Found one of Dan's 2 anecdotes:
"As early as 1964 at the first Internationals, I (Inosanto) had introduced Bruce to the art of Escrima. At that time, however, he took a pretty dim view of it. Then later when I visited him in Hong Kong (1973), he told me what he liked and what he didn't like about Escrima. I think what changed his mind was the emphasis on the empty hands and seeing that it had a lot of functional value. And I was really flabbergasted when he grabbed the sticks one day and said, 'OK, now I'll show you what I would do.' I watched him closely, and with no previous background or training he ad-libbed a style of Escrima that he never could have known even existed. Shocked, I yelled out, "Hey, that's Largo Mano." Bruce said, "I don't know what you call it, but this is my method." (JEET KUNE DO: The Art and Philosophy of Bruce Lee,” by Dan Inosanto, 1974, page 149)
Anyone know where I can find the other one?
Hey Michael, good to hear from you. I think you made my point about Lee possibly having had to unlearn all that accumulation - the reflexive Wing Chun technique. Hey, what about the other thing, the transcendenace?
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