The personality of Bruce Lee, the world-famous figure of cinema and an unsurpassed master of martial arts, is still surrounded by a halo of mystery. During his comparatively short life (1940-1973), he managed to achieve such a level of excellence that so far remains not only unsurpassed, but in general is beyond comprehension. He is credited with a huge number of achievements, many of which are little confirmed. In our article, we will highlight all the significant records of Bruce Lee - both official and unofficial.
Guinness Book of Records
If someone believes that Bruce Lee specifically convened commissions to confirm his records, he is mistaken. In the famous Guinness Book of Records, Bruce Lee's record was recorded only once, and not for partial achievements: he was credited there as a man who spent more than 800 fights in the ring during his career. Although there is practically no documentary evidence of this.
Bruce could not stand fighting in public, and if anyone challenged him, the battle took place privately on the territory of Bruce's possessions. There were no cameras at the same time, so only the only officially confirmed battle of the great master came to us. Here is his short video.
But even though the Guinness Book of Records, Bruce Lee was not particularly highlighted, many of his achievements are officially confirmed and unbroken to this day. Let us pass to them.
Officially Records
These are the achievements that have ever been made before the eyes of journalists, and which have been consecrated in the credible serious press, memoirs and other literary works of famous personalities. Among the officially confirmed world records of Bruce Lee include:
- The ability to strike at such a speed that the then video technology - 24 frames per second - simply could not manage to capture these attacks. To shoot battles with Bruce, I had to shoot his actions at a frequency of 32 frames per second, but the lines turned out to be vague.
- Bruce’s ability to hold the “corner” (legs bent at 90 degrees relative to the body, straightened at the knees) with an emphasis on hands for more than 30 minutes in a row.
- The ability, with its weight of 65 kg, to hold a 34-kilogram weight on an arm extended parallel to the earth's surface for more than 3 seconds.
- The ability to punch tin then steel beer bottles with your fingers.
- The ability to pull up, hanging on the bar on one little fingers, and push up, resting on the ground with two fingers of one of the hands.
- The ability to toss and catch rice grains with chopsticks on the fly.
Records recorded by unofficial sources
Among the records of Bruce Lee include the following achievements:
- The strength of his side impact was such that he tore it with a cloth of suspended sacks from a dense burlap filled with rice.
- Bruce for one approach reeled on a stationary bike 16 km (duration - 45 minutes).
- He could knock down a 200-kilogram man to the ground by barely touching his hand (this he called the “Touch of the Master” or “The Blow of Chiy” blow).
- Once the master managed to break a helmet with a fist to protect his face, which at the check could not be broken with a sledgehammer.
- A 136 kg punching bag weighing Bruce could be kicked so that it hit the ceiling.
- Demonstrating his speed, he could easily replace a coin of one denomination lying in the palm of a person with a coin of another denomination, while he managed to squeeze his palm.
- He could pull himself up on the horizontal bar, hanging on one arm, over 50 times.
- From a place, he could jump to a height of 3 meters.
- Bruce has never lost in fights throughout the history of his fighting career.
Records and facts from the cinema and gaming industry
Bruce Lee's records extend not only to sports and physiological achievements. He especially “inherited” in the cinema and gaming industry. Here is a list of basic well-known facts:
- Bruce Lee was honored with stars on both the Hong Kong Walk of Fame and Hollywood.
- It took just $ 600 thousand to shoot the feature film “The Dragon's Way Out,” in which Bruce played the main role and whose producer he was. To date, the picture has collected at the box office 300 million dollars, having paid for itself 500 times!
- In the feature film "The Game of Death", which was shot after his death, there are shots from the real funeral of the master. Bruce Lee was both a screenwriter, producer and director of the picture, playing in it also the main role.
- In none of the films does he use firearms or knives. Only darts or nunchucks.
- A peculiar record of Bruce Lee can be called the fact that almost none of the computer games, which are based on the sparring of the battle, does not come out without a character similar to Bruce. In Mortal Kombat it is Liu Kang, in Tekken it is Marshall Lowe, in Street Fighter it is Fay Long, in Dead or Alive it is Maxi, etc.
Conclusion
Bruce Lee is still a legend and an unsurpassed master. The world famous film actor and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger said that Bruce's body is the standard for the complete absence of fat in the body. This great man died at the age of 32 and is buried in the state of Washington, in the city of Seattle.