1976 Bruce Lee & JKD Magazine No. 5 & 9 WITH BLACK&WHITE SIGNED PHOTO\'S
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1976 Bruce Lee & JKD Magazine No. 5 & 9 WITH BLACK&WHITE SIGNED PHOTO\'S :
$25.00
UP FOR sale ARE 2 EDITIONS OF BRUCE LEE\'S MAGAZINE JKD IN 1976, ISSUES 5 AND 9, THEY HAVE BEEN STORED IN PLASTIC FOR SINCE NEW AND INCLUDE THE 2 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO\'S WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH ON THEM, WHICH I ASSUME ARE PHOTO COPIES. THEY ARE EXACTLY AS I GOT THEM, BUT WILL HAVE THE FOLDED LINES IN THEM SINCE THEY WERE FOLD UP AND OUTARTICLES AND ACTION SHOTS, AND OPEN UP TO BIG POSTERS. I ONLY OPENED THEM UP TO TAKE THE PHOTOS AND PUT THEM RIGHT BACK IN THE PLASTIC PROTECTORS.
BRUCE LEE IS THE BIGGEST NAME EVER IN THE MARTIAL ARTS WORLD, AND WAS SO FAR AHEAD OF HIS TIME WAS OFTEN NOT EXCEPTED FOR TEACHING NON-ASIANS AND CREATING HIS OWN SYSTEM OF FIGHTING. WE LOOK BACK AT ALOT OF HIS FIGHT SCENES AND TRAINING AND SEE ALOT OF THE TECHNIQUES THAT THE MMA FIGHTERS USE TODAY, LIKE ARM BARS AND LEG LOCKS, CHOKE HOLDS, HE EVEN USED GLOVES TO TRAIN AND FIGHT THAT RESEMBLE THE MMA GLOVES WHERE YOUR FINGERS ARE OUT OF THE GLOVES SO YOU CAN GRAB YOUR OPPONANT IN VARIOUS HOLDS YOU SEE IN JUI JITSU TODAY. HE DIDN\'T BELIEVE IN THE SINGLE STYLE OF TRAINING THAT WAS USED FOR YEARS, INSTEAD HE USED TECHNIQUES FROM ALL TYPES OF FIGHTING STYLES, LIKE KUNG FU, MUA THAI, KARATE, JUI JITSU, EVEN BOXING AND WRESTLING, HE KNEW THAT BIGGER OPPONANTS WOULD OFTEN TAKE YOU TO THE GROUND AND USE THEIR SIZE TO GROUND AND POUND. I TRAINED AT A KARATE SCHOOL REACHING 2ND DEGREE BLACK BELT IN THE EARLY 80\'S, AND OUR TECHNIQUES WORKED BACK THEN, BUT I KNEW THERE WERE HOLES IN OUR TRAINING AND WE DIDN\'T LEARN VERY MUCH ONCE WE GOT TO THAT RANK. I JOINED OTHER SCHOOLS TOBE ABLE TO HANDLE MYSELF ON THE GROUND, WORKED ON MY HANDS ALOT MORE SINCE KOREAN KARATE USED YOUR LEGS ALOT MORE THEN YOUR HANDS. WE EVEN GOT A GROUP OF MARTIAL ARTIST FROM SEVERAL DIFFERENT STYLES AS WELL AS A BOXER AND WRESTLER AND WE\'D TAKE TURNS TEACHING OUR GROUP OF ONLY 10 PEOPLE.
MY MAIN TRAINING PARTNER AT MY FIRST SCHOOL WAS A 3 TIME STATE CHAMP WRESTLER AND HAD THAT CRAZY NATURAL GORILLA TYPE STRENGTH, I DID WELL SPARRING HIM STANDING UP, BUT KNEW IF HE GOT ME ON THE GROUND I WAS IN TROUBLE. AT OUR BLACK BELT TEST, THEY\'D HAVE GUYS GRAB US IN VARIOUS HOLDS, AND HE\'D THROW THEM ALL OVER THE PLACE. IT WOULD BE HARD FOR ME TO MATCH HIM ON THE GROUND, HE HAD OVER 12 YRS OF WRESTLING TRAINING, WHICH WE NOW SEE IS A GREAT FIGHTING ART., WRESTLERS ONCE THEY LEARN SOME JUI JITSU ARE SOME OF THE BEST MMA FIGHTERS IN THE WORLD. THE ONLY WAY I\'d STOP HIM WAS IF I CAUGHT HIM WITH A KNEE AS HE SHUT IN, AFTER THAT, EVEN A BLACK BELT IN JUI JITSU COULDN\'T DEAL WITH HIM ONCE HE STUDIED JUI JITSU AND KNEW HOW TO AVOID CHOKES AND ARM BARS, HIS NECK WAS SO THICK, AND BODY SO STRONG HE;D JUST SMASH YOU TO THE MAT, AND GROUND AND POUND PEOPLE UNTIL THEY GAVE UP. WE ALWAYS TELL HIM YOU WERE DOING GROUND AND POUND LONG BEFORE MMA DID IT. WELL I GET ROLLING ABOUT OUR YEARS TRAINING AND CAN\'T STOP, IT\'S BEEN AWHILE SINCE I\'VE TRAINED, AND AFTER A BAD ACCIDENT I HAD TO STOP AND EXERCISE WITH ALOT LESS STRESS ON MY BODY, I SWIM MORE THEN ANYTHING, AND DO YOGA, AND I\'M HAPPY I FOUGHT BACK TOBE ABLE TODO THAT MUCH. TAKE CARE.
1976 Bruce Lee & JKD Magazine No. 5 & 9 WITH BLACK&WHITE SIGNED PHOTO\'S :
$25.00