🐉📀 BACK IN STOCK Bruce Lee's Greatest Hits: The Criterion Collection 7-Disc Blue Ray Set 🐉📀 BL Store Link ---> bit.ly/3cHJRdQ
Bruce Lee Seven-Disc Special Edition Features:
🐉4K digital restorations of The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Game of Death, and 1/
The Way of the Dragon, with uncompressed original monaural soundtracks
🐉New 2K digital restoration of the rarely-seen 99-minute 1973 theatrical version of Enter the Dragon, with uncompressed original monaural soundtrack 2/
🐉New 2K digital restoration of the 102-minute “special-edition” version of Enter the Dragon
🐉Alternate audio soundtracks for the films, including original English-dubbed tracks and a 5.1 surround soundtrack for the special-edition version of Enter the Dragon 3/
🐉Six audio commentaries: on The Big Boss by Bruce Lee expert Brandon Bentley; on The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Game of Death, and The Way of the Dragon by Hong Kong–film expert Mike Leeder; and on the special-edition version of Enter the Dragon by producer Paul Heller 4/
🐉High-definition presentation of Game of Death II, the 1981 sequel to Game of Death
🐉Game of Death Redux, a new presentation of Lee’s original Game of Death footage, produced by Alan Canvan 5/
🐉New interview with producer Andre Morgan about Golden Harvest, the company behind Hong Kong’s top martial-arts stars, including Lee
New program about English-language dubbing with voice performers Michael Kaye (the English-speaking voice of Lee’s Chen Zhen in Fist of Fury)& 6/
Vaughan Savidge
🐉New interview with author Grady Hendrix about the “Bruceploitation” subgenre that followed Lee’s death, and a selection of Bruceploitation trailers
🐉Blood and Steel, a 2004 documentary about the making of Enter the Dragon 7/
🐉Multiple programs and documentaries about Lee’s life and philosophies, including Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend (1973) and 🐉Bruce Lee: In His Own Words (1998)
🐉Interviews with Linda Lee Cadwell, Lee’s widow, and many of Lee’s collaborators and admirers, including
actors Jon Benn, Riki Hashimoto, Nora Miao, Robert Wall, Yuen Wah, and Simon Yam and directors Clarence Fok, Sammo Hung, and Wong Jing
🐉Promotional materials
🐉New English subtitle translations and subtitles
🐉PLUS: An essay by critic Jeff Chang /END
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🐲🤜🏽💥Kung Fu Tuesdays Post #51: ‘Training for Punching Power Part 1’:
🐲 Bruce Lee concentrated heavily on the straight lead punch in his daily training using different apparatus. He used punching pads, the light shield, canvas bags filled with different materials, and a 1/
heavy bag. He liked to use various hitting equipment because each part of the human body has a different composition; you may hit a hard, bony area or a soft, fatty one. Also, hitting with gloves on is very different from bare knuckles, but 2/
using bare knuckles on a partner is not practical.
The shield is more solid than the punching pad and offers a different feeling on contact. If the holder stands firmly with both hands on the equipment, it will not give like the pad will. For a more punishing punch, 3/
🐲☯️ Bruce Lee developed an expression of martial arts that was personal to him called Jeet Kune Do (translated: Way of the Intercepting Fist). The art has as its symbolic representation what we call Bruce Lee’s Core Symbol and uses as its main tenet: 1/
Using no way as way; having no limitation as limitation.
The term jeet kune do was coined and put into use in 1967 by Bruce Lee in an attempt to put a name to his martial expression. Lee wrestled with putting a name to his art as he constantly veered away from any 2/
type of crystallization (and thereby limitation) of its essence, however, the simple need to refer to it in some concrete way won out and jeet kune do was born.
The idea of intercepting is key to jkd, whether it be the interception of your opponent’s technique or his intent. 3/