Bruce Lee Death Theory, JCVD Bump on Head, Secret Logo Origin | The Kung Fu Genius Podcast #99
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
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I don't think JCVD had the head bump in Bloodsport. He must have had some head injury sometime after that. Tom Cruise was in braces a several years ago to correct that tooth alignment thing. His teeth look pretty normal now. Bruce Lee has the same alignment issue with his teeth as Tom Cruise, with one of his front teeth being in the middle of his face. Once you see that you'll never unsee it. Bruce was also missing one or two upper side teeth. You can see it in photos where he is laughing.
Dre is back…😅😅😅peace to SG… great show 😊😊😊💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
This episode was from December 2022 🤣
His bodyguard punched him in the head, one night, when he was drunk in the bar, he stated, " I had to get him before he got to his feet"
here's another myth busters. I'm Chinese guy that did do martial arts and competed in the sport karate circuit (point karate tournaments, i.e. NASKA) There were a few other Chinese guys on tournament circuit but none of them did Kung - Fu. Vast majority of Chinese competitors were practitioners of Tae Kwon do or Japanese styles of Karate. In my case I am Chinese that grew up in NYC. I was a professional dojo owner for many years and competed in point karate tournament circuit. But my background is in Okinawan Karate and Kobudo. I never studied Chinese martial arts. I had a few friends (fellow tournament competitors) that were Kung-Fu guys. But they were White, Spanish or African American. No Chinese, the few Chinese competitors that did compete were practitioners of Korean, Japanese or Okinawan martial arts. Not Kung-Fu, believe it or not. This was in the 1980's
I’m afraid I’m sitting with the KFG on this with regard to Bruce Lee’s death and although I’m open to changing my opinions or beliefs when or if new evidence comes to light - Bruce Lee contributed to his own death and (in my opinion which means nothing) he wasn’t really the person he portrayed himself to be. It’s a shame really, mainly for the Bruce Lee fans but then again, I was never a fan and never bought into the idea he was this great, outstanding fighter or martial artist. Once again - enjoying these podcasts.
KFG to Dre: “I also gotta get away from you!” 😂
You perfectly described what happened to American Kenpo after Ed Parker died. Factional fighting with everyone claiming to be the true inheritors.
51:42 Jackie, my partner in crime here. She says. “Bruce over worked himself into an aneurysm. 🙏
Mikey......57:27 you let one slip through
It was Andrew that let it through!
@30:38 Let’s go! 🔥
The rumor i heard about JCVD's bump was that he got into it with Sifu Alan Lamb whom proceeded to bust JCVD so hard in his temple in calcified and never healed right
that sounds silly and implausible given what an easy going dude the late Sifu Alan Lamb was.
36:33 you rule.. fff keep it up!! 😉🤛
Kung Fu Genius, question about the behind the scenes/backstage ETD footage where Bruce is shirtless and sparring around with a younger guy. The younger guy is wearing a casual martial arts style uniform and imitating Bruce’s mannerisms slightly. It’s only a short few moments clipped together which never made it into the film. It almost looks like the hall of mirrors room but I can’t remember. (The footage is on RUclips but hard to find).
1) Was this filmed after the opening fight scene with Sammo, or before?
Think have heard, that Bruce Lee feared to lose the leading role to John Saxon.
He filmed the fight scene with Samo Hung at last and included to the 🎞 film.
Where think once on John Saxon - when he seen E.T.D. - nobody !
@@nostradamus522 You are correct, however I still don’t fully understand the last part of your comment. “🎶Nostradamus has spoken…🎶”
I just googled "Jean Claud Van Damme - Bump on Head".... now I can't un-see it too... Thanks Guys. I dig your pod-cast, you guys are great... Thanks again
You’re welcome!
Fun podcast and I learn something new, Liberty Bell 😬
Hey Alex. Could you make a video where you talk about Wan kam leung and his Practical Wing chun. Give us your analysis, the good and the bad and how practical it really is.
Wan Sifu is a close friend of mine, so it would be out of place to do such a video. I also generally do not critique other styles, there are plenty of other guys online doing that, but it’s not my schtick.
@@TheKungFuGenius Thats deep! God bless you for your character.
Where is it documented that he was in possession of cocaine and how do u know there was a cocaine straw found in the apartment and not a regular straw. Was there a swab test administered? Do you have any documentation or proof of these claims?
You should order the updated version of “The Death of Bruce Lee” by Marcos Ocana. I’m actually done with this topic.
Yes! I am a fan and I'm small and loyal.
We love #brucelee ❤️☮️🐉
49:49 He used the EXPLODING HEART technique, and missed. He hit himself. 😂lol. Obviously playing.
