- I think Joe LEwis is AWESOME, damn near a demi-god in American Karate
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The fact is Bruce Lee named Joe Lewis as a representative of his style
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When, where? Bruce Lee awarded 3 instructorships: Si Bak Taky Kimura, James Lee, and Dan Inosanto. That is an empirical fact and in no way diminishes the blood, sweat, and tears that Mr. Lewis put in to perfect his brand of Karate.
As far as who used who . . . Bruce Lee trained with everyone of any worth that he could find. So hell yah he'd train with Joe Lewis if he had the opportunity, heck he reportedly lived at Ed Parkers home for 6 months at one time in his life, Dan Inosanto was originally an Ed Parker blackbelt and instructor at one of GM Parkers schools when GM Parker asked Guro Dan to chauffer Bruce Lee around before Sigung Lee's demonstration at the longbeach internationals. Did Parker train with Bruce Lee, yes . . . but you won't see any Ed Parker American JKD schools popping up (at least I hope they don't!
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There is no argument that Bruce Lee trained with Joe Lewis. The discussion is about instructor credentials, and while Joe Lewis is (as I stated above) damn near an American Karate Demi-god, he is not a JKD guy.