I create opportunities”. Bruce Lee’s era has long past, yet his influence and involvement with martial arts is still quite evident, even in the present. Bruce lee does portray many ideals, although the one truly powerful way he had influenced me was persistence. As it turns out, Lee had once decided to lift a bar which was his own weight, without sufficiently warming up when he heard a loud popping sound, and dropped the weighted bar. For several days he tried heat treatments and massage, until the steadily increasing pain forced him to seek medical advice. As he seeked medical attention, he was told he had severely damaged a nerve, and walking without aid was impossible after. Bruce Lee didn’t immediately fall down, and never get back up. He persisted to train and continue to pick himself back up, and while living through a back pain for the rest of his life, he never thought for a moment he had been defeated, or that he was
I create opportunities”. Bruce Lee’s era has long past, yet his influence and involvement with martial arts is still quite evident, even in the present. Bruce lee does portray many ideals, although the one truly powerful way he had influenced me was persistence. As it turns out, Lee had once decided to lift a bar which was his own weight, without sufficiently warming up when he heard a loud popping sound, and dropped the weighted bar. For several days he tried heat treatments and massage, until the steadily increasing pain forced him to seek medical advice. As he seeked medical attention, he was told he had severely damaged a nerve, and walking without aid was impossible after. Bruce Lee didn’t immediately fall down, and never get back up. He persisted to train and continue to pick himself back up, and while living through a back pain for the rest of his life, he never thought for a moment he had been defeated, or that he was