50:00 🤣🤣
31:16 these guys don’t drink. Scissors GAANG SAO is how we HUEN SAO the whole body. 😂Fool. (Playing) obviously. That’s fresh. The one in the third form I do GAANG JA JEUNG CHIN SAO (underneath) and FLAT FOOK FIRE a CHEUNG off my own hand. 😂😂😂😂example. 1. GAANG SAO right side. Bottom hand JA JEUNG left hand BUI GEE underneath the right hand. Becomes a FOOK SAO in tight. Right hand CHEUNG FIRES OFF A PLATFORM 😂😂
its about the insurance money???
42:38 lol you ruin TG 2 lol
He was too much like water
25:55 Alex. I literally post n see. (0) to 4 views. I post again? 4 views. I post again? 100,000 views. 😂I SWEAR.
JCVD's bump is called an Osteoma. It's a benign tumor of bone growth. Another great show! Thanks!
Thanks for that!
Yup. He said that if removed it would leave a bad scar so he kept it.
congratulations on the video! very Good! Thank you for posting this precious video, always be happy and healthy 👍♥️🐉🙏
I always get educated here! #libertybell
I heard the Van Damme bump was a childhood injury
I wonder what level of hot nonsense this will contain!Could it be off the Richter scale! Mr KFG?
Haha
The first time I saw Way of the Dragon it was titled Return of the Dragon, it was the English dubbed version, cause I don’t speak Chinese so I don’t understand it and with subtitles sometimes they go fast so I have to rewind it and pause it to read, then rewind it to watch the action, very annoying to try to read and try to watch what’s happening, anyway it didn’t have the scene where he tried to order eggs in the restaurant but got a lot of soup, I was wondering why he was always going to the bathroom, also it didn’t have the scene where he’s in the apartment with that woman that took him and he started throwing punches and kicks in front of the mirror, or the scene where he goes to the bathroom in the restaurant and a guy is looking at him weird cause he’s standing on the toilet, anyway since they were all speaking English I thought that on the times Bruce was talking to the main boss and told the other guy to let him know or tell him, “leave this school alone!”(yes I know that’s from his other movie Fist of Fury/Chinese Connection)I thought it was a situation like when there’s two people that used to get along and now they don’t so they have another person in between, and even if they speak in the same language and loud in the same room, they still use the mediator, “tell him this and that” “ Oh yeah well tell her this that and the other” like an interpreter, I didn’t think he wanted him to translate, in movies I know Christopher Columbus and the Natives were not speaking English in reality, it’s just in the movie translated to understand the plot and story, so in the original Way of the Dragon if Bruce was speaking Chinese, since they were in Rome we’re the others speaking the Roman language, what is it Italian or Latin
"..And then there’s the 5th faction…😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hey, KFG, which is quicker: your wit or your technique?😜
I think that Diana Lee Inosanto hit the nail on the head. Before (and in many cases, since) Bruce Lee, most of the portrayals of Asian men in movies/TV were basically the equivalent of a bunch of Asian Mr. Beans. People may have latched onto new stereotypes after Bruce Lee, but he helped challenge a lot of the much worse stereotypes out there about Asian dudes.
There are movies, photos and footage without the bump on JCVD's forehead. I wonder if he got in a bad bar fight?
Cool kids faction
I remember trying to use spin kicks on my first teacher. A Vietnamese kid in school. I ended up training with him for about 2 years after that. Jumping off trees. Climbing shit. Straight blasting got introduced with a QUAN and LOP when I tried to box him. I never stopped it after that. ☮️
Too many lies told by Linda and Raymond Chow. On the day Bruce died, only Bruce and Linda were at their Hong Kong home, where were the children, Wu Ngan and the 2 families who lived there? They all were out because Bruce was in an horrendous rage. Linda phoned Raymond Chow to come over to help her, NOT to work on the Game Of Death script, but to deal with Bruce. Chow came over then Linda left. Chow then took Bruce a mile down the road to the apartment of Betty Ting Pei.
Remember the premiere of Enter The Dragon was coming up in a few days. Soon after the Lee family were due to go to America, Bruce was booked on the Johnny Carson show. Meetings were planned with Warner Brothers for future projects.
Where do you have this information about Bruce being in a rage that day?
Witness reports from HK police stating shouting and doors slamming at Betty's apartment.
Im never going to unsee That Tom Cruise tooth .
