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Striking Distance - Bruce Lee and the Dawn of Martial Arts in America (Paperback, New Edition)
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Striking Distance - Bruce Lee and the Dawn of Martial Arts in America (Paperback, New Edition)
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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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