in the early 1960s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803290518
• Artikelnr.: 55972169

Autorenporträt

Charles Russo is an award-winning journalist who lives in San Francisco. Shannon Lee is the daughter of Bruce Lee and CEO of Bruce Lee Enterprises.  

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Prologue: The Dissident
Part 1. San Francisco
1. The Patriarch
2. Native Son
3. The Good Long Fist
4. The Little Dragon
5. The Soft Arts
6. Three Moves or Less
Part 2. Oakland
7. The Innovator
8. The Hawaiian Connection (Part One)
9. The Hawaiian Connection (Part Two)
10. Way of the Integrated Fist
Part 3. 1964
11. Year of the Green Dragon
12. Long Beach
13. Incident at the Sun Sing Theater
14. Exchanging Hands
15. "Made to Fight"
Epilogue: Screen Test
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Notes
Bibliography
Index