You’re welcome
37:44 I’ve changed JKD permanently. You know when you see the JKD GUYS do a GOR SAO entry touching Tans and the guy does a PAK SAO GUA CHOY? Th guy blocks backhand and the JKD GUY does an inside PAK to pass it. Ya. Got rid of it. 😂lol. Introducing POISON HAND. They block a GUA CHOY right hand left hand BUI SAO (throat) ✅
Not listened just yet, but, a Canadian national wrestling team member of note I casually met, said that his HK father-in-law was an ambulance union leader at the time, and BL died in a big hotel, so, they had to keep it down and took him out of there.May have taken him to Betties apartment and gone from there.Same scene happened with Jim Morrison as he OD'ed in a Parisian dealers club, trucked him back to his hotel on the sly.
Not so sure about Hendrix death by mis adventure...You decide.
Same birth day.
Wow now that is a story worth pursuing! I saw The Big Boss at the cinema in 1975 and was instantly a fan, then found out that Bruce had died in 73, so bummed out. My first JKD style teacher in 76 was convinced that Bruce had bugged out into the mountains to live a pleasant quiet life and work on his higher level kung fu. How we wish eh
1:00:19 I like to joke n have fun but all kidding aside. Bruce Lee was known for winning and not getting hit. He might have taken a big thump dude. Honestly speaking man. He probably took a ding in training, got a headache. Took some medicine. Swelled up n boom. They hid it because they don’t want him being known for taking a hit. You know how BOOSHIE things were back then. People were untouchable legends. 😢❤sad loss.
#junfangungfu can be taught. Jkd can be taught but not standardized. Wing chun is the essence of jun fan gung fu. She is the mother art. 💯💥㊙️ White crane and RED BOAT WING CHUN led us to WING CHUN n BRUCE led us to JKD. ☮️🙏
A few years back I was talking to a guy from Hong Kong, I thought I would try and impress him by saying I practice martial arts, only to be told, ' martial arts are for peasants!'
That’s funny, do you remember what you tried to say?
Oh he spoke good English, he had to apparently because he had been in the Hong Kong police.
Unfortunately, Hong Kong is not invulnerable to provincial attitudes about Chinese martial arts. The fact that someone is from Hong Kong, regardless of their vocation, doesn’t mean that anything that comes out of their mouth about martial arts is remotely based on truth, experience, or reality.
#viperjkd “I’m bullshit that only 250 came by. 🤮because the sheep follow the herd. 😢I never miss an episode. 💯💥
Great show as always, good, informatif, fun👍🏼. I had a good laugh with the "sensible and nonsens" questions 🤣 from the trio.
When people ask me the question: what caused the death of Bruce Lee?
my answer has always been: he died of death.🤷🏽♂️
look forward the next shows and podcasts. keep up the good work and fun.
7:17 Yo.. back off my boy! ⚠️ (lol 😝) nosa. Dre says “That shhhh went world wide fam!” 😆🤛
54:50 A SNIZZLE PIECE. (Snitch) Bruce might have been a little paranoid. 😮
You’ll need to post 5 episodes per day. I do 4-5 videos a day. By best view is 150,000
The racism segment struck a chord wire me. I used to get the Bruce lee sounds when I was younger. It stopped as I grew up. Some kids made the sound to me and my wife a few months back. I got really annoyed by it. I don't really know why. I was going to confront them about it but my wife convinced me it wasnt worth it. Then i realised even those kids didn't understand why they find it derogatory. Most likey they no nothing about Bruce. So I try not to let it bother me 🙂
16:12 I think it’s that he wanted to do bigger n bigger things. It wasn’t good enough material
It has to do with the time you post. And the amount of posts.
I love the podcast, but I must admit my favorite part is when someone cusses and the sound you play to cover it up. I don't know why, but it cracks me up every time. Liberty Bell 🔔 😆
Hahah different sounds based on the level of grossness of what’s said
47:54 He died of hash Alex. 😂you told the world. 😂lol. 💯😝
That Austin Power’s Goldmember reference lol
35:58 Graphic designer and graffiti artist. Me.
When are yous guys going to do an analysis of Bruce's sparring demonstration at Longbeach 67
Hey KFG!!! It's Monday and my Alert went off!! Great episode!! Regarding the bump on JCVD's forehead bump I remember him being either on the Arsenio Hall show or some other talk show, when he was asked about it he said he got hit in a competition which caused the swelling and it never went away. Great episode especially this "new" theory on Bruce's death.
I've always thought something was uo with that bump on JCVDs head
I'll associate myself with the hot scissors gan sau sect by Mikey Dean lol
Thanks for another great episode!
Wow thank you!!!
