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Originally Posted by Burton
Bruce Lee was truly great, far, far ahead of other martial artists of his time. But he was not a judo blackbelt, although he may have put on a uniform for photos. Also, judo people, while competent on the ground, are nowhere near as skilled as BJJ practitioners. Top judo people train with BJJ to enhance their ground games for NHB. Again, Lee would probably have stayed far ahead by training harder and smarter than other NHB people.
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I agree, I still didn't hear of a martial artist training as hard and maniacally as Bruce Lee did, always improving himself or finding a better way for improving himself. And in my opinion, he is to be looked on as the one who started what today is called "mixed martial arts", and he proved to be superior to the best martial artists/competitors of his time, so I'm sure that he would have been at the top even in NHB tournaments. I said "would have" not only because he is not among us anymore, but because he said that for him martial arts were basically a form of art and self-defense, and therefore he wasn't interested in competing in tournaments.