19:34 perspective, narratives.. 😂exactly
I have a hypothesis about the bump on the forehead. Perhaps after a long Winter's break of not training double nunchaku, on the first nice, warm day of Spring, he excitedly went outside to train and attempted to pick up the nunchaku technique with the same speed and intensity as he left off with the previous Fall, after a Summer''s worth of practice. He got to the part where the right hand foreward figure eight and the left hand reverse figure eight are both spinning and to his horror, saw the left hand nunchaku coming towards his head, seemingly in slow motion. In his mind he says, "oh, sh*t, its going to hit me", and then white stars explode before his eyes as a dark curtain closes, only slowly reopening to more stars and a throbbing pain on the forehead. Reaching up with one hand, he finds and egg sized bump on his forehead and what appears to be ketchup on his hand.... It's just a guess. Don't ask what made me think of it.
4:28 only fans. 😂I’m playing.
Hey KFG! I know a while back you and Sean talked about what you think BL would be doing if he was still alive. Have you amended your opinion on this in any way since the drug letters have come out? Or to put it another way: In light of the drug letters, what do you think BL would be doing over the course of his career if he would have lived?
Great question
1975-99 I was born somewhere in there.
You deserve it 4 real. You’ve done the work so charge it up. ✅💯
You guys look good. (Healthy) 💥😉💯
I agree with you on Bruce lee death his drug use killed him
Just caught it now.
Does the genius know if the cut saw scene in the Big Boss is actually footage that exists somewhere or if it’s footage that was completely cut before the films release? I remember reading that the cut of the film is with a private collector but I’m confused whether cinema audiences in the HK region would have seen that on its initial release.
The scene was never released from my knowledge and the footage itself seems to be forever missing except for those few photos.
This new theory is about liquid consumption. I remember an interview of people on the set of Enter the Dragon that just freak out by Bruce Lee's consumption of Soya Milk. He would drink gallons a day and sweat like crazy. Another theory, but maybe, says of a conjunction of many factors.
But supposed to be very healthy
@@kevinnigh1839 I know Soy Milk is healthy, but it shows he drank simply too much for a normal person. It may have been a symptom that he was always so thirsty.
Too much of anything I guess probably isn’t healthy.
The liquid consumption theory is such nonsense, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was planted to get away from the Baker letters.
@@TheKungFuGenius Actually, it is not the liquid that is the problem, it is simply the symptom of a problem with the kidneys. But who knows, we are trying to figure out something that happened in 1973. I was but over a month old back then... So I couldn't remember, LOL
Great episode! :)
I think Golden Bell is Beardy, but portraying a more “realistic” type of fan… I caught it right when he started his videos. By the way, you are correct about the short videos on RUclips and that the people who already have created names for themselves are able to break that pattern. For example, I was the first person to upload a video of doing one-hand-two-finger push ups and I accumulated about 1.5 million views in no time, just because I used Bruce Lee’s name in the title, in order to describe the type of push ups I was doing! Either way, I keep following your podcast as I grew up as a martial arts fanatic (sadly, I only practiced Kung Fu for about six months, because fate had me be heavily involved with tennis) and I love the fact that you know the subject and don’t just make up a bunch of nonsense! Cheers!
Thanks for you compliments! I’m going to send this to Golden Bell, I’m sure he’ll think it’s hysterical !
@@TheKungFuGenius,
Hope he doesn’t hate me for it… 😂
Word 💯 on Bruce .
1:04:10 I put up some new #kungfu on my site this week. I get excited about all of it, but I try to save the best for you guys. My stuff up today I’m proud of. No blocking. Even though FOOK and BONG are my favorite. It’s all hits. That’s what the JKD PEOPLE want so.... we do two handed hitting with push stepping on each beat. 😂
Great podcast
Thank you
Did anyone else see Micheal Jaí white on Vlad TV talking about Bruce lee was not a real fighter? And that he would bet on Jackie Chan beating Bruce lee in a fight
The real tragedy is paying attention to anything MJW says.
True. I did ask myself this question tho. Does Bruce lee have more fighting experience than jackie Chan that we know of? I don’t know enough about Jackie Chans real fighting experience so I cannot answer this question. But according to some Hong Kong fighters and actors Bruce Lee was really bout that life.
Again, the problem is even entertaining these thought experiments. They don’t make anyone any better at anything. If Jackie could beat Bruce, what does this knowledge do for you?
@@TheKungFuGenius -his name is misspelled, it’s actually Michael Jived White.
Loved this video!!
Glad you liked it!!
Nice episode and great questions- Mr. Van Damme should have used those moves from "Breakin" in the movie "Kick Boxer." Couldn't tell if he had that bump in 'Breakin."